The pursuit of tamsen littlejohn5/21/2023 ![]() But could this challenging frontier life be what her soul has longed for, what God has been leading her toward? As pursuit draws ever nearer, will her faith see her through the greatest danger of all-loving a man who has risked everything for her?Ĭonvinced that Tamsen has been kidnapped, wealthy suitor Ambrose Kincaid follows after her, in company with her equally determined stepfather. With one life left behind and chaos on the horizon, Tamsen struggles to adapt to a life for which she was never prepared. The State of Franklin has been declared, but many remain loyal to North Carolina. With trouble in pursuit, Tamsen and Jesse find themselves thrust into the conflict of a divided community of Overmountain settlers. As the two cross a vast mountain wilderness, Tamsen faces hardships that test the limits of her faith and endurance.Ĭonvinced that Tamsen has been kidnapped, wealthy suitor Ambrose Kincaid follows after her, in company with her equally determined stepfather. But shedding her old life doesn’t come without cost. ![]() Forsaking security and an arranged marriage, she enlists frontiersman Jesse Bird to guide her to the Watauga settlement in western North Carolina. In an act of brave defiance, Tamsen Littlejohn escapes the life her harsh stepfather has forced upon her. Frontier dangers cannot hold a candle to the risks one woman takes by falling in love ![]()
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The masonic myth by jay kinney5/21/2023 ![]() a book which has the excitement of a thriller with the benefit of being factual. And it's a great story!? (Jim Tresner 33 Grand Cross, Book Review Editor, The Scottish Rite Journal), ". This is real-life (as opposed to ?reality?) Freemasonry. ![]() Even those who know a lot about it will benefit from the broad and generous perspective that the founder of "Gnosis Magazine" brings to it.", The Masonic Myth finally sets the record straight about the Freemasons,revealing that the truth is far more compelling than the stories., Kinney does a great job of sharing a whole lot of never-before-seen inside stuff in an easilyunderstood way., '. And it's a great story!? (Jim Tresner 33° Grand Cross, Book Review Editor, The Scottish Rite Journal), Kinney's book, "Masonic Myth," delves into the mysterious history of the Freemasons and carefully dispels rumors and misconceptions about the brotherhood., Kinney does a great job of sharing a whole lot of never-before-seen inside stuff in an easily understood way., "This should be the first book anyone reads about Freemasonry. ![]() ![]() Wallace infinite jest5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() That gambling can be an abusable escape, too, and work, shopping, and shoplifting, and sex, and abstention, and masturbation, and food, and exercise, and meditation/prayer That loneliness is not a function of solitude That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. Then that most nonaddicted adult civilians have already absorbed and accepted this fact, often rather early on That sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused That purposeful sleep-deprivation can also be an abusable escape. ![]() ![]() “If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA's state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. ![]() A respectable trade book5/21/2023 ![]() What is Mehuru's role in his African tribe? To what extent do his gift of prophecy and his linguistic abilities enable him to endure the hardships of the middle passage and his enslavement in England?Ģ. ![]() From the opposite ends of the earth, despite the enmity of slavery, Mehuru and Frances confront each other and their needs for love and liberty.ġ. Into her new world comes Mehuru, once a priest in the ancient African kingdom of Yoruba. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, Frances enters the world of Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune depend on the respectable trade of sugar, rum, and slaves. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife.Īn arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. ![]() Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its shipping docks to its elegant new houses. The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th-century Bristol, England, are explored through the powerful but FORBIDDEN attraction of well-born Frances Scott and her Yoruban slave, Mehuru. ![]() My name is parvana book5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She moved to Toronto at age 17 to work as an activist advocating for nonviolence. Brief Biography of Deborah Ellisīorn in Cochrane, Ontario, Deborah Ellis decided at age 11 that she wanted to write. The Breadwinner: Theme WheelĪn interactive data visualization of The Breadwinner's plot and themes. The Breadwinner: SymbolsĮxplanations of The Breadwinner's symbols, and tracking of where they appear. The Breadwinner: Termsĭescription, analysis, and timelines for The Breadwinner's terms. The Breadwinner: Charactersĭescription, analysis, and timelines for The Breadwinner's characters. The Breadwinner's important quotes, sortable by theme, character, or chapter. The Breadwinner: ThemesĮxplanations, analysis, and visualizations of The Breadwinner's themes. In-depth summary and analysis of every chapter of The Breadwinner. The Breadwinner: Detailed Summary & Analysis The Breadwinner: Plot SummaryĪ quick-reference summary: The Breadwinner on a single page. ![]() A concise biography of Deborah Ellis plus historical and literary context for The Breadwinner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Isaac Asimov devised his Three Laws of Robotics he was thinking about androids. The original painting for the illustration of the "Battle For the Moon" article in this issue (see scan), a work by Tom Leonard, is also available, separately inquire. Asimov read those stories and realised that robots would be machines. Articles include Battle For the Moon, The New Frontier of Sex Research, The Secrets of Flight, The Thinking Computer, Asteroid on Trial, The Human Machine, The 6,500-Mile-Wide Telescope, Defying the Wind, The Earth Is Burning, Amazing Laser Rocks, Ancient Food of the Future, The Legendary Ostrich People, The Moron Scandal, and more items (see scan of contents page). Asimov introduces the Talking Robot in the museum to contrast Robbie and other robots like him with older, clunky computers, which would have been much closer to the machines that were contemporary to Asimov’s time in the 1940s and 1950s. The Thirteen Crimes of Science Fiction Thirteen Horrors of Halloween Those Amazing Electronic Thinking Machines Three by Asimov Through a Glass, Clearly. One section of the pages in Science Digest at this time in its life was printed on newsprint that section invariably shows some modest age-toning, as is the case here. Very Good Plus some edge wear, notable only at lower left of front cover, and one small closed cut at right edge of cover. Quarto, illustrated stapled wraps, 112 pp. ![]() ![]() The June, 1982 issue of Science Digest, Volume 90, Number 6. ![]() The Object-Lesson by Edward Gorey5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() 15 1/2 x 11" - with the image this large you can really see the intricate line work that Edward Gorey was famous for. The print was part of a folio of work published in 1979 - the back bears the number 14 and a smaller illustration from a Broadway production of "Dracula." ![]() The text reads: "On the shore, a bat, or possibly an umbrella, disengaged itself from the shrubbery, causing those nearby to recollect the miseries of childhood." The three-paneled page shows a bleak landscape, bare trees, a BAT (or umbrella) and three people clad in the Victorian attire for which Gorey was fond of depicting, complete with tweed overcoats, top hats, and moustachioed men. The print features a scene from his fourth book "THE OBJECT-LESSON," originally published in 1958. This is a wonderful large-scale print that features the artwork of EDWARD GOREY. ![]() Fair Play by Tove Jansson5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() She and her partner of more than forty years, visual artist Tuulikki Pietilä, spent winters in Helsinki and nearly thirty years of long summers alone together on the tiny island of Klovharun in an archipelago off the coast of Finland. She came from a family of artists and, in addition to being a writer, was serious about her painting and illustration. Tove Jansson knew these empty spaces well. There are empty spaces that must be respected-those often long periods when a person can’t see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone. They never asked, “Were you able to work today?” Maybe they had, twenty or thirty years earlier, but they’d gradually learned not to. She could pause on the way to listen to the rain on the metal roof, look out across the city as it lit its lights, or just linger for the pleasure of it. Mari liked wandering across the attic it drew a necessary, neutral interval between their domains. They lived at opposite ends of a large apartment building near the harbor, and between the studios lay the attic, an impersonal no-man’s-land of tall corridors with locked plank doors on either side. ![]() Love is the cure elton john5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() That gives you the whole weekend to think about it. How do you get one? We want to know what you would ask Elton John if you had five minutes to chat with him? Whether about his career, his advocacy or even his fun feud with Madonna, what would you want to know about the legendary gay icon? Send your questions to me here with “I Want Elton” in the subject line and winners will be selected on Monday. The book, which is titled Love Is the Cure: Ending the Global AIDS Epidemic, is due to be published by Hodder & Stoughton in July. Why are we not doing more? This is a question I have thought deeply about, and wish to answer-and help to change-by writing this book,” John wrote. “This is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges of compassion. ![]() This led to the creation of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. ![]() In it, John recounts his own life and career during the height of the AIDS crisis and how the death of Ryan White both devastated and charged the singer to take a stand against the epidemic. Earlier this week, singer Elton John released his book Love is the Cure: On Life, Loss and the End of AIDS. ![]() Meg the trench steve alten5/20/2023 ![]() Why readers love The Meg'Two words: Jurassic shark.' LA Times'An adrenaline-pumping thriller. Drawn into a web of deceit and lies, plagued by nightmares of his own death, Taylor must once again face frightening monsters of unimaginable power.And this time, it's not just the sharks he has to watch out for.A high-stakes, fast-paced adventure thriller, perfect for anyone who loves disaster movies or authors like Matthew Reilly and Michael Crichton. ![]() Based on the 1997 novel by Steve Alten, the film featured. ![]() ![]() Four years after the incident at the Mariana Trench that unleashed a pregnant Megalodon, Meg, the giant prehistoric great white shark, is dead, and Jonas Taylor now houses her one surviving offspring at the Tanaka Institute.But Meg's spawn is now grown to a monstrous size and she's ready to breed.Deeply in debt, Taylor has turned to an eccentric billionaire to help keep the institute afloat, but it doesn't come without a price. Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes readers to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. 2018s The Meg, starring Jason Statham, was one of the biggest movies of the year grossing over half a billion dollars worldwide. SOON TO BE A HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER STARRING JASON STATHAM.For the first time, the captive 20-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood - and it wants more.They thought it was over. ![]() |