![]() ![]() The Story of Russia begins in the first millennium, when Russia's lands were first settled by the Slavs, and ends with Putin in the third. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Who controls the past controls the future. A publishing event from one of our most gifted storytellers: the expansive and enthralling history of Russia, from its foundations to the present. ![]()
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![]() Hannibal Lecter – To several top authors he is the best villain ever created in novels. You might think Pennywise was worse in “IT” but Flagg would look at Pennywise and laugh. What made Flagg so special was the fact that he was several different people and had several different personalities. “The Stand”, “The Dark Tower Series”, “The Eyes of the Dragon”, I could go on and on. He was written in several books with several different personalities. Randall Flagg / The man in black – Flagg was Stephen King’s most used villain. If you didn’t like it, tough he would simply use the force and strangle you. He made sure anyone around him knew he was in charge. He started out being good but was seduced into darkness. He let that damn creepy music do all his talking.ĭarth Vader – I mentioned him earlier because he is a very complex character. You might not think of Jaws thinking, but even Quint says “he’s either very smart of very dumb.” To this day people are still afraid to get into the water because of Jaws. Jaws – What I love about him is that he thinks. I decided to talk about some of my favorite villains and why I love them so much. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though it would mean the loss of her friends, her community, and possibly even her family, Tova decides to leave her husband and her faith. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family.īut over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age forty she could no longer breathe in what had become a suffocating existence. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. ![]() The memoir of a woman who leaves her faith and her marriage and sets out to navigate the terrifying, liberating terrain of a newly mapless worldīorn and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. ![]() ![]() Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to seances. Talking to the Dead follows the fascinating story of the two girls who were catapulted into an odd limelight after communicating with spirits that March night. ![]() From a sequence of knocks and rattles translated by the young girls as a "voice from beyond," the Modern Spiritualism movement was born. In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox - sisters aged 11 and 14 - anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had been hearing strange, unidentified sounds in their house. A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement - and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then she follows that up with a chapter on the sanctification of believers-how we are expected to replicate that holiness. ![]() Perry spends the first five chapters walking us through the scriptures to lay the foundation for holiness-as an attribute of God, as His moral perfection, as His transcendence-the implications for sinners, believers, and humanity if God were not holy. Throughout the book, she debunks commonly held views regarding idols, calling believers to deter from directing their worship toward anything but their Creator. In “Holier Than Thou,” Jackie Hill Perry embarks on the difficult task of simplifying and breaking down the sanctity of God in a manner that even unbelievers can understand. ![]() His holiness is what makes him good, and loving, and kind, and trustworthy. Many times, we tend to focus on God’s love while forgetting the very fact that He is holy. Hence, it is essential that Christians study and explore this attribute. God’s holiness is essential to His nature. If he can’t sin against you, shouldn’t that make him the most trustworthy being there is? Jackie Hill Perry If God can’t sin, then he can’t sin against you. ![]() ![]() In contrast, Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden’s culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom. Immortalized in rhyme, told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror, but one typically wrenched from its historical moment. ![]() ![]() The popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years. ![]() Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn’t she? Everyone-rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople-had an opinion about Lizzie Borden’s guilt or innocence. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple’s younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. ![]() The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology-the trial of Lizzie Borden-based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In all honesty, I’m not a big fan of aliens. Towering over humans like Godzilla, terraforming planets and pumping out lethal gas without mercy. But things really kick up a notch in the climax of Book 1, when we get our first look at an alien race. It’s well written and engaging for all of that. At first we follow Andrew Grayson from slums, through boot camp, and then into full military service. While the series starts off in fairly typical gung-ho, America-in-space style, with the North American coalition fighting the dastardly Sino-Russian Alliance, there’s a lot more to the series than that. Set a few centuries from now on a bleak, overpopulated Earth, the daily grind of boot camp has never felt so real. The best military SF is written by those with experience, and you can tell from the opening stages of Terms of Enlistment that Marko Kloos knows his way around the army. Unfortunately, we’re not the only ones who want them… Humanity is expanding into space, settling dozens of new worlds. ![]() As such it contains minor spoilers for all books. This is a review of the entire Frontlines series. ![]() ![]() Warner Wallace take a 'Just the facts, ma'am' approach to the Resurrection, calmly laying out the 'case' that Jesus rose from the grave. ![]() ![]() Of course, some Christian apologists argue that the Resurrection can be proven historically - or, if not proven, at least shown to be highly probable.Īuthors such as Lee Strobel, William Lane Craig, Mike Licona and J. Yet for 2,000 years, the Resurrection has been one of the foundational teachings of Christianity.Īs the apostle Paul put it, if Jesus was not raised to life, then Christian faith is 'futile' and Christians are 'of all people most to be pitied' (1 Corinthians 15:16-19). This is an absurd claim because if there is one thing life teaches humans, it's that dead people stay dead, never to be heard from again. ![]() Millions of people will flock to their churches Sunday and then enjoy Easter egg hunts, elaborate brunches and family celebrations.Īfter all, Easter is the celebration of one of the most absurd claims in history: that Jesus of Nazareth was seen alive again after dying on a Roman cross. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the spring of 2014 Najla's play The Assumption of Mary was featured as one of the 48 plays in The Mysteries at The Flea Theatre. ![]() In 2012, she collaborated with Vanessa Redgrave on "A World I Loved," based on her grandmother's memoir, which premiered at The Brighton Festival in the UK, and The Miller Theatre in collaboration with The Public Theatre in New York. Najla is one of New York Theatre Workshop’s “Usual Suspects,” and has also worked at the Public, The Cherry Lane, New Dramatists, The Lark, and Second Stage, among others. Since her off-broadway run ended, Najla has performed “Palestine” in over 25 high schools, colleges, and universities around the country and the world. That same year, she was named one of “Forty Feminists Under Forty” by The Feminist Press. In April 2010, Najla completed an eight-week Off-Broadway run of her solo show, Palestine. Favorite theatre credits include Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire (Seattle Rep), the London and New York premieres of Karen Malpede’s Prophecy, and Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East (Central Square Theater). As an actress, Najla has performed Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally, as well as in film and television. ![]() ![]() Juniper Mackenzie is singing for customers at the Hopping Toad Tavern in Corvallis, Oregon when the Change occurs. Mike manages a controlled crash of the airplane in a creek. Everyone sees a blinding flash of light and feels an intense pain the plane's engines die. ![]() While the plane is in flight over the Bitterroot Valley, the Change occurs. Mike Havel flies the Larsson family from Boise, Idaho toward their country home in Montana. As a result, modern civilization comes crashing down. The first novel chronicles the struggle of three major groups and a number of minor ones to survive "The Change", a sudden worldwide event that alters physical laws so that electricity, gunpowder and most other forms of high-energy-density technology no longer work. The series is a spin-off from Stirling's Nantucket series. Stirling and the first installment of the Emberverse series. ![]() Dies the Fire is an alternate history, post-apocalyptic novel by S. ![]() |