Cannery row novel7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The day he killed himself, Horace came into Lee’s store and told him he wanted to settle his outstanding debt. Because of this, Lee is unsurprised when Mack comes in one day after a local man named Horace Abbeville commits suicide. In particular, Mack and his group of drifter friends often visit and try to convince Lee to give them pints of whiskey, though they never have money. Lee’s store is a cultural hub, as everyone does their shopping amongst his crowded shelves. ![]() Steinbeck describes the landmarks of Cannery Row, calling attention to a squalid but efficient grocery store run by Lee Chong. ![]() Although there are too many narrative moments to detail here, the following storylines are the most cohesive and important threads of Cannery Row. Wondering how he can accurately portray what it’s like to live in this place, Steinbeck decides to simply “let the stories crawl in by themselves,” thus beginning a collection of loosely related vignettes. Cannery Row is a street populated by canning factories in Monterey, California. ![]()
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Jen wilkin a living hope in christ7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Join us as we dig deeper into Scripture individually and alongside other women-both those new to Bible study and those more familiar with Scriptures, with this widely-applicable study. Key themes are humility, submission, and identity in Christ. He shares his concerns on big picture issues for the early church, describes believers' true identity in Christ, and ultimately helps readers discover what it means to experience the Living Hope they have in Christ. ![]() In 1 Peter, a man of faith and flaws and also an eyewitness to the life of Christ challenges us to look beyond our current circumstances to a future inheritance. Our inheritance through Christ is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. The Moore and More Women's Ministry presents 1 Peter: A Living Hope in Christ by Jen Wilkin. ![]() Yellow Roses by DiAnn Mills7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A part of her wanted to stay and face Jenkins. You have my word.” She swung up into the saddle. ![]() A rancher gave it to me for birthing a baby. “From you?” Apprehension settled upon her. “I also put a small gift in the top saddlebag.” “And have Tim O’Hare after me? I’m smarter than that, sweet lady.” He touched her shoulder. A good bit of the money is left, and I placed it in the saddlebag on the bottom, left side.” “Best you have the provisions to survive than Tim to squander it on women and gambling. He stole the money to buy these provisions.” She started to lift the bags from the saddle, but Doc stopped her. He told me a story about you not taking money from the jobs they did.” Doc stroked the gelding’s neck as though Tim’s words were common knowledge. “Tim?” Casey’s eyes widened, and she took in the area around her. Doc, I can’t even pay for Morgan’s care, and now you give me more things?” “Provisions.” Doc looped his fingers inside his suspenders. “What did you put in my bags?” She patted the bulges. Nothing else could be stuffed inside any of them. ![]() An extra leather pouch had been slung over her full saddlebags. At the sound of Casey’s voice, Stoney tossed his head and responded like an old friend. ![]() Brandon sanderson the lost metal7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate-whose corruption Wax and Steris have sought to expose-and Bilming is even more entangled.Īfter Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial's god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.įor years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set-with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders-since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. I was thrilled to have him on the Mistborn series, and he did such an amazing job I can't imagine having anyone else be the voice of these characters." -Brandon Sanderson ![]() "Michael Kramer is my favorite among all audiobook narrators. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The immediate problem is that she is on trial for her life, charged with murdering her former lover. ![]() “It is in Strong Poison that Lord Peter first meets Harriet Vane, an author of police fiction. Strong Poison: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane Neuhouser has taught courses on Sayers, Lewis, Wendell Berry and perhaps his favorite, George Macdonald. Lewis and Friends (and Professor Emeritus at TU). We recently posed the question of where to start with Dorothy Sayers mystery novels to David Neuhouser, who is a lover of mysteries and Scholar in Residence at Taylor University’s Center for the Study of C.S. She considered her best work to be her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Lewis and the Inklings, who wrote many books for Christian audiences. Like mysteries ? Have you read Dorothy Sayers’ mystery novels ?ĭorothy Sayers is a writer often associated with C.S. ![]() Rebel by marie lu7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City's dark side, even his legendary brother can't save him. All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe - even if that means giving up June Iparis, the love of his life.Īs the two brothers struggle to accept who they've become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them. These days he'd rather hide out from the world and leave the past behind. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Altan Wing's little brother.Ī decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved The Republic of America. It is set about a decade after the events of Champion, and takes place in Ross City and The Republic of America.Įden Bataar Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. It switches between Eden Bataar Wing and Daniel "Day" Altan Wing's point of view. Rebel is the fourth book in the Legend series, following Legend, Prodigy, and Champion. This article contains plot details about upcoming events. ![]() The cosmic serpent dna7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Narby calls into serious question the limits of the scientific process and how we come to know things int he industrialized world. More than an anthropological account of how shaman use hallucination to find cures for disease, The Cosmic Serpent is a challenge to Western rationalism and modern science. Only in the past decades have pharmaceutical companies invade the province of these shaman to start mining for botanical compounds to patent and basically steal from the indigenous population. And yet, ayahuasca is used throughout the Amazon rain forest as an access to a hallucinatory world where images of spirits inform shaman how to use the hidden power of the plant life in the Amazon rain forest cure a very broad spectrum of disease. This compound, by itself is mystifying because it is made through a complex chemical process that one would not expect would be within the reach of native Amazonian chemistry. ![]() ![]() His journey starts with his experience in the Western Amazon basin where he was invited to try powerful hallucinogen called "ayahuasca". in anthropology and his work is based an extensive survey of academic materials across numerous disciplines. This would be a rather bizarre premise except for the fact that Narby is a trained PhD. Narby's premise is that hallucinogenic drugs used by shaman in the Western Amazon actually give them access to medicinal information through knowledge coded in DNA. This not light reading, but on the other hand it is essential reading. Jeremy Narby's Cosmic Serpent is a densely academic book that is 50% footnotes. ![]() Death comes for the archbishop7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Cather includes many fictionalized accounts of actual historical figures, including Kit Carson, Manuel Antonio Chaves and Pope Gregory XVI. The narration is in third-person omniscient style. The narrative has frequent digressions, either in terms of stories related to the pair (including the story of the Our Lady of Guadalupe and the murder of an oppressive Spanish priest at Acoma Pueblo) or through their recollections. The narrative is based on two historical figures of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and rather than any one singular plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico. copyright expired on January 1, 2023, when all works published in 1927 entered the public domain. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the witch hunt hysteria infected much of the 17th century society in England, there were still those who opposed the accusations and discrimination against witches. ![]() In just over a year, Matthew Hopkins, a self-proclaimed Witchfinder General, killed over one hundred people. Matthew Hopkins was not only among the greatest supporters of this crusade, but also one of the most active participants. Consequently, the Christians launched a crusade against these women and men. Because witches were suspected to be devil worshippers, they were considered heretics to the Christian church. ![]() Boundless by cynthia hand7/6/2023 ![]() Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.Īs Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make-between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place-and out of place at the same time. ![]() Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. ![]() Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Ĭlara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. ![]() In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees. ![]() |