Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, Davi
EAN: 9781433244681
Summary: The remarkable response of the Amish Community to the horrific shooting of ten schoolgirls at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, in October 2006 stunned the larger world. Amish Grace tells the incredible story of this community’s reaction to this senseless shooting and explores its profoundly countercultural practice of forgiveness.Outsiders often hold a stereotypical view of the Amish as a stubbornly backwards people—a view rooted In the picturesque images of buggies, beards, and bonnets. But ther... More
How to Raise the Perfect Dog
Melissa Jo Peltier & Cesar Millan
EAN: 9781415967140
Summary: From the bestselling author and star of National Geographic Channel's Dog Whisperer, the only resource you’ll need for raising a happy, healthy dog. For the millions of people every year who consider bringing a puppy into their lives–as well as those who have already brought a dog home–Cesar Millan, the preeminent dog behavior expert, says, "Yes, you can raise the perfect dog!" It all starts with the proper foundation in the early years. Here, Cesar tells you everything you nee... More
The Innocent Man
John Grisham
EAN: 9780739346853
Summary: When Ron Williamson signed with the Oakland A’s in 1971, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big-league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits. He moved in with his mother and slept twenty hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a twenty-one-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. ... More
Prophecy
Sylvia Browne
EAN: 9781598872323
Summary: Sylvia Browne takes an entertaining and illuminating look at all the major prophecies including those from the Bible, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, even George Washington and other important figures in history. Will we find a cure for cancer? Will humans colonize Mars? Will the asteroid hit Earth as predicted? How long will it be until peace prevails in the Middle East? Is nuclear war approaching? Sylvia answers all this and more, comforting readers and predicting what life will be like in 5, 10, 20... More
A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards
George M. Marsden
EAN: 9781596444034
Summary: Jonathan Edwards is one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. Arguably the most brilliant theologian ever born on American soil, Edwards (1703–1758) was also a pastor, a renowned preacher, a missionary to the Native Americans, a biographer, a college president, a philosopher, a loving husband, and the father of eleven children. George M. Marsden — widely acclaimed for his magisterial large study of Edwards — has now written a new, shorter biography of this many-sided, rema... More
Big Boy Rules (Library Edition)
Steve Fainaru
EAN: 9781400127825
Summary: Traveling with a group of American security contractors---mercenaries, or "mercs"---Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Steve Fainaru reveals in gritty detail the men who live by Big Boy Rules. More
Classic Hundred Poems
Various
EAN: 9781598871166
Summary: Imagine if Billboard compiled a list of the top 100 poems, chosen not by critics or professors but by the people themselves. That's the concept behind The Classic Hundred, and it works brilliantly. William Harmon found the 100 most anthologized poems in English, based on the ninth edition of The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry—the most objective measurement of greatness available, representing consensus among the editors of some 400 anthologies. Then he put them in order and prefaced each o... More
