For the first time, Celia Riordan was really on her own-and under the most frightening of circumstances, in the middle of the woods, far from civilization. There was a man chasing her with a gun. A woman she had known was dead. And there she was with Burt, who was posing as her protector, but who could very well be the murderer himself. Celia, always treated as a little doll, always loved and protected by everyone, who never had to think a day of her twenty years, now had only her mind to protect her. Because if she made one little mistake, one slip, her companion might realize she suspected him-and she would be his next victim. . . .Someone was trying to kill Anne, and she didn't know why! Living alone in a Greenwich Village apartment; she wasn't prude or promiscuous. Yet, someone attempted to take her life, and he would try again! She wanted to run, but was convinced he would find her. She stayed in her apartment, waiting for him to come, and praying that it wasn't the man she loved!
An artifact many have died for. An adventure that could change the world. In the heart of London's elite social scene, Madelyn Fox has obtained an ancient artifact that could change humanity's view of science, religion and mankind. But if she shares her discovery with the wrong person ... For centuries, the full wealth of the St. Germain family has been behind the protection of a secret so immense, so powerful, not even Solomon St. Germain himself knows the extent of it. A descendant of the world's most famous Egyptologist, Nicholas Alexander Carter doesn't have to guess what Mady knows-or what she has-because he also possesses a rare piece of this archeological puzzle. Mercilessly tracked by a terrifying old enemy, the three unite in an explosive chase through gritty streets, marble estates and underground bastions as their treasure trove of knowledge falters on the edge of disclosure-or destruction.
A power so secret, even its possessor had been unaware. A prophecy so ancient, the world had long forgotten it. Eli J. Peterson has infiltrated the Illuminati, one of the world's most secret and feared societies. Now they're becoming the ones to fear him-a threat that can't be tolerated. Aided by the wealthy St. Germain family, a descendant of the world's most famous Egyptologist, and a brilliant female archeologist, Peterson is poised to fulfill the destiny about which his mother had always spoken. Through museums and sites of long-ago castles, into the depths of Egypt, Peterson and his friends follow the prophecy encoded in his blood. What they discover could bring about a gift, an entire renaissance of humanity-or it might call to action an ancient Brotherhood more terrifying even than the Illuminati.
The future happens once the past gets out of the way. Royce's training has prepared him. He knows no power exists in the universe greater than love. But not even the warning from Master Chan is enough to steady him when the winds of karma call. A plane crash, a journey, a quest to see if his heart is strong enough to bring him to Alex...
Thousands of years ago at the base of the Oweinat Mountains, the warrior Queen Byrgamon and Prince Kedare came together in a time of diplomacy. But their peace was to be short-lived. Crazed with a lust for power, Kedare's rival for the Queen's affection, Bahk-ir, was not to be thwarted. Beneath the howl of the wind and a swirl of desert sand, Bahk-ir set a curse in motion that no one could have foreseen. And so it all began ... LIKE A PHOENIX FROM ASH AND FLAMES THEIRS IS A LOVE REBORN The return of an old love. Two men from the past. Deceit. At her desk in California, archeologist Phoenix Donovan scoffs at the mysterious warnings given to her by a psychic during a tarot card reading. But when she receives an envelope marked with the Feather of Maat and a visit from Egyptian national, Asa Ducaine, Phoenix accepts the job of a lifetime near Egypt at a pristine site dating back to 8,000 B.C.E.-and the words of the psychic begin to ring true. After ten days in a coma, Max Parrish awakens with memories of a past life and a woman he has to find at all cost. Driven beyond reason to the sands of northern Africa, he comes face to face with a love he couldn't have imagined, along with a dark and deadly magic that could destroy more than just their lives.
England 1810. William Devreux, the fourth Earl of Hartwell, despises his shallow and dissolute life. But a riding accident in a remote country town gives him the opportunity to escape his troubles for a month or two, and he concocts a phony identity in order to conceal his unsavory past. He discovers unexpected contentment in his new circumstances, finding himself especially drawn to Charissa Armitage, a young woman whose views of faith and love challenge his own. However, all is not as simple as it seems . . .
A wide-ranging appraisal of environmental thought. It explores such topics as the history of ecology, radical science studies and ecology, the need for greater theoretical sophistication in ecocriticism, the dubious legacy of Thoreau, and the contradictions of contemporary nature writing.
This book explores Louis I. Kahn's approach to tradition as revealed in two of his important, unbuilt, projects. Focusing on Kahn's designs for the Dominican Motherhouse of St. Catherine de Ricci, Media, Pennsylvania (1965-1969), and the Hurva Synagogue, Jerusalem, Israel (1967-1974), the book challenges prevailing aesthetic and methodological assessments of Kahn's use of tradition. It reveals how an authentic and critical theoretical-historical and humanistic study of tradition nourished Kahn's designs, enabling him to mediate historical rituals, ideas and beliefs – and to develop innovative designs rooted deep in human culture while addressing real modern concerns. The book evaluates Kahn's works as a creative recreation and re-interpretation of the past, shedding light on the potential value of the meaningful consideration of tradition in modern times.
This book reinterprets the history of South African Dutch Reformed missions as a women's movement. It traces American women missionaries from Mt. Holyoke College who went to southern Africa in the late 1800s to teach Dutch Reformed girls. Dutch Reformed women then formed a missionary network to send the educated women throughout southern Africa, and into Malawi and Zimbabwe. Missionary women modeled a combination of education and piety that inspired African church women's leadership and enabled Reformed churches to spread throughout the region. Not only does the book show how American women introduced a distinctive missionary piety into Reformed missions, but it also places women at the center of southern African mission history.
Grabs you on page one and doesn't let you go until the final page!" —Nelson DeMille on Crashers Daria Gibron is a woman with a deadly past and an uncertain future. A former Shin-Bet agent now in exile in the U.S. and under the protection of the F.B.I., she works primarily as an interpreter. But Daria is a thrill junkie who can't resist the occasional freelance job as an operative—a habit that has left her with a trail of corpses behind her, and a few still living, very dangerous, high-powered enemies who would stop at nothing to get revenge. En route to an impromptu meeting with an old contact from her days in the Israeli Secret Service, Daria gets an unexpected and anonymous tipoff that she's about to walk into an ambush. Unsure who is after her, or why, she slips away from her followers and soon learns that she's been set up—and set up good. Someone has linked her to a much sought-after terrorist, and now all the resources of the U.S. intelligence community are being marshaled against her. As she tries to escape the ever-tightening snare laid out for her, someone else is using the operation against her as a distraction to hijack a very dangerous, highly guarded shipment. Now the only person who can keep this shipment from falling into terrorist hands is the one person they chose to set up as a diversion. Daria Gibron is many things—trigger-happy, resourceful, focused, and extremely dangerous —but the one thing she isn't is anybody's fool. Ice Cold Kill is an espionage spy thriller from Dana Haynes.
The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others, sacrificing themselves without plan or reason, all for the sake of bringing the world to Jesus Christ.Historical evidence, however, gives lie to the truism that women missionaries were and are doers but not thinkers, reactive secondary figures rather than proactive primary ones. The first American women to serve as foreign missionaries in 1812 were among the best-educated women of their time. Although barred from obtaining the college education or ministerial credentials of their husbands, the early missionary wives had read their Jonathan Edwards and Samuel Hopkins. Not only did they go abroad with particular theologies to share, but their identities as women caused them to develop gender-based mission theories. Early nineteenth-century women seldom wrote theologies of mission, but they wrote letters and kept journals that reveal a thought world and set of assumptions about women's roles in the missionary task. The activities of missionary wives were not random: they were part of a mission strategy that gave women a particular role inthe advancement of the reign of God.By moving from mission field to mission field in chronological order of missionary presence, Robert charts missiological developments as they took place in dialogue with the urgent context of the day. Each case study marks the beginning of the mission theory. Baptist women in Burma, for example, are only considered in their first decades there and are not traced into the present. Robert believes that at this early stage of research into women's mission theory, integrity and analysis lies more in a succession of contextualized case studies than in gross generalizations.
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