New London Librarium

05/25/2019

Art books by Wells Moore, Mark Patnode, and Colleen Hennessy.

04/11/2019

From a book for people who appreciate insight and ideas, "The Best Chronicles of Rubem Alves":

Psychoanalysis is an eye with which we see a world different from the others. It wasn’t psychoanalysis that discovered these worlds. It had already been seen by mystics, poets, and artists since time immemorial. They saw it and turned it sensible through painting, sculpture, music, poems, songs, cathedrals, cuisine, and literary works. The genius of psychoanalysis is that it discovered that the works of art are more than works of art: They are entries into the world of the soul. A dream—the prototype of all the works of art!..
Psychoanalysis sees the body as a work of art. A work of art incarnate. Paraphrasing scripture, which says “The Word is made Flesh,” I say, “Beauty is made Body.”…But its relationship with this incarnate Beauty is the same relationship that exists between rational criticism and emotional experience. Psychoanalysis, as theory, is a rational exercise that investigates the “reasons,” the human meaning that is found in the roots of this incarnate work of art. But the emotions are in another place.
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You can "look inside" this book at amazon. And if you get the paperback, you can have the Kindle edition for free.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Chronicles-Rubem-Alves/dp/0996674780/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1476101841&sr=1-1-fkmr0

A collection of short essays by Brazil's most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, writer and professor, Rubem Alves, who died in 2014. The foreword is by his daughter, Raquel Alves, and the Introduction is by Brazilian culture critic Ana Lessa-Schmidt.

03/22/2019

The world's first English translation of Machado de Assis's "Bons Dias! Chronicles," — "Good Days! The Chronicles of Machado de Assis 1888-1889

Now available at NLLibrarium/brasil

05/03/2018

These are some of the titles published by New London Librarium. For more, see NLLibrarium.com .

10/27/2017

You know somebody who's nuts about cats, right?

Well that person wants this book, which is only $9 at amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/194707413X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508171354&sr=8-1&keywords=the+cat+caboodle%3A+a+litter+box

The Cat Caboodle has about half a ton of facts about millenniums of cats, stuff a lot of people don’t know. Even cats don’t know this stuff. (Well, some of it.) The Caboodle is a book for people who love cats and want to know them better, inside and out. It’s an odd compendium of curiosities that...

10/06/2017

07/26/2017

Coming soon from New London Librarium...

07/18/2017

Mark Patnode's "Cultivating Illuminations" reported in The Day:

http://www.theday.com/article/20170718/ENT10/170719348

New London Librarium has published a book of oil paintings by local artist Mark Patnode.“Cultivating Illuminations” features sections

06/24/2017

Amazon has a list of all New London Librarium books. And here it is:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=New+london+librarium

06/04/2017

New London Librarium published three books this weekend:

To the Ends of the Earth: The Memoir of a a Missionary sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998543667/ref=sr_1_3…

Cultivating Illuminations: Paintings by Mark Patnode
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998543691/ref=sr_1_2…

On Women: Paintings by Colleen Hennessy
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Paintings-Colleen-Hennessy/dp/0998543683/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496307659&sr=8-1&keywords=colleen+hennessy%5D

The autobiography of Sister Maria Barbagallo, MSC, including her childhood in Italy in the 1940s, her time in Central America during the upheavals, and her experience as General Superior of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

06/02/2017

On Women: Paintings by Colleen Hennessy, with insightful quotes on the theme of women.

02/24/2017

From Tender Returns:
Beside the girl sits a stranger: the doctor. For isn’t the doctor a stranger? Yes, a stranger because he doesn’t belong in the daily life of the family. Nevertheless, when there’s a struggle between love and death, he’s the one who’s called.
The doctor thinks hard. His elbow is resting on his knee. His chin is rest in his hand. He isn’t think ing about what to do. The potions on the little table show that what can be done has been done. His meditative form occurs after carrying out the medical measures, after depleting his knowledge and his power. It would be good if he could withdraw, for he has already done what he can do… But no. He remains. He waits. He has to live with his powerlessness. Maybe he’s praying. Everyone prays when love finds itself powerless. Prayer is this: this communion with love above the emptiness… Maybe he is silently asking forgiveness form the parents for being so weak in the face of death. And maybe his meditative waiting is a confession. I, too, am suffering…
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998273066/ref=sr_1_2…

A collection of short, fascinating essays by one of Brazil's most beloved writers. A philosopher, theologian, psychotherapist, and professor, Alves writes with depth on seemingly simple topics. He touches on candles, popcorn, love, s*x, nature, gardening, politics, bu****it, death, cooking, and m...

01/01/2017

Art of Love:
Paintings by Colleen Hennessy, Thoughts from Rubem Alves

Beautiful images. Lovely thoughts. Give this book to someone you love. Satisfaction guaranteed.

12/22/2016

Nova tradução em inglês--"The Best Chronicles of Rubem Alves":

"I write like a sleepwalker, perhaps in the hope that words might succeed in diminishing my pain. But I don’t want the pain to diminish. I don’t want to be cured. I don’t want to be consoled. I don’t want to become happy again. When pain dies down it’s because forgetfulness has done its job. But I don’t want to forget. Love can’t stand forgetfulness."

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Chronicles-Rubem-Alves/dp/0996674780/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476101841&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=the+best+chronicles+of+rubber+Alves

A collection of short essays by Brazil's most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, writer and professor, Rubem Alves, who died in 2014. The foreword is by his daughter, Raquel Alves, and the Introduction is by Brazilian culture critic Ana Lessa-Schmidt.

06/21/2016

June 21 is the birthday of Machado de Assis, Brazil’s most renowned writer and one of the most influential in the history of literature. He was born in Rio de janeiro in 1839 to a son of freed slaves and a Portuguese washerwoman from the Azores. As an adolescent, he worked in a bookstore and became an apprentice typographer. He published a poem at the age of 15 and soon began selling stories to newspapers. At first, they were merely recounts of social life in the Brazilian capital as it wrestled with the rigid social structure it had inherited from Portugal, tales of bureaucracy and young people trying to marry into wealthier circumstances. After a serious nervous crisis caused by epilepsy, he suddenly began writing more serious, sophisticated works. His style varied from impressionism to realism to surrealism. He wrote stories, novels, essays, and poems. He taught himself English, German, and Greek. He founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Harold Bloom’s list of histories 100 greatest writers put him in the ranks of Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Flaubert, Twain, Joyce, and Swift. He died in 1908.

New London Librarium is proud to have published two collections of Machado’s stories, most never before translated into English. Their titles are Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis and Miss Dollar: Stories by Machado de Assis. Both are bilingual, with English and Portuguese side by side.

06/15/2016

Miss Dollar: Stories by Machado de Assis—Bilingual Edition is now available in a paperback and digital editions. See NLLibrarium.com/dollar .