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The collected poems of F.R. Scott
By F. R Scott. 1981
Scott was a historian and lawyer, but foremost a poet. This collection, which was organized by Scott himself, shows both…
a reflective man and a public figure committed to human progress. Winner of the 1981 Governor General's Award for Poetry. 1981. Uniform title: PoemsThe Da Vinci code breaker: an easy-to-use fact checker
By James L Garlow. 2006
The collected works of Billy the Kid (Vintage International)
By Michael Ondaatje. 2009
William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," killed his first man when he was twelve, and by the time he was…
twenty-one he had slain nineteen more. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels and his own imagination, Ondaatje imagines Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880s New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. A synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth. Winner of the 1970 Governor General's Award for Poetry. 2009.The complete book of gardening
By Brian Leverett. 1994
Great gardens come down to careful planning. So this guide tells you how to create a superb garden from scratch,…
with your favourite flowers, vegetables and fruit, herbs, and effective landscaping. It lists popular species, gives techniques for sowing and maintaining, and controlling pests. 1994.The complete poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-pooh Collections)
By A. A Milne. 1998
Originally written to entertain the author's son, Christopher Robin, some of the verses are about the boy's stuffed animals. This…
volume contains both the first collection, "When we were very young," published in 1924, and the second, "Now we are six," published in 1927. Grades K-3. 1998.The circle maker: praying circles around your biggest dreams and greatest fears
By Mark Batterson. 2011
Pastor of the National Community Church on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., offers suggestions for using the ancient practice of…
prayer circles. Provides examples of what the ritual can achieve and asserts that "who you become is determined by how you pray." Bestseller. 2011.The Christian atheist: believing in God but living as if he doesn't exist
By Craig Groeschel. 2010
After over a decade of successful ministry, Groeschel had to make a painful self-admission: although he believed in God, he…
was leading his church like God didn't exist. Now the founding and senior pastor of the multi-campus, pace-setting LiveChurch.tv, Groeschel’s personal journey toward a more authentic God-honoring life is more relevant than ever. 2010.The Celtic year: a month-by-month celebration of Celtic Christian festivals and sites
By Shirley Toulson. 2002
The author takes us, month by month through the cycle of the four seasons of the Celtic year - Samhain,…
Imbolc, Beltane and Lammas. For each month she suggests a pilgrimage we can take to a particular holy site - a temporal pilrimage which we can also make of our own inner journey. 2002.The brief reincarnation of a girl
By Susan Goyette. 2015
In 2006, a four-year-old Massachusetts girl died from prolonged exposure to a cocktail of drugs that a psychiatrist had prescribed…
to treat ADHD and bipolar disorder; her parents were convicted of her murder. Goyette strives to confront the senselessness of this story, answering logic’s failure to encompass the complexity of mental illness, poverty and child neglect with a mythopoetic, sideways use of image and language. Goyette portrays the court proceedings’ usual suspects in unusual ways, evokes the ghost of the girl, personifies poverty as a belligerent bully and offers an unexpected emblem of love and hope in a bear. 2015.The Breakwater book of contemporary Newfoundland poetry
By Mark Callanan, James Langer. 2013
Gathering the strongest poetry published by Newfoundlanders since the death of E.J. Pratt in 1964, this groundbreaking anthology features selections…
from twelve of the province’s most impressive poets, including Al Pittman, Tom Dawe, Mary Dalton, John Steffler, Patrick Warner, and Ken Babstock. With over forty years of poetry on display, this collection celebrates the rousing and the rebirth of contemporary Newfoundland verse. 2013.The Catholic Church in the modern age (The modern scholar)
By Thomas F Madden. 2007
In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in…
flux and striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to - and weathered - a host of major world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and the World Wars that in large part defined the twentieth century. 2007.The chameleon couch: poems
By Yusef Komunyakaa. 2011
The case for Christ: a journalist's personal investigation of the evidence for Jesus
By Lee Strobel. 1998
Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, the author cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates who are recognized…
authorities in their own fields. He challenges them with questions like: How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event? It's a riveting quest for the truth about history's most compelling figure. 1998.The bones of cuttlefish: from Ossi di seppia
By Eugenio Montale, Antonio Mazza. 1983
The first book of Montale's poems is one of the greatest of modern poetry. Mazza has been translating Montale for…
some years, faithfully conveying his lyrics and expressing the musical, rhythmic, incantatory and lexical elements of the Italian language. 1983.The book of sacramental basics
By Tad W Guzie. 1981
This book is a fundamental work that explores the underlying meaning of Christian sacraments and how they function. The author…
offers a modern understanding of the sacraments - not as encounters that "give grace" but as opportunities for people already in God's grace to celebrate the fact. Includes violence. 1981.The Canterbury tales: Nine Tales And The General Prologue (Norton Critical Editions Ser.)
By Geoffrey Chaucer, Constance Hieatt, A Kent. 1964
During the annual pilgrimage to Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury, the pilgrims stop at the Tabard Inn, where a story-telling…
contest develops. Included are The wife of Bath's tale, The knight's tale, and The pardoner's tale. Originally written in the late 14th century. Textbook format. 1964. Uniform title: Canterbury tales.The book of miracles: the meaning of the miracle stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
By Kenneth L Woodward. 2000
Author of Making Saints and veteran Newsweek religion writer presents his view that miracles are best understood in the context…
of a story. Explains the relevance of marvellous deeds in the major world faiths; presents accounts of saints, sages, and revered masters in each of the great traditions. c2000.The call: discovering why you are here
By Oriah Mountain Dreamer. 2003
The book exhorts us to heed the voice inside us, calling us to discover and to live fully our true…
selves and our heart's desires - finding our own unique calling, not in the expectations of others and in the outside world, but deep within ourselves. 2003.Seul on est: [poésie] (Poesie Ser.)
By Serge Patrice Thibodeau. 2006
Trêve de solitude; dans ces poèmes, seul veut dire seulement, seul signifie unique. Écrite à partir d'un vers de Paul…
Valéry, cette poésie est un mélange audacieux de motifs tels que l'anecdote et le tableau de genre, le paysage et l'escamot (pop-up), où l'usage de la forme fixe délimite la façon d'être de ce poète qui signe là son douzième recueil. Gagnant du Prix du Gouverneur général catégorie poésie, 2007. 2006.Terre Québec suivi de L'afficheur hurle, de L'inavouable et de Autres poèmes: poésie
By Paul Chamberland. 1985