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  The Mestizo Augustine - A...

  Justo L. González

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  Few thinkers have been as influential as Augustine of Hippo. His writings, such as Confessions and City of God, have left an indelible mark on Western Christianity. He has become so synonymous with Christianity in the West that we easily forget he was a man of two cultures: African and Greco-Roman. The mixture of African Christianity and Greco-Roman rhetoric and philosophy gave his theology and ministry a unique potency in the cultural ferment of the late Roman empire. Augustine experienced what Latino/a theology calls mestizaje, which means being of a mixed background. Cuban American historian and theologian Justo González looks at the life and legacy of Augustine from the perspective of his own Latino heritage and finds in the bishop of Hippo a remarkable resource for the church today. The mestizo Augustine can serve as a lens by which to see afresh not only the history of Christianity but also our own culturally diverse world.

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  Bismarck - The Man and the...

  A.J.P. Taylor

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  In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck's motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor's rise to power in the 1860s and his removal from office in 1890.

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  Seven HP Lovecraft Stories...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  This work contains the collected short stories of H.P Lovecraft:
   
  
  
  The Festival,
  He,
  Cool Air,
  In the Vault,
  Pickman's Model,
  The Nameless City,
  The Alchemist,
  The Very Old Folk,
  Rats in the Walls,
  From Beyond,
  The Hound,
  The Strange High House in the Mist,
  The Unnamable - Hypnos,
  The Quest of Iranon,
  The Temple,
  The Moon Bog,
  The Evil Clergyman,
  The Horror at Martin's Beach,
  The Silver Key,
  The Transition of Juan Romero,
  The Other Gods,
  The Outsider.

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  Carlos Eire: Waiting for Snow in...

  PBS NewsHour

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  In 2003, Carlos Eire won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He discusses his book Waiting for Snow in Havana with PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown.

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  Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

  John McPhee

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  Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, and dissident art in the Soviet Union, among myriad other subjects, he has consistently written narrative pieces of immaculate design.In Tabula Rasa, McPhee looks back at his career from the vantage point of his desk drawer, reflecting wryly upon projects he began but never completed or published. Collected and augmented, these pieces form a “reminiscent montage” of a writing life. This volume includes, among other things, a frosty encounter with Thornton Wilder, interrogative dinners with Henry Luce, glimpses of the allure of western Spain, fireworks over the East River as seen from Malcolm Forbes’s yacht, the evolving inclinations of the Tower of Pisa, the islands in the river delta of central California, teaching in a pandemic, and persuading The New Yorker to publish an entire book on oranges. The result is a fresh survey of McPhee’s singular planet.

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  Confessions of a Marseilles Mob...

  Amin Kacem

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  This document is unique! It was written by the hand of a mob boss, on simple sheets of paper, between 2022 and 2023. For the first time, a Marseilles Tony Montana lifts the veil on the northern neighborhoods, the shootouts at the foot of the towers and the thousands of drug users who flock there every day.
  From his Algerian childhood to his run-ins with the law, via his career as a lookout, a drug dealer... and a dad, the man who calls himself Amin Kacem throws us into the world of Scarface. With his vivid, unvarnished pen, the mob boss tells of violence, danger, injustice, greed and the will to live.
  More than a story about a man and drugs, for the author, this book is a testament. Above all, it’s a terrible response to those who are surprised that entire neighborhoods are collapsing; it’s a thunderclap that will give pause to young people dreaming of a career as super-dealers; and it’s a merciless challenge to the politicians who, for a long time, could have, and therefore should have, prevented the current tragedies and imminent catastrophe.

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