Serif Press

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  • Peace and Mercy, by James K. Hanna

    The first woman to graduate from Duquesne University, Sister M. Fides Shepperson became a lifelong advocate for world peace. In books, newspapers, and magazines, she constantly held out a hope that the world could progress, and that war could be relegated to history. “The world is on its way upward. Good women—high in heart and intellect—are mighty forces pulling the people on that upward way. They will endure and attain, and all the forces of good will ultimately join them. Then wars will cease. And on the height some glimmerings of the eternal Truth will fill the minds of men with understanding and with sympathy. The battle peaks will fade in the midst of evolutionary ages and be remembered no more in the Great Peace.”

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  • A Catholic Bishop Who Ran a Gas Station?

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    A Catholic bishop running a gas station? Well, that was the story they told in Millbrook, New York. And it turned out to be true.

    But the gas station is hardly the most interesting thing about this fascinating character. His is a story of catacombs in Rome, a failed bomb-building business in Connecticut and a sewer system in Cuba.

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  • Euripides and His Age: a Book About Everything

    Euripides and His Age
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    A book about Euripides? Yes, but it’s much more than that. Far from a dry academic study, this is one of the most riveting books you’ll ever read. With remarkable insight, Gilbert Murray traces the history of all our most important human ideas—democracy, patriotism, war, hate, forgiveness—and shows how Euripides filters them all through his towering genius. This is a book you’ll read again and again, a book you’ll quote to friends, a book you’ll keep with you for the rest of your life.

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