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In a Dark Wood
In a Dark Wood
Joseph Luzzi
¥66.22
A story of love and grief. ‘I became a widower and a father on the same day’ says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love. On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante professor, found himself racing to hospital – his wife, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father. Adrift and grieving, Luzzi found himself sharing Dante’s dark wood with an intimacy that years of reading had never shown him: the words became a wise companion through the Inferno of his grief, his healing, and ultimately his rediscovered love.
The Girls Who Went to War:Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’
The Girls Who Went to War:Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women’
Duncan Barrett,Nuala Calvi
¥58.86
The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a population almost twice the size of ours from which to draw new waves of soldiers. Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn’t going to be enough. Eighteen-year-old Jessie Ward defied her mother to join the ATS, Margery Pott signed up for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and nanny Kathleen Skin the WRNS. They left quiet homes for the rigours of training, the camaraderie of the young women who worked together so closely and to face a war that would change their lives for ever. Overall, more than half a million women served in the armed forces during the Second World War. This book tells the story of just three of them – one from the Army, one from the Navy and one from the Air Force. But in their stories are reflected the lives of hundreds of thousands of others like them – ordinary girls who went to war, wearing their uniforms with pride.
The Dog with the Old Soul
The Dog with the Old Soul
Jennifer Basye Sander
¥51.50
Sometimes the most unlikely of friendships are the ones that save us. From the loyal dog who risks his own life to rescue a drowning boy to the lost kitten who comforts a grieving woman to an abandoned horse and foster child who come to rescue each other, these inspiring true stories highlight the hope, healing, happiness and – most of all – unconditional love animals bring to our lives. Whether you love sloppy dog kisses or melt at every meow, this heartwarming collection is one to treasure.
C. S. Lewis: A Biography
C. S. Lewis: A Biography
A. N. Wilson
¥82.01
This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the clever child from the ‘Little End Room’ of his Ulster childhood and adult life, exploring Lewis’s unwilling conversion to Christianity, the genesis of his writing, and the web of his relationships.
Branson
Branson
Tom Bower
¥80.25
The sensational critical biography of this phenomenal entrepreneur and his business practices – fully updated to cover Branson’s recent ventures. No British tycoon is more popular, few claim to be richer and none has masterminded a more recognisable brand than Richard Branson. What is behind the success of the buccaneering balloonist, the tabloids’ favourite celebrity nude, the ‘grinning jumper’ and the scourge of corporate goliaths? Helped by eyewitness accounts of more than 250 people with direct experience of Branson, Tom Bower has a uncovered a different tale to the one so eagerly promoted by Virgin’s publicists. Here is the full story of Branson: his businesses, his friendships, his ambition, his law-breaking, his drug-taking, his bullying. From the cockpit of a balloon in the clouds to the centre of Branson’s operations in his Holland Park home this book is an intimate scrutiny of exactly how Richard Branson created himself and sold himself. Tom Bower’s biography reveals Branson to be a single-minded profiteer who, while occasionally generous to others, has a fixed purpose to enhance his family’s wealth in secret off-shore trust funds. Instead of a glittering saint, Branson emerges as a devious actor, proud of plucking for his own profit the good ideas of others. From his quest to acquire the license for the National Lottery to his plans to launch space tourism with Virgin Galactic, this fully updated edition follows Branson’s enterprises and investments up to the recent, failed bid for Northern Rock.
Mauperin Renée
Mauperin Renée
Jules de Goncourt, Edmund de Goncourt
¥28.86
Mauperin Renée
A párizsi regény
A párizsi regény
Szomory Dezső
¥34.66
A párizsi regény
Aki a szerelmet kitalálta
Aki a szerelmet kitalálta
Guido da Verona
¥28.86
Aki a szerelmet kitalálta
Mr. Polly lázadása
Mr. Polly lázadása
H. G. Wells
¥28.86
Mr. Polly lázadása
India szigetvilága
India szigetvilága
John Hagenbeck
¥25.91
India szigetvilága
Hajsza a detektív után
Hajsza a detektív után
Arnould Galopin
¥28.86
Hajsza a detektív után
Minden út a kálváriára vezet
Minden út a kálváriára vezet
Jerome K. Jerome
¥28.86
Minden út a kálváriára vezet
A s?tétség országa
A s?tétség országa
Tolsztoj
¥26.08
A s?tétség országa
Szmoking és nagyestélyi
Szmoking és nagyestélyi
Ally Blake, Abby Green, Michelle Smart, Jennifer Hayward
¥46.03
Szmoking és nagyestélyi
Varázslatos gyémántok
Varázslatos gyémántok
Maya Blake
¥20.36
Varázslatos gyémántok
Barbadosi koktél
Barbadosi koktél
Jennifer Hayward
¥20.52
Barbadosi koktél
Megtalált álmok
Megtalált álmok
Susan Wiggs
¥87.74
Megtalált álmok
Szívhang 572–573.
Szívhang 572–573.
Tina Beckett, Amy Ruttan
¥40.79
Szívhang 572–573.
A legjobb recept, Fura fuvar, Tartós ?rizet
A legjobb recept, Fura fuvar, Tartós ?rizet
Kimberly Raye, Karen Toller Whittenburg, Crystal Greene
¥46.60
A legjobb recept, Fura fuvar, Tartós ?rizet
Családi album, A k?lcs?nbaba, Ikrek ideje
Családi album, A k?lcs?nbaba, Ikrek ideje
Christine Rimmer, Joan Elliott Pickart, Rita Herron
¥46.60
Családi album, A k?lcs?nbaba, Ikrek ideje
Scrappy Rough Draft: Use science to strategically motivate yourself & finish wri
Scrappy Rough Draft: Use science to strategically motivate yourself & finish wri
Donna Barker
¥0.01
The canonical Gospels stand very differently, as respects origin, character and reception, with the Gospels, Acts and Apocalpyses known as ‘Apocryphal.’ These apocryphal writings began to be produced (so far as known) in the second century, mostly in Ebionitic and Gnostic circles, and, with few exceptions, were repudiated and condemned by the Church. Only later, and in modified and expurgated forms, did their stories pass into the general Catholic tradition. The second century seems to have been a perfect hot-bed for the production of this class of writings. The heretical Gospel of the Egyptians is already quoted in 2 Clement (circa a.d. 140). Iren?us speaks of the sect of the Marcosians as adducing ‘an unspeakable number of apocryphal and spurious writings, which they themselves had forged, to bewilder the minds of the foolish,’ and instances the story, found in the Gospel of Thomas, of Jesus confounding the schoolmaster who sought to teach Him His letters (Adv. Haer. i. 20). Later tradition attributed the composition of many of the apocryphal writings (Pseudo-Matthew, Acts of Apostles) to a mythical Leucius, a disciple of the Apostles (cp. art. ‘Leucius,’ Dict. of Christ. Biog.). Eusebius gives a list of spurious and disputed books: ‘That we may have it in our power to know both these books (the canonical) and those that are adduced by the heretics under the name of the Apostles, such, viz., as compose the Gospels of Peter, of Thomas, and of Matthew, and certain others beside these, or such as contain the Acts of Andrew and John, and of the other Apostles, of which no one of those writers in the ecclesiastical succession has condescended to make any mention in his works; and, indeed, the character of the style itself is very different from that of the Apostles, and the sentiments, and the purport of those things that are advanced in them, deviating as far as possible from sound orthodoxy, evidently proves they are the fictions of heretical men; whence they are not only to be ranked among the spurious writings, but are to be rejected as altogether absurd and impious’ (H. E. iii. 25). Only a small part of this extensive literature remains to us, and in no case in its original form, but solely in later, and often much-altered recensions. CrossReach Publications