It has been said that, as human beings, we are hardwired to believe that objects speak to us. Lucas Steiner, Luke to his friends, is a PhD candidate at one of the larger universities. On his last term extension and running out of time to complete his dissertation, Luke comes to believe that a five-hundred-year-old unknown, and undocumented drawing is talking to him. He is surprised that no one else can hear it. He believes that this drawing is the work of Pieter Brueghel, The Elder. In his effort to prove the existence, establish the provenance, and ...

Life is not easy when you look one way on the outside and feel another way on the inside. But that’s just the sort of life Porkington Hamm has, after getting a dose of Doctor Morty’s experimental stem cell serum. Thinking, feeling, and (mostly) looking human, he deals with discrimination, dysphoria, and social anxiety, and must come to terms with his origin. With help from his best friend Tom, Porkington explores the city, makes friends, and develops his culinary talents. He can often be found at the library, the outdoor market, and his favorite ...

Agnes of Harcourt is an important though little-known 13th-century author. Born into a leading Norman noble family, she became an abbess at the new royal Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, founded just outside of Paris by Isabelle of France, sister of Louis IX. In the 1280s Agnes wrote a substantial biography of Isabelle of France, as well as a brief letter detailing Louis IX's involvement with the abbey. These texts were based on Agnes' first-hand observations and contained many lively stories about their royal subjects of St Louis and on the lives of some of ...

Cardinal Yves Congar is universally known and respected as the great ecclesiologist of Vatican II whose seminal ideas helped to reconfigure the landscape of Catholic theology following the council. Less well known is his role in contributing far-reaching insights to the emerging liturgical movement in the church. This collection represents several of Congar's decisive contributions. Reading them makes possible a deeper and more cogent reception of the key ideas of the council documents. These texts are at once both erudite and exciting, both essential ...

In this contemporary drama, an aspiring artist and an ex-seminarian meet after the death of his sister, a psychotherapist. Family complications gradually emerge as the couple falls in love.

Wales, 1198. A time of treachery, passion, and uncertainty. King Maelgwyn ap Cadwallon, known as Noble, struggles to protect his small kingdom from foes outside and inside his borders. Pressured into a marriage of political convenience, he takes as his bride the young, headstrong Isabel Mortimer, niece of his powerful English nemesis. Through strength of character, Isabel wins her husband's grudging respect, but finds the Welsh court backward and barbaric, and is soon engaged in a battle of wills against Gwirion, the king's oldest, oddest, and most trusted ...

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Does Time Heal All Wounds? Every day of widowhood is a struggle for Carrie Weathers. She continues the work her husband began, reporting on strange phenomena. When she discovers the unexpected in a person from their past, she dares to hope that the strange man claiming to be a time traveler can end her grief.

The Bride of Rougemont, The Cross and the Medal, and Ode on the Death of Major Welsford is a collection of three works by Henry J. Verlander, originally published in 1866. The first piece, The Bride of Rougemont, is a romantic novel set in the French countryside. It follows the story of a young woman named Claire who falls in love with a mysterious man named Henri, only to discover that he is hiding a dark secret. The second work, The Cross and the Medal, is a historical novel set during the Crusades. It tells the story of a knight named Sir Raymond who must ...