![]() ![]() Working undercover is difficult, especially when the scope of the required duties expands as new problems arise or previously undisclosed in formation changes the course and urgency of the investigation. Walking down that one-way path came with a very steep price. I had a responsibility to do what I could to stop what I could. I found myself up close and personal with those who forced this plague onto innocent, young girls. Once confronted by the facts, I was unable to turn my back on the battle and my responsibility to do something urged me forward. ![]() I have to admit, I was skeptical that such a heinous problem could actually occur right here in this great nation, but it can-and it does. ![]() Several years into private practice, I became acutely aware of human trafficking and its impact on families in America as well as the rest of the world after discovering that someone I knew well, or thought I did, was involved in this horrific activity.Īs a result of my friendship with the individual, authorities pulled me into the battle against underage abductions from the streets of our cities. Here is an excerpt from “an interview with Dr. As fiction, inspired by real events, many are asking how much of the story is true and how much is not. My new International thriller, Thicker Than Blood, is close to my heart. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Randy’s review was, shall we say, of the harsh variety. They’ve also been translated into 70 languages. More than 11 million copies of his books have been sold. You can check him out online: Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (EPM) and the author of more than 55 books, including Heaven and If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil. ![]() ![]() About a month or so ago several reader sent me an online review of my book Heaven and Hell on (check it out: it’s a website dealing with issues connected with religious faith) by Randy Alcorn, a prominent evangelical author with a high public profile, who has written a number of books about Heaven from his faith perspective. As you know, books on controversial topics get reviewed by all sorts of readers some reviews are glowing and others are, well, nasty. ![]() ![]() ![]() What's so immediately compelling about our protagonist, Frances Wray, is that, in a way that doesn't seem at all anachronistic, she's comfortable in her own queer skin. Any reader familiar with Waters' earlier novels like Tipping the Velvet will know that she's especially drawn to the subject of lesbian relationships. As alert as Waters is to historical detail, she's also a superb storyteller with a gift for capturing the layered nuances of character and mood. Patmore, Frances is more than qualified.īut The Paying Guests is no simple period piece. If Downton Abbey needed an extra slave to work in the kitchen alongside Mrs. Raised to be a middle-class gentlewoman, Frances now cooks up inferior cuts of beef and empties bedpans and rubs her knuckles raw scrubbing the hallway floor. The Wray women have decidedly come down in the world: Frances' two brothers were killed in World War I and her recently deceased papa made some bad investments. The book opens in 1922: The Edwardian Age, with its high collars and long skirts, is dead the Jazz Age is waiting to be born - at least, that's the case in the suburban backwater of London where Waters' main character, a 26-year-old spinster named Frances Wray, lives with her mother. Sarah Waters' new novel, The Paying Guests, is a knockout, which isn't a word any of her characters would use. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Paying Guests Author Sarah Waters ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up and working in his parents’ store and restaurant in Crow Agency, Montana, Judd Thompson wasn’t aware of how Pendleton blankets would influence his art. “The selection of Judd Thompson’s work is a lifetime honor – especially significant for a young artist.” “This is not just a blanket design, it’s really textile art, being offered in a limited edition,” says Jeremiah Young, Stapleton Gallery owner and co-curator. Created from his painting “A Horse Called Paint,” a reflection of Thompson’s unique perspective growing up on the Crow Indian Reservation outside of Billings, Montana, the new blanket received its official launch at the Western Design Conference Exhibit + Sale in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in September in a special exhibit of Thompson’s work by Stapleton Gallery, which represents the artist. ![]() Pendleton, the iconic 150-year-old Oregon woolen mills, has selected a painting by Montana artist Judd Thompson as the latest subject for a blanket in its prestigious Artist Collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting during Lyra’s extended journey in a canoe down a dangerously flooded Thames’ The Times on Philip Pullman’s novel ‘Once in a lifetime a children’s author emerges who is so extraordinary that the imagination of generations is altered’ New Statesman on Philip Pullman ![]() ![]() Bryony Lavery’s stage adaptation was first performed at the Bridge Theatre, London, in December 2021, directed by Nicholas Hytner, whose groundbreaking production of His Dark Materials was a critical and commercial success at the National Theatre. Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage is set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future.Īs the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. ![]() ![]() There are a few books that I go to automatically to teach these kinds of lessons. ![]() ![]() Despite any structural or linguistic issues I might have, this book brought me to tears during the closing poem. Some of the wording seemed awkward, but that could just be a matter of I am not used to reading a story fully in the present tense. We are shown a way to overcome those differences in a nice, productive manner. Without getting too harsh, we are shown one little girl already aware of the cultural differences she will face and another with observable learned prejudices that we know come from her mother. Through the efforts of an understanding teacher and a supportive mother creating a class project to make a quilt with everyone’s name written in Arabic, even those with reservations and learned prejudices come around.Įxpressive color pen-and-ink drawings in a classic illustration style, The Arabic Quilt is a heartfelt examination of a young immigrant’s experiences going to a new school in a new country. Kanzi soon finds herself being picked on for her differences. But some people are harder to please than others. She even puts her own likes and home culture aside, hides them down deep, to better assimilate. ![]() She loves swimming, poetry, and her Teita’s quilt. Kanzi moved with her family from Egypt to America. ![]() ![]() If either of them gives up, or fails to keep the starter alive, they lose the lighthouse. and compete in baking challenges with a hundred-year-old sourdough starter. ![]() And the sisters discover their grandmother’s will has a the two of them must live there, work out their issues. ![]() For years, Flannery had held down the home front, taking care of their sick mother and raising a daughter, while Harper sent nothing but checks. And after their mother’s funeral the two sisters had an argument that left them not speaking for six years-why, Harper didn’t even know she has a niece! But life has a way of changing when you least expect it. ![]() It was an inheritance neither sister expected-a lighthouse in Moonglow Cove, left to them by a grandmother they never knew! Harper and Flannery weren’t exactly best friends either. Lori Wilde returns to Moonglow Cove, Texas, with a heartwarming novel about two estranged sisters who must come together after they receive a bizarre inheritance from their grandmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlikely that a book about insects could address disability without reducing disability to stereotypical and tired (even if unintentionally) to disability literature, we imagine non-fiction texts like biographies and memoirs or, ifįictional, those rare stories that place a disabled human character at the centre of narrative. Most of the time, when we think of a book as belonging Interest in disability in a fantastic (non-human) setting. Studies and not a science fiction reader, but they immediately recommended this book to me as one that takes an The person I was speaking with was unfamiliar with disability Interests in disability studies and science fiction. I first heard of Laline Paull's The Bees (Harper Collins, 2014) when I was discussing my research ![]() Book Review - The Bees (Laline Paull) Book Review: The Bees (Laline Paull) Reviewed by Kathryn Allan ![]() ![]() The Question of Significance: Does my life matter? The Question of Existence: Why am I alive? In The Purpose Driven Life you'll find the answers to three of life's most important questions: Millions of people - from NBA and LPGA players to corporate executives to high school students to prison inmates - meet regularly to discuss The Purpose Driven Life." "Movie stars and political leaders aren't the only ones turning to Rick Warren for spiritual guidance. As one of the best-selling nonfiction books in history, with more than 34 million copies sold, and more than 70 translations available, The Purpose Driven Life is far more than just a book it's the roadmap for your spiritual journey. Publisher :Zondervan (HarperCollins Publishers)ĭescription :The New York Times #1 bestselling book by Pastor Rick Warren that helps you understand the purpose of your life. ![]() ![]() Special Price $26.55 Regular Price $29.50 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gladwell opens the book with a discussion of his three rules of tipping points: The Law of the Few, which refers to the unique charismatic individuals who are crucial for spreading social epidemics the Stickiness Factor, or the degree to which the content or message of social epidemics is compelling or addictive and the Power of Context, which centers the influence of people's environment on their actions and on the outcomes of social epidemics. In addition to his writing, Gladwell hosts the Revisionist History podcast.Ĭontent Warning: The source material features frank discussions of suicide and drug use. His most recent book, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation, and The Longest Night of the Second World War, was published in 2021. He worked as a journalist for The Washington Post and other publications before joining The New Yorker, for which he continues to write, in 1996. Gladwell, an author, journalist, and public speaker, has published seven New York Times nonfiction bestsellers. ![]() |