Welcome to The Flannery O’Connor Library
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Forks over knives : the plant-based way to health
The omnivore’s dilemma : a natural history of four mealsOffers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food lifeThe author tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia from Arizona in order to live a simpler life, grow their own food, and live among a community of local organic growers.
Capitalism & slavery
Playing ShakespeareJohn Barton guides members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in nine intensive acting workshops, demonstrating how the Company makes Shakespeare’s classic plays accessible to modern audiences without compromising the text’s integrity.
The adventure of English the life story of a remarkable languageContains eight episodes of the British mini-series which examines the history of the English language from its Germanic beginnings, and discusses how it became a premier language used throughout the world.
UlyssesUlysses’ return from the Trojan Wars sets him upon a legendary adventure. He and his crew sail under the curse of Cassandra, and encounter Circe, the sirens and the cyclops.
- Swan lake
The Medieval German tale of a prince who falls in love with a beautiful maiden but is deceived into betrothing himself to her evil twin instead.
- Romero
Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a ’terror campaign’ against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero’s protests against governments’ actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder priests. Despite persecution, Romero continued to speak out against the atrocities the government was committing against the people of El Salvador, until his assassination.
- The Odyssey
The Odyssey: Aided by the goddess Athena, warrior-king Odysseus braves the terrors and temptations of a fantastic array of creatures as his return from the Trojan War becomes a decade-long quest to reach his homeland and his faithful wife, Penelope. Gulliver’s Travels: An 18th century Englishman travels to mystical lands filled with cunning sorcery, talking beasts and encounters with a mysterious tiny society.
