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For more than four decades Little Visits have played a special part in the lives of children. Now three favorites from the series are updated. For ages 6 months to 3 years.

Tormented - the heartwarming story of a young woman's struggle through eight years of emotional illness, electrical shock treatments, prescription drugs and hopelessness - culminated in absolute victory, made possible only by God's supernatural delivering power. This book not only describes Peggy Joyce's victorious deliverance, but it also gives step by step instructions on how to appropriate God's deliverance, as well as advice that can assure one of steering clear of these demonic pitfalls in the first place.

What would the psalm writers say if they lived in modern times? What words would they use to express their prayers? "Psalms Now" captures the meaning of the psalms for today.

An essential illustrated guide to forest ecology that gives readers an appreciation for forest plants and the role they play in local ecosystems.

Traces the life of an Iranian dissident writer who spent much of his life in exile or prison, and includes interviews and short stories written while imprisoned by Reza Shah.

Drawing on archival material from Shaker members, observers, and apostates, noted historian Suzanne R. Thurman offers a scholarly yet eminently readable study of life in two of the oldest, most prominent American Shaker villages: the Harvard and Shirley communities of massachusetts.Even as she delves into the complex fabric of Shaker social life, Thurman challenges traditional perceptions of gender roles within the community. Shaker spiritual and social ethics, she points out, strongly favored women. Celibacy and an androgynous theology, for instance, allowed androgynous social roles to evolve. Another key factor was the lively arena of nineteenth-century reformers and intellectuals in nearby Boston. With admirable detail, Thurman documents the relationship that grew between these forward thinkers and the Believers. Their influence, she argues, enlightened Shaker consciousness and empowered their women of Harvard and Shirley with opportunities denied them in the world at large.The author also explores links, particularly economic, between Shakers and the greater American society. Treating Harvard and Shirley Believers as an idiosyncratic part of the nation rather than a fringe group, Thurman sheds new light on their constant struggle to be in the world but not of it.

By the eve of the Holocaust, Poland was home to the second largest Jewish population in the world. By war's end, its Jews had been decimated and their once-vibrant culture all but destroyed. The authors of this book revisit their roots to research a rumor that Jewish life is being rekindled in modern Poland. What they discover are three generations of Jews -- Holocaust survivors and their offspring -- with differing historical perspectives.A sociocultural portrait -- through interview, photography, reportage, and personal memoir -- of the Jewish resurgence that has taken place since the fall of the communist regime in 1989. Who Will Say Kaddish? shows how each group explores the issue of "Jewish" identity for themselves and for Poland at large.

Shows the cookstove both as a functional artifact and cultural symbol, exploring history, technology, the role of women, and the evolution of the American home and family.

Back There Where the Past Was is Charles Champlin's sentimental journey through the life and times of his boyhood in Hammondsport, New York. "We are all from somewhere else, " Charles Champlin begins. It is from this idea that we not only can share his childhood, but are provided with a better sense of all that we hold dear in our own past.

Frank was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1913. During World War II he survived four Nazi concentration camps, including Dachau and the little known Lipowa in Lublin. Being a tailor, he was tapped to head a 450-tailor operation, which put him in touch with such notorious officers as Himmler, Eichmann, Goth, and Globocnik. He testified in war crimes trials about the atrocities and massacres.

In The Adirondack Park McMartin has aptly likened the various wild forest, wilderness, recreation, and primitive areas to a patchwork quilt, with landscapes connecting to jagged boundaries following rivers and narrow valleys. Recommended "views and visits" give readers an insider's advantage to making the most of any Adirondack expedition. With a storyteller's ease, McMartin provides a brief history and description of each area. She chronicles the preserve's unusual origins, people, politics, and economics that created what is now one of the most important wilderness areas in the eastern United States.

Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant - and entertaining - attempt to figure out exactly what television does to us. This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture, ranging from the Vietnam war to Captain Kangaroo, from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports.

In this charming autobiographical essay, Albert Schweitzer tells of his first nineteen years in Upper Alsace and his youthful discoveries of religion, music, and the inspiration of friendship. Even in his boyhood there were traces of what was to become his "reverence for life": as a boy, he writes, he managed to dissuade several companions from going fishing because of the pain he felt the deed gave to both the worm and the fish. In poignant vignettes, Schweitzer also describes his unhappiness at discovering that he had better food or better clothing than those around him. Memoirs of Childhood and Youth offers wonderful insights on Dr. Schweitzer's childhood journey that eventually led him to dedicate himself to medical service in African colonies. This new translation also has rarely seen photographs of Schweitzer, both as a youth and as an adult.

'Mother Donit fore the Best' is a touching collection of letters from the Albany Orphan Asylum in upstate New York-letters from parents to their children and to the asylum superintendent, as well as letters from children placed out on indenture and away from their families.

Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, Paulding wrote a number of Christmas tales, the best of which are brought together in this collection and which predate Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Paulding presents his stories as they have been translated from the original Dutch by a fictitious author. In them Saint Nicholas - a sixteenth-century Dutch Protestant baker - miraculously befriends those who uphold Dutch traditions and sets straight those who are either mean or given to "newfangled notions".

In this classic book, Carl Carmer describes the social life and customs of his native New York. Wandering from Buffalo to the Adirondacks across upstate New York, he heard folk tales, tall tales, stories of religious fervor and scandal. A born storyteller himself, Carmer writes about the beautiful Genesee, the Seneca and Tuscarora, the Cardiff Giant and the Loomis Gang, and the story of the Murdered Bride of Rensselaer County.

Lent is a time of repentance, fasting, and preparation for the coming of Easter. The season of Lent often creates an opportunity to take up a spiritual discipline to draw closer to God. Sometimes it is fasting or journaling, and sometimes it is doing a daily devotional reading. But what if your season of Lent was to combine the power of a spiritual discipline with doing an act of kindness and reflecting on how you experienced God''s love in doing so. Rev Dr Shannon E Karafanda, a United Methodist Pastor, has carefully curated 40 different #HolyMischief challenges during Lent. Each one connects to scripture and allows you to embody a deeper sense of the Word. Come along on the journey and complete each challenge as we move towards Easter.

Horses Make Me Laugh is a journal that has been lovingly designed to put a big smile or your face and joy in your heart.  I have created this journal because I am a lifelong horse enthusiast and love a good laugh.  For those of you who enjoy reading a good book and writing down your thoughts and plans, this journal is the perfect fit for you.  It is said that laughter is good for the soul, so I encourage you to open up this journal and let the smiles begin.If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know the person, don’t bother analyzing their ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much they are moved by noble ideas; you’ll get better results if you just watch them laugh. If they laugh well, they are good people… All I claim to know is that laughter is the most reliable gauge of human nature. Feodor Dostoyevsky