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Apostle Or Bones That Shine Like Fire : Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
Category: History
The story of Twelve Apostles is the story of early Christianity: its competing versions of Jesus's ministry, its countless schisms, and its ultimate evolution from an obscure Jewish sect to the global faith we know today in all its forms and permutations. In his quest to understand the underpinnings of ...Show more
Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
Category: Popular History
Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men and what was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich and deeply informed answers to those ancient questions. Written with warmth, humour, and a rare acumen, Apostle is a brilliant and exhaustive synthesis of travel writing, centuries of bib ...Show more
Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
Category: History
Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: who were these men and their fellow Apostles? What was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich answers to these ancient and surprisingly enigmatic questions in an unusual, erudite and fascinating book. By visiting holy sites around the world, and examining ho ...Show more
ApostleTravels Among the Tombs of the Twelve by Tom Bissell
Category: Religion
A journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles -- a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in. Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men? What was t ...Show more
Chasing the Sea : Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia by Tom Bissell
Category: Travel Literature
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation p ...Show more
Flight or Fright by Stephen King; Cody Goodfellow; John Varley; Joe Hill; David Schow; Ray Bradbury; Roald Dahl; Peter Treemayne; James L. Dickey; Bev Vincent; Michael Lewis; Arthur Conan Doyle; Richard Matheson; Ambrose Bierce; E. c. Tubb; Tom Bissell; Dan Simmons
Category: Fiction
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up ...Show more
Magic Hours by Tom Bissell
Category: Culture
For more than a decade, award-winning writer (and coauthor of The Disaster Artist) Tom Bissell has explored questions at the heart of creative endeavor in astute, remarkable, and often hilarious essays. What are sitcoms for, exactly? Can art be both bad and genius? Why do some books survive and others v ...Show more
Magic Hours - Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell
Category: Culture
A prolific writer, Tom Bissell is considered one of the best young essayists writing today. Packaged in the trademark "Believer" style, this book will have a built-in audience. In "Magic Hours", award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the ...Show more
The Disaster Artist FTI by Greg Sestero; Tom Bissell
Category: Biography
From the actor who lived through it all and an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer: the inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny story of a mysteriously wealthy social misfit who got past every road block in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms--the making of The Room, "the Citizen K ...Show more
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