Do You Love Me?

Joost Elffers

Bowen Press

"It's true: not all good things / harmonize, but sometimes, / sometimes / they do." Drawing its title from Gertrude's description of Ophelia's death in Hamlet, the original poems in Aaron Chase Eddington's A Willow Grows Aslant a Brook focus on the beauty inherent in tragedy and offer a hopeful, redemptive view of loss and grief. Eddington's poetry navigates trauma, beauty, and pain with a perspective of optimism, growth, and renewal. Focused on images, memories, and moments, A Willow Grows Aslant a Brook looks past abstractions in search of "something between / water and blood / soul and flesh." AARON CHASE EDDINGTON is a writer and educator based in the Dallas area. Born and raised in east Texas, he is also the author of a chapbook titled A Birdwatcher's Guide to the American South.

A Willow Grows Aslant a Brook: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Eddington, Aaron Chase

Poetry

Mr. David Madden lives in L.A. He's an ordinary man. Every day, he gets up and drives to work. Only he never gets there. Instead, he drives from here to there, from Westwood to Santa Monica, Santa Monica to Venice . . . and so on. It seems he's always just going from point A to point B. Of course, driving from point A to point B--that's pretty much what people do in L.A. But then one day a mishap occurs, a breakdown of sorts, on Santa Monica Boulevard. Soon the media takes notice, and overnight Mr. Madden is transformed into a pioneering cultural figure as his "A-to-B thing" goes viral and becomes the defining issue of our time. Questions are asked, solutions offered, and blame assigned as therapists, academics, police, and lawyers all get involved. Safe to say, no one escapes unscathed in this caustic, irreverent, and hilarious social satire. Pierre Schlag is University Distinguished Professor and Byron R. White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. He lives in the foothills of Boulder with his wife, the author Elisabeth Hyde. His three children have grown up and escaped relatively unharmed.

American Absurd: A Work of Fiction

Schlag, Pierre

Meet Gladys! She's not a red dragon, like the ones in China, but
"old gravy gray-green, a color that's kinda' like lima beans plooped fresh right out of a can, Swimming shiny and cool on your plate or your hand."
But Gladys has a problem. She won't go to sleep!
"I do not like bedtime! Not even an ounce! I will not set claw on my bed but to bounce!"
Join Gladys and her patient parents as they wrangle over the dragon bedtime routine . . . and maybe learn a trick or two yourself along the way.

Gladys the Grayish-Green Dragon

Benjamin Utter

Boris Sokoloff, a doctor in Russia during the tumultuous years of the Russian Revolution and a survivor of the infamous Butyrki prison, has a remarkable story to tell. During his fascinating life he encountered nearly every major political and cultural figure in Russia between 1917 and 1920 and was an eyewitness of or participant in most of the major events of the period--the October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, an assassination attempt on Lenin's life, and the final collapse of the Northern Front. The White Nights is his story.
While The White Nights will engage the historically minded, it is as much a work of literature as it is history. Sokoloff consciously imitates a generation of great Russian authors, such as Anton Chekhov, the master of the Russian short story. Sokoloff gives his readers not a single narrative, but fifteen short stories, some of them murder mysteries, others romances or political thrillers. Each of these dramas has its own vivid cast of characters, its own play-like set, and its own heroes and villains. And all are depicted upon a vast stage: the anarchic, disintegrating Russian Empire.
The White Nights reads as a work of literary impressionism, with Sokoloff's colorful, pointillist strokes filling in the canvas of the Russian revolutionary era. Most dramatically, Sokoloff challenges his readers with the moral problems inherent in a failed assassination attempt on Lenin in which he participated in the spring of 1918. In each instance, those in positions to do something failed. As the West finds its democratic values increasingly contested at home and abroad, it is a timely lesson to remember what happens when those who believe in freedom fail to act.
IAN ONA JOHNSON is associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in the Department of History at Yale University. He was the recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship and the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and he was also a Smith-Richardson Predoctoral fellow in International Security Studies at Yale. He is the author of The Faustian Bargain: Secret Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period, forthcoming in 2018 from Oxford University Press.

The White Nights: Pages from a Russian Doctor's Notebook

Biographies & Memoirs

Sokoloff, Boris

Memoirs

The year is 1875, and a young physician's wife, Sarah Archer, is settling into a new life on the Iowa frontier, expecting her first child. A survivor of the Civil War, she wrestles with troubling memories of her childhood on her family's Alabama plantation. As Sarah struggles amid anger, love, and the inherited lies of "ladyhood," she realizes that her greatest struggle is within herself.
Revolving around the mysterious disappearance of Seth, the enslaved boy Sarah loved, Eldorado, Iowa braids scenes of Sarah's childhood on the plantation before and during the war with her present life on the Midwestern frontier, the accidents of small-town life, and the daily textures of marriage, domesticity, and grace. Exploring the ties of love, anger, silence, and misunderstanding, Eldorado, Iowa explores how we grow through, and beyond, what we think we know of our pasts in order to discover our true homes, our true lives, and our true paths into the future.
AMY WELDON (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. She is the author of The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save the World and The Writer's Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers.

Eldorado, Iowa

Weldon, Amy

Genre Fiction

What does it mean for LeTourneau University to adopt the identity "The Christian Polytechnic University"? Does this align with our mission? Does this take our school in a different direction? Is there a place for all academic disciplines? Are we narrowing our scope and reach? Are we expanding it? Most important, is this trademark a promise we can keep?This essay is an attempt to address these issues and the university we have all come to love. My hope is that it will help us see that "The Christian Polytechnic University" is not only a fitting identity for our institution but also names the unique educational calling we have inherited and that now presses us forward.

LeTourneau University as the Christian Polytechnic University

Education & Teaching

Mason, Steven D.

Higher & Continuing Education

Present, in This Way

Arts & Photography

Hand, Minette

Photography & Video

Fox's Book of Martyrs - A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and Protestant Martyrs

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Fox's Book Of Martyrs - A History Of The Lives, Sufferings And Triumphant Deaths Of The Early Christian And Protestant Martyrs

Forbush, William Byron

Leaders & Notable People

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Judaism, Christianity and Germany

Religion & Spirituality

Faulhaber, Cardinal

Christian Books & Bibles

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