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Paul’s School, an elite boarding school in New Hampshire, where, at the age of fifteen, she was sexually assaulted by two older students, both of whom went unpunished and were able to graduate with awards. ![]() With clarity and precision, Crawford describes her time at St. Notes on a Silencing is a profoundly poignant memoir and a deeply moving account of a young girl’s sexual assault and its aftermath. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This best-selling, missionary biography series - Christian Heroes: Then & Now - chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory. His faith and generosity set a standard for Christians of all generations. George Müller trusted God with a depth rarely seen. Sustained by God's provision, the Müller house "Breakfast Club" of thirty orphans grew to five large houses that ultimately over ten thousand children would call home. Janet is a former elementary-school teacher. With scarcely enough food or money for his own family, George Müller opened his heart and home. Janet and Geoff Benge are a husband-and-wife writing team with more than twenty years of writing experience. Standing in the muddy street, this little girl gave a face to Bristol's countless orphans. Her father had never returned from the mines. Her mother had died in the cholera epidemic sweeping England. She was no older than five and was piggybacking her little brother. "God has given me a mission field right here, and I will live and die in it." George Müller stared at the beggar girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On what basis could they narrate the history of hitherto unknown peoples? Why did the Bible and classical works say nothing about so many visible traces of ancient cultures? And how far was it possible to write histories of the world at a time of growing religious division in Europe and imperial rivalry around the world? A study of the cross-fertilization of historical writing in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, The Globe on Paper reconstructs a set of imaginative accounts worked out from Mexico to the Moluccas and Peru, and from the shops of Venetian printers to the rival courts of Spain and England. Among the first to address the questions posed by this challenge were a handful of Renaissance historians. Everyday interactions with cultures and societies across the globe brought to light a multiplicity of pasts which proved difficult to reconcile with an emerging sense of unity in the world. The age of exploration exposed the limits of available universal histories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of turning away from her passions, Copeland learned to embrace her identity and her dreams to get her to where she is today. Having grown up in an unstable home, Copeland dealt with adversity in her life, and even outside of her home and on the dance floor, her abilities as a dancer were often underestimated and throughout her career she faced situations that questioned her identity. The Wealth Choice began years ago, as scribbles on scraps of paper, before morphing into a PowerPoint lecture that I used in an MBA class. Our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor. In her memoir, Life in Motion, Copeland shares her story, which deals with her struggles with identity and how she’s eventually learned to embrace herself, her dreams and have the courage make it to the top despite her situation or what people said about her. The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. However, her ride to the top wasn’t always easy. Touchstone “Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina” by Misty CopelandĪs the country’s first African-American woman to become a female principal dancer for one of the top commercial ballet companies, the American Ballet Theater, Misty Copeland’s accomplishments are nothing short of amazing. ![]() ![]() ![]() But for the sake of his mother and also for the He senses that Fee is always tired and unobtrusively tries to helpįrank would like to leave home, as there is not much love for his father in him. ![]() ![]() Perhaps because Meggie is too young to help, Fee is as distant to her as she is to her sons, with the exception of the eldest, Frank, the only one not stamped with Paddy's red hair. Household chores and is never heard to complain. He had left Ireland hurriedly, many years before, and his only relative is an older sister, Mary Carson, widowed many years and living on a rich sheep property, Drogheda, 600 miles northwest of Sydney,įiona, lovingly known as Fee, to her family, seems as though she was born to something much better than the hard life they lead, But she stoically keeps at her Paddy, originally from Galway, Ireland, runs a small farm and does shearing for other graziers in the district. SETTING THE SCENE: The Cleary Family, Paddy and Fiona and their seven children, Frank, Bob, Jack, Hugh, Stuart, Meggie and Hal, live outside Wahine, New Zealand, in the early 1900s. This novel - its unknown Australian author is now internationally famous. ![]() ![]() ![]() After researching, I felt compelled to give him a happier ending. After I read James Alexander Thom’s epic Long Knife, Colonel Clark was firmly etched in my mind and heart as a true American legend. ![]() When I visited Locust Grove in Louisville, Kentucky, and came face-to-face with a portrait of George Rogers Clark, I knew I had to create a hero like him. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.Īnd a special dedication to the men and women of our country’s armed forces, who, since 1776, have given of their own lives and liberties to ensure ours. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Scripture quotations marked ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-for example, electronic, photocopy, recording-without the prior written permission of the publisher. ![]() Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287Īll rights reserved. ![]() ![]() But their being together is a risky undertaking, for their love is starcrossed, the effect of an ages-old series of curses and feuds associated with their demi-god statuses. Theres also the terrifying furies who stalk her, appearing whenever Lucas is present, and the fact that she seems to have taken to walking through Hades in her dreamsor so her bloodied feet and sand-strewn sheets would suggest.įearful that she may be going mad, Helen tries to get to the bottom of these strange eventsand in doing so finds herself falling, completely and utterly, for Lucas Delos. ![]() ![]() But Helens newfound penchant for attempted homicide isnt all that concerns her. Helen, far from performing her usual trick of fading into the background, finds herself quite literally seizing upon Lucas in an effort to kill him. But how atypical she truly is she doesnt realise until Lucas Delos arrives on the scene. ![]() Oh, you saw that reference to Olympus, did you?ĭespite her focus on grades, sports and the endless battle that is the schoolyard social scene, Helen is not your typical teenage girl. Shes not only strikingly gorgeous, but shes effortlessly bright, and not to mention athletic beyond the hopes of 'all but the finest Olympic athletes. ![]() But this isnt because Helen is lacking in any way: rather, its the opposite. Helen Hamilton is shy and nervous to a fault: even a modicum of attention is enough to see her suffering from stomach cramps and seeking solace away from the rest of the crowd. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beyond her borders, China’s material rise and miraculous accomplishments have been closely watched by her Northeast Asian and Southeast Asian neighbours, for the economic well-being and national security of countries big and small in these regions are now very much tied to China’s ascendance as a global and regional economic power, engine of growth, political force and potential military juggernaut to be fully reckoned with. ![]() Indisputably the leading light of the year’s BRIC summit and the stellar performer amidst the global financial crisis, China has also celebrated without a doubt her return to the centre of the world by her successful hosting of the Olympics and her first spacewalk a year before, though a series of other incidents have made such triumph far from unequivocal. The year 2009 marks several significant anniversaries for China, some triumphant, some tragic. ![]() ![]() ![]() He will decimate their armies, he will level their cities – and he will not stop until the whole of their empire is reduced to ash. ![]() As his Visigoth forefathers sacked Rome, Aric will take the battle directly to his oppressors on the Vine homeworld of Loam. Now, the day of Aric’s reckoning has finally come. The invasion is here – and X-O Manowar is the invader! From superstar creators Robert Venditti, Cary Nord and Trevor Hairsine, jump on board one of the year’s most ambitious series as X-O Manowar ignites an interstellar war and changes the landscape of the Valiant Universe forever!Īric of Dacia, a fifth century Visigoth armed with the universe’s most powerful weapon, is all that stands between the Earth and all-out annihilation at the hands of the alien race that abducted him from his own time. ![]() |