5/30/2023 0 Comments Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers![]() Separating the many myths from the facts, Jonathan Rogers weaves a wonder-filled tale of courage, barbarism, betrayal, and hope in God’s unceasing faithfulness. Both humble enough to minister to beggars and bold enough to confront kings, Patrick led the Irish through his brave and compassionate service into the Christian faith and baptized thousands. Then, after returning home, he experienced a dream that changed everything: God wanted him to go back and take the Gospel to the country of his captors. As he worked as a shepherd in the pastures of his new owner, he kindled the faith he’d inherited from his family and eventually escaped to freedom. ![]() ![]() Despite his terrible circumstances, young Patrick did not give way to despair. Patrick was born the son of privilege and position, but he was only a teenager when he was taken from his home in Roman Britain by marauders and sold into slavery in Ireland. In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author Jonathan Rogers explores the life of Saint Patrick: slave, shepherd, and courageous missionary. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Queen of fire by anthony ryan![]() ![]() Victory rests on the shoulders of Vaelin Al Sorna, now named Battle Lord of the Realm. She must align herself with forces she once found repugnant-those who possess the strange and varied gifts of the Dark-and take the war to her enemy’s doorstep. Except, to accomplish her goals, she must do more than rally her loyal supporters. ![]() Sorting truth from myth is often a fruitless task.”Īfter fighting back from the brink of death, Queen Lyrna is determined to repel the invading Volarian army and regain the independence of the Unified Realm. “The Ally is there, but only ever as a shadow, unexplained catastrophe or murder committed at the behest of a dark vengeful spirit. Only his enemy has a dangerous new collaborator, one with powers darker than Vaelin has ever encountered… In the thrilling conclusion to the “deftly and originally executed” ( Booklist) New York Times bestselling trilogy, Vaelin Al Sorna must help his Queen reclaim her Realm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Osborne’s stories not only took us on incredible adventures – from a 19th century twister in the United States to ancient Greece and beyond – but showed us what was possible in the world of books. We eagerly awaited the release of the latest book in the series and the thrill of exploring the Osborne display at the Roaring Brook School Scholastic Book Fair every year. The Magic Tree House books were a staple of our childhoods. And this year, book lovers of all ages will have the opportunity to meet Osborne herself at the Tenth Annual Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival on September 30, 2023. For countless children – including the two of us – these words were the entryway to the wonders of literature and a lifelong love of reading. ![]() ![]() Mary Pope Osborne’s timeless words are the start of a thrilling adventure. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The ghost map by steven johnson![]() ![]() The second man is Henry Whitehead, a vicar in the Golden Square neighborhood, known for his wide-ranging intellect and gregarious manner. The first man is John Snow, a doctor and renowned anesthesiologist, whose theory (one that is accepted today as medical fact) that cholera was contracted through drinking contaminated water was at odds with the then-popular theory of “miasma,” or that people contracted cholera through breathing in foul air. The book follows two men who in different ways were instrumental in uncovering the true source of the epidemic, and who ended up becoming friends and working together. Each chapter of the nine-chapter book, excluding the conclusion and the epilogue, is subtitled with a day of the week. The book unfolds over the course of a week in September 1854, when the outbreak was at its height. The cesspool in turn contaminated the nearby Broad Street well, infecting many of the citizens who drank from it. The first cholera victim in the neighborhood was an infant-known in the book as baby Lewis-whose soiled diaper was flung into the cesspool at the foot of the Lewis household. The outbreak was concentrated in the Golden Square neighborhood of Soho and claimed hundreds of lives over the span of a week. ![]() The immediate subject of The Ghost Map is the cholera outbreak that took place in London in 1854. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments In Search of Lucy by Lia Fairchild![]() Due to the poverty of her clan, and her natural prowess with a sword, she joined the group thieves led by her brother, who roam the countryside looking for unsuspecting travelers from whom they “request” a donation to the fund for wayward highwaymen. The heroine of my new release, TRUE HIGHLAND SPIRIT, has an unusual occupation for a laird’s daughter in medieval Scotland. When she realizes she must travel to Houston where her sister is, she is reluctant to fly. But when her sister needs a kidney transplant, Lucy is the only one who can save her life. For years Lucy sacrificed her own needs to care for her half sister and alcoholic mother, only to be abandoned by both. But as the story progressed and Lucy needed to reunite with her sister the idea of a physical journey was appealing given that my character was going through an internal journey as well. When I came up with the idea for IN SEARCH OF LUCY, I hadn’t planned on putting a road trip in the book. Readers love to share the adventures of these characters as they travel from place to place, experiencing the unexpected. ![]() Often it’s in the form of comedy, romance, disasters or even horror. When people say “road trip” do you conjure up visions of people chanting “Vegas baby” while crammed into a beat-up, two-door car? Or maybe it’s The Ricardos and The Mertzs singing “California Here We Come.” Whatever your vision of a road trip may be, it usually spells adventure in books and movies. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Bellmaker by Brian Jacques![]() ![]() Barron’s Merlin saga, John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, and J. Will the Bellmaker and his companions arrive in time to help Mariel and Dandin? The Bellmaker The Redwall series is soon to be a Netflix original movie New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques masterfully recounts more woodland. ![]() ![]() As they push over land and sea, they cannot know the terrible threats they face. The Redwall series is soon to be a Netflix original movieNew York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques masterfully recounts more woodland adventures in. Joseph and four Redwallers set off at once to aid them. Clearly, Mariel and Dandin are in grave danger. Then one night, in a dream, the legendary Martin the Warrior comes to the Bellmaker with a mysterious message. New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques masterfully recounts more woodland adventures in the seventh epic in the Redwall series It has been four seasons since Mariel, the warrior-mouse daughter of Joseph the Bellmaker, and her companion, Dandin, set off from Redwall to fight evil in Mossflower. ![]() It has been four seasons since Mariel, the warrior-mouse daughter of Joseph the Bellmaker, and her companion, Dandin, set off from Redwall to fight evil in Mossflower. New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques masterfully recounts more woodland adventures in the seventh epic in the beloved Redwall series!** **The Redwall series is soon to be a Netflix original movie! ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Astonish me![]() ![]() In Seating Arrangements, Shipstead infiltrated the compound of an old WASP family gathering for a wedding on an island like Nantucket. Through her fiction, Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky. After reading that novel, I likened the then 20-something-year-old Shipstead to "Edith Wharton with a millennial generation edge." The comparison remains sound. She did just that -astonish me - with her debut novel of 2012, called Seating Arrangements. The title of Maggie Shipstead's second novel is: Astonish Me. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Astonish Me Author Maggie Shipstead ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments A single man book![]() ![]() Full of intellect and humor, a passionate fellow with a slight sense of mischief, George is consumed with grief over the recent death of Jim - the young man he lived with and has loved for the past ten years. The man is named George he is middle-aged, an expatriate, an Englishman, and a professor of English at a state college just across the freeway. Section One reads: "Waking up begins with saying am and now") and the page range.*Ī single man wakes up early in the morning one day near Christmas, in a little suburb by Los Angeles, California this is where Christopher Isherwood's novel begins. In order to ensure that it is possible to follow the analysis within this guide regardless of the copy to which the reader refers, each section title will therefore be comprised both of that section's first few words (e.g. Note that A Single Man eschews novelistic conventions such as chapter breaks in order to articulate an unbroken, uninhibited stream of consciousness narration as such, your study guide has been divided into sections according to page numbers and to specific narrative movements.The following version of this book was used to create your study guide: Isherwood, Christopher. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments The Haunting of L by Howard Norman![]() ![]() I confess that various movies came to mind as I was reading Howard Norman's novel ''The Haunting of L.,'' the conclusion to his Canadian trilogy, which also includes ''The Bird Artist'' and ''The Museum Guard.'' ''Crash,'' ''Blowup,'' ''McCabe and Mrs. ![]() Genet was perhaps the last great modern writer with an unbroken faith in crime as art and vice versa, but even he was hardly unaware of how sexy his prisoners looked in their chains, enacting beautiful tableaus of transgression by the sea. It's an open question, however, whether or not readers or writers can still truly believe in such a thing. ![]() In our sexually and psychologically overexposed cultural moment, one might well wish for an art that draws real blood, a sin of art or passion that can't be forgiven. Confession is a romantic form, not least because it presupposes that sin is still possible. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Shatter me book 6![]() ![]() So, here is the way you should be reading Shatter Me, in chronological and publication order: We know you want to know exactly how to read these books. Straight to the point, we won’t dilly dally around. So, let’s learn the reading order, and what the story is actually about, so when you go to read Shatter Me, you know what you are getting into with this gorgeous tale! Series Order For Shatter Me So, there is no guesswork, and just a simple reading order.įirst of all, as we look into this series and its reading order we will go through the series and look into the actual story being told in these books. There are 6 novels and 5 novellas in this series, while that may sound pretty complicated, the novellas actually fit perfectly into the story’s timeline from when they were published. There is only one way to read the Shatter Me series, and that is by order of publication. Thankfully, the Shatter Me series is not one of the complicated ones and the reading order of these is pretty straight forward. ![]() |