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  RC Sproul - Evangelical Hero

  Joel R. Beeke, Douglas Bond

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  What do George Whitefield, Elisabeth Elliot, and J. Gresham Machen have in common? They were all Evangelical Heroes. In the Evangelical Heroes series, Joel Beeke and Douglas Bond present thirty biographical sketches of faithful evangelical leaders from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. From George Whitfield to Charles Spurgeon to R.C. Sproul, these men and women held firm to the authority of Scripture and the reality of Christ's death and resurrection in the face of rising liberalism in the Church. These inspiring volumes introduce us to faithful Christians from the past and encourage us to stand firm today!

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  Writing Landscape

  Linda Cracknell

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  Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and time. 
  Linda Cracknell is a writer of place and nature who believes in being alert, observing, and writing from the particulars of each experience. Engaging bodily with her writing, she is someone for whom getting mud on her boots, sleeping high up in the hills, or being slapped by salt water can all be part of her process. She follows Susan Sontag's advice to “Love words, agonize over sentences and pay attention to the world.”  
  In this varied collection of essays, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland at low tide, musing on the nineteenth-century Scottish writer whose character was shipwrecked there. She hikes the wooded mountain trail close to her home in winter snow—a place she is intimately familiar with in all weathers and seasons—and she retraces the steps of a multiday hike made almost seven decades after her parents trod the route together. She explores her inspirations, in nature and from other artists and their work.  
  Reading this collection will open your eyes to the world around you and how you can observe, take note, and later commit those notes and memories to written pieces that will evoke the place and time.

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  Reflections - A Life in Writing

  Kathryn Leigh Scott

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  For Kathryn Leigh Scott, acting and writing have always been twin pursuits. Like twins, they entered her life moments apart in story-telling and play-acting, sweet reminders of her childhood on a Minnesota farm when she first discovered the pleasure of—and compulsion to—lose herself in expressing creative thoughts on a blank page.
  Now in her eighth decade, this collection of short pieces written over the years include essays that have appeared in various publications, including Opera News, The Daily Beast, and in her published books, including The Bunny Years, Last Dance At the Savoy, Now With you, Now Without and Dark Shadows Memories. 

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  United States of True Crime:...

  Ashley Hudson

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  United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on twenty of the most chilling crimes in California history. 
  True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but also included are lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. 
  Some of the cases included in this book: 
  Gerald and Charlene Gallego: Killer husband and wife duo who abducted young girls to use as sex slaves 
  Kidnapping of Denise Huskins & Aaron Quinn: A young couple was kidnapped and then accused by law enforcement of faking the horrific ordeal 
  Zebra Killers: Racially motivated murders of white citizens in San Francisco 
  Juan Corona: Convicted of the murders of 25 migrant workers 
  Mardiros Iskenderian: Murdered his mother and sister in a dispute over the family fortune 
  Patrick Kearney: Serial killer who murdered at least 21 boys and disposed of their bodies in trash bags across Southern California 
  Kevin James Woodward: Tech CEO who allegedly killed his roommate’s girlfriend out of jealousy 
  Timothy Joseph McGhee: Ruthless gang leader responsible for at least twelve murders 
  The Murder of Tushar Atre: Tech millionaire murdered by his employees 
  Rodney Halbower: Another woman spent almost thirty years in jail for one of his grisly murders until the real murderer was finally convicted through DNA found at the scene 
  If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys reading about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime.

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  Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb: The Lives...

  Charles River Editors

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  As one of America’s oldest and most beloved sports, baseball has long been touted as the national pastime, but of all the millions of people who have played it over the last few centuries, the first name that many associate with Major League Baseball is Babe Ruth, whose career spanned over 20 years on the way to becoming the sport’s biggest legend. The Bambino came onto the scene as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, only to be infamously sold to the rival New York Yankees, where he went on to set records for most home runs (714), runs batted in (2,213), walks (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (1.164). The Sultan of Swat’s records would take decades to be surpassed, but he also managed to win more than 20 games as a pitcher for Boston, along with three World Series before heading to New York. Boston wouldn’t win another championship for over 80 years after Ruth’s departure, a drought famously referred to as “The Curse of the Bambino.” 
  As if he wasn’t accomplished enough in Boston, Ruth went on to become a pop culture fixture in New York while playing 15 years for the Yankees on some of the sport’s most legendary teams. In addition to leading the Bronx Bombers to four World Series during his time there, Ruth set several single season and career records, elevating the team and MLB itself in ways that athletes could hardly dream of today.  
  	Few have influenced Major League Baseball like Ty Cobb, whose career spanned over 20 seasons. The Georgia Peach overcame early hardships to set nearly 100 MLB records in his time as a player and player-manager for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics. With an MVP and Triple Crown under his belt by the age of 25, Cobb went on to produce statistics that still lead MLB in several categories, including 4,065 combined runs scored and RBIs, a career batting average over .365, and at least 11 batting titles.

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  Undercover with Mandela's Spies...

  Bradley Steyn, Mark Fine

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  The South African national bestseller, now in audio. 
  HE WITNESSED A RACE-FUELLED MASSACRE AS A TEENAGER. THEN HE INFILTRATED THE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS PLOTTING TO ASSASSINATE NELSON MANDELA. 
  In 1988, seventeen-year-old Bradley Steyn walked into Pretoria’s Strijdom Square and witnessed white supremacist Barend Strydom shooting black civilians. He held a dying man in his arms. That moment would follow him into the South African Navy, apartheid’s Security Branch and, ultimately, Nelson Mandela’s underground intelligence network. 
  Recruited as a classified government enforcer, Bradley later turned against the regime and operated as a double agent for the ANC’s Department of Intelligence and Security. 
  As neo-Nazis and members of apartheid’s military and police establishment worked to ignite a race war, Bradley and an unlikely team of former enemies infiltrated the conspiracy from within. 
  Their final mission was to stop a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela at his presidential inauguration. 
  Narrated by acclaimed South African actor Ashley Dowds, Undercover with Mandela’s Spies is an explosive true-life account of espionage, betrayal, extremism, PTSD and the secret battle for South Africa’s democracy. 
  PRAISE 
  “A riveting narrative of an otherwise opaque shadow war that played out in South Africa... Compelling for both general readers and specialists seeking to understand undercover operations against extremism.” 
   Colonel (Ret.) Christopher P. Costa, Executive Director, International Spy Museum 
  “A rollicking read full of testosterone-driven treachery and treason.” 
   Marianne Thamm, Daily Maverick 
  “Illuminating beyond measure.” 
   Ambassador Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe

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