![]() ![]() They had both personal and professional reasons for this interest. What was it about "fairy stories" that led these two men to want to rehabilitate them for a modern audience-adults as well as children? ![]() ![]() You have said that if it hadn't been for the friendship between Tolkien and Lewis, the world would likely never have seen The Narnia Chronicles, The Lord of the Rings, and much else. Tolkien and Lewis shared the belief that through myth and legend-for centuries the mode many cultures had used to communicate their deepest truths-a taste of the Christian gospel's "True Myth" could be smuggled past the barriers and biases of secularized readers.Ĭhristian History managing editor Chris Armstrong reached Colin this week at his home in Leicester, England. Duriez tells the story of how these two brilliant authors met, discovered their common love for mythical tales, and pledged to bring such stories into the mainstream of public reading taste. Yet if two young professors had not met at an otherwise ordinary Oxford faculty meeting in 1926, those wondrous lands would still be unknown to us.īritish author Colin Duriez, who wrote the article "Tollers and Jack" in issue #78 of Christian History, explains why this is so in his forthcoming book Tolkien and C. Our world would be poorer without two other worlds: Narnia and Middle-earth. ![]()
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Part II explores Diversity in Autistic Characteristics and Demographics. ![]() Part I explores autistic interiority and neurology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And yes, this is a kissing book."-Ashley Poston, author of Heart of Iron "Full of inconceivable wit, daring adventure, and cunning political machinations.It's as if Sarah Henning looked into my soul that yearned for a book like The Princess Bride and said-as you wish. ![]() Sure to please anyone who grew up loving tales of princesses."-Emily Lloyd-Jones, author of The Bone Houses ![]() "An action-packed adventure with a fierce heroine that is sure to enthrall! Sarah Henning has created a fantasy narrative that weaves together love and betrayal, pirates and swordplay. There's something for everyone in this book."-Adrienne Young, New York Times bestselling author of The Sky in the Deep "Everything we love about YA fantasy, complete with first love, sweeping adventure, and a fierce heroine who holds her own. And nothing will stop her from saving her true love. But Amarande was raised to be a warrior, not a sacrifice. To force her hand, her beloved, the stableboy Luca, is kidnapped. When her father dies, Princess Amarande is given an ultimatum: marry the leader of a neighboring kingdom, or lose her crown-and possibly her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like her, they would die for something none of them had had a part in. Lycaon was devastated by the loss of his love, but worse than that was the haunting knowledge that soon his own sons would join their mother and die every bit as horrifically. In only twenty-four hours she went from a beautiful young woman to a crone, then nothing but scattered dust. It was a secret she kept until the day when she, like all the others of her Apollite kind, began to decay and die. Because of the actions of her forefathers against the Greek god Apollo more than two thousand years before her birth, her people had been damned to die brutally on their twenty-seventh birthday. Little did he know she bore the darkest of all curses. A woman whose very smile was his life's blood. ![]() Like so many before and after, he made the mistake of falling in love with the most beautiful woman in his kingdom. One who refused to yield before the wills of the Greek gods who commanded him. Long before recorded history there lived a bold king. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I really enjoyed the first book of this series, but Unhinged cranks the Wonderland experience up to 11. Get books 1 through 3 in the Splintered boxed set, available now! Read all the books in the New York Times bestselling Splintered series: Splintered (Book 1 ), Unhinged (Book 2 ), Ensnared (Book 3 ), and Untamed (The Companion Novel ). And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland-where she (partly) belongs.Ĭould she leave Jeb and her parents behind again, for the sake of a man she knows has manipulated her before? Will her mother and Jeb trust her to do what’s right? Readers will swoon over the satisfying return to Howard’s bold, sensual reimagining of Carroll’s classic. ![]() ![]() That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. ![]() Now all she has to do is graduate high school. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. 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In this follow up to the beautiful Kate Greenaway Medal-winning There Is a Tribe of Kids, Lane Smith's bright and fresh artwork combines with his sharp wit and enormously appealing characters to create a story full of playful chaos. A warm, funny picture book about a group of animals and their (not so) perfect day in the garden, from beloved author and illustrator Lane Smith. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ella believes miracles can happen in the unlikeliest places, and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied, and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. ![]() Then, Ella makes a dramatic discovery-she and Holden were best friends as children. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. In reality, he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal-on the inside, in a private world all his own. "Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. ![]() ![]() They were a generation refusing to live the robotic and unquestioning life that their parents had known.Īt this time, Paulo is a young, skinny Brazilian with a goatee and long, flowing hair who wants to become a writer. ![]() In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense could be found meditating, playing music and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. In Hippie, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order-authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced concentration of wealth and power.įollowing the "three days of peace and music" at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, NY, that would change the world forever, hippie paradises began to emerge all around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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