![]() ![]() The book has become both a fascination and an object of contempt to millions of Christians. (Either Drew Barrymore or Björk could play her in the movie adaptation.) The Shack leads readers to think about how a Trinitarian God relates to humanity, albeit in ways some may find silly or worse. Jesus is a carpenter who looks like a Middle Eastern version of Bob Vila from “This Old House.” The Holy Spirit, a hippie Asian woman named Sarayu, tends a garden and flits in and out of scenes at will. God the Father, a k a “Papa,” is portrayed as a jolly African-American woman who can bake a mean scone while attending to the affairs of all creation. The Shack, a bestselling novel by William Paul Young, attempts to put flesh (literally) on the Trinity. ![]() ![]() Not even priests understand that.” The Trinity is an essential doctrine, yet few of us know much about it or its significance to our lives. I once overheard an adult initiation sponsor tell a catechist, “You don’t need to worry about the Trinity. A mystery,” “beyond comprehension,” “impossible to understand fully”-these are some of the phrases Christians use to describe the Holy Trinity, a central tenet of the faith. ![]()
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In any case, these days, I prefer to walk alone. Pawar from the Tiloda building came along with me till last year, but has left school since. Most students and teachers took this route to school. Back then, I’d take the road opposite Ganesh Provision Store which joins Kanhe Road near Mokshadham, winds past the railway station through Dattawadi and Pendse Colony, and then goes straight on to Nandi Talkies. Our school, till Seventh Standard, was at a different place. The road to school begins beyond the rocks. On the right are paddy fields, overlooked by massive rocks, and on the left is Nana’s jungle. ![]() The village of Kanhe begins where the grassland ends. There is a long stretch of grassland behind our house, beyond the Mhatre chawl lines, barren except for a few date palms and tufts of grass growing between the rocks. The main road leads to my school, but I prefer the winding path through the fields. ![]() ![]() Dewey Readmore Books, as he became known, quickly embraced his home inside Spencer's public library, charming the struggling small town's library-goers, young and old. Abandoned in a library book drop slot in the dead of winter, this remarkable kitten miraculously endured the coldest night of the year. Now everyone's favorite library cat can inspire a new audience of young readers with his story of courage and love. ![]() This middle-grade adaptation of the Grand Central bestseller Dewey features an 8-page photo insert, including exclusive, never-before-seen photos of the Dew! In the tradition of Marley: A Dog Like No Other, this is the story of a cat who was more than a pet, and the amazing effect he had on the people around him. Title: Dewey The Library Cat: A True Story, $15.99 Hardcover, ISBN 9780316068710, On Sale Date: May 3, 2010 At the age of thirty-four, after a failed marriage, single motherhood, and a stint on welfare, she graduated summa cum laude from Mankato State University and has a masters degree from Emporia State University.She worked at the Spencer Public Library for twenty-five years, the last twenty as director. Phone: 91 to order books in advance, 81 to make reservations to attend.Īuthor: Vicki Myron was born on a farm fifteen miles from Spencer, Iowa. Location: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum, Kansas City, MO 64112 ![]() ![]() ![]() Vicki Myron discusses her new book for young readers Dewey The Library Cat: A True Story ![]() ![]() ![]() She had been introduced to the adult film industry through her mother’s ex-boyfriend, whom she says she relied on. That was the time we were living in … That’s how bad it was. “It was even a time when local news stations would air the salacious headline of ‘Teen Porn Star … blah, blah, blah.’ ‘Small Town Girl.’ They’d use one of the illegal pictures of me with block-outs. And they had all kinds of judgments about it,” she says. ![]() And people felt free to ask me whatever they wanted without any kind of regard for what I might think, feel, me as a human being - nothing. “Still a very young lady, and I had a lot to answer for. “When I very first started trying to cross over and do legitimate acting, I was 19 years old,” she recalls. Lords plays the chief of a rival detective agency, a powerful nemesis to the hapless pair. The series is about two struggling private eyes in Los Angeles. Today, at 50, she’s co-starring in the Pop Television Network series Swedish Dicks, adapted by Peter Stormare. It seemed to her she’d never live down the stigma.īut Lords is a fighter. When authorities discovered she was underage, most of her films were confiscated, and she was labelled persona non grata. ![]() Lords became a cause celebre in the early ’80s when she starred in several adult films at the age of 15. ![]() Today she’s celebrating 17 years of marriage, motherhood and a whole new career. BEVERLY HILLS, California - Not many people need to reinvent themselves at 19. ![]() ![]() This book is also available in eBook and audiobook. (Definitive text established by the Fundación Juan Rulfo). It has been translated into almost fifty languages and new versions appear every year. ![]() “Pedro Páramo” evokes the very essence of Mexico through the most advanced literary forms and techniques of the twentieth century.įew works affect a Mexican reader as deeply as this novel, which also holds a place as a classic of world literature. This masterpiece has numbered Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Susan Sontag among its admirers. Excerpts were published in three maga¬zines in 1954, before the novel appeared in book form in 1955. ![]() Rulfo mentioned it for the first time in a letter in 1947, and was able to work on it in 1953–1954 thanks to a grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. The novel “Pedro Páramo” underwent a long gestation. ![]() The work of Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) is doubtless the Mexican literary creation which has received the greatest acclaim both in Mexico and abroad. Preview Pedro Páramoby Juan Rulfo Pedro Páramo (Southwestern and Mexican Photography Series, The Wittliff Collections) by Juan Rulfo 4. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lois and her husband divide their time between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Chicago, Illinois. Lois Ruby is the author of 18 books for middle graders and teens, including Steal Away Home, Miriams Well, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, Rebel Spirits. ![]() No spirits have tapped her on the shoulder yet, but she's ready for that to happen any time now. ![]() While traveling, Lois explores ghostly locations in Kansas, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and even a few spots in Australia, Spain, and Thailand. Rebel Spirits (Point, 2013) Strike Mother Jones and The Colorado Coal Field Wars (Filter Press. That is, she was a Young Adult librarian for the Dallas Public Library, and after reading a thousand or so books in her department, she decided she could write the stories herself. Lois Ruby is the author of several books for middle graders and teens, including The Doll Graveyard, Rebel Spirits, Steal Away Home, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, and Strike! Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal Field War. Lois Ruby sneaked in the back door as a writer for young people. ![]() ![]() WATCH: The Korean War: Fire & Ice on HISTORY Vault What Caused the Korean War? No peace treaty was ever signed, although in December 2021, North and South Korea, the United States and China agreed to declare a formal end to the war. Between 2 and 4 million people died, 70 percent of them civilians. The Korean War was a civil conflict that became a proxy war between superpowers clashing over communism and democracy. The line they crossed, the 38th parallel, was created in 1945 to separate the Soviet-supported Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (today’s North Korea) and the U.S.-supported Republic of Korea to the South. It was sparked by the Jinvasion of South Korea by 75,000 members of the North Korean People’s Army. ![]() The Korean War (1950-1953) was the first military action of the Cold War. ![]() ![]() I haven't read Flyte yet, so I'm not sure what this story was setting up or providing more detail on. This was a cute and interesting little interlude. But Marcia Overstrand and Septimus Heap step in to save him. In their excitement about the prestige that will result, the witches decide to nab a young boy to be their slave. And we get to see the dynamics of the Port Witch Coven who is promised the Darke Toad as a reward for their help. ![]() Fortunately it's Halloween, so his movements go unremarked. He manages to clothe his bones enough to get around, much to Simon's disgust, but they seek out help from the Port Witch Coven for a more permanent spell, so DomDaniel can complete his nefarious plans. ![]() Simon Heap is now following orders from DomDaniel who is in some pretty awful shape, but not about to let death stop him. ![]() ![]() ![]() It offers the first overview of the European Polaroid Collection, and includes selected Polaroid masterpieces by figures such as Ansel Adams, Barbara Crane, Giselle Freund, Gottfried Helnwein, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Stephen Shore, Aaron Siskind, Andy Warhol, William Wegman and Minor White artists like Miyako Ishiuchi, Andreas Mahl and Catherine Wagner, who made specialties of the medium plus newly commissioned Impossible instant photography by contemporary artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki, David Leventhal, Mary Ellen Mark and Stefanie Schneider. From Polaroid to Impossible celebrates both this acquisition and the launch of a new Polaroid collection spearheaded by Westlicht and the Impossible Project. ![]() ![]() The company was bought by the Impossible Project (who promptly invented a new kind of instant film at the Polaroid factory in Enschede) and its legendary collection was acquired by the Westlicht Schauplatz museum in Vienna. Over the ensuing decades, more than 4,500 works, by photographers ranging from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, were presented to the company and found their way into Polaroid's International Collection at their European headquarters near Frankfurt am Main. In the late 1960s, Polaroid Corporation founder Edwin Land initiated a project to invite more than 800 artists around the world to shoot on Polaroid film, supplying them with the company's latest products. ![]() |