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Smith, Philip |
Smith, Philip |
Poetry |
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Orwell, George |
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence… |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challening for the immortal detective's unique power of… |
Classics |
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Orwell, George |
In this controversial classic fairy tale, a farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality, setting the stage for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned. Illustrations and Orwell… |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Wallace, Lew |
"Ben-Hur" is the remarkable saga of betrayal, revenge, and redemption, played out in the bloodstained arenas of ancient Rome. Framed for attempting to murder a Roman official, Ben-Hur is robbed of his freedom, family, and fortune. Condemned to death as a galley slave, he lives only to avenge himself against… |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Jacobs, Alan |
Breaking Bread with the Dead teaches us how to learn from authors from the past to navigate modern life. |
The Art of Reading |
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor M. |
This novel was Dostoyevsky's last and finest work, telling the story of the four Karamazov brothers--each with his own distinct personality and desires. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, they all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. Exploring the secret depths of… |
Classics |
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Michael D. O'Brien |
By the Rivers of Babylon presents the early life of the prophet Ezekiel, from his childhood to his service in the Temple to the Babylonian Captivity, where he was enslaved among the exiles along the River Chebar. Ezekiel, a bricklayer, is simple and timid. He is not yet a priest… |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Lee, Katrina Hoover |
For years, Nicholas faces storms, pirates, and the lure of loose living. He longs to be worthy of his family's trust. |
Anabaptist |
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Dickens, Charles |
Four classic novels from Charles Dickens: The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. |
Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Gilbreth, Frank B. |
What do you get when you mix a blunt-talking, famous efficiency-expert father and a brilliant, compassionate psychologist mother with twelve rambunctious offspring of various sizes? You get one of America's all-time best- loved memoirs! The hilarious story of growing up Gilbreth has already delighted generations of readers -- and… |
Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Chaim Potok. 9781501142468. |
The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was first published in 1967. It follows the narrator Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years, The Promise… |
Classics |
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Dickens, Charles |
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the "humbug" of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitors--his former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come--show… |
Classics |
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Paton, Alan |
Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading." |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Miller, Arthur |
Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway in February 1949, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in the 1940s New York told through a montage of memories, dreams and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a… |
Classics |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Dr. Jekyll is a well respected medical doctor in the community. When a series of bizarre crimes are committed by a rather ugly man named Mr. Hyde, no one can imagine that they are one in the same person. But they are, because Dr. Jekyll has discovered a drug that… |
Classics |
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Lewis, C. S. |
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good… |
The Art of Reading |
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Wendell Berry |
Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight–knit community within. "Each of these elegant stories spans the twentieth century and… |
Books ⋅ Contemporary Literature ⋅ Literature |
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Kauffman, Christmas C. |
This moving story is based on the real struggles of a boy who grew up in the emotional turmoil of a broken home and the political turmoil of Nazi Germany. 353 pp. |
Anabaptist ⋅ Books ⋅ Literature |
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Marilynne Robinson |
Gilead takes its name from a fictional Iowa town, the setting of several novels by Marilynne Robinson. In Gilead, Robinson writes in the voice of the aging Reverend John Ames, exploring the beauty, mystery, and pain of existence through a lyrical, meditative letter Ames writes to his young son. This… |
Books ⋅ Contemporary Literature ⋅ Literature |
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Martin, Jamie C. |
With inspiring stories, practical suggestions, and a carefully curated reading treasury of the best children’s literature for each area of the globe, Give Your Child the World helps parents raise insightful, compassionate kids who fall in love with the world and are prepared to change it for good. Young… |
Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ The Art of Reading |
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Dickens, Charles |
Humbled, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman -- and one day he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." One of Dickens' finest novels, this is a gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward. |
Classics |
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Negri, Paul |
Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative. |
Poetry |
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Elizabeth Goudge |
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Swift, Jonathan |
Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around the world. In Lilliput he is a giant among a race of little people only six inches high; in Brobdingnag he himself seems tiny compared to the giant inhabitants; and in the country of the… |
Classics |
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Carroll, Abigail |
Habitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a "white comma / in the breath of space." Crocuses are "ephemeral prophets, first of the sun's spring projects." The ocean is "a vast / perpetual… |
Books ⋅ Literature ⋅ Poetry |
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Berry, Wendell |
Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. |
Contemporary |
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Kauffman, Christmas Carol |
Hidden Rainbow is not an imaginary story, nor one dug out of antiquity. It is a true story about a forbidden New Testament that shattered the calm of a Yugoslavian village. John and Anna Olesh, raised in a solid Catholic community, face severe censure when John leaves his family for… |
Anabaptist |
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Marilynne Robinson |
One of America's most acclaimed living authors, Marilynne Robinson, revisits the characters from her Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead, in this "impossibly rich and beautiful new novel" (San Francisco Chronicle) Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father, Reverend Robert Boughton. Soon her brother… |
Books ⋅ Contemporary Literature ⋅ Literature |
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Hunt, Gladys & Hampton, Barbara |
Honey for a Teen's Heart spells out how good books can help you and your teen-ager communicate heart-to-heart about ideas, values, and the various issues of a Christian worldview. Sharing the adventure of a book lets both of you know the same people, see the same sights, face the… |
The Art of Reading |
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. |
Classics |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
A novel which deals with a decadent New England family and Holgrave, who rents a room in their seven-gabled house. |
Classics |
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Adler, Mortimer Jerome |
How to Read A Book is an elegant guide to the lost arts of Active Reading, Conversation, and Intellectual Etiquette. Learn how to fairly and methodically assess an author's intentions and how the author fulfills, or doesn't, what they set out to do with the book. Learn how… |
The Art of Reading |
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Sire, James W. |
Has been used widely in higher education classrooms to teach reading comprehension. |
The Art of Reading |
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Hugo, Victor |
A gypsy girl's beauty and charm captivate a priest, a vagabond, a soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer, in a gripping tale that culminates in a riot and murder. More than simply a thrilling story, Victor Hugo's tale explores the mysteries of good and evil in the human heart… |
Classics |
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Victor Hugo |
A gypsy girl's beauty and charm captivate a priest, a vagabond, a soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer, in a gripping tale that culminates in a riot and murder. More than simply a thrilling story, Victor Hugo's tale explores the mysteries of good and evil in the human heart… |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Siegrist, Audrey |
"Thank you, heavenly Father, for giving our family a new little sister to love!" Happy laughter rippled up from Dawn's heart. At seventeen, she relished the addition of the eighth child to her family, even if it meant added responsibilities as the oldest daughter. |
Anabaptist |
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Sheldon, Charles Monroe |
Deeply shaken by the appearance of a mysterious stranger in town and his impassioned pleas for the poor and downtrodden, the minister and five influential parishioners begin a year-long experience in Christianity. Each has resolved to conduct his life according to the precepts of Christ, applying His behavior to their… |
Classics |
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Timmerman, John H. |
In the World equips readers to become better writers. It also introduces quality writing with forty classic and contemporary selections from writers such as Augustine, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John Donne, Henri Nouwen, Philip Yancey, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Walter Wangerin Jr., and Charles Colson. This second edition contains a completely updated and revised… |
The Art of Reading |
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Ripken, Nik with Lewis, Gregg |
Nik Ripken has walked with followers of Christ from the hills of Kentucky to war-torn Somalia. Faced with suffering in his own family, the realities of war around him, and the systemic destruction of the work he felt called to do, the evil was at times overwhelming. How could God… |
Classics |
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Michael D. O'Brien |
This powerful novel tells the story of a child born in 1933 into the turbulent world of the Balkans and traces his life into the third millennium. The central character, Josip Lasta, is the son of an impoverished school teacher in a remote village high in the mountains of the Croatian… |
Contemporary |
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Charlotte Bronte |
Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte's most enduring masterpiece, the unforgettable tale of an orphan girl's ardent search for a wider and richer life. Originally published in 1847, it was an immediate popular success, but it also caused a storm of controversy. Bronte's firm insistence on the equality of… |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Berry, Wendell |
“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town’s barber. Orphaned… |
Contemporary |
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Tolstoy, Leo |
Three great stories offer profound insights into human behavior and motivation. Title story plus "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" and "The Death of Ivan Ilych." Explanatory footnotes. |
Classics |
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Victor Hugo |
Les Miserables is a classic tale of redemption, exploring the complex interplay of mercy and justice. Jean Valjean, a recently paroled criminal, encounters the life-changing power of grace through a saintly bishop's sacrificial love. His life is profoundly transformed, but his criminal past haunts him as he is pursued… |
Books ⋅ Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Hugo, Victor |
Les Miserables is a classic tale of redemption, exploring the complex interplay of mercy and justice. Jean Valjean, a recently paroled criminal, encounters the life-changing power of grace through a saintly bishop's sacrificial love. His life is profoundly transformed, but his criminal past haunts him as he is pursued… |
Classics ⋅ Literature |
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Kauffman, Christmas Carol |
Joseph Armstrong's father showed little concern for his wife and children. Work was first. Praise was a foreign language. All the while, he portrayed himself as flawlessly pious, making his home a potential hotbed for bitterness. But a devout mother bridged the gap -- loving, teaching, and praying for… |
Anabaptist ⋅ Books ⋅ Literature |
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Reinke, Tony |
I love to read. I hate to read. I don't have time to read. I only read Christian books. I'm not good at reading. There's too much to read. Chances are, you've thought or said one of these exact phrases before because reading is important and… |
The Art of Reading |
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Kauffman, Christmas Carol |
The true story of Lucy's lifelong spiritual quest through two difficult marriages and many sorrows. |
Anabaptist |
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Shakespeare, William |
Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions… |
Classics |
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