![]() She and her husband took a two-month long bicycling trek from Charleston, South Carolina, to Los Angeles, California for their honeymoon, changing more than fifty flat tires along the way. ![]() The good people at Atheneum make me sound way cooler than I actually am: Jennifer Bradbury is an English teacher living in Burlington, Washington. I wonder if all author bios on book jackets are as noteworthy for what they omit as mine is. A former English teacher and one-day Jeopardy! champ, she lives in Burlington, Washington, with her family. It is also on numerous state reading lists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While a student at East Peoria Community High School (1963–1967), Craig competed in debate and won the state championship in oratory. Early life and education Ĭraig was born August 23, 1949, in Peoria, Illinois, to Mallory and Doris Craig. ![]() His study of divine aseity and Platonism culminated with his book God Over All. He has also published work where he argues in favor of the historical plausibility of the resurrection of Jesus. Ĭraig has updated and defended the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God. He is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University and a Research Professor of Philosophy at Biola University's Talbot School of Theology. William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view of Molinism and neo-Apollinarianism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a remarkable narrative both in conception and execution. Secrets and truths are uncovered one by one. Through the lurid blood-letting, events build slowly, broodingly. Almost every action - changing oil, planting crops, watching a bear chasing down deer - is rendered with utter authenticity. ![]() He takes risks, stumbles occasionally (Hig's memories of his wife range from mawkish to maudlin), but evokes the essence of things marvellously. Heller writes sparely, sometimes stunningly, in brief bursts of memory and thought that crackle with intensity. Green patches in the forest and in Hig's own life begin to grow we end with that paradoxical thing, a post-apocalyptic novel that looks on the bright side. It's a journey that doesn't lead to any idyll or easy answers, but it begins an arduous progress towards redemption and regeneration, in which characters are unpeeled layer by layer. And a half-heard radio message, plus the death of a nine-year-old boy, eventually start him on a journey that he hopes will take him beyond mere survival. ![]() He persists in keeping contact with a nearby and not altogether convincing group of Mennonites, who may still be disease carriers. But unlike Bangley, he doesn't revel in the killing. ![]() ![]() It was her fault, many of the myths said, that the kingdom was sunk. The tale of Cantre'r Gwaelod has many variations - but at the center of several was a young woman, a keeper of a magical well. And I began to do what I always do: research. I wrote a note to myself - “Welsh Atlantis,” I scribbled - before returning to work on my current deadlines.īut when I had a moment in between deadlines I found myself returning to that note I’d scribbled. It was a sunken kingdom that supposedly once stood where Cardigan Bay now exists. When I was researching THE BONE HOUSES, I found a mention of Cantre'r Gwaelod - or translated into English, the Lowland Hundred. It was a su Update: I’ve launched my preorder campaign! Check it out for corgi swag, bookmarks, and a gorgeous art print. Update: I’ve launched my preorder campaign! Check it out for corgi swag, bookmarks, and a gorgeous art print. ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Augustus Caesar jealously demands that Selene’s children be given over to him to be fostered in Rome, she’s drawn back into the web of imperial plots and intrigues that she vowed to leave behind.ĭetermined and resourceful, Selene must shield her loved ones from the emperor’s wrath, all while vying with ruthless rivals like King Herod. With her husband, King Juba II and the magic of Isis that is her birthright, Selene brings prosperity and peace to a kingdom thirsty for both. No longer the pitiful orphaned daughter of the despised Egyptian Whore, the twenty year old is now the most powerful queen in the empire, ruling over the kingdom of Mauretania-an exotic land of enchanting possibility where she intends to revive her dynasty. ![]() Based on the true story of Cleopatra’s daughter…Īfter years of abuse as the emperor’s captive in Rome, Cleopatra Selene has found a safe harbor. ![]() |