Angels and demons book5/23/2023 ![]() They guide, comfort, and provide for the people of God in the midst of suffering and persecution – and their unseen presence should reassure us in times of fear.ĭo you fear the unseen forces of evil? Do you tremble at the notion of demons? Put your trust and faith in the living and sovereign God through his Son, Jesus Christ. The Bible tells us angels fill many roles in the life of the Christian. ![]() “Bookstores and libraries have shelves of books on demons, the occult, and the devil…(But) angels have a much more important place in the Bible than the devil and his demons.” In his second edition of the million-selling book, Angels, God’s Secret Agents, Billy Graham offers some perspective on the relative prominence of angels and demons in God’s Word: Maybe you’ve felt this yourself, reading a book or watching a movie. Throughout history, in fact – from primitive cave art to modern movies – the portrayal of evil forces has evoked strong fear response. ![]() They’ve been a favorite focus of Hollywood and literature for decades. In popular culture, demonic forces seem to get more press than angels. ![]() The Bible tells us that angels and demons are both real. ![]()
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Kingpin alexa riley5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Want to take a guess at what that is? Hint: There’s absolutely no birth control in this book. This guy is after Thea, and he’s got a plan to keep her from getting away. Warning: This is dark, dirty, baby-making smut. ![]() Is she strong enough to lead his empire? Will she be ripe enough to give birth to one? She’s a witness and she needs to be taken care of, but after one touch, he’s redefining what that means. He’s spent his whole life not letting anyone close to him because he knows what the consequences could be. He’s in charge of everything, and that includes who he allows in his inner circle. Salvatore Costello is the boss in the Los Angeles mafia. But what’s Thea to do when the darkness that could swallow her is exactly where she wants to go? Suddenly, with the shot of a bullet, she’s thrust into a world she had no idea existed. One night on her way home she becomes a witness to a murder. She keeps her nose clean and stays out of trouble, trying to do what she can to pay the bills. ![]() Thea James is scraping by and trying to make a decent life for herself. ![]() Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() To say much more about a novel as fresh and surprising as Villa Incognito would run the risk of diluting the sheer fun of reading it. Villa Incognito will surely arouse a similar response in many readers, for in its lusty, amusing way it both celebrates existence and challenges our ideas about it. ![]() “Your books make me think, they make me laugh, they make me horny and they make me aware of the wonder of everything in life.” On one level, this is a book about identity, masquerade and disguise-about “the false mustache of the world”-but neither the mists of Laos nor the smog of Bangkok, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the linguistic phosphor that illuminates the pages of Villa Incognito. ![]() Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love story) and you’ll have a foretaste of Tom Robbins’s eighth and perhaps most beautifully crafted novel-a work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).Ī Portrait began life in 1904 as Stephen Hero-a projected 63-chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. ![]() The Mane Attraction by Shelly Laurenston5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Even more worrisome, he’s harboring hot, X-rated fantasies about the fast-talking little canine-and he has to deal with every male in Sissy Mae’s Pack sniffing around her in a way that makes his hackles rise. Mitch is a lion shifter who happens to be an undercover cop. ![]() ![]() How else to explain the fact that Sissy Mae Smith woke up in Mitch Shaw’s bed the morning after her brother Bobby Ray tied the knot? Or that gunmen are trying to kill Mitch, and Sissy Mae now has to escort a bleeding, stubborn, yet still incredibly sexy lion shifter to her Tennessee Pack’s turf to keep him safe? It doesn’t help that Mitch’s appraising gaze makes her feel like the most desirable creature on earth, or that the ultimate stray cat is suddenly acting all kinds of possessive…Mitch is an undercover cop who’s about to testify against some dangerous ex-associates. The Mane Attraction is the 3rd book in the Pride series and its all about the love of my life, Mitch Shaw. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take. ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. But even the king of the beasts can find himself unexpectedly tamed by the right woman…Weddings have the strangest effect on people. The Mane Attraction - Ebook written by Shelly Laurenston. Ready for something wild? Shelly Laurenston’s sensual, shape-shifting heroes are definitely a breed apart. ![]() The legend of podkin one ear5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() and so to the next instalment in the astonishing tale of Podkin One-Ear. It is here that the bard is ordered to retell the tale that has got him in so much trouble. ![]() Podkin has nothing to do!Īnd so it is that the bard and and his young apprentice Rue are taken to Spinestone, the temple warren of the bonedancers. Paz tends to the rabbits with sleeping sickness Crom meets with the war council. Podkin and his fellow rabbits have been sheltering in Dark Hollow after their battle with Scramashank. Rue, his new apprentice, travels with him - keen to learn his trade - and hear the next installment in the legend of Podkin One-Ear. The terrifying Gorm are on the rampage, and no one and nowhere is safe. Then Podkin's home is brutally attacked, and the young rabbits are forced to flee. But for now, he's quite happy to laze around annoying his older sister Paz, and playing with his baby brother Pook. ![]() He knows that one day it will be up to him to lead his warren and guard it in times of danger. Podkin is the son of a warrior chieftain. ![]() Foner second founding5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Constitution through the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments that were added after the Civil War - how they were interpreted by the Supreme Court, how they were battled over by different groups of people trying to implement them and what they mean to us today. I’m going to distill the ideas in my book about how the Civil War and Reconstruction changed the U.S. Question: How are you preparing for your keynote?įoner: What I’m going to be speaking about is what I’m currently writing about, what I’m thinking about. Foner will be followed by a keynote titled “Optimism and Pessimism in the African American Racial Imagination” from Harvard University Law School’s Randall Kennedy.īefore arriving later this month, Foner spoke about his keynote, what conference guests can expect to learn and how everyday life inspired him professionally. 28, as part of the Lincoln’s Unfinished Work conference at Clemson University. For Foner, these ideals are actually part of a “Second Founding” that came about thanks to post-Civil War amendments, a concept he’ll be discussing during his opening night keynote on Wednesday, Nov. He is embarking on the journey once again for his forthcoming book in which he’ll explore the notions of equality and citizenship that we’ve come to know as part of the U.S. “Writing history is like figuring out a detective plot.”įor best-selling author Eric Foner, putting together the pieces is part of the creative process. ![]() Missing you coben5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The others now went home after their shifts, or to AA meetings. Sure, the old console TVs had been replaced by a host of flat- screens showing too wide a variety of games-who cared about how the Edmonton Oilers did?-but outside of that, O’Malley had kept the cop feel and that was what had appealed to these posers, the faux authenticity, moving in and pushing out what had made the place hum, turning it into some Disney Epcot version of what it had once been. “See him?” Stacy asked.ĭécor-wise, O’Malley’s hadn’t really changed much over the years. Kat swiveled to the right to take a peek. Stacy’s eyes started darting around the bar. They smirked a lot, these soft men, their hair moussed to the point of overcoif, and ordered Ketel One instead of Grey Goose because they watched some TV ad telling them that was what real men drink. Now it had been turned into a yuppie, preppy, master-of- the-universe, poser asshat bar, loaded up with guys who sported crisp white shirts under black suits, two-day stubble, manscaped to the max to look un- manscaped. So had her father and their fellow NYPD col- leagues. O’Malley’s used to be an old-school cop bar. Kat Donovan spun off her father’s old stool, readying to leave O’Malley’s Pub, when Stacy said, “You’re not going to like what I did.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the Leo in Hannah’s story, Freddie’s neighbour – he’s helpful too. And her most ardent admirer, Leo Johnson, is writing her letters in response to the chapters she sends him, explaining Americanisms, offering advice. ![]() a standalone literary mystery that is delightfully self-referential: it constantly reminds you of its fictional scaffolding while making you, somehow, even more invested in the story.īut that’s just a story, isn’t it? A mystery being written by famed Australian writer Hannah Tigone just before the pandemic grips the world. And their search, which begins with the bright delight of new friendship, will soon become very dangerous indeed…. Bonded by their shared experience, they attempt to piece together the mystery of the woman in the library, but there are secrets in everyone’s pasts that even the very best of friends would not want to share. Their connection is still tentative and new when they hear someone scream nearby, but the discovery of a body in the library the next day causes them to get closer. Whit, studying to become a lawyer and doing his best to fail handsome novelist Cain tattooed Harvard student Marigold and our protagonist, Freddie, who has arrived in America from Australia on a writing fellowship. Under the soaring dome of the Boston Public Library, four people meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hi! I am Steve Vernon and I'd love to scare you. They all want to see just exactly what makes an author tick.Which ticks me off just a little bit - but what good is a lifetime if you can't ride out the peeve and ill-feeling and grin through it all. Or - in the words of Uncle Bob - this here is mostly the truth with only a few lies stirred into the broth for pepper.Įverybody always wants a peek at the man behind the curtain. Means he takes some liberties with the Gospel. The fact is this is the story of the Book of Genesis as retold by a country gentleman who read the Bible a couple of times and is doing his level best to retell it in his own words. In fact, I guarantee a giggle or two along the way. This isn't exactly a solemn retelling of the Bible. If you are one of those folks who thinks that it is bad manners to giggle a little in church - well, you might want to take a good look at the sample that the Kindle folks let you peek at before you go throwing down any of your hard-earned money. If you think you KNOW the truth behind the Bible Stories you REALLY ought to pick up a copy of this book. ![]() ![]() (Note: if you have ALREADY read Uncle Bob's Red Flannel Bible Camp: From Eden to the Ark, you have ALREADY read part of this novel) The whole entire story of the Book of Genesis as told to you by the world's oldest storyteller, Uncle Bob. ![]() |