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500 Strong

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Wabash College in Indiana sent more soldiers to the Civil War proportional to its size than any other college in America. This book, the result of twenty-five years of history students' research projects at modern-day Wabash, details the 500 students' lives in pioneer Indiana, in the war (over 100 battles) and after the war. Famous generals like Edward Canby and James J. Reynolds are covered, but also many average Hoosier boys who went, suffered in the war in the battles and from illness in camp and in Andersonville and Libby prisons but stayed to help save the nation. Edited by Patience Barnes and James Barnes H'91, professor of history emeritus.

Item: 098319948

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A Severe Mercy

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Written by Sheldon Vanauken '38, this memoir is a biography of a union, the love between the author and his wife, how it formed, how it was sustained, how it perished, and how it remains. It is like a work by C. S. Lewis, which is interesting as he was a friend of the author and is quoted often in this book, but this book feels more like you're just talking to an old friend. This is a story of goodness and of a thoughtful life. It is truly worth reading.

Item: 006068824

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Be Thou My Vision

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Written by John B. Bridge '72, this book tells the story of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. Beginning in the Territory of Indiana and continuing into the present, we follow the decisions and work that made Indianapolis and the parish what it is today. It is a story of people living together in community over the centuries.

Item: 069203700

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Comic Crusaders

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The latest book by Richard Rose '54, this text is in the new screenplay-novel format, published in December of 2019. It tells the story of a young graphic novelist who uses a magic pen to bring super heroes (and villains) from his comic books to life.

Item: 099946338

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Curious Tales Wraught by Quarantine

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Crafted by T War Powers Tilden '01, in an effort to endure the social and economic climate of the oppressive summer of 2020 and to while away the general boredom of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of friends set about making up horror stories to share with each other, unaware of a real horror story about to unfold around them. Subtitle: (a collection of dope short stories shared by black characters)

Item: 2003596

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Daniel: The Age of Anxiety

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By Peter Pactor '65, "Daniel: The Age of Anxiety is the sequel to Daniel: The Age of Discovery. All Daniel's friends and enemies have returned. Daniel continues to struggle to overcome the prejudices against him because of his age, his wealth, and his intelligence. It is hard to be different. Daniel's fear of and certainty about the coming stock market crash followed by a long depression finally drive him to act. All the experts say the economy is good, but Daniel believes they are wrong. He decides to hold public forums to discuss the coming collapse with the hope that he will be able to convince even a few people to get out of the market and to prepare for the crash and depression. Adults not only don't believe him, but they also mock him because of his youth and inexperience. In his quest to warn people that the crash is coming, he sets himself up as a target and acquires more enemies. People believe what they want to believe, and in 1929, people believed that the economy was good and that the bull market would go on forever. It is dangerous to kick other people's sacred cows...."

Item: 152550084

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Daniel: The Age of Discovery

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By Peter Pactor '65, "Daniel French is the twelve-year old son of one of the world's wealthiest men. Daniel may be rich in resources, but he is definitely poor in emotional ties with people and practically bankrupt in social skills. Ignored by his parents and mistreated by those employed to take care of him, Daniel has become manipulative and skilled in verbal self-defense. Never allowed to associate with people his own age, and never allowed to attend school, he found his friends within the books and fine art of the three-story library tower located on his family's estate. There he became entirely self-educated, and there he developed his passion for learning. When he is sent off to Cornwall Academy, a boarding school, he is so inept with people that he immediately becomes the outcast with everyone except his roommate. Small in body, great in knowledge and intellect, Daniel begins to learn quickly, and to adapt. His school community helps him to grow, but Daniel has lessons for both his fellow students and teachers. It is an important day in the life of a school when any new student enters that school. That student has the opportunity to be an influence for good or an influence for evil. Daniel has made his choices. Certainly, his four months spent at Cornwall Academy, are for Daniel The Age of Discovery...."

Item: 146027744

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Drood

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Dan Simmons '70 wrote this about the haunted author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Blending history and fiction, Simmons suggests that Charles Dickens' unfinished final novel of seduction, drugs, and murder may have been based in reality. Told from the perspective of an unreliable opium addict and fellow author (based on Wilkie Collins, whose novels The Woman in White and The Moonstone established him as the grandfather of detective mystery), step into the macabre research of a Victorian celebrity and look closer at the last dark years of Dickens' life.

Item: 031600703

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Loose on the Wind

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Written by Will H. Hays, Jr '37, this work of fiction tells the comparable stories of two law enforcement officers, one in Reconstruction Era Kansas and one in NYC in the late 1980's, who share a connection across space and time. Rich with historical detail and thoughtfully developed characters, this is a story of the struggle between judgement and compassion.

Item: 096243030

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Nearer Home

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Written by Joy Castro, former professor of English, Nearer Home is a thriller about a young journalist whose college mentor is murdered in post-Katrina New Orleans to cover up a scandal of unprecedented corruption. It is Castro's second book featuring the crime reporter Nola Céspedes as the sleuthing protagonist.

Item: 125000458

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Reading Riddles

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Written by professor Brian Tucker '98, this book answers questions about the role of riddles in literature, especially German Romantic literature, and how this might have been interpreted over the years. More importantly, it challenges notions of self and of obscurity to give us a psychoanalytical perspective of the world, such as would have influenced Sigmund Freud, but it does all this at an approachable level without the higher jargon of specialization.

Item: 161148028

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Red Mountain Cut

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Written by Steve Brammell '72, the short stories of this collection were originally published in Birmingham Magazine. They include such variety as a composer trying to finish his song in a tornado, an executive driving his mother's ashes to the gulf, and a pair of kind beekeepers selling honey from their home. These diverse episodes share the common essence of everyday living in the modern South. Readers will recognize the struggles and settings of these fictional characters as true to life and may even feel like they lived the story with them.

Item: 164662384

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T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U.

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Written by Tom Mavity '92, this book is all about being the best version of yourself. Mavity explains how sincerity, gratitude, and positivity can shape your life for the better. This book can help you grow through discipline and find comfort in the sharing of our struggles.

Item: 164138397

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The Abominable

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Written by Dan Simmons '70, this is a story of adventure on the rooftop of the world with all of the exhilaration that comes with that, but there is another cause for adrenaline. Tracking down a previous expedition that vanished on Everest's harsh north-east ridge, the protagonists discover that they are being stalked by someone or something horrible.

Item: 031619884

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The Divine Voice

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Written by professor Stephen Webb '83, this book is a study of sound as a phenomenon in a Christian context. It is on the level of academic theology, but the author's flowing voice makes it easy reading. An insightful book for those with interests in any religion or in the natural world.

Item: 161097757

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The Lazarus Conspiracies

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A maverick Chicago cop uncovers a conspiracy that people with immense power will stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep secret. Set up as the killer of his only witness, he must find a way to clear himself and expose the conspiracy, which changes the course of history. Written by Richard Rose '54.

Item: 098866408

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The Pioneer Chapel / A guide to the portraits

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Written by the recently deceased David A. Phillips, professor of chemistry emeritus, this slim binding is rich with the history of the building of Pioneer Chapel and, which is more, the stories of those great men who are remembered in the ever-watchful portraits therein. May they all live on, long in our hearts.

Item: 2001333

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The Terror

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Written by Dan Simmons '70, this is a story of the Franklin Expedition for the Northwest Passage. As the men battle the bitterness of the elements above the Arctic Circle, they find another struggle, escaping a predator as terrible and mysterious as the dark and crushing ice all around them.

Item: 031648609

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The Tradition We Inherit

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This collection of speeches and sermons given by the late professor of religion emeritus William C. Placher '70 was produced by the Wabash College Advancement Office in 2009 in memory of the author, edited by James L. Amidon, Jr. '87. It is required reading for the second-semester freshman colloquium, Enduring Questions, which succeeded Cultures and Traditions in the spring of 2011.

Item: 2001763

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Tim O'Brien / The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

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Written by professor emeritus Tobey Herzog H'11, this book is a winding collection of seven essays, inspired in part by O'Brien's own book of winding stories, The Things They Carried. It looks at the titular author's work from diverse perspectives to enhance our appreciation of the man and his ability to share an experience with others.

Item: 036727604

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500 Strong

A Severe Mercy

Be Thou My Vision

Comic Crusaders

Curious Tales Wraught by Quarantine

Daniel: The Age of Anxiety

Daniel: The Age of Discovery

Drood

Loose on the Wind

Nearer Home

Reading Riddles

Red Mountain Cut

T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U.

The Abominable

The Divine Voice

The Lazarus Conspiracies

The Pioneer Chapel / A guide to the portraits

The Terror

The Tradition We Inherit

Tim O'Brien / The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

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