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Justin Wiggins

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in Black Mountain, North Carolina , The United States
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C.S.Lewis, Seamus Heaney, George MacDonald, J.R.R.Tolkien, Christina R ...more

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Justin Wiggins is an author who works and lives in the primitive, majestic,beautiful mountains of North Carolina. He graduated with his bachelor's in English literature, with a focus on C.S. Lewis studies, from Montreat College in May 2018. In March of 2026 he graduated from The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland with a Postgraduate Diploma in Information and Library Studies.His first book was Surprised by Agape, published by Grant Hudson of Clarendon House Publications. His second book, Surprised By Myth, was co-written with Grant Hudson and published in 2021. His most recent books, Marty & Irene, Tír na nÓg, Celtic Twilight, Celtic Song, Ragnarok, Celtic Dawn, Sacred Space, co- written with Matthew Huff, and Avalon, were all p ...more

Artists, Myth & Hope has been published by Grant Hudson of Clarendon House Publications!

Artists, Myth & Hope has been officially published by Grant Hudson of Clarendon House Publications! This is my tenth book, it is dedicated to J. R.R. Tolkien, and I am thankful for the endorsement from Dr. Don King and Dr. Steven Beebe.

I look forward to holding a physical copy in my hands, am currently planning a book signing event, and getting in some copies at the local Barnes & Noble. Writing Read more of this blog post »
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Surprised by Agape: A perso...

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Tír na nÓg

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Celtic Song

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Marty & Irene

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Celtic Twilight

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Troppo doloroso per Vonnegut scrivere questo libro. Tra i fatti raccontati e la loro rappresentazione ha dovuto mettere un tempo sufficiente, vent'anni, per smorzarne il terrore, l'orrore, il dolore.

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I found this really nice cheap paperback copy of Seamus Heaney's poetry at Reader's Corner in Raleigh, North Carolina. Reading this volume of poetry by Heaney traces the beginning of his vocation as a poet, and conveys his love for Ireland, language, ...more
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J.R.R. Tolkien
“And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of the minstrel rose like silver and gold, and all men were hushed. And he sang to them, now in the Elven-tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

Alix E. Harrow
“Words and their meanings have weight in the world of matter, shaping and reshaping realities through a most ancient alchemy.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

J.R.R. Tolkien
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

C.S. Lewis
“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

Frederick Buechner
“It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
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