The stories of George Ade are energetic, detailed, and affectionate slices of the social life of Chicago in the Gay Nineties. Originally appearing in the Chicago Record between 1893 and 1900, they range from candid character sketches and snapshots of everyday street scenes to fiction and fantasies drawing on the endless stream of inspiration the bustling city provided. Ade was hailed by such contemporaries as Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, and Wil...
Based on new documents and family correspondence, and including twenty complete poems, this marvelous biography chronicles the life of British poet Anna Wickham.
In the year 1939 James Langley was 13 years old when his 16-year-old sister, Sasha, was killed in an automobile accident. He was devastated and turned bitter toward God, and swore he would never forgive Bud Evans who was driving that car.
China, 1939, a country besieged by war and poverty while its most modern city, Shanghai, openly displays wealth and decadence is the backdrop for a story of murder, treachery and the search for a priceless artifact, a jade and gold burial suit made two millenniums earlier for Chin Shih-huang- ti, the first emperor of China.
Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. God's Image in Humanity2. Strength to Love Well3. Strength to Leave Shame Behind4. Strength to Overcome Sin5. Wounds That Heal6. Men at the Cross7. Women at the Cross8. Homosexuality and the Cross9. The Church at the CrossAfterwordNotes
