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Years of carefree backyard campouts come to a sudden halt when a terrifying creature confirms Dinby's childhood suspicion that monsters really do exist. No one believes that she and her best friend Anna are in grave danger. The strange thing appears out of thin air and relentlessly follows the fourteen year olds. They have no choice but to find out what it is up to. Backwoods locals, who do not fit well into society, secretly track them and ca...

Secret passion, secret hopes, secret dreams. This is Melissa's story - often hilarious, at times heartbreaking. This powerful and evocative novel contains a devastating twist that is totally unpredictable.

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Insightful account of the Iraq war, a city under seige and a fascinating portrait of the life of a foreign correspondent. Seierstad is the bestselling author of "The Bookseller Of Kabul".

Charlotte's Bridge tells the story of a girl's coming of age at the turn of the last century whose life is haunted by two images: One, the conjured, idyllic face of her mother who died giving birth to Charlotte, the other, the body, encased in a block of ice, of a man murdered by her father and half brothers. Against a backdrop in which constant changes produce coincidentally marvelous and frightening experiences, Charlotte Hutchison escapes t...

By the 1970s, Margaret Laurence and Gabrielle Roy had become two of the literary icons of Canada. Although both were natives of Manitoba, they never had met. In 1976 Laurence and Roy began a seven-year correspondence in English, when both were at the height of their powers as writers. In these lovely and intimate letters, two great Canadian writers discuss everything from their common prairie backgrounds to current politics and censorship.

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Written for a broadly ecumenical audience, 'Where Two or Three Are Gathered' explores what Harmon Smith calls the universe of discourse between the language of Christian worship and the language of morals. Following the customary order of the church's liturgy, Smith demostrates how worship is meant to engender personal and social holiness, and how, for example, prayer, the eucharist, and baptism are inextricably tied to our moral understanding...

In the twenty-first century, Jews and Christians are challenged to reconsider their theological assumptions by two inescapable truths: the moral tragedy of the holocaust demands that Christian thinkers acknowledge the violent effects of theologically delegitimizing Jews and Judaism, and the pervasive reality of cultural and religious pluralism calls both Christian and Jewish theologians to rethink the covenant in the presence of the Other. Two...

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903-1993), commonly known as the Rav, has stimulated and influenced the intellectual minds and touched the sensitive hearts of thousands of his students both in the United States and across the globe. With his death, a voi

This book addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and asks questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both ecological theology and deglobalization theory. The book looks at issues of globalization, interfaith ecological theology, ecofeminism, and deglobalization movements comparatively across different world religions and across geographical regions.

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It might seem obvious that time lies at the heart of archaeology, since archaeology is about the past. However, the issue of time is complicated and often problematic, and although we take it very much for granted, our understanding of time affects the way we do archaeology.This book is an introduction not just to the issues of chronology and dating, but time as a theoretical concept and how this is understood and employed in contemporary arch...

Living the Catholic Social Tradition combines four essays from leading scholars with eight concrete case studies based on community social justice projects across the country. This unique combination of theory and reflective practice provides univer

This revised and expanded second edition of English Words brings the study of words right up to date with coverage of text messaging and email and includes new material on psycholinguistics and word meaning.

This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. Provides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life Contains 27 essays on the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture, including art, science, religions, race, class, gender, collective memo...

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honoré de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French with an introduction by Marion Ayton Crawford in Penguin Classics. Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of...

Aus den Besprechungen: "Verglichen mit anderen Darstellungen ... unterscheidet sich das vorliegende Buch vor allem darin, daß mit verhältnismäßig wenig Seiten ein recht großes Gebiet erfaßt wird. Der Verfasser erreicht diese Konzentration durch eine vom Üblichen abweichende Stoffaufteilung und die Herleitung der Grundgesetze für Massenpunkte und starre Körper aus den allgemeinen Prinzipien für deformierbare Körper. Ferner werden ... hier berei...

Young scientist battles greedy corporate giants and criminal syndicates to save his genetic discovery and win the love of his life.