A sweeping narrative covering a little known but crucial period of the Revolutionary War, "Nor the Battle to the Strong" tells the separate but ultimately intertwined stories of two compelling characters. Major General Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island-born, Quaker-bred commander of the Southern Continental Army, conducts an arduous campaign to ...
Faith, as Charles Price came to describe it, is a journey into the unseen, but it leads to the heavenly vision. What does that mean? How does faith work? How do I get it? What about healingand miracles? What do I do when I face insurmountable difficulties and reason cries, "Give it up! You can't fight the inevitable"?Faith may be sometimes ...
Considered by many to be the classic book on faith. "Dr. Price's written an spoken ministry had a profound influence on the direction of my on life. My sister, Florence, had a collision with a truck carrying hot asphalt. She received third degree burns, and her pelvis sufferes seven fractures. She was compelled to lie in a bed of salve because her ...
Amphibians and reptiles thrive in New Mexico's many landscapes and its extremes of temperatures and moisture. The state has 123 species, an assemblage of 3 salamanders, 23 frogs and toads, 10 turtles, 41 lizards, and 46 snakes. In this comprehensive guide, each species is presented in a colour photograph and its distribution shown on a map. ...
The original vision for Pinehurst included tennis and bridge and horseback riding--but no golf. There was hardly a reason for Pinehurst to even exist--there was no mountain or ocean or river or city or industry. Nonetheless, the infant resort sprouted wings in teh early 1900s as one of the preeminent places to enjoy the game of golf. Its history ...
The Civil War has left the Curtis family with a dead daughter, two dead sons, vengeful neighbors, and a once-grand home now broken down. Just as debilitating is Judge Madison Curtis's guilt over his actions in wartime, when he sacrificed another family to save his own. The most immediate reminder of the judge's past sins is a man he once held in ...
A novel about once-prosperous North Carolina family and the struggles and sufferings its members endure during the Civil War: violence, raids, the land no longer farmed, a shortage of husbands for the daughters, and the sons' battle experiences.
THE COCK'S SPUR is the final novel in Blair's trilogy based on his own family history. Set in the years after the Civil War, it chronicles the adventures of young Ves Price during Reconstruction as he turns first to brewing illegal whiskey, and then to informing on the other moonshiners--some of them his best friends. Meanwhile, the parallel ...
The popular and widely respected British Bible teacher encourages readers to let God remake them in His own image and replace their frustration with a sense of fulfillment.
This fascinating and informative volume intertwines the stories of three of the greatest subjects in golf - Bobby Jones, the Augusta National, and The Masters Tournament - into one compelling narrative. "A Golf Story" draws on unprecedented research from the archives at Augusta National, as well as first-hand accounts from players and fans, to ...
From the hills and valleys of the Appalachian Mountains to the winding course of the broad Mississippi River, it seems Tennesseans are in a haunted state. Noting that "ghostlore is as intrinsic to Tennessee as corn bread and grits", the author proceeded to gather tales from across the Volunteer State. In the northeast, a high school has not only ...
A cowboy's life is more than steer, saddles, and spurs. There is also food, and plenty of it, cooked out in the open after a rugged day on the range. This book, a project of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, features recipes both traditional and modern, ranging from classic favorites to avant-garde Western cuisine. 112 illustrations.
This fourth novel weaving together family history and rich fiction about 19th century Appalachian life, Price offers us mortal love and loss, mythic renewal, set against traditional culture beset by irrevocable change. Price weaves together families from earlier books in this saga of endings and beginnings, and provides the sage, ageless viewpoint ...
It would be very difficult to say how far a man may go in religion and yet die in his sins; how much he may look like an heir of heaven and yet be a child of wrath. Many unconverted men have a belief which is similar to faith and yet it is not true faith. Certain persons exhibit pious affections which have the warmth of spiritual love; but are ...
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