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I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Award was created to honor science fiction or fantasy that explores our understanding of gender. ![]() In 1987, her suicide shocked friends and fans. ![]() Devoted to her second husband, she struggled with her feelings for women. She was an artist, a chicken farmer, a World War II intelligence officer, a CIA agent, an experimental psychologist. Later, made into a debutante, she eloped with one of the guests at the party. As a child, she explored Africa with her mother. Then the cover was blown on his alter ego: A sixty-one-year old woman named Alice Sheldon. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his female characters, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and The Women Men Don’t See. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. ![]() ![]() Near the beginning, Meier revisits the subject of criteria of historical authenticity. ![]() What, then, are the main conclusions of the present volume? I have not found a single conclusion reached on grounds that I would question. Some of these footnotes have as much weight as entire chapters of the books of some scholars.Įqually as impressive as Meier’s erudition is his critical acumen. The reader may well be tempted to skip reading the footnotes and focus only on the text, but to do that would mean missing a wealth of acute observations. This volume, which consumed six years, along with the three earlier volumes in this series represents the most impressive work of biblical scholarship that this reviewer has ever read. ![]() IV: Law and Love (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009). MEIER, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He's so good at depicting how their thoughts and imaginations and hearts work! And his girls, especially Titty and Nancy, are at least as imaginative, bold, wild, and strong as the boys. Ransome is so good at capturing how kids play, with one half of their minds and hearts in fantasyland (pirates, explorers, the Pacific ocean, sharks, buried treasure, sea battles, walking the plank, deserted islands, etc.) and one half in the real world (making safe fires, cleaning fish and pots and pans, teaching a younger sibling how to swim, managing sailboats efficiently, etc.). This is an utterly charming audiobook! Arthur Ransome's story about the four Walker siblings ("Able Seaman" Titty being my favorite!) and the two "Amazon Pirate" girls and their idyllic adventures during a perfect August in 1929 sailing around a big lake in the Lake District and camping on Wild Cat Island in it is vividly, humorously, winningly told. Idyllic, Funny, Vivid Childhood Adventure-Play ![]() ![]() ![]() More than five million of Maier's books are now in print in twenty languages, as well as over 250 scholarly articles and reviews in professional journals.ĭr. His nonfiction works include In the Fullness of Time, a book that correlates sacred with secular evidence from the ancient world impinging on Jesus and early Christianity Josephus: The Essential Works, a new translation / commentary on writings of the first-century Jewish historian and Eusebius: The Church History, a similar book on the first Christian historian. Sequels, More than a Skeleton and The Constantine Codex, followed in 20. ![]() His novels include two historical documentaries - Pontius Pilate and The Flames of Rome - as well as A Skeleton in God's Closet, a theological thriller that became a #1 national bestseller in religious fiction when it first released. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University and a much-published author of both scholarly and popular works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through sheer determination, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. David’s mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn’t protect him. Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his criminal bidding. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with a code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies-even murder. ![]() Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats. A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() About The Book Regretting You by Colleen Hoover Title: Regretting You Author: Colleen HooverJonah and Morgan discover that Jenny and Chris had rented a room where they intended to have a rendezvous. So here's a spoiler-free review of Regretting You, and in this review of Regretting You, we have mentioned what we liked and what we didn't like. Regretting You is an excellent one-time read. Morgan and Clara Grant are a typical mother and daughter until a horrific. But because it comes to its conclusion through suffering, it cannot quite be described as either. Touching on secrets, loss, hope and great love, Colleen Hoover’s latest novel, REGRETTING YOU, often hovers somewhere between a romance and a tidy domestic. However, the reunion is cut short and things take a different turn when Seer realizes his parents aren't supportive. ![]() He meets them inside, relieved that they're alive and unharmed. Summary: The limousine takes Seer to a safehouse where his parents are staying there. ![]() Regretting you summary spoilers This is the summary for chapter 3 "Underwater". ![]() ![]() ![]() This series includes Lewis’s earliest published material in Avesta, and his last published article in Los Angeles Times Magazine. Series three, Published Work (boxes 19-48), is the largest series and contains work in various media-academic and literary journals, newsprint, and magazines-dating from 1955 to 1994. Notable correspondence is sheathed in a “white envelope” with pertinent information written across the top edge. The second series, Correspondence (boxes 12-18), dates from 1958 to 1995 and includes letters and postcards from notable actors, artists, musicians, and writers as well as correspondence with lifelong friends. Clete Shields Sculptures at The Wittliff.Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() Concurrently, the novel also describes the work of "eluders" such as Kline: individuals who attempt to outwit Mandala's invasive information collection by confusing the company's pattern detection. Mandala uses "counters" to secretly gather data on its users to map and predict their consumer behavior patterns. This sparks his new concept "Own Your Unconscious," a program that allows users to upload all of their memories to a shared network and, in return, gives them access to a collective database of users' lives. He attends a discussion group after a lecture from one of his biggest critics, anthropologist Miranda Kline, and learns about innovations in the field of digitizing memories and thoughts. The novel begins with Bix Bouton, a tech executive and founder of the company Mandala, who is searching for his next new idea and feeling stuck in a rut. The novel follows the intersecting lives of various characters in a series of stylistically diverse short stories as they engage with a future in which individuals can upload their consciousness to a digital cloud. ![]() The Candy House is a speculative fiction novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan, first published in 2022. ![]() |