New Titles Tuesday, March 10

In the past week 134 titles were added to the Norma Marion Alloway Library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on the link for more information.

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Check out these new titles today!

The essential Blake /selected and with an introduction by Stanley Kunitz.
This title speaks to poet William Blake’s position on anticipating issues, conflicts, and anxieties of the modern world. In Blake’s works he teaches us that the imagination is a portion of the divine principle, that “Energy is Eternal Delight,” and that “everything that lives is Holy.” Human liberty and imagination have never been better served.

Fear: Trump in the White House /Bob Woodward.
This title reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.

Kierkegaard: a single life /Stephen Backhouse.
This new biography on Kierkegaard presents the genius as well as the acutely sensitive man and introduces his many guises, the thinker, the lover, the recluse, the writer, the controversialist.

Orthodoxy: the classic account of a remarkable Christian experience /G.K. Chesterton.
This title addresses our faith struggles and how we communicate our faith to others. Through philosophy, poetry, reason and humor Chesterton leads us on a literary journey toward truth.

Puritan profiles: 54 influential Puritans at the time when the Westminster Confession of Faith was written /William S. Barker.
This title examines noted Puritan during the seventeenth century England and what kind of Christian expression would be the Church of England eventually reflect.

The saints of Ireland: a chronological account of the lives and works of Ireland’s saints and missionaries at home and abroad /by Mary Ryan D’Arcy; foreword by Tomás Ó ́Fiaich.
This updated and third edition gives a chronological account of the lives of Ireland’s saints and missionaries.

The Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon: the double tragedy of refugees and impacted host communities /Robert G. Rabil.
This book examines the unfolding of the Syrian refugee crisis in relation to the spillover of the Syrian civil war in Lebanon and against the background of Lebanon-Syria relations and Lebanon’s socio-political, cultural, legal, and economic conditions.

Universe on a T-shirt: the quest for the theory of everything /Dan Falk.
This title tells the fascinating story of the search for the Holy Grail of physics. The author traces the quest from ancient Greece to the breakthroughs of Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein, to the excitement over string theory and today’s efforts to merge quantum theory with general relativity.