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Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading (Cistercian Studies) by Duncan Robertson
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Duncan Robertson [Robertson, Duncan]

“Listen willingly to holy readings.” The knowledge of sacred reading provides those who cultivate it with keenness of perception, increases their understanding, shakes off sluggishness, does away with idleness, shapes ...
( Category: History of Books February 29,2020 )
Why Women Read Fiction by Helen Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-10-03 | Author:Helen Taylor

Killer Women and Cozy Crime As I’ve discussed in relation to romance and erotica, in recent years the issue of violence against women has become a major moral, political, and ...
( Category: History of Books February 20,2020 )
The Practices of Hope by Christopher Castiglia
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Castiglia

3 Humanism The Cant of Pessimism and Newton Arvin’s Queer Humanism We are in the habit of assuming that the most serious and profound apprehension of reality is the Sense ...
( Category: United States February 18,2020 )
Thistles and Thieves by Molly Macrae
epub |eng | 2019-10-27 | Author:Molly Macrae

Christine came by in her parents’ Vauxhall just before dawn the next morning. She knocked softly on the front door with the wolf’s head. Janet had found the knocker in ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling February 16,2020 )
Witcraft by Jonathan Rée
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Jonathan Rée

James had promised his father that he would compile an anthology of passages from his writings, ‘after the manner of the extracts from Carlyle, Ruskin, & co’ that were already ...
( Category: History of Books February 16,2020 )
Herman Melville: Among the Magazines by Graham Thompson
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Graham Thompson

4 The “Unbounded Treasures” of Magazine Paratexts Reading Melville’s magazine writing as pioneer readers once read it in the 1850s is no longer possible. Contemporary critics cannot recreate, for want ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Abigail Williams [Williams, Abigail]

Bowdlerizing Shakespeare Bell’s edition of Shakespeare had a wider reach and influence than any other contemporary edition of the dramatist. In offering an accessible, sanitised version of the plays, authorised ...
( Category: History of Books January 19,2020 )
Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: Prophecy, Exile and the Nation by Zeina Halabi
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-18 | Author:Zeina Halabi [Halabi, Zeina]

33. Khoury, ‘Risala ila Ralph Rizqallah’, p. 19. 34. Youssef Habshi al-Ashqar is one of the earliest and least recognised novelists who have written about the civil war. See al-Ashqar, ...
( Category: History of Books January 19,2020 )
Twenty-one Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Dicks

MARCH 7 2:45 PM Things I’m loving Chipotle burritos Kottke.org Lyle Lovett Pandora station My wife in a T-shirt and underwear Cold water from a metallic water bottle Carhartt socks ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling December 17,2019 )
My Bookstore by Richard Russo & Emily St. John Mandel & Ronald Rice
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Richard Russo & Emily St. John Mandel & Ronald Rice

LESLEY KAGEN is a mother of two, an actress, a former restaurateur, accomplished equestrienne, and award-winning New York Times best-selling author of Whistling in the Dark, Land of a Hundred ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling December 17,2019 )
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro by Christine Féret-Fleury
epub |eng | | Author:Christine Féret-Fleury

( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling November 20,2019 )
The Evolution of the Book by Frederick G. Kilgour
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-25 | Author:Frederick G. Kilgour

Publishing and the Book Trade When he took over Gutenberg’s assets Johann Fust also acquired Peter Schoeffer, a superb technician who had worked with Gutenberg. Together they created a business, ...
( Category: History of Books October 14,2019 )
Missing Person by Sarah Lotz
epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Sarah Lotz

There was a woman browsing through the poetry section, but as it was obvious she was only getting out of the rain, Shaun turned back to the monitor. The new ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling September 5,2019 )
The Know-It-All by A J Jacobs
epub |eng | | Author:A J Jacobs

N names JULIE AND I have been talking about names for our yet-to-be-conceived child. Julie’s both an unflagging optimist and a planner, so she figures we should get started now. ...
( Category: History of Books August 3,2019 )
The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:Jenny Colgan [Colgan, Jenny]

Chapter Thirty-three Zoe did it. She ordered as many books on Loch Ness as she could find in the catalogue and started taking them to the visitor centre. She didn’t ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling July 26,2019 )

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