![]() ![]() READER: In the middle of the night, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the cattle. ![]() It contains one miracle after the other, from the burning bush where Moses first encounters God to no less than 10 plagues which God exacts on the Egyptians - plagues of gnats, boils, frogs and finally death. It is also full of religious complexity that defies an easy reading. But the actual text, the biblical story, is less a hero story and more a tale of human nature. TIPPETT: Because of its dramatic detail, complete with a great hero in Moses and a great villain in the Egyptian pharaoh, the Exodus has been interpreted by Disney and Cecil B. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Why is it that all other nights during the year we eat either bread or matzah but on this night we eat only matzah? Before the meal, the youngest child present is invited to ask four established questions.The questions set a tone of inquiry and wonderment at the Passover story. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: Passover begins in a Jewish home with preparations for the Seder, a meal which recalls the ancient Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt. UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Why is this night different from all other nights? ![]()
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![]() ![]() We thank Vulcan Inc and Scaled Composites for turning an ambitious idea into a flight-proven aircraft,” the company said in a statement on Oct. As we continue on our mission, Stratolaunch will bring the carrier aircraft test and operations program fully in-house. Our near-term launch vehicle development strategy focuses on providing customizable, reusable, and affordable rocket-powered testbed vehicles and associated flight services. ![]() “Stratolaunch LLC has transitioned ownership and is continuing regular operations. Nonetheless, it is a relief to see that all the work Allen started, who passed away in October last year, was not in vain. The information was revealed by Stratolaunch without further details, keeping the mystery about who took over the company, created through private space exploration initiatives in the United States. The company, created by Steve Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, has a new owner. Not flying since April, the giant two-fuselage, six-engine turbofan aircraft created by Stratolaunch received good news last week. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ford has made a deeply satisfying foray into new territory. She delivers genuine heat by teasing out the passion between her protagonists. To Ride a White Horse ( 2015) (The first book in the Out of Ireland series) A novel by Pamela Ford Buy from Amazon Search Paperback 14.99 In stock Audio 18.37 In stock Kindle 5. Pacing the plot for maximum tension, Ford skillfully conveys the anguish and fury of not only her heroine, but all the struggling Irish both at home and abroad. ![]() Alone and terrified by her family’s plight, Kathleen must accept help from a man who symbolizes everything she despises-and with whom she’s reluctantly falling in love. Jack Montgomery, who rescues her and provides safe passage as his whaling ship heads home to Boston. But when she’s tossed overboard by a storm, it’s an Englishman, Capt. (Grecian Ford) Began training with Miguel Tavora and after a number of big horses did not hold up to the work, I took along a little pony that Id bred. Kathleen Deacey reluctantly sails to Canada to find work to support her family and search for her missing fiancé. In 1846, Ireland withers under a devastating potato famine while its indifferent English masters stand by. etina (cs) Deutsch (de) English (en) Español (es). Contemporary romance novelist Ford ( Her Best Bet) steps back in time with a sweeping historical love story that hits all the marks. To Ride a White Horse by Pamela Ford, Jan 03, 2015, Aine Press edition, paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her essays, writings and poems give a glimpse about her passion and love as an environmentalist. Ackerman is rightly considered to be among the most influential naturalists in the world. Ackerman has also been a prolific non-fiction writer and some of her noted works include ‘The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us’, ‘Dawn Light’, ‘One Hundred Names of Love’, ‘An Alchemy of Mind’, ‘Cultivating Delight’, ‘The Rarest of the Rare’, ‘A Natural History of Love’ and ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’, which is to be turned into a motion picture. She has conducted research on natural phenomena at far corners of the world and her essays on these subjects have appeared in some of the leading publications like ‘The New Yorker’, ‘National Geographic’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘Parade and Smithsonian’. Ackeman has also taught at both Cornell University and Columbia University during her illustrious career. She studied English at Pennsylvania State University, before going on to acquire a masters degree and Ph.D. ![]() ![]() Diane Ackerman is an American naturalist, author, essayist, teacher and poet who gained recognition for her unique way of exploring the wonders of the world through her poems. ![]() ![]() Grief has caused his life to stall out before it has started. The book’s by-line is “It’s never to late to start living.” It’s wise advice and the story of Andrew’s life. Most of the deceased have a falling out with an important person in their lives and neither party makes the effort to restore the relationship and then end of them passes away and is gone forever. ![]() The saddest part of the story serves as a warning to readers about unforgiveness and not working towards reconciliation with loved ones when disagreements arise. His grieving is overlaid on his position with the state of searching for a will and next of kin for the deceased who were alone and forgotten. The protagonist loses everyone closest to him and the story follows his grieving process of ups and downs. The themes of the book mostly revolve around grief and recovery. I raced through the remaining two-thirds of the novel in a day. After reading the first ten chapters of so over a few days, I found that I couldn’t put the book down. There was several moments where the story completely surprises you. ![]() His use of stream of consciousness to weave in the past in with the present was masterful. ![]() ![]() I finished Richard Roper’s debut novel, “How Not to Die Alone.” It was a smart book with some interesting twists. He was just stupidly happy that she was there now at his side knowing everything there was to know about him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. ![]() ![]() The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nightshade - released 2 April 2020 in the UK and 7 April 2020 in the US.Never Say Die - released 1 June 2017 in the UK and 10 October 2017 in the US.Russian Roulette - released 12 September 2013.Scorpia Rising - released 21 March 2011 in Australia, 22 March 2011 in the US and 31 March 2011 in the UK.Crocodile Tears - released 10 November 2009.Adapted as a graphic novel, released May 2020. Adapted as a graphic novel, released February 2016. ![]() Adapted as a graphic novel, released 6 July 2012. Adapted as a graphic novel, released 7 September 2009. Adapted as a graphic novel, released 27 December 2007. Point Blanc - released 3 September 2001.Adapted as a graphic novel, released 3 July 2006. Stormbreaker - released 4 September 2000.Walker Books published the first novels in the United Kingdom alongside Puffin in the United States, but more recent entries in the series were published by Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Books. ![]() The first novel, Stormbreaker, was released in the United Kingdom in the year 2000 and was adapted into a film in 2006, starring Alex Pettyfer. A fourteenth novel will be published in 2023. The series currently comprises thirteen novels, as well as six graphic novels, seven short stories, a supplementary book, and a TV series. The novels revolve around a teenage spy named Alex Rider and is primarily aimed towards young adults. Spy fiction, thriller (Adventure, action)Īlex Rider is a series of spy novels written by British author Anthony Horowitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prophetic and believable, "The White Plague" reflects in a contemporary setting all the brilliance and originality that have made his "Dune" novels classics in the science-fiction world.' ***A near fine copy of the first UK edition, much harder to find than the equivalent first American edition. For behind the compelling excitement of the events themselves lie dire warnings about the state of our society and the power inherent in today's scientific advances. Frank Herbert has never written more profoundly or forcefully. "A scream erupted from him - agonized, echoing down the street", and in that moment a weapon of revenge was forged that would almost destroy the world. ***'On a sunny afternoon in Dublin an American biologist witnesses the destruction of his wife and children as they are blown apart by an IRA bomb. The dustwrapper is complete with no creases or tears. ***In a near fine dustwrapper that is unpriced indicating an export issue. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions - just a discreet blind stamp on the bottom of the front free endpaper 'from the Woodthorpe collection'. No bumps or creases, just a light vertical reading crease to the spine. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. ![]() The book was first published in the USA by Putnam's in 1982. ![]() ![]() First UK edition, published by Victor Gollancz in 1983. ![]() ![]() Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. Get The Book: Reasons To Stay Alive by Matt Haig available now on Amazon.ĥ0 Quotes from Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig ![]() Here is a selection of the top 50 quotes from Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig. The book is sprinkled with nuggets of wisdom and heartfelt quotes that are sure to make this a modern classic. Reasons to Stay Alive provides an emotional account of just how life-altering depression can be, and gives a unique perspective on how Matt Haig coped with it. I related deeply his story so I highly recommend this book to anyone who is currently going through depression or dealing with friends and family who have depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is a raw, personal memoir that is gut-wrenching yet inspirational at the same time. ![]() ![]() Reasons to Stay Alive, a bestseller in the UK since its publication, is his first work of nonfiction. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has also written award-winning children’s books. Matt Haig is the internationally bestselling writer of six novels, including the forthcoming How To Stop Time. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt Haig’s accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live. ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem takes its name from the city of Troy, which is also known as Ilium. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. The Odyssey By Homer Written 800 B.C. The Iliad traces the anger of Achilles (“Sing Muse, of the wrath of Achilles” Iliad.1.1) and takes place over 51 days during the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The Iliad is composed of 15,693 hexameters (lines of verse), and is divided into 24 books corresponding to each letter of the Greek alphabet - alpha to omega, a system that was already in place by the time of Herodotus. Our hero left his home to fight in the Trojan War - that alone lasted ten years - and encountered too many obstacles that kept him away for another ten years. ![]() Homer is the earliest poet in Western culture whose works have survived intact. The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's (Ulysses) journey back to his home Ithaca to return to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus after twenty years of absence. In conjunction with Hesiod, Homer acts as a great pool of information for the Greeks about their gods. ![]() He composed (not wrote, since the poems were created and transmitted orally, they were not written down until much later) two major works, the Iliad and the Odyssey other works were attributed to Homer, but even in antiquity their authorship was disputed. 750 BCE) is perhaps the greatest of all epic poets and his legendary status was well established by the time of Classical Athens. ![]() |