![]() ![]() Together we can encounter the grace that enters the middle of our stories, where living with suffering that lingers means receiving God's presence that lasts. We don't need to make suffering a before-and-after story. Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a blight to hide. We are all mid-story in circumstances we did not choose, wondering when our hard things will end and where grace will come if they don’t. This book is not a before-and-after story. Through personal story and insights from neuroscience and theology, Ramsey invites us to let our tears become lenses of the wonder that before God ever rescues us, he stands in solidarity with us. This Too Shall Last offers an antidote to our cultural idolatry of effort and ease. Instead, God invited her into a bigger story. Instead, she encountered the God who chose it. had to find a way across the widening canyon that seemed to separate God's goodness from her excruciating circumstances. ![]() Over a decade ago chronic illness plunged therapist and writer K.J. If God loves us, why does he allow us to hurt? When your prayers for healing haven't been answered, the fog of depression isn't lifting, your marriage is ending in divorce, or grief won't go away, it's easy to feel you've failed God and, worse, he's failed you. ![]() We silently, secretly wither under the pressure of living as though suffering is a predicament we can avoid or annihilate by working hard enough or having enough faith. Our culture treats suffering like a problem to fix, a blight to hide, or the sad start of a transformation story. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With hot shifter-fae, delicious vampires, one lone witch, Talonswood isn't your normal reform school. ![]() Can these men and I overcome our wounds and hatred to trust the hot bond connecting us? Or will we all fall separately, and the world with us? ★★★★★ LAST CHANCE ACADEMY is a full length paranormal romance from Amazon’s top-100 author Alex Lidell. But worse enemies loom outside the gates. We were born to be enemies…and fate-carved to be mates. And that gorgeous stranger? Ellis, a legendary wolf shifter who blames me for his own punishment. Reese and Cassis, the vampire brothers who smell the power in my blood. Now, four powerful, impossibly beautiful men are set on seeing me destroyed. ![]() The only one of my kind-and the enemy of theirs. It’s a fortress where monsters I never knew existed are brought under under rein. Except Talonswood isn’t a normal military school. With a choice between prison or Talonswood Academy, I sign the papers. Even taking a dangerous job from a tall, gorgeous stranger so I can keep my little sister safe-a job that goes very, very wrong. ![]() After surviving New Jersey’s foster system, I thought I could survive anything. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. If Talonswood’s academy of monsters doesn’t kill me, then the four wicked men ruling it certainly will. By: Alex Lidell Narrated by: Laurie West, Christian Black Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins 4.7 (46 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also wants to murder everyone!Īnd then cancel comes along… gay Will agrees to meet with Isaac and the other Will, along with his friends, decide to go to a concert. This Will is depressive and lives a fairly normal life. His one friend Maura is trying, and failing, to hook up with him. This one is gay but who hasn’t actually admitted it to anyone yet. We see this Will’s life differently to the other Will. Then there’s the second Will Grayson whose life we see from that of a chatroom where he’s talking to a boy called Isaac and who Will is most definitely in love with. He wants to date her but doesn’t want to date her… its all over the place! The girl wants and doesn’t want to be with. ![]() This Will is a bit of a romance pessimist and doesn’t understand why Tiny can fall in love over and over again with different boys. It starts off from the perspective of Will Grayson… best friends with Tiny Cooper who wants to put on a school musical based on his life Tiny Dancer. Two teens with the same name, running two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, culminating in heroic turns-of-heart and the most epic musical to grace the high school stage. ![]() One cold night, in the most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers cross paths. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Nobody told Nate that he couldn't use or share that information." ![]() "You can't hold Nate to a standard that didn't exist," his lawyer Daniel Filor told jurors in his closing argument on Monday. His lawyers argued that OpenSea did not treat knowledge of what NFTs would be featured on its home page as confidential information when Chastain worked at the company. The case could have broader implications for assets that do not fit in to existing regulations preventing investment advisers, brokers and others from trading on material nonpublic information, legal experts have said.Ĭhastain had pleaded not guilty. Attorney's office in Manhattan last year. ![]() ![]() The charges against Chastain, announced last June, were the first in a series of high-profile cases related to digital assets launched by the U.S. "He abused his status at OpenSea to line his own pockets, and he lied to cover his tracks," prosecutor Thomas Burnett said in his closing argument on Monday. Nathaniel Chastain was accused of buying NFTs he had decided to feature on the OpenSea website and selling them shortly afterward to make more than $50,000 in illegal profit, in what federal prosecutors in Manhattan described as the first insider trading case involving digital assets. NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - A former product manager at OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was convicted on Wednesday of fraud and money laundering for using inside knowledge of which assets would be featured on its home page to trade NFTs. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was awarded the Farmleigh writer's residency for the summer of 2010 and a place on the nominees list for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 20. He was twice chairperson of the Irish Writers' Union. ![]() At their 2009 awards, the Reading Association of Ireland gave him the Special Merit Award 'in recognition of his significant contribution to writing for children in Ireland.' Career Ĭonor Kostick was the editor of Socialist Worker in Ireland and a reviewer for the Journal of Music in Ireland. The sequel to Epic is Saga, first published in Ireland late in 2006 Edda, published in 2011, completes the 'Avatar Chronicles' trilogy. He is the author of many works of history and fiction.Įpic was his first novel and was awarded a place on the International Board on Books for Young People Honours list for 2006 and on the Booklist Best Fantasy Books for Youth list for 2007. Fantasy, science fiction, LitRPG, children's literatureĬonor Kostick (born 26 June 1964) is an Irish historian and writer living in Dublin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes eight richly colored mounted plates with partial-page imagery, decoration, headers and tailpieces throughout. Beautifully, aptly illustrated throughout by the esteemed artist Arthur Rackham. Scene features main characters below trees teeming with ghouls and black cats and Sleepy Hollow in b.g. ![]() Frontispiece color plate by Rackham: "Frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air." Classic two-page illustrated spreads at front and back endpapers in monochromatic golden browns, with varying hues of black & white. Rough-cut deckled leaves very good, no writing. Cream vellum (leather) boards, whimsically stylish gilt cover and spine titles, moderate cover, edge wear, discoloration, bow. Harrap & Co." Larger 8 1/4" x 10 1/2" gift book design. ![]() 'Arthur Rackham.'" Stated at copyright: "Published 1928 by George G. Rare limited edition beautifully signed and likely numbered by Arthur Rackham with what appears to be fountain pen at limition page: "Edition limited to Two Hundred and Fifty Copies for England and One Hundred and Twenty-five Copies for the United States, of which this is No. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Midnight Watch is a fictional telling of what may have occurred that night on the SS Californian, and the resulting desperation of Officer Stone and Captain Lord in the aftermath of their inaction. ![]() When they learned of the extent of the tragedy, Lord and Stone did everything they could to hide their role in the disaster, but pursued by newspapermen, lawyers, and political leaders in America and England, their terrible secret was eventually revealed. The next morning, the Titanic was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. Eight rockets were fired during the dark hours of the midnight watch, and eight rockets were ignored. ![]() He alerted the captain, Stanley Lord, who was sleeping in the chartroom below, but Lord did not come to the bridge. ![]() Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired. As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beste doesn’t candy-coat or excuse the dark music’s literary touchstones - a blend of dark philosophy, Pagan rites, Satanism and Lovecraft and Tolkien mythology - or criminal past. Black-and-white shots of pale, scowling singers in corpsepaint and leather, walking through moss-covered woods or icy wasteland, make Alice Cooper and Gene Simmons look like cartoons in comparison. ![]() What makes True Norwegian Black Metal, a collection of essays and the work of American photographer Peter Beste, not just freakish but intriguing is that it resists tabloid urges and lets the images and artists speak for themselves.īeste became an insider after a decade of traveling to Norway and documenting bands, and his photos are striking. Any scene where piles of decapitated sheep heads are considered stage props and whose musicians have names like Necrobutcher and Count Grishnackh usually does. ![]() The extreme form of metal music that emerged in Norway during the late ’80s and early ’90s lends itself to hyperbolic and hysterical media (first thoroughly chronicled in the 1998 cult classic Lords of Chaos). According to legend, bits of his skull were made into necklaces the band would later wear on stage. The members of the seminal Norwegian black metal band Mayhem remembered their former vocalist Dead, who committed suicide in 1991, in their own way. ![]() ![]() Steve Erickson is the author of ten novels: Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d'X, Amnesiascope, The Sea Came in at Midnight, Our Ecstatic Days, Zeroville, These Dreams of You and Shadowbahn. Haunting, audacious, and undaunted, Shadowbahn is a winding and reckless ride through intersections of danger, destiny, and the conjoined halves of a ruptured nation. ![]() Meanwhile, Parker and Zema cross a possessed landscape by a mysterious detour no one knows, charted on a map that no one has seen. On the ninety-third floor, Jesse Presley the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived suddenly awakes, driven mad over the hours and days to come by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn't, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother's place. ![]() A rumor overtakes the throng that someone can be seen in the high windows of the southern structure. to visit their mother in Michigan the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song. ![]() To the hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands drawn to the American Stonehenge including Parker and Zema, siblings on their way from L.A. When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you'd like to check out one of Melody Carlson's other books, I would recommend The Christmas Cat. ![]() This book just couldn't seem to grab a hold of me enough that I want to pick up the other three books in the series. I really couldn't connect with any of the characters and having not read the other books in the series, I felt a bit lost more than once. Sadly, this book was just kind of 'meh' for me. Also, the synopsis on this book isn't exactly the story that's inside the pages of the book and that always leaves me feeling misled by the author. More than once I had the very strong impression that I should know more than I did about a character or about something that had happened. This was book three in a four book series and the author didn't send me any of the other books so I assumed it could stand alone. The relationships between the characters seemed very real and thought out. This story had just enough "what's next" to keep me reading. After all, it makes it easier to downsize if I know if I actually like something or not! This book was sent to me ages ago by the author along with some of her other books after I won a contest that she was doing. One of my goals is to start reading through my physical book to be read pile alongside my official review books. ![]() |
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