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In his introduction, the translator says: "I suppose that a very great majority of English-speaking people, if they were asked to name the greatest epic poet of the Christian era in Western Europe, would answer Dante." The Divine Comedy continues to be widely read today, whether for its religious inspiration or for the sheer power of its verse. The first part of the epic, The Inferno, tells how the narrator "loses his way," and finds
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1986
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This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this...
5) The diviners
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Diviners volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 23
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Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
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[2014]
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The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions--until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself--first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it--stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy....
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2015
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After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to "read" objects, and therefore, read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title, "America's Sweetheart Seer." But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities... Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners descend...
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Diviners volume 3
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2017.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 27
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The Diviners face ghosts that are haunting an asylum and wreaking havoc all over New York City, forgotten ones with dangerous ties to the King of Crows.
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Diviners volume 3
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[2017]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 27
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The Diviners face ghosts that are haunting an asylum and wreaking havoc all over New York City, forgotten ones with dangerous ties to the King of Crows.
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Diviners volume 4
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[2020]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 28
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Led by a vision, the Diviners travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, where they must confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another in order to save the world from catastrophe.
New York City, 1927. The Diviners are in for the fight of their lives against the King of Crows and his Army of the Dead. With Sam missing, Evie in mourning, Theta's power growing unstable, and Memphis and Isaiah hunted by the Shadow Men, their only hope lies in Bountiful,...
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