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  • The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers

    A Select Edition and Complete English Translation

    by John Wortley ...
    The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremitic monasticism, a significant phenomenon within the early history of Christianity. The publication of this book finally ensures the availability of all three major collections which constitute the work, edited and translated into English. Richer in Tales ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057

    Translation and Notes

    by John Skylitzes, John Wortley ...
    John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. A high official living in the late eleventh century, Skylitzes used a number of existing Greek histories (some of them ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Lausiac History

    by John Wortley, Palladius of Aspuna ...
    Series Book 252 - Cistercian Studies Series
    Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twenties. As a monk, he traveled to Alexandria, the desert of Nitria, the Cells, Palestine, Rome, and the Thebaid. During his travels he encountered Rufinus of Aquileia, Melania the Elder, the hermit Dorotheos, Macarius of Alexandria, Evagrius of Pontus, Jerome of Bethlehem, and John Chrysostom. He wrote ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Book of the Elders

    Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Systematic Collection

    Series Book 240 - Cistercian Studies Series
    In the early part of the fourth century, a few Christians, mostly men and some women, began to withdraw from "the world" to retreat into the desert, there to practice their new religion more seriously. The person who aspired to "renounce the world" first had to find an "elder," a person who would accept him as a disciple and apprentice. To his elder (whom he would address as abba—father) the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Desert Fathers

    by John Wortley ...
    Christian monasticism emerged in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century AD. This introduction explores its origins and subsequent development and what it aimed to achieve, including the obstacles that it encountered; for the most part making use of the monks' own words as they are preserved (in Greek) primarily in the so-called Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Mainly focussing on monastic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Born in England – Exploring English Poetry - The East Midlands

    A celebration of English poems

    by John Dryden, Alfred Lord Tennyson, D H Lawrence, Anne Bradstreet, John Clare, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Seward, John Beaumont, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Francis Beaumont, John Skelton, Anne Askew, John William Streets, Jean Ingelow, Thomas Randolph, Jane Barker, William Lisle Bowles, Jessie Pope, Henry Kirke White, Mary Leapor ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Davenport ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us.Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Guv'nor and Me

    My Life with Lenny McLean

    by John ‘The Neck’ Houchin, Lee Wortley, Anthony Thomas ...
    Don't cross The Neck.As the right-hand man to 'The Guv’nor' himself, Lenny McLean, John 'The Neck' Houchin is a living legend and is now telling his story for the first time. John trained daily with Lenny in the gym to achieve his huge bulk and neck, all 23 inches of it, required to frighten the hell out of troublemakers. As the enforcers for the Krays and the Richardsons, they worked together ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    by John Julius Norwich ...
    With wit, intelligence and his trademark eye for riveting detail, John Julius Norwich has brought together the most important and fascinating events from his trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine empire. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

    by St. John Chrysostom ...
    ***This book is fully formatted and linked for easy navigation. It also includes a biography of St. John Chrysostom and an introduction to the famous Divine Liturgy. This is the only copy you'll ever need!***The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom is the most celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite. It is named after the anaphora with the same name which is its core part and it is ... Read more

    $2.81 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Am Ozzy

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    Heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne shares his unbelievable story for the first time in this tell-all memoir of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.Take what you thought was "rock and roll excess" and double it–you still wouldn't be anywhere near the dizzying life of Ozzy Osbourne. Born into a life so poor that the whole family slept in one room, music was his salvation, and his band Black Sabbath went on ... Read more

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  • Terry Jones' Barbarians

    by Alan Ereira, Terry Jones ...
    Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire.This ... Read more

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  • Visits to the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary

    by Alphonsus Liguori ...
    Since they were first written in 1745, Visits to the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary has been translated into many languages and read worldwide. This classic translation of St. Alphonsus Liguori's Visits, a faithful rendition from the original Italian into the American idiom, has now been reprinted in a new larger edition. This new printing offers exactly the same text as the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD