![]() ![]() ![]() Karen and her husband, Art, have three children and three grandchildren. She is the author of several childrens books, including My Faith Journal. ![]() Karen Hill is a freelance writer and editor. His classic style graces the pages of many children's books including Crossway's best-selling children's book, You Are Special, also written by Max Lucado. He has done freelance illustrative work for Disney Press and other major publishers, and has illustrated internationally renowned gift editions of several literary classics including Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and A Christmas Carol. Sergio Martinez was born in Mexico City, studied art in Paris, and has worked as an art director and illustrator on three continents. Max lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, Denalyn, and has three daughters and one granddaughter. His award-winning books have been translated into more than fifty-four languages and he has been named one of the most influential leaders in social media by The New York Times. In addition to writing he is also a Pastor at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. ![]() Max Lucado (MA, Abilene Christian University) serves as the minister of preaching at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and is a best-selling author and speaker. 46 Max Lucado Quotes Maby WowAdmin Born: JanuA collection of Max Lucado quotes to inspire and encourage you.The author of many Christian books, Max Lucado has inspired millions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Magnus's biggest challenge will be facing his own inner demons. Along the way, they will face angry sea gods, hostile giants, and an evil fire-breathing dragon. ![]() It's up to Magnus and his friends to stop him, but to do so they will have to sail across the oceans of Midgard, Jotunheim, and Niflheim in a desperate race to reach Naglfar before it's ready to sail. Riordan’s third installment of Magnus Chase’s adventures careens through the Nine Worlds in a boat called the Big Banana. He's readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, complete with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Asgardian gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan 78,956 ratings, 4. Book 1 in the series is Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer. His cousin, Annabeth, recruits her boyfriend, Percy Jackson, to give Magnus some pointers, but will his training be enough? Loki is free from his chains. Chase books and how to read Magnus Chase in order. Now Magnus faces his most dangerous trial yet. But he has strong and steadfast friends, including Hearthstone the elf, Blitzen the dwarf, and Samirah the Valkyrie, and together they have achieved brave deeds, such as defeating Fenris Wolf and battling giants for Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. As the son of Frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, Magnus isn't naturally inclined to fighting. Magnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin's chosen warriors. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love this series! This is a great story for any reader to enjoy as it contains elements of so many different genres: historical fiction, adventure, romance, medical drama, comedy, a bit of sci-fi, mystery.This is the first book of the Outlander series that still hasn't come to an end. ![]() For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire, and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life and shatter her heart. Suddenly she is a Sassenach-an "outlander"-in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord 1743.Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny is soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. ![]() She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another.In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. The time-traveling twist made it a popular book (and series) when it was first released in 1991, and it recently regained an audience after a Starz adaptation that premiered in 2014. ![]() Outlander is a historical romance novel by Diana Gabaldon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Howard, author of the international and New York Times bestselling Splintered series “A captivating and intensively researched tribute to the famous poet and his Gothic muse.” This well-researched and darkly entertaining tale serves as an excellent introduction to Poe and his classic works.” “Winters ( Odd & True) delves into the life of young Edgar Allan Poe in this elegantly scripted, detailed exploration of a world in which muses take corporeal form. Kerri Maniscalco, #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series “A darkly delicious tale that’s sure to haunt readers forevermore. Daniel Kraus, co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water “Winters’s smart, silvery, slithering prose finds beauty in the grotesque-and what is art if not that?” ![]() ![]() A memorial to her younger sister created by artist Philip Russell. Laura Brownlow, a minister’s daughter, is the writer of the Victorian Diary which Fran finds and through her, the story of how the window came to be comes through piece by piece. However the image of the angel in the window starts to form….” Past ![]() The task of restoration is not one completely tied to the window however as Fran must also mend the relationship she has with her father. “Every spare nook and cranny was crammed with stuff books, boxes, files and papers, together representing the entire history of Minster Glass” “Remnants of an antique church window have been damaged by a bomb blast in the war and now uncovered by the local vicar. It’s here where we learn the art of stained glass, the meaning behind it and the significance of certain themes – angels being the one here.Ī Victorian stained glass shop, with bay windows and a tiled porch. Minster Glass, an old and traditional shop in the heart of Westminster is where Fran returns and loves for the mysteries it solves and the piece of the puzzles it puts back together. ![]() ![]() That color - its chromatic science and its cultural symbology - is what Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946–November 4, 2004) explores in The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky ( public library). But the color of that dot “suspended in a sunbeam” is rather between blue and green: a pixel of turquoise. ![]() ![]() The color of life, the actual chromatic hue that makes our rocky planet a living world, is somewhere between the blue of water and the green of land - when Carl Sagan looked at the grainy Voyager photograph of Earth seen from the far reaches of the Solar System for the very first time, he famously eulogized our Pale Blue Dot. “The deep blue water of the open sea far from land is the color of emptiness and barrenness the green water of the coastal areas, with all its varying hues, is the color of life,” Rachel Carson wrote as she illuminated the science and splendor of the marine spectrum, enriching the literary canon of history’s most beautiful meditations on the color blue. ![]() ![]() Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for fans of the film and generations to come. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club™ selection, also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. While previous versions have softened the robust and sometimes shocking qualities of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. ![]() Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. ![]() ![]() Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to the hypocrisies of society. The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever writtenĭescribed by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's really all about Hadley reconciling with her father and coming to terms with the fact that, despite how much she may want it, her parents are never getting back together. SPLFS can be summed up as follows: A missed flight, a "fated" flight, a wedding, a funeral, and a wedding reception. ![]() The characters and cluster of scenes that take place over the course of twenty-four hours are equally boring and uneventful. It amazes me how such a short story can feel so slow and long-winded at times it was like dredging through sludge. Reluctantly, she gets a later flight - one that leads to a whole lotta lurve. Granted, Hadley would rather see her dentist than attend her father's wedding to a woman she's never even met, but her father is counting on her to make it on time. SPLFS starts off with Hadley Sullivan missing her flight to London at JFK. Although it does deliver on the British boy front (who, frankly, really isn't even that great), it doesn't deliver much else. Honestly, for having a name like The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and a synopsis promising a British boy named Oliver, this book is pretty damn disappointing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Submission of an original manuscript to Philosophy in Review ( PiR) will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published and that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication.Īuthors contributing to PiR agree to release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical 4.0 International license.This licence allows anyone to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.Īuthors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal right of first publication.Īuthors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of their work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in PiR. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. ![]() ![]() He worked at ESPN and from 1999-2002, where he developed a penchant for sharing too much information about himself. His fashion-free wardrobe robbed him of prospective dates countless times, as did his penchant for wearing a mustache that didn't suit him. He moved to Denver in 1996 and was voted Least Stylish Gay Guy in the Metro Denver Area (including Loveland!) for each of the years from 1996-98. He proved them wrong with a series of strange-but-true jobs in his 20s - driver recruiter for a truck driving school, sales consultant for a phone company, and temp at Otis Elevators. He still holds out hope for a Village People revival and has set up a Google Alert in case it happens.Ī B- student throughout high school, Bill was voted Most Likely to Avoid Doing Any Real Work In His Life by a panel of his dismissive peers. None of these career paths worked out for him. ![]() Bill played alongside the likes of the kid who always showered alone, the chronic nosebleeder and the guy with recurrent poison ivy.Įarly in his life, Bill decided he wanted to be a disc jockey, a professional baseball player, or the Construction Worker from The Village People. As it turned out, the highlight of his soccer career was at Camp Greylock in 1978, when he was chosen for the Camp's "D" team. His parents figured he'd be a great soccer player, based on his spirited kicking from inside the womb. Expectations were high from birth - at least in terms of athletics. ![]() ![]() Bill Konigsberg was born in 1970 in New York City. ![]() |