![]() ![]() Challenging the commonly held assumption that the “moral majority” backed Donald Trump for purely pragmatic reasons, Du Mez reveals that Donald Trump in fact represents the fulfillment, rather than the betrayal, of white evangelicals’ most deeply held values. ![]() How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate’s staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which delves beyond facile headlines to explain how white evangelicals have brought us to our fractured political moment. A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() They need to follow the thieves to Shanghai, they need to call some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to get it back. Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus's apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. They're living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet-as peaceful and quiet as they ever are, anyway. Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Print The Lost Book of the White (#2 The Eldest Curses)įrom #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it's also a romantic getaway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and two children. ![]() From history to the fantastical, we’ll explore new adventurous worlds together." Her book, Escape From Hurricane Katrina (Little Bee Book, July 2021) is a 2021 Junior Library Guild selection. “The best part about writing for young people is that I get to take them on journeys that will positively impact their lives forever. Her passion is to give Black children books where they see characters that look like them and know that they too can aspire to be great. Through her lens of an authentic and experienced voice, Judy’s purpose is to teach young children about Black History through the stories of unsung heroes. The winner of the 2016 SCBWI On-the-Verge Emerging Voices Award and a recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Grant, she’s a member of SCBWI, the regional co-ambassador for the Authors Guild, and a former member of the Coretta Scott King Archives and History Committee. Synopsis: When you look at life from the perspective of a honeybee, the backyard suddenly becomes a busy place. Overview Backyard Books: Are You a Bee by Judy Allen with illustrations by Tudor Humphries shows thatfrom the perspective of a honeybeethe backyard is a busy place. ![]() Judy Allen Dodson is a librarian, archivist, and children’s book author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through these pages, they find that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in their own lives. Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while Marris’s are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in their current moment. Many found in it a story about their own lives-a book to shed light on a global health crisis. ![]() Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought answers within the pages of Camus’s 1947 tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic. ![]() States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis.Īs one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Yes, I was a tad dramatic □… BUT THAT TWIST GUYS) Here’s my actual reaction from when I came across that twist… I’m not even mad though because the book was such a good read.Īnd that twist, talk about unexpected! I pride myself on being able to spot a twist/figure out most twists/figure out what’s going to happen a mile off (most of the time) but even I didn’t see that one coming - and it was HUGE. It was, whack! Right in the heart all over again. ![]() Just when I thought it would be smooth sailing from then on… Nope. This book should’ve been called The Heartbreak Hypothesis.Because man this book broke my heart! Over and over and over again. Will he be able to get past his heartbreak to give Audra what she wants? ![]() There’s only one problem… He’s Emily’s brother. Who better to take Audra’s photos than Jake then, right? Now, Audra wants to honour Emily’s gift by recreating Emily’s done-it list for herself.Įnter Jake - photographer extraordinaire and the the one who took photos of Emily’s original done-its. See, when Emily died her heart was transplanted into Audra’s. Audra Madison got a new lease of life thanks to EmilyĬavanaugh - literally. ![]() ![]() The words often flow around images, sometimes changing hue. ![]() For “On Tyranny” she pulls from a rich and surprising visual palette, including collage elements like historical photographs - many of which she hand-colors - and images such as wallpaper alongside her own drawings. Krug is an acclaimed creator in her own right her 2018 breakout, the graphic memoir “Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home,” uneasily examines her grandfather’s Nazi past (which she uncovered) and dodges nothing, facing whatever she can know. I sometimes sigh at all the graphic adaptations out there, many of which are unnecessary. Snyder refused to name Trump in its pages, referring instead to “a president.” Now he’s out with ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century: Graphic Edition (Ten Speed, $24), brilliantly illustrated by the German cartoonist Nora Krug, and updated to include allusions to Covid-19 (also unnamed). A small book, almost a pamphlet (that so-called impulse buy that often sits near the register), and anchored largely in lessons from the Holocaust and from Russian totalitarianism, it was a best seller, readable and galvanizing. His deep knowledge as a historian of modern Europe allowed him to identify links between fascism, past and present, and also to offer practical advice. Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century” appeared in 2017 during a time of postelection panic in the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, 75 years later, the SAS has finally decided to tell its astonishing story. So began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. Despite intense opposition, Winston Churchill personally gave Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he could find. From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SAS 'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony Beevor In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules: a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. ![]() ![]() I promise to lead our family with honor and integrity letting Jesus through his Holy Spirit guide us in everything we do and every decision we make. “So committed to spending my life getting to know every single part of you loving you patiently and kindLY. “Was gonna wait a while to say anything but word travels fast, listen plain and simple Hailey I am soooo in love with everything about you!” he wrote via Instagram at the time. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies One month later, the pop star confirmed that he and the model were engaged. The pair separated as Justin rekindled his on-off relationship with Selena Gomez in late 2017, but they found their way back to each other in June 2018 during a cozy vacation in Miami. ![]() “It’s really hard to fix wounds like that. ![]() “What if Hailey ends up being the girl I’m gonna marry, right? If I rush into anything, if I damage her, then it’s always gonna be damaged,” he told GQ in the magazine’s March 2016 cover story. Two years before tying the knot privately, the “One Less Lonely Girl” crooner predicted that he might have found The One. The couple tied the knot in September 2018 at a New York City courthouse and held a second, more traditional ceremony with friends and family in South Carolina a year later. ![]() Sorry, Beliebers - there’s only one girl Justin Bieber has eyes for! After facing plenty of ups and downs in their relationship, the heartthrob finally sealed the deal with Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin), and the pair have been going strong ever since. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What Makes Her Unique:īowen writes unconventional heroines – like, really unconventional. We haven’t read that one because 1) we are smut-lovers first and foremost and 2) we suspect that it differs dramatically from her other books. Please note: Bowen’s most recent book, The Paris Apartment, is a split-time World War II / present-day story that is firmly historical fiction, not romance. Regency romance, usually with some suspense elements. Looking for a new author to try out? Here’s everything you need to know about Kelly Bowen, whose books include I’ve Got My Duke to Keep Me Warm, Last Night with the Earl, and A Good Rogue is Hard to Find. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reilly, whom Walker Percy dubbed "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New Orleans with a wild cast of characters including Ignatius and his mother Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry and Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses, the novel serves as an outlandish but believable tribute to a city defined by its parade of eccentric denizens. This literary underdog and comic masterpiece has sold more than two million copies in over two dozen languages.Ī Confederacy of Dunces features one of the most memorable protagonists in American literature, Ignatius J. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during John Kennedy Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide, and it won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. After four decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. ![]() |