![]() ![]() “A masterful, unique writing achievement. “A splendid piece of work exploring both physical love and a love of God…There is not one false note in this wonderful novel.” - Library Journal “Writers like Rivers are why people buy Christian Fiction.” - Publishers Weekly Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. ![]() A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. ![]() Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. The classic love story that has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide.Ĭalifornia’s Gold Country in 1850 is a time when men sell their souls for a bag of gold and women sell their bodies for a place to sleep. Soon to be a major motion picture! A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, CBA, and ECPA bestseller. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, enters the jungles of Africa, and even faces dark Gods and evil magic - all to avenge a woman he’d never met before.ġ | MP3| – Approx. Red Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard’s puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. ![]() audiobooks, podcasts, and audio dramas that we are aware of.ĥ Zipped MP3s – Approx. This has meant, since they’ve mostly gone PD, a delightful flourishing of audiobook and audio drama releases. His many writings, written during his too short career, are today mostly in the public domain. Even when his fiction was not meant to be historical it often used historical place names and historical character names to dress his fictional worlds. He was a student of history, with some of his short stories depicting events from history (but usually made fantastic). ![]() Most of his stories tended towards Fantasy, Adventure or Horror, with recurrent themes like reincarnation, boxing, self-reliance, racial memory and racial pseudo-science. He is best known for the creation of Conan. HOWARD (1906 -1936) was a Texan author of Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery and Detective Fiction. ![]() ![]() But could these feelings change? Would the young journalist decide she wanted the smell of a baby in her arms before her “clock” ran down? Would the doctor decide he, too wanted to start a new family, or would this become a stumbling block to their future? Their emotional banks were depleted by the time their volunteer work at a local clinic was done. Both agreed they didn’t want children of their own, too many children were out there, waiting for someone to give them love. But will their pasts come between them? Will their age difference become an issue? What’s more important, money and being closer in age or love and trust? To say the world is against them may a bit harsh, but their families sure weren’t happy with their plans to wed. She makes him feel alive with her bohemian ways, her spur of the moment ideas and the sheer wonder of life in her eyes. ![]() Gabe is older, a successful and conservative surgeon, divorced with children, but when Jenny comes into his life, there is hope, happiness and a lightness he hasn’t felt in a long time. When Jenny met Gabe, all the signs of attraction were there for this feisty, free-spirited young woman who has been a little down on her luck, life wise. Sometimes when the right person comes along, no matter who they are, no obstacle seems too high to climb. ![]() ![]() He shares words of wisdom that are still very relevant over 200 years later which is why I give the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 5 stars. ![]() This great man was both insightful and practical. Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin. Nonetheless, I found his life to be interesting and Franklin to be brave, tenacious and of course, intellectually curious. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Description. He was direct about some mistakes but glossed over others, such as his philandering. We know that Franklin had a great many discoveries and inventions which he freely shared with others, eschewing patents and the potential profits that would have coincided with these patents. Franklin also talks about his foray into politics and love of books, science and more. He talks about his struggles to create and grow a business and to stay afloat financially. In the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the author provides the reader an account of important events in his life such as when he fled Boston, ending his apprenticeship to his brother and arriving in Philadelphia. ![]() ![]() Listening to this on audio, I felt as if I were sitting at his knee listening to the man tell his life story. Given that the book was reasonably brief (181 pages), I was determined to give it a try and I enjoyed it immensely. I was recently reminded that Benjamin Franklin wrote an autobiography. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York, Who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall, Who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, ![]() Who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, Who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, Who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,ĭragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,Īngelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps appropriately in this context, all of the characters behave like rats in a cage – but that doesn’t help the vitality of the narrative, either. Perhaps this is because the narrative feels over-determined, a fictionalised account of real experiments which can’t quite escape the dragging weight of the points it strives to make with more clarity than the original investigations themselves. But I did make a note in my reading diary and here, gasp, it is:Īn odd novel: it has an effectively turned central twist, and a compelling series of secondary reveals, and yet is never quite as dramatic or as gripping as its structure might wish itself to be. ![]() Perhaps as a function of my generally underwhelmed feeling about the book, I didn’t review it at the time. I read Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves a few weeks before it was longlisted for this Booker Prize I confess I didn’t think it had much chance of being shortlisted, and said as much to the nice man behind the desk at my local Waterstones who told me he’d drawn the book in the work sweepstake and yet there it is, shortlisted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing-and too earth-shattering in its implications-to be forgotten. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion).Īs the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the racist south, a man of mixed parentage is shunned by blacks and whites alike. Christmas has been a social outcast since birth due to his mixed bloodline. The heart of the story, however, focuses on another co-worker of Burch and Bunch, named Joe Christmas. This mistake proves to her benefit, as Byron quickly falls in love with her and is willing to give her the home and security which the child's father fails to provide. Instead of the father, shiftless Lucas Burch, she is directed to Byron Bunch, a co-worker of Burch's with a similar name. Lena is a disadvantaged but determined young woman, who sets out to find the wayward father of her soon-to-be-born babe. Faulkner brings these themes to life through the characters of Lena Grove and Byron Bunch. William Faulkner's writings are often meditative in nature, and Light in August is a powerful but grim meditation on racism, religious intolerance, and the plight of women in Depression-era Mississippi. ![]() ![]() Light in August is a classic novel written by a master storyteller. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was the seed that got me writing Starfish. Suddenly, three years ago I could see Charlotte Flax so clearly sitting on the porch in the same house back in Grove, and she was reading a letter. Patty Dann: The characters in Mermaids had become so real to me that I did wonder where they were over the years, but until recently I never could picture where they had moved after they left the fictional town of Grove, Massachusetts. ![]() Dann was also cited by New York Magazine as one of the “Greatest Teachers of NYC.”ĭerek Alger: In your new novel, Starfish, you return to your quirky, memorable characters from your novel, Mermaids. She is a member of the New York Writers Workshop, the Authors Guild, and P.E.N. ![]() She taught at Sarah Lawrence College and teaches at the West Side YMCA. She has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, and a B.A. Dann has served as a judge for the Scholastic Young Writers Awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘There is a giddiness to these grumpy old men that spills from The Tempest’s pages.’ ![]() But Moore has spent his career muddying heroic waters, and the caped crusaders of The Tempest are not the bantering big-screen heroes of Marvel or their glowering DC counterparts. That might seem a strange remark from a man whose work has included Batman, Superman and the Swamp Thing – and whose latest project is jam-packed with superheroes. He rarely does press, but scraps are seized on, such as his claim in one interview with a Brazilian newspaper that the impact of superheroes on culture is “both tremendously embarrassing and not a little worrying”. HBO’s reimagining of his Watchmen series is a TV blockbuster, and the masks from V for Vendetta are a symbol of modern protest. For a man stepping back from the spotlight, his influence is as strong as ever. Alan Moore says that this wild and playful volume, the conclusion to the acclaimed League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, will be his last major work in comics. ![]() |