![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How do you define a “full life”? How has that definition changed over the years of your life, and what events from your life led you to change that definition? What books did you love as a child that can still elicit strong emotions in you today?Īfter losing her sister to cancer, Nina Sankovitch reacted by trying to live a life full of activities: “I was going to live double if my sister couldn’t live at all.” It is only after three years of incessant activity, a life “lived at increasing speed”, that she realizes a “full life” does not mean full of scheduled commitments, planned activities, and constant engagement. One of Nina’s favorite books from childhood, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, can still bring tears to her eyes when she reads it today. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Working at the lavish Regal Sol hotel and newly engaged to Pinkerton Detective Martin Cadden, Josephine Galena Valencia has big dreams for her future. Snow Falling is a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami-a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for the Magic City. ![]() With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane’s breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. ![]() Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award–winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane’s telenovela-esque life-from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. It’s been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut! “Fans of the show will undoubtedly enjoy the chance to read Jane’s book in real life.” -Entertainment Weekly “Just the thing for a cold winter’s night between episodes.” -The Washington Post Book World ![]() ![]() ![]() For DC Comics his most enduring creations were 'New Gods' (1971) and 'Kamandi' (1972). His co-creations saved the suffering Atlas/Marvel Comics from bankruptcy and turned it into the media powerhouse it is today. With his partner Joe Simon, he created the all-American hero 'Captain America' (1941- ), and later with Stan Lee he developed even more iconic characters like the 'Fantastic Four' (1961- ), 'The Incredible Hulk' (1962- ), 'Thor' (1962- ), 'X-Men' (1963- ), 'Iron Man' (1963- ), 'Sgt. Nicknamed the "King of Comics", he has been a driving force behind the industry during both the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s and the Silver Age in the 1960s. Jack Kirby was one of the most influential comic book artists and writers of the United States, and one of the innovators of the superhero genre. ![]() ![]() Tessa makes a successful escape and sets out to make a new life in Montana.Dean Samuels is a Montana rancher who is in over his head. She can’t resist the possibility of finding someone different and even if she doesn’t, the adventure itself would be worth her time. By chance, she comes across an advertisement for a bride brokerage company seeking eligible women of good breeding to go west and find husbands.One man on the list catches her eye and she begins corresponding with him, eventually agreeing to go to Montana to meet him. Not only that, Tessa craves excitement and adventure, of which there is little in her social circles. The men who are attempting to court her are, in her opinion, boring and conceited. ![]() There is no reason that she shouldn’t be able to find an eligible man and settle down.Tessa herself is the reason. She is beautiful and intelligent and she comes with a hefty dowry. Her doting parents want her to make a good match with a worthy gentleman and live a respectable life. Each one of these two clean cowboy romance books is the first book in a series by bestselling authors Linda Bridey and Kate Whitsby.This box set includes:-Westward Winds (Montana Mail Order Brides: Book 1) and Violet's Mail Order Husband (Montana Brides: Book 1)Each one of these two clean cowboy romance books is the first book in a series by bestselling authors Linda Bridey and Kate Whitsby.This box set includes:-Westward Winds (Montana Mail Order Brides: Book 1)Tessa O’Connor lives in a world of privilege and excess. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gilmer schools close after worker dies (the sole maintenance man, 47, for the County Schools died while working on a broken heating and air conditioning unit - he was likely was electrocuted sometime in the afternoon)Ĭity water worker electrocuted in bucket (a man installing new city water wells was electrocuted by a power line - the victim died at the scene, and his name has not been released - the man was in a bucket lift when he apparently touched high-voltage electrical lines) ![]() Electrical Contractor Shocked (an electrical contractor suffered a shock and reportedly caught fire -vworker apparently touched a high-voltage line, but there's no information about just how powerful the shock was - investigators are on the scene) ![]() ![]() ![]() Once I did, I thought she was funny, stubborn, determined, and a perfect match for Raahosh who initiates their relationship by kidnapping Liz. This was a fun instalment to the series, but I didn’t like the human heroine, Liz, for a long time. ![]() ![]() Each book is unique and imaginative, with lots of adventure and interesting characters who work together to survive this brutal world. Trust me, though this series is up to book 16, it’s not going stale, so I’ll have to re-read the kindle version of future installments until Audible releases them. As expected, we learn more about the planet dubbed “Not-Hoth” by the humans as we watch another couple pair off and fall in love. But don’t be fooled- the story would be excellent without the explicit stuff. There’s excellent chemistry between Liz and Raahosh, resulting in red hot steamy scenes. The storyline is.Well, think what might happen if a sex-starved doomsday survivalist were to remake Beauty and the Beast, soundtrack by Rick James, and you’ve got the general idea. As a devoted IPB fan I already loved this book, but then Tantor Audio added the voice actors, and.BADA BOOM BABY! Magic! I just love Liz, who has the perfect amount of snark to deal with surly scarred Raahosh. This is book 2 of Ice Planet Barbarians, which will be really confusing if you haven’t read book 1 yet. Another slam dunk! Keep ‘em coming Audible!!! ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, when Belle is in the castle, Cogsworth and Lumière are playing chess while she is sneaking around. The new movie shows us further how Belle is different from everyone else in town, demonstrating how the village feels toward educated women. Surely, one girl that can read is more than enough to for any town. The headmaster walks by and sees what’s happening and becomes immediately incensed. Belle begins teaching the little girl how to read. When Belle later returns to the village to do her washing, a little girl comes up to her and sees that she’s reading. Because he is, well, Gaston, this fails horribly: When Gaston comes into the scene and decides that he simply must have Belle, he tries to flirt with her over books. She grabs one she has already read and loved-the one in which the girl “meets Prince Charming, but doesn’t discover that it’s him ‘til chapter three!” This book is totally gorgeous with a gilt design. He appears to be a fellow villager with his own small collection of books, which Belle has already made her way through. ![]() Père Robert is not a bookseller like in the animated movie. This is another reference to Romeo and Juliet, and the towns she is talking about are Mantua and Verona. She tells him she has been to two towns in northern Italy. When Belle gets where she’s going, Père Robert, the man with the books, asks her where she has travelled. ![]() ![]() Osorgin's other major works are "Svidetel' istorii" (Witness of history 1932), "Kniga o kontsakh" (A book about ends 1935) and "Vol'nyi kamenshchik (The Freemason 1938). His first significant literary success was the 1928 novel Svitsev Vrazhek, which also captures the period of the Russian Civil War, with this collection a precursor. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1922 on the famous "steamship of philosophers" along with other vocal intellectual dissenters. Returning to Russian in 1916 he supported the February 1917 Revolution. His writings about Italy played a large part in the spread of Futurist ideas in Russia. Arrested for his political activity, upon release he left Russia, eventually settling in Italy where he joined the Masonic order in 1913. Osorgin graduated form the law faculty of the Moscow State University and took part in the 1905 Revolution. Written in the immediate post revolutionary moment in 1917-1919, it captures the turbulent transitional period of the Russian Civil War (1918-1922). The first literary collection of short stories written by the prominent émigré journalist, writer and translator Mikhail Osorgin (1878-1942). ![]() ![]() Riga: Knigoizdatel'stvo Russkikh Pisatelei, 1921. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He cast it in the form of a novel in the hope that his urgent message of the 'death of God' and the rise of the superman (Ubermensch) would have greater emotional as well as intellectual impact. It was written by Friedrich Nietzsche between 18. ![]() Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of the most extraordinary - and important - texts in Western philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() He argued that the Gospels were written within “living memory” of Jesus’ life, and that they were either written by eyewitnesses or based on eyewitness accounts. Richard Bauckham’s landmark 2006 book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses transformed how many scholars saw the Gospels. There can be good reasons for trusting or distrusting a witness…Gospels understood as testimony are the entirely appropriate means of access to the historical reality of Jesus.” Dr Richard Bauckham: Professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of St. ![]() This need not mean that it asks to be trusted uncritically, but it does mean that testimony should not be treated as credible only to the extent that it can be independently verified. An irreducible feature of testimony as a form of human utterance is that it asks to be trusted. It means that the kind of historiography they are is testimony. This does not mean that they are testimony rather than history. ![]() “I suggest that we need to recover the sense in which the Gospels are testimony. ![]() The entire bibliography for this series can be found here. This is the second part of an article series entitled: Are the Gospels Reliable Sources. ![]() |