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by Guy Fieri - Food, Nonfiction

 

Food Network star Guy Fieri takes you on a tour of America's most colorful diners, drive-ins, and dives in this tie-in to his enormously popular television show, complete with recipes, photos, and memorabilia. Packed with Guy's iconic personality, DINERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIVES follows his hot-rod trips around the country, mapping out the best places most of us have never heard of.

by Annie Proulx - Fiction, Relationships

 

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer. Both men work hard, marry, and have kids because that's what cowboys do. But over the course of many years and frequent separations this relationship becomes the most important thing in their lives, and they do anything they can to preserve it.

by Philip Terzian - History, Nonfiction, Politics

In ARCHITECTS OF POWER, Philip Terzian examines two public figures in the twentieth century who personify, in their lives, careers, and philosophies, the rise of the United States of America to global leadership: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Terzian reveals how both men recognized and acted on the global threats of their time and questions whether America can rise to the same challenges today. Without this clear window into the stricken world that Roosevelt inhabited and Eisenhower understood, we are unlikely to recognize the perils and challenges of the world we have inherited.

by Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction, Horror, Poetry, Short Stories

This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.

by David Baldacci - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping Luther Whitney, a career break-in artist, behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and Luther is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal murder involving Alan Richmond, the president of the United States, the man with...Absolute Power.

by Hugh Howey - Adventure, Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction

In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision will unleash a drastic series of events.

by Lia Claire Scholl - Christian, Christian Living, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

Paying for sex is everywhere, even in your church. The factors leading individuals into sex work vary, yet sex workers are viewed as powerless individuals who must be rescued. I HEART SEX WORKERS offers another perspective, one where the characters defy stereotypes and solutions are hard to find. Author Lia Scholl firmly believes the Christian response to sex work should be one of building agency for women, through education, fighting injustice, and listening to the voices of sex workers.

by Amena Brown - Christian, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

By rhythm we sing, clap, walk, breathe and live. But the Giver of rhythm sometimes calls us past our predictable patterns. Then we have to decide where to place our trust: in God or in our precious rhythms. Read this book and be reminded, and encouraged, that while God has rhythm, God is love, and God's love carries us beyond our rhythms into a fuller, more fulfilling life.

by Sarah Mae and Sally Clarkson - Christian, Christian Living, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

DESPERATE is for those who love their children to the depths of their souls but who have also curled up under their covers, fighting back tears, and begging God for help. Here, you will find the story of one young mother's honest account of the desperate feelings experienced in motherhood and one experienced mentor's realistic and gentle exhortations that were forged in the trenches of raising her own four children.

by Craig Groeschel - Christian, Christian Living, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

In ALTAR EGO, bestselling author Craig Groeschel reveals that you are not who you think you are. You are who God says you are. Until you’ve sacrificed your broken concept of your identity, you won’t become who you are meant to be. Unleash your “altar” ego, the God-given identity that will empower you to live boldly.