' If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love you have to find the courage to live it'. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend New Hampshire hits a foul ball & kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary & terrifying. ...

February AD 668 & Cashel is full of distinguished visitors. Under the old Irish custom Fidelma of Cashel & Eadulf of Seaxmund's Ham having been joined together for a year & a day are to be married. But on the eve of the ceremony the pious Abbot Ultan is found murdered in his chamber. Worse still
- one of the most distinguished guests the King of Connacht is seen fleeing from the scene & charged with the murder. He demands his right to appoint Fidelma in his defence. Fidelma soon discovers that Abbot Ultan is not the pious man he was thought to be -- indeed many of the guests have cause to hate him. It is a long weekend of suspicion fear & more death before Fidelma & Eadulf are able to reveal the truth behind Ultan's murder.
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A book of simple prayers & reflections that a grown up can say with a baby & know they are beginning to enact the promises they made at the infant's christening to help raise them in the Christian faith. The prayers have been chosen & presented to be age-appropriate & appealing to young children & adults alike. This book

Includes:: some of the favourite childhood prayers that older generations will remember as favourites to know by heart.

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This colourful yet classic collection provides a set of prayers for the morning & evening of every day of the week as well as prayers for festivals & seasons to use throughout the year. With a theme for each day the prayers provide a mini liturgy that can become part of the child's life. This very keepable collection

Includes:: both familiar favourites & new writing including some psalms & prayers taken from other famous Bible passages.

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Praying for England" reflects on the role of Christian priesthood in contemporary culture & comes up with some surprising & timely insights about its efficacy & importance. There are ritual & representative functions of the priest it argues which remain spiritually & socially vital even
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- in a society which ostensibly ignores the Church or appears so pluralistic as to lack any religious cohesion. The priestly role as mediator before God of societys deepest pains losses joys & irresolvable anxieties is here reimagined & brought freshly to life though moving narratives of pastoral encounter. Above all the priest is seen as one who goes on praying for England in decisive but often uncelebrated ways prayer being the chief measure & test of the priests representative role. This is a deceptively simple volume
- theologically accessible but often deeply moving & profound. In it a new vision is sketched of how Christian priesthood can go forward today with humility understated dignity & spiritual power. It will be of special interest to English churchpeople in an established setting but is written no less with an ecumenical & international readership in mind."


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The fun & easy way to learn pre-calculus Getting ready for calculus but still feel a bit confused? Have no fear. Pre-Calculus For Dummies is an un-intimidating hands-on guide that walks you through all the essential topics from absolute value & quadratic equations to logarithms & exponential functions to trig identities & matrix operations. With this guide's help you'll quickly & painlessly get a handle on all of the concepts
- not just the number crunching
- & understand how to perform all pre-calc tasks from graphing to tackling proofs. You'll also get a new appreciation for how these concepts are used in the real world & find out that getting a decent grade in pre-calc isn't as impossible as you thought. * Updated with fresh example equations & detailed explanations* Tracks to a typical pre-calculus class* Serves as an excellent supplement to classroom learning If the fun & easy way to learn pre-calc" seems like a contradiction get ready for a wealth of surprises in Pre-Calculus For Dummies!"

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Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films -- a time when censorship was lax & Hollywood made the most of it. Though more unbridled salacious subversive & just plain bizarre than what came afterwards the films of the period do indeed have the look of Hollywood cinema -- but the moral terrain is so off-kilter that they seem imported from a parallel universe. In a sense Doherty avers the films of pre-Code Hollywood are from another universe. They lay bare what Hollywood under the Production Code attempted to cover up & push offscreen: sexual liaisons unsanctified by the laws of God or man marriage ridiculed & redefined ethnic lines crossed & racial barriers ignored economic injustice exposed & political corruption assumed vice unpunished & virtue unrewarded -- in sum pretty much the raw stuff of American culture unvarnished & unveiled. No other book has yet sought to interpret the films & film-related meanings of the pre-Code era -- what defined the period why it ended & what its relationship was to the country as a whole during the darkest years of the Great Depression...and afterward. ...

The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood are widely known & loved but this book newly available in paperback presents a comprehensive survey of the intimate world of the Pre-Raphaelites drawings. Works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Holman Hunt & John Everett Millais are set beside those of their followers Edward Burne-Jones William Morris & Ford Madox Brown as well as lesser-known figures such as James Collinson & Frederick Sandys. Copiously illustrated with Pre-Raphaelite drawings from public & private collections around the UK the book features an illuminating text by the renowned art historian Colin Cruise offering a fresh & intimate perspective on this much-loved group of artists. Highly readable a fresh & intimate look at a compelling subject". (" Good Book Guide"). "A lasting contribution to the study of Pre-Raphaelite drawings". (" The Burlington Magazine"). " Packed with illustrations & an illuminating text". ("RA Magazine"). "A totally rewarding book in every way: it is a joy to look at & a delight to read". (" Artist")." ...

Few artistic movements capture classic notions of beauty as romantically as the Pre-Raphaelites
- a group of nineteenth-century
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters poets & critics founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais Dante Gabriel Rossetti & William Holman Hunt. Their arts romanticism attention to detail & jewel-like colours have ensured their eternal popularity. This beautifully illustrated reference book is packed with examples of work by the key proponent Millais & that of his contemporaries alongside illuminating information. Beginning with an overview of the movement it goes on to discuss the art in the context of society place influences & styles & techniques. It is an ideal gift for art lovers or those new. ...