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Last Things
Exploring such themes as the significance of dying and the afterlife, apocalyptic time, and the eschatological imagination, each essay in the volume enriches our understanding of the eschatological awarenesses of the European Middle Ages.
A very persistent monkey trying to climb a monkey-puzzle tree. That is, if they do.' All I knew of monkey-puzzles was the sight of them in front of houses more prosperous than ours, in the streets where I was born.
With eloquence and compassion, Jenny Offill weaves a luminous story of a wounded family and of a young girl yearning to understand the difference between fiction, fact, and hope.
Fans of Holly Black and Victoria Schwab will be mesmerized by this gorgeous, magnetic novel. High school senior Anders Thorson is unusually gifted. His band, Last Things, is legendary in their northern Minnesota hometown.
The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot’s heart stop briefly during an operation. During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams.
Last Things is one of the most amazingly poignant and honest memoirs - graphic or otherwise -- I've ever encountered. This book - which I read in one insatiable sitting -- tore my heart in two.
A chilling novel of the supernatural takes readers to the small dying East Texas town of Gilmer, where Luther Hazlitt is building traps to capture the Holy Spirit. By the author of Ordinary Horror. Reprint.
To eight-year-old Grace Davitt, the world is full of strange wonders.
Exploring such themes as the significance of dying and the afterlife, apocalyptic time, and the eschatological imagination, each essay in the volume enriches our understanding of the eschatological awarenesses of the European Middle Ages.