In lyrical essays, Wandering between Two Worlds explores Anita Mathias's naughty Catholic childhood in India; her large, eccentric extended family in the Catholic sea-coast town of Mangalore; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager in St. Mary's Convent, Nainital, her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns; and her abrupt religious conversion whereupon she entered Mother Teresa's convent as a novice. Later essays explores the dualities of her life as a writer, mother, and Christian in the U.S.-- Domesticity and Art, Writing and Prayer, and the experience of being "an alien and stranger" as an immigrant in America, sensing the need for roots. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, London Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, America, The Christian Century, and The Best Spiritual Writing (HarperSanFrancisco) and have won awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Minnesota State Arts Board, and The Jerome Foundation.

Wandering Between Two Worlds: Essays on Faith and Art

Biographies & Memoirs

Mathias, Anita

Leaders & Notable People

Benediction Books

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Torrey's New Topical Textbook is a concordance by American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer.

Religion & Spirituality

Torrey, R.A.

Christian Books & Bibles

This tetralogy, widely regarded as one of the best novels in English,  celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I.       "There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: 'Parade's End' is one of them." -W. H. Auden.

Parade's End

Literature & Fiction

Ford, Ford Madox

Genre Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea, an apparently simple fable, represents the mature Hemingway at his best. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature soon after its publication, and half a century later it is still one of his most read books.

The Old Man and the Sea

HEMINGWAY,ERNEST

United States

The Great Gatsby

F.Scott Fitzgerald

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun is a seminal American drama and a heroic testament of hope. This new recording of Lorraine Hansberry s classic play, starring Rutina Wesley from the HBO hit series True Blood, chronicles a working class African American family struggling to maintain dignity in a harsh world. With her late husband s insurance money finally in hand, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a better home. However, her children have other plans: Walter Lee wants to buy a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to go to medical school. What happens when family dreams drastically diverge? A full-cast performance featuring: Judyann Elder, James Gleason, Noah Gray-Cabey, Corey Hawkins, Deidrie Henry, Terrell Tilford, Rutina Wesley and Mirron E. Willis.

Hansberry, Lorraine

Dramas & Plays

The Souls of Black Folk , by W. E. B. Du Bois, sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and author, has a central place in American history and literature.\n“Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position.” – Manning Marable.\n“The boycott of the buses in Montgomery had many roots . . . but none more important than this little book of essays published more than half a century earlier." Saunders Redding.

The Souls of Black Folk

History

DU BOIS, W.E.B.

Americas

The three Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, stand at the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Even today they hold audiences transfixed.

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

SOPHOCLES

Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill

Throughout his long life Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) associated with some of the most celebrated thinkers of the age and witnessed some of its most dramatic events; it is therefore no wonder that his philosophy is regarded as among the most original and influential in Western philosophy. Motivated as much by Hobbes’ horror of the violence unleashed by the English civil war as his materialistic belief in thought as a mechanical process, Leviathan (1651) states the case for complete obedience to an absolute government as the only way of bringing peace and security to society. The true nature of mankind is at the heart of Hobbes’ political philosophy, and it is his uncompromising rejection of pre-existing depictions of mankind as the peak of creation in favour of a race naturally compelled to savagery which makes Leviathan as challenging and controversial today as it ever was.

HOBBES, THOMAS

Literary

Mark Twain had a remarkable ear for dialogue, and is fondly remembered as a one of the great observers of human nature. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he has created a lasting work of fiction and a ‘must-read’. “So we come to see Huck in the end as one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction, not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet.” -- T. S. Eliot. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn, It's the best book we've had." -- Ernest Hemingway.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Children's Books

TWAIN,MARK

Classics

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