Harwood, Laurence
Contents: Introduction -- Friends at Oxford -- Lovers of literature -- Walking tours -- Friendship after Oxford -- Godfather Jack -- My letters from my godfather -- My mother's death -- My failure at Oxford -- Jack's illness and marriage to Joy Davidman -- Jack's last years -- Jack's death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.912 HARCutler, Laurence S.
Summary: "J. C. Leyendecker captured lifestyles with superior technical skills, with an imaginative use of subject, and with an originality that many have sought to imitate. Dubbed the "Master of the Magazine Cover" by Norman Rockwell - who modeled both his technique and his career on his mentor - Leyendecker created illustrations that graced the covers of all the leading magazines, including Collier's,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2008
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Summary: "S.C. Gwynne's Hymns of the Republic addresses the period from Ulysses S. Grant's appointment as general of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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Summary: Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as any person in the Confederate pantheon, even Robert E. Lee, he embodies the romantic Southern notion of the virtuous lost cause. Jackson is also considered, without argument, one of our country's greatest military figures. His brilliance at the art of war tied Abraham Lincoln and the Union high command in knots and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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Summary: Looks at what it is like to be king or queen of England, examines the reigns of over twenty monarchs from William I, 1066-1087, to Elizabeth II who has ruled since 1959, and points out some of the benefits and drawbacks of being royal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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Summary: In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Press 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace & World 1955
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1995
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regional Pub. Co. 1975
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Summary: When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration, the result was "The Red Book," a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. However, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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Summary: On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling, illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther and the epochal movement that continues to shape the world today. For five centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Westernlore Press 1955
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Summary: "This multi-layered biography examines five remarkable women who made important contributions to the Union cause at various stages before, during, and following the defining years of the American Civil War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press 2020
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Summary: "Shift away from shame and turn to radical forgiveness. Grow your internal self acceptance and resilience with this guide for women. Packed with meditative prompts to help you explore your relationship to shame. You are Not Your Mother caters to your inner desires to be seen, heard, and known. The toxic generational trauma and unhealthy relationships stop with you!"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2023
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Summary: "Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, [this book] chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum from a bullish economy, a unified Republican Party, and a string of domestic and foreign policy successes--only to watch everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1981
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2004
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Summary: A professor draws on his expertise as a historian to better understand his traumatic early life in New Orleans, marked by an alcoholic mother who tried to drown him, an absent father, his childhood amnesia, and family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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Summary: An assessment of psychoanalysis and the views of its creator reveals Sigmund Freud's blunders with patients, his misunderstandings about the psychological controversies of his time, and how he advanced his career on the appropriated findings of others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2017