But twelve-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael’s reluctance to teach someone so young, and convinces him to take her on as his next student. When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with “an earnest desire to save the world,” he does not expect a child to answer him. In My Ishmael, Quinn strikes out into entirely new territory, posing questions that will rock you on your heels, and providing tantalizing possibilities for a truly new world vision.”-Susan Chernak McElroy, author of Animals as Teachers & Healers “Enthralling, shocking, hope-filled, and utterly fearless, Daniel Quinn leads us deeper and deeper into the human heart, history, and spirit. An extraordinary and startlingly original sequel to Ishmael
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I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy from Revell. I recommend this book to those who enjoy well-researched and beautifully written historical fiction. With the help of the pronunciation guide and glossary in the back of the book, which was a fun and useful addition, I even learned a little Danish. I enjoyed reading the author’s notes which gave a little added history about the Danish resistance efforts. Themes of redemption, forgiveness, and courage add depth to it. This story, filled with suspense, danger, and romance, was a treat to read. Sometimes silence is nothing but cowardice.” Sundin made these characters come alive on the page, and I enjoyed seeing their relationship grow and change. American physicist Else Jensen is living in Denmark and doing research. Rich in historical detail and filled with colorful, courageous characters, it’s the story of men and women of the Danish Resistance who risk their lives to help others.īaron Henrik Ahlefeldt hides his identity to take messages for the Resistance in his rowboat across to Sweden. Set in Denmark against the backdrop of WWII, The Sound of Light is another masterpiece by talented author Sarah Sundin. The silence of someone concealing his nobility and sacrificing everything so he can quietly do great deeds.” “The first Noel the angel did say, was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay in fields where they lay keeping their sheep, on a cold winter's night that was so deep. The First Noel Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo.Ĭlassic Christmas carols are perfect for reflecting on the true meaning of the season.Discover how the angels proclaimed Jesus' birth to the frightened shepherds, and then follow the shepherds as they are guided by the star shining in the east to the stable where Jesus was born. But is it really Andy's world she's investigating? Or is it her own? Show book Intoxicated by Andy's love for this mystery girl, Theo agrees to help him find her, and her unhealthy obsession pulls her into a perilous, mind-bending journey. When she finally gets up the courage to talk to him she discovers why: the Lost Boy, Andy, is waiting for someone who said she'd meet him there. Her most interesting subject is the Lost Boy, a stranger who comes in every day at the same time. Once school starts, Theo finds her best friend has morphed into a flirtatious, short-skirt-clad stranger. She spends the entire summer in a Manhattan cafe, secretly documenting random "subjects." An aspiring filmmaker, she uses a hidden button cam to keep the world at bay. The Girl with the Wrong Name Barnabas MillerĮver since The Night in Question left her with a hideous scar and no memory of what happened, Theo Lane has been hiding. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). (Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. But at 700 pages, and me already grrrring by page 30, no, it's not going to happen. If you'd been 150 pages, maybe, Percepliquis, maybe. Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Not when there are so many books that bring a smile to my face or a well-deserved tear to my eye. There's no wrestling with one's conscience, no internal dialogue where the lady-ninja is desperate to help but (for some valid reason) has to keep hidden, nope, she just watches, waits for the knight to be slaughtered, and then (haha, the author tricked us!) kills the bad guy.Īnd I just. Well, nice of your to let your designated knight die, Lady.Īnd the author doesn't seem to realise this is a problem. followed by one of the poor fragile women unexpectedly unsheathing a sword and being so unexpectedly brilliant that Bad Guy was dispatched instantly. The tipping point came when the Bad Guy attacked the poor fragile women, and their designated helpful knight was cut down mercilessly in front of them. For all the author's strengths, he has equal (or worse) weaknesses, and I just can't take it anymore. I read the previous 5 (or 2 1/2, depending on your version), and was instantly reminded of how annoying the last book had been. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse.Every monster has their weakness. Details: He’ll do anything to have her…including lie.Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman.He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him.She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. I like Hawk Ridge because of all the amazing hawk facts. In one of the other pictures there is a Great Horned Owl some of the details include owl pellets and a green camping tent. Pictures has a Laughing Gull eating a fish it also has the Space Shuttle in the background. I like The Blues Go Birding because one of the I like these books because of their excellent facts and detail. Some of my favorite bird books are The Blues Go Birding and Hawk Ridge. Some of my favorite books are poetry like Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein Lunch Box Mail by Jenny Whitehead, and adventures like Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry. I am a second grader from Lafayette, Colorado, who loves to read and write about birds and many other things. Little of this actually made it into the book. It appears that Kennedy’s most heavy contribution was on John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts. His works including interviews with those near to Kennedy as he was working on it, his “research associates,” as well as access to President Kennedy’s notes on his writing project. Kennedy”, published in the 80s take a deeper dive. However, Historian Herbert Parmet’s book “Jack: The Struggles of John F. So, to him, he’d kept no secrets and had, in fact, been the author of Profiles in Courage. In Kennedy’s eyes, he’d credited his assessors, and Davids Sorensen, for example. A columnist in a televised interview stated that “Jack Kennedy is…the only man in history that I know who won a Pulitzer prize on a book which was ghostwritten for him.” A statement to which Kennedy was quick to draw his legal punches. Not everyone was on board that Senator Kennedy actually wrote it. Kennedy’s book a bestseller and a Pulitzer prize winner for biography in under a year, but the barely-promising Democrat was not in a primed spot for his election to the presidency, four years into the future. In fact, some believe that by focusing on self-empowerment she completely overlooked the forces that continue to keep women from equal pay, reaching positions of power, and equality writ large. Bloombergīut her decade-long track record doesn’t suggest she’s had a meaningful impact on the plight of working women. Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 book Lean In, which sold 600,000 copies in three months, resonated with millions of women but also had its critics. “It really feels like a very, very important moment, when I think more focus there would be important to me, personally,” Sandberg told Bloomberg News. Now, as she steps down from a 14-year run as chief operating officer of Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, Sandberg has said she wants to shift her focus even more toward women’s issues. Instantly, she became the face of 2010s-era corporate feminism. Sheryl Sandberg gladly embraced that role when she published her 2013 bestseller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and founded its eponymous foundation,. High-ranking women in business – because there are so few of them – are often saddled with the unfair expectation that their mere presence in the C-suite will benefit other working women. x, 220pp, 3 maps and 16 black and wite plates. Some of the journeys were 2,000 miles long and lasted three weeks, and all of them were made in the depth of the sub-Arctic winter in fishing boats from fifty to seventy feet long, sailing alone between Norway and Shetland in some of the stormiest seas of the world." - from dust-jacket blurb of a different edition.īlue Cloth Hardback. Their object was to land men and cargo in Norway for the Norwegian Underground, and to rescue refugees and carry them to Britain. The heroes of the book are Norwegian sailors, fishermen and merchant seamen, who had escaped to Shetland after the invasion of Norway by Germany in 1940. A story of heroism and endeavour and of adventure at sea. "The Story of the Special Norwegian Naval Unit based on Scotland. 253, pages + 5 illustrations on 2 plate leaves. 1955 paperback reprint of a title first published in 1951. Out in the Wilds, apothecary apprentice Tessa Cade is tired of seeing her neighbors die, their suffering ignored by the unyielding royals. The brothers have learned to react mercilessly to any sign of rebellion–it’s the only way to maintain order when the sickness can strike anywhere, and the only known cure, an elixir made from delicate Moonflower petals, is severely limited. King Harristan was thrust into power after his parents’ shocking assassination, leaving the younger Prince Corrick to take on the brutal role of the King’s Justice. Rifts between sectors have only worsened since a sickness began ravaging the land, and within the Royal Palace, the king holds a tenuous peace with a ruthless hand. The kingdom of Kandala is on the brink of disaster. Synopsis for Defy the Night (from Goodreads):Ī fantasy series about a kingdom divided by corruption, the prince desperately holding it together, and the girl who will risk everything to bring it crashing down. only has one book released so far) to see if the series is worth keeping up with. Fresh Fridays: On Friday, I review a brand new series (ie. |