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  • Lonesome Road

    A Memoir of Faith

    When are you truly grown up? How do you finally become the person God made you to be? In a gentle, reflective account that does not spare himself, Timothy P. Schilling explores these questions while recounting his coming of age as the son of a traumatized war veteran. His memoir Lonesome Road takes us first west, from Indiana to Washington State, and then east, to Princeton University and a ... Read more

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  • The Writings of Norman Maclean

    Seeking Truth amid Tragedy

    Series series Western Literature and Fiction Series
    With a foreword by John N. Maclean, son of Norman MacleanThe Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy provides the first critical reassessment of this celebrated author’s work in more than a decade. In his study, Timothy P. Schilling focuses on Maclean’s attempt, in A River Runs through It and Other Stories and Young Men and Fire, to come to grips with the tragic side of human ... Read more

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    In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh start in suburban Buffalo. But even as Cathy embraces the tumultuous sixties and throws herself into a new life as cheerleader, Hojo Hostess, and civil rights ... Read more

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  • Views from the Loft

    A Portable Writer's Workshop

    Edited by Daniel Slager ...
    "Packed with inspirational, useful, and thought-provoking essays on the craft of writing from some of the best writers around." — Minneapolis Star TribuneTeachers, exercises, mentors, critiques, humor, and inspiration: these form the fuel all writers need when they get down to work every day. For decades the Loft Literary Center has provided this fuel to an enormous community of writers. Views ... Read more

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  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith

    101 Stories to Offer Hope, Deepen Faith, and Spread Love

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith is relevant to all Catholics, from the once-a-year attendee at Christmas Mass, to the devout church volunteer and daily worshipper. A great gift for Confirmation, RCIA, graduations, weddings, new parents, and holidays!With 101 poignant and spirit-filled stories, this book covers the gamut, from fun stories about growing up Catholic to serious ... Read more

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  • You Are What You Read

    A Practical Guide to Reading Well

    Series series Skills for Scholars
    How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the ... Read more

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  • Work in Progress

    Confessions of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, corporate tool, and priest

    by James Martin ...
    New York Times BestsellerIn this humorous memoir, New York Times bestselling author and podcast host of The Spiritual Life, Father James Martin tells the story of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, and corporate tool and, finally, a Jesuit priest."Funny, charming, inspiring and wise—this is a memorable memoir." — Stephen ColbertWork in Progress is a snapshot o... ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction, now revised and expanded in its third edition, is informed throughout by recent developments in the field and includes one new chapter. The glossary ... Read more

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  • Laugh-a-Day Book of Bloopers, Quotes & Good Clean Jokes, The

    by Jim Kraus ...
    Laughter is powerful medicine--and it's just plain fun. The Laugh-a-Day Book of Bloopers, Quotes & Good Clean Jokes brings together hundreds of the funniest bits of wit and humor to brighten anyone's day. From blunders like "For sale: Electric hospital bed, hardly used. No one died in it," to truisms like "The only thing worse than hearing the alarm clock in the morning is not hearing it," there's ... Read more

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  • Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey : New Essays

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    by Robert Kolker ...
    Almost all students have seen 2001 but virtually none understand its inheritance its complexities and certainly not its ironies. The essays in this collection commissioned from a wide variety of scholars examine in detail various possible readings of the film and its historical context. They also examine the film as a genre piece--as the summa of science fiction that simultaneously looks back on ... Read more

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    Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America's most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor.A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens ... Read more

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  • The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics

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    Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the most popular and enduring band ever: “Even the most hardcore Deadheads will be impressed by this obsessively complete look at the Grateful Dead’s lyrics” (Publishers Weekly).The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of all the original songs you thought you knew forwards and backwards. These are some ... Read more

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