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  • The Dreamcatcher Codes

    by Barbara Newman ...
    FOUR GIRLS. FOUR DIRECTIONS. ONE PURPOSE. The earth is gasping for breath; its only hope is the sacred Codes of Nature. But they've been stolen—snatched by a giant raven during a raging storm. SOPHIA ROSE, Guardian of Mother Earth, has summoned MAIA from the North to lead FALCON, AVA, and YUE, on a quest to find the Codes and save the planet. But the odds are against the young rescuers. Time is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sister of Wisdom

    St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine

    by Barbara Newman ...
    Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things.With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, Sister of Wisdom is a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Making Love in the Twelfth Century

    "Letters of Two Lovers" in Context

    by Barbara Newman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg SongsNine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Doctors Without Boredom

    by Barbara Newman ...
    Dr. Newman spent 20 years as a traveling doctor. From small mountain communities in India to a refugee camp in Sudan to the furthest western tip of the island on Haiti to an independent indigenous community in Chiapas, the doctor was always "in". But Med School and big city hospitals had very little in common with the kind of medicine she learned to practice where resources were sparse and the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Medieval Crossover

    Reading the Secular against the Sacred

    by Barbara Newman ...
    Series series The Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
    The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred, Barbara Newman offers a new approach to the many ways that sacred and secular interact in medieval literature, arguing that (in contrast to our own cultural situation) the sacred was the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Mechthild of Hackeborn

    The Book of Special Grace

    Introduces an English translation of the Book of Special Grace, a Latin mystical work composed by Mechthild of Hackeborn and her sisters at the convent of Helfta in the 1290s. ... Read more

    $39.96 USD

  • The Permeable Self

    Five Medieval Relationships

    by Barbara Newman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What special traits gave both saints and demoniacs their ability to read minds? Why were mothers who died in childbirth buried in unconsecrated ground? Each of these phenomena, as diverse as they are, offers ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Permeable Self

    Five Medieval Relationships

    by Barbara Newman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What special traits gave both saints and demoniacs their ability to read minds? Why were mothers who died in childbirth buried in unconsecrated ground? Each of these phenomena, as diverse as they are, offers ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Lightning Out of Lebanon

    Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil

    by Tom Diaz, Barbara Newman ...
    Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.” Today it remains potentially more dangerous than even al Qaeda. Yet little has been known about its inner workings, past successes, and future plans–until now.Written by an accomplished journalist and a law-enforcement expert, Lightning Out of Lebanon is a chilling and essential ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • My People

    The Story of a Virginia Family

    by Barbara Newman ...
    My People: The Story of a Virginia Family presents the history of Barbara Newman's American ancestors -- from the earliest colonists who came to Richmond, Charlottesville, and the Shenandoah Valley more than three hundred years ago, to their descendants who fought, suffered, and died for the Confederacy in the nineteenth century. Her twentieth-century grandparents and parents prospered in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Making Love in the Twelfth Century

    "Letters of Two Lovers" in Context

    by Barbara Newman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    New, sparkling translations of the Letters of Two Lovers, the Tegernesee Letters, and selections from the Regensburg SongsNine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Never Far from Dancing

    Ballet artists in new roles

    Edited by Barbara Newman ...
    A series of interviews with some of the foremost dancers in twentieth-century ballet, Never Far from Dancing reflects on the paths that their careers have taken since they retired from the stage. Barbara Newman has expertly edited each of her interviews to read as a monologue, addressing every aspect of ballet, from its styles and technical demands to its personalities, its celebrated roles and, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD