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2022
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Leaves from a President's Notebook shares the wisdom of Thomas K. Hearn Jr., former President of Wake Forest University, and past chairman and board member of the Center for Creative Leadership. These short essays reflect Dr. Hearn's thoughts ranging from growing up in rural Alabama to current topics including leadership development, college athletics, and the role of the modern university.
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- Campus History
2004
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Wake Forest College was founded in 1834 to train Baptist ministers. Now a nationally and internationally recognized university, it is renowned for both its graduate and undergraduate programs. Over 6,000 students attend this university nestled within the beauty of the North Carolina Piedmont. The school's motto, pro humanitate, meaning "for the good of humanity," reflects the university's emphasis on the importance of values, ideals, human service experiences, and faith in the educational ...
Unabridged
9 hours 43 min
2024
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Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer. While most of his writings were professional, this is a more personal book telling some of the history of Scotland, Archibald's memories, experiences and recollections there as well as stories he was told by people he met. He has a good sense of humour which shines through.
Animal Happiness
Moving Exploration of Animals and Their Emotions - From Cats and Dogs to Orangutans and Tortoises
2007
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A New York Times Notable Book of 1994! Highly respected author, philosopher, and animal trainer Vicki Hearne offers a treasure trove of animal anecdotes, all written in her unique and poetic style. Through entertaining stories about cats, horses, an ornamental carp, a scorpion, and tortoises, Hearne focuses on how each of these various creatures experiences happiness in its own special way. She takes issue with Ludwig Wittgenstein on lions and language, discusses the naming of pets, and co...
Bandit
The Heart-Warming True Story of One Dog's Rescue from Death Row
2011
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Employing a unique combination of psychology, philosophy, sociology, and dog training theory, Vicki Hearne recounts her experiences with Bandit, a dog deemed so dangerous that the state of Connecticut condemned him to death. Hearne rescued Bandit and was soon entrenched in a legal battle that extended well beyond his case as she fought to prove that no dog is inherently vicious. She quickly discovered the factors that contributed to Bandit's behavior and set about releasing the essentially...
Christianity in Japan, and the Jesuits Missions
History of Religion
2026
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I propose to place before the readers some account of the various Missions at work in Japan. I am enabled to do this the better from having obtained, in the course of my visit, a useful table, compiled by the Rev. H. Loomis, of the American Bible Society, Yokohama, giving statistics of the different organizations up to the beginning of the year 1893. The plan adopted by Mr. Loomis is to arrange his statistics into three classes: 1) “Protestant Missions,” 2) “Catholic Missions,” and 3) “The...
Stories From The Shadows – The 1880’s
Embrace the darkness
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- Louisa BaldwinAnton ChekhovVsevolod GarshinThomas HardyDorothy HaversLafcadio HearnLucy Hamilton HooperRudyard KiplingAmy LevyGuy de MaupassantEdward Page MitchellMary Louisa MolesworthEdith NesbitMargaret OliphantMargaret OliphantMary E PennCharlotte RiddellRobert Louis StevensonLeo TolstoyOscar Wilde
Unabridged
12 hours 59 min
2025
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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...
The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections
A Landmark Anthology of Gothic Hauntings, Weird Tales, and Supernatural Terror
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- George MacDonaldCharles Brockden BrownHenry JamesHorace WalpoleFrederick MarryatWashington IrvingH. P. LovecraftLouisa May AlcottCharles DickensGrant AllenMayne ReidFrancis Marion CrawfordOscar WildeEmily BrontëFriedrich SchillerRobert Louis StevensonGaston LerouxAlgernon BlackwoodWilliam Hope HodgsonAnn Ward RadcliffeG. P. R. JamesJoseph Sheridan Le FanuGertrude LinnellWilliam Thomas LinskillLafcadio HearnGeorge SandCatherine CroweE. G. SwainTalbot Baines ReedMrs. OliphantEdgar WallaceVernon LeeArthur Quiller-CouchD. H. LawrenceElizabeth Stuart PhelpsH. G. WellsMary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanEarl H. ReedB. L. FarjeonPaul HeyseRudyard KiplingWilhelm HauffGuy BoothbyFrederic Henry BalfourM. R. JamesEmma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte SouthworthF. Britten AustinRichard MarshMrs. J. H. RiddellWilliam De MorganArlo BatesThomas Nelson PageE. F. BensonHenry Johnson BrentRichard J. HintonLeonard KipW. T. SteadHoward PeaseE. NesbitJean WebsterWilliam OgilvieAndrew LangCarolyn WellsEdward S. SorensonEliza ParsonsMary Noailles MurfreeRafael SabatiniMrs. MolesworthMay SinclairS. Baring-GouldDorothy ScarboroughRichard MiddletonWeymer Jay MillsLanoe FalconerNathaniel Hawthorne
2024
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The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections maps the ghostly imagination across the Gothic, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and modern traditions. Its capacious selection ranges from ancestral curses, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and spectral revenge to psychologically ambiguous apparitions and folkloric visitations. Novels and short fiction mingle with fairy-tale, sensation, decadent, imperial, and supernatural-investigation modes, revealing how the g...
Tales of Lost Souls: 400+ Ghost Stories in One Collection
A Sweeping Anthology of Gothic Hauntings, Weird Fiction, and Supernatural Mysteries
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- George MacDonaldCharles Brockden BrownHenry JamesHorace WalpoleFrederick MarryatWashington IrvingH. P. LovecraftLouisa May AlcottCharles DickensGrant AllenMayne ReidFrancis Marion CrawfordOscar WildeEmily BrontëFriedrich SchillerRobert Louis StevensonGaston LerouxAlgernon BlackwoodWilliam Hope HodgsonAnn Ward RadcliffeG. P. R. JamesJoseph Sheridan Le FanuGertrude LinnellWilliam Thomas LinskillLafcadio HearnGeorge SandCatherine CroweE. G. SwainTalbot Baines ReedMrs. OliphantEdgar WallaceVernon LeeArthur Quiller-CouchD. H. LawrenceElizabeth Stuart PhelpsH. G. WellsMary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanEarl H. ReedB. L. FarjeonPaul HeyseRudyard KiplingWilhelm HauffGuy BoothbyFrederic Henry BalfourM. R. JamesEmma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte SouthworthF. Britten AustinRichard MarshMrs. J. H. RiddellWilliam De MorganArlo BatesThomas Nelson PageE. F. BensonHenry Johnson BrentRichard J. HintonLeonard KipW. T. SteadHoward PeaseE. NesbitJean WebsterWilliam OgilvieAndrew LangCarolyn WellsEdward S. SorensonEliza ParsonsMary Noailles MurfreeRafael SabatiniMrs. MolesworthMay SinclairS. Baring-GouldDorothy ScarboroughRichard MiddletonWeymer Jay MillsLanoe FalconerNathaniel Hawthorne
2024
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Tales of Lost Souls: 400+ Ghost Stories in One Collection maps the extraordinary breadth of supernatural fiction from Gothic romance to psychological horror, antiquarian terror, folkloric fantasy, and modern ghostly unease. Its vast assembly moves through ruined estates, cursed objects, spectral visitations, doubles, revenants, and haunted domestic spaces, demonstrating how the ghost story continually adapts to changing fears. Alongside classic Gothic atmospheres, readers encounter tales o...
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