Gordon's Quest

Gordon's Quest
Author: Douglas Kovatch
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-02-15
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Rugen Sloane's dreary life changed the day a weathered traveler named Gordon emerged from the wilderness and knocked on his front gate. For years the world has been plagued by roving monsters that kill anyone they catch outside the confines of their village. The fact that Gordon was able to brave the journey to Rugen's doorstep is a testament to his survival skills. It doesn't take much for Gordon to convince Rugen to join him on an adventure across the continent to stifle the growing evil, along the way meeting an array of characters eager to join the quest.

Persephone's Quest

Persephone's Quest
Author: Robert Gordon Wasson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780300052664

This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within."

Gordon the Goblin in the Quest in a Vest

Gordon the Goblin in the Quest in a Vest
Author: Tariq Kurd
Publisher: Anchor Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781907762055

Follow Gordon the goblin's adventures in The Quest In A Vest, the first in a new series of rhyming stories aimed at primary school children. Poor Gordon is so small that the other Goblins tease him... so one day he sets off to show he really is brave by capturing a dragon, armed only with a woolly vest! Join him on his adventure, and if you look carefully you might see that he's being followed...

Quest for Life

Quest for Life
Author: Yossi Turner
Publisher: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2020
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781644693124

Aharon David Gordon was a central figure in the early twentieth century pioneering community that built the infrastructure for a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel. The present work demonstrates the extent to which Gordon's philosophy of human existence, as a natural phenomenon, holds the key for understanding and confronting many of the problems facing Jewish and human existence in the present.

Lust Quest

Lust Quest
Author: Ray Gordon
Publisher: Blue Moon Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004-03-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781562014087

Beautiful Jade Kimberly is determined to break out of her life as a magazine feature writer and become a novelist. But following multiple rejections, she realizes that the only way to get published is to write erotica. However, her sheltered lifestyle hasn't offered the right inspiration and her untrained imagination can't fill the gaps. So she must set out to explore the limits of human sexual behavior, and experience them for herself. But, as always, the question must be: once she starts can she stop?

Assassin's Quest

Assassin's Quest
Author: Robin Hobb
Publisher: Spectra
Total Pages: 769
Release: 1998-01-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553565699

“An enthralling conclusion to this superb trilogy, displaying an exceptional combination of originality, magic, adventure, character, and drama.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz—or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest—perhaps to death. Only Verity’s return—or the heir his princess carries—can save the Six Duchies. But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him—currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was. Praise for Robin Hobb and Assassin’s Quest “Fantasy as it ought to be written . . . Robin Hobb’s books are diamonds in a sea of zircons.”—George R. R. Martin “Superbly written, wholly satisfying, unforgettable: better than any fantasy trilogy in print—including mine!”—Melanie Rawn

The Last Letter

The Last Letter
Author: Karen Baum Gordon
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1621907031

"Part of the Legacies of War series, The Last Letter is a family memoir that spans events from the 1930s and Hitler's rise to power, through World War II and the Holocaust, to the present-day United States. Karen Baum Gordon's gripping narrative opens on her father Rudy Baum's attempted suicide in 2002 at the age of eight-six and unfolds in an investigation of generational trauma within her extensive German Jewish family. Gordon grounds her research in eighty-eight letters written mostly by Julie Baum, Rudy's mother and Gordon's grandmother, to Rudy between November 1936 and October 1941. Gordon examines pieces of these worn, handwritten letters and other archival documents in order to recreate the fatal journeys of her grandparents in the camps and ghettos of the Third Reich and trace her father's efforts to save them an ocean away in America. Doing so, Gordon discovers the forgotten fragments of her family's history and a vivid sense of her own Jewish identity"--

Quest for Eternal Sunshine

Quest for Eternal Sunshine
Author: Mendek Rubin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1631528793

Quest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant, true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a life of deep peace and boundless joy. Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946—despite having no money or professional skills—his inventions helped revolutionize both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering. After Mendek died in 2012, his daughter, Myra Goodman, found an unfinished manuscript in which he’d revealed the intimate details of his healing journey. Quest for Eternal Sunshine—the extraordinary result of a posthumous father-daughter collaboration—tells Mendek’s whole story and is filled with eye-opening revelations, effective self-healing techniques, and profound wisdom that have the power to transform the way we live our lives. An inspirational biography of a Holocaust survivor overcoming depression and PTSD. An essential new addition to Jewish Holocaust history.

The Quest for Community and Identity

The Quest for Community and Identity
Author: Robert E. Birt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780742512924

This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a postmodern world of globalization with outdated, crumbling forms of identity and sociality. In the wake of such an order, new forms of identity and community must be established. Birt has collected an informed group of contributors here, who lay the foundation for a new approach to finding community and identity in the Africana world.