Lana Stenner

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

Lessons I've Learned about Faith, Family, and the Farm

These charming snapshots of life on the farm invite readers to incorporate the heart of homesteading--slower living rooted firmly in faith and family--into their everyday lives.

 

For nearly two decades, Lana Stenner and her family have been living their version of the simple life on their small Midwest farmstead--following God, chasing goats, and tending gardens. Join Lana as she shares heartwarming stories, hearty recipes, and some of the valuable lessons she's learned in her homesteading journey, including:      
 * Chase your dreams over, under, or through that fence. Persevere.
 * Intentional living brings joy. Laser focus on what's important.
 * Hard work is holy work. No job is beneath you.

Though you may not be ready to pack up and move into a 120-year-old farmhouse like Lana, you can experience more grace and authenticity right where you are when you learn to seek beauty in your surroundings, cultivate bonds with those you love, and work hand in hand with God.  

 

The Grace-Filled Homestead

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Cynthia A. Kierner

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic

The Contrast

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Ha Jin

A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post, Los Angeles times, and San Jose Mercury News Best Book of the Year

Ha Jin's seismically powerful new novel is at once an unblinking look into the bell jar of communist Chinese society and a portrait of the eternal compromises and deceptions of the human state. When the venerable professor Yang, a teacher of literature at a provincial university, has a stroke, his student Jian Wan is assigned to care for him. Since the dutiful Jian plans to marry his mentor's beautiful, icy daughter, the job requires delicacy. Just how much delicacy becomes clear when Yang begins to rave.

Are these just the outpourings of a broken mind, or is Yang speaking the truth--about his family, his colleagues, and his life's work? And will bearing witness to the truth end up breaking poor Jian's heart? Combining warmth and intimacy with an unsparing social vision, The Crazed is Ha Jin's most enthralling book to date.

The Crazed

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Taylor University & Sports Evangelism

Coach Odle's Full Court Press

Nitya Lacroix

Core information on a variety of subjects is reduced to the 101 most crucial facts you must know. The pocket-size paperback format makes it ideal for quick reference. Hundreds of crisp, full-color photographs are combined with thoroughly researched text in these handy books.

Massage

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Fred Moritz

The Call to Christian Separation

Bring up the topic of Christian holiness today and you will get many differing definitions. Bring up the subject of "separation" and you may be either glibly dismissed or violently opposed. Sometimes seen as narrow, bigoted, non-progressive and even impractical, separation is often disdainfully called "legalism." But a scriptural study of holiness reveals that separation is an integral part of it and originates from God himself. While it is a command rather than an option for the Christian, separation unto holiness need not be seen in a strictly negative light. Dr. Moritz takes a close-up look at various kinds of separation, the separatist himself, and the definitions vital to understanding it to bring holy living into the realm of every Christian's understanding. - Back cover.

Be Ye Holy

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Marvin N. Olasky

Marvin Olasky

Is there such thing as "Christian" journalism? What would that look like? In this three-part work, editor in chief of World magazine Marvin Olasky (1) lays out foundational principles of journalism, explaining why and how journalism ought to be done, (2) addresses practical, nuts-and-bolts issues such as interviewing subjects, structuring news stories, and responding to complaints, and (3) closes with a historical overview of journalism in the United States. Throughout the book, he points to the example of Christian journalists in China, who courageously continue a nearly three-thousand year history of news reporting in the face of government pressures. You will learn how to be a more discerning reader of news as well as a competent citizen-reporter in your own community.

Reforming Journalism

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Giles Gunn

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature-including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Early American Writing

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Fanny Bandelier

Ilan Stavans

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight breif chapters, he describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across the unmapped land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making its a powerful precursor to modern anthropology.

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

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Jamaica Kincaid

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author ofAnnie John

"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."

So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode,A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

Small Place

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Lizzy Dent

“My perfect summer read! Sure to be one of the sweetest, funniest, and sexiest books of the year.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation Named a Best Beach Read by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Bustle, Country Living, Parade, Fortune, and more. What if you could be someone else? Just for the summer... Birdy has made a mistake. Everyone imagines running away from their life at some point. But Birdy has actually done it. And the life she's run into is her best friend Heather's. The only problem is, she hasn't told Heather. The summer job at the highland Scottish hotel that her world class wine-expert friend ditched turns out to be a lot more than Birdy bargained for. Can she survive a summer pretending to be her best friend? And can Birdy stop herself from falling for the first man she's ever actually liked, but who thinks she's someone else? One good friend's very bad decision is at the heart of this laugh-out-loud love story and unexpected tale of a woman finally finding herself in the strangest of places.

The Summer Job

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Margaret Fuller

Larry J. Reynolds

English

"Backgrounds" reveals the experiential basis for the text through autobiographical writings and selections from Fuller's recently published letters, journals, and "Boston Conversations."

"Criticism and Reviews" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.

The critics include Orestes A. Brownson, A. G. M, Lydia Maria Child, Frederic Dan Huntington, Edgar A. Poe, Charles Lane, George Eliot, Margaret Vanderhaar Allen, David M. Robinson, Bell Gale Chevigny, Julie Ellison, Christina Zwarg, and Jeffery Steele.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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Ernest J. Gaines

A Novel

Grant Wiggins, a college-educated man who returns to his hometown to teach, forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, when he is asked to impart his learning and pride to the condemned man

A Lesson Before Dying

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Susanna Rowson

Anne Douglas

Rowson's tale of a young girl who elopes to the United States only to be abandoned by her fiance was once the bestselling novel in American literary history. This edition also includes Lucy Temple, the fascinating story of Charlotte's orphaned daughter.

Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple

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Kathryn Derounian-Stodola

Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892) and range in literary style from fact-based narrations to largely fictional, spellbinding adventure stories. The women are variously victimized, triumphant, or, in the case of Mary Jemison, permantently transculturated. This collection includes well known pieces such as Mary Rowlandson's "A True History" (1682), Cotton Mather's version of Hannah Dunstan's infamous captivity and escape (after scalping her captors!), and the "Panther Captivity", as well as lesser known texts.As Derounian-Stodola demonstrates in the introduction, the stories also raise questions about the motives of their (often male) narrators and promoters, who in many cases embellish melodrama to heighten anti-British and anti-Indian propaganda, shape the tales for ecclesiastical purposes, or romanticize them to exploit the growing popularity of sentimental fiction in order to boost sales.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Women's Indian Captivity Narratives

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Lydia Maria Child

A Tale of Early Times by an American

The publication of this work in 1824 was met with an immediate scandal. Mary, the novel's protagonist and a Puritan settler in the New World, falls in love and marries a Native American. The author confronted directly issues of religious oppression, gender stereotypes, and racial prejudice directly in this book of equality and social expectations.

Hobomok

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Mark Stageberg

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Trials and Tribulations in the Career of a Trial Lawyer

In his autobiographical work, Mark Stageberg describes the many colorful adventures of his broad legal career as a trial lawyer. Beginning with the challenges of law school, to the struggles in a first legal job, to how he developed into an aggressive and highly successful trial lawyer, Stageberg minces no words. He tells of his experiences working with large law firms and then on his own as a sole practitioner, giving readers an inside look at the challenges and satisfactions that arise from practicing law in both arenas. Stageberg describes many true-to-life courtroom battles that rival the best fiction writers' trial stories. From litigation against the mighty Mayo Clinic to representation of a young Special Olympics athlete who was the victim of a violent assault, this narrative can be a most informative resource for attorneys, law students, and any interested reader.

Win Some Lose Some

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Jeffrey R. Di Leo

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Philosophy

An Introduction to Philosophy

Perhaps the most extensive topical introduction to philosophy anthology available, From Socrates to Cinema offers over 130 readings from major philosophers past and present as well as readings from world philosophy and literature.

From Socrates to Cinema

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Pam D

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