Essays

It Wasn't Always Easy, but I Sure Had Fun

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"[A] TRIED AND TRUE SOURCE OF LAUGHTER...Readers will find some of his humor wry, some wistful, some sly, some indignant. But reading his comments is like having a chat with an old friend, with intervals of belly laughs."
--The Richmond-Times Dispatch
Lewis Grizzard is not the only one who had fun. Over the course of seventeen books and countless columns, this feisty son of the South established himself as one of the most entertaining raconteurs--and provocateurs--across the nation. Whether he's trying to make you laugh, make you mad, or make you misty, his mixture of opinionated humor and down-home philosophizing is impossible to resist. Now this definitive collection brings together the cream of Grizzard's comic crop.
"STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART."
--The Indianapolis Star
"VERY MOVING, VERY FUNNY."
--Headland Observer
"RECOMMENDED."
--Library Journal

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Soul Winner (The Spurgeon Collection)

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One of the most effective evangelists of all time. Under his ministry Victorian London saw revival on a scale never seen since. Yet Spurgeon would be the first to point your finger away from himself to the true author of repentance and reformation he realised that without God at work, he could do nothing. Many people sought Spurgeon's advice on evangelism and preaching and so he addressed a wide variety of different groups of people on the subject. Here is a collection of his lectures and talks to take people away from human inspired gimmickry and slavish mimicry to think through for themselves how to enable God to work in their lives and ministry. Spurgeon was the minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London during the Victorian era. The author of numerous books, his sermons were reprinted and sold in tens of millions. Thousands gathered to hear him preach but he was not just an eloquent man, he was a man driven to taking the gospel to the people with the utmost urgency.

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The Ethics Of Spinoza: The Road to Inner Freedom

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Pages: 215, Paperback, Citadel

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Essays: First and Second Series

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Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here is a collection of his classic essays, including the exhortation to "Self-Reliance" and the embattled realizations of "Circles" and "Experience." Here, too, are his wide-ranging discourses on history, art, politics, nature, friendship, love, and much more.

For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome and durable paperback books. A distinguished author has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice of the text, and notes.

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Golden Ass (Midland Books No 36)

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A frank and vivid modern version of one of the most diverting of all classics. Lindsay's translation captures the genuine flavor, sharp dialogue, outrageous humor, racy delight and subtle style of Apuleius' sophisticated masterpiece.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer - theologian, pastor, martyr - is one of the most significant Christian witnesses of the twentieth century. His writings challenge us to address the presence of God in the world and history. His courageous resistance against Hitler, his imprisonment and execution dramatize "the cost of discipleship." These selections, with a poignant introduction by Robert Coles, provide a penetrating entry to the heart of Bonhoeffer's message.

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Essays on the Gita, New U.S. Paperback Ed.

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A masterly exposition of the pre-eminent Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. Itwas after reading these essays, in particular, that in the 1930's PresidentWilson's daughter went to Sri Aurobindo and devoted her life - receiving thename Nishtha via his vision in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry. Index.

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Performing the Word: Preaching As Theatre

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Pages: 156, Paperback, Abingdon Press

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El Oro Del Rey

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In this fourth installment of the adventures of Captain Alatriste, Pérez-Reverte?s most popular hero returns from Flanders and undertakes a dangerous mission in Seville, the most fascinating 17th Century city. He is instructed to recruit a motley group of brave swordsmen for a risky job involving the contraband gold that the Spanish galleons bring from the Indies. Description in Spanish: Sevilla, 1626. A su regreso de Flandes, donde han participado en el asedio y rendición de Breda, el capitán Alatriste y el joven mochilero Íñigo Balboa reciben el encargo de reclutar a un pintoresco grupo de bravos y espadachines para una peligrosa misión, relacionada con el contrabando del oro que los galeones españoles traen de las Indias. Los bajos fondos de la turbulenta cuidad andaluza, el corral de los Naranjos, la cárcel real, las tabernas de Triana, los arenales del Guadalquivir, son los escenarios de esta nueva aventura, donde los protagonistas reencontrarán traiciones, lances y estocadas, en compañía de viejos amigos y de viejos enemigos.

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There Is a Season

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There Is A Season provides a glorious meditation in art and words on the famous passage from the Bible. There Is A Season shows how human fulfill-ment and true happiness come, not from getting and having more but from valuing that which we have.

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