This biography chronicles the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, focusing on the influence of their summer home on Campobello Island. This personal history examines the Roosevelts' heritage and traditions and explores their public trials, tragedies, and triumphs, as well as the frustrations and disappointments of their private lives. Campobello played a vital role in the formation of character for both Franklin and Eleanor, providing outlets for physical activity and emotional escape. At Campobello, Franklin was afflicted by polio, the most defining event in both their private lives and public careers. This story is peppered with anecdotes, personal letters, and reminiscences of the friends, family, and staff who played important roles in their lives.

Beloved Island: Franklin & Eleanor and the Legacy of Campobello

History

Klein, Jonas

Americas

North Bay Books

Based on three decades of research, this book tells the story of mining in the former boomtown of Bodie, California. Woven throughout are accounts of gambled fortunes, engineering marvels, and vigilante uprisings. Tracing Bodie's history from the discovery of gold in 1877 to the departure of its last residents in the 1940s, the book includes maps and scores of never-before-published photos.

Bodie: "The Mines Are Looking Well...": The History of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California

Michael H. Piatt

Churning of the Heart, Vol. 3: Union With the Infinite

Biographies & Memoirs

Tirth, Shivom

Leaders & Notable People

In this profound and sensitive work, African spiritual teacher Sobonfu Somé invites readers to discover in the setbacks they encounter in life a path to healing and rebirth. Her message is drawn from the ancient wisdom teachings of her village in Burkina Faso, and her experiences over more than a decade here in the West. Somé is a gifted storyteller and compassionate student of life who has contemplated deeply the nature of human triumph and defeat. The insights she offers, blending indigenous wisdom and hard experience in the contemporary West, are priceless. Without denying the suffering that accompanies loss and disappointment, she finds in these events the underlying spiritual dynamics that carry us to higher states of knowledge and fulfillment.

Falling Out of Grace: Meditations on Loss, Healing and Wisdom

Some, Sobonfu E.

Religion & Spirituality

Commentaries

Brown, Jerry

Called a messenger of peace, Arun Gandhi -- Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson -- has dedicated his life to spreading his grandfather’s teachings around the globe. This compelling memoir begins in the heart of apartheid South Africa where the author lived under conditions of zealous racism until he was 12 years old. Following are the two pivotal years he spent with his grandfather in India, learning the lessons that would undo his anger and cultivate a profound activism. His account also describes living with his parents in religious and socially activist communities in South Africa and India. This book presents the practical wisdom the author learned from his grandfather revolving around family, men and women, simplicity, religious unity, humility, truth, and nonviolence.

Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence

GANDHI, ARUN

Community & Culture

The mines are looking well. These words appeared repeatedly in late nineteenth-century newspapers and mining journals to reassure investors who had speculated in risky, often corrupt, western gold and silver mining stocks. Infused with investment capital, companies spent lavishly as they dug for mineral riches. Their abandon cast an air of confidence that made the future deceptively bright for burgeoning mining towns scattered throughout the American West. One such town was Bodie, California. Today Bodie is a ghost town, carefully preserved as one of California s most popular state historic parks. In Bodie: The Mines Are Looking Well . . . author Michael H. Piatt unravels the old town s compelling mystery. While previous books have discussed Bodie s social history and focused on three tumultuous boom years from 1878 to 1880, this work tells the entire story. From the discovery of gold in 1859 to the town s abandonment in the mid-1900s, Piatt explains the forces that determined Bodie s fate. Tracing the stories of six principal mines, this book examines Bodie from the perspective of its mining district. Woven into this gilded narrative are tales of life in a remote, rough-and-tumble community, lively accounts of gambled fortunes, frontier violence, engineering marvels, and battles of men and machines against the forces of nature. The sources used to uncover these dramatic details include newspapers from Bodie and neighboring towns, mining journals, government reports, and publications by technical societies. Principal among eyewitness accounts are interviews with prospector, miner, and mill hand, Robert T. Bell. Born at Bodie in 1914, Bell was the last person to have worked in Bodie s underground. Bodie: The Mines Are Looking Well . . . contains more than 160 historic photographs, maps, sketches, detailed source notes, a comprehensive bibliography, and a glossary of mining terms. It is a must read for aficionados of the Old West, for students of mining history, and for every inspired traveler captivated by a silent, eastern-Sierra outpost that once boasted the greatest gold mine the world has ever seen.

Bodie: The Mines Are Looking Well... The History of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California

Saint Antony of Egypt tells the remarkable life story of the desert holy man whose experiences, sermons, and writings formed the basis of Christian monasticism. The first work on Saint Antony (born in Egypt in AD 250) for a general audience, this book includes a biography, sayings, letters, and a copy of the monastic rule - still in use today in Near East monastic communities - of this influential mystic and spiritual teacher. Saint Antony's story is both edifying and entertaining, recording not only his private austerities and devotions but also his worldly encounters with emperors, bishops, heretics, hermits, wild beasts, Greek philosophers, and, most famously, the devil himself in dozens of forms.

St. Antony of Egypt: The Holy Life and Teachings of the First Desert Father

Moira Noonan left the Christian faith in the mid-1970s after suffering a severe accident to which the Church seemed to offer no answers. She went on to explore nearly every path of New Age spiritual practice, mastering such disciplines as psychic healing, clairvoyance, hypnotherapy, reiki, and past-life regression. Her tumultuous life in the occult, and her dramatic return to her original faith, culminating in her deliverance from demonic possession at Medjugorje, are the subjects of this absorbing contemporary classic in the literature of spiritual warfare. Noonan's story has been an inspiration to thousands of people who have felt the inadequacy of New Age-inspired road maps to enlightenment.

Ransomed From Darkness: The New Age, Christian Faith and the Battle for Souls

Noonan, Moira

John Hampsch

Lord, Open My Lips is a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours - those powerful prayers that contemporary Christian monks gather to recite seven times each day. Designed to help laypeople integrate these prayers into their daily routine, this guide can be used in conjunction with any of the several basic texts of the liturgy currently in use. Tested by students of the liturgy for more than three years, Lord, Open My Lips has been carefully revised for clarity and simplicity.

Lord, Open My Lips: The Liturgy of the Hours As Daily Prayer

Christian Books & Bibles

Murray, Seth H.

Worship & Devotion

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