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Nowhere in Europe has the Roman Catholic Church exerted a more mystical hold on the life of a nation than it has in Spain. Yet this hold has not been unchanging or unchallenged. By the mid-eighteenth century the Church was no longer the only legitimate source of authority, the all-pervasive presence that it had been, most forcefully in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Still, its power remained formidable. The Spanish Church imposed standards of conduct over the entire range of society, from the aristocracy to the peasant masses, and it possessed the material resources necessary to maintain an elaborate ecclesiastical network that influenced every aspect of Spanish life. The heart of the book deals with the reactions of the Church to the dramatic, sometimes violent, changes that occurred during the critical nineteenth-century period of national transition from royal absolutism to popular liberalism. The study examines the responses of the Church to the new social and political forces that could no longer be excluded or contained, among them an emergent secular--even anticlerical--culture and a developing capitalism.Callahan demonstrates that these changes engendered resentments and frustrations deep within the ecclesiastical order that persisted well into the twentieth century, notably with the Spanish Church's embrace of Franco.",1998,"en","1.00",1,0,"complete",true,false,[13,12,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13],[19],{"id":20,"slug":21,"name":22,"role":23,"bio":24},"01kjqz7rn338hakt9x7rffhvn0","henry-david-thoreau-lynz","Henry David Thoreau","author","Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. 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The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister--all battling tuberculosis--walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. Tragically, his mother succumbed to the disease shortly after she arrived, but Marcus and his sister recovered, and one year later, they were welcomed into a loving middle-class white family in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was there that Marcus's new grandmother, Helga, sparked in him a lifelong passion for food and cooking with her pan-fried herring, her freshly baked bread, and her signature roast chicken. From a very early age, there was little question what Marcus was going to be when he grew up. Yes, Chef chronicles Marcus Samuelsson's remarkable journey from Helga's humble kitchen to some of the most demanding and cutthroat restaurants in Switzerland and France, from his grueling stints on cruise ships to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a coveted New York Times three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelsson's career of \"chasing flavors,\" as he calls it, had only just begun--in the intervening years, there have been White House State dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs and, most important, the opening of the beloved Red Rooster in Harlem. At Red Rooster, Samuelsson has fufilled his dream of creating a truly diverse, multiracial dining room--a place where presidents and prime ministers rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, bus drivers, and nurses. It is a place where an orphan from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, living in America, can feel at home. With disarming honesty and intimacy, Samuelsson also opens up about his failures as a man--the price of ambition, in human terms--and recounts his emotional journey, as a grown man, to meet the father he never knew. 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Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon, charged with working clandestinely, often behind enemy lines. Fick's training begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, and advances to the pinnacle--Recon--four years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. Along the way, he learns to shoot a man a mile away, stays awake for seventy-two hours straight, endures interrogation and torture, learns to swim with Navy SEALs, and much more. His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines. Fick unveils the process that makes Marine officers such legendary leaders and shares his hard-won insights into the differences between the military ideals he learned and military practice, which can mock those ideals.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwzr1e3ttk7389h0z12gygkr.jpg?v=3c57394c21","LLQT4N%M~qM{a#RjM{%Maxt7xuRj",2005,391,[182],{"id":183,"slug":184,"name":185},"01kwzr1e35avyd372f05y12k4m","nathaniel-c-fick-ir9j","Nathaniel C. 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In more than thirty haunting, visceral poetic portraits, acclaimed poet and actress Amber Tamblyn contemplates the interior lives of women who glimmered on-screen and crashed in life-- figures as diverse as Frances Farmer and Brittany Murphy, Jayne Mansfield and Dana Plato, Jean Harlow and Sharon Tate, Heather O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne and Marilyn Monroe. Their stories invite us behind the eyes of a century's worth of women, the adored and the disappeared","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2hnv0mm0kxkhjkrf2rwe3t.jpg?v=5208970270","LWQvtJt7~qxuIUayxuj[~qj[Diay",2015,[206],{"id":207,"slug":208,"name":209},"01kt4sdspf3rnsck8k42b6sscj","amber-tamblyn-zw1n","Amber Tamblyn",[211,215],{"id":212,"name":213,"slug":214,"is_fiction":15},13,"Poetry","poetry",{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":218,"themes":221,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[219,220],"melancholic","dark",[],{"id":223,"slug":224,"title":225,"description":226,"primary_cover_url":227,"cover_blurhash":228,"first_publish_year":229,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":230,"authors":231,"genres":236,"series":242,"enrichment":243},"01kx2af2eqy4tdy5h1d8b5q8ft","tell-me-everything-tjwm","Tell Me Everything","A true crime writer and former private investigator recounts the chilling real story of her investigation into a decades-old kidnapping, uncovering secrets buried for years.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2af2f8mzc3fy09nx2cs91t.jpg?v=481a3c05e0","LAG8DuVZ00.RX9oeobo33mOX{NrY",2022,288,[232],{"id":233,"slug":234,"name":235},"01kx2af2f3yqsqdkgqrysexcsh","erika-krouse-5oq8","Erika Krouse",[237,241],{"id":238,"name":239,"slug":240,"is_fiction":16},104,"True Crime","true-crime",{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":192,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":244,"themes":245,"setting_period":7,"summary":226,"content_warnings":7},[220,194],[],{"id":247,"slug":248,"title":249,"description":250,"primary_cover_url":7,"cover_blurhash":7,"first_publish_year":251,"community_rating_avg":154,"community_rating_count":12,"page_count":252,"authors":253,"genres":258,"series":261,"enrichment":262},"01kx2ht3dy9rbzsbhkas4sm0hc","if-i-am-missing-or-dead-r21c","If I Am Missing or Dead","In April 2002, Janine Latus' younger sister, Amy, taped a note to the inside of her desk at work. 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How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.” —MALALA YOUSAFZAI ​ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SELECTED BY VULTURE, TIME, ESQUIRE, NPR, AND VOGUE! Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. What followed, however, were periods of depression in which she struggled to hold herself and her siblings together. “A magnificent, complex assessment of selfhood and why it matters” (Elle), Aftershocks depicts the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand. “Full of narrative risk and untrammeled lyricism” (The Washington Post), Aftershocks joins the likes of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, and does for race identity what Maggie Nelson does for gender identity in The Argonauts.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ezfaspm4khb55e9hdag3g.jpg?v=abd45b6424","LZM3Tb=Y}qW,:+O=,pt7BoIpwgV[",320,[274],{"id":275,"slug":276,"name":277},"01kx2ezfanvz9stpf6aa86geg2","nadia-owusu-iafq","Nadia Owusu",[279,280,281],{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":16},{"id":113,"name":114,"slug":115,"is_fiction":16},{"id":83,"name":84,"slug":85,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":54,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":284,"themes":285,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[121,58,93],[],{"id":287,"slug":288,"title":289,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":290,"cover_blurhash":291,"first_publish_year":292,"community_rating_avg":154,"community_rating_count":12,"page_count":293,"authors":294,"genres":299,"series":302,"enrichment":303},"01kx2hfpwe2kjkrnw5ysrp9sxh","black-box-37u9","Black Box","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2hfpx18apfhwd0mbknh1qp.jpg?v=6fa5a25aab","L7B:v#ay00fR00ofWBWB~qayWCt7",2024,304,[295],{"id":296,"slug":297,"name":298},"01kpd7rtqty3fz6ntkekp8m11s","henry-louis-gates-jr-jcwt","Henry Louis Gates, Jr.",[300,301],{"id":113,"name":114,"slug":115,"is_fiction":16},{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":304,"themes":305,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[58,93],[],[307,421],{"key":308,"params":309,"works":310},"genre_year",{"genre":28,"year":9},[311,334,358,379,400],{"id":312,"slug":313,"title":314,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":315,"cover_blurhash":316,"first_publish_year":317,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":318,"authors":319,"genres":324,"series":330,"enrichment":331},"01kwzr5xjxkqhrg7v5b8jpqztk","soul-survivor-olpd","Soul Survivor","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwzr5xmbpe0zpm4zr20yzpan.jpg?v=b929687bba","LSHKC8I=Iq%1}TW;R-n%AHxFf$NH",2001,336,[320],{"id":321,"slug":322,"name":323},"01kpcdb64ffxnn3gkgrfepqq0c","philip-yancey-1dsy","Philip Yancey",[325,326],{"id":27,"name":28,"slug":29,"is_fiction":16},{"id":327,"name":328,"slug":329,"is_fiction":16},107,"Christianity","christianity",[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":332,"themes":333,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[93,58],[],{"id":335,"slug":336,"title":337,"description":338,"primary_cover_url":339,"cover_blurhash":340,"first_publish_year":9,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":13,"page_count":341,"authors":342,"genres":347,"series":353,"enrichment":354},"01kx2bes3gcb2cmmpw1vm942wr","invisible-writer-5fhb","Invisible writer","In Invisible Writer, the first full-length, authorized biography of this complex and gifted writer, author and literary critic Greg Johnson examines the mysteries and myths that have attended Oates's remarkable career. Granted privileged access to her private letters and journals, and drawing upon hundreds of extensive interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and Oates herself, Johnson develops his portrait of an \"invisible writer\" whose carefully guarded private world proves as fascinating as her well-publicized literary career. Oates's own life was marked by the same chaos, violence, and dark twists of fate that would later beset her fictional characters and create her obsession with what she calls \"the phantasmagoria of personality.\" Here is the child born into poverty in the desolate heart of upstate New York; a girl shadowed by emotional terrors; a young woman drawn at an early age into an intensely private world of the intellect and imagination. 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The only horse to ever break the two-minute mark in winning the Kentucky Derby until recent winner Monarchos, Secretariat also pulled off one of the most astounding victories in the annals of horse racing by winning the Belmont Stakes by a record-breaking thirty-one lengths. 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That term is meaningless to me.\" She understands, she says - but he tells her, gently, that he doesn't think so, that she can't understand this completely because she is white. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is Jane Lazarre's memoir of coming to terms with this painful truth, of learning to look into the nature of whiteness in a way that passionately informs the connections between herself and her family. A moving account of life in a biracial family, this book is a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America, the story of an education into the realities of African American culture. Lazarre has spent over twenty-five years living in a Black American family, married to an African American man, birthing and raising two sons. A teacher of African American literature, she has been influenced by an autobiographical tradition that is characterized by a speaking out against racism and a grounding of that expression in one's own experience - an overlapping of the stories of one's own life and the world. Like the stories of that tradition, Lazarre's is a recovery of memories that come together in this book with a new sense of meaning. From a crucial moment in which consciousness is transformed, to recalling and accepting the nature and realities of whiteness, each step describes an aspect of her internal and intellectual journey. Recalling events that opened her eyes to her sons' and husband's experience as Black Americans - an operation, turned into a horrific nightmare by a doctor's unconscious racism; the jarring truths brought home by a visit to an exhibit on slavery at the Richmond Museum of the Confederacy - or her own revealing missteps, Lazarre describes a movement from silence to voice, to a commitment to action, and to an appreciation of the value of a fluid, even ambiguous identity. 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In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake--and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland--the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history. Capuzzo interweaves a vivid portrait of the era and meticulously drawn characters with chilling accounts of the shark's five attacks and the frenzied hunt that ensued. From the unnerving inevitability of the first attack on the esteemed son of a prosperous Philadelphia physician to the spine-tingling moment when a farm boy swimming in Matawan Creek feels the sandpaper-like skin of the passing shark, Close to Shore is an undeniably gripping saga. Heightening the drama are stories of the resulting panic in the citizenry, press and politicians, and of colorful personalities such as Herman Oelrichs, a flamboyant millionaire who made a bet that a shark was no match for a man (and set out to prove it); Museum of Natural History ichthyologist John Treadwell Nichols, faced with the challenge of stopping a mythic sea creature about which little was known; and, most memorable, the rogue Great White itself moving through a world that couldn't conceive of either its destructive power or its moral right to destroy. Scrupulously researched and superbly written, Close to Shore brings to life a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history. Masterfully written and suffused with fascinating period detail and insights into the science and behavior of sharks, Close to Shore recounts a breathtaking, pivotal moment in American history with startling immediacy.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx25r7m7g5ze9ze1ptrmytnp.jpg?v=580bef43d4","LPDvclRkoJj]~qfRaej[xaaya|jt",[433],{"id":434,"slug":435,"name":436},"01kx25r7m1j3b8yt3g1vsbacd4","michael-capuzzo-quv8","Michael Capuzzo",[438,442,443],{"id":439,"name":440,"slug":441,"is_fiction":15},140,"Adventure","adventure",{"id":165,"name":166,"slug":167,"is_fiction":16},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":16},[],{"pace":192,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":446,"themes":447,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[194,220],[],[]]