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  Any Person is the Only Self -...

  Elisa Gabbert

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  Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory. 
   
  Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love? 
   
  In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and poet Elisa Gabbert explores a life lived alongside books of all kinds: dog-eared and destroyed, cherished and discarded, classic and clichėd, familiar and profoundly new. She turns her witty, searching mind to the writers she admires, from Plath to Proust, and the themes that bind them―chance, freedom, envy, ambition, nostalgia, and happiness. She takes us to the strange edges of art and culture, from hair metal to surf movies to party fiction. Any Person Is the Only Self is a love letter to literature and to life, inviting us to think alongside one of our most thrilling and versatile critics.

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  The Gift of Being Yourself - The...

  David G. Benner

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  Embark on the Spiritual Journey of Knowing Your True Self
  "Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee." —Augustine
  Much is said in Christian circles about knowing God. But what if thereis also value in knowing yourself? Christians throughout the ages have agreed that there cannot be deep knowledge of God without deep knowledge of the self. Discerning your true self is inextricably related to discerning God's purposes foryou. Paradoxically, the more you become like Christ, the more you become authentically yourself.
  In this exploration of Christian identity, psychologist and spiritual director David G. Benner illuminates the spirituality of self-discovery. Heexposes the false selves that you may hide behind and calls you to discover the true self that emerges from your uniqueness in Christ. Freeing you from illusions about yourself, Benner shows that self-understanding leads to the fulfillment of your God-given destiny and vocation.
  Through The Gift of Being Yourself, you can:
  
  - Identify and let go of the false selves that hold you back.
  - Discover your true self rooted in your identity in Christ.
  - UnderstandGod's purpose for your life through deeper self-awareness.
  - Embrace authenticity without needing to compare or strive to be someone you're not.
  This expanded edition, one of three books in The Spiritual Journey trilogy, includesa new epilogue and an experiential guide with questions for individual reflection or group discussion.
  You don't need to try to be someone you are not. Instead, as you uncover your true self, you'll deepen your experience of God through discovering the gift of being yourself.
  "In contrast to other books filled with drive-through pop psychology and sound-bite spirituality, Benner, a psychologist and spiritual director, offers an impressively deep and challenging introduction to Christian self-discovery..." – Publishers Weekly Starred Review, January 2004

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  The Best True Crime Stories of...

  Douglas Preston, Pete Crooks

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  Bestselling author Douglas Preston selects the best true crime writing from the past year, aided by series editor Pete Crooks, to produce an eclectic collection of intriguing, mysterious, and exciting true tales. 
   
  This inaugural edition of what will be a yearly collection offers a fascinating variety of essays and crime reporting, taken from regional, national, and international publications. The stories range from reports of homicide at a Toronto massage parlor to blackmail and murder-for-hire in Austin, Texas, to an unusual murder weapon in rural Minnesota. Other stories examine controversial rehabilitation techniques for sexual criminals and explore the phenomenon of victims' relatives appearing as guests at true crime conventions.A must-listen for anyone interested in true crime, The Best True Crime Stories of the Year 2025 takes the pulse of this increasingly popular genre.

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  Operation North: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  On the night of April 1, 1951, in six republics along the western edge of the Soviet Union, soldiers moved into villages and towns while the people inside their houses slept. They came with dogs and machine guns, and they carried lists on which names and addresses had already been written. The lists had been compiled over the preceding months by the Ministry of State Security, the agency the Soviets called the MGB. The men knocked, and when the doors opened, they read out an order. The order dictated that the family in front of them was being resettled, and the most important word in the documents was navechno, meaning forever. 
  The families on those lists were Jehovah’s Witnesses, and over the span of two days in the western republics, and a week later across Ukraine, Soviet security forces seized 9,793 people, loaded them into freight cars built for transporting cattle, and sent them east into Siberia. The MGB called it Operation North, and it ended up being the largest deportation of a single religious group in the history of the Soviet Union, carried out on the direct order of Joseph Stalin. 
  The Jehovah’s Witnesses were dispersed across the special settlements of Tomsk Oblast, Irkutsk Oblast, and Krasnoyarsk Krai, regions of forest and deep cold where the planners believed a small foreign faith could be left to die out among strangers. The families arrived to find snow still on the ground in late April, and many spent the first winter in shelters they dug into the earth, keeping themselves alive on nettles and the inner bark of trees. Of course, some had already died in the railcars, and others died in the initial months after their arrival. 
  The bare facts of the operation are striking enough on their own, but they sit within a larger irony that gives the story its shape. The Soviet state was an ascendant empire that had crushed far greater enemies than a few thousand pacifist believers, but it ended up proving unable to break the Jehovah's Witnesses. 

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  Fly Fishing New Hampshire's...

  Steve Angers

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  New Hampshire's hard and rugged exterior protects one of America's richest native brook trout fisheries. These abundant waters are as varied as the landscape, from Mount Washington to peaceful meadows. The anticipation of the largest mayfly hatch contrasts with the quiet, deep waters of holding pools, and anglers are rewarded when they learn how to read the rivers and streams. Remote areas such as the Perry Ponds may require an entire day, while more accessible waters such as Mink Brook still provide excitement. With more than fifty years of experience, Steve Angers reveals some of his favorite spots and details what it takes to be successful when fishing in the Granite State.

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  Eat Sleep Save the World - Words...

  Jamie Sumner

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  An encouraging and empowering read, Eat, Sleep, Save the World reminds every parent of a child with special needs that they are, in fact, superheroes.  Parenting is hard—for everyone. And it takes a lot of inner pep talk and prayer to be the kind of parent your child needs. Eat, Sleep, Save the World is the rallying voice for the parenting special needs community. It highlights the exceptional qualities God has gifted you with, so that you can take care of your exceptional children. It is a celebration, a hallelujah, a high five for what you are doing right. And it offers peace in God for what you feel you lack.  With a mixture of humor, honesty, and hope, Jamie Sumner brings comfort to other parents like herself who need to hear that God has made them more than capable to raise their special kids.

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