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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
How Come?
Author: Kathy Wollard
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 0761183108
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Fact-filled, fun-filled, as interesting to parents as it is to kids, the How Come? series is the trusted source for lively, clear answers to kids’ science queries. Now the best questions and answers from all three books—How Come?; How Come? Planet Earth; and How Come? In the Neighborhood—have been revised, updated, freshly illustrated in full color, supplemented with twenty completely new questions, and combined into one bigger, better volume. How Come? explains, in fascinating detail, more than 200 mysteries and phenomena in the world around us. These are the questions that pique kids’ curiosity—and stump parents. When it rains, does running (rather than walking) to the nearest shelter really keep you any drier? How can a stone skip across a pond (instead of sink)? If the Earth is spinning, why can’t we feel it? Why don’t we fly off? Why do elephants have trunks? And the all-time classic, Why is the sky blue? (Sunlight has a hidden rainbow of colors, and air molecules scatter blues the most—sending bright blue light down to Earth.) The text is clearly written, engaging, and accessible. It’s for every kid who wants to know—and every grown-up who simply doesn’t know.
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 0761183108
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Fact-filled, fun-filled, as interesting to parents as it is to kids, the How Come? series is the trusted source for lively, clear answers to kids’ science queries. Now the best questions and answers from all three books—How Come?; How Come? Planet Earth; and How Come? In the Neighborhood—have been revised, updated, freshly illustrated in full color, supplemented with twenty completely new questions, and combined into one bigger, better volume. How Come? explains, in fascinating detail, more than 200 mysteries and phenomena in the world around us. These are the questions that pique kids’ curiosity—and stump parents. When it rains, does running (rather than walking) to the nearest shelter really keep you any drier? How can a stone skip across a pond (instead of sink)? If the Earth is spinning, why can’t we feel it? Why don’t we fly off? Why do elephants have trunks? And the all-time classic, Why is the sky blue? (Sunlight has a hidden rainbow of colors, and air molecules scatter blues the most—sending bright blue light down to Earth.) The text is clearly written, engaging, and accessible. It’s for every kid who wants to know—and every grown-up who simply doesn’t know.
The Angel of Darkness: Book 2 of the Alienist
Author: Caleb Carr
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307432726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BOOK BEHIND SEASON TWO OF TNT’S THE ALIENIST • Dr. Laszlo Kreizler returns in a “whopping thriller” (The Washington Post) that showcases Caleb Carr “at his strongest” (USA Today). June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime—have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York. Praise for The Angel of Darkness “A ripping yarn told with verve, intensity, and a feel for historical detail . . . Once again we are careening around the gaslighted New York that Carr knows, and depicts, so well.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . Carr is at his strongest, exploring the dark underside of the human psyche and ferreting out the terrors and tragedies that drive men—and women—to kill. . . . In Libby Hatch, Carr has created a villain whose cunning is nearly equal to his detectives’ crime-solving prowess. . . . The mystery is plotted with military precision.”—USA Today “[A] whopping thriller . . . Carr keeps us racing along with him to the very end.”—The Washington Post Book World “Fascinating . . . In a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial.”—Time
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307432726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BOOK BEHIND SEASON TWO OF TNT’S THE ALIENIST • Dr. Laszlo Kreizler returns in a “whopping thriller” (The Washington Post) that showcases Caleb Carr “at his strongest” (USA Today). June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime—have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York. Praise for The Angel of Darkness “A ripping yarn told with verve, intensity, and a feel for historical detail . . . Once again we are careening around the gaslighted New York that Carr knows, and depicts, so well.”—The New York Times Book Review “Gripping . . . Carr is at his strongest, exploring the dark underside of the human psyche and ferreting out the terrors and tragedies that drive men—and women—to kill. . . . In Libby Hatch, Carr has created a villain whose cunning is nearly equal to his detectives’ crime-solving prowess. . . . The mystery is plotted with military precision.”—USA Today “[A] whopping thriller . . . Carr keeps us racing along with him to the very end.”—The Washington Post Book World “Fascinating . . . In a brilliant bit of historical casting, Clarence Darrow, a rising courtroom wizard from Chicago, turns up to defend the villain at a tense upstate New York murder trial.”—Time
Our Missions
The Smoking Furnace and the Burning Lamp
Author: Philip Thomas Byard Clayton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Meadows
Author: Pamela Forest
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365815129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The enigmatic dictator, John Burrows, forces the recently reunited group to become unwilling citizens of The Meadows. Kate, Thomas, Collins, and Milo struggle with new jobs while trying to find a way to escape. Autumn takes on her own quest to find Ali who has been missing since they arrived. Meanwhile, Morgan carves out her own resistance by reverting to old habits and doing what she does best, all the while trying to hold her sharp tongue in the face of their new overlord.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365815129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The enigmatic dictator, John Burrows, forces the recently reunited group to become unwilling citizens of The Meadows. Kate, Thomas, Collins, and Milo struggle with new jobs while trying to find a way to escape. Autumn takes on her own quest to find Ali who has been missing since they arrived. Meanwhile, Morgan carves out her own resistance by reverting to old habits and doing what she does best, all the while trying to hold her sharp tongue in the face of their new overlord.
Convergence
Author: Ronan James Cassidy
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
THE REDEMPTION SERIES: 100 years after Margaret Anne transformed an American family, comes the profound 4-part finale to the Calhoun saga. BOOK TWO: Convergence Sacrifice birthed the unsettled world of Margaret Anne. Now, only surrender can pave the way for closure. Benjamin Mattingly Sonneman, a prisoner and captive to the sins of the past, has been tasked with delivering an ancient and valuable cross to its rightful guardian and heir – his estranged child – in Baltimore. As he prepares for his journey, he learns of the inspirational history behind the artifact, the shadowy lineage that binds cross to child, and receives warnings of the adversities he will confront along the way. Soon after embarking on his quest, time spent with his dubious travel companion begins to unravel the miserable realities of Matthew’s own haunted past and illuminate the mistakes that ensnared him within the unstoppable odyssey of the cross. When Matthew repeatedly ignores reminders regarding the importance of his faith and the traditions of those he represents on his sacred pilgrimage, he must answer to the consequences of his choices. And with every added hurdle to his course, the crushing storm of uncertainty over what truly awaits him in Baltimore relentlessly intensifies, threatening to consume him whole. “Convergence” is the captivating continuation of the Redemption series, uncovering the next intricate layer to the Margaret Anne saga of fate, faith, and reckoning.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
THE REDEMPTION SERIES: 100 years after Margaret Anne transformed an American family, comes the profound 4-part finale to the Calhoun saga. BOOK TWO: Convergence Sacrifice birthed the unsettled world of Margaret Anne. Now, only surrender can pave the way for closure. Benjamin Mattingly Sonneman, a prisoner and captive to the sins of the past, has been tasked with delivering an ancient and valuable cross to its rightful guardian and heir – his estranged child – in Baltimore. As he prepares for his journey, he learns of the inspirational history behind the artifact, the shadowy lineage that binds cross to child, and receives warnings of the adversities he will confront along the way. Soon after embarking on his quest, time spent with his dubious travel companion begins to unravel the miserable realities of Matthew’s own haunted past and illuminate the mistakes that ensnared him within the unstoppable odyssey of the cross. When Matthew repeatedly ignores reminders regarding the importance of his faith and the traditions of those he represents on his sacred pilgrimage, he must answer to the consequences of his choices. And with every added hurdle to his course, the crushing storm of uncertainty over what truly awaits him in Baltimore relentlessly intensifies, threatening to consume him whole. “Convergence” is the captivating continuation of the Redemption series, uncovering the next intricate layer to the Margaret Anne saga of fate, faith, and reckoning.
Memnon
Author: Scott Oden
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
ISBN: 1605429317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move...Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BCE) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman, and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic grasp." A contemporary of Demosthenes and Aristotle, Memnon rose from humble origins to command the whole of western Asia in a time of strife and slaughter. To his own people, he was a traitor, to his rivals, a mercenary. But, to the King of Kings, his majesty Darius III of Persia, Memnon was one man capable of defending Asia Minor from the rising power of the barbaric Macedonians. In a war pitting Greek against Greek, Memnon proved his quality beyond measure. His enemies fought for glory and gold; Memnon fought for something more, for loyalty, for honor, and for duty. He fought for the love of Barsine, a woman of remarkable beauty and grace. Most of all, he fought for the promise of peace. Through the deathbed recollections of a mysterious woman, the life of Memnon unfolds with brilliant clarity. It is a record of his triumphs and tragedies, his loves and lossess, and of the determination that drove him to stand against the most renowned figure of the ancient world-the ambitious young conqueror called Alexander the Great.
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
ISBN: 1605429317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move...Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BCE) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman, and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic grasp." A contemporary of Demosthenes and Aristotle, Memnon rose from humble origins to command the whole of western Asia in a time of strife and slaughter. To his own people, he was a traitor, to his rivals, a mercenary. But, to the King of Kings, his majesty Darius III of Persia, Memnon was one man capable of defending Asia Minor from the rising power of the barbaric Macedonians. In a war pitting Greek against Greek, Memnon proved his quality beyond measure. His enemies fought for glory and gold; Memnon fought for something more, for loyalty, for honor, and for duty. He fought for the love of Barsine, a woman of remarkable beauty and grace. Most of all, he fought for the promise of peace. Through the deathbed recollections of a mysterious woman, the life of Memnon unfolds with brilliant clarity. It is a record of his triumphs and tragedies, his loves and lossess, and of the determination that drove him to stand against the most renowned figure of the ancient world-the ambitious young conqueror called Alexander the Great.
When Demons Attack: True Tales of Diabolic Encounters
Author: John Harker
Publisher: Shadow Hills Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Imagine an ancient evil that dwells in a dark world of its own but can easily cross into ours. Imagine a calculating evil that watches our every move and knows our very hearts. Imagine a powerful evil that seeks to confuse, harm, and destroy us in body and soul. Imagine all you like, but don’t think for a moment that such creatures don’t exist. In this all-new volume of terrifying true stories, you will learn about the ancient evil spirits we have come to call demons and the various ways they have terrorized humans through the centuries. You will meet some of their modern-day victims, people from all different walks of life. People just like us. You will read about hideous manifestations, depraved assaults, and all other manner of frightening phenomena. These incredulous accounts will startle your senses and challenge your worldview. They may even make you afraid to go to bed at night. But therein lies a powerful weapon. Only in knowing one’s enemy can that enemy be defeated. This book will give you a clearer understanding of the inhuman intelligent entities that prowl unseen in our midst, their motives and machinations, and how to avoid crossing their paths. From the Table of Contents: The Nature of Demons and Demonic Activity The Demon Under the House The Rampaging Beast Attack of the Elementals The Devil in Los Angeles Doris Bither's Poltergeist Trapped by the Occult The Infestation The Biters Invitation to Evil The Warlock's Curse Nightmare in Indiana Ouija Board Disasters
Publisher: Shadow Hills Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Imagine an ancient evil that dwells in a dark world of its own but can easily cross into ours. Imagine a calculating evil that watches our every move and knows our very hearts. Imagine a powerful evil that seeks to confuse, harm, and destroy us in body and soul. Imagine all you like, but don’t think for a moment that such creatures don’t exist. In this all-new volume of terrifying true stories, you will learn about the ancient evil spirits we have come to call demons and the various ways they have terrorized humans through the centuries. You will meet some of their modern-day victims, people from all different walks of life. People just like us. You will read about hideous manifestations, depraved assaults, and all other manner of frightening phenomena. These incredulous accounts will startle your senses and challenge your worldview. They may even make you afraid to go to bed at night. But therein lies a powerful weapon. Only in knowing one’s enemy can that enemy be defeated. This book will give you a clearer understanding of the inhuman intelligent entities that prowl unseen in our midst, their motives and machinations, and how to avoid crossing their paths. From the Table of Contents: The Nature of Demons and Demonic Activity The Demon Under the House The Rampaging Beast Attack of the Elementals The Devil in Los Angeles Doris Bither's Poltergeist Trapped by the Occult The Infestation The Biters Invitation to Evil The Warlock's Curse Nightmare in Indiana Ouija Board Disasters
The Lamp
Author: Sandra Strange
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511524957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Have you ever prayed for a spiritual mentor, an older woman who would take time to speak into your life as a "teacher of good things" (Tit. 2:3 NKJV)? The Lamp, Be Aglow and Burning with the Spirit contains eighteen "coffee dates" with Sandra Strange, age seventy-eight. Each chapter is an exciting personal story that brought her closer to the Lord and awarded her greatest life lessons. Sandra transparently shares her struggles and victories, emphasizing God's faithfulness to speak and direct. After a long life of living in communion with Jesus, she can say with certainty, "The Lord is good!" And so will you.Discover how to live a faith-filled life including:* Recognizing and obeying the voice of the Lord * Intimacy with Christ* Faithfulness in marriage* Forgiveness in betrayal* Serving with humility* Pursuing the dream or call of your life* Choosing joy after the death of a loved one* The blessing of tithing* Trusting the Lord in sickness* The joys of fervent prayer
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511524957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Have you ever prayed for a spiritual mentor, an older woman who would take time to speak into your life as a "teacher of good things" (Tit. 2:3 NKJV)? The Lamp, Be Aglow and Burning with the Spirit contains eighteen "coffee dates" with Sandra Strange, age seventy-eight. Each chapter is an exciting personal story that brought her closer to the Lord and awarded her greatest life lessons. Sandra transparently shares her struggles and victories, emphasizing God's faithfulness to speak and direct. After a long life of living in communion with Jesus, she can say with certainty, "The Lord is good!" And so will you.Discover how to live a faith-filled life including:* Recognizing and obeying the voice of the Lord * Intimacy with Christ* Faithfulness in marriage* Forgiveness in betrayal* Serving with humility* Pursuing the dream or call of your life* Choosing joy after the death of a loved one* The blessing of tithing* Trusting the Lord in sickness* The joys of fervent prayer