![]() Despite Charlie’s aloof demeanor, Scarlett sees his underlying kindness, and his walls come down when he opens up about his painful past. Even as he helps her out, he’s oddly cold to Scarlett, though Scarlett now remembers that they once met as teenagers when they shared a single kiss. The pair meet in person when Scarlett’s truck gets stuck in the snow and Charlie comes to her aid. ![]() Things look up when a local from nearby Silver Falls gives Scarlett a business card for respected developer Charlie Bryant, who Scarlett hopes might buy the inn and preserve its spirit. The holiday promises to be bittersweet, as the family has decided it’s time to sell the failing inn. Scarlett Bailey travels to her grandmother’s mountainside White Oaks Inn to spend Christmas with relatives. Hale ( Summer at Firefly Beach) brings the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains alive in this heartwarming Christmas romance. ![]()
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Or did it have something to do with the cruel schoolchildren who taunted her until she lost her sense of direction? ![]() Comes the Blind Fury is an extremely creepy 1980 horror novel by John Saul.Įxactly Exty Years Ago in the charming small town of Paradise Point, a gentle blind girl took a walk along the seaside cliffs near her home and vanished forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. ![]() In 2008, evangelical supporters of the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin celebrated her as a Spirit-anointed “Deborah.” Popular fiction writers gave Deborah a romantic life, imagining Deborah’s sexual liaisons with Lappidoth, Barak, and a lesbian lover, Jael. As a growing number of women joined the work force in the 1980s and 1990s, evangelical women imaginatively explored Deborah’s home life and public life in order to work out their own conflicted feelings about being working mothers. Female scholars, entering the academy in unprecedented numbers in the late twentieth century, offered feminist critique of the patriarchy found in Judges 4-5. In the 1950s, writers emphasized Deborah’s “housewifely” nature. Christian women invoked Deborah to defend female ministry. ![]() Regina Jonas, ordained in 1935, was the first of many female rabbis using Deborah as support for women’s ordination. Twentieth-century suffragists argued that Barak and Deborah’s political partnership represented equality of the sexes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when someone begins to sabotage the Trials, Vela must reevaluate her own integrity-and learn the true sacrifice of becoming a ruler. Refusing to accept losing the boy she loves, Vela bends the rules and cheats. And he’s determined to win, because by doing so, he can save the life of his Non-Eater sister. ![]() But then Carr, the boy she’s loved all her life, emerges as the best candidate in the Bittersweet Trials. Vela is tasked with choosing a boy fit to die for the king, which is impossible enough. Her father, the king, is dying, and only a transplant of organs from a healthy Non-Eater boy will save him. In a world where nutrition can be transferred via a pill, and society is split into Eaters and Non-Eaters, seventeen-year-old Princess Vela has a grave dilemma. ![]() ![]() Allow me to note quite clearly here that my vision of natural law is one built around natural rights, a thing in which the author (or at least many of his characters) do not appear to believe. In pale yellow, you will find the personal comments I wrote on Post-it notes as I read the book.ĭespite my inclusion of my own thoughts below, not every thought I had while reading the work was transcribed. ![]() Below you will find a variety of quotations from the book in white text. This book is easy to love, even if I have doubts about certain aspects. Moreover, it is a fascinating read, where the characters come to life so vividly that even the supercomputer, Mycroft Holmes, is more alive than the typical character in Atlas Shrugged.Īccording to the text on the front cover of the edition of the book I own, this is “His classic, Hugo Award–winning novel of libertarian revolution.” The story takes place in 2075 in a lunar colony called Luna City (or L-City for short). Heinlein in 1966, is one of the most famous works in the genre of science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, written by Robert A. Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Excerpts ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when you get a book like this, and you look at what it means to bring the pieces back to the forefront, then you truly step into a level of truth that is freeing. She asked, "And what happens when we enter the world, and we find that integrity is crumbling? I'll tell you what happens, you get a book called The Noble Edge: Reclaiming an Ethical World One Choice at a Time by Dr. Pat opened the show by noting that her return to school, in concert with Gilbert, found her researching the ethical and moral lapses of people and institutions and how that situation might be altered. She is famous for her keen interviewing skills.ĭr. Bacilli sought to create a better world through the media, public speaking and other means. Gilbert became a college professor and international ethics consultant, while Dr. Both found their current calling after experiences in the corporate world sent them in pursuit of more rewarding endeavors. Pat Bacili discovered, through reading The Noble Edge, that she and Christopher Gilbert are kindred spirits. An international award-winning talk radio host and CEO of a successful motivational company, Dr. Seattle, WA-Christopher Gilbert, PhD, author of The Noble Edge: Reclaiming an Ethical World One Choice at a Time, was featured on the Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Earned great wealth through an inheritance of the Lock-Horne Securities & Investments firm. ![]() Windsor "Win" Horne Lockwood, III: Myron's friend from Duke and sidekick.Myron Bolitar: a sports agent and part-time crime solver.As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their father clings to life, he must face the lies that led to the estrangement – including the ones told by Myron himself. But when he finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn't looking for: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who along with Myron's brother abandoned the Bolitar family long ago.įollowing Suzze's apparent suicide, Myron and Win find a connection between Lex, the notorious Ache brothers, and the reclusive Gabriel Wire, the more famous half (with Lex) of the top-selling rock duo HorsePower. Suzze – at eight months pregnant – asks Myron to save her marriage, and perhaps her husband's life. When Myron's client, former tennis star Suzze T, and her rock star husband, Lex Ryder, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off. In 2010, Live Wire won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000. It is preceded in the series by Long Lost (2009) and succeeded by Home (2016). It is the tenth novel in his series of a crime solver and sports agent named Myron Bolitar. Live Wire is a 2011 mystery/ thriller novel by American writer, Harlan Coben. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second book begins with the death of Gregory the Great in 604, and follows the further progress of Christianity in Kent and the first attempts to evangelise Northumbria. A brief account of Christianity in Roman Britain, including the martyrdom of St Alban, is followed by the story of Augustine's mission to England in 597, which brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons. The first of the five books begins with some geographical background and then sketches the history of England, beginning with Julius Caesar's invasion in 55 BC. ![]() The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People is Bede's best-known work, completed in about 731. The Venerable Bede writing the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, from a codex at Engelberg Abbey, Switzerland. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both of his hippocampi, the parts of the brain that allow us to form new long-term memories for facts and events in our lives, were lost. But in 1981, a motorcycle accident left him without two critical brain structures. The man who could not imagine the future: Kent Cochrane (KC), pictured below, was a ’70s wild child, playing in a rock band, getting into bar fights, and zooming around Toronto on his motorcycle. ![]() ![]() Here are five patients, from Kean’s book, whose stories transformed neuroscience:ġ. “But then I looked into it, and I realized that, not only is it true, it actually reveals some important things about how the brain works.” “As I was reading these I said, ‘That’s baloney! There’s no way that can possibly be true,'” Kean remembers, referring to one particularly surprising case in which a woman’s brain injury left her unable to recognize and distinguish between different kinds of animals. Kean recounts some of their unforgettable stories on the latest episode of the Inquiring Minds podcast. In his new book, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, Sam Kean tells the story of a handful of patients whose unique brains-rendered that way by surgical procedures, rare diseases, and unfortunate, freak accidents-taught us much more than any set of colorful scans. But there’s another approach to understanding how our minds work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stevenson is several times mistaken for a peddler, the usual occupation of someone traveling in his fashion. ![]() It also tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry. It is one of the earliest accounts to present hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. The other principal character is Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite master. The terrain, with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, he often compared to parts of Scotland. Travels recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 200-kilometre (120 mi) solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. His journey was designed to provide material for publication while allowing him to distance himself from a love affair with an American woman of which his friends and families did not approve and who had returned to her husband in California. Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. ![]() |