![]() ![]() This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand…that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. To my fans: Congratulations, you survived Deny’s cliff hanger!Īnd the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day give me a man, that we may fight together. ![]() Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, events, or settings is purely coincidental or used fictitiously.Īll Scripture quotes are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.Īll song quotes taken from the 1912 Psalter as found in the Public Domain. All characters, events, and settings are the product of the author's over active imagination. Except for brief quotations in written reviews, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise-without prior written permission of the author. Absence of ™ in connection with Sword & Cross Publishing does not indicate an absence of trademark protection of those marks.Īll rights reserved. Sword & Cross Publishing and the Sword & Cross Publishing logo are trademarks of Tricia Mingerink. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1987 – Paramount Pictures launches a new on-screen logo to celebrate its 75th anniversary, a variant used until 1989, and the standard variant of this logo was used from 1989 to 2002.Īcademy Awards: Best Picture: The Last Emperor - Hemdale, Columbia Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor Best Actor: Michael Douglas - Wall Street Best Actress: Cher - Moonstruck Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery - The Untouchables Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis - Moonstruck Best Foreign Language Film: Babette's Feast ( Babettes Gæstebud), directed by Gabriel Axel, Denmark.July 17 – Walt Disney's classic masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is re-released worldwide for its 50th anniversary.June 29 – The James Bond franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary and premieres its 15th film, The Living Daylights.May 23 – Starlog Salutes Star Wars is held in Los Angeles, California, the first officially sponsored Star Wars convention to commemorate the franchise's 10th anniversary.January 31 – The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.The top ten 1987 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: See also: List of 1987 box office number-one films in the United States ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Grant to call them up to the field of action. On the morning of the battle they were held in reserve, waiting for General Ulysses S. He was then 34, the youngest major general in the Union Army, a striking figure on a big bay horse, in charge of the 3rd Division-nearly 6,000 hardened soldiers. Later, as a soldier, he longed for glory, and it seemed within his grasp until the Battle of Shiloh, in April of 1862. He ran away from home in Indianapolis at 16 to join the Texan war for independence, but got no farther than the banks of the nearby White River. Lew Wallace, it turns out, was a seeker-one of those people whose eyes are on the horizon looking for something more. But while adapting it I not only became a great fan of the text but also came to understand the surprisingly moving backstory. ![]() ![]() What I didn’t have was familiarity with the book that started it all, because Ben-Hur in its original version is a tough slog for today’s readers. I even have dim memories of my parents bringing home an illustrated program from the 1959 premiere of the film starring Charlton Heston. Editions of Ben-Hur took up serious shelf space in our house. He was a diplomat and, of course, a best-selling author. He had put Billy the Kid in jail (we had a letter from the Kid hanging in our back hall). He had been a Union general in the Civil War. As a little girl, I was very proud of Lew. ![]() ![]() ![]() Discuss the similarities and differences between her life as a married woman in New England and her life as a teenager living in Tehran.Ģ. The first two chapters show us very different stages in Roya's life. For those who enjoy getting caught up in romance while discovering unfamiliar history of another country."ġ. "The unfurling stories in Kamali's sophomore novel (after Together Tea) will stun readers as the aromas of Persian cooking wafting throughout convince us that love can last a lifetime. "A sweeping romantic tale of thwarted love." Simultaneously briskly paced and deeply moving, this will appeal to fans of Khaled Hosseini and should find a wide audience." Critical Praise:"Kamali paints an evocative portrait of 1950s Iran and its political upheaval, and she cleverly writes the heartbreak of Roya and Bahman's romance to mirror the tragic recent history of their country. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would recommend this book for older YA or adults due to the sensuality of some of the interactions between the characters that younger audiences may not be ready to read. This is sure to hook you and keep you turning pages and guessing what might happen as they work through this mess.įinal Verdict: This was a very intense and steamy romance with multiple love possibilities. With her heart at stake and innocent people left to suffer, the three of them have to work through the tangled bonds that have resulted from schemes and desperation. ![]() Fate is also playing cruel tricks with the requirements given for saving the court and its people from dying. The other is so convinced that if given a chance everything will work out and doesn’t respect her wishes and desires in this situation. However, one of these Princes is willing to go to whatever length to save his people even if it means giving up any claim over her. The billionaire, right-wing megadonor reportedly has decided that he’s done. Neither wants to share or to think of a life without her. Peter Thiel is (allegedly) having second thoughts. There is so much angst as she is immortally bonded to the Seelie Prince Sebastian while growing ever closer to the Unseelie Prince Fin. ![]() ![]() She has much to learn in her new body and with her powers more intense than when she was human. What I Liked: This book explored the deep sense of betrayal and confusion that Abriella experiences after dying to give Sebastian the crown and waking up Fae. ![]() ![]() This contemporary instalove romance includes a myriad of wedding disasters, a couple finding love in midlife, and matchmaking family members who won't stop until there's a happily ever after. "Summer Wedding" is a steamy standalone in the Midlife Crisis Contemporary Romance series. She married her high school sweetheart, had two kids, bought a house, and adopted a dog. She's sworn off love, but he's going to do his best to convince her that she deserves to take a chance on happiness. The second thing he does is fall in love with the mother of the bride. When the wealthy CEO arrives at the Mountain Ridge Resort for his nephew's wedding, the first thing he does is hit someone with his car. Reed never had time for love, but he has always enjoyed his role as the fun bachelor uncle to his sister's brood of kids. She needs to show her daughter that she's no longer the selfish person she remembers from her childhood. Erika fully intends to focus on her daughter April this weekend, not herself. Rose Bak has 55 books on Goodreads with 3615 ratings. ![]() Novel Category Romance Billionaire Romance Erotic Young Adult Fantasy. After years of estrangement, the mother and daughter are finally finding their way back to a solid relationship. Rose Bak’s most popular book is Love Unmasked (Good with Numbers, 1). Summer Wedding is a Romance Novel By Rose Bak. This wedding is supposed to be a chance for her to finally make peace with her daughter, not fall in love with one of the guests…Įrika is thrilled when her daughter April invites her to her destination wedding at the Mountain Ridge Resort. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is almost no politics in “Origins” beyond the decisions and processes that eventuated in total domination. The lesson: Freedom is fragile, and when demagogues speak, and others start following them, it is wise to pay attention. One reason the book resonates so strongly today is its fixation on the way many “bads” long taken for granted can come together to generate a maelstrom of evil and horror foreseen by no one, perhaps not even the protagonists themselves. “Origins” charts the “grotesque disparity between cause and effect,” which made the horrors of the 1940s so surprising, and shocking, to so many. While her account of these “elements” is bracing, even more disturbing is the way she links them to the monstrous outcome to which they gave rise. But their “crystallization” into the horrific outcome that was totalitarianism was neither predictable nor inevitable. As Arendt made clear, her interest is in understanding the origins of totalitarianism, not explaining its “causes.” The elements that together made its rise possible - anti-Semitism, imperialism, racism, the post-World War I crises of multinational empires, the displacement of peoples by war and by technological change - were important. “Origins” centers on the rise of totalitarianism, especially its Nazi variant, out of the ashes of World War I and the Great Depression. ![]() ![]()
![]() In Good and Mad, Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel-from suffragettes marching on the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. ![]() "Urgent, enlightened.realistic and compelling.Traister eloquently highlights the challenge of blaming not just forces and systems, but individuals" ( The Washington Post). The story of female fury and its cultural significance demonstrates its crucial role in women's slow rise to political power in America, as well as the ways that anger is received when it comes from women as opposed to when it comes from men. Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women's March, and before the #MeToo movement, women's anger was not only politically catalytic-but politically problematic. Item #300473 ISBN: 9781501181818 Journalist Rebecca Traister's New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is "a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently-and collectively" ( Vanity Fair). Traister, Rebecca Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger ![]() ![]() ![]() Luke's Episcopal Church on Hudson St., in New York City. Then his body was interred in the cemetery at St. Upon his death in 1863 at his summer residence in Newport, Rhode Island, his funeral was held in Trinity Church, Newport, where he had owned a pew. He compiled a Hebrew and English Lexicon (1809), and published a collection of poems (1844). ![]() From 1840 to 1850, he was a board member of The New York Institution for the Blind at 34th Street and 9th Avenue (now The New York Institute for Special Education). The ground on which the seminary now stands was his gift. He was made professor of Biblical learning in the General Theological Seminary in New York (1821), a post that he held until 1850. Clement Clarke Moore was a graduate of Columbia College (1798), where he earned both his B.A. He was the only son of Benjamin Moore, a president of Columbia College and bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and his wife Charity Clarke. ![]() Moore was more famous in his own day as a professor of Oriental and Greek literature at Columbia College (now Columbia University) and at General Theological Seminary, who compiled a two volume Hebrew dictionary. Nicholas (more commonly known today as Twas the Night Before Christmas).Ĭlement C. Clement Clarke Moore, (J– July 10, 1863), is best known as the credited author of A Visit From St. ![]() |