The compelling, insightful, and challenging memoir of a Christian woman's exploration of her faith while living in community with strictly Orthodox Jews. As Maria Johnson explains: "I knew that Christianity is rooted deep in Judaism, but living in daily contact with a vital and vibrant Jewish life has been fascinating and transforming. I am and will remain a Christian, but I am a rather different Christian than I was before." Views: 65
'It began in the summer,' she said, lowering her voice still more; 'do you remember how the heat commenced in May, and how all June it grew, then in July it gathered force until the heat of August was like a heavy red cloud on the face of the country? The downs seemed to heave in the heat. In the spring there had been a beautiful haze that went up from them like incense round a shrine. It was strange then but sweet. In August it was cruel, like being seared to death. There was something horrible in the atmosphere, as if a terrible thing gathered substance from the dying earth.'Reviewing Marion Fox's remarkable Ape's-Face at the time of its publication, the critic and essayist F. T. Dalton wrote in The Times Literary Supplement: 'Marion Fox has an aim identical with that which was openly acknowledged by the most celebrated youth in fiction. But her methods for the inducement of flesh-creepiness owe very little either to him or to any of her predecessors.'Ape's-Face tells the story of a well-known writer, Armstrong by name, who is invited to visit a remote country house in the Wiltshire downland for the purpose of examining certain ancestral documents belonging to the Delane-Mortons — a family beset by a curse, but one not of traditional form. Fox chooses instead to invest the Wiltshire downs with a spirit of their own — a thing of immense vitality and evil that walks their great spaces like a rushing mighty wind. Once in a hundred years, at the winter solstice, the evil takes its toll of the people who conquered its ancient worshippers, the prehistoric folk of the downs. As our novel opens, the winter solstice approaches.This new edition of Marion Fox's masterpiece is the first republication of Ape's-Face since 1914. Views: 65
An intimate and uplifting memoir chronicling May Sarton's efforts to regain her health, art, and sense of self after suffering from a stroke Feeling cut off and isolated—from herself most of all—after suffering a stroke at age 73, May Sarton began a journal that helped her along the road to recovery. She wrote every day without fail, even if illness sometimes prevented her from penning more than a few lines. From her sprawling house off the coast of Maine, Sarton shares the quotidian details of her life in the aftermath of what her doctors identified as a small brain hemorrhage. What they did not tell her was the effect it would have on her life and work. Sarton's journal is filled with daily accounts of the weather, her garden, beloved pets, and her concerns about losing psychic energy and no longer feeling completely whole. A woman who had always prized her solitude, Sarton experiences feelings of intense loneliness. When overwhelmed by... Views: 65
Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Elvis's death, an intimate memoir of a friendship with the greatest artist in rock and roll history, taking you from late-night parties at Graceland to the bright lights of Hollywood sets and glittering stages of Vegas.On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, 'that's All Right,? had just received its first play on Memphis radio. The two became fast friends, even as Elvis turned into the world's biggest star. In 1964, Elvis invited Jerry to work for him as part of his ?Memphis Mafia,? and Jerry soon found himself living with Elvis full-time in a Bel Air mansion and, later, in his own room at Graceland. Over the next thirteen years Jerry would work for Elvis in various capacities?from bodyguard to photo double to co-executive producer on a karate... Views: 65
The first in James Spurr's Historical Series, Sworn for Mackinaw begins in pre-war Detroit with business and family man Oliver Williams and his brother-in-law, Captain William Lee. Both men stake their futures on a new venture: the fast sailing sloop Friends Good Will. When war erupts, it causes tension between friends, strains on blood bonds, and the unforeseen peril of carrying a secret cargo. Views: 65
From The Genesis Code to The Murder Artist, John Case has established himself as the master of unrelenting suspense. Now Case choreographs his most diabolically chilling novel to date, as the very fabric of civilization threatens to come apart in the hands of a brilliantly vengeful madman.Photojournalist Mike Burke carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earth--and came back with the pictures (and battle scars) to prove it. He was flying high until, quite suddenly, he wasn't. When Burke's helicopter crashed and burned in Africa, he came away with his life but lost his heart to the beautiful woman who saved him. That's when he decided it was time to stop dancing with the devil. But a wicked twist of fate puts an end to Burke's dreams, leaving him adrift in Dublin with bittersweet memories . . . and no appetite for danger. But the devil isn't done with him yet.An ocean away, Jack Wilson leaves prison burning for revenge. Like Burke, Wilson has had... Views: 65
"Melanie Milburne's stories are always well crafted and an excellent read..."The Greek's Bridal Bargain' is a solid entertaining novel from a talented author." - CataRomance.com on The Greek's Bridal Bargain Views: 65
From Kiana Davenport, the
bestselling author of Song of the Exile and Shark Dialogues, comes
another mesmerizing novel about her people and her islands. Told in
spellbinding and mythic prose, House of Many Gods is a deeply complex
and provocative love story set against the background of Hawaii and
Russia. Interwoven throughout with the indelible portrait of a native
Hawaiian family struggling against poverty, drug wars, and the
increasing military occupation of their sacred lands. Progressing
from the 1960s to the turbulent present, the novel begins on the island
of O’ahu and centers on Ana, abandoned by her mother as a child. Raised
by her extended family on the “lawless” Wai’anae coast, west of
Honolulu, Ana, against all odds, becomes a physician. While tending
victims of Hurricane ‘Iniki on the neighboring island of Kaua’i, she
meets Nikolai, a Russian filmmaker with a violent and tragic past, who
can confront reality only through his unique prism of lies. Yet he is
dedicated to recording the ecological horrors in his motherland and
across the Pacific. As their lives slowly and inextricably
intertwine, Ana and Nikolai’s story becomes an odyssey that spans
decades and sweeps the reader from rural Hawaii to the forbidding Arctic
wastes of Russia; from the poverty-stricken Wai’anae coast to the
glittering harshness of “new Moscow” and the haunting, faded beauty of
St. Petersburg. With stunning narrative inventiveness, Davenport has
created a timeless epic of loss and remembrance, of the search for
family and identity, and, ultimately, of the redemptive power of love. Views: 65
Freedom's Path Book 2 - Ezekiel Harban carries bitterness and suspicion toward his wife's half-sister. Lilly recently fled New Orleans and moved to his Kansas prairie. He is sure she is hiding something, but what? Views: 65
Samantha was born under a full moon to a mother already dead. Revived by doctors and given to her unloving father, Samantha was raised a cursed child, her only friend the ghost of her mother who speaks to her through keys that open a secret box under her bed. From the inside out, Sam burns with life, a fire so vivid it keeps her peers at a distance, all except one. Views: 65
A LIFESAVER AND A DEAD-EYE SHOTDr. Susanna Leaf was a woman of startling contradictions, and Rafe LaCroix found every one of them too intriguing for his own good. He couldn't risk staying anywhere for long, but with her alluring innocence Dr. Leaf invited a man to linger--and made him desire things he'd long since lost the right to yearn for....HE'D KIDNAPPED HERAll in a good cause, Susanna Leaf admitted, but Rafe LaCroix was a powder keg of unpredictability and wore his secrets as close as his battered trail duster. Yet his raw masculinity compelled her in ways that reminded her she was a woman first and a physician second. And that--more than anything else--made him dangerous. Views: 65
The Fidelis fight on... They are the Fidelis, a brotherhood of warriors whose devotion to honor and courage on the battlefield is unmatched. Their existence known only to a former exarch, they are a fighting force to be reckoned with-a force three knights must consider as they undertake missions that could save the Republic...or cripple it.** Views: 65
