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  The Romance of Missionary...

  John C. Lambert

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  Product text: The Romance of Missionary Heroism unites travelogues, ethnographies and biographies in the form of accounts of the experiences of Christian missionaries worldwide. Contents: In the Steppes and Deserts of Mongolia In the Country of the Telugus A Japanese Romance A Heroine of Tibet The Saviour of Liao-Yang The Hero of Uganda The Lion-Hearted Bishop Pioneers in Nyasaland Vortrekkers in Barotseland A Pioneer in Garenganze A Tramp through the Great Pygmy Forest Among the Indians and Eskimo of Hudson Bay The "Praying Master" of the Redskins In the Land of the Dakotas In the Forests of Guiana The Sailor Missionary of Tierra Del Fuego The Schooner of Keppel Island The Martyr-Bishop of Melanesia One of the Unreturning Brave Father Damien of Molokai Among the Cannibal Islands The Apostle of the New Hebrides Kapiolani and the Goddess of the Volcano.

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  The Mastery of Destiny

  James Allen

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  James Allen's inspirational and thought-provoking books have inspired millions. In The Mastery of Destiny, he instructs readers on developing self-control, willpower, concentration, and motivation. Through discipline and mindfulness, we can create a life of unending happiness, prosperity, and, most importantly, self-mastery. (Summary by Andrea Fiore)

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  Sons of the White Eagle in the...

  Mark F. Bielski

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  The untold stories of nine Polish Americans who bravely fought in the Civil War—includes photographs, maps, and illustrations.   This unique history chronicles the lives of nine Polish American immigrants who fought in the Civil War. Spanning three generations, they are connected by the White Eagle—the Polish coat of arms—and by a shared history in which their home country fell to ruin at the end of the previous century. Still, each carried a belief in freedom that they inherited from their forefathers.   More highly trained in warfare than their American brethren—and more inured to struggles for nationhood—the Poles made significant contributions to the armies they served. The first group had fought in the 1830 war for freedom from the Russian Empire. The European revolutionary struggles of the 1840s molded the next generation. The two youngest came of age just as the Civil War began, entering military service as enlisted men and finishing as officers. Of the group, four sided with the North and four with the South, and the ninth began in the Confederate cavalry and finished fighting for the Union side. Whether for the North or the South, they fought for their ideals in America’s greatest conflict.  Nominated for the Gilder Lehrman Prize.

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  The Silk Finisher - Bigotry...

  Daniel Melchior

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  What happens when toxicity invades a life at every turn? 
   
   
   
  A 1963 murder leads to a decade-long journey for a son to uncover truths about his family, an American town, and ultimately himself. 
   
   
   
  In the "Crossroads of America," three active-duty US Army paratroopers commit a more heinous crime than the one they are trying to cover up. Their arrests and trial shock and divide residents of the town between those who see the soldiers as heroes and those who view them as cold-blooded killers. 
   
   
   
  Author Dan Melchior unearths the story of Rudolph Ziemer, known by some as the "Queer Undertaker." Along the way, he uncovers forgotten often toxic stories involving the Cold War and the Jim Crow south, infidelity, addiction, bigotry, murders, and accidents all woven into the fabric of one woman's life as a laboring silk finisher. The stories link the Civil Rights era to World War II to the march of the MAGA movement and parallel the divisions and challenges facing America today. Journey along with Melchior as he discovers how one man's murder—someone he never knew—led him to a deeper understanding of his family, his beliefs, his country, and his triumphant relationship with his mom, a silk finisher.

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  The Trace of God - Derrida and...

  Edward Baring, Peter E. Gordon

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  “Derrida’s most lasting legacy might well be his writings on religion . . . If the perplexed seek a guide, they can do no better than this excellent volume.” —Warren Breckman, University of Pennsylvania  
   
  Jacques Derrida’s writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this debate.  
   
  It considers Derrida’s fraught relationship to Judaism and his Jewish identity, broaches the question of Derrida’s relation to the Western Christian tradition, and examines both the points of contact and the silences in Derrida’s treatment of Islam. 
   
  “An astonishingly fresh and vivid set of essays that not only cast new light on the work of the greatest philosophical provocateur of the late twentieth century but also provide food for reflecting today on the relations among violence, modernity, secularity, and religion.”?Allan Megill, University of Virginia

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  Matchbox Mountain

  Amy Ammons Garza

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  Matchbox Mountain is a collection of stories told by the author about one year in her life in 1952 when she was 10 years old. Living in the mountains of western North Carolina in  a house with no electricity, no running water, and no close neighbors,  the author shares stories of how she and her siblings made their own world with little but creativity.

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