White is best known through her published works: works that include such spiritual classics as The Desire of Ages and Steps to Christ. In the 15 years spanned by the papers in this volume, an unlettered and unmarried teenager from Maine became a 32-year-old mother of three, a published author, and the unlikely cofounder of what would become an international religious movement that was still, in 1859, without a name.įor millions of readers Ellen G. White’s letters and testimonies, whenever possible, and a section of brief biographies of many individuals mentioned. Fascinating annotations provide historical details and notes on personalities involved, and the outcome of Mrs. It includes letters, diaries, manuscripts, and transcriptions of what she said in visions. Have you ever wondered what became of the people whom Ellen White counseled? This new volume contains every known page of Ellen White’s personal letters and manuscripts from 1845 – 1859, arranged in chronological order.
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In this breathless third installment to Victoria Aveyard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, rebellion is rising and allegiances will be tested on every side. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.Įd entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls “the key to everything”-and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. I spent many nights up late trying to keep my eyes open just to read one more chapter before falling asleep. Thank you to Dean Koontz and Amazon Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.Įlsewhere by Dean Koontz is a compelling and seamless novel that will probably be in my mind for the rest of my life. Drawing on the work of some of our era's foremost food historians such as Jean-Louis Flandrin, Massimo Montanari, Stephen Mennell, Jean-François Revel, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Rebecca L. These claims are certainly true, yet Albala's generalist approach by no means negates his overall contribution to the field. Thus he acknowledges that "historians will miss the lack of meticulous notes" and fellow food scholars will "miss the precision" that comes with the use of specialized language (p. As he states in his introduction, this work is not geared at scholars who already have a solid grounding in food history or at specialist seeking specific information but rather at a "nonspecialist audience of students and the general public" (p. In clear prose with a conscience avoidance of scholarly jargon, Albala's text provides a solid overview of Western European food history from 1500 to 1800 with a clear focus on the early modern period. Providing much food for thought, Albala's study serves as a compendium that should be of great practical value both to food historians in need of concise reference works for their undergraduate courses and to anyone new to the field of Food Studies. I can only echo Albala's sentiment by noting that his work is also a pleasure to read. In the acknowledgements with which he opens his 2003 study, Food in Early Modern Europe, author Ken Albala claims that his book was "an absolute ball to write" (p. Reviewed by Sabrina Moser (Independent Scholar) In 1987 Kieth drew the first five issues of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and went on to create his own comic series called The Maxx, which was published by Image comics from 1993 until 1998. Later on he sold some work to DC Comics and Marvel, where he illustrated Wolverine. Sam Kieth was born in 1963 and started his professional career when he was seventeen. Originally from England, he now lives in the United States. Among his many awards are the Eisner, the Hugo, the Nebula, the World Fantasy, and the Bram Stoker. He is also the author of The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Traded My Dad for Two Goldfish, both written for children. His other books include Anansi Boys, Neverwhere, American Gods, and Stardust, (winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award as one of 2000's top novels for young adults) as well as the short story collections M Is for Magic and Smoke and Mirrors. Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Medal-winning The Graveyard Book and Coraline, the basis for the hit movie. Here is an intimate look at Malcolm X's young adult years. And as his time in jail comes to an end, he begins to awaken - emerging from prison more than just Malcolm Little: Now, he is Malcolm X. Malcolm grapples with race, politics, religion, and justice in the 1940s. He reads all the books in the prison library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam. Slowly, he befriends other prisoners and writes to his family. Plagued by nightmares, Malcolm drifts through days, unsure of his future. In Charlestown Prison, Malcolm Little struggles with the weight of his past. No one can be at peace until he has his freedom. The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. This program includes a bonus interview with the author. |