iosephvs bibliothecarivs > Recent Status Updates

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Caxton: The Description of Britain: A Modern Rendering by Marie Collins
📖 Imeall am Domhain: Walking at the Edge of the World by T.P. O'Conchúir and Aimee Ericson
📖 The English Mediaeval Parish Church by G. H. Cook
📖 My Latin Mass Prayer Book by Bart Tesoriero

📖 Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks by Michael Patrick O'Brien
📖 The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha (New Revised Standard Version)
📖 Twenty One Saints by Aloysius Croft

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (this is a rare case of buying the book after having read it. ★★★★★)
📖 The English Nation: The Great Myth by Edwin Jones
📖 Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
📖 Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
📖 Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Recent acquisitions:

📖 My History: A Memory of Growing Up by Fraser
📖 Essex Churches and Chapels by Members of the Friends of Essex Churches
📖 How to Read and Why by Bloom
📖 The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner, translated by Porter
📖 Getting Started with Latin by Linney
📖 Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish by Llywelyn

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Owl Service by Alan Gardner (recommended by Robert Macfarlane & @Bookwomble)
📖 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World by N.T. Wright
📖 Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
📖 The Celts: Conquerors of Ancient Europe
📖 Dracula by Bram Stoker (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), edited by John Paul Riquelme
📖 The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson
📖 The Anglo-Saxon Age (A Very Short Introduction) by John Blair

...the dream of a land where every man will respect the dignity and worth of human personality--this is the dream. When it is realized, the jangling discords of our nation will be transformed into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood, and men everywhere will know that America is truly the land of the free and the home of the brave.'

'We are simply seeking to bring into full realization the American dream--a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men no longer argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character...

'...In a real sense, the means represent the ideal in the making and the end in process. So in the long run, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends, because the end is preexistent in the means.'

'...It also makes it possible for the individual to struggle to secure moral ends through moral means. One of the most persistent philosophical debates of the centuries has been over the question of ends and means. There have been those from Machiavelli on down who have argued that the end justifies the means...'

'The method of nonviolent resistance is effective in that it has a way of disarming the opponent, it exposes his moral defenses, it weakens his morale and at the same time it works on his conscience.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. Volume I. Part 2. by Edward, Earl of Clarendon (published in Oxford in 1731)
📖 England, England by Diana Anderson (a bespoke board book written in the style of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by my daughter, a primary school teaching-in-training, which references our very special 2016 trip)

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by Angus Konstam
📖 Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood, foreword by Barry Cunliffe
📖 Cultural Atlas of the Viking World by Colleen Batey, Helen Clarke, R. I. Page, Neil S. Price, edited by James Graham-Campbell
📖 The Folk Arts of Norway (second enlarged edition) by Janice S. Stewart

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Earliest English Poetry by Charles W. Kennedy
📖 Celtic Way of Life by Angus McMahon
📖 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: selected, translated, and adapted by Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
📖 Atlas of British History: Comprehensive Coverage from 54 B.C. to the Present Day by Martin Gilbert

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
📖 Bridgerland: Your Land and Mine by J. Arbon Chrustensen
📖 Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 by Michael Bennett
📖 Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) by William F. Murphy [recommended by Colm Toíbín in his book Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, which I enjoyed]

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Book of Mormon (1904 edition)
📖 The Book of Mormon (1931 edition)
📖 The Booke of Common Prayer of the Churche of England: Its Making and Revisions 1549 - 1616: Set Forth in Eighty Illustrations, with Introduction and Notes by Edward C. Ratcliff
📖 Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Penguin Book of Carols edited by Ian Bradley
📖 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Oxford World's Classics) - I collect editions of Tess and this is my 29th

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Wild Hares & Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village by Stephen Moss
📖 The Romance of the London Directory by Charles W. Bardsley

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Norton Critical Editions) - I collect editions of Tess and this is my 28th
📖 Stockholm (English Edition) by Per Anders Fogelström, photos by Åke Mokvist

Recent graphic acquisitions:

📖 Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
📖 40 Years with Bagley: The Salt Lake Tribune by Pat Bagley

Recent acquisitions:

📖 How Reason Can Lead to God by Joshua Rasmussen
📖 The Age of Chivalry by National Geographic Society
📖 The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires

Recent acquisitions:

📖 On Fly-Fishing the Bear River Watershed: Essays and Exceptional Misadventures by my friend Chadd VanZanten
📖 East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage by Rachel Rueckert
📖 The Story of England by Christopher Hibbert

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds edited by Robert P. Miller
📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, edited by Sarah E. Maier [ I collect editions of Tess - this is my 27th ]

Recent graphic acquisitions:

📖 Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell, adapted and illustrated by Fido Nesti
📖 Here by Richard McGuire

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Religious and Spiritual Diversity in Cache Valley by Cache Community Connections
📖 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David According to the Use of the Episcopal Church

Recent acquisitions:

📖 50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism by Mickey Z
📖 Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections by Greg Tobin
📖 Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett
📖 Downton Abbey: The Official Film Companion by Emma Marriott