A spoof on the military-industrial complex featuring secret agent Ijon Tichy. On the moon, while relieving himself behind a boulder in the Sea of Serenity, he had the right part of his brain severed from his left by one of those super weapons being developed there. Now as he typ…
Sister Aimee rose to God's challenge, but also found herself a celebrity and personality in the 1920's and 1930's. Epstein traces her history from its roots in her ministry work to her mission and stardom in Hollywood as a revivalist.
Sister Aimee rose to God's challenge, but also found herself a celebrity and personality in the 1920's and 1930's. Epstein traces her history from its roots in her ministry work to her mission and stardom in Hollywood as a revivalist.
Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As …
by Lynd, Robert Staughton, Lynd, Helen Merrell
fromA Harvest Book
by Lynd, Robert Staughton, Lynd, Helen Merrell
fromHarvest book
by Lynd, Robert Staughton, Lynd, Helen Merrell
fromHarvest book
"We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation."The Psalms were written as songs; we should read them as poetry, in the spirit of lyric, not as sermons or instructions. But they are also s…
"I write," the author says, "as one amateur to another, talking about the difficulties I have met, or lights I have gained, with the hope that this might at any rate interest, and sometimes even help, other inexpert readers." He relates the Psalms to their tripel background: to …
