How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back
By the time he was 19, Frank Schaeffer's parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical best seller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson.
But while coming of age as a rising evangelical star, Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, and as a result, he experienced a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his journey out of the fold even if it meant losing everything.
Writer. Mother. Wife. New Yorker. Abigail Pogrebin is many things, but the one that has defined her most profoundly is identical twin....
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How many times has something happened to you or your family that could only be explained as the work of God or an angel? True stories of neighbors about a stranger's visit acquire that explanation....
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The great Russian novelist and historian here reveals his roundbyround personal account of what it was like to be a writer in a Communist regime. He tells of his tenyear war to outwit Russia's rulers...
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First published more than 50 years ago, this awardwinning classic brings Rachel Carson's unique vision to a new generation of listeners....
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Donald Dell is a legend in professional sports. As one of the first agents to represent athletes, he's been negotiating megadeals for almost 40 years with a hugely successful record....
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This classic war memoir, first published in 1920, is based on the author's extensive diaries describing hard combat experienced on the Western Front during World War I.....
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A brilliant, idiosyncratic blend of autobiography and history that charts the great transformation in American life during the 19th and early 20th centuries....
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The Story of My Life, a remarkable account of overcoming the debilitating challenges of being both deaf and blind, made Helen Keller inspirational figures in history....
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Helen Colijn's account of her wartime experiences is a window into a largely overlooked dimension of World War II, the imprisonment of women and children in Southeast Asia by the Japanese....
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Jesse Cooper was an honorroll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic....
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