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"The second in the delightful Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings--when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, fielding questions from both irate housekeepers and heartbroken mothers is par for the course... "Dear Miss Hermione--what is a mother to do?" Sensible Violet Manville and her very ladylike half-sister Sephora are absolutely bored, thank you very much. And though neither of them would ever admit it aloud,...
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Get the Summary of Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Christina Sharpe's "Ordinary Notes" delves into the complexities of Black life, memory, and resistance. She draws parallels between historical and contemporary forms of racism, from the forced labor and rape in a Georgia prison labor camp in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" to the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg, where memorials...
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José María de Pereda es uno de los grandes novelistas españoles de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Manuel Marañón fue no solo su amigo «más querido», sino también su alter ego según nos dice en una carta del 5 de febrero de 1895. Este intenso epistolario, que se daba por perdido, se compone de más de 260 cartas que Pereda escribió a Marañón y que fueron conservadas por la familia del destinatario en el archivo de la Fundación Cigarral...
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Metonymy Press
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[2019]
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First edition.
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188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"The playful and poignant novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) sifts through a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. A queer love letter steeped in desire, grief, and delight, the story is interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island. The experimental form functions at once as a manual for how pop culture can help soothe and mend us and as an exploration of...
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Two young writers who grew up in the shadow of the huge chimneys of a copper refinery in Rouyn-Noranda speak out. They refuse to be lulled by the songs of gold that have silenced the people who built the city and enriched the foundry owners for decades. They subtly and poetically illustrate the love-hate relationship they maintain with the arsenic and "piles of slag and copper." This passionate dialogue in French hit Quebec bookstores like a tornado...
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Federico García Lorca, un joven estudiante de la Universidad de Granada, recorre con su maestro y compañeros diversos rincones de la geografía española. Sus impresiones y experiencias de aquel viaje dieron pie a un libro mágico y primerizo en el que podemos encontrar las claves de lo que sería su obra posterior.
"Impresiones y paisajes" regresa a las librerías en el centenario de su publicación con ilustraciones de Alfonso Zapico y la documentación...
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The Oyo Empire is a high-interest novella of magic realism. The fairytale of this mythical Oyo Empire is told by the mononymous gimlet-eyed Ijapa, the endomorph, the folk hero and the fabled protagonist of antiquity of Yoruba folktales. Versed in folk etymology and folk memory, he lets us know that he belongs to the midgets, the small gimlet-eyed fairies with magic carpets and supernatural/magic powers who founded the mythical Oyo Empire about 25,...
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In the world, we are living now and for the followers of Jesus, there is nothing more flickering than their faith.Persecution, trials, and pressures arise as a result of our faith in Jesus Christ.Faith in God and His kingdom are under constant threat by the evil of this world that wants us to believe that we are in a playground instead of in a battleground.If you are a Christian, you are in a fierce war. You're in a life-and-death battle for your...
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How did the Apostle Paul view the Church? And where does Israel fit in? How are the promises to Israel fulfilled? In Heirs of Promise, P. Chase Sears discusses this relationship between the Church and Israel, and he explains how that affects our understanding of the Old Testament. Using a biblical-theological approach to the book of Romans, Sears argues that Paul understood the church not as a replacement of Israel, but as the new Israel--the continuation...
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This is the sixth edition of the classic textbook that has been introducing Paul and his writing to seminary and undergraduate students for over forty years. Roetzel provides a comprehensive look at Paul in light of recent scholarship and theological understandings of Paul. This new edition includes four brand-new sections on the following: the chronology of Paul's letters; Paul's ...
11) The Earthly Tent
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Our mind and our body are the two main elements used by the evil forces that dominate our world to control humankind.Mind and body are our two most important shelters we go to hide and protect ourselves against the challenges we face everyday in this dark world.But instead of finding peace of mind and health for our bodies in this world, our minds are contaminated on a daily basis by an aggressive and relentless promotion of false and evil immoral...
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The book of Ephesians is a letter written by the apostle Paul to the church in Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It is believed to have been written during Paul's imprisonment in Rome around AD 60-62.The letter is addressed to both Jewish and Gentile believers in Ephesus and emphasizes the unity of the Church, which is the body of Christ. Paul also emphasizes the spiritual blessings that believers have in Christ, such as redemption,...
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This book breaks a significant impasse in much Pauline interpretation today, pushing beyond both "Lutheran" and "New" perspectives on Paul to a noncontractual, "apocalyptic" reading of many of the apostle's most famous - and most troublesome - texts.
In The Deliverance of God Douglas Campbell holds that the intrusion of an alien, essentially modern, and theologically unhealthy theoretical construct into the interpretation of Paul has produced an...
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The book of Hebrews is a rich and complex work of Christian scripture, emphasizing the superiority of Jesus Christ as the ultimate fulfillment of the Jewish faith. It offers a theological exploration of key concepts such as faith, redemption, sacrifice, and the role of Christ as both priest and sacrifice. The author urges his audience to persevere in their faith despite persecution and the temptation to revert back to Judaism. The book also contains...
15) On Love
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You are living in a fatherless world. But God is re-fathering the world! We are in a sense born fatherless, whether we have earthly fathers or not. This is a result of the terrible thing called sin and death. Earthly fathers, even in their best efforts, cannot entirely give children the fathering they need, because they are never fully connected to the heavenly Father in this life. But we first need to discover our fatherlessness before we can be...
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First Timothy Overview.What the book of first Timothy deals withThe book of First Timothy is a letter written by the apostle Paul to his young protégé, Timothy. It is part of the New Testament in the Bible and is one of the pastoral epistles.First Timothy deals with various issues that were arising in the early Christian church, including false teachings, church leadership, and practical instructions for Christian living.Paul instructs Timothy on...
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A lively collection of Einstein's groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics. Imagine getting four of the greatest minds of modern physics in a room together to explain and debate the theories and innovations of their day. This is the fascinating experience of reading Letters on Wave Mechanics, the correspondence between H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein. These remarkable letters illuminate not only...
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An intimate look into the kitchens and lives of two celebrated American food legends and friends Renowned culinary master James Beard and his dear friend, chef Helen Evans Brown, shared both a love of food and a keen insight into the changing palate of American diners. In this twelve-year, bicoastal epistolary exchange of three hundred letters, Beard and Brown offer not only tidbits of indispensible culinary guidance but also two fascinating perspectives...
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