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Perfect for fans of Laura Levine and Stephanie Barron, Elizabeth Blake’s Jane Austen Society mystery debut is a mirthfully morbid merger of manners and murder. In this Austen-tatious debut, antiquarian bookstore proprietor Erin Coleridge uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society. Erin Coleridge’s used bookstore in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England is a meeting place for the villagers and, in particular, for the local Jane Austen Society. At the Society’s monthly meeting, matters come to a head between the old guard and its young turks. After the meeting breaks for tea, persuasion gives way to murder—with extreme prejudic...
"Inspirational for me as a fellow filmmaker"- Sean McNamara, Emmy-nominated Producer / Director"Elizabeth epitomizes the title of her book"- Larry Schapiro, ProducerDirector Elizabeth Blake-Thomas has been "filmmaking without fear" since day one. Dive into the beginning of her career and explore how her first films shaped her storytelling today, growing from her first film shot on an iPhone, to a heart-wrenching true story starring an Oscar-nominated actress."Grab some popcorn if you fancy, for you're along for the ride of my life."- Elizabeth Blake-Thomas
After graduating from high school, Elizabeth Blake is ready to enter a fairytale world of British adventure. She's leaving the mountains of Austria and heading to Bible college in England, where she'll live in a restored castle, study Scripture in beautiful palace library, and pedal back and forth to town on a rickety antique bike. If only her magical year in England wasn't also a year apart from Caleb, the college junior she fell in love with during his year of studying and working in Austria! Beth easily settles into a simple, studious life - a life where her dearest friends are a local grandmother who invites her for tea, and a six-year-old girl named Emily who resides in the children's w...
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The Literacy Primer is devoted to the most recent topics in literacy studies, such as the meanings of literacy, the invention of alphabetic writing, a history of reading, the consequences of literacy, teaching the two modes of knowing - literary and informational - and literacy for diverse learners. Each chapter includes a glossary of key terms for students new to the field. A list of selected resources and further readings is provided at the end of the volume. The book is written in a refreshingly straightforward style that is inviting to undergraduate students who might otherwise have difficulty learning about the subject.
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While Dostoevsky’s relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and Catholicism. Elizabeth Blake’s ambitious and learned Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground fills this glaring omission in the scholarship. Previous commentators have traced a wide-ranging hostility in Dostoevsky’s understanding of Catholicism to his Slavophilism. Blake depicts a far more nuanced picture. Her close reading demonstrates that he is repelled and fascinated by Catholicism in all its medieval, Reformation, and modern manifestations. Dostoevsky saw in Catholicism not just an inspirational source for the Grand Inquisitor but a political force, an ideological wellspring, a unique mode of intellectual inquiry, and a source of cultural production. Blake’s insightful textual analysis is accompanied by an equally penetrating analysis of nineteenth-century European revolutionary history, from Paris to Siberia, that undoubtedly influenced the evolution of Dostoevsky’s thought.
While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.