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The Flower of the Cedar: A Novel

Kay ben-Avraham
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Shall These Bones Breathe? Short Stories

Dr. Sørina Higgins
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How to Learn How to Think: What the Liberal Arts are Good For, Anyway

Prof. Michael D.C. Drout
Eagle & Dragon

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Within a hand-drawn wooden frame carven with leaves and vines is a piece of parchment bearing the title Exploring the Lord of the Rings Volume I and at the bottom the name of our author, Corey Olsen. Between title and name is another beautifully drawn scene all in wood colors: on a bit of oaken table, behind a small thick mat, a round picture is posed on its edge. The picture itself has a circular frame, rubbed smooth with a bit of crasftsman-style trapezoid carving at the top and each side. The frame seems to be oak as well, but the picture within is drawn as though it is a hundred, two hundred intricate inlays of ebony, birch, pine, maple, mahogany, just a painstaking masterpiece made with love. This picture is of the road leading away, drawing us ever onward, first past lovely flowers in a meadow, then through rolling fields, past an ancient willow tree, over a bridge, past mounded hobbit holes—or are they barrows? The terrain becomes rougher in the distance, and after a pass between two light, old, rounded mountains, the ranges in the distance are black, jagged, and foreboding. The sky is dark except at the horizon, and shows a handful of scattered stars and a crescent moon that looks new. But wait! the curve of the moon is upward to the right, yet there are stars in that direction, not sun; this could only be a moment of lunar eclipse, a time of possibility and wonder.
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Exploring The Lord of the Rings, Volume I

Dr. Corey Olsen
Eagle & Dragon

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Cover art by Emily Austin

A Waiter Made of Glass: Stories and Poems

Verlyn Flieger
Quickbeam Books

Release date: Spring 2023

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The Silmarillion Primer

Jeff LaSala
Eagle & Dragon

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Exploring Beowulf

Prof. Michael D.C. Drout
Eagle & Dragon

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The title Channeling King Arthur Through the Mediums: Essays from Signum University Students is printed on a white translucent rectangle in the lower third of the cover. The rectangle is further defined by a slender purple line near the border. At the bottom is a purple rectangle extending to the left, bottom, and right edges declaring in white text that the work is Edited by Sørina Higgins. The illustration for the cover, which seems painted, is a scene with roiling purple storm clouds in a sunset-golden sky. In the foreground we see a moss-covered stone about 80 centimeters high and the same width at its base, although it narrows a bit and seems to point upward. The stone is either at the top of a rise of land or perhaps is a bit of bedrock itself, dislocated into an upward thrust by ancient tectonic upheaval. A figure of legend centers this picture, King Arthur himself. He is crowned with a golden circlet bearing ruby and aquamarine cabuchons with sapphire peaks. His hair is red-blond and both his hair and his moutaches show curls. His beard, however, belies his entry into middle age with some white whiskers. Arthur’s face shows a grimace which suggests shouting anger. His majesty’s red cloak streams away to the left, indicating the direction of the wind. He is dressed in blue with a scale mail shirt and gold-decoated greaves. Below his extended arm, we can see a simple serifed cross on a necklace and a broad belt which has a pocket for his cell phone and a charging-scabbard for his light saber. The saber itself glows blue and strikes sparks against the stone. But Arthur is not drawing the sword out: he has not positioned himself above the sword to lift mightily nor has he engaged his upper body in that motion. His arms are extended, both hands grip the minimally decorated light saber hilt, and the sword points downward slightly toward Arthur’s foot. The king, already crowned and mature, is not pulling the sword from the stone, but striking downward, cutting into the stone. Is he destroying a source of evil? Is he marking a place to honor the fallen? Is King Arthur laser-blasting a hiding place for his sword in the very bones of the land—to wait, hidden by leaves and dirt and time, unregarded, until Excalibur and the rightwise born sovereign of Britain are needed again?
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Channeling King Arthur through the Mediums

Signum University Press

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Fallible Aesthetics

James Hamby
Quickbeam Books

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Cardinal Vices in Middle-Earth

Martina Juričková
Signum University Press

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Arms and White Samite

Brad Patty
Quickbeam Books

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