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![]() Her eyes were dull and vacant and there was no recognition on her face. ![]() She turned around slowly and looked at him. Hayretay."ĭemiris watched Sister Theresa start back toward the nunnery, then he walked down the path to where the woman stood. A path wound down to a promontory where the woman stood, staring out at the calm, emerald lake below. They had reached the end of the cemetery. Demiris had asked Sister Theresa to keep the woman here within these walls, sheltered and protected from the outside world for the rest of her life. True, something had happened to the woman's mind and she was like a child, but she would be cared for. She thanked Saint Dionysius again that the Sisters had been permitted to rescue the American friend of Demiris' from the waters of the lake on that terrible night of the storm. And surely it was a sign from Heaven that now she had been able to repay him in some measure. "It is nothing, Sister."īut Sister Theresa knew that without this savior the nunnery would have had to close down years ago. ![]() I do not know what we would have done without you."Ĭonstantin Demiris waved a deprecating hand. Sister Theresa said, "I wish to tell you again how grateful we are for your generosity. They walked slowly in the shimmering heat of the noonday sun. The man and woman moved through the cemetery, their faces dappled by the shadows of the tall, graceful cypresses that lined the path. ![]()
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Dragon rider cornelia funke series5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() We asked author Cornelia Funke to tell us more about her latest book: The Griffin's Feather takes Ben and his adoptive father Professor Greenbloom on a new mission - to find the sun feather of a Griffin, the only thing that can save the lives of three unborn Pegasi foals.Īs well as plenty of adventure and jeopardy, The Griffin's Feather - like Dragon Rider - is a story about our environment and a call to save the many species that call Earth their home. ![]() Author linkĪfter repeated requests from young readers, bestselling author Cornelia Funke has returned to her Dragon Rider novel to pen an engaging new story for readers aged 9+, featuring the young dragon rider, Ben, and many of the characters we met in his first adventure. Her books have now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 37 languages. Cornelia Funke is the highly acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author of the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord and numerous other children's novels and picture books.īorn in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten, she worked as a social worker for a few years before turning first to illustration and then to writing. ![]()
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Renegades of Time by Raymond F. Jones5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Well, she’s not a princess, but the earthmen heroes think she’s pretty hot. There’s also the requisite beautiful princess. They have a mind control ability used to make inhabitants of worlds they covet destroy themselves. (Yes, I know Clarke said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.) There are bad guys who use a less advanced version of the magic and who get around their own world on the backs of flying beasts that are somewhere between giant eagles and pterodactyls. In Renegades, Jones brings his protagonists into contact with a world of good, but rather effete, guys who flit throughout all time and the entire multiverse using an unexplained technology that appears to be more magic than science. At the risk of reopening an old argument I would classify Renegades more as fantasy than true SF, based on the premise that science fiction represents logical extension of current society and technology, while the fantasy writer is constrained only by the limits of his or her imagination. ![]() That’s not bad, if you like the old works from the early years of modern science fiction. Renegades of Time was first published in 1975, but to me it reads more like a yarn from the pulp era. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the author of the nonfiction book The Motherhood Diaries.Visit her website at. She recently won the NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Say Amen Again. Rachel has a few choice answers for exactly where Mary can go, but as these expectant moms do battle, hostilities erupt into a drama unlike anything Zion Hill has ever seen! Something has to give, and while Rachel contemplates everything from transferring her lifelong church membership to packing up and leaving Lester, she knows deep down God is calling her to forgiveness. ReShonda Tate Billingsley is the 1 national bestselling author of numerous novels for adults, as well as the Good Girlz teen series. Say amen, again Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. After all, where can an unmarried mother-to-be go but to the Lord? Her baby may or may not be Lester’s, but Mary’s doing all she can to win sympathy and turn her fellow churchgoers against Rachel-even threatening to blackmail Pastor Adams with a paternity agreement. The spirited Houston congregation featured in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfolding-and, as always, the outspoken Rachel Jackson Adams is at the heart of the drama.Īs the First Lady of Zion Hill, Rachel is not only Pastor Lester Adams’ wife-she’s currently his eight-months-pregnant wife, who’s going toe-to-toe with Lester’s onetime mistress, congregant Mary Richardson, who is also pregnant. ![]()
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![]() But that night, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she felt like royalty. ![]() Sophie Beckett never dreamt she would sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball - or that 'Prince Charming' would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie had been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. Will some fortunate young lady use the mystery of a masquerade night to snare one of the eligible bachelors? - Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, May 1815 ![]() This year's most sought-after invitation must surely be that of the Bridgerton masquerade ball, to be held Monday next. The third novel in the beloved Regency-set world of Julia Quinn's charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. ![]()
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Fearless World Traveler by Laurie Lawlor5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Exemplary end matter expands on the importance of North’s work and its Kew Gardens home, comments on the editing of North’s biography, and includes source notes and a who’s who list of luminaries in North’s social circle. ![]() Stadtlander’s mixed-media paintings strike a similar balance between travels and nature study, and her double-page spread of a Kew gallery affords her young audience a glimpse at how museumgoers experience North’s work in her own time and today. ![]() Lawlor follows not only North’s adventuring but also her innovative approach to nature painting, which celebrated the riotous colors of her specimens and captured them in their natural context, with attention to atmosphere and well as solid surroundings. She upended expectations for a genteel lady as she documented flora and fauna heretofore unseen by most of her countrymen and assured her own legacy by bequeathing her paintings to Kew Gardens, housed in a building she also commissioned and donated. With financial security and fortunate connections (naturalists Joseph Hooker and Charles Darwin could be called upon for advice), she embarked upon a series of global journeys. Fearless World Traveler: Adventures of Marianne North. Laurie Lawlor deftly chronicles North’s life, from her restrictive childhood to her wild world travels to the opening of the Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens to her death in 1890. The death of Marianne North’s father relieved the nineteenth-century British woman of responsibility as the family’s spinster caregiver and freed her to pursue the passions she had privately cultivated over four decades: nature and art. The legendary Charles Darwin was among her many supporters. ![]()
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![]() In the process, this fascinating book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Valkyrie introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power, not just in this world, but pulling the strings in the other-world, too. The women in these stories take full part in the power struggles and upheavals in their communities, for better or worse. Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World is a significant book. Rather than their death being futile, it is their destiny and good fortune, determined by divine beings. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war – to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. ![]() They protect some, but guide spears, arrows and sword blades into the bodies of others. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. Dr Jhanna Katrn Fririksdttir is a medievalist, specialising in Old Norse history, literature and manuscripts. ![]()
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Nehru by Walter Crocker5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() For imported books, the price may change frequently due to exchange rates. The Price of this product may change due to the reprinting of the book or by the publisher.Table of Contents, Index, Syllabus, summary and image of Nehru: A Contemporary''s Estimate book may be of a different edition or of the same title.Nehru: A Contemporary''s Estimate Book is not for reading online or for free download in PDF or eBook format.History, Region Countries Book is recommended for Students, Teachers, Graduates, Professionals, and all bibliophiles Nehru: A Contemporary''s Estimate Published On :.Page count varies on each edition/reprint ![]() ![]() Out of print for many years, this classic biography has been reissued with a new foreword by Ram Guha. Much of Crockers points, too especially the implications of the Five Year Plans and of the introduction of democracy to India are particularly relevant today. This book, written shortly after Nehrus death, is full of invaluable first hand observations about the man and his politics. Walter Crocker, the Australian high commissioner to India, admired Nehru the man his grace, style, intelligence and energy and was deeply critical of many of his political decisions the invasion of Goa, Indias Kashmir policy, the Five Year Plans. Nehru: A Contemporary''s Estimate Book Information:Įptive, and startlingly prophetic, Nehru: A contemporarys estimate is one of the finest accounts of Nehru ever written. ![]()
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We will survive by gloria gaynor5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() But, as a literary work, it just didn't make it for me. Gaynor as a personal gift for Christmas, a birthday, or some really intimate event "among family and/or really close friends". This would have been a good - not great - limited edition work from Ms. It shouldn't have been published for mass distribution. What would have made We Will Survive better? In We Will Survive, Gloria shares forty of these inspirational, true stories about survivors of all kinds-individuals who have found comfort, hope, and courage through the power of this one song. From individuals triumphing over illness to those suffering from the painful loss of a loved one to others piecing their lives together after bearing witness to national tragedy, "I Will Survive" has become an emotional anthem for them and for millions of Gaynor's adoring fans around the world. Their remarkable stories reveal that "I Will Survive" has reached people from all walks of life and touched their lives in thousands of unique ways. ![]() Over the years, the disco legend has received thousands of personal messages from adoring fans whose lives have been transformed by this timeless song. ![]() Shortly thereafter, the single went double platinum and over three decades later still strikes a chord among men and women everywhere. ![]() Gloria Gaynor’s #1 hit single "I Will Survive" debuted in 1978 to overwhelming success. Nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album ![]()
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Hope solo now5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() On the club level, Solo took a hiatus from the Seattle Reign last season and then underwent shoulder replacement surgery in September. Soccer appears ready to wash its hands of Solo for good. ![]() The suspension will expire soon, but U.S. national team for her now-infamous "cowards" comments following her team’s Olympic elimination at the hands of Sweden. The 35-year-old is suspended from the U.S. The news came as Solo’s playing career has hit a crossroads. Her first show will be a new season of the sports medicine series "The Cutting Edge," which Solo will produce and star in. Solo inked a deal with INvelop Entertainment last week to develop unscripted TV content. With her national team career seemingly over now, Solo appears to be transitioning to a role that couldn't be more perfect for her: television, where controversy is an asset, not a detraction. But her presence came with the added baggage of whatever controversy she happened to be embroiled in at the time - and there were more than a few. national team.Īs the world's top goalkeeper, Solo knew her spot on the field was a near guarantee. Hope Solo always presented something of a dilemma for the U.S. ![]() |