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Talladega Superspeedway Offering Up $100,000 Award for 100 Lead Changes
Talladega Superspeedway has long been known as NASCAR's Most Competitive Track…and now it's looking to back up that reputation with cold hard cash. Track officials believe that this month's running of the Good Sam Club 500 could eclipse 100 lead changes during the race and should that happen, the driver who takes the lead the most times throughout the race will earn $100,000.
"There's a real excitement and buzz going into our race weekend," said Talladega Superspeedway Chairman Grant Lynch. "Our fans look forward to seeing a lot of passing and a lot of lead changes. It makes sense to put an extra incentive on giving our fans what they want. The new rules package, that includes a larger restrictor plate opening, should give drivers the opportunity to really mix it up and pass even more in traffic. This is going to be an exciting race on Oct. 23 and we look forward to potentially setting another NASCAR record."
Talladega Superspeedway currently holds the NASCAR record of 88 lead changes in a race, a mark that has been reached twice. Both instances occurred in the spring race at Talladega Superspeedway (2010 & 2011) with the 2010 fall race narrowly missing the mark with 87 lead changes.
Talladega also holds NASCAR records for leaders (29), fastest average race speed (188.354 mph) and fastest qualifying speed (212.809 mph).
Race fans that want to experience true southern hospitality combined with the most competitive racing in NASCAR should call the Talladega Superspeedway Ticket Office today at 1-877-Go2-DEGA. Guests that purchase their tickets in advance have the opportunity to save over those who purchase during race week. Tickets are available online at www.talladegasuperspeedway.com.
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The Gentleman Recommends: Paul Tremblay
If you're looking for a grim, unputdownable book to block the blistering and incessant shine of the July sun, look no further. Paul Tremblay's "A Head Full of Ghosts" is the sort of book you read in one sitting (assuming you have sufficient free time, or a willingness/compulsion to prioritize pleasure over obligations, and also that you are not a big ol' chicken (cause it's scary)).
"A Head Full of Ghosts" is about a young girl that is either possessed by the devil or by mental illness. (Evidence mounts for both possibilities, and when you're certain you've got it all sussed out, you're probably still going to have your mind changed a couple of times.) Her family, exhausted both mentally and financially, agrees to allow a reality television crew to film the devil's/mental illness's exploits. (It's surprising that there isn't already a "reality" television show about possessions, but this book gives us a pretty good idea of what one would look like.)
More than a decade after the possession debacle and the short-lived but successful television series, the possessed girl's younger sister is being interviewed by a hotshot writer for a tell-all bestseller. The younger sister's story is relayed through this framework and intercut with blog posts from the world's foremost authority on the reality television show made about the possession. (The identity of the blogger is revealed early on, and makes for one of many moments in the book that'll make you say, "Veritably! Now that's some fine crafting of fiction. This novel brings me pleasure, and I am glad that I forsook sleep and a supposedly necessary medical procedure in order to find the time to partake of its literary fruits.")
Another spectacular thingy that happens: very early in the novel a character's quirk is revealed, a cute detail, but it couldn't be anything crucial, right? No. Instead it is a key to the novel's devastating ending. The sort of ending that makes you want to comfort fictional characters and perhaps attempt to construct life-size replicas of the characters so that you can properly hug them and even forge a relationship with the hat-wearing sack of hay that you've drawn a face on, a relationship that progresses to the point where you're asking it to, with horrific consequences, transport you home from your various necessary medical procedures.
If you're in the mood for something a little lighter, do not read Tremblay's newest novel, "Disappearance at Devil's Rock." It is about a child's disappearance at Devil's Rock. It is a sad, tricky book that makes you think one thing is happening until it makes you think another thing is happening, until it tells you most of what is really happening.
"Swallowing a Donkey's Eye," in addition to being a description of British cuisine (haha, I WENT THERE, rimshot, etc.), is a much different novel. A desperate man signs a contract that makes him an indentured servant for an "amusement park" called FARM, which is where people go to see actual plants and animals, as well as people dressed like animals. This novel is frequently funny, as the author always is in interviews, but it also features a scene that manages to be as simultaneously heartbreaking and disgusting as anything I've ever read. Read it; share my burden.
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Summer Reading Program Preview: Speed Date with a Book
In search of a galaxy far, far away: I like a book where anything is possible, including travel through deep space and the kinds of technology we can only dream about. A little time travel is also desired.
The game is afoot! I want a book with a problem to solve, preferably one that gets me using my little grey cells. I prefer twists and turns, with a few red herrings thrown in to keep me guessing.
Looking for my Mr. Darcy! A book will really catch my fancy if it has a nice dusting of romance. Watching two people fall in love is the highlight of my day, especially when it's opposites attracting!
Do any of these readers sound like you? Have you ever struggled to figure out what to read next or are you curious about trying books that fall outside of what you normally read? Do you enjoy talking with others about books you've read? If so, you will want to check out the library's first ever Speed Date with a Book on Friday, July 15, at 7 p.m. in the Columbia Public Library's third floor reading room.
The library is always a good place to find your next favorite read, and this month we want to try a new approach to helping readers find a book they can fall in love with. So, what is a speed date with a book? It's kind of like normal speed dating, only instead of sharing information about yourself in just a couple of minutes, you get to talk about the books you love with other readers who are looking for something new. Along with the speed dating, we'll have activities including book charades, a "first impressions" contest (because who hasn't judged a book by its cover before?) and a chance to go on a blind date with a book. There will also be free book giveaways, door prizes and refreshments. Speed daters who find a book they want to read will have the opportunity to check it out and take the book home to find out if it lives up to expectations.
If you're on the hunt for for an exciting new read, or just love talking about books with other readers, this is the perfect event for you!
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In Memory of Elie Wiesel
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
~ Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016)
When, in 1990, at the age of 39, I emigrated from the USSR to the United States, I did not know about Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank and other victims — or survivors — of the Holocaust. In fact, I didn't even know the term "Holocaust." And not because I was a bad student who failed to learn it in school, but because the anti-Semitic politics of the Third Reich were not covered in our school curriculum and our mass media — not before or during WWII, or afterwards. As a result, the atrocities that were well known in the West were hardly mentioned in the East. There, coverage of WWII was dedicated to the bravery and suffering of Soviet troops and, until 1956, to Stalin's military genius. So the mass killings of Jews — in Europe and Ukraine — did not qualify.
This is not to say that the Russian population had it easy. The war was devastating for the USSR. Overall, more than 26 million Russian citizens died during the war, not to mention those who came back as invalids and hopeless alcoholics. Still, the fact that the Jews were systematically exterminated was not revealed in Russia (where casual anti -Semitism was the norm) for a very long time. Well, we knew about concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Treblinka and Buchenwald. In fact, there was a popular song written about the latter, which went like this:
People of the world
stand up a moment
Listen, listen
It buzzes from all sides
It can be heard in Buchenwald
ringing off the bells
ringing off the bells
It's innocent blood reborn and strengthened
In a brazen roar.
Victims are resurrected from the ashes …
Yet again, we were never told that the main goal of a camp like Auschwitz was the implementation of "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians estimate that among the people sent to Auschwitz there were at least 1,100,000 Jews from all the countries of occupied Europe, over 140,000 Poles, approximately 20,000 Gypsies from several European countries, over 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war and over 10,000 prisoners of other nationalities.
When I found myself in Columbia, Missouri, and I had learned enough English to start reading, books about the Holocaust were not high on my list. First, I needed to learn about my adoptive country, its history, culture and customs. So, when one day (I was already working at the reference desk of the Columbia Public Library) a teenage girl came to me and asked about "The Diary of a Young Girl," I had no idea what that book was about. I just looked it up in the library catalog. And later, when another patron was looking for "Night" by Elie Wiesel, I didn't know anything about that book either. In fact, I had trouble spelling "Wiesel."
Time went by, and I learned about the Holocaust, about Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel and others. I saw a collection of victims' shoes in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (the Nazis confiscated their victims' belongings and sent valuables back to Germany; the shoes were to be repaired by the camps' prisoners and reused). And I heard a reading of names of the Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust (1.5 million names in all) in the Yad Vashem Children's Memorial in Jerusalem, which is housed in an underground cave and lit by candles that, reflected in a system of mirrors, create the impression of millions of little stars. (The complex was built with donations from a family whose two-and-a-half-year-old son was killed in Auschwitz.) And when I read "Night," I could hardly keep from screaming; for the way I felt, it all could have happened to me, my parents and my daughter.
There are some events so cruel and traumatic that people don't want to talk about them, even less read about them. In fact, when Wiesel's "Night" first appeared in print (in Yiddish) in 1954, its publication was hardly noticed. In America, when the book was published in 1960, it wasn't an overnight success either. Gradually, though, it began attracting more attention, and when, in 2006, Oprah Winfrey presented "Night" to her book club, it became a New York Times bestseller.
Wiesel went on to write many more books and to become a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Above all, he remained a voice for Holocaust victims and survivors – the mission he considered the most important in his life.
"If I survived," Wiesel said in 1981, "It must be for some reason. I must do something with my life…because in my place, someone else could have been saved. And so I speak for that person."
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Lend Me Your Ears: Outstanding Audiobooks
The best audiobooks provide something readers could not create on their own through reading the text from a page. Narrators create worlds with their voices, crafting performances that leave us sitting in our parked cars, hesitant to stop listening. For your next road trip, check out some of these books on CD or downloadable audio to make the miles fly by. Or, make exercise or housework more bearable by entertaining your ears with a good story. (Book descriptions courtesy of their publishers.)
"All the Old Knives" by Olen Steinhauer (read by Ari Fliakos and Juliana Francis Kelly)
Available on CD and downloadable audio
Nine years ago, terrorists hijacked a plane in Vienna. Somehow, a rescue attempt staged from the inside went terribly wrong and everyone on board was killed.Members of the CIA stationed in Vienna during that time were witness to this terrible tragedy, gathering intel from their sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground with a series of texts coming from one of their agents inside the plane. Had their agent been compromised, and how?
"Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" by Erik Larson (read by Scott Brick)
Available on CD and downloadable audio
This 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle. A dramatic narration brings the details of this tragedy to crisp light.
"The Knockoff" by Lucy Sykes and Jo Piazza (read by Katherine Kellgren)
Available on CD
The story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app. Kellgren expertly captures both Imogen's elegant tone and Eve's more fast-paced millennial-speak.
"What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" by Randall Munroe (read by Wil Wheaton)
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What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, and Wheaton's humorous tone matches the content perfectly.
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The Gentleman Recommends: Arthur Bradford
While I'll recommend the work of a rascal if that rascal's work is great enough, there are enough brilliant and kind writers out there that I've rarely had to resort to that. How do I know if they're kind? The same way you find out if anyone is kind – you google them, show a picture of them to your neighbor's hounds, and then carefully observe the hounds' reactions. With this month's recommendation, I needn't confirm the internet's verdict with a hound test. Arthur Bradford's gentlemanly nature shows in the big-hearted way he renders his characters and because the good sir is dedicated to helping people. In addition to some film work and two incredible collections of short stories, he's worked at the Texas School for the Blind, been a co-director for Camp Jabberwocky (a camp for people with disabilities), and he's currently working in a juvenile detention center. He's not your typical literary superstar who spends all his time eating figs, drinking brandy and bidding for antique typewriters on eBay.
Bradford writes without the sort of fanciful verbiage, flowery descriptions and unnecessary addenda that this immaculately groomed (wearing the casual cummerbund, because it's Friday) gentleman so vigorously gravitates toward. His sentences are direct, and they're hilarious. His characters make mistakes, sometimes constantly, but they're not trying to hurt anyone, and they're often trying to help someone.
"Turtleface and Beyond" is his most recent collection of short stories, and it's awesome. The titular Turtleface is an unfortunate young man who, after drunkenly deciding to dive from a cliff to impress his canoeing companions, dives face first into a turtle. Both he and the turtle are in bad shape, but Georgie (the soft-hearted narrator of the entire collection) decides to slap some duct tape on the turtle and nurse it back to health.
There's a story about an under-dressed man travelling with friend to a wedding. They find a man ailing at the side of the road. He's been bitten by a snake. He convinces Georgie to suck the poison from his leg. George reluctantly attempts it and ruins an outfit that was already insufficiently formal. There's one where a reluctant Georgie is cajoled into assisting a boss's decline into total depravity. There's one called "The LSD and the Baby."
When "The Gentleman Recommends" blog post series was first conceived, my primary intent was to highlight books that I like, but I also wanted to further the agenda of the gentleman. That agenda: constant politeness, regular charity, enough hat-tipping/doffing to cause calluses on the fingers you use to tip/doff your hat, always bowing when introduced to someone or when someone you know does something worthy of a bow, and regular snack breaks. I didn't know that what I really wanted was to recommend a writer who had written a story called "The LSD and the Baby."
If you like "Turtleface and Beyond," support the gentlemen's agenda and buy Bradford's first collection, "Dogwalker."
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Top Ten Books Librarians Love: The July 2016 List
It's hot and humid, and the LibraryReads recommendations list for July is dripping with twisty, suspenseful and sometimes genre-blending thrillers! Kidnapping, murder on a cruise ship, a mysterious death in an Amish community and a reality show gone seriously awry – there are so many good stories to stow in your beach bag. Here are the top 10 titles publishing next month that librarians across the country love.
"Dark Matter" by Blake Crouch
"Once on the fast-track to academic stardom, Jason Dessen finds his quiet family life and career upended when a stranger kidnaps him. Suddenly Jason's idle "what-ifs" become panicked "what-nows," as the humble quantum physics professor from a small Chicago college gets to explore the roads not taken with a mind-bending invention that opens doors to other worlds. This fun science fiction thriller is also a thoughtful page-turner with heart that should appeal to fans of Harlan Coben." – Elizabeth Eastin, Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, NY
"The Woman in Cabin 10" by Ruth Ware
"An intruder in the middle of the night leaves Lo Blacklock feeling vulnerable. Trying to shake off her fears, she hopes her big break of covering the maiden voyage of the luxury cruise ship, the Aurora, will help. The first night of the voyage changes everything. What did she really see in the water and who was the woman in the cabin next door? The claustrophobic feeling of being on a ship and the twists and turns of who, and what, to believe keep you on the edge of your seat. Count on this being one of the hot reads this summer!" – Joseph Jones, Cuyahoga County Public Library, OH
"The Last One" by Alexandra Oliva
"The Last One tells the story of twelve contestants who are sent to the wilderness in a Survivor-like reality show. But while they're away, the world changes completely and what is real and what is not begins to blur. It's post-apocalyptic literary fiction at it's best. With a fast pace and a wry sense of humor, this is the kind of book that will appeal to readers of literary fiction and genre fiction alike. It points out the absurdity of reality television without feeling condescending. As the readers wake up to the realities of a new world, it becomes difficult to put down." – Leah White, Ela Area Public Library, Lake Zurich, IL
Here is the rest of the July list for your holds-placing pleasure:
- "Among the Wicked: A Kate Burkholder Novel" by Linda Castillo
- "The Unseen World" by Liz Moore
- "Truly Madly Guilty" by Liane Moriarty
- "All Is Not Forgotten" by Wendy Walker
- "The Hopefuls" by Jennifer Close
- "Siracusa" by Delia Ephron
- "Nine Women, One Dress" by Jane L. Rosen
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Memoirs for Life's Challenges and Changes
I find that the first step in a new challenge for me is often to understand how someone else did it. When I wanted to start running (on purpose!), I didn't consult a training plan. Instead, I read Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" for inspiration. Similarly, when I wanted to cook at home more often, I didn't check out a cookbook. I read "A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table" by Molly Wizenberg. Sometimes the inspiration works the other way – I read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver because it was a One Read finalist in 2008. It motivated me to eat locally-produced, healthful food more often.
Other times, memoirs help me understand an experience that I hope to never have. Sonali Deraniyagala's "Wave" recounts the deaths of her parents, husband and children in Sri Lanka during the 2004 tsunami. It is unfathomable to me (and probably to most people) how one could survive such loss, and I have recalled Deraniyagala's strength many times since I read her memoir. Jean-Dominique Bauby fell into a coma following a stroke, and when he awoke, he found that he suffered from locked-in syndrome. He composed "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death" by blinking his left eyelid – the only body part he could move.
Not all memoirs are about such serious topics. A.J. Jacobs has made a career out of undergoing challenges and then writing humorously about such challenges. Jacobs has followed the proscriptions and tenets of the Bible ("The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible"), implemented rigorous health routines ("Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection"), volunteered as a subject of science ("The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as An Experiment") and attempted to improve his intellect ("The Know-it-all: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World").
There are plenty of memoirs to help you meet your life challenges – whether self-imposed or circumstantial – at your library. These are just a few.
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Three Ways to Celebrate Audiobook Month
June is audiobook month, as well as the unofficial start of summer travel season. Spice up that long road trip with some good storytelling with a little help from your library!
1. Check out a 2016 Audie Award winner!
Named audiobook of the year, "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins (narrated by Clare Corbett) was last year's "Gone Girl." In this psychological thriller, a woman becomes emotionally entangled in a murder investigation because of something she witnesses on her daily commute. Or try the fiction winner, "The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah (audiobook narrated by Polly Stone), which follows French sisters Viann and Isabelle as they resist German occupiers during WWII, each in her own way. If nonfiction is more your speed, pick up the winner in history/biography, "A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts" by Andrew Chaikin (narrated by Bronson Pinchot).
2. Entertain kids with audiobooks in the car.
If you have little ones in the backseat, check out some family-friendly audiobooks. "Circus Mirandus" by Cassie Beasley is reminiscent of Peter Pan and follows Micah Tuttle who, when he realizes that his grandfather's stories of an enchanted circus are true, sets out to find the mysterious circus — and to use its magic to save his grandfather's life. In Chris Grabenstein's puzzle-filled "Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library," 12-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello.
3. Suggest an audiobook selection for your book club.
Hoopla is a service available from your library that allows you to stream and download audiobooks (as well as eBooks, comics, movies and television shows). Sign up for an account (this quick start guide shows you how), download the app and borrow up to 10 items per month. Everyone in your book club can borrow the same book on Hoopla – there's no limit to how many people can borrow an item at once! Try Ben Fountain's "Billy Lynn's Long Haftime Walk," Neil Gaiman's "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" or "Daring Greatly" by Brené Brown.
Whether you are a long-time fan of audiobooks or new to listening to books, take advantage of your library's large collection of downloadable audiobooks, books on CD and playaways. Give a book a listen this summer!
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Top Ten Books Librarians Love: The June 2016 List
Ah, June is coming! We can smell summer from here. Time to stuff our beach bags with a little romantic comedy, fantasy (featuring librarians, naturally), suspense, memoir and microhistory. Here are the books hitting shelves next month that librarians across the country recommend. Place your holds now to have them in hand for your upcoming vacations or staycations.
"Vinegar Girl" by Anne Tyler
"The newest entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare series brings The Taming of the Shrew into the modern world. Kate is stuck in a life taking care of her absent minded professor father and her sister, Bunny. When her father suggests a marriage of convenience in order to secure a green card for his lab assistant Pyotr, Kate is shocked. This is a sweet and humorous story about two people, who don't quite fit in, finding each other. Tyler's wonderful writing updates and improves on the original." – Catherine Coyne, Mansfield Public Library, Mansfield, MA
"The Invisible Library" by Genevieve Cogman
"Directed by powerful librarians, agents roam alternate realities searching out special volumes for their mysterious library's collections. Irene is a spy for the library but something is a little off about her current mission; there's something strange about her new assistant that she can't quite put her finger on and worse, the requested volume has already been stolen. Cogman's engaging characters and a most intriguing imagined world are sure to delight readers, especially bibliophiles." – Beth Mills, New Rochelle Public Library, New Rochelle, NY
"Under the Harrow" by Flynn Berry
"Nora leaves London to visit her sister, Rachel, in the countryside often. But this trip is different – a silent house, a dead dog hanging from the railing and so much blood. Nora stays, trying to help the police solve the case. She thinks it might have something to do with the unsolved attack on Rachel when she was just a teen but it could be someone new. This story is thrilling and quietly gripping. We become as obsessed as Nora in finding her sister's killer — what if he strikes again?" – Kimberly McGee, Lake Travis Community Library, Austin, TX
And here's the rest of the list for your holds-placing pleasure!
- "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War" by Mary Roach
- "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
- "Missing, Presumed" by Susie Steiner
- "Stiletto" by Daniel O'Malley
- "We Could Be Beautiful" by Swan Huntley
- "Lily and the Octopus" by Steven Rowley
- "Widowmaker" by Paul Doiron
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The Gentleman Recommends: Valeria Luiselli
"The Story of My Teeth" came into existence the way most novels do: at the behest of a Mexican juice company. But rather than merely extol the virtues of juice while spinning a tale about juice bandits who turned to a life of juice thievery due to being criminally deprived nature's finest nectar during their formative years, Valeria Luiselli chose to tell a better, stranger tale.
The novel, in addition to being a "collaborative translation" with Christina MacSweeney, was also workshopped with workers at a juice factory. She would send a chapter, factor in their feedback, then write the next chapter. The novel's quality makes it clear that more writers should seek the feedback of factory workers. Indeed, I'm so inspired by her tactics that I've taken the liberty of mailing this post to a number of factories. As you can tell, I've yet to hear back, but I imagine their feedback will transform this post into something nearly as magical as her novel, at which point I will use their suggested changes for the 10th anniversary edition of this blog post ("Now in 3-D and edited by factory workers!').
"The Story of My Teeth" is mostly narrated by a man known as "Highway." Highway opens the novel by declaring himself the world's greatest auctioneer. He's also capable, if given sufficient quantities of rum, of imitating Janis Joplin. Regardless of his rum levels, he's able to balance an egg. Highway is also a fiend for collecting things. As a child, he collected over 10,000 of his father's nail clippings, stored smartly in envelopes. If this wasn't enough to have you hooked (I speed-read the novel hoping to find a scene featuring an upright egg), there's also a scene in which four portraits of clowns menace poor Highway.
I may have opened the book expecting slow, laborious descriptions of teething, lost teeth and their corresponding visits from fairies, and dental procedures, but what I got was much more amusing and interesting, if significantly less fairy-laden. Highway was cursed with bad teeth, so once he has a little money in his pocket, he does what most of us would: buys Marilyn Monroe's teeth and has them inserted. Soon after, he demonstrates his talents as an auctioneer by auctioning off his own freshly plucked and malformed teeth. He's able to get a great price by claiming they're from such famous mouths as Plato's, Virginia Woolf's or G.K. Chesterton's. He gives each tooth its own flash fiction origin story, and the reader is left wishing he had more teeth to auction. Highway also wishes he had more stuff to auction, so he decides to auction off himself, with consequences that include paintings of clowns.
"The Story of My Teeth" does things that make book critics talk fancy. You'll be questioning the narrator's trustworthiness. There's a section of the book that is a timeline. Photographs are included. Authors and philosophers are name-dropped. You'll wonder whether G.K. Chesterton really damaged his teeth due to his affinity for chewing marbles. But ultimately, you'll just enjoy this clever novel and redouble your efforts to keep your distance from paintings of clowns.
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Top Ten Books Librarians Love: The May 2016 List
Supernatural thrillers, compelling historical fiction and a boatload of mysteries? Summer reading must be coming! Enjoy this month's LibraryReads list of books publishing next month that librarians across the country recommend.
"Britt-Marie Was Here" by Fredrik Backman
"Britt-Marie is a woman who is used to her life being organized. But when she leaves her cheating spouse and takes a temporary job as caretaker of the recreation center in the tiny town of Borg, her life changes in unpredictable ways. With its wonderful cast of oddball characters and sly sense of humor, this novel is sure to capture readers' hearts. Highly recommended." – Vicki Nesting, St. Charles Parish Library, Destrehan, LA
"The Fireman" by Joe Hill
"'The Fireman' is a novel that will keep you up reading all night. No one really knows where the deadly Dragonscale spore originated but many theories abound. The most likely is that as the planet heats up, the spore is released into the atmosphere. Harper Willowes is a young, pregnant nurse who risks her own health to tend to others.This is her story and I loved it! This is one of the most creative takes on apocalyptic literature that I have read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Highly recommended for all Hill and King fans." – Mary Vernau, Tyler Public Library, Tyler, TX
"Everyone Brave Is Forgiven" by Chris Cleave
"Set during World War II and loosely based on the author's own grandparents, this was a strikingly honest look at the changes that war creates on a country's landscape and its people. These changes were so strongly shown by the progressive style of this novel. Bit by bit, we are privy to each character's transformation. What a great tribute to what they endured. War gives birth to many endings, also to many beginnings. Bittersweet." – Lori Elliott, Kershaw County Library, SC
Here's the rest of the list for your holds-placing pleasure:
- "Sweetbitter" by Stephanie Danler
- "I Let You Go" by Clare Mackintosh
- "Smoke" by Dan Vyleta
- "Redemption Road" by John Hart
- "City of the Lost" by Kelley Armstrong
- "Wilde Lake" by Laura Lippman
- "Sweet Lamb of Heaven" by Lydia Millet
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400 Years Gone, Shakespeare Continues to Inspire
"Friends, rebels, starfighters, lend me your ears." Thus speaketh Luke Skywalker during a rousing oratory in "William Shakespeare's Star Wars."
400 years after his death, on April 23, 1616, William Shakespeare continues to inspire new generations of writers. Arguably, everyone writing in English has been influenced by him, as he added so many new words and expressions to the language. Many authors have penned books in direct homage to his work.
Ian Doescher, for instance, has rendered the first six "Star Wars" movies into stories written in Shakespearean style. Iambic pentameter has never been more exciting. Action sequences are narrated by a chorus. Just as in the movies, many of the best lines go to C-3PO. "Fear has put its grip into my wires," the droid laments. Each volume is a quick read and faithful to the related film's plot.
"A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley, is a late twentieth-century retelling of "King Lear." Smiley's tale is set on an Iowa farm, where Larry Cook has decided to divide his estate among his three daughters. The story is told from the point of view of Cook's oldest daughter, Ginny. Unlike Lear's oldest, Ginny is a sympathetic, mostly non-treacherous character (with the exception of one notable episode.) But much like Lear, Larry seems to be losing his mind, perhaps to dementia, perhaps to long-held guilt. "A Thousand Acres" won multiple awards, including the 1992 Pulitzer Prize.
Any guesses as to which Shakespeare play inspired Matt Haig's 2007 novel, "The Dead Father's Club"? 11-year-old Phillip's father recently died in a car accident. Or was it murder, as his dad's ghost claims? Phillip is tasked with the job of exacting revenge against his uncle, who appears to be making moves on both Philip's mom and the family business, a pub called the Castle and Falcon. Sounds a lot like "Hamlet" to me. Except contemporary, funny and — if possible — even more tragic in some ways.
In "The Dream of Perpetual Motion," Dexter C. Palmer presents a steampunk version of "The Tempest." Like Ferdinand in Shakespeare's play, Harry Winslow finds himself stranded with a character named Miranda. But instead of a desert island, the setting is a perpetually orbiting zeppelin. The zeppelin has been designed by Miranda's father, Prospero Taligent, who mirrors Shakespeare's Prospero in his possession of abilities beyond the ordinary, creating mechanical beasts and people to do his bidding.
Shouldst thou further wish to pursue literature inspired by the Bard of Avon, look to the reading list contained in yon catalog.
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The Gentleman Recommends: John Wray
John Wray's latest awesome novel, "The Lost Time Accidents," begins with its narrator declaring that he has been "excused from time." Most readers will assume that he is waiting on a tardy chauffeur or a pizza delivery, but this statement is quickly clarified: Waldy Tolliver is literally outside of time. It's 8:47 and he's stuck in his aunt's apartment, a shrine to the act of hoarding. Towers of newspapers threaten to crush careless occupants, and there are rooms divided into smaller rooms via walls of books with openings only large enough to barely crawl through. But this is more than a book about a man with a lot of a lack of time on his hands being stuck in a super cool house. It's about his family, and their obsession with time, and the Holocaust, and a fairy that visits one half of a profoundly eccentric set of twins, and physics, and pickles, and the narrator's doomed love affair with Mrs. Haven, and his father's prolific career as a science fiction writer, and the powerful cult that his science fiction inadvertently spawned, and whether time is a sphere and other stuff too.
(While reviews for this novel are positive, some downright glowing, there are also a few that, while admiring Wray's ambition and skill, don't love its length (roughly 500 pages), nonlinear structure and tendency to meander. This gentleman enjoys a good meandering, though, and Wray's meanderings are spectacular. Without them we wouldn't get several hilarious summaries of Waldy's father's science fiction or the section written in the voice of Joan Didion. Besides, Wray's genius needs the space to unfurl. The fellow writes sentences like someone that loves doing so and also owns a top-notch brain.)
The family's obsession with time began with Waldy's great-grandfather, Ottokar, an amateur physicist and proprietor of a thriving pickling business. He'd figured out the nature of time just prior to being killed by an automobile. His sons, amateur physicists and heirs to a thriving pickling business, search for clues to Ottokar's discovery, but he's left behind little more than some ambiguous and absolutely absurdly alliterative notes. ("FOOLS FROM FUTURE'S FETID FIEFDOMS FOLLOW FREELY IN MY FOOTSTEPS" — this reader thought maybe his sons should have thought about that a little longer.)
Ottokar's sons, Kaspar and Waldemar, take very different paths. Waldemar becomes an anti-Semite (it doesn't help that Albert Einstein, forever referred to by the family only as "the patent clerk," gathered the glory he felt was meant for their father) and just generally insane and evil. He eventually becomes known as "The Black Timekeeper" for his time travel-related experimentation on prisoners during the Holocaust. Waldemar believes time is a sphere, and that with enough willpower, one can transcend it. He vanishes just prior to the destruction of his concentration camp.
Kaspar's path is loaded with love and heartbreak, continent swapping, fatherhood and eventually a lucrative career as a watchmaker. He raises a set of eccentric twins, who cultivate their own obsession with time, encouraged by the fairy that visits one of them every so often. Those twin girls raise Kaspar's next child, Orson. Orson loves writing science fiction, and though it tends to the erotic because that's what sells, he's pleased to be free of his family's obsession with time. So of course, one of his novels becomes the text that inspires a time-obsessed cult. Orson's son, our narrator, is compelled to write the story of his family, in part to free himself from his evil uncle's shadow. Then he gets "excused from time" and has all the time to write he could ever want. So he uses it to write a family history in the form of a very long letter to a Mrs. Haven. He begins by informing her that he has been excused from time.
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Memoirs Without the Noir: A Reading List
I like reading about real people — what happens to them and how they feel about their experiences. But I don't want to read harrowing tales of survival. I want something lighter. I've read a number of these types of books recently that I recommend.
Some people write about making changes in their lives:
- In "Hammer Head: the Making of a Carpenter," journalist Nina MacLaughlen decides she needs a change and answers an advertisement for a carpenter's apprentice. She discovers she enjoys working with tools like a hammer, a saw and a level.
- "Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek" by Maya Van Wagenen was written for teens, but I think adults could learn from it. A middle school girl makes changes to the way she approaches people and how she presents herself to the world.
- "My Kitchen Year" by Ruth Reichl describes how the writer coped during the year following the loss of her job due to the closing of Gourmet magazine. Reichl includes recipes of the foods she cooked during this time.
Some people write about experiencing other cultures:
- "Pardon My French: How a Grumpy American Fell in Love With France" by Allen Johnson chronicles his year living in France, making friends and struggling with the language (which he had studied) and the cultural differences. I enjoyed his sense of humor.
- "Education of a Traitor: A Memoir of Growing Up in Cold War Russia" by Svetlana Grobman tells about coming of age in a place very different from where she lives now. I found it interesting to read about someone growing up during the same time I did but in a very different environment.
Then there are memoirs from people who entertain us on television or in the movies:
- In "Wildflower," Drew Barrymore tells about her life after she met the mentors and role models who helped her become a responsible adult.
- In "Melissa Explains It All," Melissa Joan Hart tells about growing up working in the acting business. She knows a lot of other celebrities and reveals some behind-the-scenes moments from "Clarissa Explains it All" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch."
- In "You're Never Weird on the Internet," Felicia Day tells about being homeschooled and having little interaction with her peers. The Internet was one way she could connect with people. Unfortunately, the anonymity of the Internet also led to problems once she got older.
- In "Bossypants" by Tina Fey and "Yes, Please" by Amy Pohler, both comedy writers use humor to relate some of their experiences.
Do you have a favorite celebrity? Maybe they've written a book. Need inspiration to make a change in your life? Read about other people who tried something different. And yes, we even have memoirs about surviving horrible circumstances if that's your thing. The library has something for everyone.
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OOZING wounds, weeping sores and melting eyeballs are all in a day's work for Stuart Conran. No wonder he says it's not a job for the squeamish.
ON June 26 every year, Sarah doesn't know what to do to celebrate her daughter who died. This year, however, she's going to jump out of a plane.
PAUL Burgess inflicted fatal brain injuries on little Zaiidyn Burke after being left to care for the tot and losing his temper when he tried to feed the baby milk.
WEDDING season is upon us and if you're looking for an alternative way to celebrate your big day, we've collated a list of some of the strangest wedding themes.
TRAUMATISED Julie Taylor was trapped beside dead husband Colin after the crash and slammed the sentence handed out to businessman Russell McKeever.
CATHERINE Ingram was dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein when she lashed out at Stuart Shannon after he pulled her veil in an Ayr nightclub, the town's sheriff court heard.
CATHERINE Ingram lashed out when her veil was pulled by fellow reveller, Stuart Shannon, resulting in the victim needing hospital treatment.
CAMPBELL Stevenson sent sleazy texts to party-goer before sexually assaulting her after the Lanarkshire Loyalist Flute Band Halloween party.
CAMPBELL Stevenson, 38, denied the attack in 2014 but was found guilty yesterday after a trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court.
THE man behind Blumhouse Productions on box office successes, Netflix and their filmmaking template.
THE Doctor Who beauty says the scene which showed her killed by a raven was "cool and different" but wasn't too graphic for the kids watching.
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Visitor hub swap site proves a success as 24,800 people call in
CHECK out some of the colourful characters who joined in the Spanish resort's latest trick or treat extravaganza in our picture gallery.
THE stunning model wowed as she posed up a storm on the red carpet at the 67th annual Bambi Awards.
Snaps from the Spooktastic event at Mossneuk Primary Community Wing, where around 42 kids attended.
Vicki Pascazio, 27, has been left scarred for life after being bitten by the bull terrier.
THE man, believed to be in his 40s, chased 11-year-old Josh Walker when he was out guising with friends and hit him so hard that he needed stitches.
The lads needed help in the costume department and Dazzle, teamed up with one of their leading suppliers, Rubies UK, to help sort the guys out.
Volunteers with Fastworks were left flabbergasted after receiving the Community Champion UK award recognising their hard work over the past three years.
Youngsters scare up some great costumes to celebrate spooky night
SMOKING cauldrons, scary skeletons and a ghoulish graveyard greeted guisers at a frightful block of flats in Calderwood where neighbours get into the spirit of Hallowe'en with a haunting display each year.
Trick-or-treaters were out in force at the weekend to mark Hallowe'en in style.
MARY Holtz was sent home to change by management after a complaint about her outfit was made by a stunned shopper.
Police appeal for information after boy is left needing hospital treatment as a result of assault
THE ISRAELI has blossomed into one of Celtic's most valuable assets over the last year or so and has just penned a bumper new deal.
THE friends from Glasgow had plenty fun with motorists on their weekend night out for Halloween.
TESCO employee Mary Holtz could face disciplinary action after she was sent home from work following complaints over the outrageous "costume".
Ghostly tour reveals frightening past for brave residents who take terror trip
IAN MURRAY'S No2 departs the Paisley side as they look to make changes to the management structure.
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As we celebrate the long-awaited release of his debut album Floating Harmonies, Iceland's Júníus Meyvant joins us at the latest Nordic Playlist curator!
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Gun Industry Loses Major Court Battle, Ordered To Pay Millions
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Police officers Bryan Norberg and Graham Kunisch each had lasting physical problems after being shot while on the job in 2009. Now, because of their civil lawsuit against the store that sold the gun, the incident may have a lasting legal impact too.
On Tuesday, a jury ordered gun store Badger Guns to pay $6 million for its role in an illegal gun sale, which ultimately led to both officers getting shot in the face. More importantly, the jury found Badger Guns to have been negligent in making that sale, and therefore liable for the shooting that left Norberg's teeth shattered and Kunisch without an eye and part of his brain.
Though the store is expected to appeal, the ruling could alter current gun law precedent that gives gun stores like Badger Guns wide-ranging immunity when a firearm they sell is involved in a crime.
"This is not a case about the Second Amendment," the officers' attorney Patrick Dunphy said before the court last week. Instead, he said, it's about making sure gun stores know without a doubt that their weapons are not being sold illegally.
In this case, the gun that put bullets in both Norberg's and Kunisch's faces was not purchased by the shooter, but by a different person who eventually sold it to the shooter — something called a "straw purchase." And according to the officers' lawsuit, there were clear signs that the purchaser intended to sell the gun from the start.
The case's trial and verdict came in the wake of another mass shooting, when America is yet again debating what to do about gun violence and yet again paralyzed in political crossfire. There's been no indication that gun control laws of any sort will be taken up by Congress any time soon — in fact, from the party that currently controls both houses, calls have been instead for less restrictive gun laws, allowing more access and proliferation.
But now, Tuesday's verdict may offer a tiny glimmer of hope for some who advocate gun control. A 2005 law backed by the National Rifle Association gave gun manufacturers and dealers broad immunity from being sued — a unique protection for the industry. That law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), has been long condemned by gun control advocates who say that it should be easier to hold manufacturers and stores liable for crimes that involve their weapons.
"Congress has seen it fit to essentially erect blanket immunity for the gun industry," Adam Skaggs, senior counsel at Everytown for Gun Safety, told ThinkProgress. "Under most circumstances, it's almost impossible to bring a lawsuit like this against gun sellers."
But the officers not only brought their lawsuit — they won it. That doesn't mean the PLCAA will be repealed, but it does mean that chip away at some of the legal precedent that makes it harder to win these cases.
In other words, the win encourages other plaintiffs with similar claims to come forward and sue.
"Lawyers are always trying to figure out if case have the potential to be successful, and if similar cases are just getting thrown out left and right, they're less likely to bring a claim," Mike McLively, a staff attorney at the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, told ThinkProgress. "Right now there's sort of a pervasive feeling that PLCAA is a difficult barrier to overcome … a win here [helps] show what sort of circumstances you'd need to get past it."
Under the PLCAA, there are six exceptions for when gun manufacturers and sellers can be sued, and one of them is negligence. In this case, the officers alleged that Badger Guns should have known the gun they sold to a man named Jacob Collins was going to be given to the eventual shooter, Julius Burton.
That's because, according to surveillance footage of the store, Burton was with Collins when the gun was purchased. And when Collins was filling out the forms to buy the gun, he actually checked a box indicating he was not going to be the actual recipient of the weapon — but then scribbled it out and checked the box saying he was the recipient. Collins' identification was also not verified at the time of the purchase, the officers' attorney alleges, and it took him more than 40 minutes to fill out the relatively simple form.
CREDIT: ABC screenshot
This is not the first time Badger Guns has been accused of making this kind of mistake. According to the Associated Press, more than 500 guns recovered from crime scenes have been traced back to the store and its owners; They're the "No. 1 crime gun dealer in America," according to a 2005 document from another court case.
But Badger has not been held liable for those crimes, and according to Skaggs, this case illustrates just how hard it is under current law to do that. In order to win, officers Norberg and Kunisch needed video evidence of an almost egregiously obvious straw purchase, where the real buyer was literally looking over the fake buyer's shoulder as he filled out the forms.
"This really underscores how difficult it is to hold gun dealers accountable," Skaggs said. "The more significant impact [of the lawsuit] might even be raising people's awareness of how difficult it is to bring lawsuits against the gun industry."
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As mass shootings continue to pop up across the country, some Democratic presidential candidates have called for changes to PLCAA. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley have called for repealing it altogether. Their chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), voted to pass PLCAA in 2005 but has now expressed support for amending it, though he has questioned whether repealing the law would hurt small gun stores by exposing them to expensive litigation.
But in the meantime, while gun control measures have little hope of passing in Congress, it is cases like officers Norberg's and Kunisch's that may have the best chance of making incremental progress — even if all it means is bringing more attention to the issue of liability.
"The mere existence of these cases is making this a more salient issue for policymakers and the public, so it's possible that people will be taking second look at this special free pass of blanket immunity the gun industry gets," Skaggs said.


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When 25-year-old Jessica Giddens submitted an application to be a contestant on the "Hunt for the Ultimate Outdoorsman" reality-based hunting contest on Wayne Pearson's longtime ESPN Outdoors staple TV show "Ultimate Outdoors," the odds that she would win were long.
For starters, there were an initial " 40,000 applicants " according to Giddens, a number that was eventually trimmed down to an even dozen, with the Georgia resident included.
But even then, the odds remained about as long as the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series.
Oh, yeah, that happened last year, didn't it?
And surprise, surprise, surprise, Giddens beat her own long odds to outshoot, outhunt and outfish one other female competitor and 10 other male competitors for the first "Ultimate Outdoorsman" title.
Excuse me, the first ever "Ultimate Outdoorswoman" title, that is!
For winning that exclusive moniker, the Kirkland, Ga., woman will be interviewed this Saturday morning at 6 a.m. ET on ESPN Radio's "The Outdoor Show" with Tommy Sanders.
And the following day, this Hunt Sunday, she will help to co-host Wayne Pearson's "Ultimate Outdoors" program at 7:30 a.m. ET on ESPN2. (Note: This show re-airs on ESPN2 on Dec. 17 at 5:30 a.m. ET and Dec. 18 at 7:30 a.m. ET.)
As viewers will see, she not only can handle herself on camera, but Giddens also can handle herself in the woods, as evidenced her big New Mexico bull elk.
That behemoth bull, taken earlier this month during the filming of Giddens' prize-winning hunt at the gorgeous and wapiti-rich Lodge at Chama, was merely the icing on the cake after the tough and often grueling reality-TV competition.
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She credits her ability to do so to her outdoors upbringing on a Southern farm.
"I am a south Georgia farm girl," Giddens laughed. "My dad is a row-crop farmer and I have lived on a farm basically all of my life."
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Those adventures have included a dead-eye shooting career that began at the 4-H level with BB guns and has continued to this day, as Giddens routinely mops up the shotgunning competition on the trap, skeet and sporting clays range.
Because of that upbringing, it was only natural Giddens would discover the "quail, turkeys and deer hunting" right outside her back door in south Georgia.
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In addition to a full-service spa, Royal Livingstone Victoria Falls Zambia Hotel by Anantara features an outdoor pool and a health club. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access (surcharge).
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Hierarchical Ordering of Block Copolymer Nanostructures by Solvent Annealing Combined with Controlled Dewetting†
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This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government. (MOEHRD; KRF-2005-042-D00110), Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy(MOCEI) through the project of NGNT<(CGS> (No. 10024135-2005-11) and a grant (f0004091) from the Information Display R&D Center, one of the 21st Century Frontier R&D Programs and the 0.1 Terabit Non-volatile Memory Development and Seoul Research and Business Development Program (10701 and 10816). The X-ray experiments at PAL (4C2 beamline), Korea were supported by MOST and POSCO, Korea. This work was supported by the Second Stage of Brain Korea 21 Project in 2006 and by the Seoul Science Fellowship. Supporting Information is available online from Wiley InterScience or from the authors.
A hierarchical nanostructure of PS-b-PEO is demonstrated (see figure) with a novel approach by solvent vapor annealing of a micropatterned block copolymer thin film selectively spun cast on microcontact printed surface of SAMs. Dewetting of the thin film, inevitable during the ordering of block copolymer microdomains upon solvent annealing, is strictly confined to the patterned regions, leading to the controlled micropatttern with nearly perfect ordering of PEO microdomains.
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Compiled by Barbour Staff$15.99Add Your ReviewExperience the encouraging promises of God's word with these inspiring devotions written specifically for a man's heart and mind. Each reading includes a relevant scripture alongside the devotion and will give you the assurance you need to walk in biblical wisdom every day. ... Learn More
Un Papa Conforme Al Corazon de Dios
Jim George$10.99Add Your ReviewEn Un papá conforme al corazón de Dios, el reconocido autor Jim George comparte los principios básicos de cómo ser un buen padre para tus hijos. Learn More
Man Enough: How Jesus Redefines Manhood
Nate Pyle$15.99Add Your ReviewIn Man Enough, author Nate Pyle challenges the idea that there's only one way to be "man enough". He uses biblical examples as well as his own life to help men discover that being a man isn't about what you do--it is about who you are. Product Details: Page Count: 224 Rele... Learn More
Hand on the Line: Challenging Men to Follow God's Call
Steve Wisniewski$16.99Steve Wisniewski spent thirteen seasons playing offensive guard for the Oakland Raiders. Considered one of the NFL's "dirtiest players," Steve was aggressive and tenacious, proudly wearing the silver and black. But everything changed when his eyes were opened to the im... Learn More
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