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In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois’s charged and brilliant career.

The Insanity of God is the personal and lifelong journey of an ordinary couple from rural Kentucky who thought they were going on just your ordinary missionary pilgrimage but discovered it would be anything but.

A wrong turn in a rainstorm leads Englisher Amelia Devries to Michael Hostetler - and the young Amishman's charming Old Order community of Hickory Hollow. Despite their very different backgrounds, Amelia and Michael both feel hemmed in by the expectations of others and struggle with how to find room for their own hopes. And what first seems to be a chance encounter might just change their lives forever.

On a dark New England night, Cassie Stevens startles awake–something’s in the room with her. Something she can’t see or hear, but feels in the icy air, and the weight of unseen eyes watching her from the darkness. Ever since surviving a near-death experience in a crash, Cassie’s been haunted by this malevolent presence. She sees brief flashes of it from the corner of her eye and in the subtle stir of shadows in dark corners. It’s coming for her, invading her mind and thoughts with dark, grotesque horrors and madness

The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval worldview, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the middle ages and renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science, and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe". This, Lewis' last book, has been hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind".

A heartwarming tale of courage and love from Amish fiction's number-one author. When a well-to-do family asks Sallie Riehl to be their daughter's nanny for the summer at their Cape May, New Jersey, vacation home, she jumps at the chance to broaden her horizons beyond the Lancaster County Amish community where she grew up.

En esta novela imprescindible de la narrativa estadounidense del siglo xx, Sinclair Lewis nos presenta a George F. Babbit, un agente inmobiliario bullicioso, arrogante y siempre preocupado por su reputación. Babbit es el epítome del conformista, un personaje que piensa y siente lo mismo que la multitud. Mayormente con esa actitud lo vemos participar en reuniones, actos sociales y viajes de negocios que capturan toda la agitación de la cultura comercial de su país.

Once a thief, always a theif Jamie and the crew return for their first attempt at taking their heists overseas. The crew in London have promised jobs that are sure to make them all rich but all may not be as it seems. Jamie meets an old acquaintance and it becomes clear that Fu didn't tell him everything about how he got in contact with the newest additions to their group. What follows is an opportunity for the team to prove their worth and a job in Paris worth ...

The Belief of a thief is that life is brief Jamie has spent years earning an honest buck after a car wreck lost him the proceeds of a bank robbery. It's an unfair world that has left him wanting to tip back the balance back in his favor at any cost, and so this time there will be no mistakes. Los Angeles is birthing a new criminal mastermind, ready to take his heists across the world, and with him, a group of misfits follows. His friend Fu is desperate to stay in California but needs ...

A uno le persigue un pasado brutal. Al otro, un amor que perdió. El destino aún no ha terminado con ninguno de ellos. Gethin Lloyd pensó que matar a su agresor le traería paz. Pero las cicatrices —tanto las visibles como las enterradas en lo más profundo— no le dejan descansar. Las pesadillas son constantes. El autodesprecio, implacable. Así que cuando conoce a su pareja destinada, un humano de buen corazón con ojos dulces y un alma gentil, Gethin se debate entre el vínculo que anhela y la creencia de que está demasiado roto para merecer amor. Dewi Powell aún se está ...

"What the author has done with this novella is remind us all how precious each day is, kudos" Waiting in an airport for a delayed flight can be a miserable business, the minute hand ticks around the circle of time with little regard for those that are prisoners to its steady passage. Chance encounters and paths crossed, all is not as it seems. If you had a moment to sit down and reflect on life, where would it take you? To the happy memories? The sad times? Or the moments that could have been? ★★★★★ "Loved it, short but some how lasted with me." ★★★★★ "I was unsure...

Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871-1952) was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator, recognized as one of the founders of Dispensationalism. In Satan: His Motives & Methods, the author presents a thorough overview of the history and nature of Satan. Chafer traces him from the early pages of Genesis to the Book of Revelation. Explained by one of the greatest Bible expositors of all time, the book exposes the adversary in all his subtlety in the light of Scripture.

The Seven Seals is making its move. But so is Seth. He will face them down in this final battle to get back to Earth, no matter what.

Martin Arrowsmith is fascinated by science and medicine. As a boy, he immerses himself in Gray’s Anatomy. In medical school, he soaks up knowledge from his mentor, a renowned bacteriologist. But soon he is urged to focus on politics and promotions rather than his research. Even as Martin progresses from doctor to public health official and noted pathologist, he still yearns to devote his time to pure science.

In this remarkable recording, C. S. Lewis shows why millions of readers have acclaimed him the greatest spokesman for Christianity in the 20th century. In a resonant, baritone voice, Lewis explores the nature of the four Greek words that are translated love in English: storge (affection), philia (friendship), eros (sexual or romantic love) and agape (selfless love).

In their own words, recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of the Corps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and power missing from secondhand accounts. All of their triumphs and terrors are here: the thrill of seeing the vast herds of bison, the fear the captains felt when Sacagawea fell ill, the ordeal of crossing the Continental Divide, the misery of cold and hunger, and the kidnapping and rescue of Lewis' dog, Seaman.

You can tell what a society values by who it labels as a genius. You can also tell who it excludes, who it enables, and what it is prepared to tolerate. In The Genius Myth, Helen Lewis unearths how this one word has shaped (and distorted) our ideas of success and achievement. Ultimately, argues Lewis, the modern idea of genius—a single preternaturally gifted individual, usually white and male, exempt from social niceties and sometimes even the law—has run its course.

Timeless Tales for Kids is an enchanting compilation of children's classic stories read by an all-star cast. Olivia Colman reads E. Nesbit's classic novel The Railway Children, a masterpiece in children's fiction wonderfully evoking a bygone age, packed with fun, excitement and adventure. Bill Nighy reads a much-loved children's classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which continues to delight young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and magical shoes.

On the night of June 13th, 1944, a 12-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline. In a country crawling with enemy troops, their mission was to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions to the D-Day beaches and driving the Allied troops back into the sea. It was a Herculean task, but no risk was deemed too great to stop the Nazi assault.

In Filthy Rich Politicians, Lewis embarks on an investigative deep dive into the ridiculous state of modern American democracy—a system where the rich get elected and the elected get rich. One of the brightest conservative writers of his generation, Lewis doesn’t just complain: he articulates how Americans can achieve accountability from their elected leaders through radically commonsense reforms. But many of these ruling-class elites have a vested financial interest in rejecting the reforms so desperately needed to rebuild Americans’ trust in the institutions that once made our nation great.