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Charles Martin. Where the River Ends. New York: Broadway Books, 2008. 375 pp. This is a story about how boundless love reaches beyond brokenness to remain constant in the face of the most formible foe. The two main characters are the unlikeliest of marriage partners. Doss Michaels, growing up the child of trailer trash along the St. Mary’s River in South Georgia would not be the expected match for a wealthy refined daughter of a U. S. Senator from South Carolina. Yet, what set him toward a rendezvous with this destiny was his knack for rendering faces on canvas. An innate skill noticed in early childhood and nurtured by a loving mother became his entre into college in Charleston where circumstances brought him to the attention of Abigail Grace Coleman. - READ MORE |
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Shepard Center Resumes Normal Operations On Monday, September 15, the Shepard Center will resume its normal schedule of public access hours on Monday and Tuesday afternoons 1-4 p.m. Access to the resources of the Center is available at other times by appointment. Simply call 731-661-5410 or e-mail - READ MORE |
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Gerald L. Sittser. Water From a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality From Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries. Downers Grove: IVP Books, 2007. A few years ago I teamed up with a couple of my fellow library directors to make a presentation at a conference for academic technology folks. Needless to say we bookmen stuck out in this group tech savvy wizards like rabbit ears on a 52” flat panel HDTV. The only times I felt myself on the same planet with these folks was during our morning devotionals. Dr. Gerald Sittser was sharing a few things he had learned about faith commitment from his study of Christian spirituality. Those times were without a doubt the highlight of the conference for me. Having read his full account of Christian spirituality from the early church through the modern missionary movement, I can now say that this was just an appetizer. - READ MORE bv4501.3 .s5848 2007 |
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Access to Shepard Center Temporarily Limited Due to the displacement of certain rooms during the storm recovery process, access to Shepard Center resources will be limited for the next six months. Materials housed in the Center will be available for research by appointment only Monday-Friday during the hours of 9:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. To arrange an appointment call Steve Baker ar 731-661-5410. - READ MORE |
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Elizabeth Crook. The Night Journal. New York: Penguin Books, 2007. 454 pp. The narrative of this fast-paced novel is constructed around the framework of one character’s journal recounting life as a young woman on the Southwest frontier in the late 19th century. Here is a story about a historian whose legacy work turns out to be as much myth as it is reality. As tragic as that may seem, it pales in comparison to the tragedy of four generations of women who lack the ability to face the truth of their unfulfilled lives. - READ MORE |