![]() He also studied pipe organ from the age of six until beginning college and composes classical music for friends and family. A renowned researcher with an eye to assimilate a tremendous amount of background material, Farrell is able to condense the best scholastic research in publication and draw insightful new conclusions on complex and controversial subjects.Īfter a lifelong interest in alternative history, science, and a fascination for ancient texts, Joseph started writing in 2001 on these subjects. His literary contribution is a veritable resume unto itself covering such fields as Nazi Germany, sacred literature, physics, finances, the Giza pyramids, and music theory. in philosophy from the University of Oxford. ![]() Farrell is a recognized scholar whose credentials include a Ph.D. He has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and “strange stuff”. in *Patristics (NOT physics as one of his publishers keeps insisting on saying in spite of his best efforts to get them to change that!). in Historical and Theological Studies, and a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies and Philosophy, an M.A. Farrell was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1957, has a B.A. Sasha Alex Lessin ~ Producer Thomas Becker (amadpainter) ~ 8 to 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Central, 6 PM Mountain, 5 PM Pacific, 2 PM Hawaii time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Farrell ~ 08/05/19 ~ Stargate to the Cosmos, Revolution Radio, Studio B ~ Hosts Janet Kira Lessin & Dr. ![]()
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I am less happy about its form, whose more glaring defects may be blamed on the circumstances in which it was written. ![]() ![]() Its theme – the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters – was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it. This novel, which is here re-issued with many small additions and some substantial cuts, lost me such esteem as I once enjoyed among my contemporaries and led me into an unfamiliar world of fan-mail and press photographers. ![]() ![]() One thing in particular that I really enjoyed in this book is Wilhelmina’s struggle about pleasing her parents by becoming a nun, and by trying to be who she wants to be which is to be a physician. ![]() I can tell the author put in a lot of work into her research, and even reading her Author’s Note about the research read like a story. Therefore, to learn a little about the bridge being built was very interesting and insightful. The only historical fiction I have come to read about California is about the Great San Francisco Earthquake (and the fires) of 1906. ![]() In the case of this book, I learned something new. History fascinates me and I am always willing to learn more about topics I already know, or to learn about new things. ![]() Read from February 20th, 2020 to February 22nd, 2020Īnyone who knows me knows that I adore historical fiction of any era. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapters unfold in vignettelike fashion, building to reveal new information about the history of Turtle’s family that she was unaware of while gradually chipping away at her tough exterior. This graphic-novel adaptation of Holm’s acclaimed 2010 novel is perfectly suited to conveying the vibrant local color of Key West as well as the comic pace of Turtle’s adventures with the Diaper Gang. Denied official entry into the Diaper Gang because she’s a girl, Turtle nevertheless spends her days with them, observing the quirks and cultural particularities of the locals, from their colorful jargon and nicknames to the kids’ tendency to run around barefoot. She learns that she has three boisterous boy cousins who, along with their friends, form the Diaper Gang, an enterprising babysitting venture in town. When Mama gets a job as a housekeeper for a woman who can’t abide children, Turtle is sent down to Key West, Florida, to live with her aunt’s family. Times are tough in 1935, and Turtle doesn’t believe in Hollywood endings like her starry-eyed Mama does. ![]() A world-weary girl is sent to live with family in Key West during the Great Depression. ![]() ![]() The Dare Briar U, Book 4 Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy!Ĭollege was supposed to be my chance to get over my ugly-duckling complex and spread my wings. Now I just have to convince my body-and my heart. Our backgrounds are too different, our goals aren’t aligned, and her parents hate my guts. We’re paired up on a yearlong school project, but I’m confident I can resist her. Her smart mouth is hot as hell, and so is the rest of her, but the fact that she’s got a boyfriend eliminates the temptation to touch her.Įxcept three months into our friendship, Demi is single and looking for a rebound.Īvoiding her is impossible. And I won’t lie-my new classmate Demi Davis is one cool chick. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate…no matter how hard that makes things.īut there’s nothing in the rulebook that says I can’t be friends with a woman. ![]() As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. ![]() What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. The Play Briar U, Book 3 Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of the Silent Planet sets the tone for the series and introduces Ransom, the main character. The whole trilogy is really more fantasy than science fiction, but I think it expresses the awe that people must have felt at the very idea of leaving the planet. A lot of the stories and movies from the 1930’s-1940’s come across as goofy, or just plain ignorant (take a look at any MST3K treatment of a black-and-white space travel movie, and you’ll see what I mean), but Lewis’s version of space travel is beautiful and amazing, even if scientifically it’s all wrong. Lewis referred to this genre as “Scientifiction”, and I’m still not sure how he managed to write so convincingly about space-travel when he (well, everybody, really) knew so little about space. The results are strange, to say the least.Ĭ.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, wrote Out of the Silent Planet, the first book in a trilogy of stories linking space travel, alien minds, and a war within the solar system, to Lewis’s overarching view of a benevolent God. Humankind first ventured into space in 1961. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two girls have almost nothing in common. Also the two main characters, Bett and Avery, both have gay dads. First off, this book is written in letters and emails. I RATE THIS BOOK A 7 OUT OF 5!!! I absolutely loved it. ![]() ![]() I write the name of the book, author, library, genre, how old I am, the year, the date, number of pages, and my rating out of five. One such book is, To Night Owl From Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer. She, of course, continues to out-read me but there are a few books she is so excited about that I make sure to finish as well. However, in my hunt for books with diverse characters and written by diverse authors, I am bound and determined to keep up with her as she burns through some of the most talked about books of 2019. I often try to keep pace with her only to be left in the dust as she finishes book after book. ![]() ![]() ![]() “For a deeper dig into the science of learning, make sure to pick up Make It Stick. Anyone with an interest in teaching or learning will benefit from reading this book, which not only presents thoroughly grounded research but does so in an eminently readable way that is accessible even to students. “Many educators are interested in making use of recent findings about the human brain and how we learn… Make It Stick the single best work I have encountered on the subject. ” -Hazel Christie, Times Higher Education Over the course of the book, the authors weave together stories from an array of learners-surgeons, pilots, gardeners, and school and university students-to illustrate their arguments about how successful learning takes place… This is a rich and resonant book and a pleasurable read that will leave you pondering the processes through which you, and your students, acquire new knowledge and skills. “If you want to read a lively and engaging book on the science of learning, this is a must… Make It Stick benefits greatly from its use of stories about people who have achieved mastery of complex knowledge and skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() What starts out as an unwanted assignment soon leads to forbidden kisses and impossible longings. Though she wants nothing to do with any titled gentleman, she reluctantly agrees to help when Rex seeks aid from her employer. When he finally carves out a moment to evaluate his family's finances, he learns that he?and his sisters?are on the verge of social catastrophe.Eleanora Hatfield has an uncanny knack for numbers, but she knows from experience that dealing with the peerage can only lead to problems. look after, and aunties who insist he dance with every eligible young woman, he barely has time to manage his dukedom. When he finally carves out a moment to evaluate his family’s finances, he learns that heand his sistersare on the verge of a social catastrophe. With three sisters to escort about Town, a legion of cousins to. ![]() Forever and a Duke: a smart and sexy Regency romance, perfect for fans of BridgertonĪ duke meets his match in the last place he'd ever expect in this charming Regency romance by the New York Times bestselling author of MY ONE AND ONLY DUKE.Wrexham, Duke of Elsmore, is overrun by family obligations. ![]() ![]() ![]() My first memoir, A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing up in Ethiopia and America, weaves my story-of living in almost in the same house, during four of Ethiopia’s revolutions-with the story of Ethiopia, as they are woven in my heart. When I returned to the US, I spoke as a native, but I shared almost no cultural experiences with my peers-another kind of stranger.Īs I began writing about my two worlds, early readers virtually clapped their hands over their ears at passages of history-“You sound like my fifth-grade social studies teacher!” Later in the process, when they thanked me for opening Ethiopia and South Sudan to them, I felt my worlds integrate. Ethiopians there accepted me, bemused and curious about my strange hair that had been bleached by the tropical highland sun. The first home I remember well sat on the edge of a remote escarpment in mountainous Ethiopia. ![]() |