New Books: Mar 2022

I found the book well-written and comprehensive. It will help single women understand and overcome the disadvantages they face.
-- Elliot Raphaelson, Chicago Tribune

Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction

“[A] thoughtful analysis of America’s War on Terror.” —The New Yorker

“Offers a very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism.”—The Washington Post

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"With her lucid, luminous prose, hardheaded logic, and far-reaching metaphors, Norris has brought us the cloister at its most alive." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a remarkable writer with a huge, wise heart... you want to share this great discovery, giving her work as a gift-- or you simply shove a copy in the face of a friend, saying, 'Read this.'" --Minneapolis Star-Tribune

From Library Journal
A National Book Award winner on Christianity's dark sideAits anti-Semitism.
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"Remarkable. . . A book of a deeper sort. . ." -- Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times Review of Books
"A triumph, a tragic tale beautifully told. . .a welcome throwback to an age when history was a branch of literature. . ." -- Charles R. Morris, Atlantic Monthly

"Fascinating, brave and sometimes infuriating." -- Time Magazine

"[I]ntensely interesting ... the images are kaleidoscopic."
—The Atlantic

"[A]n intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir."
—The New York Times

"This well-researched and beautifully written study applies insights of recent Enlightenment historiography to the heretofore neglected area of the anti-philosophes."--CHOICE
"[E]xcellently researched and elegantly written study....Using the theoretical and methodological tools forged in the last three decades of enlightenment scholarship, McMahon enriches our understanding of antiphilosophie by broadening the focus of inquiry to include names of largely forgotten men
and women from varying geographical and confessional backgrounds whose opposition to the values of the Age of Enlightenment helped to define it as an intellectual movement. What we are looking at in this important study of the dialectics of Counter-Enlightenment is, in fact, the genesis of the
European political Right from its last decade of the ancien regime to the postmodernist era."--The Historian

"The author of more than ten books on New Testament history and early Christian writings, Ehrman has established himself as an expert on early Christianity. These two works should soundly solidify his stature, as they illuminate the flavor and varieties of early Christian belief."--Library Journal
(on Lost Christianities and Lost Scriptures)

"History, it's often said, is written by the victors. Bart Ehrman argues in a pair of intriguing new books that the same could be said of the Bible's New Testament.... Will shock more than a few lay readers."--The Boston Globe

"Lost Scriptures provides a good sample of the literature and illustrates nicely the complex and often exotic world of second- and third-century Christianity."--America

Karen Armstrong’s sympathetic profile paints a portrait of a very human prophet (Wall Street Journal)

A good glimpse of how the vast majority of the world’s Muslims understand their prophet. (New York Times)

Respectful, knowledgeable, and, above all, readable. It succeeds because [Armstrong] brings Muhammad to life as a fully rounded human being. (The Economist)

'Drought, Flood, Fire provides a clarion call for social change, yet also conveys the beauty and wonder of our planet, and hope for our collective future.' James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

Highly Recommended. CHOICE