From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative new book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit, know-how, and analysis[...]
When Medicine River was published in 1990, the New York Times said of Thomas King, "He knows his territory. His first novel is economical, precise, and elegant." Now King returns with his totally fresh voice - carefully controlled, yet without artifice - to present a complex web of character, myth, [...]
På den idylliska ön Vinalhaven spolas en man upp på land utan minne och identitet. Hans närvaro i det lilla samhället utlöser en rad oförklarliga händelser som flätar samman åtskilliga människoöden.
Främlingen binder samman två vitt skilda världar och är omedveten om att han p[...]
On the busy Island of Sodor, Thomas, the blue train, works the day schedule while Percy, the green train, works the night shift in order to keep things moving around the clock.[...]
Now thoroughly updated in its eighth edition, Modern Latin America is a lively interpretive history and the leading text in the field. Featuring vivid, anecdotal illustrative boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the major countries and themes of the region over the past 200 years. For each c[...]
For all those who are called to discern what God's will is in very concrete terms.
Fr. Green returns to the "dry well" to explore the dryness and help readers discover how to live gracefully while "drinking from a dry well of prayer."[...]
Focusing on the directee's spiritual needs, this book inspires as well as informs. The Friend of the Bridegroom is for anyone seeking a deeper relationship with God-the beginner on the spiritual journey and the seasoned spiritual director alike.[...]
The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! Meet Henry, the number 3 engine on The Fat Controller's railway. Read about his jobs, his adventures and his friends! My First Railway Library is a great way to pass on the tradition of Thomas. With bright colourful pages and rhyming text, children[...]
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augusta Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, [...]
This is a book that uncomplicates prayer for both the beginner and the experienced prayer. "Opening to God" is a unique combination of fundamentals, fully grounded in the tradition of the Christian mystics, plus a wealth of "today" insights into what is really involved in laying the foundations of a[...]
"When the Well Runs Dry" builds on Green's classic and bestselling primer on prayer "Opening to God". It encourages readers to re-examine their perspectives on prayer and argues that prayer has less to do with what readers do or know and more to do with what God does in them. "With kind humor and ea[...]
In this work, Thomas Green presents a brief and accessible guide to prayer. Green reminds readers that prayer life is, above all, a relationship with God and a deepening of our experience of God.[...]
This first part of Colin Tyler's new critical assessment of the social and political thought of T.H. Green (1836-1882) explores the grounding that Green gives to liberal socialism. Tyler shows how, for Green, ultimately, personal self-realisation and freedom stem from the innate human drive to const[...]