New Releases by Lynn Roberts

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination.

This highly imaginative and unusual spin on the Little Red Riding Hood is set in the late eighteenth century - a time of big wigs, satin gowns, powdered faces and wicked highwaymen! Illustrated by David Roberts, of Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer fame, Little Red is the story of a boy, a grandmother, a big bad wolf, and a keg of delicious ginger beer. Young Thomas is known as Little Red. He lives with his parents in a cosy inn, famous for its sweet and fizzy ginger beer. Every week, Little Red visits his grandmother with food and a barrel of the ginger beer. But on this visit, grandma doesn't quite look herself. Can Little Red save Grandma, and himself, from the big bad wolf? Look out for more fairy tales with a twist from David and Lynn Roberts!

Young Annabel lives in the 1950s and dreams of a future with jetpacks, flying cars and robots. However, little does she know that she is living under an evil spell that could mean she has no future at all... When the curse is fulfilled on her 16th birthday and she falls asleep for 1000 years, her house is overgrown by a magnificent rose tree. A young explorer called Zoe discovers the story of Sleeping Beauty, but can she find Annabel in time to lift the curse and show her what the future actually looks like?

Meet a truly funky, flares-clad fairy-tale heroine and a genuinely frightening villain in this hilarious re-working of a much-loved fairy tale. Poor Rapunzel can only dream about the world outside because her Aunt Edna keeps her locked up in their tower-block home. The lifts don't work and Aunt Edna is too lazy to take the stairs, so she uses Rapunzel's extraordinarily long hair to climb in and out of their tiny flat. Rapunzel's life is confined within orange and brown flower-printed walls, with only her beloved records for solace. But then one day, a handsome stranger climbs up her hair and a new adventure begins. Set in the glamorous seventies, this lively retelling is bursting with colourful period detail. Other books in the series: Sleeping Beauty, Little Red and Cinderella.

Cinderella moves into the era of flapper girls and the Charleston in a new telling of this famous rags-to-riches tale. Blinded by love, Cinderella’s father marries unwisely and brings home a heartless wife, and her bossy and wicked daughters, Elvira and Ermintrude. They will stop at nothing to make life miserable for Cinderella. On the day of a grand ball at the Palace, the wicked stepfamily get dressed in their finery to attend, leaving poor Cinders behind. However, Cinderella is visited by a kind fairy godmother, with exquisite fashion sense. In her beautiful beaded dress and glass slippers, Cinderella catches Prince Roderick’s heart, but then on the stroke of midnight has to desert him. Will true love find a way to bring them back together again? Other titles in the series: Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and Little Red.

Shari Santosa perfect life was shattered by tragedy, leaving her a single mom with a young son. Rebuilding her life, she becomes an investigative reporter in Miami, while trying to fill the role of both mother and father to her son. While researching a story on gangs, Shari meets Detective Nicholas Michaels. Sparks fly as Nick definitely doesnat like reportersaespecially those who interfere with his job. And he has a pretty low opinion of career-oriented moms as well. During the course of her investigation, Shari becomes concerned that her eleven-year-old son is involved with a gang. Should she enlist Nickas assistance and incur yet another lecture, or continue to handle the situation on her own? Trying to hold her small family together, Shari has some difficult choices to make. Through her faith and the support of friends, she finds the strength she needs and, even more, a second chance to love.

Days on the street have a sameness about them. The kids hang out, panhandle, they steal, they tell each other stories, they fall in love and lust and hate. They steal from the tourists and they steal from each other. They shoplift from stores and they break into cars. Some of them sell their bodies. Tony has lived on the streets of Hollywood his entire young life. Clever, witty, and fiercely independent, he has managed to survive the many dangers and pitfalls the streets have laid out to catch him. But for how much longer? Now Tony is enmeshed in a web of danger, caught up in the underworld of drugs and pornography, pursued by hitmen, and not knowing who he can trust, if anyone. Enter Bob Davis, a grieving Pulitzer Prize winning news photographer. On sabbatical, he finds himself drawn to Tonys story, and then into the treacherous world of Hollywoods streets. Our children arent living on the streets. They are dying there.

Heiress Ann Forester did not care that she was plain. She prided herself on her skill at the pianoforte and her superior intellect. She certainly would not let a dashing rake outwit her. Lord Robert Lyndhurst had challenged her to a contest--he would try to seduce her, and she must try to reform him. But neither realized how dangerous it was to play with desire.

Dist. for Merrell Holberton, London.

This book is the culmination of over twenty years' work by Mitchell and Roberts, widely known frame historians and consultants. They have undertaken photographic surveys of frames in most major museums in Europe and North America, as well as in many historic houses and exhibitions. This analysis of frame styles and their inter-relationships over eight centuries is organised by nationality and period with fifty-six carefully constructed diagrams in the form of framemakers' pattern books, interspersed with thirty-eight plates of framed paintings. Components are drawn directly from photographs of 268 frames original or contemporary to their pictures.

Three charming tales of holiday romance in Regency England include "Valentine Chase" by Valerie King, Meg-lynn Roberts's "Lovers' Vows," and "Music of the Heart" by Olivia Sumner. Original.

In this charming Christmas tale, an impoverished lady finds love and romance in the arms of the dashing rake who has pledged to marry her charge. One of the most popular Regency authors around.--Romantic Times. Regency romance.

Francesca Verdant found her prolonged stay in London rather tiresome, and she wasn't particularly impressed with any of the gentlemen she met, especially the one they called My Lord Perfection. After rudely bumping her at the Chatterington Ball and landing them both in the punch bowl, Andrew Tolland Hansohm was the last person with whom she wanted to cultivate a friendship. Or was it? Regency Romance.

In this lively Holiday Regency, a masked stranger and a mysterious brew lead to love, intrigue and mayhem on All Hallow's Eve. Blanche is trapped by a raging storm in a shabby little inn, when suddenly a mysterious stranger dressed all in black steals through her window and leads her on a magical night of romantic adventure.