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New Books

• Paul : a very short introduction / E.P. Sanders
• Drawing power : women's stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival : a comics anthology / edited by Diane Noomin ; introduction by Roxane Gay
  "Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival is a collection of original, nonfiction comics drawn by more than 60 female cartoonists from around the world. Featuring such noted creators as Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, MariNaomi, Liana Finck, and Ebony Flowers the antholog […]
• A history of the Bible : the story of the world's most influential book / John Barton
  "A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy Scripture," a non-negotiable authority straight from […]
• Maria Martin's world : art & science, faith & family in Audubon's America / Debra J. Lindsay
  "Maria Martin (1796-1863) was an evangelical Lutheran from Charleston, South Carolina, who became an accomplished painter within months of meeting John James Audubon. Martin met Audubon through her brother-in-law, Reverend John Bachman, who befriended Audubon while passing through Charleston on route to Florida where he expected to find new avian specie […]
• The food we eat, the stories we tell : contemporary Appalachian tables / Edited by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt with Lora E. Smith ; With an Afterword by Ronni Lundy
  "Blue Ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens-this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables and the stories they hold offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American […]