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book cover: Days Linked by Song

Prudentius is often considered the greatest Latin poet of late antiquity. In this volume, O'Daly looks at Prudentius' lyric poems, the Cathemerinon, Poems for the Day, which were published early in the fifth century AD. Reflecting the religious concerns of the increasingly Christianized western Roman Empire in the age of the emperor Theodosius and Ambrose of Milan, the Cathemerinon are above all the writings of a private person, and of the ways in which his religious beliefs colour his everyday life. They speak of bird-song and morning light, they are about about the taking of food, about lighting lamps as dark sets in, and about the night's sleep. Rich in biblical themes and narratives, images and symbols (including paradise and the Fall, Exodus, Jonah, Daniel, and the Magi), they also celebrate Christ's miracles and the feasts of Christmas and Epiphany. However, while they exploit the themes of the Bible, they are also written in the classical metres of Latin poetry and make use of its vocabulary and metaphors. They achieve a remarkable creative tension between the two worlds that determined Prudentius' culture: the beliefs and practices, sacred books, and doctrines of Christianity; and the traditions, poetry, and ideas of the Greeks and Romans. A good part of the attractiveness of these poems comes from the interplay between these two worlds. The volume includes the Latin texts, English translations, and critical essays on each of the twelve poems.

Gerard O'Daly
Foreign Language Study
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book cover: In the Stillness of Quiet Moments

Bestselling author Emilie Barnes inspires women to lead fulfilling and faith-filled lives. From a heart devoted to God, Emilie shapes devotions that give women a sanctuary to seek God, ask for His leading, and praise Him in all things. More than 100 select devotions from Emilie will lead women to the quiet, beautiful refuge of God's love as they explore how to: trust God's heart and purpose for them greet each day with gratitude and hope love and nurture their families center their dreams and decisions on God's Word walk with faith through trials and times of joy Busy women juggling many responsibilities, plans, and needs will be delighted to come across this simple, lovely path to the peace and nourishment of God's presence.

Emilie Barnes
Religion
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book cover: Brave New Girl

"I can make things happen - good things - I know it!" Seren is so full of brilliant ideas - it's just that she always seems to put her foot in it! First there was the dance routine where she fell off the stage. And now her plan to get her sister Sasha noticed by gorgeous Luke Beckford looks like it could backfire? Seren reckons she's just hopelessly accident-prone! But there's one person who believes in Seren. Her mate Keith is making a film for a national competition and he wants Seren to be in it. Could Seren turn out to be a star after all? This is a funny, big-hearted story with a lovable heroine who will make you laugh and cry.

Catherine Johnson
Family life
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book cover: The Viper

A chilling crime novel set on an idyllic and isolated island, by one of Sweden's most talented thriller writers Arvid Traneus, a ruthless business consultant for a major international company, returns home to Sweden after a lengthy assignment in Tokyo. Four days after Arvid's return, the maid discovers two dead bodies on the living room floor—a man and a woman. At first, police detective Fredrik Broman assumes the two bodies to be Arvid and his wife, but the male body is badly disfigured, and his identity is up for grabs. Set on the island of Gotland, this is a fabulous crime novel that explores the possible terrors lurking beneath small town life, where escaping one's past is impossible.

Hakan Östlundh
Fiction
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book cover: Christmas

Christmas helps children to find out more about this important Christian festival—from the birth of Jesus to different Christmas traditions. Readers are introduced to aspects of preparation, such as Advent calendars, cards and decorations, and the festival itself with family gatherings, church services, gifts, and carols.

Katie Dicker
Unknown
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book cover: And All Our Wounds Forgiven

The multilayered story of the brief, turbulent, charismatic life of John Calvin Marshall, the man who became a leader in the nascent civil rights movement of the 1960s, And All Our Wounds Forgiven "exudes a pungent sense of the tragedy of American life" (New York Newsday).

Julius Lester
Fiction
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book cover: When a Woman Overcomes Life's Hurts

Author Cindi McMenamin's bestseller When Women Walk Alone (more than 100,000 copies sold) confirms her gift for encouraging women who are journeying through difficult seasons. In her newest book, she offers help for women who are dealing with wounds from unresolved issues in their past. When a Woman Overcomes Life's Hurts explores the kinds of hurt women experience and offers gracious, biblical counsel on how and where to find healing. Cindi shares the faulty thinking that often accompanies life's wounds and replaces it with truths every woman needs to know about how God views her. She takes women from feeling insignificant to realizing how much the Lord loves them feeling undesirable to seeing their true beauty feeling they?re not good enough to recognizing how special they are This is a book filled with grace, redemption, and transformation?leading women toward a renewed focus on God, a resurgence of inner joy, and better relationships with others.

Cindi McMenamin
Medical
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book cover: The Power to Stop

The Power to Stop teaches stopping as a skill set to be learned rather than a disease to be cured or emotional disorder to be corrected. Four easy and practical skills are practiced and acquired through a systematic, 30-day, do-it-yourself training program. There's a skill for the mind, a skill for spirit, a skill for the heart, and a skill for the body. Each skill by itself is very powerful and produces a result, but the combination of all four skills into a disciplined, daily routine magnifies the intention to stop and creates a full-life expression of stopping. An ordinary unwanted behavior is used and exploited to accelerate spiritual growth, strengthen connection with God, and to experience a richer, deeper meaning in life. Love is the answer to every problem, including the problem of stopping. Feeling good about yourself makes a difference. Take the easy leap from wasting your life to saving it, and experience your own goodness.

Karen Bentley
Psychology
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book cover: Singing the Self

This book is a study of a Soviet cultural phenomenon of the 1950s through the 1980s known as guitar poetry—songs accompanied by guitar and considered poetry in much the same way as those of, for example, Bob Dylan. Platonov's is the most comprehensive book in English to date to analyze guitar poetry, which has rarely received scholarly attention outside of Russia. Going well beyond the conventional, text-centered view of guitar poetry as a form of po­litical or artistic dissent, largely a function of the Cold War climate in which it began, Platonov argues for a more complex understanding of guitar poetry as a means of self-invention and community formation. Although grounded in literary studies, the book effectively brings historical, anthropological, and musicological perspectives to bear on an understudied phenomenon of the post-Stalin period.

Rachel S. Platonov
History
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