In a culture of endless questions, you need solid answers. until God rescued her, helping her to rebuild her faith, one solid brick at a time. After everything she had ever believed about God, Jesus, and the Bible had been picked apart, she found herself at the brink of despair. All that was deeply challenged when she met a progressive pastor, who called himself a hopeful agnostic.Īnother Gospel? describes the intellectual journey Alisa took over several years as she wrestled with a series of questions that struck at the core of the Christian faith. She had witnessed God at work and then had dedicated her own life to leading worship, as part of the popular Christian band ZOEgirl. She was raised in a Christian home, where she had seen her mom and dad feed the hungry, clothe the homeless, and love the outcast. Others Believe that It Is an Attack on Historic Christianity.Īlisa Childers never thought she would question her Christian faith. Some Think that It Is a Much-Needed Progressive Reformation. “This may be the most influential book you will read this year.” -Lee Strobel, bestselling author of The Case for MiraclesĪ Movement Seeks to Redefine Christianity. Logos Research Subscription for Schools.
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A rich evocation of the Renaissance, The Tigress of Forlì reveals Caterina Riario Sforza as a brilliant and fearless ruler and a tragic but unbowed figure. In finally losing her lands to the Borgia family, she put up a resistance that inspired all of Europe and set the stage for her progeny-including Cosimo de Medici-to follow her example to greatness. Following her husband's assassination, she ruled Italy's crossroads with iron will, martial strength, political savvy-and an icon's fashion sense. After turbulent years in Rome's papal court, she moved to the Romagnol province of Forlì. Raised in the court of Milan and wed at age ten to the pope's corrupt nephew, Caterina was ensnared in Italy's political intrigues early in life. The Tigress of Forl: The Life of Renaissance Italy’s Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici Written by Elizabeth Lev Review by Susan Higginbotham Caterina Sforza, born in 1463, lived a full life. If I were to write the story of my life it would shock the world, Caterina Sforza, 1463-1509. In this glittering biography, Elizabeth Lev reexamines Caterina's extraordinary life and accomplishments. Tigress of Forli: The Life of Caterina Sforza - Elizabeth Lev - Google Books. The astonishing life of Caterina Sforza, one of the most prominent women of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, mother, leader, and warrior with enough fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince. This book holds up really well over time. Now Cat will have to choose a side … and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat. But before she can enjoy her status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. She’s amazed she doesn’t end up as his dinner – are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn’t have to be all bad. In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership. Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father – the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Published by HarperCollins e-books on October 13, 2009 Check out the details and join us! Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost I’m joining in on Anne Books of My Heart’s 2022 Readalong of the Night Huntress World. A player's face flashed up on the Jumbotron. Just before the buzzer, one of the teams scored, and the entire arena went crazy. Disappointed again, I decided to leave at the end of the period. When I arrived, the seat next to me was empty. So on my way home, I decided to take a chance and stop by the game. I tossed the ticket into my purse and went about trying to enjoy the man I was supposed to meet.īut my real blind date and I had no connection. Before he left, he slipped me a ticket to a hockey game a few blocks away, in case things didn't work out on my actual date. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. He only pretended to be until my real date showed up. Turned out, Max wasn't who I was there to meet. He also had the biggest dimples I'd ever laid eyes on.Įxactly what I needed after my breakup.Or so I thought.Until my real date arrived. Max was insanely gorgeous, funny, and our chemistry was off the charts. The first time I met Max Yearwood was on a blind date. A new, sexy standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland. With horror, Junior realizes that the book he’s holding is at least thirty years old. As he leans in, he sees “Agnes Adams” written on the inside cover. On the first day of his Freshman year of high school, Junior’s so excited about learning geometry that he opens his textbook to kiss it. Nearsighted vision in one eye and farsighted in the otherĭue to Junior’s physical challenges and speech impediment, people on the reservation regularly beat him up and refer to him as a “retard.” Junior’s Suspension.Junior was born with too much cerebrospinal fluid in his brain, and the consequent brain damage has resulted in numerous complications, including: Although based on the author’s childhood, True Diary is a work of fiction.ġ4-year-old Junior (Arnold Spirit, Jr.) lives in Wellpinit, Washington, a small town on the Spokane Indian Reservation, known to residents as “the rez.” Junior describes the rez as “located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy.” Set in 2006, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sherman Alexie. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian It will come as no surprise that the theft puts Stone in the gunsights of the NSA and the Russian mob. When it all goes violently wrong, Stone lets Lebed go for a price, and leaps at the chance to earn even more money when Lebed's attractive assistant, Liv, gives him another assignment: break into a Finnish safe house for a little software theft. Just to make sure, McNab (himself a former SAS agent) gives Stone the perfect reason not to be inquisitive: his ward, Kelly, is catatonic with post-traumatic stress disorder, and since her treatment is wildly expensive, Stone finds himself in the middle of a totally unprofessional kidnapping of Russian mafia kingpin Valentin Lebed in Helsinki. In many ways, Stone is the perfect thriller hero: someone strong enough to absorb punishment, smart enough to game plan the details of the job and just enough of a line soldier not to ask too many questions about his assignment. This is McNab's third Nick Stone novel, and when you factor in all the times that Stone is stalked, betrayed, mugged, drugged, beaten, frozen to within an inch of his life and nearly blown to bits, it's a wonder the stoic British ex-SAS (special forces) operative is still alive. We emailed recently back and forth, her in Maine and me in New York, about writerly obsessions, depression and occasional spots of joy in a pandemic, and making space in art for “the firehose of life.” Read her second novel, Panpocalypse, being released now in serial online format from the Feminist Press. She teaches at NYU and lives with her kid and cat. She’s also hilarious, sexy, and so quick in her leaps of thought and connection that I lose my breath keeping up.Ĭarley Moore is the author of the LAMBDA and Firecracker Award-nominated novel The Not Wives, the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry chapbook Portal Poem, and the young adult novel The Stalker Chronicles. As a whole, it comprises an unfolding personal and political testament, a reflection of her deep communion with others’ writing, and an endlessly-reiterated conviction that speaking the hard truth is always worth the transformation such an act can bring. Moore’s work is outrageously engaging on so many levels. We’ve shared manuscripts and publishing advice, co-run a reading series, planned and taught together as teachers, and most importantly, cheered each other on. For twenty years now, I’ve read and been read by Carley Moore. The classical premises of liberalism are observing the rule of law, independence of judges, and equality of respect.Its principles have been pushed to their limits by both sides – neoliberals have made a cult of economic freedom and leftists focus exclusively on identity over human universality.Liberalism was originally the comparatively mild-mannered sibling to the more ardent camps of nationalism and socialism but is has come under attack from conservatives and progressives on either side and is now dismissed by many as an obsolete doctrine. Liberalism has become divisive in modern times, but the original moderate version of it remains the best hope for twenty-first century democracy.Ĭan’t be bothered to read it? Too much screen time lately? Listen to the 5-minute podcast in two parts. "Featuring gods and goddesses, and importantly, Muslim heroes, this #OwnVoices tale eerily echoes our pandemic presents but readers will find escape in the entertaining balance of an apocalyptic setting with irreverent humor. To succeed, they'll have to conquer sly demons, treacherous gods, and their own darkest nightmares. Now all they have to do is retrieve the Flower of Immortality to save Manhattan from being wiped out by disease. He's got Belet, the adopted daughter of Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, on his side, and a former hero named Gilgamesh, who has taken up gardening in Central Park. But all that is blown to smithereens when Nergal comes looking for him, thinking that Sik holds the secret to eternal life.Turns out Sik is immortal but doesn't know it, and that's about to get him and the entire city into deep, deep trouble. So it’s time to start showing off some of the book’s many great characters. Thirteen-year-old Sik wants a simple life going to school and helping at his parents' deli in the evenings. We’re just over one month out from the release date of the next Rick Riordan Presents epic, City of the Plague God. Chadda brings attention to the less well-recognized mythology of ancient Mesopotamia with engaging humor and wit."-Kirkus Reviews Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents CITY OF THE PLAGUE GOD, an adventure based on ancient Mesopotamian mythology written by Sarwat Chadda, author of the Ash Mistry series. On the shelves of her mother’s bookcases were many books of poetry including books by Derek Walcott, and Kahil Gibran, which she tried to read.Īt the age of nine, Lynn moved to the United States with her family, but continued to return to Trinidad for three months of summer each year. She began writing creatively at eight years old, starting with poetry. She read that book until the cover fell off and then had to be taped back on over and over again.įrom the time Lynn was six years old, she walked along the dusty dunes of the river that ran next to her house in Petit Valley, Trinidad, making up stories in her head and often telling them out loud to herself. Lynn, like most writers, loved to read and she remembers her very first book, a collection of Grimm Fairy Tales with a hard blue cover given to her by her parents when she was very young. Lynn Joseph was born in Trinidad and was raised in a family of three children by a mother who loved books, and who read Shakespeare to her and her sister Christine, as bedtime stories. |