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The 1920s saw one of the most striking revolutions in manners and morals to have marked North American society, affecting almost every aspect of life, from dress and drink to sex and salvation. Protestant Christianity was being torn apart by a heated controversy between traditionalists and the modernists, as they sought to determine how much their beliefs and practices should be altered by scientific study and more secular attitudes. Out of the controversy arose the Fundamentalist movement, which has become a powerful force in twentieth-century America.

During this decade, hundreds (and...

What does it take to forgive someone of a wrong they have done? If God encouraged you to forgive another, or even to forgive yourself, would you answer His call? For Riley O'Toole, it took God's blessing of a talking flower named Rose to take him out of despair and into becoming a changed, godly man. Riley, in the juvenile fantasy novel Reflections by author John Thomas, is overcome with grief over the death of his wife and children, which is intensified through forced isolation from town by bitter gossip from his angry sister-in-law. Through the unlikely friendship with Rose, Riley learns...

Thomas Powell may be known to you as the distinguished, award winning editor and publisher of the monthly newsletter, The Avant Gardener, and the author of popular garden books. But, back in the nineteen fifties and sixties, he and his wife Betty were just starting out in horticulture when they were suddenly drawn headlong into the high flying world of the orchid trade, in the days before tissue culture and mechanized greenhouses made the world's most beautiful flower available to all. The cast of orchid-obsessed characters in this book range from super rich, even titled customers to...