![]() ![]() Hannah Armstrong writes to President Lincoln to get her son discharged from the army during the Civil War. ![]() He fears his name and memory will be appropriated by his enemies and used for unjust purposes.Īndy, the town's night watchman, stands guard for many years and then retires to the safety of the grave. Read MoreĪ local political figure, Herman Altman wants no monument for his grave. He dies in symbolic fashion when his heavy schedule of court cases falls on his head. Justice Arnett is the most prominent of the judges mentioned in the Spoon River Anthology. He is admired by some but resented by many. Thomas Rhodes is the president of Spoon River's bank and the man arguably responsible for its failure. She may be the town prostitute, though this is never directly stated. Read Moreĭaisy Fraser is an outspoken woman who lives in a small house on the edge of town. He is a wheeler and dealer who uses the power of the press to protect his self-interests. Read MoreĮditor Whedon runs the Argus, the more prominent and more conservative of Spoon River's two named newspapers. ![]() Blood is the longtime mayor of Spoon River and a powerful but not well-liked figure among the townsfolk. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What IS Christianity?Ĭhristianity is defined as the religion based in the belief, life, and practices of Jesus of Nazareth as told through the Gospels. This makes Christianity the largest religion in the world. This number includes all the major traditions of Christianity such as Catholics, protestants, and Eastern orthodox. It is an interesting number to know and reflect on.Īccording to Lifeway Research, it is estimated that 2.56 billion people in the world profess to be part of the Christian faith. As believers work to spread the Gospel and fulfill the Great Commission, we may wonder exactly how many believers there are around the world. ![]() And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of the age’” ( Matthew 28:18-20).Īs we fast forward to 2023, almost 2,000 years since Jesus’ death and resurrection, the world currently has a population of approximately 8 billion people. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This has been stripped down in a new edition to state: “They come back and stare, and stare. The word “natives” has also been replaced with the word “local”.Īmong the examples of changes cited by the Telegraph is the 1937 Poirot novel Death on the Nile, in which the character of Mrs Allerton complains that a group of children are pestering her, saying that “they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children”. ![]() The newspaper reported that the edits cut references to ethnicity, such as describing a character as black, Jewish or Gypsy, or a female character’s torso as “of black marble” and a judge’s “Indian temper”, and removed terms such as “Oriental” and the N-word. The updates follow edits made to books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to remove offensive references to gender and race in a bid to preserve their relevance to modern readers. Sensitivity readers had made the edits, which were evident in digital versions of the new editions, including the entire Miss Marple run and selected Poirot novels set to be released or that have been released since 2020, the Telegraph reported. ![]() ![]() He’s a smart and snarky kid thrust into a crazy situation - the Norse mythology world of which he’s a part since (surprise!)– his dad is Frey, a god that’s been off the radar. Magnus Chase and The Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordanįor his 16th birthday, Magnus, a homeless boy living in Boston, finds out that fire giants are after him. ![]() If you haven’t read Magnus Chase and The Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer (my review here), it will make you an enthusiastic Norse mythology fan.Īlso read: The Best Greek Mythology Books for Kids Norse Mythology Books for Kids Middle Grade Books No, thanks! (My sister got the name Freya.) I’m glad I wasn’t a boy because my parents planned to name me Thor. ![]() (Some of that also came from the original stories.)Īnd Thor. That’s why some myths contradict each other. Since the Norse myths weren’t often written down, many modern-day authors take liberties with the myths as they see fit. But not to worry, I’ve only picked family-friendly books here. Oh, and if you thought the original Brothers Grimm stories were bloody, they don’t hold a candle to the violence in the original Norse myths. What are the most fascinating Norse mythology middle grade books for tweens? If you like heroes, villains, gods, and goddesses, and tragic and exciting adventures, you’ll love this book list! These are books about Norse mythology in fictional books including Norse mythology or mythological elements as well as nonfiction books. ![]() ![]() To get retailers' attention, the Gownleys printed 3,100 extra copies of the first issue and sent them out with the catalog in which they were solicited. "I was under no illusions that the comic book marketplace was dying for a comic book about a little girl," he said. ![]() Initially, Gownley self-published Amelia Rules in 2001 as single-issue comics that were sold in comics shops with his wife Karen handling marketing and promotion. I went on to talk about the Iraq war, divorce and poverty, but it was all filtered through Amelia's sensibilities." "It was an accident, but it was brilliant," he said, "because it gave me the whole hook of the series: I can deal with anything in these stories because they are told from Amelia's point of view. ![]() ![]() Then he had an inspiration: He would have Amelia talk to the audience between stories. Most comics are 32 pages, and "Freeze Tag" was only ten, so Gownley wrote a few more short stories but couldn't quite fill the gap. "He called me back a few weeks later and said 'You should self publish this,'" Gownley said. Gownley sent his first Amelia story, "Freeze Tag," to his friend Dave Roman, then an editor at Nickelodeon Magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally, religious stories were kept alive in mostly illiterate communities by word of mouth, a notoriously unreliable way to transfer information. Far from God creating mankind, it is we who in fact created him.įurther strong evidence for human (rather than divine) creation can be found in the religious texts that do appear in the Bible: they are full of historical inaccuracies and self-contradictions, and are based on faulty source material. Such selective inclusion of certain religious texts clearly demonstrates the Bible’s man-made design. The Gospel of Judas obviously didn’t fit their narrative. The canonical gospels contained in the Bible were cherry-picked by the Church to reinforce their view of Jesus’s teachings. This work was written around the same time as the four gospels of the New Testament and also describes the life of Jesus, but, like many other gospels, it was declared heretical by the Christian church and banned. In 2006, after having been hidden for years, the Gospel of Judas was published. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The agency certainly has had a history of far flung military adventures, but then it tried to get out of the killing business - only to come back at it in a big way since the September 11 attacks. The CIA is now at the center of waging covert wars in places like Pakistan and Yemen. What I’ve tried to do in my book is tell a story of a secret war, and how that war has changed places like the CIA and parts of the Pentagon. Mark Mazzetti: Peter’s books are absolutely terrific, and a hard act to follow! And, there have certainly been a number of terrific books covering the war on terror. Tom Ricks: What are we going to learn from your book that we haven’t gotten from others, like those by Peter Bergen? Here is an interview I did with the author by e-mail: It has all sorts of interesting details, like that the United States has the ability to remotely turn on a cell phone in Pakistan and then collect the precise coordinates of whoever is carrying it. It is The Way of the Knife, by Mark Mazzetti. The estimable Micah Zenko wants a “ first draft” of “the Third War.” Actually it has been written, and is being published this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the fact that she did not take away from the book but she actually enhanced the book by far.ĭo you think Knight of a Trillion Stars needs a follow-up book? Why or why not? This was my first Rebecca Cook book but I have listened to more sense then and I like her performance a lot. Have you listened to any of Rebecca Cook’s other performances before? How does this one compare? I would recommend this book mainly because the author had a sense of humor and she kept you laughing when you think that a book like this should not. Would you recommend Knight of a Trillion Stars to your friends? Why or why not? The author has a sense of humor but the plot was not believable in the beginning. ![]() I really can not imagine anyone putting themselves in that predicament. The plot was ok but the beginning of the story was very strange and so unrealistic that you just had to laugh. Is there anything you would change about this book? ![]() ![]() The author manages to weave typical teen profanity-sparingly applied-into prose that contains perfectly precise vocabulary, turns of phrase, and figures of speech in ways that will entice young adults. ![]() The allure of a better world combined with the deterioration of human behavior in the wake of Earth’s anticipated demise is the perfect way to infuse complex moral issues and deep philosophical questions in a fast-paced adventure that will keep readers compulsively turning pages to see what will happen next. Using the vehicle of holograms that stand vigil next to the vertexes and answer questions about the advanced civilization they represent, the author deftly juxtaposes utopia with dystopia. ![]() In Alex, Acevedo has developed a fully realized character whose struggles with anxiety are compounded by the threat of impending destruction. ![]() Gr 8 Up –If you had the opportunity to escape the cataclysmic destruction of the planet by exiting through a portal to another world, would you take it? That is the choice offered to Earth’s inhabitants on the day Alexandra Lucas’s world comes to a screeching halt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On a smaller scale, similar marvels were wrought in other states - Arizona, Utah, Colorado, the Dakotas, Montana and even Nevada. It virtually created modern California, making it the nation's most populous state and one of the The Grand Canyon, concluded that so much of the West was virtually desert that if all the flowing water in the region were applied to it, the water would spread too thin to make much difference.īut that didn't daunt several generations of pioneers, who believed the selective harnessing of available water could yield miracles. More than a century ago John Wesley Powell, the nation's pioneer hydrographer and an explorer of The money has gone into Federal water projects in the Western states - some of the projects awesome, some scandalous but all with an uncertain future. On where billions of their dollars have gone - and where a lot more are going. It's a revealing, absorbing, often amusing and alarming report IT'S unlikely that most taxpayers will read '' Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water,'' but they should. ![]() Section 7, Column 1 Book Review DeskīY GLADWIN HILL Gladwin Hill is the former national environmental correspondent of The New York Times.ĬADILLAC DESERT The American West and Its Disappearing Water. September 14, 1986, Sunday, Late City Final Edition The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]() |