![]() ![]() What he couldn't know then, but is about to learn, was God's purpose for Missy's death. His great sadness began four years ago on a weekend camping trip, when his 6-year-old daughter, Missy, was murdered. 2009 Audies Finalist © AudioFile Portland, Maine, "Mac is a grief-stricken father in mid-life about to have an extraordinary experience with God. This compelling fantasy explores themes of love, loss, and blame." G.D.W. With empathy and sensitivity, Mueller captures the mysterious voices of those who have invited Mac to the now abandoned, yet transformed, cabin in the wilderness. His polished performance of grief-stricken Mac brings tears. ![]() His portrayal of Missy's animated excitement makes her especially believable. Roger Mueller's clear, gentle voice characterizes Mac's family with high-spirited joy and laughter. ![]() "Mac is a grief-stricken father in mid-life about to have an extraordinary experience with God. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Russian navy is on a path to destroy the submarine. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it.The entire crew of Red October, a Soviet submarine, is defecting to the US. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. The new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. Sean Connery is the Soviet sub commander, who is up to something. The screen adaptation of the Tom Clancy thriller (Paramount, 1990), starred Alec Baldwin as a US intelligence agent tracking the maiden voyage of the new, secret Soviet submarine Red October. The 941 Akula / TYPHOON starred in Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October, that told the story of a vessel of the Soviet navy, under the old communist regime, that tried to defect to the West. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a Durban court he was asked by the European magistrate to take off his turban he refused and left the courtroom. When he moved to South Africa in 1893, Gandhi quickly encountered racial discrimination. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Her first book, Flood Child, won The Times Chicken House Fiction Prize, and she has also written a sequel Flood & Fire and most recently Ways to See a Ghost. The visit to GSAL came about through a partnership between the school and the festival – GSAL is the major sponsor of the ILF Children’s FestivalĪs an award-winning author, Emily knows all about the structure of a good story. She talked about her books, before running fun and interactive workshops to help the children create their own stories. Leeds schoolchildren learned why a story needs a beginning, a middle and an end – especially an end – when they met children’s author Emily Diamand.Įmily was invited by Ilkley Literature Festival (ILF) to visit Year 6 children from The Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL) Junior School and Moorlands School. ![]() ![]() He also appears to have arachnophobia (an irrational fear of spiders) to the point of freezing up completely. ![]() However, he can sometimes be a pushover when confronted, and has difficulty refusing others. His charisma allows him to convince others to go along with his requests, get discounts from MAILBOX and befriend animals like EMS. HERO also has a charismatic side that he uses to charm others. He is described as having a mild personality and passionate in domestic work like baking, cooking, and cleaning, making him an ideal employee. It is also notable that he grew taller like the other main characters.ĭuring his youth, HERO is the peacemaker of the group, who tries to restrain his friends whenever they get too worked up. His main attire consists of a navy V-neck sweater, grey pants and white shoes. HERO has neatly-styled brown hair and black eyes like KEL. ![]() ![]() In the present, HERO appears as a young adult man with a more mature appearance compared to the others. HERO is also the oldest and tallest of the party. According to SPROUT MOLE MIKE, he is 5'7" at the age of fifteen. ![]() Like KEL and AUBREY, he lacks socks or shoes and his hair and eyes are purple. His hair is unkempt from sleep, as seen in his sprites. The HEADSPACE version of HERO wears a set of blue-striped pajamas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite overcoming the struggles of her own abduction, Fontaine and her partner Uriah Ashby become a part of a much larger murder mystery, one that includes the obsession of kidnapping and murdering teenage girls (covered up as suicides). After killing her abductor, Fontaine desperately tries to return to her homicide division at the Minneapolis Police Department where she faces the difficulty of proving her mental stability in the line of duty. Nonetheless, Frasier’s novel begins with the escape of Jude Fontaine, a detective who was abducted and held hostage in a basement for three years. ![]() ![]() Or – more credibly – I was slightly influenced by my previous read of Emily Bleeker’s Wreckagethat subconsciously affected my reading of this particular mystery. Given its 4.5 star rating on Amazon, I may have jumped into Anne Frasier’s The Body Reader with greater expectations than if I hadn’t skimmed through the reviews prior to swiping left on my Kindle. I’m here to discover narratives written by female authors and let you know if they’re worth storing on your virtual bookshelf. For those who carry a bookshelf with them on-the-go, Amazon releases a variety of e-books monthly for $3.99 or less. ![]() ![]() ![]() The constant destruction wears him down and he longs to return home. ![]() Despite being the best shot in his company-better than Elijah, and possibly the best shot in the Canadian army-Xavier eventually grows to hate war. The two become fast friends, and as they grow older and hear of the war, they eventually decide to join. At twelve, Xavier befriends Elijah, another Cree who was raised in the residential school. Later, she raises Xavier to adulthood in the bush, teaching him the secrets of survival and cultivating what turns out to be his incredible hunting ability. When Xavier immediately responds yes, Niska engineers their daring escape. Making bird noises to attract him into the woods, she explains that she is his aunt and asks if he would like to leave. ![]() ![]() She hides by the school and observes the nuns’ tyrannical treatment of Xavier. After seeing Xavier in a dream, Niska decides to find out if he wants to leave the school, which is in Moose Factory and is run by diabolical white nuns. Xavier’s mother-Niska’s sister Rabbit, known as Anne in the inhospitable wemistikoshiw (white) town of Moose Factory-had descended into alcoholism and was forced to give Xavier up to the residential school when he was very young. One of the narrators of the novel, Xavier is a young Canadian Cree man who enters World War I with his best friend, Elijah. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot sounds interesting, but I have to say: Miss Molly Robbins Designs a Seduction is one of the first books in a long, long time to make my eyes cross while I’m trying to read it. ![]() ![]() Carver, however, eventually has designs of the other nature on our spunky seamstress. Oh, she’d pay him back, of course, and she will do it without having to take off her clothes, thank you very much. She’d make sure that Carver does as he promised, and she would make him sign a contract in the process. Carver, you see, has playfully promised her a loan to start her own dress shop in London, and Molly realizes that this is her one golden opportunity to achieve her dream. When the story opens, she has left her husband-to-be at the altar to meet Carver in London. Molly Robbins is a lady’s maid who, thanks to a democratic relationship with Lady Mercy Danforthe and her brother Carver, has never imagined that her station in life could hold her back from her dreams. Miss Molly Robbins Designs a Seduction by Jayne Fresina ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses" and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please share some of the best memories of your childhoodĪs a child I loved our family holidays by the seaside in Wales. Thank you for accepting my invite on my blog, Helena. Her patient husband and her brilliant children support her in her daydreams and are the loves of her life. When she’s not out on the moors you’ll find Helena either creating romantic heroes and heroines of her own or else with her nose firmly buried in a book, enjoying someone else’s stories. ![]() She has an affectionate, if half-crazed, rescue dog and together they tramp the moors every day - one of them wishing she were Emily Brontë, the other vainly chasing pheasants. She’s grown used to the cold now and that’s just as well, because nowadays she lives in an old Victorian mill town in Yorkshire, right next door to windswept Brontë country. Helena Fairfax was born in Uganda and came to England as a child. Author Interview: Helena Fairfax: The Silk Romance: The Antique Love: A Holiday Anthology ![]() |