Here is a selection of titles recently to the collection
A touch of the poet /Eugene O’Neill. Set in the dining room of Melody’s Tavern, located in a village a few miles from Boston, it centers on ageing pub owner Major Cornelius (“Con”) Melody, a braggart, social climber, and victim of the American class system in 1828 Massachusetts.
A voice for the spirit bears: how one boy inspired millions to save a rare animal /Carmen Oliver ; [illustrated by] Katy Dockrill. This inspiring true story is based on the early life of Simon Jackson, who as a teenager founded the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition to save the spirit bears. The organization, which had started out as a small community of friends and classmates, eventually grew to include 60 million members in 85 countries.
Devotions from the pen of Jonathan Edwards /compiled by Ralph G. Turnbull and Don Kistler ; edited by Don Kistler. Here are 120 excerpts from this great preacher presented in a daily devotional format. Each devotional is based on a Scripture verse with down-to-earth, practical, and devotional insights.
Edwards on the Christian life: alive to the beauty of God /Dane C. Ortlund ; foreword by George M. Marsden. Ortlund invites us to explore the great eighteenth-century pastor’s central passion: God’s resplendent beauty. Clear and engaging, this accessible volume will inspire you to embrace Edwards’s magnificent vision of what it means to be a Christian: enjoying and reflecting of the beauty of God in all things.
Fahrenheit 451 /by Ray Bradbury. 
ahrenheit 451 presents an American society where books have been personified and outlawed and “firemen” burn any that are found.[5] The novel follows Guy Montag, a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.
Faithful women & their extraordinary God /Noël Piper. These are the stories of five ordinary women — Sarah Edwards, Lilias Trotter, Gladys Aylward, Esther Ahn Kim, and Helen Roseveare — who trusted in their extraordinary God as they were led to do great things. Piper holds up their lives and deeds as examples of what it means to be truly faithful. Learning about these women will challenge readers to make a difference for Christ in their families, in the church, and throughout the world.
Fallen founder: the life of Aaron Burr /Nancy Isenberg. Isenberg resurrects the Burr that time forgot: a loyal patriot, brilliant lawyer, and progressive Enlightenment intellectual who had the tremendous misfortune to make powerful enemies whose efforts ultimately dammed his legacy. Exposing the gritty reality of 18th-century America and its resemblance to our own time, Fallen Founder offers an often surprising view of Burr and his era.
How to become an accidental activist /Elizabeth MacLeod, Frieda Wishinsky, Jenn Playford. This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers is full of stories about inspiring activists who have accidentally changed the world. The activists profiled are a variety of ages and come from around the world.
In love with Christ: the narrative of Sarah Edwards. Edwards was the wife of America’s greatest theologian, Jonathan Edwards. Her narrative took place in the year 1742. In it, she chronicled the grace of God in opening the eyes of her heart to receive an uncommonly clear sight of almighty love made manifest in Christ crucified. As she beheld Him in His beauty, she was melted into His image and transformed into His likeness. Everything on earth seemed inconsequential, so long as she had Christ. These sights were what God used to free her from sin, wean her from the world, and grace her to surrender to His providence, as well as to enable her to overflow with love for the brethren, to be full of concern for the lost, to be committed to His glory above all things.
Jonathan Edwards /by Simonetta Carr ; with illustrations by Matt Abraxas. Carr traces the events of Edwards’s life from a young student interested in science to husband and father, pastor, leader of the Great Awakening, missionary, writer, and college president. Colorful illustrations, interesting facts, and a compelling story combine to introduce young readers to this important theologian and life in colonial America.
Jonathan Edwards and the ministry of the Word: a model of faith and thought /Douglas A. Sweeney. In this biography of the great preacher and teacher, Sweeney locates for us the core and key to Edwards’ enduring impact. Sweeney finds that Edwards’ profound and meticulous study of the Bible securely anchored his powerful preaching, his lively theological passions and his discerning pastoral work.
Jonathan Edwards on beauty /Owen Strachan and Douglas Sweeney. This volume explores Edwards’ meditation on the subject and lays out a Christian framework for understanding and experiencing the beauty God has planted in His world. Edwards found in the study of beauty the person of God. Where Edwards saw beautiful images and acts, he saw a representation, a small picture, of a reality too great to comprehend, a God too majestic to adequately adore. He sets in motion a path of glory that begins with the Lord, moves to creation, continues to the incarnation of Christ, moves to the church, and ascends to the glory of heaven, where the Holy Trinity dwells.
Jonathan Edwards on heaven & hell: the essential Edwards collection /Owen Strachan and Douglas Sweeney. We exhume Edwards’ scripturally fired material on the reality of the afterlife, the terror of hell, the glories of heaven, and the shape life must take in light of these realities.
Jonathan Edwards, pastor: religion and society in eighteenth century Northampton /Patricia J. Tracy. Concentrates on Edwards’s vocation as a pastor in a time of great social and cultural change, progressing from his grandfather Solomon Stoddard’s religious “harvests,” through the Great Awakening, to the Northampton congregation’s rejection of Edwards’s authority
Jonathan Edwards: a life well lived : insights and sketches from the life and pursuits of Jonathan Edwards /Allan G. Hedberg (TWU AUTHOR) and Rob Carey. Hedberg, a professional psychologists looks at Edwards, helping us think about his lifeand what can be learned about it todayfrom a mental health perspective. A cautious, humble hypothesis about his inner life and the lessons it affords for people seeking better health can lead to useful conversations that bring healing to the soul.
More stately mansions /by Eugene O’Neill ; shortened from the author’s partly revised script by Karl Ragnar Gierow and edited by Donald Gallup. Mansions was an incomplete rough draft written between 1936 and 1939 that O’Neill did not want posthumously finished or produced. A sequel to A Touch of the Poet, it picks up four years later in 1832 Massachusetts, with Simon Harford, now married to Sara Melody, finding himself the pawn in a battle between his wife and his mother to control him through love. Played out against the background of an industrial revolution, the struggle ultimately leads to tragedy and despair.
Nattiq and the land of statues: a story from the Arctic /Barbara Landry ; pictures by Martha Kyak. In this charming story that includes words in Inuktitut, a ringed seal returns to his Arctic home after a long journey south. He tells his friends of his adventures — including the discovery of strange, tall statues that sway in the autumn breeze and open their arms to nesting birds in the spring.
Outdated: find love that lasts when dating has changed /Jonathan JP Pokluda with Kevin McConaghy. A Christ-centered, biblical view on dating, helping you dispel dating and marriage myths, avoid dating pitfalls, and thrive in healthy relationships.
Selected operas & plays of Gertrude Stein. Edited and with an introd. by John Malcolm Brinnin. As a writer for the theatre, Gertrude Stein was just as far ahead, or “outside” of the concerns of her time as she was as a novelist, essayist or poet. The range of this representative selection is wide enough to include her first miniature plays and her last, possibly grand, opera.
Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609 /Bernard Beckerman. This work offers perspectives on the controversial subject of Shakespearean production at the Globe. The author examines the Globe’s repertory system, dramaturgy, stage, acting, and staging. His acute observation and sound logic, as well as his practical experience as a producer, make this volume a useful and comprehensive account of the productions at the globe.
Spider in a Tree: a novel /Susan Stinson. In his famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards’s young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards’ wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale.
The Cambridge companion to American Protestantism /edited by Jason E. Vickers, Jennifer Woodruff Tait. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of American Protestantism. It considers all its major streams-Anglican, Reformed, Lutheran, Anabaptist, Baptist, Stone-Campbell, Methodist, Holiness, and Pentecostal. Written from various disciplinary perspectives, including history, theology, liturgics, and religious studies, it explores the beliefs and practices around which American Protestant life has revolved. The volume also provides a chronological overview of the tradition’s entire history, addresses its prominent theological and sociological features, and explores its numerous intersections with American culture.
The Cambridge companion to biblical wisdom literature /edited by Katharine J. Dell; assistant editors, Suzanna R. Millar, Arthur Jan Keefer. This Companion serves as an essential guide to wisdom texts, a body of biblical literature with ancient origins that continue to have universal and timeless appeal. Reflecting new interpretive approaches, including virtue ethics and intertextuality, the volume includes essays by an international team of leading scholars. They engage with the texts, provide authoritative summaries of the state of the field, and open up to readers the exciting world of biblical wisdom.
The Cambridge companion to Caribbean music /edited by Nanette De Jong. This Companion introduces familiar and less familiar music practices from different nations, from reggae, calypso and salsa to tambú, méringue and soca. Its multidisciplinary, thematic approach reveals how the music was shaped by strategies of resistance and accommodation during the colonial past and how it has developed in the post-colonial present. The book encourages a comparative and syncretic approach to studying the Caribbean, one that acknowledges its patchwork of fragmented, dynamic, plural and fluid differences. It is an innovative resource for scholars and students of Caribbean musical culture, particularly those seeking a decolonising perspective on the subject.
The Cambridge companion to Christianity and the environment /Alexander Hampton, University of Toronto, Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge. This Cambridge Companion addresses the way that religions, and particularly Christianity have shaped our collective relationship with, and understanding of, the natural environment in an interdisciplinary manner. It brings together contributors from the disciplines of classics, English, environmental ethics, literary studies, history, the history and philosophy of science, philosophy, religious studies, and theology.
The Cambridge companion to Genesis /edited by Bill T. Arnold ; with the assistance of Brian T. Shockey. Besides addressing the beginnings of the cosmos, of humanity, and of human civilization, the book is also about the origins of God’s chosen people, the Israelites, who produced the traditions that came to be preserved in the Hebrew Bible, traditionally known as the Old Testament. As such, the Book of Genesis is one of the first steps one must take along the path to understanding the world religions we now know as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the variety of theologies and philosophical principles related to them.
The Cambridge companion to Jonathan Edwards /[edited by] Stephen J. Stein. This Cambridge Companion offers a general, comprehensive introduction to Jonathan Edwards and examines his life and works from various disciplinary perspectives including history, literature, theology, religious studies, and philosophy. The book consists of seventeen chapters written by leading religious scholars, historians and literary critics on Edwards’ life, work, and legacy. The Companion will be an invaluable aid to teachers and scholars and will be imminently accessible to those just encountering Edwards for the first time.
The Cambridge companion to K-pop /edited by Suk-Young Kim. The Cambridge Companion to K-Pop probes the complexities of K-pop as both a music industry and a transnational cultural scene. It investigates the meteoric ascent of K-pop against the backdrop of increasing global connectivity wherein a distinctive model of production and consumption is closely associated with creativity and futurity.
The Cambridge companion to Krautrock /edited by Uwe Schütte. Krautrock and its offshoots have had a tremendous impact on musical production and reception in Great Britain and the US since the 1970s. Genres such as indie, post-rock, EDM, and hip-hop have drawn heavily on Krautrock and have connected a music that initially disavowed its European American and African American origins with the lived experience of whites and blacks in the United States and Europe. At the same time, while reaching for an imagined cosmic community, Krautrock, not only by its name, stirs up essentialist notions of national identity and citizenship.
The Cambridge companion to serialism /edited by Martin Iddon. This Companion introduces and embraces serialism in music in all its dimensions and contradictions, from Schoenberg and Stravinsky to Stockhausen and Babbitt, and explores its variants and legacies in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
The Cambridge companion to seventeenth-century opera /edited by Jacqueline Waeber. A much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history – the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera’s Italian foundations to its growth through Europe and the Americas, the volume charts the changing landscape – on stage and beyond – which shaped the way opera was produced and received. With a range from opera’s sixteenth-century antecedents to the threshold of the eighteenth century, this path breaking book is broad enough to function as a comprehensive introduction, yet sufficiently detailed to offer valuable insights into most of early opera’s many facets.
The Cambridge companion to Winston Churchill /edited by Allen Packwood Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this Companion places Churchill’s life and legacy in a broader context. It highlights different aspects of his life and personality, examining his core beliefs, working practices, key relationships and the political issues and campaigns that he helped shape, and which in turn shaped him. Controversial subjects, such as area bombing, Ireland, India and Empire are addressed in full, to try and explain how Churchill has become such a deeply divisive figure. Through careful analysis, this book presents a full and rounded picture of Winston Churchill, providing much needed nuance and context to the debates about his life and legacy.
The essential Jonathan Edwards /Owen Strachan & Douglas A. Sweeney. A perfect introduction to Edwards’ life and thought. It explores Edwards day-to-day life, and his views on beauty, true Christianity, heaven and hell, and the good life. Strachan and Sweeney strike the perfect balance between necessary background information and giving Edwards’ own works room to speak.
The ghost collector /Allison Mills. Ghosts are everywhere in Shelly’s life. Recently passed people, pets, and a boy who lives in the local graveyard are all part of spirit world she and her grandmother are privy to. In the tradition of their Cree ancestors, Shelly and her grandmother help these lost souls transition to the next world by catching them in their hair. Rooted in a Cree worldview and inspired by the author’s great-grandmother’s stories, The Ghost Collector delves into questions of grief, loss, and the many ways people can linger after death.
The Great Awakening: spiritual revival in colonial America. Through the use of extensive source material, unique still images, and interviews with historical scholars, this documentary follows the Great Awakening’s progression and conveys the lasting and radical changes that took place. It educates about the past while presenting the need for a personal Awakening in hearts today. http://greatawakeningdocumentary.com/
The new Cambridge companion to Aquinas /edited by Eleonore Stump, Thomas Joseph White. An enormous amount of research on Aquinas’s thought has appeared. The time is right, then, for The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas with original papers for this volume
The new Cambridge companion to biblical interpretation /edited by Ian Boxall (Catholic University of America), Bradley C. Gregory (Catholic University of America) This Cambridge Companion offers an up-to-date and accessible guide to the fast-changing discipline of biblical studies. The volume reflects the diversity and globalized character of biblical interpretation in which neat boundaries between author-focused, text-focused, and reader-focused approaches are blurred. The significant space devoted to the reception of the Bible – in art, literature, liturgy, and religious practice – also blurs the distinction between professional and popular biblical interpretation. The volume provides an ideal introduction to the various ways that scholars are currently interpreting the Bible.
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panion to Christian doctrine /edited by Michael Allen, Reformed Theological Seminary, Florida. This Companion guides students and scholars through the key issues in the contemporary practice of Christian theology. Including twenty-one essays, specially commissioned from an international team of leading theologians, the volume outlines the central features of Christian doctrinal claims and examines leading methods and theological movements. Incorporating cutting-edge biblical and historical scholarship in theological argument, this Companion serves as an accessible and engaging introduction to the main themes of Christian doctrine. It will also guide theologians through a growing literature that is increasingly diverse and pluriform.
The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards and other works /edited by Marcus Luft. This insightful book includes the full texts of several inspiring spiritual works by Jonathan Edwards. This volume also contains a biography of Jonathan Edwards, extensive historical notes, unique, textual analyses of the words and phrases used in Jonathan Edwards’ Resolutions. Finally, to provide the most complete context for spiritual, philosophical, and moral study of the 18th century, this book alos includes Benjamin Franklin’s essay on his own 13 Virtues and portions of key works by Sir William Hamilton, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, and Dugald Stewart.
To the rising generation: addresses given to children and young adults /by Jonathan Edwards ; compiled and edited by Don Kistler. This compilation of sermons by Edwards contains fourteen sermons, nine of which have never been published. Also included is a list of Bible questions for the children of Northampton that Edwards expected his young people to know – some of which would prove difficult for today’s seminarians.
Ubu roi: drama in 5 acts /Translated from the French by Barbara Wright One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, of Jarry’s play Ubu Roi. The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire, developed from a schoolboy farce, which began with a four-letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed the established values of bourgeois society. Wright’s witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Two previously untranslated essays in which Jarry explains his theories of the drama have also been included.
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