Fully Alive


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In a world experiencing turbulent change, we need people who are resilient, kind, open, generous, and brave. How do we become those people? In Fully Alive, popular podcaster Elizabeth Oldfield uses the seven deadly sins as a framework to explore questions such as: · How can I move from sloth to attention in order to make the most of my short life and stop getting distracted by trivialities? · Is it possible to move from wrath to peacemaking? How do I become a depolarizing person in an age of outrage, tribalism, and division? · What might it look like to move from gluttony to awe, finding transcendence in expansive, life-giving ways--not in a tub of ice cream or a bottle of wine? · How can I move from pride to connection, overcoming the disconnection that keeps me from intimacy, community, and ultimately the divine? Oldfield shows why, in a world heavy on judgment, she still finds the concept of sin liberating--and how, to her surprise, she keeps finding in her Christian faith ways to feel fully alive. Deeply serious yet amusingly relatable, this book helps us develop spiritual strength for when things fall apart.




My Flight to America: The Incredible Journey of a Vietnamese Refugee


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"The author and his family got out of the refugee camp and rebuilt their new lives with bare hands in the far north, state of Alaska. His wife and he did everything to support three small children from food, housing, to daily expenses. They eagerly learned the American culture and custom to merge into the new society. They found opportunities anywhere they went. They took what they could reach... from labor job, professional engineering job, business owner, real states investor, builder, land developer, retail shopping centers managing and leasing." --Amazon.




The Book of the Dead


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Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.




Death Flight


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When Dr. Hope Sze flies to Los Angeles to reunite with her soul mate, John Tucker, she expects Botoxed blondes with Brazilian wax jobs, not terror at 35,000 feet in the air. Yet on their way home, with 1000 miles to go and nowhere to land, she and Dr. Tucker must strive to save one man’s life. Hope and Tucker have no surgical equipment. No surgeon on board. And, as first year family medicine residents, almost no experience. But right this second, they’ll try anything. Especially Hope, because minutes before, she might have accidentally helped to kill the man sprawled at her feet. "Tachycardia-inducing." Dr. Anna-Maria Carvalho, MD, Emergency & Aviation Medicine “Awesome. A real page-turner.” Dr. Ben Alkan, Trauma Surgeon "Medicine, murder, mayhem, and the most nightmarish story about airlines at the holidays since Die Hard 2. Laugh, learn, and cringe as medical MacGyver and human s**t magnet Dr. Hope Sze faces down lovers and killers, all before the seatbelt sign gets turned on for landing." Dr. Frank Warsh, author of The Flame Broiled Doctor "Wonderfully captures the tensions of managing crises, mingled with the wit, improvisation, and humour used to survive them. Great characters with personality quirks that many docs will recognize." Dr. Mark Soth, Intensive Care Unit Specialist "I don’t think I have ever read a book so many times, and I am really excited to read it again! I love it. It kept me up all night. I had to tell the whole airline about it." Anne Zoeller, flight attendant PRAISE FOR THE HOPE SZE SERIES #1 Mystery Selection—CBC Books: Human Remains headlines with Louise Penny and Maureen Jennings in CBC Holiday Gift Guide One of the best Canadian suspense books to read at the cottage ... a scarier-than-ever medical mystery. Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail, on Human Remains One of the best crime novels of the season. CBC’s The Next Chapter Mystery Panel, on Stockholm Syndrome "Narrating in a sprightly style while sharing some of the nitty-gritty of a resident's job, Hope Sze is an utterly likeable character." Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, on Terminally Ill “Although the tone is light, the author is not afraid to introduce darker themes. The three intertwining mysteries and Hope herself provide a narrative by turns entertaining and insightful.”—Publishers Weekly, on Terminally Ill




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Francis Parkman's Works


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The Critical Period, 1763-1765


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Documents relating to the history of the Illinois country under British rule, 1763-1778.