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The Seven Storey Mountain»rank: 17964par: Thomas Merton
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into ... |
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Foreskin's Lament»rank: 19766par: Shalom Auslander
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into ... |
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More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story»rank: 35177par: Paul Jr Harvey
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into ... |
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A Dog in a Hat: An American Bike Racer's Story of Mud, Drugs, Blood, Betrayal, and Beauty in Belgium»rank: 29709par: Joe Parkin
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into ... |
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One Native Life»rank: 2213par: Richard Wagamese
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into ... |
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The Occupied Garden: Recovering the Story of a Family in the Wartorn Netherlands»rank: 16719par: Kristen Den Hartog, Tracy Kasaboski
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln 1941, a brilliant, good-looking young man decided to give up a promising literary career in New York to enter a monastery in Kentucky, from where he proceeded to become one of the most influential writers of this century. Talk about losing your life in order to find it. Thomas Merton's first book, The Seven Storey Mountain, describes his early doubts, his conversion to a Catholic faith of extreme certainty, and his decision to take life vows as a Trappist. Although his conversionary piety sometimes falls into ... |
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House Of Rothschild The World Banker 1849 To 1999»rank: 28582par: Niall Ferguson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial ... |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance»rank: 14601par: Barack Obama
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial ... |
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Brilliant Moon: The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse»rank: 1044par: Dilgo Khyentse
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Continuing the sweeping narrative that he began with The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848, 0xford University historian Niall Ferguson conjures up a world in which widespread change and utter uncertainty held sway in the place of carefully ordered dynasties and universally observed mores. ln the aftermath of the Napoleonic revolution, European Jews had been able to move within dominant societies somewhat more freely. 0f no family was this more true than the Rothschilds, whose branches lived in Germany, France, Austria, and England, and whose vast financial ... |
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage»rank: 11938par: Alfred Lansing
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally able to set sail again in ... |