A box set of James Baldwin's principal novels, featuring Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood. With lyrical precision and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. One of the first novels to openly explore the theme of homosexuality, it paved the way for generations of gay and lesbian novelists. And If Beale Street Could Talk is a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime --a profoundly moving novel about love in the face of injustice that is as socially resonant today as it was when it was first published. This stunningly designed slipcase with art by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney will make the perfect perennial gift and keepsake.
THE SOMETHING BORROWED BOXSET Books 1-3 by Louisa George The first three books in the popular laugh-out-loud series from bestselling author, Louisa George. Stories with humour and heart, following the lives of women living in the small town of Portobello in the big city of London. *Praise for Louisa George's Something Borrowed Series*: "Funny, moving and romantic..." "Made me smile, laugh out loud and get a little teary..." SOMETHING BORROWED (WINNER of the HOLT MEDALLION AWARD 2017) She's the jilted bridezilla who needs a date. He's the best man who needs a control-freak PA. Can they work together for the sake of their businesses? Or should they avoid each other for the sake of their sanity? Chloe Cassidy has fallen out of love with love. Which, for a wedding planner, is a highly inconvenient turn of events. When her longtime sweetheart jilts her at the altar for a honeymoon with her best friend Chloe's belief in happy-ever-after disappears along with her groom. But this attitude has her business suffering as much as she is. In a final attempt to save 'Something Borrowed', Chloe is forced to swallow her pride and work with the enemy--infuriatingly hot, best man, award-winning chef Vaughn. Vaughn's own attitude--he calls it spontaneous, his staff call him temperamental--has him in a spot of trouble. Chloe's soothing touch is just what his restaurant needs. But as they spend time together, they soon find the flames that ignite between them have nothing to do with their past, and everything to do with something new… romance. First in series, a laugh out loud, sexy romance featuring one sizzling chef, one spicy heroine and a whole lot of tasty trouble! SOMETHING ABOUT YOU Will they risk their friendship for a night of unbridled passion? The last thing widow and single mum Jenna is looking for is a hotshot ex-army type with backstory to mess up her already too busy life. She spends her days juggling the demands of her florist business and her four year old little miss and—if she's honest—still missing her one love of a lifetime. So when old friend Nick Welsh returns to Notting Hill she's not prepared for the heat and lust she feels for him. After surviving bombs and bombshells that have damaged his life Nick does not want to get embroiled in Jenna's chaotic one, but there's something about the spirited redhead with stunning blue eyes and a complete inability to sit still that makes him keep seeking her out, and a whole lot of chemistry he can't deny. Is he ready to trust again? And can he teach Jenna that everyone deserves a second chance at love? A fun story about family, second chances, old friends and new love. SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH MISTLETOE She's the Grinch who hates Christmas. He's determined to make this the best holiday season ever. What they need is a Christmas miracle. What they have is a match made in candy cane hell… But when Faith and Blake are forced to work together to make Christmas dreams come true for a local kindergarten, things start to heat up between them. A kiss under the mistletoe is only the start of the thaw… This Christmas, can Blake melt Faith's heart and show her that miracles can happen…?
Best of Humor: Collection of P. G. Wodehouse This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Mike : From the Wodehouse Collection, a Selection from the Early Works of P. G. Wodehouse Piccadilly Jim : P G Woodhouse's Famous Classic Novel all Time : Fiction, Humorous My Man Jeeves
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From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus -- the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction -- was a matter of intense concern. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. It is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the doctrine of the millennium. This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. It will interest historians of medieval science, theology, and education, Bede scholars and Anglo-Saxonists, liturgists, and Church historians. It will also serve as an accessible introduction to computus itself. Generations of medieval computists nourished their expertise in Bede's orderly presentation; modern scholars in quest of safe passage through this complex terrain can hope for no better guide.
Reading the World’s Stories is volume 5 in the Bridges to Understanding series of annotated international youth literature bibliographies sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. USBBY is the United States chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), a Switzerland-based nonprofit whose mission is bring books and children together. The series promotes sharing international children’s books as a way to facilitate intercultural understanding and meet new literary voices. This volume follows Children’s Books from Other Countries (1998), The World though Children’s Books (2002), Crossing Boundaries with Children’s Books (2006), and Bridges to Understanding: Envisioning the World through Children’s Books (2011) and acts as a companion book to the earlier titles. Centered around the theme of the importance of stories, the guide is a resource for discovering more recent global books that fit many reading tastes and educational needs for readers aged 0-18 years. Essays by storyteller Anne Pellowski, author Beverley Naidoo, and academic Marianne Martens offer a variety of perspectives on international youth literature. This latest installment in the series covers books published from 2010-2014 and includes English-language imports as well as translations of children’s and young adult literature first published outside of the United States. These books are supplemented by a smaller number of culturally appropriate books from the US to help fill in gaps from underrepresented countries. The organization of the guide is geographic by region and country. All of the more than 800 entries are recommended, and many of the books have won awards or achieved other recognition in their home countries. Forty children’s book experts wrote the annotations. The entries are indexed by author, translator, illustrator, title, and subject. Back matter also includes international book awards, important organizations and research collections, and a selected directory of publishers known for publishing books from other countries.
