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Lives of the Saints volume 3
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Vittorio Innocente, a young man, estranged from the tragedies of his Italian immigrant family, has spent his adult life denying his past. When his estranged father starts to stalk Vittorio's sister, Rita, with murderous intent, Vittorio is moved to return to his family and uncover the decades-old secrets that have torn his family apart.
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In the Inferno, Dante almost got it right...
Nine circles of Hell; each one worse than the last. For Gabe, all of Hell is level nine, where the real baddies endure subzero climates and have their nether-regions cradled in cryogenic underwear.
Gabe has carved out his own safe niche in this arctic afterlife with his successful black-market business. When Judas Iscariot makes him an offer he doesn't dare refuse, Gabe must leave behind his contraband...
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Charlie Dixon never had it easy. Growing up in a loveless home, she always yearned for love. She gave the saying "looking for love in all the wrong places" its meaning. Failed relationship after failed relationship lead Charlie to give up on love. That is, until someone special crashes into her life-literally. Charlie never expected to find love, but when she starts falling, her loyalties and mounting lies threaten to destroy her last chance. Will...
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Bruce B. Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor Emeritus of Religion at Duke University. His many books include Who Is Allah?; New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life; and Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (Princeton). He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English Koran
For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred...
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“The Twelve Caesars” is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings.
“The Twelve Caesars” is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary...
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Donald S. Lopez, Jr., is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. His many books include The Story of Buddhism (HarperOne) and Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. He has also edited a number of books by the Dalai Lama.
How an eccentric spiritualist from Trenton, New Jersey, helped create the most famous text of Tibetan Buddhism
The Tibetan Book of the...
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The Twelve Cæsars' is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Cæsar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius-at that time Hadrian's personal secretary-and is the largest among his surviving writings. 'The Twelve Cæsars' is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source on Roman...
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Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Calvin and The Swiss Reformation. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
An essential biography of the most important book of the Protestant Reformation
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin's native French...
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Martin Goodman is professor of Jewish studies at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Wolfson College. His many books include A History of Judaism (Princeton), Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, and The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies. He lives in Oxford, England.
An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrative
The Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which...
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David Gordon White is the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Yoga in Practice (Princeton) and Sinister Yogis.
The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the world
Consisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Carlos Eire is the T. L. Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. His many books include the bestselling memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction; Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650; and A Very Brief History of Eternity (Princeton). He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.
The life and many afterlives of one of the most...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" "Winner of the 2013 Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show" Richard J. Smith is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. His many books include Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I-Ching, or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China.
How the I Ching became one...
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Mark Larrimore directs the Religious Studies Program at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. He is the editor of The Problem of Evil: A Reader and the coeditor of The German Invention of Race.
The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical book
The Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most...
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Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).
How The Book of Common Prayer became one of the most influential works in the English language
While...
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“The Twelve Caesars” is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings.
“The Twelve Caesars” is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary...
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"Dash it, Miss Forrester, what are you doing up here?"
The Earl of Hartwick delights in scandalizing the ton with his behavior. But it's his turn to be scandalized when, on an escapade, he bumps into Miss Sarah Forrester-in the rain, at night, on a rooftop!
Sarah is hunting for a diamond, and the last thing she needs is the infuriating Hart distracting her. But he's looking for the jewel, too! They may be rivals, but the sparks between them are...
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The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings.
The Twelve Caesars is considered very significant in antiquity and remains a primary source...
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Joel S. Baden is professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School. He is the coauthor, with Candida R. Moss, of Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby and Reconceiving Infertility: Biblical Perspectives on Procreation and Childlessness (both Princeton). He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Twitter @JoelBaden
An essential biography of one of the Bible's most powerful and inspiring books
Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but...
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The Awesome Lives of Tommy Twicer is my account of a secret that my bampy told must never be told except in time of dire emergency. Now is the time. I grew up in South East Wales in Penmaen near Oakdale in the Sirhowy Valley. Oakdale is a model village and it holds the most incredible secret that was wiped from the memory of all but a selected few. I am the latest of those few but now the secret must be revealed to maintain the integrity of a secret...
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Donald S. Lopez, Jr. is the Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan. His many books include The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (with Robert E. Buswell, Jr.) and The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography (Princeton). He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A concise and accessible introduction to the classic Buddhist text
The Lotus Sutra is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist...
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