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’A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change
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From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.
In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All banned…
A devotional keepsake that focuses on Pope Francis s love for the Virgin Mary. ?This beautifully illustrated book highlights one of the main aspects of Pope Francis s spirituality: his veneration of the Virgin Mary. A valuable source of inspiration, this book includes a collection of quotes from his speeches, prayers,…
Key Words of Pope Francis is a collection of over 50 essays by an impressive set of insightful contributors from around the globe, each writing on a specific word that has become important in the ministry of Pope Francis.
Writers such as Fr Timothy Radcliffe, Archbishop Justin Welby, Sr Simone Campbell, Cardinal Blase…
The Francis Effect explores how a church once known as a towering force for social justice became known for a narrow agenda most closely aligned with one political party, and then looks at the opportunities for change in the “age of Francis.” Pope Francis has become an unlikely global star whose image has graced the…
Kategorier: Aspekter av religion Filosofi och religion Kristendom Kristet liv och praxis Personligt religiöst vittnesbörd och uppbyggelselitteratur Religion och tro
Only a little over a year into his papacy, Pope Francis is being hailed by the news media, Christians and non-Christians alike as a refreshing figure in the Vatican. His humility, piousness and forward-thinking ideas have been celebrated around the world.
REFLECTIONS FROM POPE FRANCIS features brief excerpts for…
This book stands with respect on the shoulders of four centuries of Francis Bacon’s biographers, referencing historical and cipher inquiries about his noble person and transcendent body of work, but pushing further to ask: Did his vision for the ages, the Great Instauration, die with him?
The premise of the fine,…
’A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change
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From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.
In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All banned…
Kategorier: Skönlitteratur
Anna, an Italian immigrant living in Portland, Oregon, was shunned from her hometown of Assisi at age 16. She vowed she would never return to the family who cast her away, but one day while browsing a bookstore, a guide to the Camino of St. Francis falls from a shelf and knocks her on the head. Reluctantly, she answers…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Årsböcker, kalendrar och almanackor Filosofi och religion Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Referensverk Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Religion och tro Uppslagsverk och referensverk
Silentium utger nu sin första bok på engelska! Andaktsboken ”Custodians of Wonder – Daily Pope Francis”, med dagliga texter för ett år av påve Franciskus.
Bokens förord är skrivet av biskop Erik Varden.
This compact volume of day-by-day spiritual reading invites us to encounter Christ in an embrace…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Biografier: filosofi och samhällsvetenskap
Dave Patrick’s 2009 collection, The View, focused on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 1859) and his 150th birthday in the context of his Spiritualism and his position as progenitor of the New Age. Contributors to THE VIEW BEYOND extend a similar treatment to Sir Francis Bacon (b. 22 January 1561) and see a similar…
Something about St. Francis is universally appealing. His humility, his simplicity, his faith, all of these touch what is most human and most holy about life. That is why this figure of St. Francis is so popular among carvers and collectors alike.
Helen Gibson has been carving this figure for years, and now shares her…
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. In seven extraordinary written pictures, untethered from reality, Max Porter translates the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.
A bold and brilliant short work by the author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny. Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist’s mind.
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
A deluxe hardback edition of A.A. Milne's true children's classic with E. H. Shepard's witty and loving illustrations reproduced in colour.
'Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders'
Winnie-the-Pooh may…
Kategorier: Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier: action och äventyr Tecknade romaner och tecknade serier: genrer Tecknade romaner, serier och skämtteckningar
Kapten Francis Blake, chef för det brittiska kontraspionaget, leder utredningen om en misstänkt mullvad inom underrättelsetjänsten MI5, då den chockerande sanningen avslöjas: allt pekar på att det är Blake själv som spionerar för främmande makt! Misstankarna tycks bekräftade då Blake med våld lyckas göra sig fri från…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Familjen Wallin är som tagen ur en reklamannons. Pappa är fotomodell, mamma plastikkirurg, lillebror John ska bli läkare och Jim, storebrorsan, har också börjat modella. Men framför allt drömmer Jim om att bli skådis. Han ska bli en ny James Dean, fast snyggare.
Men familjeidyllen kraschar. Bokstavligt. Mitt i detta…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
“Livet är ett mysterium” publicerades första gången i Books & Dreams, vinter 2013
Med över 450 miljoner sålda böcker är han en av världens mest produktiva författare. Även i verklig- heten är han en historieberättare utöver det vanliga. Häng med på en heldag hemma hos den 68-årige thrillerkungen Dean Koontz, som…
Som 20-åring rymde Leonora Carrington från England tillsammans med den 26 år äldre surrealistkonstnären Max Ernst. Deras lika tumultartade som inspirerande liv på den franska landsbygden ligger till grund för de två självbiografiska berättelserna i I underjorden.
I kortromanen ”Lille Francis” berättar Carrington i…
On Heaven and Earth is an open and expansive dialogue between Pope Francis, then Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and Abraham Skorka, a Rabbi and biophysicist, in which they share their thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world faces in the 21st Century.
For years Cardinal Bergoglio (then Archbishop of Buenos…
Kategorier: Filosofi och religion Katolicism, romersk-katolska kyrkan Kristendom Kristna riktningar Religion och tro
How did we come to revere this thirteenth-century Italian merchant’s son as a saint? This penetrating meditation provides what may be the best answer yet, by gently but sure-handedly cutting through every pious legend to discover what is timeless and universally true about Saint Francis.
A gripping and heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws’ loyal servant, Nelly Dean. Young Nelly Dean has been Hindley’s closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely at the great house, Wuthering Heights. But when the benevolence of…