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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, AND OPRAH DAILY
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view • From the…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Sjöfartshistoria
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii,…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
För elva år sedan försvann Audrey James pappa spårlöst. Nu har Audrey och hennes mamma flyttat för att börja om, men mysteriet om pappans försvinnande hänger kvar. När Audrey hittar en dold dagbok fylld med sin pappas anteckningar från hans expeditioner som arkeolog, bestämmer hon sig för att följa ledtrådarna som för…
En översättning till svenska av den välkända, trovärdiga och sanningsenliga King James bibeln. En bibel som tydligt tillkännager evangeliet om Guds fria gratis nåd och barmhärtighet i Herren Jesus Kristus. En bibel som tydligt tillkännager Kristi fullbordade ställföreträdande frälsningsverk – då Han lade ner sitt…
“Absolutely charming… a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page.” – Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Test
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which animals, plants, forests and sea life interact with the atmosphere, land and sea to maintain a habitable ecosystem. At least until humans came along. But as well as being a scientist, in his long…
Do you long for a more powerful prayer life? Do you grow discouraged when your prayers don’t seem to change anything or allow you to hear God’s voice?
In this video-based Bible study workshop (DVD/digital video sold separately), Anne Graham Lotz presents a biblical approach to prayer that will help…
Kategorier: Aspekter av religion Biblar Filosofi och religion Forntidens historia Historia Historia och arkeologi Kristendom Kristet liv och praxis Kristna heliga texter Kritik och exeges av heliga texter Religion och tro Religion: allmänt Religionshistoria Religiös undervisning Religiöst liv och praxis
An ideal gift for anyone getting married, this classic white Bible, in an attractive new slipcase, comes with silver page edges, a marker ribbon, and a presentation page to dedicate your gift personally.
The King James Bible is the UK’s most popular translation. With the beauty and poetry of traditional English, it is…
In many corners of the world these days the climate of hostility hangs over any overt Christian faith commitment. Any kind of Christian commitment is now assumed to imply intolerance and often prompts reactions that range from a low-grade hostility and exclusion in the West to the vicious and murderous assaults on…
Kategorier: Comfort food and food nostalgia Livsstil, hobby och fritid Mat och dryck Matlagning och kokböcker Matlagning: länder och regioner
Get out of the grilling rut and discover a big, colorful, and fantastically flavored world of new possibilities.
Is there any kind of cooking that gets more stuck in a repetitive routine than grilling? If you’ve ever wanted to elevate your grilling beyond the endless parade of burgers, hot dogs, and steaks,…
James Allen effectively launched the self-help movement in 1902 with the publication of As a Man Thinketh, outlining his belief in the transformative power of thought, the basis for such works as Rev. Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking and Rhonda Byrne’s hit book and movie, The Secret.
AS…
Kategorier: Aspekter av religion Biblar Filosofi och religion Forntidens historia Historia Historia och arkeologi Kristendom Kristet liv och praxis Kristna heliga texter Kritik och exeges av heliga texter Religion och tro Religion: allmänt Religionshistoria Religiös undervisning Religiöst liv och praxis
Kategorier: Konst
Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall’s lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Durer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the ON series celebrates writers and thinkers who have…
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
From the ”literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime
When the enslaved Jim…
James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. From the shadows of Huck Finn’s mischievous spirit, Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that…
Kategorier: Konst
”As a politically thinking person, I am not a morally thinking person.”
While German painting of the postwar period essentially concerned itself with coming to terms with the past and presenting it in gestures ranging from the heroic to the ironic, Daniel Richter focuses on positioning himself in the…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: fantasy och magisk realism
”Bigger and bigger grew the peach, bigger and bigger and BIGGER.”
James Henry Trotter is about to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
James lives his awful Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, two of the meanest people you can imagine.
Life isn’t much fun at all, until something peculiar happens at the bottom…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: sportberättelser
There’s more than one way to find your voice . . .
Lenny Brown is eight years old and can’t talk. Except to his mum and his dog, Rocky.
When Lenny has to move house and start at a new school, it feels like his whole life is changing, and not for the better. Will he be able to make friends and find a way to…
A concise survey of the pioneering work of London-based Ghanaian photographer James Barnor.
With a practice spanning six decades and two continents, ranging from street to studio and fashion to documentary, Ghanaian photographer James Barnor (b.1929) is now recognised as a pivotal figure in the history of photography.…
Secret Legacy Of Jesus: The Judaic Teachings That Passed From James The Just To The Founding Fathers
Kategorier: Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
With the success of Paul’s desire to impose his vision for the Church, the true teachings of Jesus – as preserved by his family and disciples – were forced into hiding. This clandestine movement was seen in such early groups as the Nazarenes, Ebionites and Elkesaites but is generally thought to have…
Every once in a while, restaurant patrons are offered a simple menu choice: “Would you like that with white or brown rice?” And all too often, the brown rice that appears on the plate, while healthy, is far from a culinary treat. But brown rice can be as tempting as it is beneficial. To prove the point, best-selling…
Craig Sams’ collection of recipes features brown rice in delicious macrobiotic dishes, including soups, salads, main courses, and desserts.The authors offer tasty recipes for sauces as well as other informationand advice for making this nutritious grain a delectable part of your diet.
Macrobiotic cooking is now…
’Warm, funny, and bursting with heart’ Rebecca Serle
’Beautiful, moving, hopeful’ Emily Stone
Greta James is adrift. Literally.
Just after the sudden death of her mother – her most devoted fan – and weeks before the launch of her high-stakes second album, Greta James falls apart on…
Right after the sudden death of her mother-her first and most devoted fan-and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy-the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted;…
’Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book’s a gift’ Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout ’An ode to girlhood’ Raven Leilani, author of Luster
A fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young women of colour in…
Kategorier: Feelgood och Chick lit Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
Varmhjärtad amerikansk feelgood på en kryssning genom Alaska!
Greta James är en av USA:s mest omtyckta stjärnskott på musikscenen – men när hennes mamma plötsligt dör tappar hon skaparlusten. Dessutom faller hon ihop på scenen en kväll, och när hennes hälsa blir ett viralt samtalsämne svävar karriären i…
Kategorier: Konst
JAMES A. BAKER, III by Johan Falkman at the National Museum of American Diplomacy är ett praktverk om konstnär Johan Falkmans porträttbyst av USA:s legendariske utrikesminister James Baker.
Verket donerades av affärsmannen Dan Olofsson och hans fru Christin och avtäcktes av USA:s nuvarande utrikesminister, Antony…
Brown Baby is a powerful exploration of fatherhood, grief, racism and hope. It is also a love letter to the author’s daughters that is as heartbreakingly tender as it is funny and relatable.
Tingen är del av vårt vardagliga liv, men vi tänker sällan på det faktum att de också har en spretig historia som går bortanför de betydelser och funktioner som vi tilldelar dem. I Sakernas sammanhang undersöker Ellen Frödin tre litterära texter från 1900-talets början som alla ger särskilt utrymme åt ting och deras…
Kategorier: Konst
The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his…
A collection of traditional eighteenth and nineteenth century weaving drafts, written sequences of the threading order on the loom used to create specific patterns. They are presented here in their original form as gathered by Frances L. Goodrich and illustrated in over 160 color photos. This volume also contains over…
Kategorier: Biografiska romaner Modern och samtida skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur Skönlitteratur i översättning Skönlitteratur: allmänt Skönlitteratur: specialutgåvor
»Jag vill tacka alla som gör sig mödan att begrunda denna ödmjuka människas stora liv.« Ljudmila Ulitskaja
Daniel Stein föddes i en judisk familj i en polsk shtetl 1922 och avled som katolsk munk i Haifa i Israel 1995. Däremellan var han ofrivillig krigsförbrytare, krigshjälte, själasörjare och brobyggare mellan…
Over 250 photos and eloquent text reveal the majesty of Virginia’s James River. Explore the river from its humble beginnings on private property to the point where it meets one of the nation’s busiest seaports. See Class V rapids in the heart of Richmond as nowhere else in America. The text includes a final…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
’How is it that we have been so conditioned to privilege the emotional comfort of white people?’
White tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon, but they have long been used as a dangerous and insidious tool against people of colour, weaponised in order to invoke sympathy and…