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|  | American Character by Mark Thompson
This heartfelt biography of the multi-talented Charles Fletcher Lummis notes all of his achievements, including his mastery of photography, impressive writing career with the Los Angeles Times, and efforts to end racial violence against Native Americans. AUTHOR: Mark Thompson
PUBLISHER: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | The Design of Existence by Wilson Van Dusen
In The Design of Existence, Wilson Van Dusen offers spiritual explorers a guidebook for mystical experience, describing the inner landscape in detail. Though considering himself a scientist, Van Dusen approaches reality as a mystic, using the writings of 18th-century visionary Emanuel Swedenborg as a lens. For Swedenborg and Van Dusen, our interior realm reflects the external cosmos, which makes a mystical sense of oneness possible: We are in a massive order, far greater than we can see. Yet we are not alien to this order. We are created out of it. For Van Dusen's mysticism, Swedenborg is the exemplar of universality. A scientist who mastered fields as varied as chemistry, physiology, optics, and metallurgy, Swedenborg turned inward to investigate the psychological and the spiritual. He affirmed the value of other religious cultures and even wrote in gender-inclusive Latin. He had startlingly contemporary insights: he saw that the spiritual must inform everyday experience, that feelings must aid the intellect in seeking the spiritual, that the quest for the soul leads to understanding the cosmos and vice versa. Van Dusen uses Swedenborg's ideas as the basis for a true universal mysticism. In The Design of Existence, he invites each of us to confront mystical experience as proof that we and the cosmos share a spiritual design, which orders our lives as surely as it orders the universe itself. Wilson Van Dusen holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and is the author of The Natural Depth in Man; The Presence of Other Worlds; Returning to the Source; The Country of Spirit; and Beauty, Wonder, and the Mystical Mind. AUTHOR: Wilson Van Dusen
PUBLISHER: Swedenborg Foundation, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | North of Naples South of Rome by Paolo Tullio, Susan Morley
Since childhood, Paulo Tullio hay returned each summer to his hometown of Gallinaro and to the passionate people of his valley. This book describes a hysterically chaotic wine competition, samples the Italian cantina, instructs on marketplace haggling, and investigates the charms and scams of Naples. It looks with disbelief at a tortuous bureaucracy, observes the role of the Church in daily life, and explains how to win a local election and how to roast a pig. The reader tours a carousel of picnics, feasts, and fireworks, led by the delightful pen-and-ink sketches of renowned watercolorist Susan Morley. This warm-hearted tour of a charming, intimate world is as enticing and original as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun. AUTHOR: Paolo Tullio, Susan Morley
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Following the Guidon by Elizabeth B. Custer, Jane R. Stewart, Robert Marshall Utley, Shirley A. Leckie
Elizabeth Custer, the devoted wife of the general who would fall at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, had no illusions about what would be required to force southern Plains Indians onto reservations. Drawing on her husband`s letters to her, she describes the Seventh Cavalry`s risky winter campaign that culminated in November 1868 with the capture of Cheyenne village on the Washita River. AUTHOR: Elizabeth B. Custer, Jane R. Stewart, Robert Marshall Utley, Shirley A. Leckie
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Tom Cruise by Jill C. Wheeler
Description not available.Describes the life, struggles with dyslexia, and acting career of the star of Top Gun, Born on the Fourth of July, the Mission Impossible films, and other movies. AUTHOR: Jill C. Wheeler
PUBLISHER: ABDO Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Life Stories by Alton Fitzgerald White, Amy Irving, David Remnick, Philip Bosco
A collection of The New Yorker`s famous Profiles of people such as Hemingway, Hearst, Baryshnikov, and other less well-known personalities. Writers include many of the magazine`s finest: John McPhee, Calvin Trillin, A.J. Liebling, Truman Capote, and Lillian Ross. AUTHOR: Alton Fitzgerald White, Amy Irving, David Remnick, Philip Bosco
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Biographies
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