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By C. S. Lewis

ISBN-10: 0547545487

ISBN-13: 9780547545486

"A younger guy who needs to stay a legitimate Atheist can't be too cautious of his studying. There are traps all over the place . . . God is, if i could say it, very unscrupulous."

This booklet isn't really an autobiography. it isn't a confession. it truly is, even if, one among the main attractive and insightful money owed of anyone coming to religion. right here, C.S. Lewis takes us from his youth in Belfast throughout the lack of his mom, to boarding college and a younger atheism in England, to the trenches of global warfare I, after which to Oxford, the place he studied, learn, and, eventually, reasoned his as far back as God. it really is might be this point of Surprised by way of Joy that we—believers and nonbelievers—find so much compelling and significant; Lewis used to be looking for pleasure, for an elusive and temporary sensation of excellent craving, yet he chanced on it, and religious lifestyles, by utilizing cause.

In this hugely own, considerate, clever memoir, Lewis publications us towards pleasure and towards the shock that awaits somebody who seeks a lifestyles past the expected."

Lewis tempered his common sense with a love for good looks, ask yourself, and magic . . . He speaks to us with the entire strength and life-changing strength of a Plato, a Dante, and a Bunyan."—Christianity Today

"The pressure of those ultimate chapters holds the curiosity just like the shut of a thriller."—Times Literary Supplement

C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis (1898–1963), one of many nice writers of the 20th century, additionally remains to be one in all our such a lot influential Christian thinkers. He wrote greater than thirty books, either well known and scholarly, together with The Chronicles of Narnia sequence, The Screwtape Letters, The 4 Loves, Mere Christianity, and Till we have now Faces.

By Helle Amin, David Meikle

ISBN-10: 1844543242

ISBN-13: 9781844543243

After developing domestic at the tropical island of Bali together with her husband and 4 little ones, Helle Amin appeared to have the suitable lifestyles. yet sooner or later in 2001 Helle's idyllic life was once shattered. She lower back domestic from a procuring journey one night to discover that her kids, who must have been correctly tucked of their beds, had disappeared. It didn't take Helle lengthy to find that her Saudi Arabian husband had taken them away to reside in his domestic nation. along with her young ones millions of miles away in completely surprising atmosphere, Helle drew upon her outstanding braveness and trigger for the wasteland in a determined try and locate her loved boys. Her trip used to be choked with drama, threat, pleasure, and sorrow. within the remarkable fight that Helle used to be lowered to catching occasional, snatched glimpses of her teenagers as they have been taken to and from tuition in Jeddah. She took a role at a global institution within the urban and commenced her crusade for entry. After a chain of dramatic twists and turns, Helle used to be reunited eternally along with her boys. This interesting and gripping tale can't fail to the touch any reader's middle and is full of event, heartache, and pleasure

By Kurt Timmermeister

ISBN-10: 0393070859

ISBN-13: 9780393070859

Whilst he bought 4 acres of land on Vashon Island, Kurt Timmermeister was once merely searching for a cheap domestic close to the eating places he ran in Seattle. yet as he slowly settled into his new estate, he grew to become woke up to the relationship among what he ate and the place it got here from: a hive of bees supplied honey, a tender cow may perhaps provide clean milk, an apple orchard allowed him to make vinegar. With clean honesty, Timmermeister info the preliminary stumbles and next realities he confronted as he confirmed a ecocnomic farm for himself. own but useful, growing to be a Farmer will solely recast the best way we predict approximately our courting to the meals we devour.

By George Orwell

ISBN-10: 0141906189

ISBN-13: 9780141906188

Orwell's first paintings -- a delicate and insightful description of the lifetime of the operating bad in Paris and the homeless in London. it truly is nonetheless very suitable this day, and whereas geared toward the informal reader, it's of curiosity to the coed and activist.

By Brian Benson

ISBN-10: 1101634928

ISBN-13: 9781101634929

Brian has 1000000 imprecise lifestyles plans yet 0 experience of path. So whilst he meets Rachel, a self-possessed lady who daydreams of bicycling around the States, he comes to a decision to persist with her at any place she'll take him. Brian and Rachel quickly embark on a trip from northern Wisconsin to someplace West, infatuated with the promise of event and every different. yet because the pair development from the Northwoods into the grim western plains, they start to find the messy realities of existence at the street. Mile through mile, they cope with cruel winds and brutal warmth, damaged motorcycles and our bodies, one another and themselves—and the looming query of what comes subsequent. instructed in a voice "as hilarious because it is wise" (Cheryl Strayed), Going Somewhere is a candid story of the fight to maneuver ahead.

By Kerry Cohen

ISBN-10: 1401309925

ISBN-13: 9781401309923

Kerry Cohen's trip from that hopeless position to her present convinced and fulfilled lifestyles is either a cautionary story and a revelation. free lady is Kerry Cohen's fascinating memoir approximately her descent into promiscuity and the way she steadily came upon her method towards genuine intimacy. the tale of addiction--not simply to intercourse, yet to male attention--Loose woman is additionally the tale of a tender woman who got here to think that boys and males may possibly provide her lifestyles that means. by no means lower than riveting, free woman re-creates what it appears like to be in that determined second whilst a lady attempts to manage a boy through delivering her physique, while the contact of that boy turns out to provide facts of whatever yet finally gives you little greater than vacancy. The unforgettable tale of 1 younger lady who desperately desired to topic, unfastened lady will converse to numerous others with its compassion, knowing, and love.

By Greta Gleissner

ISBN-10: 1580054552

ISBN-13: 9781580054553

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Greta Gleissner, an established expert dancer, dreamed her complete lifetime of turning into a Rockette. Then she turned one—and she fell into the grips of a robust consuming affliction that all started poison her lifestyles from the interior out.

Something Spectacular is Gleissner’s uncooked, own chronicle of the devastating results bulimia exacts upon her lifestyles in the course of her time as a Rockette. As her illness takes over, she starts to guide a twin existence: happy-go-lucky at the outdoors; tortured by way of obsessive, self-destructive voices at the within. Immersed in an atmosphere during which even expertise is secondary to visual appeal, Gleissner hides her sickness in any way necessary—lying, dishonest, and stealing without regard for the results of her actions—until she hits all-time low and is compelled to stand the truths in the back of her illness. Her extensive odyssey of self-discovery finally provides her the power to reshape her self-image, embody her sexuality, and break away of the malignant carry bulimia has on her life.

The first e-book to offer voice to the pervasive yet frequently unaddressed challenge of consuming problems within the dance undefined, Something Spectacular is a gripping exposé of the insidious nature of eating-related diseases—and a profound account of 1 woman’s trip towards self-acceptance and restoration.

By Sheila McClear

ISBN-10: 1593764006

ISBN-13: 9781593764005

Within the final of occasions Square’s peep indicates, a guy will pay $40 to monitor a woman strip bare at the back of glass. those associations, left over from the times while forty second highway was once the vicious middle of vice, will quickly disappear thoroughly from a quickly gentrifying ny urban, their tales misplaced without end. but, the tale of the peeps is simply too fascinating and too very important to the historical past of occasions sq. to not be told.

In The final of the stay Nude women, Sheila McClear pulls again the curtain again at the little-documented international of the peep exhibits and their heritage. A overdue bloomer from the Midwest, McClear turned a stripper within the peeps after discovering herself adrift in manhattan. yet after-dark occasions sq. seeped into her blood, and he or she ended up staying for much longer than she imagined. the tale she tells isn't just of her personal coming-of-age—nor is it certainly one of intercourse and vice and salaciousness. quite, it's a redemptive narrative of contemporary existence at the fringes of society in big apple City.

By Will Oldham

ISBN-10: 0393344339

ISBN-13: 9780393344332

The fellow who acts below the identify Will Oldham and sings and composes lower than the identify Bonnie “Prince” Billy has, over the last quarter-century, made an idiosyncratic trip via, and an indelible mark on, the worlds of indie rock and self reliant cinema. those conversations with longtime good friend and affiliate Alan Licht probe his hugely individualistic method of tune making and the track undefined, one who cherishes intimacy, neighborhood, secret, and spontaneity. Exploring Oldham’s travels and inventive impacts whereas discussing his studies with such disparate figures as Johnny money, Bjork, James Earl Jones, and R. Kelly, the booklet conveys the brilliance that has captivated enthusiasts and made Oldham certainly one of our so much influential and cherished songsmiths.

Oldham has declared this publication his “last interview”—an crucial consultant to his lifestyles and profession. that includes an entire discography, it bargains the main in-depth glance we may well ever get of this attention-grabbing cult determine.

By Mike Mullane

ISBN-10: 0743296761

ISBN-13: 9780743296762

On February 1, 1978, the 1st crew of house go back and forth astronauts, twenty-nine males and 6 girls, have been brought to the realm. between them will be background makers, together with the 1st American lady and the 1st African American in house. This meeting of astronauts could hold NASA in the course of the such a lot tumultuous years of the distance trip application. 4 may die on Challenger.
USAF Colonel Mike Mullane was once a member of this astronaut category, and using Rockets is his tale -- informed with a candor by no means earlier than visible in an astronaut's memoir. Mullane strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they're -- human. His stories of arrested improvement between army flyboys operating with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are often bawdy, usually hilarious, and regularly entertaining.

Mullane vividly portrays each element of the astronaut adventure -- from telling a feminine technician which urine-collection condom dimension is a healthy; to jogging alongside a Florida seashore in a final, tearful so long with a wife; to a wild, intoxicating, terrifying experience into area; to listening to "Taps" performed over a friend's grave. Mullane is brutally sincere in his feedback of a NASA management whose bungling could precipitate the Challenger disaster.

Riding Rockets is a narrative of existence in all its fateful uncertainty, of the influence of a relations tragedy on a nine-year-old boy, of the revelatory impact of a computing device known as Sputnik, and of the life-steering powers of lust, love, and marriage. it's a tale of the human event that may resonate lengthy after the decision of "Wheel stop."