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A
COMMON
READER
"Founded in 1986 by The Akadine Press, A Common Reader is a monthly book catalog mailed
to tens of thousands of readers across the United States and around the world. [Now
available online.] From our very first issue, our goal has been to gather, ponder, and offer for sale a selection
of books that we’ve enjoyed and think you might enjoy as well. Some are best browsed, some are for study, many
are absorbing reading — but all belong to that class of books one is eager to pass on to a friend. We hope that
what’s “common” in A Common Reader is the sense of shared experience a good book can bring to solitary readers.
The discovery and delight, the amusements and satisfactions that books provide are a common language to the community
of readers we feel part of."
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 Butler's Lives of the Saints
Edited by Michael Walsh
A condensed, but practical, edition of the original.
 A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
Christopher de Hamel
"...from ‘Books for Emperors’ to ‘Books for Everybody.’ Instructive and delightful, this lovely
volume allows us to trace, precisely by hand, the dissemination of learning throughout the West in graphic, geographic,
and chronological terms" |
Magnificent Corpses
Searching through Europe for St. Peter's Head
Anneli Rufus
The stories behind the veneration of such sacred relics — and the strange travails such reverence
has engendered for the remain of saints — are the subject of this intriguing, amusing, offbeat travel book.
 Painted Prayers The Book of Hours in Medieval and Renaissance Art
"Prayer books for the lay people of the Middle Ages, these volumes were elaborate constructions
of words and pictures...features 107 magnificent examples culled from the collection of The Pierpont Morgan Library..." |
 Wisdom
of the Cloister 365 Daily Readings from the Greatest Monastic Writings
John Skinner
"To help us imagine our own monastery garden to which we can retreat for a few moments
every day, John Skinner draws from wells of spiritual wisdom as old as St. Ignatius of Antioch, who knew the Apostles,
and as new as the seven Cistercian monks of Algeria martyred by terrorists in 1996.
A Contemplation Upon Flowers
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