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  Into His Presence - Praying with...

  Tim Chester

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  Collection of Puritan prayers and meditations that will help personal and public prayer.This collection of eighty theologically rich and beautifully written prayers and meditations, adapted from Puritan prayers and prose, will enrich and deepen your prayer life.While retaining the dignity and beauty of the original language, Tim Chester has updated key words and phrases, making the book accessible to modern readers.Each prayer combines beautiful words with profound truths. Read during personal devotions or use to lead rich and deep corporate prayers to give weight and majesty to gathered times of worship.Includes rich and glorious prayers from John Owen, Thomas Watson, Anne Bradstreet, Richard Baxter and more.

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  Hello Hello

  Karen Hines

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  In the vast, unnamed metropolis of Hello … Hello, art and commerce have finally and completely conjoined; stylish cafés serve up zebra mussels and the air is thick with a gentle rain of sparrows plummeting down from the mirrored office towers. Everywhere, people are falling for an edgy new fashion accessory: a shiny ball filled with poison that hangs from a delicate chain.
     
  In this oddly peaceful world, Cassandra, a salesgirlat a clothing store called the Abyss, meets a charismatic ad man named Ben in the graveyard where she is mourning her lover, the last true artist on earth. They find themselves helplessly attracted to one another. Ben walks Cassandra home and invites her out to dinner, which leads to sex, marriage and a house in Semi-Residentia. Then comes baby. All one and a half inches of her.
     
  Hello … Hello, nominated for several Dora awards, including Best Play and Best Musical, is a tragic, comedic and curiously erotic attack on western society’s predilection for escapist consumerism and entertainment. If the boy-meets-girl musical is the shiny happy ball, then the content of the play, and its characters, are the poison held within.
     
  ‘[Hines is] one of the most original artists in the city.’
     
  – Toronto Life

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  Essay on Man An - Pope is one of...

  Alexander Pope

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  Alexander Pope was born on May 21st, 1688 in London into a Catholic family.   
  His education was affected by the recent Test Acts, upholding the status of the Church of England and banning Catholics from teaching.  In effect this meant his formal education was over by the age of 12 and Pope was to now immerse himself in classical literature and languages and to, in effect, educate himself.    
  From this age too he also suffered from numerous health problems including a type of tuberculosis (Pott’s disease) which resulted in a stunted, deformed body.  Only to grow to a height of 4’ 6”, with a severe hunchback and complicated further by respiratory difficulties, high fevers, inflamed eyes and abdominal pain all of which served to further isolate him, initially, from society.  
  However his talent was evident to all. Best known for his satirical verse, his translations of Homer and the use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare.  
  With the publication of Pastorals in 1709 followed by An Essay on Criticism (1711) and his most famous work The Rape of the Lock (1712; revised and enlarged in 1714) Pope became not only famous but wealthy.  
  His translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey further enhanced both reputation and purse.  His engagement to produce an opulent new edition of Shakespeare met with a mixed reception.  Pope attempted to "regularise" Shakespeare's metre and rewrote some of his verse and cut 1500 lines, that Pope considered to be beneath the Bard’s standard, to mere footnotes.  
  Alexander Pope died on May 30th, 1744 at his villa at Twickenham (where he created his famous grotto and gardens) and was buried in the nave of the nearby Church of England Church of St Mary the Virgin.   
  Over the years and centuries since his death Pope’s work has been in and out of favour but with this distance he is now truly recognised as one of England’s greatest poets.

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  What The Deep Water Knows - Poems

  Miranda Cowley Heller

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  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond. 
   
  "Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world." —Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress 
   
  If I could fly backward, I would. To the safety of branches, to the time when my heart still raced for you, twelve hundred beats a minute. 
   
  In poetry that is at once bold and lyrical, affecting and devastatingly frank, Miranda Cowley Heller takes us through childhood, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. Suffused with the natural world and the landscape of Cape Cod, where many of the poems are set, What the Deep Water Knows contemplates love in all the seasons.

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  Paradise Lost

  John Milton

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  "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
  
  In the wake of a failed cosmic rebellion, the fallen archangel Satan awakens on a burning lake of fire. Undefeated in spirit, he rallies his legions of demons to build the palace of Pandemonium and plots a subtle revenge against the Almighty. His target? God's newest and most beloved creation: Humanity. Milton's masterpiece takes us from the depths of Tartarus to the heights of the Empyrean, and finally to the lush, innocent borders of the Garden of Eden. Here, we witness the tragic temptation of Adam and Eve, a choice that changes the course of human history forever.
  
  The Greatest Antagonist in Literature: Milton's Satan is a character of terrifying complexity. He is a charismatic leader, a tormented intellectual, and a "tragic hero" whose pride leads to his inevitable ruin. His journey from a shining angel to a crawling serpent is one of the most powerful character arcs ever written, influencing centuries of "Byronic heroes" and anti-heroes.
  
  The Beauty of the Fall: While Satan's rebellion provides the spectacle, the emotional heart of the poem lies in Book IX, where Adam and Eve face the serpent. Milton portrays their relationship with profound psychological depth, exploring themes of free will, reason, and the heavy burden of knowledge. The final lines of the poem, as the pair walks hand-in-hand out of Eden into a "subject world," are among the most moving in all of literature.
  
  The Power of Blank Verse: Discarding the "bondage of rhyming," Milton used unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse) to create a sense of vast, architectural scale. The language is dense, musical, and filled with classical allusions, creating a reading experience that feels truly "epic."
  
  Step into the cosmic theater. Purchase "Paradise Lost" today and witness the struggle for the soul of the world.

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  No Thoroughfare

  Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens

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  Walter Wilding has lived his life secure in the knowledge that he was the son of his mother. But a chance encounter shocks him to his deathbed, leaving his friend and Executor George Vendale charged with the finding of the real Walter Wilding. Meanwhile, George pitches woo to Margerite Obenreizer, but has to deal with her dastardly guardian and uncle. The story twists and turns from the wine cellars of England, to Soho and then to the Alps of Switzerland, where George discovers that Mr Obenreizer is right about one thing to the last... "So little is the world, that one cannot keep away from persons." Originally written as a stage play by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, it was later turned into a collaborative novel by the two.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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