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| Author | : Bambi Harris |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2013-03-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1475982054 |
The year is 1944, and Violet Verne is approaching her 44th birthday with little enthusiasm. Her days are spent toiling as a telephone operator in the small town of Homestead Hills. Her nights are spent listening to Bing Crosby while staring up to the heavens with only her canine companion, Wells, at her side. But the night before her birthday, everything changes... While wishing upon a falling star, Violet notices mysterious lights in the sky. Soon, mystery men are lurking in the streets, eerie calls are ringing in the night, and an enigmatic stranger, Griffin, appears with an aura of secrets, bringing more than this small town girl could bargain for. Opening her guarded heart to a whirlwind adventure, Violet joins the charismatic Griffin on a secretive mission and slowly piece together his knowledge of all this strange phenomena. What danger has come to this sleepy town? What connection do these mystery men have to the coded messages coming through the phone lines, and the shimmering pastel lights in the sky? Can she trust her feelings for the handsome stranger? With romance and intrigue, Mysterious Encounters of a 40s Phone Operator is guaranteed to delight and thrill, and maybe just make you wonder...
| Author | : Dale C. Allison |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2022-07-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1467464341 |
Despite widespread skepticism on the matter, a significant number of people today have stories of religious experience—moments of inexplicable terror or rapturous joy, visions, near-death experiences of the afterlife, encounters with angels, heavenly voices, and premonitions. How should rationally minded people respond? What would your reaction be if someone told you that, one night while sitting alone, she saw through the window a brilliant light descend from the sky until it was so large that it filled the room—and that it radiated a feeling of “pure love”? And what would you say if a friend confided that one night he woke up and could not move, felt he was being suffocated, and sensed an evil spirit in the room? By default in the secular age we are skeptical about anything mysterious or supernatural. More likely than not, most people would respond to the stories above with embarrassment and concern about the person’s grasp of reality, or they would attempt to explain them away through rational or scientific means. But the truth is that religious experiences like these are not as uncommon as they seem—although talking about such experiences often is. This is the case even in a faith tradition such as Christianity, despite the Bible’s numerous accounts of miraculous and mysterious happenings. In Encountering Mystery, noted biblical scholar Dale Allison makes the argument that stories of religious experience are meaningful and not to be marginalized—and that we have a moral prerogative to lovingly engage with such stories regardless of whether we have had similar experiences. Through a close look at phenomena such as moments of inexplicable terror or rapturous joy, visions, near-death experiences of the afterlife, encounters with angels, heavenly voices, and premonitions, Allison shows how ordinary practices of faith need not be at odds with individual religious experiences. Above all, he enjoins us to be honest about the persistence of religious experience in a secular age and to make space for those who encounter mystery in their lives.
| Author | : Louis R. Schavie |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1456723014 |
It's a story about an Air Force pilot name "Smithy" {Harold Smith.} Home after world war two and working for a prominent Law firm as their investigator. Attending night school to earn a law degree, Smithy is assigned to a special case. A very well to do client, J.B. Gardener has some rare artifacts taken from his estate. His beautiful niece Jenny fears for her uncle's life. The case gets more intriguing when Hary's aunt B "Abby" gets involved. The plot thickens with a fire at the marina dry dock, a bombing at the airport and murder. But wait... Smithy gets the "Me Too" gang to help them with the case. There are stakeouts and some twist and turns. It's a "Who done it mystery" with a surprise ending. With plenty of suspence and mystery, it's a good book to curl up with... "Smithy and The Me Too" is an enjoyable easy read.
| Author | : Carolyn Keene |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 1962-12-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101077417 |
When Nancy Drew receives a valuable moonstone as a gift from an unknown person, she is amazed and puzzled. But it is only the first of several startling events in this complex mystery that challenge the ingenuity of the pretty sleuth. Why are the Bowens – a missionary couple who recently returned to the United States – having so much trouble finding their missing seventeen-year-old granddaughter, Joanie Horton? Nancy and her friends travel to Deep River, the town where the young Jonie lived. From the motel where Nancy and her friends stay, they can see an intriguing castlelike structure with a drawbridge. Gossipy Mrs. Hemstead at the village tearoom insists that Moonstone Castle is haunted. Curious, the three girls attempt to explore the abandoned castle, but an ominous voice warns them away. Other strange happenings in Deep River convince Nancy that there is a connection between Moonstone Castle and the mysterious moonstone gift. But what is the significance? And where does the baffling disappearance of Joanie Horton fit into the intricate puzzle?
| Author | : Jean Van Hamme |
| Publisher | : Cinebook |
| Total Pages | : 73 |
| Release | : 2012-12-17T00:00:00+01:00 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 1849185646 |
Blake and Mortimer head to the United States to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the discovery of a 177-year-old body, which appears to have died very recently. The body is that of a Scottish major, Mortimer’s forebear, who was leading a British military expedition to the US in 1777, where he was swallowed up by a strange multi-coloured light-beam shining down from the sky. Blake and Mortimer fight men in black armed with green-laser guns and soldiers emerging from the past in order to save the Earth from complete obliteration.
| Author | : Roland J. Tiso |
| Publisher | : Casemate |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2024-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1636243959 |
“Colonel Tiso’s experience with operational planning and combat service with multinational forces in Iraq provides an exceptional background for this riveting, exciting, and most interesting book that superbly captures the challenges of Coalition Warfare.” — Lieutenant General (Retired) Joseph W. Kinzer, USA The decision to not deploy reoriented, trained Iraqi divisions and other allied forces in numbers significant enough to adequately stabilize the situation in Iraq in 2003–04 resulted in significant shortages of manpower and equipment that eventually led to a less-than-satisfactory ending to the campaign, and significantly challenged the entire Coalition effort in the first year of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The roles and missions assumed by allies were vitally important in the under-resourced effort to bring order to the chaos of Iraq but would remain relatively unheralded throughout most of the campaign. Colonel Tiso’s account of this time offers unique insights into the challenges of planning the Iraqi campaign and the intricacies and challenges of multinational service through the lens of his assignments as a war planner at U.S. Central Command, Senior Military Adviser of the Arab Peninsula Shield Force and the Polish-led Multinational Division (Central-South), and Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (C-3) of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team tasked to develop the New Iraqi Army. His observations cast significant light on the missions these units undertook and the challenges they confronted. His firsthand account of operational planning for war in Iraq captures the concerns of the military planners and senior commanders to liberate and stabilize the country, enabling the reader to better understand the challenges of operational war planning, coalition warfare, the difficulty of stabilizing Iraq after the fall of Baghdad, the development of the New Iraqi Army, and ultimately a deeper understanding of America’s “long war” in Iraq.
| Author | : Cynthia Pinto |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 3643800959 |
| Author | : Forever People |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2017-03-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1326964739 |
""The Mist meets Silent Hill meets Lovecraft meets Doctor Who... a uniquely terrifying game."" Lovecraft's strange aeons are here. The stars were right and yes, in time even death may die. Humanity exists on the precipice, a handful of survivors teetering on the brink of extinction. The dominion of Earth is lost. The Old Ones have returned. Strange Aeon is a roleplaying game in which you, the player, take on the role of survivor and scavenger in a terrifying post-apocalypse setting. With the help of fellow players you must remain alive while battling the forces of the mythos, enduring the toxic fumes of the Morbus mist and the ever crumbling state of human civilisation. You have only one advantage over the other humans still clinging to life in the aftermath of The Event; you have in your possession a mythos relic known as The Celestial Sphere. With the sorcery contained in this artefact you can travel through time, into future and past versions of the Earth.
| Author | : Jeffrey Dirk Wilson |
| Publisher | : Catholic University of America Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2021-02-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813234182 |
Philosophy is born in its history as pursuit of the wisdom we are never able fully to know. Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom both argues for that method and presents the results it can achieve. Editor Jeffrey Dirk Wilson has gathered essays from six philosophical luminaries. In “History, Philosophy, and the History of Philosophy,” Timothy B. Noone provides the volume’s discourse on method in which he distinguishes three tiers of history. History of philosophy as method occupies the third and highest tier. John Rist reckons with contemporary corruption of the method in “A Guide for the Perplexed or How to Present or Pervert the History of Philosophy.” Wilson’s own essay, “Wonder and the Discovery of Being: From Homeric Myth to the Natural Genera of Early Greek Philosophy,” shows the loss of wonder, so evident in mythology, by early Greek thinkers and its recovery by Plato and Aristotle. In “Metaphysics and the Origin of Culture,” Donald Phillip Verene demonstrates the wide cultural implications of philosophical discoveries even when the discovery is the boundary of what humans can know. William Desmond offers an essay, “Flux-Gibberish: For and Against Heraclitus,” that owes as much to the humor of James Joyce as to the philosophical insights of philosophers, ancient, medieval, and modern. Eric D. Perl’s essay turns to the apophatic character of pursuing wisdom, perhaps especially when asking what may be the most fundamental metaphysical question: “Into the Dark: How (Not) to Ask, ‘Why is There Anything at All.’” Philipp W. Rosemann concludes the volume with the question best asked at the end of this literary seminar, “What is Philosophy?” Although there are philosophers within the analytic and continental schools who are committed to the history of philosophy, Mystery and Intelligibility demonstrates that history of philosophy as a third and distinct philosophical method is revelatory of the nature and structure of reality.
| Author | : Robert Emmett Curran |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
| Total Pages | : 551 |
| Release | : 2011-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 157233830X |
Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley’s vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett’s Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley’s original journal that fails to capture the full scope of his wartime experience—the oscillating rhythm of life on the campaign trail, in camp, in Union prisons, and on parole. Nor does it recognize how Dooley, the son of a successful Irish-born Richmond businessman, used his reminiscences as a testament to the Lost Cause. John Dooley’s Civil War gives us, for the first time, a comprehensive version of Dooley’s “war notes,” which editor Robert Emmett Curran has reassembled from seven different manuscripts and meticulously annotated. The notes were created as diaries that recorded Dooley’s service as an officer in the famed First Virginia Regiment along with his twenty months as a prisoner of war. After the war, they were expanded and recast years later as Dooley, then studying for the Catholic priesthood, reflected on the war and its aftermath. As Curran points out, Dooley’s reworking of his writings was shaped in large part by his ethnic heritage and the connections he drew between the aspirations of the Irish and those of the white South. In addition to the war notes, the book includes a prewar essay that Dooley wrote in defense of secession and an extended poem he penned in 1870 on what he perceived as the evils of Reconstruction. The result is a remarkable picture not only of how one articulate southerner endured the hardships of war and imprisonment, but also of how he positioned his own experience within the tragic myth of valor, sacrifice, and crushed dreams of independence that former Confederates fashioned in the postwar era.
