The Hood Library at MAPC: Recent Acquisitions

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism by Denise Murrell (Editor)

Please visit the Hood Library this coming Sunday to borrow this book—or any other of our recent acquisitions below. The Hood Library’s fine collection—a congregational treasure since 1931—is open on Sundays for perusal and borrowing.

• The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

  by Denise Murrell (Editor)

  This volume reexamines the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black creativity and is the companion book for the current Harlem Renaissance special exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• The New Heart: An Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount

  by Frederick Neumann

  These lectures were delivered 1946-1947 in the residence of Frederick and Edith Neumann (a now-deceased member of MAPC) in Haifa during the British Mandate. "The distinctive quality of Dr. Neumann’s sermons marks them off from most that I have read or heard.” - David H.C. Read

• In the Footsteps of Jesus

  by Roy Lennox

  By understanding the political, social, and religious dynamics surrounding the Gospels, the reader will gain new insights into their meaning. Using the best scholarship, this book is aimed at intellectually curious believers of all faiths.

• Buried But Not Quite Dead

  by Anthony Daniels

  While many famous writers—Balzac, Proust, Oscar Wilde—are buried at Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery, “there are also writers, many more of them in fact, buried there who have been completely forgotten.”

• Absolution

  by Alice McDermott

  A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott provides a riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. From the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

• Normal Women

  by Philippa Gregory

  The author tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women—some fifty percent of the population—at center stage.

• Leonard Bernstein

  by Barry Seldes

  Seldes illuminates the ways in which Bernstein’s career intersected with the twentieth century's most momentous events.

• North Woods: A Novel

  by Daniel Mason

  When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike.

• The Power of Thank You

  by Joyce Meyer

  Adopt a lifestyle of thanksgiving with the help of this inspiring book and discover that no matter how messy life gets, God will make it good.