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  • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc: Vol. 1 of 2

    by Mark G. Twain ...
    Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old. The novel is presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of memoirs by Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of Joan of Arc's page Louis de Contes. Twain was aware of his ... Read more

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  • Spiritual Reflections on Biblical Senses

    Tasting, Touching, Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, Breathing

    by Mark G. Boyer ...
    While the complete title of this book might be clumsy, it expresses what is contained between the covers. Spiritual refers to the need to nourish the human spirit. The forty spiritual exercises in this book begin with a short Scripture passage, which illustrates the topic of the chapter, and end with a Psalm response, a few verses from a psalm that mentions the topic of the exercise. The ... Read more

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  • The Parchman Ordeal

    1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice

    An account of the civil rights march that ended in the unlawful incarceration of African American protestors—and the basis for the 2017 documentary.In October 1965, nearly 800 young people attempted to march from their churches in Natchez to protest segregation, discrimination and mistreatment by white leaders and elements of the Ku Klux Klan. As they exited the churches, local authorities forced ... Read more

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  • A Spirituality of Ageing

    by Mark G. Boyer ...
    Sometime around the age of fifty--or as early as forty and as late as sixty--most of us come to terms with our age. We recognize that we have lived out at least half of the time allotted to us, and that the second half may be shorter than the first! Coming to terms with our age is a process, one that usually involves denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. As we progresses through ... Read more

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  • Sketches New and Old

    by Mark G. Twain ...
    Sketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghost Story", among others. ... Read more

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  • What is Man? and Other Essays

    by Mark G. Twain ...
    "What Is Man?" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins "what is man, that you are mindful of him...".It involves ideas of determinism and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserts that the human being is merely a machine, ... Read more

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  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    by Mark G. Twain ...
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during ... Read more

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  • Mark Twain's Speeches

    by Mark G. Twain ...
    If I were to sell the reader a barrel of molasses, and he, instead of sweetening his substantial dinner with the same at judicious intervals, should eat the entire barrel at one sitting, and then abuse me for making him sick, I would say that he deserved to be made sick for not knowing any better how to utilize the blessings this world affords. And if I sell to the reader this volume of nonsense, ... Read more

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  • Living Parables

    Today’s Versions

    Living Parables: Today's Versions presents parables in updated language and images. Biblical parables are culture-bound; they are embedded in images that were well-known to a Jewish culture. Jesus was a first-century, Jewish, Galilean peasant, and his concerns, speech, and idioms belong to that culture. His milieu is far removed from ours today. The images found in parables carried meaning that is ... Read more

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  • Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

    by Mark G. Hanna ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England’s burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates ... Read more

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  • From Biblical Animals to Family Pets

    A Spiritual Evolution

    by Mark G. Boyer ...
    From Biblical Animals to Family Pets begins with ten general reflections on animals found in the Bible, explores their characteristics, and presents six exercises on biblical animal spirituality. In the second part, what is learned from exploring biblical animals is applied specifically to Shelbydog, the author’s deceased pet; he demonstrates how his dog was a theophany, a manifestation of God, ... Read more

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  • Biblical Names for God

    An Abecedarian Anthology of Spiritual Reflections for Anytime

    by Mark G. Boyer ...
    This book presents forty-two reflections on biblical names for God in an abecedarian (A through Z) format. The names, terms by which God is known, are not biblically exhaustive. These entries present spiritual reflections, grounded in Scripture, with Psalm responses, questions for meditation and/or journaling, and prayers designed to nourish spirituality at any time. Beginning with Abba, Alpha, ... Read more

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