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Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450847

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At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.

Author : David F. Wells
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802824552

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In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.

Author : Alan Strathern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108477143

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This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.

Author : Michael Burleigh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0061741450

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In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French Revolution to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Earthly Powers is a uniquely powerful portrait of one of the great tensions of modern history—one that continues to be played out on the world stage today.

Author : David Anderson
Publisher : BWL Publishing Inc.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2018-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 022860124X

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A dark secret from the dying days of war-ravaged Nazi Germany re-emerges half-way around the world on a West Coast island and exerts a malevolent influence on its present day occupants. Thirty-something Terri Stark is living on isolated Arcadia Island while recovering from a failed marriage. But one day trouble comes to paradise. Someone is spying on her, and soon her beloved dog Ned goes missing. After a break-in, a mysterious person appears at her door and makes none too subtle threats. Terri has only one person to turn to: her estranged husband Jack, whose arrival escalates the situation. Soon they are separated again, Jack running for his life from relentless killers, Terri forced into a desperate treasure hunt, their survival dependent upon her success. A teenage defector from the enemy camp turns out to have vital information – and a hidden agenda of his own.

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Random House
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2002
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0099442590

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"Enderby, poet and social critic, comrade and Catholic, is endlessly hounded by women, but always emerges triumphant." --Publisher.

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 1996-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393285723

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Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.

Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393346757

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"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy…Honey for the Bears is a triumph." —Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393881156

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AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION An Instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain… With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?