Author: Henry James
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472030002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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The romantic side of Henry James, revealed through his letters to young male friends

Author: Stephen HUBBERSTY
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Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Author: Cara Wall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982104546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” —Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show “Read with Jenna” Book Club Selection!) This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s. Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily—fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern—after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not? James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James’s escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life. In The Dearly Beloved, Cara wall reminds us of “the power of the novel in its simplest, richest form: bearing intimate witness to human beings grappling with their faith and falling in love,” (Entertainment Weekly, A-) as we follow these two couples through decades of love and friendship, jealousy and understanding, forgiveness and commitment. Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church’s congregation, Wall offers a poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in our lives. The Dearly Beloved is a gorgeous, wise, and provocative novel that is destined to become a classic.

Author: Lynne Withey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074323443X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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The lively, authoritative, New York Times bestselling biography of Abigail Adams.

Author: William Evans
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Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Thieleman Janszoon Braght
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Category : Anabaptists
Languages : en
Pages : 1090

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Author: Enoch Lewis
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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 628

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