![]() ![]() Is it night or day? She tried to focus her eyes. Their victims were groggy, unprepared-like Corrie felt now. How much longer could their secret last before the dreaded Gestapo bashed on their door? The Gestapo struck at night like vipers. They never had less than seven fugitives living with them these desperate days. The ten Booms had been hiding Jews and Dutch boys in their house for two years. The worst of all the Germans were the slithery Gestapo, the secret police of the Nazis. Holland had been infested by German soldiers for four years. It seemed everyone in Holland must know the ten Booms were hiding fugitives in their house. ![]() Jesus had been in her heart for a very long time, and she hoped her fear was just momentary, just another unpleasant symptom of the flu.īut everything has gone wrong lately, she muttered. Her prayer was a plea for many things to pass. But more than age caught up with her today. It seemed as if until today she had never stopped long enough in all her fifty-two years to let age catch up with her. Aches shadowed every movement of her body.Ĭorrie ten Boom felt her years. ![]() ![]() The vapor settled over Corrie ten Boom, who clutched a blanket over herself on a bed. The vaporizer on the small alcohol stove spewed a fog of camphor and water into the air of the dark bedroom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() These books also offered us a set of concepts to understand and interpret the world our travelers inhabited and the challenges and opportunities they encountered in their journeys. Scott and Hébrard’s “micro-history set in motion,” Sparks's "Atlantic Creoles," Restall and Fernández-Armesto's "armed entrepreneurs," Sweet’s “Black Atlantic,” Jasanoff's "spirit of 1783," Pérez Morales's "masterless Caribbean," and Colley's "biography that crosses boundaries" offered us fruit for thought and nourished our weekly discussions. ![]() Their authors provided us physical, conceptual, and narrative maps that we used to navigate our own understanding of the global Atlantic world. Each of the following books features a unique, comprehensive approach to the early modern Atlantic world and the people who traversed it. The books' histories and stories guided us through our own process. As each of us individually conducted research on a specific Atlantic traveler, collectively we read these books and used them as our navigational tools to sail the Atlantic's historiographical waters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Affably Evil: Count Fosco, charming and courteous even when his plans involve kidnapping, Mind Rape, and murder.20 Minutes into the Past: The novel was originally released in serial form starting in 1859 and ending in 1860, while the story takes place ten years earlier in 1849-1850.It has been adapted many times: a play, several films (at least five films just in the silent era, as well as a 1948 film from Warner Bros.), two different BBC television adaptations, an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, and a much Lighter and Softer PC game. The book is often considered the first Victorian sensation novel. However, nothing is as it seems, and a dark conspiracy is being hatched. ![]() Walter and Laura fall in love, but she has been promised in an Arranged Marriage to local nobleman Sir Percival Glyde. Upon arrival, he discovers that the Mysterious Waif is an escaped mental patient named Anne Catherick, and that Anne bears a striking resemblance to Laura Fairlie. On the night before he takes up the position, he encounters a mysterious woman in white. Walter Hartright, a young drawing master from Victorian London, gets a job teaching art to two young women, half-sisters Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie, at Limmeridge House in Cumberland. ![]() Serialised Victorian novel written by Wilkie Collins. ![]() ![]() The other is “See you THEN”, with hard stress on “then”. The first two are different in both meaning and pronunciation, with the first sounding like “See you, theeeeen” with a long but soft final syllable. Ones which are most likely to be used as actual parting greetings without a final “Bye” include “See you, then”, “See you then” and “See you later”. Like “I look forward to doing business with you again” and “I hope we have the chance to meet again soon”, “See you…” expressions are usually followed by an actual parting greeting, as in “See you tomorrow. Other formal options that you might hear in movies and on TV such as “Farewell” are old-fashioned, so “Goodbye” is almost always the first choice in situations where you need an extra level of politeness such as dealing with potential customers. This is the standard formal way of finishing conversations such as business phone calls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Back to the darkness, away from her husband's pursuing love, terrified of the truth she no longer can 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.Īnd so Angel runs. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel's every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance, her frozen heart begins to thaw. Then she meets Michael Hosea.Ī 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. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Michael repeatedly acts as a champion for Angel. Includes a six-part reading group guide Read more Print length 479 pages Language English Publication date Dimensions 5.97 x 1.24 x 8. This beloved book retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush.Ĭalifornia's gold country, 1850. Redeeming Love offers many compelling instances that show both the consequences of no one doing anything to resist evil as well as the positive impact caused when a single person takes action. A powerful retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love. FaithPoint Book Club August 2007 Selection: ![]() ![]() ![]() He motioned to the ramshackle inn across the rutted street where she slaved as a maid for a pittance. At sixty quid a year there’ll be no need for more gambling or thieving to earn our daily crust. The clerk’s position he’s offered me is a stunner of a job. Stark thinks I have a real gift for numbers. Sam dabbed Rosie’s tear-streaked face with the embroidered handkerchief she’d fashioned for him last Christmas. ![]() Stark had made it clear he wanted to be away before the village fully awakened. He dreaded leaving her, but he had to go. He kissed the top of her head, savoring the feel of her in his arms. She’d endured more disappointment and hardship in her sixteen years than a soul should have to bear in a lifetime. Painfully aware she’d been abandoned by everyone else who should have cared for her, he pulled her close and breathed in the light scent of rosewater she’d favored ever since he’d bought a bottle for her birthday last spring. He tried to cajole a smile from her, but the effort was a lost cause. ![]() I don’t know what I’d do without you.ĭon’t be a daft little goose. I’m afraid you won’t come back to me, she whispered. Rose’s slender fingers curled around the frayed edges of his open coat front. Sam Blackstone gazed into the glistening blue eyes of the only girl he’d ever loved.Ī few feet away, Ezra Stark’s magnificent coach stood ready to convey him to London and a new life filled with possibilities-a far cry from sleepy Ashby Croft, with its cob-n-thatch cottages and meandering muddy lanes that led to nowhere. Prologue Devonshire, England November, 1833 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship, one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone, and Cam becomes an expert at both. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl. When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Danforth's novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen who is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after she gets caught having sex with her friend on prom night." The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and provocative literary debut that was named to numerous best of the year lists. "The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Summary: The acclaimed book behind the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning movie "LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival," proclaimed USA Today. ![]() ![]() ![]() With the birth of his own children, Muth naturally began to turn toward children's literature, and he took account of a new potential audience with the need to hear other messages. For him, comic-book illustration is "a natural forum for expressions of angst and questioning one's place in the universe." DeMatteis and portions of Neil Gaiman's well-known Sandman comic-book epic, Muth also wrote and illustrated several original story arcs based on existing characters and published in their entirety as graphic novels, among them Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares for Marvel Comics and Swamp Thing: Roots for DC Comics. ![]() In addition to developing and illustrating the groundbreaking Moonshadow series written by J. Muth began his professional career working as a comic-book illustrator, and quickly established himself as a talent in that field. ![]() Determined to expand his influences, Muth traveled throughout England, Austria, Germany, and Japan, studying not only drawing and painting, but also stone sculpture, sho (brush calligraphy), and printmaking in classes and as an apprentice. ![]() Muth debuted his paintings and drawings in a one-man invitational exhibit at age eighteen at Wilmington College. Muth's mother took her son to museums across the United States, exposing him to the works of a wide variety of paintings, prints, drawings, and other art forms. Muth inherited his passion for the graphic arts while growing up as the son of an art teacher. ![]() ![]() There’s a lot of dread and worry about what’s going on in the woods as no one seems to know (or is willing to discuss) what’s out there. The first part of the book is well-balanced. Hungry for lack of offerings, the spirits warn they may no longer be able to protect the townspeople from the dark powers that are stirring in the woods. They need her help because a priest is dissuading townsfolk from the old ways. In this town, Vasya is born with sight that allows her to communicate with the household spirits. It sets the tone well and is an entertaining way of providing key background information for the main story, which takes place in a small Russian town next to the woods. ![]() The opening scenes depict a family sitting around and telling old stories of Morozko (Frost). It’s snowy, moody, and packed with magic-the superstitious, fairy-tale kind. The Bear and the Nightingale hits many pitfalls of Chosen One stories, but I didn’t notice until the cheesy climax because it’s such an entertaining read. ![]() ![]() “Narrator Soneela Nankani captures the tension felt by workaholic web designer Nicole Palmieri as she overschedules her way through a huge work project and maid-of-honor duties for her best friend, Parisa. But scheduling time to fall in love might push even the most meticulous plans into pure chaos. And after she crosses paths with emerging restaurateur Brandon Phelps, Nicole is feeling feelings she hasn’t felt in…well, ever. If she can stick to her schedule, she’ll balance everything fine. ![]() That’s when Nicole decides to meticulously schedule out the next six months of her life-from her project due dates to her dress-fitting appointments to how many hours she plans to sleep each night. Until her best friend, Parisa Shahin, announces her engagement and asks Nicole to be her maid of honor. She doesn’t have time for a social life (or a love life), but that’s perfectly fine with her. As a user experience designer at Virtuality, an artificial intelligence company in Los Angeles, Nicole is at her desk from sunrise to sunset. ![]() ![]() A smart, modern novel about a woman trying to balance her career, her best friend, and falling in love without crashing and burning. ![]() |