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Circle of Hope

A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

By: Eliza Griswold

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Circle of Hope

A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

By: Eliza Griswold

A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis. “The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.” Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have been searching for—and finding—more authentic ways to find and follow Jesus. This is the story of one such “radical outpost of Jesus followers” dedicated to service, the Sermon on the Mount, and working toward justice for all in this life, not just salvation for some in the next. Part of a little-known yet influential movement at the edge of American evangelicalism, Philadelphia’s Circle of Hope grew for forty years, planted four congregations, and then found itself in crisis. The story that follows is an American allegory full of questions with urgent relevance for so many of us, not just the faithful: How do we commit to one another and our better selves in a fracturing world? Where does power live? Can it be shared? How do we make “the least of these” welcome? Building on years of deep reporting, the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold has crafted an intimate, immersive, tenderhearted portrait of a community, as well as a riveting chronicle of its transformation, bearing witness to the ways a deeply committed membership and their team of devoted pastors are striving toward change that might help their church survive. Through generational rifts, an increasingly politicized religious landscape, a pandemic that prevented gathering to worship, and a rise in foundation-shaking activism, Circle of Hope tells a propulsive, layered story of what we do to stay true to our beliefs. It is a soaring, searing examination of what it means for us to love, to grow, and to disagree.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374601690

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9780374601690

Amity and Prosperity

One Family and the Fracturing of America

By: Eliza Griswold

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Amity and Prosperity

One Family and the Fracturing of America

By: Eliza Griswold

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors’ mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her small farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children’s illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what’s really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that’s being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for their fate, and for redressing it: The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374713715

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9780374713713

Wideawake Field

Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

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Wideawake Field

Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

The chairs have come in and the crisp yellow thwock of the ball being hit says somehow, now that it's fall, I'm a memory of myself. My whole old life— I mourn you sometimes in places you would have been. —October The poems in this fierce debut are an attempt to record what matters. As a reporter's dispatches, they concern themselves with different forms of desolation: what it means to feel at home in wrecked places and then to experience loneliness and dislocation in the familiar. The collection arcs between internal and external worlds—the disappointment of returning, the guilt and thrill of departure, unexpected encounters in blighted places— and, with ruthless observations etched in the sparest lines, the poems in Wideawake Field sharply and movingly navigate the poles of home and away.

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1466880678

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If Men, Then

Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

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If Men, Then

Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

A darkly humorous new collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Wideawake Field and Amity and Prosperity If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Griswold’s language is forthright and intimate as she steers between the chaos of a tumultuous inner world and an external landscape littered with SUVs, CBD oil, and go bags, talismans of our time. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”—a soul attempting to wrestle with itself in the face of an unfolding tragedy.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374713707

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9780374713706

The Tenth Parallel

Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

By: Eliza Griswold

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The Tenth Parallel

Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

By: Eliza Griswold

A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds The tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the two religions meet; their encounter is shaping the future of each faith, and of whole societies as well. An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in The Tenth Parallel show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and that local and tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas. Above all, she makes clear that, for the people she writes about, one's sense of God is shaped by one's place on earth; along the tenth parallel, faith is geographic and demographic. An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly power, The Tenth Parallel is an essential work about the conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the world in the years to come.

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333

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1429979666

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9781429979665

Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

By: Eliza Richards

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Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

By: Eliza Richards

Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius who was unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his time. Eliza Richards revises this portrayal through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries with his female contemporaries. Richards demonstrates that he staged his performance of tortured isolation in the salons and ephemeral publications of New York City in conjunction with prominent women poets whose work sought to surpass. She introduces and interprets the work of three important and largely forgotten women poets: Frances Sargent Osgood, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Richards re-evaluates the work of these writers, and of nineteenth-century lyric practices more generally, by examining poems in the context of their circulation and reception within nineteenth-century print culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of American print culture as well as specialists of nineteenth-century literature and poetry.

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264

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Cambridge University Press

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0521832810

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9780521832816

Do This for Me

A Novel

By: Eliza Kennedy

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Do This for Me

A Novel

By: Eliza Kennedy

A high-powered attorney dives into the politics of sex, the perils of desire, and why men and women treat each other the way they do. Raney Moore has it all figured out. An ambitious young partner at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, she’s got a dream job, a loving (and famous) husband, and amazing twin daughters. Her world is full, busy, perfectly scripted. Or so she thinks. One sunny fall day, a bombshell phone call throws Raney’s well-ordered existence into chaos, and in a fit of rage, she diabolically, hilariously burns everything down. Once the flames subside, she finds herself asking some difficult questions: Who am I? What just happened? Am I ever going to find my way back to normal? Assisted by enterprising paralegals, flirtatious clientele, one dear friend and an unforgettable therapist, Raney thinks the answers are close at hand, only to find life spiraling utterly out of control. Uproarious, incisive and poignant, Do This For Me introduces a brilliant, off-kilter heroine on a quest to understand sex, fight workplace inequality, and solve the mystery of herself.

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354

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Crown

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1101907215

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9781101907214

Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684

By: Eliza Timberlake Davis

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Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684

By: Eliza Timberlake Davis

Deriving from two volumes of court order books--the oldest extant records of Surry County--this work consists of abstracts of court proceedings and legal transactions and includes recordings of deeds, inventories, coroners' inquests, powers of attorney, and bills of sale. In short, this work encompasses all the public records of the newly created county, doubtless embracing references to some 6,000 persons listed in the index.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806309040

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9780806309040

Lessons in Cookery

Hand-Book of the National Training School for Cookery (South Kensington, London). to Which Is Added, the Principles of Diet in Health and Disease

By: London. National Training School For Cookery,Rose Cole,Thomas Chambers

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Lessons in Cookery

Hand-Book of the National Training School for Cookery (South Kensington, London). to Which Is Added, the Principles of Diet in Health and Disease

By: London. National Training School For Cookery,Rose Cole,Thomas Chambers

The present work on cookery appeared in England under the title of The Official Hand-Book of the National Training School for Cookery," and it contains the lessons on the preparation of food which were practised in that institution. It has been reprinted in this country with some slight revision, for the use of American families, because of its superior merits as a cook-book to be consulted in the ordinary way, and also because it is the plainest, simplest, and most perfect guide to self-education in the kitchen that has yet appeared. In this respect it represents a very marked advance in an important domestic art hitherto much neglected." (From Preface)

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Applewood Books

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1429012056

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9781429012058

How to Pursue a DNA Clue

By: Eliza Watson

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How to Pursue a DNA Clue

By: Eliza Watson

Last Christmas genealogist Mags Murray organized her grandmother’s wake. This year she’ll be spending her holiday with her dad, and for the first time, her recently discovered biological father. To add to her stress, Mags offers to help her friend Gretta locate her grandson, who was adopted thirty-one years ago. Having uncovered her own paternity thanks to a DNA test, Mags is prepared for the surprises Gretta’s test may reveal. Or so she thinks. Within twenty-four hours of Gretta receiving her DNA results, a police detective requests Gretta’s assistance in identifying her closest match, a wanted criminal. Devastated by the shocking news, Gretta refuses to disclose the match is her grandson. Mags soon suspects the police aren’t the only ones searching for the man. Fearing Gretta’s grandson might be in danger, Mags and her best friend, Biddy McCarthy, attempt to track him down so they can warn him and hopefully prove his innocence. Over the past year, Mags and Biddy have encountered a forger, kidnapper, murderer, and other dodgy characters. Who knows what they are up against now!

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185

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Elizabeth Watson

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1950786137

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9781950786138

Stark County and its Pioneers

By: Eliza Hall Shallenberger

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Stark County and its Pioneers

By: Eliza Hall Shallenberger

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338552671X

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9783385526716

Amity and Prosperity

One Family and the Fracturing of America

By: Eliza Griswold

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Amity and Prosperity

One Family and the Fracturing of America

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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0374103119

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9780374103118

Wideawake Field

Poems

By: Eliza Griswold

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Poems

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Book's by Eliza Griswold

Circle of Hope

Circle of Hope

Amity and Prosperity

Amity and Prosperity

Wideawake Field

Wideawake Field

If Men, Then

If Men, Then

The Tenth Parallel

The Tenth Parallel

Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

Do This for Me

Do This for Me

Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684

Surry County Records, Surry County, Virginia, 1652-1684

Lessons in Cookery

Lessons in Cookery

How to Pursue a DNA Clue

How to Pursue a DNA Clue

Stark County and its Pioneers

Stark County and its Pioneers

Amity and Prosperity

Amity and Prosperity

Wideawake Field

Wideawake Field

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