A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the...
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Author:Henry, DarynSummary: -
Author:Dunham, Cyrus GraceSummary:For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Rather than looking back on gender transition from a settled distance, Cyrus invites us into the process as it unfolds, honoring the messiness,...
- Author:Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
While their men fight on far-flung battlefields, America's women help produce what's necessary for victory. In a Michigan shipyard, four female co-workers forge strong bonds of friendship.
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Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a...
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Author:Wells, JakeSummary:Zack Sheldon doesn’t have time to be lonely. He’s in his last year as a pediatric resident, almost married to the job and busy with the joys and sorrows that come with providing medical care to children. Professionally, he’s confident,...
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Author:Fowler, Therese AnneSummary:This program includes a bonus interview with the author. A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling...
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Author:Summary:An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
- Author:Anderson, William C.Summary:
Have you ever longed to voyage across country in a travel trailer? Camp under the stars? Barbecue your meals in the shadow of magnificent mountains? See the wonders of Canada? Fish wild northern waters? The Family Anderson rather did-...
- Author:Farquhar, MichaelSummary:
From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their...
- Author:Farquhar, MichaelSummary:
Michael Farquhar ransacked the archives to rescue 30 almost-famous Americans from the dust bin of obscurity. These colorful figures range from Mayflower Murderer John Billington (1624) to Dick Fosbury, father of the "Flop" (1968).
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Author:Farnsworth, ElizabethSummary:Weaving her childhood experiences of loss with memories from her journalist experiences reporting from danger zones like Cambodia and Iraq, Farnsworth explores how she came to cover mass death and disaster.
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Author:Barry, SebastianSummary:When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
- Author:Saunders, GeorgeSummary:
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today...
- Author:Peterson, Tracie, Miller, JudithSummary:
21-year-old Amanda Broadmoor doesn't want to abandon her mentor Dr. Carstead when cholera strikes Rochester, New York, in 1899. But after the Broadmoor fortune is mishandled, Amanda must sacrifice her lofty aspirations to rescue her...
- Author:Donald, AlisonSummary:
Everyone makes mistakes, and brilliant scientist Harry Coover is no different. But Harry keeps making the same extra-sticky mistake, and he begins to wonder whether it's such a mistake after all...
- Author:Caldwell, GailSummary:
Caldwell was born in Texas in 1951; in a land of plains so vast they frightened her. Caldwell's mother was a clandestine lover of books; her father was a master sergeant in World War II. These personalities shaped Caldwell; during the...
- Author:Boekweg, SheenaSummary:
In 1927, seventeen-year-old Elsie and three other teenage girls compete for the heart of a boy who will be president. But Elsie starts to wonder what would happen if the name on that future ballot was hers.
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Author:Lightman, Alan P.Summary:In a series of essays, Lightman explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world. Along the way, he provides in-depth...
- Author:Anderson, LarsSummary:
WITH A FOREWORD BY COACH BRUCE ARIANS. The extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of how Coach Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came together to deliver one of the most improbable Super Bowl victories in NFL history...
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Author:Leopold, AldoSummary:Nature writings of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationist of our century.
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