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She read a lot of contemporary mysteries to prepare, and discovered what made her — as a reader — put down a book.

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In Turin, Benedict observed that «humanity has become particularly sensitive to the mystery of Holy Saturday,» because the «hiddenness of God» has become so much a part of our contemporary experience of Christ that it functions existentially, almost subconsciously, in our spirituality.

Dr. Cobb lends processes theological concepts to those who systematize the teaching of the Bible, to those who consider contemporary thought as normative and access the Bible in that context, to those who give simplistic traditional understanding of the Bible, and to those searching the perplexities and mysteries of quantum thought.

In his book Being and Having, Marcel uses a series of polarities to delineate two basic modes of relating to the world: being and having; participation and objectification; mystery and problem; presence and object; I - Thou relationships and I - It relationships; thought which stands in the presence of, and thought which proceeds by interrogation; concrete thinking and abstraction; secondary reflection and primary reflection.55 Marcel recognizes that both modes of relating to the world are necessary, but he feels the contemporary person is increasingly becoming a slave to the possessive orientation.

Insofar as we allow ourselves as Christians to know, in all honesty, the longing and the dissatisfactions of this contemporary quest for transcendence and mystery, we are also in a position to respond to it out of the riches of the JudeoChristian tradition, newly revisited.

Contemporary erotic etiquette, even among the young, has so drained physical love of its enticingly forbidden and urgent quality, and so dispelled its atmosphere of rapturous risk, moral uncertainty, tantalizing mystery, and irresistible yearning, that the actual quantum of pleasure in the transaction is often, one imagines, diminished to a very transitory set of neural agitations.

In The Mystery of Existence, he has added a classification of nine «Levels of Nothing,» a response to contemporary confusion.

A moving, contemporary version of the incarnation, enlivened by wit and charm appropriate for a divine comedy about children, Hail Mary testifies to a mystery.

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

But to many of our contemporaries the intuition of mystery has grown dull.

But Christian discrimination ought to operate on another level here; it ought to applaud the metaphorical adroitness in giving a new context for the passion story, a context which provides for disbelieving contemporary human beings a genuinely «secular» experience of the narrative, and one which is in continuity with the parabolic way of hiddenness and mystery.

If so, they would give us a valuable new window on the exotic physics that went on in our universe's obscure first moments, and perhaps also help to explain one of its biggest contemporary mysteries — where most of its mass is hiding.

It's a suitably haunting setting for an ancient mystery with links to a more contemporary one.

Roesch and the Talbot 14/45 — Nick Baldwin discusses the importance of this remarkably advanced model and recalls his enjoyment of his own example / Napiers in Australia — A fascinating selection of period photographs of Napiers «down under» has been discovered by Bill Bishop / Derby Bentleys — On their 60th anniversary Martyn Nutland re-assesses the first Rolls - Royce - produced Bentleys / Car badges — In part 2 of his article Michael Worthington - Williams reveals further examples of motor car heraldry / Evolution of the car up to 1904 — Bryan Goodman explains how the design of the earliest cars developed from that of contemporary horse - drawn vehicles / 1931 Morris Minor — The Editor experiences William Morris's somewhat belated but technically advanced answer to the Austin Seven / Acetylene lighting Part 2 — Dr. C. Brooks continues his history of the development of acetylene lighting for vehicles / Hillman light car mystery — Some doubt remains as to the precise age of this beautifully preserved 1919 Hillman.

Marsal sold the forthcoming The Wedding Favor, a new contemporary romance series by debut author Lisa Connelly to Avon, and The Vanishing Thief, a new mystery series by first - timer Kate Parker, to Berkley Books.

Our books range from historical to contemporary romance, mystery, science fiction, and more.

«Young Adult: I'm always looking for genre - bending books that can be an exciting puzzlement when thinking about how precisely to market; specifically mystery and crime for teens, the grittier the better; high - concept contemporary stories with addicting romantic tension.

She wants to hear pitches for happily - ever - after romance, mainstream suspense, thrillers, mysteries, young adult with a fresh voice (both contemporary and sci - fi / fantasy), science fiction, fantasy, action / adventure, picture books (especially author - illustrators), cookbooks, middle grade (all kinds), narrative nonfiction, literary fiction, Southern fiction, Christian and inspirational fiction & nonfiction, and memoir.

Although Anne Perry is not the only contemporary author to set mystery novels in the foggy, charming days of Sherlock Holmes, nonetheless, she has made the era her own.

Our mission is to publish entertaining and enjoyable works by gifted storytellers in all genres, including, contemporary fiction, mystery, romance, self help, general interest fiction, street - lit, erotica, non-fiction and Christian fiction.

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Deon Meyer's engrossing South African thriller pits Detective Benny Griessel against a mystery that unravels like the threads of a complex tapestry... Because the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, race relations and the legacy of apartheid are an inevitable topic, and Meyer works his social commentary into the story while remaining true to his characters... Thirteen Hours draws to a satisfying conclusion, with answers that prove surprising.

I am a reviewer of most genres of books, but I love to read and review psychological thrillers, women's fiction, contemporary novels, mystery and suspense novels, as well as some YA and even children's books.

For example, if your keywords are: mystery and suspense author or contemporary romance author or small business expertise or small business success, you'll want to insert that keyword string throughout your website in a thoughtful way.

One could easily be forgiven for consigning Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series to the war novel genre, or perhaps even historical fiction, but the simple fact is that Kerr crafts some of the finest mystery novels in contemporary fiction, noir classics set against the multiple backdrops of WWII's far - reaching stages.

These books range from fantasy to mystery to contemporary stories.

You might also want to check out the contemporary, hip Chet Gecko Private Eye (ages 5 and up) as he stars in Bruce Hale's The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse and The Mystery of Mr. Nice.

The Renaissance city of Firenze (Florence to English speakers) figures strongly in this issue of BookPage; in my Whodunit column, I reviewed Magdalen Nabb's Vita Nuova, a contemporary mystery set in the Tuscan capital.

The pairing of Ghost Month, a mesmerizing mystery set in contemporary Taiwan, with an introduction to the resolutely non-mainstream late seventies, post-punk English band Joy Division might seem unusual.

Dennis Lehane, best known for his mysteries set in contemporary Boston, draws comparisons to E.L. Doctorow's classic Ragtime with his historical novel, The Given Day.

Fred Van Lente's brilliant debut is both an homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show - business satire.

Since I finished my core series this summer, I've tried a couple of «pilots,» stories that could be developed into a new series (Torrent, a contemporary fantasy, the Swords & Salt tales, prequels for an epic fantasy trilogy I want to do, and a contemporary mystery / love story that's coming out later this month).

I think I'll stick to searching for a new traditional publisher (now that Five Star will no longer handle contemporary mysteries).

NOTE: If you know some great sources for contemporary mystery writers for the Kindle, please let me know, so I can pass them along to Darlene.

A big WHOOP - WHOOP goes out to my client Olivia Mayfield (aka writer / editor Rhonda Helms) for her new Berkley / Penguin contemporary romantic mystery THE INHERITANCE in serial format.

Christian Contemporary Romantic Mystery / Suspense Not all scars are visible... A frightened runaway wants her painful past to disappear.

Kira Snyder, Dead Letter Office (Parish Mail): a contemporary southern gothic mystery series about a teenager who discovers a cache of centuries - old letters containing clues to crimes happening in the present day.

This series has enough twists to captivate contemporary mystery readers and enough substance and background to entertain readers with historical and literary tastes.»

Today, Kindle Scout also began accepting Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Action & Adventure submissions in addition to Romance, Mystery / Thriller and Science Fiction.

Kindle Scout has today (24th February) started accepting contemporary fiction, historical fiction, and action and adventure titles in addition to romance, mystery and thriller, and science fiction and fantasy books.

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Financier J. Ezra Merkin's $ 310 million collection of Mark Rothko paintings, sold earlier this year to a mystery buyer, will be exhibited at Moscow's new Garage Center for Contemporary Culture next spring.

Often mentioned in the same breath as his near contemporaries Georg Baselitz, AR Penck, Sigmar Polke and Anselm Kiefer, Markus Lüpertz is both a big name and something of a mystery — certainly to London audiences.

The resulting series of works is shrouded in mystery, breathing life into objects that have not been displayed to the public for many years and imbuing them with a new and contemporary purpose.

Full of mystery and exuding some of the most sensitive surface qualities possible in the medium, Croissant's «House Party 6» series was one of the most outstanding discoveries of the year, by an artist known quite well in Denver's underground art - scene but new to the more mature contemporary market in which his latest developments so deserve to reside.

2013 The Games of Art, Pinnacles Gallery, Riverway Arts Centre, Thuringowa, Central Queensland, AU To see the sacred, Musée du Louvre - Lens, FR Video Vintage, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio di Janeiro, BR The Mystery of Tears, Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), Belfast, UK A Triple Tour, Conciergerie, Palais de la Cité, Paris, FR Blackbox, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, KR Video Vintage, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR Permanent Collection on view, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK Imminent Sounds - Falls and Crossings, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, TW Bill Viola: Tristan's Ascension, Stavanger Art Museum, NO Flesh & Blood, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, IL Seismic Shifts, National Academy Museum, New York, US Through a Glass Darkly: Faces Past and Present, Museum Ernst, Budapest, HU

The Dallas Museum of Art will premiere an exhibition exploring how modern and contemporary artists — from Childe Hassam and Edward Hopper to Willem De Kooning, Gerhard Richter and Catherine Opie — have drawn upon coastal landscapes as a source of inspiration, metaphor and mystery in their work.

Supported by a catalogue essay in which the curator Catherine Lampert discusses their habits and methods and introduces previously unseen writing by the artists, the exhibition will look at the way their conversations impacted on the development of their work, demonstrating that despite their wide - ranging styles they are each linked by a desire to catch what Bacon describes as «the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making», and in doing so broke new ground in contemporary painting The exhibition includes major works by each artist, several borrowed from public collections, among them Francis Bacon's Pope I 1951 from Aberdeen Art Gallery, David Hockney's Man in a Museum 1962 from the British Council and others like Frank Auerbach's Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine 1962 - 64 and Euan Uglow's Nude, Lady C 1959 - 60 which have not been seen in public for many years.

The Museum of Contemporary Art appears to be headed toward a potentially unpleasant speed bump on the road to recovery from several years of well - documented troubles: Its upcoming exhibition program is a mystery.