![]() ![]() She can also be found scrapbooking and experimenting with new recipes. The author also makes an effort to read the Bible for purposes other than research. As such, even while undertaking the homeschooling of her three sons over a period of twelve years, she never stopped writing.Įileen’s passion extends to the piano which she teaches. Her family comes first for her.īut she also knows she has a gift for the written word. For the most part, Eileen is a stay-at-home mom. The author is a strong believer and she uses her abilities as a writer to spread her faith to the masses. Before that, Eileen had written a multitude of poems, articles, and even short stories. Jill Eileen Smith came to fame when she began the ‘Wives of King David’ series. ![]() The author’s books take characters and scriptures from the Bible and expand upon them to create fully-formed stories of love, sacrifice, and faith. ![]() Jill Eileen Smith is an American author that writes biblical fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He convincingly debunks "alien abduction," "channelers," faith-healer fraud, the "face" on Mars, and much else. With illustrations from his own childhood experience as well as engrossing tales of discovery, Sagan shows how the method of scientific thought can cut through prejudice and hysteria to uncover the often surprising truth. The Demon-Haunted World is more personal and richer in moving and revealing human stories than anything Sagan has previously written. ![]() The demon-haunted world : science as a candle in the dark / Carl Sagan Book Bib IDĪre we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, internationally respected scientist Carl Sagan shows how scientific thinking is necessary to safeguard our democratic institutions and our technical civilization. ![]() ![]() Lincoln’s deathĪbout 2 weeks before his assassination, President Abraham Lincoln described a recent dream to his wife and a few of his friends. He received more than 60 replies, about half of which mentioned a dream of the disaster. When psychiatrist John Barker visited the town and spoke to many of the residents, he realized many of them had experienced some type of premonition about the disaster.Įven some of the children who had died had mentioned dreams and premonitions of dying in the days before the landslide.īarker advertised in a London newspaper, asking anyone who had experienced a premonition before the landslide to send a written account. Nearly 150 children and adults were killed in 1966 when waste from a coal mine buried a school in South Wales. You might have heard of these famous examples. ![]() ![]() While scientific research hasn’t found evidence to support the idea of prophetic dreams, people do commonly report dreaming about events or circumstances that later happened. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Reader, a battlefield, after the battle, is a sad and sorrowful sight to look at. But he survived the war, went home to marry his sweetheart, Jenny, had children, and in 1882, sat down to record what he remembered. He was shot at and hit a few times, (but survived) was captured a few times, ( but escaped) and seemed to be uncommonly lucky, especially as he was in so many major battles. He marched and starved and froze and roasted, played tricks on fellow soldiers to pass the time, and complained about the officers. He fought at Chicamauga and Lookout Mountain and Atlanta and Nashville and Franklin, and numerous skirmishes all along. His first person experience of the life of a soldier is peppered with humor and common sense and philosophy. Sam Watkins was a private who served with the First Tennessee regiment for the entire 4 years of the war. This book is described as one of the best memoirs from the Civil War ever written. I knew it would make a great stocking stuffer for my husband at Christmas, but of course I would read it myself before that. I found it in a used book sale a couple of months ago and snatched it up. I have wanted to read this book since Sam Watkins was so heavily quoted in Ken Burns Civil War documentary. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages". ![]() It was they that did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill or wound a private why, my chances were so much the better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kingfish, who wore faded jeans with colorful patches, a black jacket over a red Big Mad T-shirt, and untied buff-colored work boots, has a round, open face and a disarming stage presence, modest and earnest. The hard life and overlooked brilliance of Zane Campbell Out in the lobby before the show, I had overheard one long-haired dude saying to a fellow cool-nerd, “He’s, like, my age. The Berklee College of Music houses one of the planet’s greatest concentrations of high-end guitar freaks, and they were out in force to hear the 23-year-old phenom from the Mississippi Delta widely hailed as “the future of the blues.” The students in attendance made for a considerably younger turnout than a blues show typically draws. Just seconds into “She Calls Me Kingfish,” the opening song of his set at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston in March, fans were already well on their way up the stairway to guitar-solo heaven, nodding and smiling and shaking their heads in that mmh-mmh-mmm way that guitar freaks fall into when potent stuff starts flowing into their systems through their ears. Eyes shut and head thrown back in the emblematic pose of the guitar hero in ecstasy, he wrung screaming bent high notes and dense, fluid runs from his purple-and-black prototype Kingfish-model Fender. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram was wailing on guitar. ![]() ![]() ![]() This could have implications for genomic databases and biobanks, but it does, once again, raise the question of how far a research participant can be removed from a research data-set with retroactive effect. ![]() It remains to be seen how far this right will be extended, particularly in light of the limited nature of Article 12 and 14 rights. This created a right to be forgotten in relation to the internet. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González. See also the Court of Justice of the EU decision in Google Spain SL and Google Inc. Under Article 13(2), MS can, where they create in legislation suitable alternative safeguards, remove the Article 12 rights to access to the data, but not to the Article 14 rights to object to processing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But after going through trials heartaches even heartbreak at one point. It is the story of Krish and Ananya who first meet in the IIMA mess in Ahmedabad, as in all love affairs friendship turns to love which finally ends in marriage. As claimed, 2 states is a self description of the writer’s own love story which makes you hold your breadth till the end. ![]() ![]() The writer’s use of the words and first person narrative techniques bring you closer to him and tie a bond between the reader and the writer, and one is mesmerized by the way events unfold themselves like the petals of the flower. Having read all the novels you feel you know him personally. His writing about himself and youth of his time – identify and are akin with real life stories of most of us.Įach and every book of Chetan Bhagat keeps you glued to the book till you have finished it. The familiarity of places and characters in his books identify not only with the IIT-D/IIM-A turned writer, but with all of us. The writer is popular with both boys and girls,young and old. Who doesn’t know Chetan Bhagat- the Indian English writer of Five point someone (2004,) One the call center (2005) ,Three mistakes of my life (2008),2 States (2009) and Revolution 2020(2011). 2 STATES The story of my marriage by Chetan Bhagat Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() "Whitney Scharer's storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details. Sweeping from the glamour of 1920s Paris through the battlefields of World War II and into the war's long shadow, The Age Of Light is a startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse into artist." Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere "In incandescent prose, Whitney Scharer has created an unforgettable heroine discovering her passion, her independence, and her art-and what she must sacrifice to have them. In this immersive debut novel, Whitney Scharer has brought a brilliant and pioneering artist out of the shadow of a man's story and into the light. ![]() The Age of Light is a powerfully sensuous tale of ambition, love, and the personal price of making art. Man is an egotistical, charismatic force, and soon their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined.Īs Lee begins to assert herself, and moves from being a muse to an artist, Man's jealousy spirals out of control, and their mutual betrayals threaten to destroy them both. Gorgeous and talented, she catches the eye of renowned Surrealist artist Man Ray and convinces him to hire her as his assistant. One cool day in 1929, Lee Miller arrives in bohemian Paris to pursue her dream of being an artist, having left behind a successful modelling career at Vogue. "Scharer captures the thrill of artistic creation and the swirling hedonism of Paris's beautiful people." The Times ![]() ![]() So too, was the political situation of the time, just before the start of the second world war. The rest of the nursery rhyme, from which Christie purloined the title, is also subtly dropped into the story. The buckle on a shoe is both Poirot’s first insight and the book’s title. ![]() The young woman who did so appeared to consist chiefly of arms and legs.Ĭhristie neatly weaves clues into the story. It was a car of sporting build – one of those cars from which it is necessary to wriggle from under the wheel in sections. They were going down the steps of the house when a car drew up in front of it. ![]() Her writing is clear and precise, with exquisite attention to the characters, all described with quintessentially human disdain. ReviewĪgatha Christie tells an intriguing tale of deception and bluff as Hercule Poirot searches for the murderer. So begins an investigation into the death of a London dentist just before the start of the second world war. ![]() An open and shut case, or so the police tell the inquest. He had made a mistake and, upon realising it, rather than facing professional ruin, committed suicide. ![]() He had received an overdose of adrenaline and novocaine, causing his heart to stop.Ĭlearly, Dr Morley had delivered an anaesthetic that was too strong. When Hercule Poirot and the police tracked him down at his hotel, they discovered he was also dead. A visitor from Greece was the last patient to see Dr Morley alive. There was a bullet in his head and a pistol on the floor. After Hercule Poirot visits his dentist, the dentist was found lying dead in his surgery. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are from all walks of life and from all over the world. The work is hard and dangerous and the men are a diverse lot. On the ship, Ishmael discovers a life he never imagined. The business men who own the ship, do not know their new captain will be chasing after the great white whale that destroyed his previous ship and took his leg as well. When they enlist, they discover the new captain of the ship is a man called Ahab (named for an Israeli king who, because of his obsession with his wife, Jezebel, abandoned his people and God to worship other gods). He persuades Ishmael to join him since he needs a job. The man's name is Queequeg, a Polynesian harpooner, who is signing on to the Pequod, a whaling ship. He must share the bed with a man who originally terrifies him, due to his dark skin, rough mien and tattoos, but they become best friends as the book progresses. Ishmael's adventure begins when he arrives in New Bedford on his way to Nantucket to find little "room at the inn". ![]() ![]() Strong young men would spend some time on the whaling vessels to make their fortune bringing in the valuable whale oil. He has decided to seek his fortune at sea, and therefore heads to Nantucket. With that one line, the reader knows this is an alias the narrator uses, and that he is an unwanted son, himself. ![]() The famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael" is a reference to the illegitimate son of Abraham, expelled from the tribe to die in the desert with his Egyptian slave mother, only to be saved by God. "Moby Dick" is a full of biblical references. ![]() |