![]() ![]() Along the way, you'll get the chance to answer one age-old question: What would Jesus really do Book Details The choices made at the end of each plot point can either further the story along the correct path, lead to crazy side stories, or end in a comically brutal death-or much worse. In You Are the Messiah!, take a humorous and irreverant journey through the life of Jesus Christ-the lives he touches, the miracles he executes, and the roads he travels during the most tumultuous period of his life-from the clumsy beginning of his ministry, to the development of his fabled miracle-working powers, and ultimately, to his tortured sacrifice on the cross as he struggles with becoming humanity's unlucky savior. Experience the greatest story ever told from a unique perspective in this religious parody of a children's game book for adults. ![]() Journey back in time to the faraway Biblical land of Palestine in thirty-something A.D. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Horror dawns…Has my boss been reading my emails to Edgar? And then, in the shock of all shocks, he tells me that my vulnerability is appealing. His eyes linger a little longer than they should, and there’s a heat behind them that I haven’t felt before. He’s not my type and lives on the other side of the world, but we hit off a friendship, laugh and confide in each other.īut lately things are getting weird at work. God knows how he earns his Casanova reputation-if a million women want him with his personality, what the heck am I doing wrong?ĭisgusted with my love life, I join a dating app under a fake name. Just the sight of my boss’s handsome face triggers my sarcasm. My favorite hobby is infuriating Elliot Miles. But nobody is as distracting as Elliot Miles…and he knows it. In T L Swan’s steamy third installment of the Miles High Club, Kate’s hot new pen pal is a welcome distraction from her horrible boss. ![]() ![]() You can easily customize lessons based on student age, reading and comprehension level, interests, and learning style! Additionally, all worksheets can be completed in an interactive notebook or simply discussed aloud if you desire to reduce the number of pages you print. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives. Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone. This comprehensive book companion includes a lesson plan, chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, and many other activities. ![]() Stage Fright on a Summer Night (Magic Tree House #25 Lesson Plan, Activities) is a 5-day NO PREP novel study of Stage Fright on a Summer Night (Magic Tree House #25). ![]() ![]() ![]() With her only guidance coming from the romance novels she reads and the unlikely companionship of the women who knew her mother, she must find her own way through unthinkable circumstances. As Lacey May endures the increasingly appalling acts of men who want to write all the rules, and begins to uncover the full extent of Pastor Vern’s shocking plan to bring fertility back to the land, she decides she must go on a quest to find her mother, no matter what it takes. ![]() ![]() Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with her taxidermy mice collection than her own granddaughter. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. He promises, through secret “assignments,” to bring the rain everybody is praying for. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The stunning sequel to Daughter of the Moon Goddess delves deeper into beloved Chinese mythology, concluding the epic story of Xingyin-the daughter of Chang'e and the mortal archer, Houyi-as she battles a grave new threat to the realm, in this powerful tale of love, sacrifice, and hope.Īfter finishing the first book of the series, I was thinking how the sequel will exceed its perfection. even if doing so demands the greatest price of all. As an unspeakable terror sweeps across the realm, Xingyin must uncover the truth of her heart and claw her way through devastation-to rise against this evil before it destroys everything she holds dear, and the worlds she has grown to love. With alliances shifting quicker than the tides, Xingyin has to overcome past grudges and enmities to forge a new path forward, seeking aid where she never imagined she would. While Xingyin is determined to keep clear of the rising danger, the discovery of a shocking truth spurs her into a treacherous confrontation.įorced to flee her home once more, Xingyin and her companions venture to unexplored lands of the Immortal Realm, encountering legendary creatures and shrewd monarchs, beloved friends and bitter adversaries. But her fragile peace is threatened by the discovery of a strange magic on the moon and the unsettling changes in the Celestial Kingdom as the emperor tightens his grip on power. ![]() ![]() After her perilous quest to free her mother, Xingyin thrives once more in the tranquility of her home. ![]() ![]() Because spirit is the political part of the soul in this sense, moreover, two social and political challenges that occupy Plato throughout his career-namely, how to educate citizens properly in virtue and how to maintain unity and stability in political communities-cannot be addressed and resolved, on his view, without proper attention to the spirited aspects of human psychology. ![]() Such emotions prominently include not only the aggressive or competitive qualities for which thumos is well-known, but also the feelings of attachment, love, friendship, and civic fellowship that bind families and communities together and make cities possible in the first place. ![]() ![]() It argues that spirit is the distinctively social or political part of the human soul for Plato: it is the source of the desires, emotions, and sensitivities that make it possible for people to form cooperative relationships with one another, interact politically, influence and absorb one another’s values through cultural modes and social processes, and protect their communities. The Political Soul examines the relationship between Plato’s views on psychology and his political philosophy over the course of his career, focusing on his account of the spirited part of the tripartite soul, or thumos, and spirited motivation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cinematographer’s job is to interpret the screenplay in a visual form and to guide the viewer’s emotions through color, light, shots, angles and movement. ![]() Warmer colors are generally used in comedies, love stories, family stories, and in some drama films. Cool colors are generally used in science fiction films, murder mysteries, suspense films, and in some action and drama films. Warm colors are reds, oranges and yellows. ![]() Cool colors are violets, blues and greens. Understanding the basic components of color, warm colors and cool colors, as well as how the audience responds to these colors is essential. The color palette of a film is a subtle way to visually enhance the emotional aspects of a film and guide the viewer to respond to it on a visceral level. Examining the Color Palette of Film: The Impact of Color and Its Use by Cinematographers by Jacqueline Frost ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The result is just this really expert blend of humor and heart, set across a desolate landscape dotted with hope. A slow-burning, heartfelt love story plays out against this post-apocalyptic backdrop, bringing hope and nuance to familiar survivalist themes.” PHILLY WEEKLY - THE END OF THE WORLD AS ERIK J. Two lonely, displaced boys make a treacherous journey down the eastern seaboard through a society in ruins, punctuated by escaped zoo animals and, most treacherous of all, other survivors. “In Erik J Brown’s debut, All That’s Left in the World (Hodder, £7.99), a super-flu significantly more deadly than Covid-19 has decimated the population. “From fiction that alters our perspective on the world to non-fiction and poetry that demands change, this year's shortlists, as ever, reflect the very real tastes and interests of readers today, and the books that local bookshops know their communities are clamouring to read.” The Guardian - Young adult books round-up Books are my Bag Awards - ALL THAT'S LEFT IN THE WORLD wins the Young Adult Fiction Award ![]() ![]() ![]() Little Bao’s father intervenes and the men leave, but they return later with a priest as converts to Christianity as such, they are above the law. They live a relatively peaceful, hardworking life - though, like many other areas of rural China, suffer because of a drought - but then thuggish Chinese strangers arrive and cause trouble. In the space of two years, Chinese rebels fought back against colonization and murdered Westerners, “foreign devils” (Christians), and “secondary devils” (Chinese converts to Christianity) in what would become known as the Boxer Rebellion.īoxers tells the story of Little Bao, a young peasant boy living in rural China. Both books begin in 1898, when Christianity was beginning to take a stronger hold on China. ![]() The books are sold as two separate volumes as well as in a boxed set, but the stories run parallel to one another and should definitely be read together. American Born Chinese pretty much guaranteed that I would read anything else Gene Luen Yang created, so when Boxers & Saints came out last year to great critical acclaim, I put the books high on my TBR list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ezra and I watched the Dateline special-“Mystery at Murderland”-at home while our neighbor stayed with us. And the second time was five years ago, for Melanie’s teenage daughter’s funeral. The first time was the year before we were born, when our grandfather died from a heart attack. Sadie left Echo Ridge when she was eighteen, and she’s only been back twice. You’ve probably heard the name.” Ezra and I exchange wide-eyed glances. ![]() She used to babysit your mother when she was young. I have terrible night vision, so Melanie was kind enough to drive. Her family lives down the street from us. When we slide into the backseat Nana turns to face us, and so does a younger woman behind the steering wheel. “They won’t let you idle for more than a minute.” She pulls her head back in as Ezra wheels his solitary suitcase toward the trunk. “Go on, get in,” she calls, side-eyeing the traffic cop a few feet from us. She doesn’t look much different than she does over Skype, although her thick gray bangs appear freshly cut. The passenger-side window rolls down, and Nana sticks her head out. We wait a few minutes, wilting in the heat, until a forest-green Subaru station wagon pulls up beside us. “Nana’s texting and driving?” “Apparently.” I haven’t seen my grandmother since she visited us in California ten years ago, but from what I can remember that seems out of character. ![]() |