Robert Morris
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Pastor Robert Morris encourages readers to keep praying. Many people give up praying because they don't see results and feel discouraged or angry that their prayers haven't been heard. But Robert Morris reveals why it is so important not to stop-to never give up. This book provides hope and evidence for readers that God does hear their prayers, cares about them personally, and intervenes in their lives in ways beyond their imaginations. Bestselling...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Environmental epidemiologist Morris chronicles the at times frightening story of our drinking water. He recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with controversial truths that would save millions of lives, and the economic and political forces that opposed these researchers in a ferocious war of ideas. In the gritty world of nineteenth-century England, a physician proved...
4) Dolphin
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Describes the birth and the first six months of life of a baby dolphin.
5) Seahorse
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
An easy-to-read introduction to the characteristics and life cycle of the seahorse.
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A constant stream of busyness can slowly wear away at us over time: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Yet believers often forget that taking a day of rest is one of the Ten Commandments! When we don't give our minds and emotions a break, our will to make good choices can often become compromised. Resting is also important to those around you. If you have a weary soul, you can't pour yourself into others at home, work, or wherever...
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
How we relate to suffering depends on how we choose to respond to the everyday events of life. According to the author, who faces his own struggles with chronic depression each day, we need a new understanding of God's role in human suffering. The traditional view - that God is transcendent, "above" human suffering, somehow "beholding" and sympathizing with it - fails to take into account how God also experiences suffering. In this life-changing book,...
11) Wildfire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a land of red cliffs and towering stone monuments, with the brooding Colorado River running through it, the unmatched Zane Gray sets his classic novel about a rancher, a blood feud, and a horse named. . .
Wildfire.
Bostic, a powerful rancher with a strong-willed 18-year-old daughter, has lost track of Lucy's wanderings. Caught up in a feud with two families, running his empire with an iron fist, Bostic does not know that Lucy has met a man who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic historical western of the eighteenth-century American frontier by the celebrated author of Riders of the Purple Sage.
First published in 1906, The Spirit of the Border is a vivid and brutal tale based on true events as chronicled in the journals of Zane Grey's ancestor Col. Ebenezer Zane. It tells the story of Moravian Church missionaries and their efforts to bring peace to the Ohio Valley-efforts that met a tragic end in the destruction...
13) The common law
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Common Law" is a classic work from the great Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In The Common Law, Holmes examines many aspects of the common law giving great attention to the historical perspective and precedence and its influence on modern common law. In this work you will lengthy discussions on several areas of law including: liability, criminal law, torts, contracts, and successions. Extensively annotated, this edition of "The...
14) Betty Zane
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Zane Grey's debut novel, which he self-published in 1905, "Betty Zane" is the first book in Grey's "Frontier Trilogy" and tells the true biographical story of Elizabeth "Betty" Zane, a hero of the American Revolutionary War and direct ancestor of the author. While under siege at Fort Henry by American Indian allies of the British Army and faced with dwindling supplies, the lovely and sixteen-year-old Betty bravely volunteers to venture out of the...
15) The last trail
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
White rustlers trouble the people of the Ohio River Valley, and Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane set about stopping them.
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Con inspiración bíblica, descubrimientos científicos e historias reales, el pastor Sam traza una hoja de ruta práctica y llena de esperanza para cualquier persona que tenga la audacia de reemplazar el miedo por la fe, lavar el barro del pasado y caminar a través de su desorden hacia el milagro de Dios.
17) The Alamo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Battle of the Alamo is one of the most dramatic moments in American history, a stirring saga that has become a modern myth in which all Americans, and especially Texans, take great pride. Poet, novelist, and historian John Myers Myers gives us a fascinating account of this American symbol. With exhaustive research and obvious passion for his subject, Myers evokes the situation and characters of the legendary siege, bringing to life such figures
...18) The Oregon trail
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1849 and later revised in several subsequent editions, Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail is the definitive trail-journal. The author was 23 when he stepped on a steamer and began a two-month tour through the West, visiting Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas.
A historian, Parker was determined to articulate his trail experiences in the most informed manner possible, and his book was a best-seller. The Oregon Trail: Sketches...
19) Poolhall junkies
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"When Johnny, a poolhall hustler, tries to quit the game, it's not as easy as he thinks. Then when his younger brother gets hooked into a con that could cost him his life, Johnny is forced to play for the biggest stakes of his life." --
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
How much of a racial group's economic fate is determined by the surrounding society it lives in and how much by internal patterns that follow that same group around the world? Using an international framework to analyze group differences, Sowell has pioneered a new approach for pursuing this important study based on historical experience and empirical data. The results are fascinating and sometimes surprising. For instance, he finds that the social...