TRUTH€”BETRAYAL€” INTRIGUE€”REVOLUTION€” AND LOVE Paris, 1747. Betrayed by God and humanity, Sophie moves to the seething capital of the kingdom. To survive, she works at Café Procope, the meeting place for freethinkers and revolutionaries. Against her will she falls deeply in love with one of the regular customers: Denis Diderot, the famed philosopher and a married man. He and his colleagues are planning the most dangerous book in the world since the appearance of the Bible: an encyclopedia. Even more explosive are the covert references in the Encyclopedia that threaten to undermine both the monarchy and the church. But Sophie soon realizes that the stakes are even higher for her personally. At risk are her right to freedom, love, and happiness.

The Philosopher's Kiss

Literature & Fiction

PRANGE, PETER

Literary

Atria Books

Internationally bestselling author Peter Prange makes his US debut with a luminous historical novel. 
Truth. Betrayal. Revolution. Love. ENLIGHTENMENT. 
PARIS, 1747. Betrayed by God and humanity, eighteen-year-old Sophie moves to the seething French capital and finds work as a serving girl at Café Procope. Here, against her will, she falls deeply in love with Denis Diderot, the famed philosopher and a married man. He and his colleagues are planning the most dangerous book in the world since the Bible: an encyclopedia. Even more scandalous are references concealed within that threaten to undermine both the monarchy and the church. But Sophie soon realizes that even her own rights to freedom, love, and happiness are at risk. Prange powerfully recreates a fascinating era in this spirited story of passion, censorship, self-expression, and rebellion.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

Atria

C.F.W. Walther took center stage in the history of the doctrine and practice of church fellowship among those Lutherans who organized the Missouri Synod in 1847 and later became the largest segment of the Synodical Conference in 1872. Between the years of 1838, when he and his fellow Saxon immigrants left Germany under the corrupt leadership of Pastor Martin Stephan, and 1882, when he and his fellow Synodical Conference delegates refused to recognize brotherly fellowship with Norwegian Synod Professor F.A. Schmidt, Walther lived and breathed the principles and practice of church fellowship. As with every sinful Christian, at times he faltered, but his constant recourse to the Word of God equipped him to fight the inevitable confessional battles he and his fellow Lutherans would face in a new land and to wield the sword of Spirit energetically and evangelically for the benefit of the church past and present.

Wielding the Sword of the Spirit: Volume One: The Doctrine and Practice of Church Fellowship in the Missouri Synod (1838-1867)

History

Americas

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In late 2007 the National Gallery of Art acquired one of the finest private European holdings of Old-Master drawings -- the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection. This unique survey includes drawings by many of the most important artists from the German-speaking areas of Europe, including Switzerland and Austria. Passionately assembled by Wolfgang Ratjen (1943-1997) over three decades, the drawings presented in this beautiful scholarly catalogue include rare, evocative, and influential examples by Hans von Aachen, Johann Rottenhammer, and Adam Elsheimer; studies for soaring religious ceilings by some of the greatest Bavarian artists, including Cosmas Damian Asam, Matthäus Günther, and Franz Anton Maulbertsch; delightful Augsburg designs for rococo prints by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, Johann Esaias Nilson, and Gottfried Eichler; landscape watercolors by Johann Georg von Dillis and Caspar David Friedrich; architectural watercolors by Balthasar Neumann, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Rudolf von Alt; and an exciting group of realist drawings by Hans Thoma, Otto Greiner, and Adolph von Menzel. The addition of the collection to the Gallery's already strong holdings creates the finest survey of German drawings in a museum outside Europe. This book will accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. from May 16 through November 28, 2010.

German Master Drawings: From the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1580-1900

Arts & Photography

Robison, Andrew

Sieveking, Hinrich

History & Criticism

National Gallery of Art /Paul Holberton Publishing

Das Bernstein- Amulett. Geschichte einer Familie aus Deutschland.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Droemer/knaur

Die Philosophin

Die Strauß Dynastie ist eine packende Familiensaga, die die Legende der berühmten Wiener Musikerfamilie erzählt: die armseligen Anfange als Bratlgeiger von Straß Vater, den Krieg zwischen Vater und Sohn, die unerbittliche Rivalität der Brüder, die Abgründe von Haß und Neid, von Mißgunst und Intrige, die immer wieder in dieser großen Musikerdynastie aufbrachen . . . Ihr Schicksal spiegelt sich in diesem großen Roman: so prall und voller Leben wie ihre unsterbliche Musik.

Die Straub Dynastie

Edition Weilbrecht

Die Philosophin: HIstorischer Roman (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

FISCHER Taschenbuch

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Genre Fiction

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Short Stories & Anthologies

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