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OBD Books Make Good Friends (March - May 2024) - YOUTH
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The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy. The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence.
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"Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas offers an extraordinary view of Merton's day-to-day life in a Trappist monastery, and serves as well as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation. Spanning the years 1946 to 1952, the book takes the sign of Jonas the prophet both as a symbol of resurrection and a reflection of Merton's feeling that he was traveling...
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From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France. An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.
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Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war and a statement of feminine purpose.
Annotated and introduced by feminist literary scholar Jane Marcus, this is an ideal edition for the college classroom and beyond.
In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research...