![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet as other evangelicals drifted to the religious right, Carter advocated universal health care, proposed cuts in military spending and denounced the tax code as “a welfare program for the rich.” Like the evangelical politicians who succeeded him, Carter talked about his “personal relationship with Jesus Christ” (and famously confessed to Playboy magazine, “I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times”). Today it may seem inevitable that evangelicals gravitated to the Republican Party in the 1980s but Carter, the wealthy peanut farmer from Georgia who won the 1976 election as a Jesus-loving Democrat, complicates the story. But if Graham is either the foil or forefather of current evangelical politics, then Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, is the road not taken. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Isolde is a competent woman, and as a healer, she is able to get into and out of places that otherwise - even as high queen - she wouldn’t be able to. There is much positioning for power, negotiating, and war-making, which sounds more boring than it actually is. ![]() While Elliott includes a fantasy element with Isolde’s Sight and ventures into the Arthurian world, it’s more a gritty, political book than anything else. It’s only through her own wits, abilities, and the help of a half-Saxon prisoner named Trystan, that she’s able to escape and find a way to prove to the court the truth about Lord Marche. Especially since she knows - due to a rare Sight-influenced vision - that Constantine was murdered by Lord Marche, who is scheming for the high kingship himself. However, seven short years after their crowning, Constantine is dead and Isolde fears for her own life. Isolde, who is Mordred’s bastard daughter by Guinevere, was made high queen soon after her father’s death, by marriage to King Constantine. The story picks up where the Arthurian legends leave off: Arthur has been betrayed by his bastard son, Mordred, and both are dead. Twilight of Avalon takes two ancient myths - Arthur and Tristan and Isolde - and fuses them together into a political/romance/historical/fantasy. ![]() ![]() The setting allows him to utilise the past symbolically, exploit the present politically, and anticipate the future in simulated prophecy. ![]() ![]() In the Vita Nuova Dante's own emotional reactions are made the inner subject of the work, in a groundbreaking manner which foreshadows the Commedia's intensity, and the personal nature of the poet's quest, not merely to seek for meaning but to attain it spiritually.īorn in 1265 in Florence, from which he was banished in 1302, dying in Ravenna in 1321, Dante set the Divine Comedy in the year 1300, when he was thirty-five years old and 'in the middle of our mortal life'. Indeed the final section of the Vita Nuova contains his commitment to the writing of the greater work, in which Beatrice comes to represent Divine Philosophy, guiding the poet through Paradise towards ultimate truth, and embodying in her earthly and transcendental form the beauty and love which emanate from it. Utilising and developing the conventions of Courtly Love, in a mixture of prose and verse, Dante deepens the emotional content of the genre, while pointing the way towards the intellectual and spiritual journey of the Divine Comedy. ![]() Listen Now Narrated by Jack Wynters of Wyntersea ProductionsĬomposed around 1294, in Italian, the Vita Nuova tells the story of Dante's encounters with and love for Beatrice, culminating in her early death and its effect upon him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whose green tail is this? Add a fuschia-feathered pointed tail - what animals could these two be? Turning the page reveals that the bushy tail belongs to a horse who seemed oblivious to our little mouse’s offers of friendship. ![]() In this story book, we are introduced to a cute aquamarine mouse with luminous pink ears who begins the book with an eager “Do You Want to be My Friend?” to an animal with only its bushy tail evident and sticking out from the page. With Eric Carle’s distinctive two-dimensional illustrations brimming with textured almost-3d colors (bright green, purple, and golden brown), he introduces this endearing little mouse in his book published in 1971 entitled “Do You Want to be My Friend?” – a post for our Bimonthly special “When Words are Not Enough” – a Wordless Picture Book special for the months of March and April.
![]() Maggie Mason Smith, School Library Journal “We are so incredibly excited about the new Sisters of Salem trilogy from PC and Kristin Cast. VERDICT This fantasy is a solid choice for YA collections. A satisfying cliffhanger sets the stage for the next in the series. Descriptions of thoughtful spell work will hook readers early and, though the novel focuses on Norse and Greek mythology, the twins get a glimpse into Egyptian lore and the setting is prepped for the introduction of Japanese and Hindu mythology in the novels to come. ![]() ![]() Praise Teen readers will connect most with the twins, who are fiercely supportive of one another and friends, insecure and sometimes awkward, conscious of both women's and Native social justice issues, and tend towards text-speak and slang. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poems aren't extremely polished but they have some sort of quality to them that just. Just seeing the words scrawled through Cohen's notebooks, and sensing the emotions put into it, so candid and un-sensationalized. It's stunning because it never feels filtered. ![]() Even in his other books, published while he was alive, such as Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen's poetry is so. The rhymes are sometimes stilted, sometimes imperfect, but I think that's what I love most about them. The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. He writes what he feels, and what he thinks, and sometimes it seems simple, or incoherent, or obvious. The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world. Not to say that other poets don't truly cherish the beauty of words and writing but when it comes to Cohen, the words don't have to try, or rhyme, or make sense. ![]() Unlike a lot of other poetry I have read, Leonard Cohen is writing simply out of pure enjoyment. You can tell that he is writing these poems and lyrics not to impress people, not to sell, not to seem more distinguished or prominent, not to seem deep. Because the way that Leonard Cohen interacts with words- it's different. Reading this book, however, made me want to rediscover him, and take a deeper listen to his music. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “A thoroughly grown-up novel packed with gorgeous historical detail and a gutsy, brainy heroine to match. Harkness attends to every scholarly and emotional detail with whimsy, sensuality, and humor.” An irresistible tale of wizardry, science and forbidden love.” “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter or Twilight. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, and concludes with The Book of Life. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Book one of the New York Times-bestselling All Souls trilogy-"a wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” ( People).Īll three seasons of the hit TV series “A Discovery of Witches” are streaming now on AMC+, Sundance Now and Shudder.ĭeborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, a learning which stuck out to me: France deployed Senegalese people from their colonies to guard and protect the Rhineland (a fact which surprised me so immensely as we studied this event at great length in school). I think this speaks to a wider erasure of Black people from history, and so I was glad to read and learn more about this. I studied WWII history to Advanced Higher in school (like first year of University), have visited many historic sights across mainland Europe, and never expressly heard about the experiences of Black people. ![]() In this sense, Half Blook Blues is exceptional and worth reading for this aspect alone. I've not read any other accounts of WWII fiction (and goodness knows there's a lot of it) which focuses on imagining what was like to be a Black person during this period in history. Half Blood Blues tells the story of a group of Jazz musicians, many of whom are Black (though some white and some white-passing), who lived through WWII in France and Germany. I've been eager to read this since finishing Washington Black by Esi Edugyan last year. ![]() ![]() ![]() She continued to travel, writing books about Papua New Guinea, Nepal and Mexico. She married Charles Burrell in 1993 and settled at Knepp, a dairy and arable farm in Sussex. Her first book, The Bird Man, about the Victorian ornithologist John Gould, was published in 1991. After reading classics at the University of London, she went on to work as a journalist and travel writer for the Evening Standard and The Sunday Times. ![]() ![]() Following her expulsion from two secondary schools, she attended Millfield School as a sixth former, where mutual friends introduced her to her future husband. The adopted daughter of Michael Tree and Lady Anne Cavendish, Isabella grew up in Mereworth Castle in Kent, and then in Shute House, a vicarage in Dorset. Isabella Tree is a conservationist and writer of the award-winning book Wilding: the Return of Nature to a British Farm, which tells the story of rewilding a 3,500 acre farm estate in Sussex, which she oversaw with her husband Charlie. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. But the last thing he expects to catch in his trap is a beautiful, beguiling woman―with some wild animal urges of her own. But when a mysterious woman at the club turns out to have powers greater than his own, he has no choice but seduction.Ī manhunter by trade, Seth is on the trail of his most dangerous prey yet: a living, breathing, maneating werewolf. He's a controller of shadows, able to wield darkness at will. ![]() Tall, lean, muscular―and definitely rough around the edges―Sean Walker is not your typical nightclub bodyguard. ![]() The Bodyguard (Includes: T-FLAC, 14.5) by. This beautiful brainy woman could spark a nuclear disaster he cannot stop―even with magic―and ignite a fiery passion he cannot resist. Books shelved as adair: The Mercenary by Cherry Adair, White Heat by Cherry Adair, Night Secrets by Cherry Adair, Night Fall by Cherry Adair. When paranormal operative Sebastian Tremayne heads to the Arctic Circle to keep an eye on red-hot physicist Michaela Giese, the polar ice cap isn't the only thing in danger of melting. Three masters of paranormal suspense set their sights on the brave bodyguards who put their lives on the line―and hearts in jeopardy―for the women they love. ![]() |