Looking for delightful and heartwarming stories that present familiar spiritual truths in new and insightful ways? Then you?ll definitely enjoy this collection of brief parables in the form of humorous letters sent to Pastor Mike from a fictional parishioner. The letters chronicle a five-year timeframe in the life of the small town of ?Maybe, ? Michigan, the bucolic home of such colorful establishments as the Busy Bee Caf?, Thelma's Cut-n-Curl, and America's first Refrigerator Magnet Museum. Following a folksy formula reminiscent of Garrison Keillor's ?News from Lake Wobegon, ? the homespun letters report on the people and rhythms of everyday life in a typical small town. You?ll share in events like graduations, county fairs, and weddings, and see how they offer a subtle yet compelling platform for examining universal themes of community, faith, and relationship. Each letter is linked to a scripture passage, and engages listeners with an easygoing, conversational tone.

A history of shell shock which examines how medical professionals have struggled to convince senior military figures of the existence of a medical condition of combat related fatigue, from initial ignorance through to contemporary sensitivity to the emotional consequences of conflict.

In 1801, in Chesire, Massachusetts, Elder John Leland organizes his fellow townspeople to make a big cheese for President Jefferson who up until that time had been forced to eat inferior cheeses.

A wide-ranging fictional portrait of life in postwar America by an acclaimed New Yorker short story writer and #1 New York Timesbestselling novelist. Irwin Shaw was a star of the New Yorker s fiction pages in the 1930s and 40s. His prose helped shape the landscape of post-war fiction, and his work drew from a remarkable life that spanned from American football fields to European battlefields, Broadway to Hollywood, Depression-era saloons to the McCarthy hearings. Among these sixty-three stories are iconic works such as The Eighty-Yard Run, a tale of an American dream crippled on Black Monday, and Main Currents in American Thought, in which a hack radio copywriter is tormented by the glitz of show business. Through the decades, Shaw s writing as demonstrated in these pages maintains the clear-eyed moral purpose, rich in wit and startling insight, of a tough kid with a philosopher s soul. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author s estate.

This book collects together the two most vital "automatic" texts Surrealism. Breton's prefatory essay The Automatic Message relates this technique to the underlying concepts and aesthetic of the Surrealist movement. The Magnetic Fields (1919) was the first work of literary Surrealism and is thus one of the foundations of modern European thought and writing. This authorised translation is by the poet David Gascoyne, himself a member of the group and a friend of both authors. The Immaculate Conception (1930) traces the interior and exterior life of man from Conception and Intra-Uterine Life to Death and The Original Judgement. The central section is a celebrated series of "simulations" of various types of mental instability.