May 13, 2019 Book of the Week — The American Commonwealth
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May 10, 2019 Book of the week — From a Railway Carriage
"Faster than fairies, faster than witches" From a Railway Carriage R. L. Stevenson Dunedin: Frayed Frisket Press, 2005 PR5489 A3 2005 Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, "From A Railway Carriage" was first published in 1885 in A Child's Garden of Verse. England, not Utah, 1885 not 1869, but we like the way...
Apr 29, 2019 Book of the Week — Home Thoughts from Abroad
And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows! Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge— That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should...
Apr 22, 2019 Know the Ways of the Lord: Illuminations from Saint Hildegard
Liber Scivias Hildegard of Bingen Graz : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 2013 ND3385 H55 S279 2013 “The Earth is at the same time mother, She is the mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the...
Apr 19, 2019 Book of the Week — Le Nouveau Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois
Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois...
Feb 25, 2019 Book of the Week — Five Poems
"Someone leans near And sees the salt your eyes have shed." Five Poems Toni Morrison Las Vegas, NV: Rainmaker Editions, 2002 PS3563 O8749 F58 2002 Silhouettes by Kara E. Walker. From the artist's website: "New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality,...
Dec 03, 2018 Book of the Week — Prayers Written at Vailima
"Deliver us from fear and favor; from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. Have mercy on each in his deficiency; let him not be cast down; support the stumbling on the way, and give at last rest to the weary." -- Robert Louis Stevenson Prayers Written at...
Nov 19, 2018 Book of the Week — Turkeys and Trees
"'Why don't we just stay poor,' said Mother, 'we're good at that.' 'Well alright, if that's what you want, but I met this guy who raises baby pigs, and he...
Nov 12, 2018 Book of the Week — Geographie des dames, ou, Almanach geographique-historique
"[This] little work...
Nov 05, 2018 Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
"That Catesby, Winter, Fawlks with many other Traitours lately attainted of high treason, would blowe vp with Gun-powder in the Parliament house, the King, the Prince, the Lls. Spirituall and Temporall, the Iudges of the realme, the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, and many other subjects...