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Humble Pie

St. Benedict's Ladder of Humility

By: Carol Bonomo

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Humble Pie

St. Benedict's Ladder of Humility

By: Carol Bonomo

Take a quick look around – politicians, entertainers, sports figures, and even our own circles of family and friends: Humble pie is not on the menu. It’s a me-first society that turns pride into a virtue and humility into a vice. But Christians – especially those who follow the Rule of St. Benedict – are encouraged to embrace humility as a virtue that leads them closer to Christ. And in this upside-down Benedictine world, we reach humility not by descending to the depths but by climbing, joyfully, to the top of a ladder. In this honest, funny, touching book, Carol Bonomo, a Benedictine oblate – a person vowed to live according to the fourth-century Rule – reconciles the conflict between the world’s call and Benedict’s more gentle admonition as she examines the twelve rungs on Benedict’s ladder against the backdrop of the liturgical year. From the first rung, obedience, during Advent, to the twelfth, constancy, during the feast of All Saints, Bonomo studies what it means for a contemporary Christian to climb the ladder of humility that leads to perfect, fearless love. Bonomo, with a light hand and a sense of humor, takes readers along on her down-to-earth spiritual adventure.

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253

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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ISBN 10

0819227870

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9780819227874

Purebred & Homegrown

America's County Fairs

By: Drake Hokanson,Carol Kratz

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Purebred & Homegrown

America's County Fairs

By: Drake Hokanson,Carol Kratz

Illustrated throughout with stunning color photographs, Purebred and Homegrown is an affectionate and thoughtful look at the history of county fairs, and their tradition and persistence today, despite the diminished number of Americans who earn their living from agriculture.

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212

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Terrace Books

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ISBN 10

0299228207

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9780299228200

Oilcloth Stories

By: Carol Dean Henn

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Oilcloth Stories

By: Carol Dean Henn

When immigrants from Central Europe arrived in America in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they often came to cities like Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - cities bursting with the new energies and opportunities of industrialization, and with the challenges of assimilating dozens of cultures into what had been pastoral communities only a few decades before. For most immigrants, industrial working conditions were harsh and brutal, and living conditions were not much better. But the immigrants - Windish, Hungarians, Slovaks, and others - stayed and made lives for themselves ... lives that reached from nineteenth-century famine in Europe and the horrors of World War I to man's landing on the moon and the dawn of the computer age. It is in the stories of individual lives that this immigrant journey can be glimpsed - in everyday stories, universally human stories - stories told around a table covered in oilcloth.

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251

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FriesenPress

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ISBN 10

1460240936

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9781460240939

Kristeva in America

Re-Imagining the Exceptional

By: Carol Mastrangelo Bové

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Kristeva in America

Re-Imagining the Exceptional

By: Carol Mastrangelo Bové

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva’s work on American literary and film studies. Chapters consider this influence via such innovative approaches as Hortense Spillers’s and Jack Halberstam’s to Paule Marshall’s fiction and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, respectively. The book also considers how critics in the United States receive Kristeva’s work on French feminism, semiotics, and psychoanalytic writing in complex, controversial ways, especially on the question of marginalized populations. Examples include Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo on Orson Welles’s The Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil as well as Frances Restuccia on David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Carol Mastrangelo Bové also examines Kristeva’s take on the US in her essays and fiction, which provide a vital part of the dialogue with American critics. Like them, Bové incorporates Kristeva’s thought in her own creative readings of little-known authors and directors including Christiane Rochefort, Nancy Savoca, and Frank Lentricchia.

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126

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Springer Nature

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ISBN 10

3030599124

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9783030599126

Power & Purity

Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy

By: Carol Lansing

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Power & Purity

Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy

By: Carol Lansing

Catharism was a popular medieval heresy based on the belief that the creation of humankind was a disaster in which angelic spirits were trapped in matter by the devil. Their only goal was to escape the body through purification. Cathars denied any value to material life, including the human body, baptism, and the Eucharist, even marriage and childbirth. What could explain the long popularity of such a bleak faith in the towns of southern France and Italy? Power and Purity explores the place of cathar heresy in the life of the medieval Italian town of Orvieto. Based on extensive archival research, it details the social makeup of the Cathar community and argues that the heresy was central to the social and political changes of the 13th century. The late 13th-century repression of Catharism by a local inquisition was part of a larger redefinition of civic and ecclesiastical authority. Author Carol Lansing shows that the faith attracted not an alienated older nobility but artisans, merchants, popular political leaders, and indeed circles of women in Orvieto as well as Florence and Bologna. Cathar beliefs were not so much a pessimistic anomaly as a part of a larger climate of religious doubt. The teachings on the body and the practice of Cathar holy persons addressed questions of sexual difference and the structure of authority that were key elements of medieval Italian life. The pure lives of the Cathar holy people, both male and female, demonstrated a human capacity for self-restraint that served as a powerful social model in towns torn by violent conflict. This study addresses current debates about the rise of persecution, and argues for a climate of popular toleration. Power and Purity will appeal to historians of society and politics as well as religion and gender studies.

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278

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Oxford University Press

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0195362470

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9780195362473

My Soul To Keep

Tools for Staying in a Changing Church

By: Carol Bonomo

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My Soul To Keep

Tools for Staying in a Changing Church

By: Carol Bonomo

Using rich Catholic traditions, her monastic affiliation as a Benedictine oblate, and her personal experiences as wife, convert, and recovering alcoholic, Bonomo reveals tools that help build personal constancy amid change and crises.

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168

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0826416403

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9780826416407

My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community

By: Carol Bonomo Albright

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My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community

By: Carol Bonomo Albright

Since the 1920s, Greenwich Village has captured the imagination of people everywhere. It became the home of artists and writers like Jackson Pollack and Willa Cather. While the bohemian aspect of the Village has often been written about, less well known is that the area around Washington Square was home to Italian-American immigrants and their descendants. This memoir is the story not only of one of those descendants, Carol Bonomo Albright, but also the story of a neighborhood, its food stores and its famous peopleaartist Ralph Fasanella, Deputy Mayor John Zucotti, and Carmine DeSapio, leader of Tammany Hall in the 1940s and a50s, as well as such trend setters as composer John Cage, all of whom the author knew.

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200

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Publishamerica Incorporated

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1608360377

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9781608360376

American Woman, Italian Style

Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women

By: Carol Bonomo Albright

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American Woman, Italian Style

Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women

By: Carol Bonomo Albright

With writings that span more than thirty-five years, American Woman, Italian Style is a rich collection of essays that fleshes out the realities of today's Italian American women and explores the myriad ways they continue to add to the American experience. The status of modern Italian-American women in the United States is noteworthy: their quiet and continued growth into respected positions in the professional worlds of law and medicine surpasses the success achieved in that of the general population--so too does their educational attainment and income. Contributions include Donna Gabaccia on the oral-to-written history of cookbooks, Carol Helstosky on the Tradition of Invention, an interview with Sandra Gilbert, Paul Levitt's look at Lucy Mancini as a metaphor for the modern world, William Egelman's survey of women's work patterns, and Edvige Giunta on the importance of a selfconscious understanding of memory. There are explorations of Jewish-Italian intermarriages and interpretations of entrepreneurship in Milwaukee. Readers will find challenges to common assumptions and stereotypes, departures from normal samplings, and springboards to further research. American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women offers unique insights into issues of gender and ethnicity and is a voice for the less heard and less seen side of the Italian-American experience from immigrant times to the present. Instead of seeking consensus or ideological orthodoxy, this collection brings together writers with a wide range of backgrounds, outlooks, ideas, and experiences. It is an impressive postmodern collection for interdisciplinary studies: a book and a look about being and becoming an American.

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384

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0823290840

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9780823290840

Carol K. Brown

Pedestrian

By: Carol K. Brown,Douglas F. Maxwell

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Carol K. Brown

Pedestrian

By: Carol K. Brown,Douglas F. Maxwell

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0978675045

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Mallory

A Mysterious Profile

By: Carol O'Connell

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Mallory

A Mysterious Profile

By: Carol O'Connell

The New York Times–bestselling author discusses her crime-solving hacker heroine, “surely one of the genre’s oddest and most interesting creations” (Chicago Tribune). When the NYPD detective and sociopath known simply as Mallory made her series debut, John Sandford called her “one of the most interesting new characters to come along in years.” A homeless wild child who was taken in by a New York City cop and grew up to follow in his footsteps, she possesses a skill set—including a talent for computer hacking—that allows her to track down her prey like no one else. In this insightful essay, author Carol O’Connell shares fascinating insights about her origins, her psychology, and her strikingly different sense of right and wrong. “Mallory is not your usual plucky and generally wholesome mystery solver. Jane Marple would probably cross the street to avoid making eye contact with her.” —The Washington Post Book World “Mallory is a marvelous creation.” —Jonathan Kellerman, New York Times–bestselling author of the Alex Hunter novels

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Open Road Media

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1504074505

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9781504074506

Book's by Carol Bonomo

Humble Pie

Humble Pie

Purebred & Homegrown

Purebred & Homegrown

Oilcloth Stories

Oilcloth Stories

Kristeva in America

Kristeva in America

Power & Purity

Power & Purity

My Soul To Keep

My Soul To Keep

My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community

My Greenwich Village and the Italian American Community

American Woman, Italian Style

American Woman, Italian Style

Carol K. Brown

Carol K. Brown

Mallory

Mallory

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