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Author: Dudley Clendinen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780670018840 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 404
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A journalist chronicles the lives of the elderly residents of Canterbury Towers, an assisted living community, and their philosophies on old age, including the journalist's mother.
Author: Dudley Clendinen Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780670018840 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 404
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A journalist chronicles the lives of the elderly residents of Canterbury Towers, an assisted living community, and their philosophies on old age, including the journalist's mother.
Author: Jerry Ellis Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307417662 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 322
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More than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II’s knights. Before the Archbishop’s blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where they knelt to pray. They came seeking healing, penance, or a sign from God. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest, most enduring works of English literature, is a bigger-than-life drama based on the experience of the medieval pilgrim. Power, politics, friendship, betrayal, martyrdom, miracles, and stories all had a place on the sixty mile path from London to Canterbury, known as the Pilgrim’s Way. Walking to Canterbury is Jerry Ellis’s moving and fascinating account of his own modern pilgrimage along that famous path. Filled with incredible details about medieval life, Ellis’s tale strikingly juxtaposes the contemporary world he passes through on his long hike with the history that peeks out from behind an ancient stone wall or a church. Carrying everything he needs on his back, Ellis stops at pubs and taverns for food and shelter and trades tales with the truly captivating people he meets along the way, just as the pilgrims from the twelfth century would have done. Embarking on a journey that is spiritual and historical, Ellis reveals the wonders of an ancient trek through modern England toward the ultimate goal: enlightenment.
Author: Kim Wright Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501100807 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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In the vein of Jojo Moyes and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a warm and touching novel about a woman who embarks on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral after losing her mother, sharing life lessons—in the best Chaucer tradition—with eight other women along the way, from the author of the upcoming novel Last Ride to Graceland. Che Milan’s life is falling apart. Not only has her longtime lover abruptly dumped her, but her eccentric, demanding mother has recently died. When an urn of ashes arrives, along with a note reminding Che of a half-forgotten promise to take her mother to Canterbury, Che finds herself reluctantly undertaking a pilgrimage. Within days she joins a group of women who are walking the sixty miles from London to the shrine of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, reputed to be the site of miracles. In the best Chaucer tradition, the women swap stories as they walk, each vying to see who can best describe true love. Che, who is a perfectionist and workaholic, loses her cell phone at the first stop and is forced to slow down and really notice the world around her, perhaps for the first time in years. Through her adventures along the trail, Che finds herself opening up to new possibilities in life and discovers that the miracles of Canterbury can take surprising forms.
Author: Andrew D. Blechman Publisher: ISBN: 9780871139818 Category : Retirees Languages : en Pages : 0
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Blechman delves into life in a gated retirement community and offers a hilarious, first-hand report on all its peculiarities. He also takes a serious look at the consequences of such instant cities and examines the implications of millions of Americans dropping out of society.
Author: Paul Strohm Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 0143127837 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 306
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"A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Timothy Egan Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0735225249 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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From "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times). "What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts "Egan draws us in, making us feel frozen in the snow-covered Alps, joyful in valleys of trees with low-hanging fruit, skeptical of the relics of embalmed saints and hopeful for the healing of his encrusted toes, so worn and weathered from their walk."--The Washington Post Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity to explore the religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and travels overland via the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy, accompanied by a quirky cast of fellow pilgrims and by some of the towering figures of the faith--Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Martin Luther. The goal: walking to St. Peter's Square, in hopes of meeting the galvanizing pope who is struggling to hold together the church through the worst crisis in half a millennium. A thrilling journey, a family story, and a revealing history, A Pilgrimage to Eternity looks for our future in its search for God.
Author: L. B. Gschwandtner Publisher: Zamora Chronicles ISBN: 9780939613632 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 314
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The love story of Niko and El unfolds against the backdrop of a brutal dystopian regime in a city ruled by Premier Villinkash, his Overseers, Protectors and Watchers.Following the "Collapse," trust and hope have ceased to exist, memory has been "Cleansed" and electronic InCom screens monitor the people with daily lists to follow while they urge people to inform on neighbors. Children born during the Collapse are housed in penitentiary-like "Centers."When Niko escapes one of these centers, he melts into the city and begins life on the street. One day he meets lovely, innocent, El, who's been raised by two elderly nuns in the last convent to survive the Collapse.Niko and El's developing love is threatened when Niko is forced to compete in the regime's cynical rooftop motorcycle race where only one rider can possibly survive.Although Niko survives, when he chooses as his prize not one of the pimped up girls the regime has pre-selected, but the girl he loves - natural, innocent, El - he instantly becomes an enemy of the state. Relentlessly hunted after a bold escape from the Compound where he and El have been sequestered, even El has turned on him after being humiliated at the hands of the regime. But they are thrown together again in a desperate attempt to survive the Regime's wrath. While Niko and El hide and run, an urban guerrilla force of children trained by renegade priest, Father Ignatius, using the name "Niko" as their resistance cry, wreak havoc on the regime while Niko and El reluctantly rely on each other for a dangerous overland expedition to Zamora, a possibly mythical place where, if they can find it, they hope to be safe.Zamora probes whether love can survive a brutal political regime that pits people against each other to secure its hold on power. Surprise twists and turns in this intricate plot will keep readers guessing about who is really on the side of good and who can be trusted when all is not what it appears.
Author: Maureen Ash Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101613211 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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When a royal servant is murdered, Templar Bascot de Marins is once again called upon to serve justice—and protect a royal secret. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED As King Phillip of France leads a devastating attack on Normandy, defection spreads among once-loyal English vassals. King John is even forced to imprison his own nephew Arthur for treacherous acts. And when Arthur suddenly disappears, John must keep his mysterious absence a closely guarded secret, or face even greater dissent among the nobles. Fleeing Normandy, King John and Queen Isabella hope to find safe haven at their royal residence in Canterbury. But they soon discover that no haven is truly safe. When one of John’s servants is murdered, it seems that he and Isabella were the intended targets. John suspects the murderer was a Breton bent on avenging Arthur. Asking Templar Bascot de Marins to investigate the crime, he also asks him to protect the secret of Arthur’s disappearance. But as Bascot and his protégé Gianni follow the murderer’s trail, they find themselves caught between the King’s machinations and the constraints of justice.
Author: Rowan Williams Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199975736 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 167
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams offers fascinating insight into The Chronicles of Narnia, the popular series of novels by one of the most influential Christian authors of the modern era, C. S. Lewis. Lewis once referred to certain kinds of book as a "mouthwash for the imagination." This is what he attempted to provide in the Narnia stories, argues Williams: an unfamiliar world in which we could rinse out what is stale in our thinking about Christianity--"which is almost everything," says Williams--and rediscover what it might mean to meet the holy. Indeed, Lewis's great achievement in the Narnia books is just that-he enables readers to encounter the Christian story "as if for the first time." How does Lewis makes fresh and strange the familiar themes of Christian doctrine? Williams points out that, for one, Narnia itself is a strange place: a parallel universe, if you like. There is no "church" in Narnia, no religion even. The interaction between Aslan as a "divine" figure and the inhabitants of this world is something that is worked out in the routines of life itself. Moreover, we are made to see humanity in a fresh perspective, the pride or arrogance of the human spirit is chastened by the revelation that, in Narnia, you may be on precisely the same spiritual level as a badger or a mouse. It is through these imaginative dislocations that Lewis is able to communicate--to a world that thinks it knows what faith is--the character, the feel, of a real experience of surrender in the face of absolute incarnate love. This lucid, learned, humane, and beautifully written book opens a new window onto Lewis's beloved stories, revealing the moral wisdom and passionate faith beneath their perennial appeal.
Author: Dudley Clendinen
Author: Dudley Clendinen
Author: Jerry Ellis
Author: Kim Wright
Author: Andrew D. Blechman
Author: Paul Strohm
Author: Timothy Egan
Author: L. B. Gschwandtner
Author: Maureen Ash
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Rowan Williams