An in-depth history that assesses the price of progress and the legacy of lost rural American communitiesNestled among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia, Franklin County is the undisputed “Moonshine Capital of the World.” But Franklin County was not as lawless as its reputation would suggest. In addition to making moonshine, the citizens of Franklin County also made a monumental effort to educate their children. In the early twentie...

America remains one of the wealthiest nations in history, yet many people experience prosperity only as a headline. The monthly budget tells a different story. Food costs more. Housing consumes a growing share of income. Insurance, medicine, transportation, utilities, and caregiving compete for money that has already been promised to rent, taxes, and debt. A raise may arrive, but the relief disappears before the next bill is opened.The Celestial Tribunal Discusses Affordability tur...

Food Waste doesn't reduce food waste to "bad people throw away food." There is personal carelessness, taste, abundance, business decisions, safety, transportation problems, market oversupply, geography, economics, hunger, and recovery.Poems About What We Throw Away. You will come away with a more complicated understanding of what "waste" actually means. Notice ordinary waste more. Not all food waste has the same cause. This book will make you think about the hidden...

A nation has the right to defend itself. But who decides when defense becomes war—and who pays the price?In The Celestial Tribunal Discusses War Versus Defense: A Dialogue About Power, the Constitution, and Humanity, Abraham Tyler brings together an imagined tribunal of God, Jesus, Abraham, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Harry Truman to confront the moral responsibilities of power.Washington and Truman debate verified threats, military judgment, competent...

The Work of Worship IV: Pastor doesn't portray pastoral ministry merely as a job. This poetry book portrays it as service to Christ: calling, preaching, caring for people, leading the church, enduring hidden burdens, and remaining faithful until the end.Pastors and ministry leaders may feel seen in areas that are usually invisible. You will explore those struggles rather than pretending ministry is constantly victorious. Volunteers can make serving feel more meanin...

Inside the mind of psychopaths and exploring their behaviors takes you on a chilling journey into the dark, complex world of psychopathy. Delve deep into the minds of those who lack empathy, emotion, and moral conscience—yet often thrive in society’s highest echelons.From infamous real-life cases to the latest in psychological research, this book uncovers the secrets behind manipulative behaviors, impulsive actions, and the masks psychopaths wear. Are you ready to ...

Classic Trope is not merely a fictional storytelling device—it becomes a way of looking at repeated human patterns. This poetry collection will guide you to have a new way of looking at familiar stories. You may find tropes as lenses for human experience.Poems About the Stories We Keep Becoming. You may have more compassion toward complicated people. Heroes can be selfish, villains can be kind, cowards can be brave, and people change according to circumstances. Som...

From debut author Daniel Abraham comes A Shadow in Summer, the first book in the Long Price Quartet fantasy series.The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit, Seedless, an andat bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, a juggernaut of an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Sarayke...

This graphic novel adaptation contains more than fifty pages of exclusive content not available in the original comic books, including• a new Preface by George R. R. Martin• early renderings of key scenes and favorite characters from the novels• a walk-through of the entire creative process, from auditioning the artists to tweaking the scripts to coloring the final pages• behind-the-sce...

A Talmud student from Antomir arrives at Ellis Island with four cents, and rises to be a millionaire of the New York cloak trade — losing, item by item, everything he came with. Cahan fled the Tsar after the 1881 pogroms and edited the Jewish Daily Forward for half a century; this 1917 novel is the great book of the Jewish immigration, and Levinsky's success is described exactly as the disaster it is.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA TodayMarion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s d...

A complete documentary archive of Abraham Lincoln's writings, from historic speeches to personal letters and telegrams.Collected here are numerous documents written by Abraham Lincoln from 1832 to 1865, over the course of his long career as a lawyer, statesman, and president of the United States. From the man who led the nation through the Civil War and into its Reconstruction, Lincoln's written statements—including the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg A...