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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A scholar of American Christianity answers perhaps the most bewildering question of our time: Why are evangelicals "the Donald's" most fervent supporters? Donald Trump is a libertine who lacks even basic knowledge of the Christian faith. Yet in 2016 he won 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, and continues to rely on white evangelicals as his base of support. While we assume the religious right has pragmatic reasons for backing Trump, in truth...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co., an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With wit and piercing insight, Joy-Ann Reid calculates the true price of the Trump presidency. Is Donald Trump running the "longest con" in U.S. history? What will be left of America when he leaves office? Candidate Trump sold Americans a vision that was seemingly at odds with their country's founding principles. Now in office, he's put up a "for sale" sign--on the prestige of the presidency, on America's global stature, and on our national identity....
1004) Robots in fiction
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Learning
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Questions and answers give kids an understanding about the technology of robots in fiction, including why there are so many robots in fiction and if they hold up to actual science.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In an era where the American Dream seems to have faded into a dark new dawn, filmmakers Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan ponder what may have become of the world if the U.S. had never come into being. By creating an alternate history in which British forces kill General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, the filmmakers lay the groundwork for a thought-provoking meditation on the crucial role of the United States on the world...
Author
Publisher
Franciscan Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A universal pattern can be found in all societies-in fact, in all of creation. We see it in the seasons of the year; the stories of Scripture; the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus; the rise and fall of civilizations; and even in our own lives. In this new version of one of his earlier books, Father Richard Rohr illuminates the way understanding and embracing this pattern can give us hope in difficult times and the courage to push through messiness...
Author
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Modern culture is increasingly outspoken against a biblical understanding of what it means to be a woman. Even some Christians, swayed by the LGBTQ+ movement, have rejected God's word on issues of sexuality and gender in favor of popular opinion. In light of these pressures, it's more important than ever to help women see the truth about who God created them to be. In this powerful book, Rosaria Butterfield uses Scripture to confront 5 common lies...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The left is waging a deliberate, relentless attack on our children. The left is waging a deliberate, relentless attack on our children. It's hard to understand that we are fighting actual Marxists, but if we fail to know the enemy, we will lose. In this shocking book, Liz Wheeler exposes the Marxism behind the assault on our children--from teachers unions to school counselors, from Planned Parenthood and "comprehensive sexuality education" to proponents...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. This book will reveal what really has happened, explain why it is urgent to change course, and offer a strategy to do so. Though we should not fool ourselves into thinking it will be easy to eliminate identity politics, we should not overthink it, either. Identity politics relies on the creation of groups, and then on giving people incentives to adhere to...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall Street Journal once called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America." In this new collection, he examines a remarkably unsettling thirteen years in our nation's experience, from 2008 to 2020. Included are a number of columns about court cases, mostly from the Supreme Court, that illuminate why the composition...
1013) Crow Mary: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Montana in the summer of 1872, Crow Mary marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader, and accompanies him to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan, Canada. In the spring of 1873, they are preparing to return to Montana when they witness the Cypress Hills Massacre, in which forty innocent Nakoda are killed by a drunken gang. Following the massacre, Crow Mary single-handedly recues five Nakoda women who are being held captive and abused...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A liberty-defending survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke Revolution spreads across America. Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later escaped communism and found freedom and new a life in America. But more than 30 years...
1015) Death of a nation
Publisher
Big Lie, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Draws parallels between the dramatic fracturing of the nation over Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic--it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German "vacationers" packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking...
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