A collection of poems for the Halloween season, designed to be read aloud on a dark Autumn into Winter night, when the moon shines bright, and the shades of orange glitter and glimmer through black shadows, into frosty light...
A ghost story set in the newly rebuilt Czech village of Lidice, telling the tale of a young girl, who uncovers the secret past of her dying grandmother, and is haunted by ghostly lights, tinkling bells, and a girl with black holes where her eyes should be.
A murder committed by a mythical creature from nightmare. A secret conspiracy. An organisation dedicated to protecting the fragile truce between those that walk by night and those that walk by day. A young boy and his gargoyle set off on the adventure of a lifetime to discover the truth. Accompanied by a cast of Golems, Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, Demons and magical beings. The truth is darker than you think....
A ghost story set in the newly rebuilt Czech village of Lidice, telling the tale of a young girl, who uncovers the secret past of her dying grandmother, and is haunted by ghostly lights, tinkling bells, and a girl with black holes where her eyes should be.
A murder committed by a mythical creature from nightmare. A secret conspiracy. An organisation dedicated to protecting the fragile truce between those that walk by night and those that walk by day. A young boy and his gargoyle set off on the adventure of a lifetime to discover the truth. Accompanied by a cast of Golems, Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, Demons and magical beings. The truth is darker than you think....
Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders and thinkers from a variety of religious and cultural traditions: Mohandas Gandhi, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm X, Paul Cowan, Rigoberta Menchu, Dan Wakefield, and Nelson Mandela. The book uses approaches from literary criticism, developmental psychology (influenced by Erik Erikson, James Fowler, and Carol Gilligan), and spirituality (influenced by John S. Donne, Emile Griffin, Walter Conn, and Bernard Lonergan). Each text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St. Augustine’s Confessions, but with a focus on distinctively modern and post-modern transformations of the self-writing genre. The twentieth-century context of religious alienation, social autonomy, identity crises and politics, and the search for social justice is examined in each text.
A collection of poems for the Halloween season, designed to be read aloud on a dark Autumn into Winter night, when the moon shines bright, and the shades of orange glitter and glimmer through black shadows, into frosty light...
National Bestseller He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. Babe Ruth was more than baseball’s original superstar. For eighty-five years, he has remained the sport’s reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century . . . more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? In The Big Bam, Leigh Montville, whose recent New York Times bestselling biography of Ted Williams garnered glowing reviews and offered an exceptionally intimate look at Williams’s life, brings his trademark touch to this groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the Babe. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in the history of organized sports. Based on newly discovered documents and interviews—including pages from Ruth’s personal scrapbooks —The Big Bam traces Ruth’s life from his bleak childhood in Baltimore to his brash entrance into professional baseball, from Boston to New York and into the record books as the world’s most explosive slugger and cultural luminary.
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