![]() ![]() Agent: Scott Miller, Trident Media Group. This is Rosenberg’s most deeply moving work to date. When Jacob questions why Luc has joined the Resistance, the pastor responds, “The real question is ‘Why aren’t all the Christians here?’ ” Rosenberg has done what he does best: create believable characters set in a political milieu and also in religious context, acting on conviction or exploiting religion for selfish or evil ends. That much had been taught to Walter Rosenberg early, within a week of his arrival in Auschwitz, aged just 17, at the start of July. During the escape, the two form a strong bond, learning about each other’s faith and doubts. Together they plan to escape to tell an unbelieving world about the Holocaust. ![]() Luc, a French pastor, who is sentenced to the Auschwitz death camp for helping Jews, joins forces with Jacob, a Jewish man sent to the camp after his attempt to hijack a train bound for Auschwitz fails. ![]() The strong religious conviction evident in Rosenberg’s previous novels (Damascus Countdown), which were focused on the Middle East and Muslim-Western relations, is reflected in his latest book-a work of historical fiction, about a heroic escape from the Nazis. ![]()
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![]() This book is about mercy, revenge and forgiveness. We learn about Minka’s life in the concentration camp and how she chose to deal with her gruesome memories. Sage’s elderly grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. ![]() He was a Nazi SS officer and now wants to die to atone for his previous sins. As the story unfolds, Josef confides in Sage that he is not the sweet old man whom everyone thinks. Josef is the town’s favorite school teacher and little league coach. She befriends an old man through a grief group she attends after her mother dies. The Storyteller is a multi-layered book about Sage Singer, a young woman who is a baker and basically a loner. ![]() She was inspired to write about the Holocaust by a non-fiction book called The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. Many people feel that she thinks “on the dark side,” but what I learned is that Jodi writes about horrific events in life (school shootings, death of a child) and that possibly, by writing about these tragedies, she could avoid them. ![]() Having just listened to an interview with her regarding her latest book, The Storyteller, I am getting to know Jodi better and her inspirations for particular topics. ![]() I have read every book written by Jodi Picoult. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Fight club 2![]() Doesn’t make sense? Well, neither does anything that happens in this one.īack when I was a teenage edge lord Chuck Palahniuk was my god. This sequel assumes that you are familiar with both the movie and the book, they are mostly similar except the endings are quite different and somehow this graphic novel picks up where both of them left off. ![]() ![]() You must be, how could you have missed it? Have young people not reached the Fight Club phase of their youth yet? ![]() I’m going to assume that you’re already familiar with Fight Club, either the book or the movie. Well here’s your warning, Ima be cursing in this one. Usually I keep things a little moderate, language wise, for my reviews. Just take my initial review here with a grain of salt. I intend to reread and add a new review category eventually. ![]() Additionally, I’ve had a lot of time to think about this one and my opinions may have changed. First is the spoiler free review, followed by the spoiler full review and summary. This post of Fight Club 2 (or the Fight Club book) by Author Chuck Palahniuk, Illustrations Cameron Stewart, Cover art David Mack has been adapted from two previous posts. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Finders by Jeffrey B. Burton![]() ![]() We see some of their personalities but Vira is the most often one to accompany Mace. They mostly aren’t trained to take down bad guys or protect people. The dogs here are mostly HRD or cadaver dogs. I am a fan of K-9 books, so I discovered this Mace Reid K-9 Mystery series. But the trail Vira finds on the property’s dense woodlands leads right back to Druckman himself. After Vira finds the dead body of the mother, former supermodel Calley Kurtz, everyone is on high alert to find Druckman’s missing daughter before the five-year-old disappears forever. ![]() ![]() Druckman was assaulted, left behind while his wife and young daughter were taken for ransom.īrought to the scene by the FBI, Reid specializes in human remains detection, and Vira is the star of his pack of cadaver dogs he’s dubbed The Finders. Druckman brings Mason “Mace” Reid and his cadaver dog, Vira, to this wealthy northern suburb of Chicago. Glencoe, Illinois: A home invasion turned kidnapping at the mansion of billionaire financier Kenneth J. Published by Minotaur Books on June 28, 2022Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Jesus Storybook Bible is unlike any other storybook. “Perhaps the greatest value of this book is how it can train parents (and anyone in a position of teaching) to teach the Scriptures rightly to their children.” ![]() “All too often, children’s Bible storybooks isolate individual biblical stories from the message of the Scriptures… The Jesus Storybook Bible is a wonderful exception to this trend… exegetically faithful to the text while directing children to what adults would call the “redemptive historical” meaning… Bible stories learned this way do what God intended them to do – they lead people to know and believe the gospel of Jesus.” ![]() “Sally has captured the plot line of redemption in a children’s story Bible that sings the praise of Jesus and his saving grace on every page, in every story… To discover The Jesus Storybook Bible is to have a unique resource for communicating the gospel to children in all it’s fullness.” – Westminster Theological Seminary Bookstore “It has turned out to be what all of us in the store suspected when we first saw it: the kind of children’s Bible storybook for which many, many thoughtful Christian parents have been waiting.” The title and subtitle … provide, in one deft stroke, the interpretive key that unlocks the meaning of the whole Bible … “ – Christianity Today “How does one explain to a child the agony of Jesus in Gethsemane, and his prayer of surrender to his Father? Lloyd-Jones does it as well as any biblical commentator…. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the stage, they read the words to you, they read the question to you, and then you read back the answer. This is no exaggeration, this is pretty much exactly how it is. To get a taste of just how anti-intellectual it is, check out this spot-on animation of what a Sunday with the Witnesses is like. Above all, being a Witness is intensely, oppressively dull. To be a Witness is to give up much of your creativity, your ability to express yourself freely, and the sum of your critical thinking. But if you have been a member of this religion, then this book will resonate from your teeth to your toes. ![]() If you are interested in the subject of thought control, or institutional evil, then you may get something out of this. If you have never been part of the Jehovah's Witnesses religion, I am not sure what this book would mean to you. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two components rub against each other. Nelson's vibrant, probing and, most of all, outstanding book is also a philosophical look at motherhood, transitioning, partnership, parenting and family - an examination of the restrictive way we've approached these terms in the past and the ongoing struggle to arrive at more inclusive and expansive definitions for them. that for some, 'transitioning' may mean leaving one gender entirely behind, while for others - like Harry, who is happy to identify as a butch on T - it doesn't?")īut that doesn't quite capture The Argonauts' whirlwind character. Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is, on one level, a memoir about Nelson's pregnancy with her first child, Iggy, and her partner Harry's concurrent female-to-male "transition." (The quotation marks are borrowed from Nelson, who at one point wonders "how to explain. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Argonauts Author Maggie Nelson ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Kate atkinson museum![]() This was Atkinson’s first novel and won her the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in 1995. It opens with Ruby being fully aware of her own conception: ‘I exist! I am conceived to the chimes of midnight on the clock on the mantelpiece…’ She goes on to describe her parents and their lives together while she is still in her mother’s womb. These observations might seem preternaturally advanced from a narrator not yet old enough to walk and talk, but that is consistent for this witty novel. This is the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 as described by one-year-old Ruby Lennox in Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum. ![]() To prevent this happening people keep weighing her down with cloaks and robes, orbs and spectres, until she’s so heavy that bishops and archbishops have to help propel her around.’ ![]() ![]() ‘In her big, white dress the Queen looks like a balloon that’s about to float up to the roof of Westminster Abbey and bob about up there amongst the gilded arches and roof bosses. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Nancy drew the clue in the diary![]() Swenson's five-year-old daughter Honey, the young detective makes a desperate effort to exonerate the inventor of the suspicion of arson. ![]() Fearing its occupants may be trapped in the blazing building, they rush to the rescue-and unexpectedly find themselves confronted with a mystery that seems to be insoluble. Nancy and her friends, George and Bess, are returning from a country carnival when they witness the explosion and burning of a beautiful country mansion. It has been extensively changed from the original 1932 edition. This is the 1962, revised edition of The Clue in the Diary. The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew Mystery #22)Īmateur detective, detective, fiction, mystery, female detectives, Nancy Drew (Fictional character) ![]() The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mystery #11) ![]() Wirt Writing under the pseudonym: Keene, Carolyn The Clue in the Old Stagecoach (Nancy Drew Mystery #37)īenson, Mildred A. The Clue in the Diary (Nancy Drew Mystery #7)Īdams, Harriet Stratemeyer Writing under the pseudonym: Keene, Carolyn ![]() ![]() ![]() Redeeming Love was the first book I wrote as a Christian. But with her permission, I’m sharing this encouraging and beautiful story: She is a humble person and not one to seek attention or make public statements. (Nanci and I stayed in their home some years ago.) When I was working on my book Giving Is the Good Life, I asked Frani to share about Redeeming Love, which she wrote more than twenty-five years ago. In my opinion, she is one of the finest writers of Christian fiction in the world.įrancine (who her friends know as Frani) and her husband Rick are committed followers of Jesus, and a delight. Redeeming Love is probably her best known, but my own favorite is The Atonement Child. ![]() Her books are exceptionally powerful, well-written, and always Christ-honoring. Many Christian fiction readers are familiar with Francine Rivers. ![]() |