In his newest book, “Totality,” Brendan Lyons imagines a dystopian future where people are given the opportunity to receive a brand new, genetically modified, “perfect” body. This process, called a “switchover” takes place by implanting the person’s brain into the new body.
Penguin Random House is beginning to market a special release coming this August: a picture-book biography of acclaimed children’s book creator Barbara Cooney.
This year’s 74th annual celebration features books, films and television programs that showcase themes of hope, generosity and the quiet, often unseen heroism born of selfless acts.
The Central Minnesota Catholic asked members of the local Eucharistic Revival teams to weigh in on what they will be reading this Lenten season. Here is a sampling of their responses.
“That’s where every human being lives: doubt in tension with faith, despair in tension with hope, hardness in tension with charity.”
“At a moment when even the most optimistic among us grasps for hope at times during our current mental health pandemic comes three helpful survival guides, reminding us about where our hope in anchored.”
What connects these three books is the important role that parents play in the faith lives of their children. Each approaches the topic from a different perspective.
“I write mainly about friendship, relationship, marriage and being a mom in central Minnesota. My goal was to be real,” SarahMarlette said.
