Timothy Finn's Books

The Rule of Ranging 2

Into the Valley of Quietus

By: Timothy M. Kestrel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rule of Ranging 2

Into the Valley of Quietus

By: Timothy M. Kestrel

When Finn is orphaned by Johan Kopf, the infamous Totenkopf and Hessian mercenary, he soon finds himself in the frontier wilds that range from Pennsylvania to Nova Scotia in the late 1750s. There, he is caught up in a bloody conflict that is raging between Great Britain and France, and he joins the first special operations unit in history, the notorious Rogers Rangers in Fort Edward, New York. Under the command of Major Robert Rogers, Finn is set on countless daring raids and covert missions against the French. Throughout numerous conflicts, battles, and skirmishes, Finn not only struggles for survival with his family of battle brothers, but also his own loneliness that has resulted from losing the love of his life, Rosie. He finds out that the whole borderland is in turmoil as growing numbers of settlers, transportees and profiteers arrive, increasing pressure on the mighty Iroquois nation. Fortunately, Finn has help from his band of underdog friends, Olaudah “Gus” Equiano, a freed slave; Marcus Fronto, an eccentric wanderer turned Finn's mentor; and Daniel Nimham, a fierce Wappinger warrior; and beautiful, but perplexing Catherina Brett. Ultimately, however, Finn realizes that if he is to survive this war and keep his sanity intact, he is going to have to learn to grow both on and off the field in a world gone mad. And that’s a journey that only he can make.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Timothy Kestrel Arts & Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

0988666049

ISBN 13

9780988666047

The Rule of Ranging 1

Eclipse of the Midnight Sun

By: Timothy M. Kestrel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rule of Ranging 1

Eclipse of the Midnight Sun

By: Timothy M. Kestrel

Even those waging the fiercest battles just hew to hard fast rules that separate the soldier from the savage. And when a man’s home is destroyed beyond restoration, it’s up to him alone to forge a code and carve a new place to live in peace. The Rule of Ranging 1: Eclipse of the Midnight Sun is the epic action-adventure drama by Timothy M. Kestrel that follows the fearless Finn on a journey paved with bloodthirsty aggressors, mysterious women, and the rough terrain of a fledgling America. Both grave and uplifting, it’s an absorbing flight of fancy and derring-do. Set in the eighteen century, Kestrel’s story is a work of historic fiction that relives the most perilous days of the French & Indian War. The story begins in Finland, just as a young boy named Finn witnesses the complete annihilation of his home village, as well as the brutal killing of his family by marauding Russians. He barely manages to escape, chased by a merciless Hessian mercenary, Johan Kopf, nicknamed Totenkopf. Following his dying mother's wish to find a mysterious woman named Columbia, Finn's course takes him across the Atlantic. He befriends a slave, Gus, and buys his freedom. On their travels in this brave new world called America, the two make their way through the majestic Hudson Valley in New York, and soon encounter Marcus Fronto, a curious vagrant and philosophical mentor; Daniel Nimham, a fierce Wappinger chief and warrior; and beautiful Catherina Brett. They join forces with Robert Rogers Rangers, and fight against the French at Fort Edward, New York, during the Hudson River campaign in the 1750s. Action-packed and rigorously researched, the story offers a rare vantage of a crucial time in this country’s coming of age that is at once funny, heartbreaking, illuminating, and thrilling. Mining the depths of love, freedom, greed, and loyalty, it’s a page-turning, heart-pounding read that is at once scholarly and scintillating – steeped in history with a death-defying hero for the ages.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

330

Publisher

Timothy Kestrel Arts & Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

0988666014

ISBN 13

9780988666016

The Rule of Ranging 3

Cloud Rising in the West

By: Timothy M. Kestrel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Rule of Ranging 3

Cloud Rising in the West

By: Timothy M. Kestrel

This historical, action-adventure drama, set in the 1750s in Colonial America during the time of the French and Indian War (aka the Seven Years’ War), is the culmination of the epic trilogy The Rule of Ranging by former US Army Ranger Timothy M. Kestrel. In Cloud Rising in the West, brave hero Finn discovers that the meaning of life is found even in the grimmest of circumstances—including suffering, sacrifice, and death—as he battles under the direction of Major Roger Roberts alongside his loyal best friends: a freed slave Gus, an eccentric wanderer and mentor figure Fronto, and a fierce Wappinger warrior Daniel. Nicknamed “Most True” by the Iroquois, the handsome and strong Finn fights not because he wants to, but because he truly believes it is his duty. He calls on his ability to hunt, which he learned at an early age tracking the movements of wildlife through the forests of his Finland home, to assist him on the battlefield that is the grand natural scenery of upstate New York and Pennsylvania. Finn’s grim determination to survive the war as a member of the legendary Rogers’ Rangers takes him on a journey through the untamed wilderness of North America as he expertly fights the French in a major push toward Montreal. But it is the inner battle that proves to be Finn’s harshest struggle as he attempts to quell the arrogant boy he once was to become the man—and potential loving husband and father—he hopes to be. Through the historically accurate text that is reminiscent of medieval romances looms the specter of the notorious Hessian mercenary Johan “Totenkopf” Kopf—the man who left Finn an orphan and who will finally drive him toward his valiant end. Ultimately, the empathetic Finn learns the most important life lesson is to distinguish between what can be controlled and what cannot. But will he develop the wisdom to tell the difference?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

420

Publisher

Timothy Kestrel Arts & Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

0988666073

ISBN 13

9780988666078

Seven Last Words

By: Timothy Radcliffe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Seven Last Words

By: Timothy Radcliffe

The Seven Words from the Cross are the focus of Christian meditation through the ages. Set to music by Haydn, they epitomise the depth of Jesus's human expereience and thus speak most profoundly to the human condition. Each meditation is illustrated with a picture of Christ on the Cross. Many are old masters;some more modern. The object is to lead the reader deeply into prayer and contemplation. But there is nothing fusty about Radcliffe's text. Whatever he writes is a breath of fresh air and these meditations are modern and contemporary in their reference. There are also many autobiographical touches which make these meditations more personal. This is perfect Lent reading by a spiritual master and one of the few Christian prophets in our time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

120

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

0860123979

ISBN 13

9780860123972

Among the Braves

Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

By: Shibani Mahtani,Timothy McLaughlin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Among the Braves

Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

By: Shibani Mahtani,Timothy McLaughlin

Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of four core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown. Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a bridge between communism and capitalism, authoritarianism and liberal democracy. “One country, two systems” kept its media free, its courts independent and its protests boisterous, designed also to convince Taiwan of a peaceful solution to Beijing’s desire for reunification. Yet this formulation excluded Hong Kong’s own people, their future negotiated by political titans in faraway capitals. In 2019, an ill-conceived law spear-headed by a sycophantic leader pushed millions to take to the streets in one of the most enduring protest movements the world has ever seen. Xi Jinping responded with a draconian national security law that sought not only to end the demonstrations but quash the “problem” of Hong Kongers’ identity and desire for freedom. Reverend Chu, who believed Hong Kong had to carry the spirit of students at Tiananmen Square, saw his silver-haired comrades who birthed the city’s modern pro-democracy movement handcuffed and taken from their homes. Tommy, an art student radicalized into throwing Molotov cocktails, watched “braves” like him brutalized by police before his own arrest prompted him to flee. Finn epitomized the decentralized nature of the movement and its internet-fueled victories, but online anonymity couldn’t stop his life from unravelling. Gwyneth could predict her eventual fate when she chose to give up her career as a journalist to stand for election as an opposition candidate, and did it anyway. In Among the Braves, Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin tell the story of Hong Kong’s past, and what the sacrifices of its people mean for global democracy’s shaky foundation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

355

Publisher

Hachette Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0306830388

ISBN 13

9780306830389

Children as Pawns

The Politics of Educational Reform

By: Timothy A. HACSI,Timothy A Hacsi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Children as Pawns

The Politics of Educational Reform

By: Timothy A. HACSI,Timothy A Hacsi

Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over the past thirty years. Advocates and dissenters have declared confidently that the research is on their side. But is it? In the first book to bring together the recent history of educational policy and politics with the research evidence, Timothy Hacsi presents the illuminating, often-forgotten stories of these five controversial topics. He sifts through the complicated evaluation research literature and compares the policies that have been adopted to the best evidence about what actually works. He lucidly explains what the major studies show, what they don't, and how they have been misunderstood and misrepresented. Hacsi shows how rarely educational policies are based on solid research evidence, and how programs that sound plausible simply do not satisfy the complex needs of real children.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674038126

ISBN 13

9780674038127

Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain

By: Timothy Venning

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain

By: Timothy Venning

Royal mysteries never fail to intrigue readers and TV viewers. The 'mysteries', unravelled and analysed, are of enduring fascination and full of tragedy, suffering and pathos but also heroism and romance. The text is based on deep research in original sources including rare documents, archaeological and DNA evidence, latest historiography and academic research but is essentially accessible history. These are the 'Dark Ages' but Anglo-Saxon enlightenment is emphasised. The Heptarchy, with seven Anglo-Saxon states is examined and Alfred's victory over the Vikings and emergence of the English kingdom. But mystery surrounds all aspects of dynastic, political and military history. The story includes the surviving British and Welsh kingdoms when 'Welsh' meant 'foreigner, the Gaelic kingdoms in what became Scotland, the survival of lowland 'Britons' under the Germanic Anglo-Saxon radar - a new interpretation of early English society in its shadowy forms with the half-mythical founders of the early English kingdoms like Hengist of Kent or Cerdic of Wessex, up to William duke of Normandy - did he have any legitimate claim to justify his 'power-grab'? Some episodes have dropped out of history like the murder the teen-age King Edward the 'Martyr', but here is a re-telling of early mysteries based on close analysis of the myriad sources while stimulating romantic fascination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

303

Publisher

Pen and Sword History

Published Date

ISBN 10

1526783576

ISBN 13

9781526783578

Mythology

Tales of Ancient Civilizations

By: Timothy Roland Roberts

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mythology

Tales of Ancient Civilizations

By: Timothy Roland Roberts

Examines and compares Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese mythology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

456

Published Date

ISBN 10

0760740054

ISBN 13

9780760740057

ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

By: Timothy Clack

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

By: Timothy Clack

The public's fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. In this volume, a group of archaeologists address a wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

325

Publisher

Left Coast Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1598742345

ISBN 13

9781598742343

The Aims of Argument

A Brief Guide

By: Timothy W. Crusius,Carolyn E. Channell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Aims of Argument

A Brief Guide

By: Timothy W. Crusius,Carolyn E. Channell

Offers a process-oriented introduction to argumentation with coverage of the aims, or purposes, of argument: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. This work focuses on aims that provide rhetorical context to help students write, as well as read, arguments.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

412

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published Date

ISBN 10

0072863439

ISBN 13

9780072863437

Aims of Argument

Text and Reader, 2003 MLA Update

By: Timothy Crusius,Carolyn Channell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aims of Argument

Text and Reader, 2003 MLA Update

By: Timothy Crusius,Carolyn Channell

Provides an introduction to argumentation with coverage of the aims, or purposes, of argument: to inquire, to convince, to persuade, and to mediate. This work focuses on aims to provide rhetorical context that helps students write, as well as read, arguments. It reflects the format of the Modern Language Association documentation style.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

972

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published Date

ISBN 10

0072948353

ISBN 13

9780072948356

Rules for Becoming a Legend

A Novel

By: Timothy S. Lane

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rules for Becoming a Legend

A Novel

By: Timothy S. Lane

A spirit-stirring debut about basketball, family, and an unlikely underdog who overcomes adversity to become a legend Basketball prodigy Jimmy “Kamikaze” Kirkus is destined for the NBA. But before he can sail off into a golden future, Jimmy must reckon with a tragic past and with a curse that has haunted his family for generations. His father had been a basketball great himself, but his dreams of stardom were traded in for a hasty marriage and parenthood. Born into a house haunted by wasted talent, alcoholism, and death, will Jimmy fall victim to the Kirkus Curse or break it once and for all? In the same vein as the wildly popular Friday Night Lights, Rules for Becoming a Legend uses sports as a lens through which to understand family, community, catastrophe, and hope. This spirit-igniting debut announces Lane as an extraordinary young writer to watch.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

250

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101617764

ISBN 13

9781101617762

Confessions of a Dandy

By: Timothy G. Cates

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Confessions of a Dandy

By: Timothy G. Cates

Imagine being trapped in a world where you did not belong, living a life ostracized from society, constantly bombarded with the spiritual incompatibility between you and the inhabitants of this violently troublesome reality. Tim Cates lives in that world and Confessions of a Dandy is a window for others to see life through his eyes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

228

Publisher

Pentland Press (NC)

Published Date

ISBN 10

1571971246

ISBN 13

9781571971241

Book's by Timothy Finn

The Rule of Ranging 2

The Rule of Ranging 2

The Rule of Ranging 1

The Rule of Ranging 1

The Rule of Ranging 3

The Rule of Ranging 3

Seven Last Words

Seven Last Words

Among the Braves

Among the Braves

Children as Pawns

Children as Pawns

Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain

Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain

Mythology

Mythology

ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

The Aims of Argument

The Aims of Argument

Aims of Argument

Aims of Argument

Rules for Becoming a Legend

Rules for Becoming a Legend

Confessions of a Dandy

Confessions of a Dandy

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email