Download or read book An Unexpected Fork in the Road written by Anya Nielsen and published by Australian eBook Publisher. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since schooldays Anya was intrigued by the mystery and wonder of Egypt. Newly independent she could now fulfil her dream to see the pyramids, the mask of Tutankhamun and ride camels through the desert. Three weeks of camping took her up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel and into the Sinai to Sharm el Shek. Her fellow travellers were from all over the world. They were a cohesive group and she even had a holiday romance. A side trip to Cyprus proved to be very interesting, even though New Years Eve came with an unexpected proposition from a tall dark stranger. Never the less Cyprus was a time for relaxation and shopping before the unknown week of independent travel in Jerusalem followed by a short tour of Israel. Anya wanted to spend Orthodox Christmas in the Russian Monastery of Mary Magdalene located in the Garden of Gethsemane. Here she met fellow pilgrims and nuns on sabbatical. Trekking through the desolate mountains from Jerusalem to Jericho, visiting ancient monasteries and many sacred sites even receiving communion in the Holy Sepulchre at the very tomb of Jesus was a life changing moment. These profound experiences led to a realisation, to a fork in the road, to a point where Anya had to make a choice, which path she would take for the rest of her life's journey. The Israel tour was an opportunity for grounding, a chance to put so much emotion into perspective. The group travelled through the major tourist sites, Tel Aviv, Megiddo, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. From the Muslim Dome of the Rock, to viewing the Dead Sea Scrolls and staying overnight in a Jewish Kibuttz before seeing the Christian sites and doing the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorossa. It was January 1993 and while in transit at the airport in Dubai, America was dropping bombs in the Gulf. It had been an eventful and awe-inspiring trip.
Download or read book Fork in the Road written by Denis Hamill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Colin Coyne, a young American filmmaker seeking aesthetic inspiration in Ireland, catches a pickpocket red-handed in a hotel pub, all it takes is one look into her dazzling eyes for him to fall hard ...
Download or read book An Unexpected Fork in the Road written by Anya Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since schooldays Anya was intrigued by the mystery and wonder of Egypt. Newly independent she could now fulfil her dream to see the pyramids, the mask of Tutankhamun and ride camels through the desert. Three weeks of camping took her up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel and into the Sinai to Sharm el Shek. Her fellow travellers were from all over the world. They were a cohesive group and she even had a holiday romance. A side trip to Cyprus proved to be very interesting, even though New Years Eve came with an unexpected proposition from a tall dark stranger. Never the less Cyprus was a time for relaxation and shopping before the unknown week of independent travel in Jerusalem followed by a short tour of Israel. Anya wanted to spend Orthodox Christmas in the Russian Monastery of Mary Magdalene located in the Garden of Gethsemane. Here she met fellow pilgrims and nuns on sabbatical. Trekking through the desolate mountains from Jerusalem to Jericho, visiting ancient monasteries and many sacred sites even receiving communion in the Holy Sepulchre at the very tomb of Jesus was a life changing moment. These profound experiences led to a realisation, to a fork in the road, to a point where Anya had to make a choice, which path she would take for the rest of her life's journey. The Israel tour was an opportunity for grounding, a chance to put so much emotion into perspective. The group travelled through the major tourist sites, Tel Aviv, Megiddo, Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. From the Muslim Dome of the Rock, to viewing the Dead Sea Scrolls and staying overnight in a Jewish Kibuttz before seeing the Christian sites and doing the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorossa. It was January 1993 and while in transit at the airport in Dubai, America was dropping bombs in the Gulf. It had been an eventful and awe-inspiring trip.
Download or read book Scotsmen Prefer Blondes written by Sara Ramsey and published by Sara Ramsey. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She never wanted marriage... When a friend is forced to consider a marriage of convenience, Lady Amelia Staunton is determined to rescue her. But her plans trap her in an illicit seduction, and Amelia must marry him herself. Malcolm's all-consuming kisses and devilish humor might make up for her lost freedom, but she believes he will force her to abandon the Gothic romances she yearns to write. Since she can't escape him, she must distract him from her secret... He isn't looking for love... A powerful autocrat with a well-hidden rebellious streak, Malcolm MacCabe doesn't need another beautiful mistress - he needs an obedient wife. Obedience is not one of Amelia's virtues. But he's too enthralled by her wit and passion to let her go - even if it means risking the political reputation he is building to save his clan. Their hearts can't survive the scandal... Despite their intentions, every wicked embrace binds them together. But as their conflicting desires combust into insatiable hunger and unavoidable ruin, they must decide whether to pursue their personal destinies alone - or fight for the love that could destroy them both.
Download or read book John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood written by Peter O. Koch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daring exploits and astounding achievements were common for two 19th century adventurers--John Lloyd Stephens, a New York lawyer and best-selling author, and Frederick Catherwood, a London architect and renowned topographical artist. Separately, these explorers covered much of the same ground, touring Italy, Greece, Egypt, Arabia, and the Holy Land in search of ancient sites that were of historical significance. Jointly, these adventurers endured many life-threatening obstacles in a determined effort that led to the discovery of nearly fifty forgotten Mayan cities buried deep in the jungles of Central America and Mexico. The vivid accounts penned by Stephens coupled with the magnificent drawings of ruins by Catherwood brought back to life a vanished civilization that both considered equal to the greatness of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The story concludes with the premature and tragic deaths of the two.
Download or read book Divine Your Dinner written by Courtney McBroom and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is made of energy, even food. Especially food. This tarot-cookbook mash-up brings together magick and 78 recipes to transform everyday energy into something extraordinary. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VANITY FAIR • “Every recipe Courtney McBroom’s writes turns the basics into deliciousness and pairs perfectly with Melinda Lee Holm’s magickal prowess.”—Christina Tosi, chef/owner of Milk Bar With a flick of the wrist and a shuffle of your favorite tarot deck, you’re on your way to a life of kitchen witchery. In Divine Your Dinner, tarot priestess Melinda Lee Holm and chef Courtney McBroom have conjured up a feast for the mind, body, and spirit. Each of the 78 recipes in this cookbook interprets a specific tarot card and its energy. Pull a card—at random or with intent—from your deck, flip to the card’s corresponding recipe, and you’ll find magickal ingredients to infuse your meals with spiritual energy from the Tarot. • Boost your powers of reflection with The Moon’s Pumpkin Corn Bread • Fight Five of Swords anxiety with Salt and Juniper Berries: Confit a Duck! • Relax into The Empress’s nurturing love with A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rosé Punch Making magick has never been so deliciously easy.
Download or read book My Three Mothers and Other Passions written by Sophie Freud and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Freud— author, teacher, social worker, mother, daughter, and grand-daughter of Sigmund Freud—here offers, for the first time, a candid portrait of her struggles in her own life. Blessed and cursed with the legacy of a famous family, Dr. Freud has negotiated her way from a blissful childhood in Vienna, to Paris, to Radcliff College, to her present-day life as on one of the most respected teachers in her field. My Three Mothers and Other Passions is a remarkable story about a remarkable woman, and Dr. Freud explores with us openly and engagingly the many experiences of her life.
Download or read book The 21 Lessons of Merlyn written by Douglas Monroe and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A complete introductory course in Celtic Druidism, packaged within the framework of 21 authentic and expanded story-lessons"--Cover.
Download or read book Christianity in Korea written by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the significance of Korea in world Christianity and the crucial role Christianity plays in contemporary Korean religious life, the tradition has been little studied in the West. Christianity in Korea seeks to fill this lacuna by providing a wide-ranging overview of the growth and development of Korean Christianity and the implications that development has had for Korean politics, interreligious dialogue, and gender and social issues. The volume begins with an accessibly written overview that traces in broad outline the history and development of Christianity on the peninsula. This is followed by chapters on broad themes, such as the survival of early Korean Catholics in a Neo-Confucian society, relations between Christian churches and colonial authorities during the Japanese occupation, premillennialism, and the theological significance of the division and prospective reunification of Korea. Others look in more detail at individuals and movements, including the story of the female martyr Kollumba Kang Wansuk; the influence of Presbyterianism on the renowned nationalist Ahn Changho; the sociopolitical and theological background of the Minjung Protestant Movement; and the success and challenges of Evangelical Protestantism in Korea. The book concludes with a discussion of how best to encourage a rapprochement between Buddhism and Christianity in Korea.
Download or read book Aquila written by T.L. Searle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the city of Celthia, carved inside a snow-capped mountain, Seventeen year old Aquila (Aqua) Vickers finally discovered what she is. Avian in nature, the angeli are a proud and regimented winged race. Aquas father, the elusive Marcus, was the Overseer of three thousand inhabitants. Until, it appears, he was kidnapped by the mysterious dragone. A fate that Aqua herself now shares. In a failed rescue attempt, she has been reunited with her human mother, but at great personal cost. Aqua has sacrificed her freedom, left her friends and family behind, and received a treacherous arrow in the thigh. She must draw upon her strength and training as an angeli Guard, to escape the alluring island and the mystifying species that imprison her. But questions still remain. Why do the dragone want her? Why does their unimposing commander look so familiar? And most frighteningly, does she actually want to go back and face the gorgeously hateful man who wounded her? The conclusion to Aquila; From the Darkness. Follow Aqua as she discovers her purpose, battles her own demons, and comes face to face with a few that are all too real.
Download or read book Mariana written by Susanna Kearsley and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dynamic and captivating...I couldn't put it down."—San Jose Examiner "Tread lightly, she is near." Julia Beckett believes in destiny, settling into her rustic new home, Julia encounters haunting remnants of a beautiful young woman who lived and loved there centuries ago. It's seems Mariana has been waiting for Julia. Praise for New York Times and USA Today bestseller The Winter Sea: "A deeply engaging romance and a compelling historical noveL. Susanna Kearsley has written a marvelous book." —Bernard Cornwell, bestselling author of The Burning Land "A creative tour de force. Sometimes an author catches lightning in a botde, and Susanna Kearsley has done just that." — New York Journal of Books "Richly rewarding ... A beautifully written book ... to be read carefully and savored. The contemporary and historical contexts are carefully delineated and rich with texture and detail." —Dear Author Praise for The Rose Garden: "A magical, not to be missed read." —RT Book Reviews Top Pick, 4 ½stars "Masterful.Kearsley beautifully evokes the wild landscapes and history of Cornwall." —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Wisdom written by Stephen S. Hall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a penetrating history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in the fifth century B.C. to its modern manifestations in education, politics, and the workplace. Hall’s bracing exploration of the science of wisdom allows us to see this ancient virtue with fresh eyes, yet also makes clear that despite modern science’s most powerful efforts, wisdom continues to elude easy understanding.
Download or read book In the Dark on the Sunny Side written by Lawrence W. Baggett and published by MAA. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir that describes the groundbreaking life and career of blind mathematician Larry Baggett, interspersed with musings on mathematics.
Download or read book Paris and the Marginalized Author written by Valérie K. Orlando and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers many seminal questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write. Additionally, the volume’s essays seek to define alienation and marginalization as not solely subscribing to any single denominator -- sexual preference, gender, or nationality-- but rather as shared modes of being that allow authors to explore what it is to write from abroad in a place that is foreign yet freed of the constrictions of one’s home space. What makes Paris a particularly fruitful space that has allowed these authors and their writings to cross national, ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic boundaries for over a century? What is it that brings together writers such as Moroccan Abdellah Taïa, Americans James Baldwin, Richard Wright and, most recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Shay Youngblood, Algerian Nabile Farès, Franco-Algerian Leila Sebbar, Canadian Nancy Huston, French Jean Genet and French-Vietnamese Linda Lê? How do their representations and understanding of transgression and marginalization transcend national, linguistic and ethnic boundaries, leading ultimately to revolution, both literary and literal? How does their writing help us to trace the history of Paris as a literary and artistic capital that has been useful for authors’ exploration of the Self, race and home country? These are but a few of the many questions explored in this volume. This book relies on an inherently intersectional approach, which is not based in reified identities, whether they be LGBT, postcolonial, ethnic, national, or linguistic. Instead, we posit that, for example, queer theory, and a “politics of difference”i can help us investigate the dynamics of these multiple identity positions, and hence provide a broader understanding of the lived experiences of these writers, and, perhaps, their readers from the early 1940s to the present.
Download or read book A Boy from Digboi A Memoir written by Debasish Ghosh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the idea of penning down my memories of a life, varied across many facets, first struck the author, it was then little more than ticking off an item in a wish list. Gradually, this changed to be a more substantial effort, to a journal of life, a legacy of sorts to people who have made a difference to his life, for better or worse. When we think of human interactions and relationships, covering bonds of love, friendship, hatred and indifference, we soon realize that they are far more complex than the simple and deterministic laws of physics and chemistry. What we ‘know’ can only be understood through a multi-dimensional function of time, persona and many other unknown factors. Over the last six decades, the author has seen relationships change colour and shape, form and strength, not once but many times. Does that make us chameleons, in a sense? No, it is just that the human mind and heart resemble kaleidoscopes that keep generating different images, even if exactly the same stimulus is given, but at different points of time.
Download or read book The DI Melanie Watton Series Books One to Three written by Charlotte Barnes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three mysteries in the suspenseful British police procedural series, now in one volume. This three-in-one crime thriller collection includes: Copycat: When the body of a young woman is found abandoned—with a note on it saying “Remember me?”—DI Melanie Watton and her team soon conclude that the murder, the method, and the appearance of the victim indeed remind them of something they’ve seen before. But the next victim makes them question everything they thought they knew . . . The Watcher: How do you solve a case when there isn’t a crime scene? After Watton and her team are called in to investigate a video recording that surfaces in a local school, they realize they have a complex case on their hands—and then discover that they’re up against a killer more evil than anyone could have imagined . . . The Cutter: Watton is called in to investigate the brutal murder of a taxidermist, and she and her team find themselves tracking a killer and a thief . . .
Download or read book Mom Needs Chocolate written by Debora Coty and published by Gospel Light Publications. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's a rundown, run-ragged mom to do? Her spirit yearns to soar, but her feet---and faith---are stuck in the diaper-by-diaper mud of everyday responsibilities. How can she de-muck when she's chronically exhausted and relentlessly robbed of abundant life by the joy-sucking dully-funks? This offbeat glimpse of reality with a tangy twist pitched in to help busy mothers get in touch with rejuvenating joy and empowering faith! In mom-to-mom, smile-eliciting style, humorist Debora Coty doesn't lollygag around the hot topics such as enduring marriage, embarrassing children, defeating depression and grossfully (er, gracefully) aging. Unique insights and outrageous coping tips are shared alongside sisterly hugs and warm encouragement. Mom Needs Chocolate is a veritable grocery list of mud-between-your-toes issues, tackled with witty frankness and wild abandon. Young-at-heart mothers of all ages will enjoy hilarious and heartwarming stories that apply Scripture to real life and remind them how to hear God's still, small voice about blathering kids, howling pets and snarling traffic!
