Sentences with phrase «remarkable reading sets»

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On a more serious note, «although no good Catholic novel should read like a theological tract, it is remarkable that a book whose hero has his heart set on damnation should ultimately reaffirm the power of grace.»

As someone steeped in the technicality of how our team at Revive & Restore will employ advancing biotechnologies to achieve our goal of ecological restoration it was a welcome and heartening reprieve to read an entertaining and creative take on how fictional twelve - year - old Chris remakes the passenger pigeon with some help from a remarkable secret family history while treading secretly himself to defy the limitations set upon him for his young age.

A USA Today Bestseller Winner of a National Jewish Book Award Winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award An Amazon Best Book of the Year One of Ms. Magazine's «Bookmark» Titles One of The Jewish Exponent's «2017's Top Reads» Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty - first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history.

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