![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah and Darius' story continues in Harvest of Gold. Sarah soon learns that she has something of worth to offer beyond her ability with languages and sums her very being proves to be a blessing to others, particularly the aristocrat Darius, whom she is given to in marriage. Harvest of Gold Sampler Tessa Afshar 4.65 91 ratings3 reviews Genres Biblical Fiction 42 pages, ebook First published MaBook details & editions About the author Tessa Afshar 17 books2,136 followers TESSA AFSHAR is a Christy and Christian Book Award winning author of historical and biblical fiction, and non-fiction. Ironically, it isn't failure-but success-that causes Sarah to lose her only source of external validation. Catapulted into the center of the Persian court, Sarah is working too many hours, rubbing elbows with royalty, and solving intrigues for the Queen. In her early childhood years, Sarah experienced the death of her mother and her father's subsequent emotional distance, and she came to two conclusions: God does not care about me, and my accomplishments are the measure of my worth. The story sort of reminded me of the Biblical story of Esther. She becomes the main scribe to the queen. There is only one problem: she's a woman in a man's court. be gotten by just checking out a book harvest of rubies by tessa afshar pdf as a consequence it is not directly done, you could take even more re this life. In Harvest of Rubies Tessa tells the story of Sarah Nehemiah's cousin who unlike most women of the time can read and write and speak many languages. The prophet Nehemiah's cousin can speak numerous languages, keep complex accounts, write on rolls of parchment and tablets of clay, and solve great mysteries. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Dog man books![]() ![]() I got caught up in their excitement over reading and wanting to write their own stories about Dogman and I didn’t realize what the characters were doing or saying. One day I sat down to read with my preschooler and got really upset with myself that I was allowing them to read this. My mistake was assuming that some parents (and authors) don’t care what their kid is reading and what it is teaching them. My preschooler (who can also read) would be doing the same, and eventually the two of them would argue about who gets to read which book in the series. ![]() ![]() My 1st grader picked this up from the school book fair and I was ECSTATIC because he was so immersed in the book, was cracking up, and wanted to read it at all times of the day. I push my boys to get dirty and try new adventures and fail and make mistakes- but I cannot endorse this book. I want to start this off by saying that I am not a strict/clutch my pearls type of parent. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Book the witch elm![]() ![]() Stately, 200 years old and burned into the collective memory of the Hennessys, this tree embodies the family’s idea of stability. The title tree in The Witch Elm, the Irish writer Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet, is a mysterious character in its own right. She has that same need to go over it, and over it and over it again, like a farmer who can’t plow the field just once but must go at it from every point of the compass, sweating over the wheel of his tractor, not satisfied until every clod has been crumbled away.” Read Full Review > Although they are of different sexes and nationalities, when I read Tana French I’m always reminded of David Goodis. Characters aside, the book is lifted by French’s nervy, almost obsessive prose. ![]() The Witch Elm is twice that length, and I’m relieved to report that those added pages aren’t just filler. But an Agatha Christie novel might run 250 pages or so. You have the murder victim, another skanger (although a rich one) whose passing we need not mourn you have the small pool of possible suspects you have the manor house with the walled-in garden where the body was discovered. Here’s a things-go-bad story Thomas Hardy could have written in his prime, although the Hardy version would probably contain no lines such as ‘I looked like the lowlife in a zombie movie who isn’t going to make it past the first half-hour’ … So far, so Agatha Christie (who is even name-checked in passing). ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Slouching to bethlehem![]() He said maybe we could go next week, or the week after, or anyway sometime before his case comes up. “ We drink some more green tea and talk about going up to Malakoff Diggings in Nevada County because some people are starting a commune there and Max thinks it would be a groove to take acid in the diggings. ![]() Didion is intimately involved with these people and runs a personal risk reporting the stories: There’s a 5-year old named Susan who does LSD and is in “High” Kindergarten. There are Jeff and his 15-year old girlfriend Debbie who have run away from home. There are the couple Deadye and Gerry who do not know where Chicago is. Joan hung out and befriended a lot of hippies whose stories give a dark side to the counterculture movement. Here, Didion hung out with acidheads and people who have run away to do drugs (Haight had been famous for that). ![]() Much of the book takes place in Haight-Ashbury in 1967. It is timeless, heartwrenching, and Hemingway crisp. I would say that the work of Joan Didion is not simply “prose”, it is art. The majority of the essays are about Didion’s home state, California. But I was disabused of this notion right after the first essay itself. Initially, I was hesitant to pick up this book because I thought the essays would be dated or as difficult to read as Sontag’s. It consists of some of the best prose written about the contemporary world. Slouching Towards Bethlehem is Joan Didion’s first collection of non-fiction writing. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Artwash big oil and the arts![]() ![]() He wants the same thing to happen to oil sponsorship – the thinking being that if Tate accepts money from dubious sources, they too become sullied by association with whatever unethical and unenvironmental practices BP are involved in.Įvans argues that the sponsorship is a more insidious way of undermining protesters – rather than traditional outright opposition. Now he has penned this work on global sponsorship of the arts by oil companies in an attempt to unmask their motives as less pure than the oil they mine.Įvans claims that the oil sponsorship campaign is akin to those conducted by tobacco and arms companies and which were eventually outlawed. Mel Evans was one of the eight individuals who protested outside of the Tate gallery back in June 2010 by pouring molasses all over the entrance to a party hosted by BP at the time. Evans claims that the companies are only doing so to try and achieve positive publicity in order to facilitate the extraction of oil in areas opposed to it. ![]() However, a book named Artwash by Mel Evans has cast aspersions on the motives of oil companies who sponsor the arts. They are by no means the only company to sponsor the arts, with Shell and other tycoons of the industry giving money to various organisations, museums and galleries around the world. Over the last 17 years, oil giants BP have donated around £3.8 million to the Tate modern gallery, which works out to roughly £224,000 on an annual basis. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Trapped by kevin hearne![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Milley, one of the highest-ranking Trump-era national security officials, about the incident. The episode has generated enough interest for investigators to have questioned Gen. Prosecutors have asked witnesses about the recording and the document before a federal grand jury. Sources describe the recording as an “important” piece of evidence in a possible case against Trump, who has repeatedly asserted he could retain presidential records and “automatically” declassify documents. Special counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the Justice Department investigation into Trump, has focused on the meeting as part of the criminal investigation into Trump’s handling of national security secrets. ![]() One source said the relevant portion on the Iran document is about two minutes long, and another source said the discussion is a small part of a much longer meeting. Notable legal clouds that continue to hang over Donald Trump in 2023ĬNN has not listened to the recording, but multiple sources described it. ![]() ![]() Fixated on revenge, Tau dedicates himself to an unthinkable path. Those closest to him are brutally murdered, and his grief swiftly turns to anger. He’s going to get himself injured, get out early and settle down to marriage, children and land. Young gift-less Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. One in every hundred men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. One in every two thousand women have the power to call down dragons. ![]() Their society has been built around war, and only war. ![]() ![]() The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. I would like to thank Nazia from orbit for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review ![]() ![]() ![]() By the end of Luke the Warrior, Martin has become the spiritual center of the texts, and his spirit returns to guide the Redwallers in times of danger. In addition, Jacques makes use of Arthurian legend to set Martin apart from the other warriors and woodlanders in the texts Martin the Warrior and. ![]() ![]() Instead, the Redwallers follow the call of Martin the Warrior, Redwall Abbey’s, patron and founder. ![]() To present this in his series, Jacques's use of Medieval religion is superficial because his characters do not recognize the Christian God. English moral was down due to the devastation of World War Two and religious ideals were facing rebuke by the rising notions of secularism. Brian Jacques, the author of the popular children’s series Redwall, uses many aspects of the Medieval Era such as prophecies, glory, and battle, and visions or dreams to effectively spin a good yarn while commenting on the religious development of England in the late twentieth century. This use of the Medieval Era is known as medievalism, where authors can explore contemporary issues by comparing them to the past (Bradford 3). Children’s fantasy series have been set in the Medieval Era, a way to explore contemporary themes. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Hornblower atropos![]() ![]() In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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The second book in the series, The Dark Prophecy, was released on May 2, 2017. The first book in the series, The Hidden Oracle, was released on May 3, 2016. A supplementary book, Camp Jupiter Classified, has also been released in addition to the main series. ![]() It is set in the same world as Riordan's Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series and the references to characters and happenings from earlier stories prove this. The Trials of Apollo is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure and mythological fiction novels written by American author Rick Riordan that collectively form a sequel to the Heroes of Olympus series. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() |