Find out what led Augustine to become one of the greatest Christian thinkers in the history of the church with this moving diary of his journey to the fountain of God's grace.

Heartfelt, incisive, and timeless, The Confessions of Saint Augustine has captivated readers for more than fifteen hundred years. Retelling the story of his long struggle with faith and ultimate conversion -- the first such spiritual memoir ever recorded -- Saint Augustine traces a story of sin, regret, and redemption that is both deeply personal and, at the same time, universal. Starting with his early life, education, and youthful indiscretions,...

"The epic story of the rise of coffee in the Americas, and how it connected and divided the modern world. Sedgewick reveals how the growth of coffee production, trade, and consumption went hand in hand with the rise of the scientific idea of energy as a universal force, which transformed thinking about how the human body works as well as ideas about the relationship of one person's work to another's. In the process, both El Salvador and the United...

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The Brownie Scouts Series was published from 1949 to 1953. Impulsive Veve McGuire and her Brownie Scout friends have many fun adventures with their scout leader, Miss Gordon. Mildred A. Wirt is best known as one of the primary authors of the Nancy Drew mystery series.

FIVE pair of eyes focused with rapt attention upon Miss Paula Mohr, the librarian. Five little girls in pin-checked Brownie Scout uniforms had been listening attentively to a tale about the children of Holland. Now, in the story room of the Rosedale Public Library, they awaited an important announcement.

Confessions is an autobiographical work by Saint Augustine, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. The work outlines Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The Confessions of Saint Augustine in order to distinguish the book from other books with similar titles. Its original title was Confessions in Thirteen Books, and it was...