![]() ![]() ![]() There is humor, tears, love, friendship, advice, and bloopers. On my blog, I started the 365 Daily Challenge, where I post a word each day that has some meaning to me, then converse with everyone about life. I love to read between Goodreads and my blog at, I have ~1800 book reviews which will give you a full flavor for my voice and style. I'm an avid genealogist (discovered 2K family members going back about 250 years) and cook (I find it so hard to follow a recipe). To see samples or receive news from my current and upcoming books, please subscribe with your email address at my website: From there, I've written other family dramas and an eight-book mystery series. My debut novel is 'Watching Glass Shatter,' a contemporary fiction family drama with elements of mystery, suspense, humor, and romance. ![]() Although I enjoy my career, I began to focus on other passions in 2016: telling stories and connecting people through words. ![]() After college, I accepted roles working in technology, program management, and business operations in the retail, sports, entertainment, and media industries. I grew up on Long Island and currently live in Connecticut, but I've traveled all across the US and various parts of the world. ![]()
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![]() Your understanding of the character of God will be enriched as you see Him through the eyes of Elijah, Jehovah's defender against religious and political leaders who waged an aggressive campaign against the worship of Jehovah. In this book, you will learn how many historically documented conversations each of the great prophets had with God and understand that Jehovah moved with purpose in each of His encounters with His prophets. The approach to the study of the Bible presented in this book will completely change how you read the Bible and how you perceive the divine author of the Bible. In this book, you will see the God of the Bible as a divine person encountered by the prophets and the writers of the Old Testament. ![]() Into His Presence Volume 2 uses the documented encounters of the prophets of old with the God of History as tools to help you understand the character of God as a person. ![]() The God of the Bible is not a concept to be studied but a divine person each of us can and should encounter personally. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many e-mails brought obligations: to answer a question, look into a lead, arrange a meeting, or provide feedback. With nearly all friction removed from professional communication, anyone could bother anyone else at any time. In the nineteen-nineties, the spread of e-mail had transformed knowledge work. “I was in this batting cage, deluged with information,” he told me recently. He had held similar roles for years, so he knew the ins and outs of the job he was surprised, therefore, to find that he was overwhelmed-not by the intellectual aspects of his work but by the many small administrative tasks, such as scheduling conference calls, that bubbled up from a turbulent stream of e-mail messages. In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web designer and avowed Macintosh enthusiast, was working as a freelance project manager for software companies. ![]() ![]() ![]() While vinyl is being aggressively shoved out of the way in favor of compact discs, Frank steadfastly refuses to sell them. He is never wrong and wins the utmost respect of his clients, who have discovered artists and songs they never would have otherwise, thanks to Frank.īut, an ominous threat is hanging over Frank’s shop- CD’s. ![]() The story is set in the mid-eighties, in London, where Frank has set up an indie music shop, in a neighborhood struggling to survive in rapidly changing times.Īs the story opens, we watch in fascinated awe as Frank shows off his unique talent of choosing just the right song for his customers, even if they are initially skeptical. The music shop is the absolute perfect backdrop for such a story, reminding us of how important a role music, of all kinds, plays in our lives. ![]() I love stories like this one where a group of people, from various walks of life, all of whom are misfits or eccentric in one way or another, but are kind and giving souls, converge to create a delightful and unique tale of friendship and love. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce is a 2018 Random House publication.Ī quirky, but sweet love story wrapped inside a loving ode to music. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peering out at the icy wastes through his goggles, he pulled his fur-lined cap down more snugly about his head. Luke smiled behind the masklike gray bandana that protected him against Hoth’s frigid winds. All that Luke had seen on his solitary expeditions were barren white plains and ranges of blue-tinged mountains that seemed to vanish in the mists of the distant horizons. There was nothing to contradict their earliest findings that no intelligent lifeforms existed on this cold planet. They all returned to base with mixed feelings of comfort and loneliness. Luke as well as his fellow members of the Rebel Alliance took turns exploring the white wastelands of Hoth, gathering information about their new home. He felt tired and alone, and the sound of his own voice startled him. He was astride a Tauntaun, the only other living being as far as the eye could see. ![]() “NOW this is what I call cold!” Luke Skywalker’s voice broke the silence he had observed since leaving the newly established Rebel base hours earlier. Glut Based on a story by George Lucas THE BALLANTINE PUBLISHING GROUP NEW YORKĪ long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. EPISODE V THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK by Donald F. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly thereafter an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is viciously murdered, with the temple's monk and nun the only suspects. So when a van containing the skeletal remains of two hippies, one of them wearing a hat, is inexplicably unearthed in a local farmer's field, Jimm is thrilled. When Jimm is forced to follow her family to a rural village on the coast of Southern Thailand, she's convinced her career-maybe her life-is over. ![]() ![]() Jimm Juree was a crime reporter for the Chiang Mai Daily Mail with a somewhat eccentric family-a mother who might be drifting mentally a grandfather-a retired cop-who rarely talks a younger brother obsessed with body-building, and a transgendered, former beauty pageant queen, former older brother. Set in present day rural Thailand, Cotterill is as sharp and witty, yet more engaging and charming, than ever before. Now, with this new series, starting with Killed at the Whim of a Hat, Cotterill is poised to break into the mainstream. With worldwide critical acclaim, Colin Cotterill is one of the most highly regarded "cult favorite" crime writers today. The launch of a brand new series by the internationally bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Coroner's Lunch ![]() ![]() ![]() As an English teacher I found dozens upon dozens of historical and literary allusions, both obvious and hidden. In the ensuing years, I have found Ferlinghetti again and again, each time listening more closely to his mischievous bebop. He pronounces: “Christ climbed down/from His bare Tree/this year/and ran away to where/there were no rootless Christmas trees/hung with candycanes and breakable stars.” Ferlinghetti aches for a return to the sources, while at the same time deconstructing those sources in a humorous and graceful fashion. Ferlinghetti protests and rages against the madness of the nuclear age, against the misuse of religion and politics to enslave humanity, and against the colossal indifference that allows all this to happen. ![]() ![]() I first found Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind while an undergraduate, finding the wry attacks on the established order refreshing and invigorating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was surprised, for example, that he visits Tintagel and fails to comment on how stunningly beautiful it is, focussing instead on the tat shops on the high street and the unliklehood of King Arthur having ever been there. ![]() But by the end I was growing a bit weary about hearing of how great everything had been when he did Notes from a Small Island, how dire every High Street had become and how poor customer service was. It is full of Bill Bryson’s trademark warmth and gentle humour as well as giving you the story and history behind places he visits. From the first few pages, I thought I was going to love the book as much as his others. I had been on the library waiting list for about a couple of months and started it as soon as I picked it up. I have to confess to being a little disappointed by Bill Bryson’s latest book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The computer has gone from a tool for scientist, to a utility that is provided via "the cloud" in the near future. Much of the information was through first hand observation of the newest technology on the planet, as well as by interviewing subject matter experts in the areas covered in the book. He compiled information on computers, artificial intelligence, medicine, nanotechnology, space travel and more. Kaku looks at the future and makes some very interesting predictions about the next 100 years. He is the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein's search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory, according to his web site .ĭr. Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century.Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe.Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion. ![]() |