5/13/2023 0 Comments Red queen christopher pike![]() The majority of our packages are shipped using NetStamps, a non-trackable method. In some cases, we will make a trip on Saturday to get more orders out. Since we usually ship around 12PM, most orders received Friday after 10AM will not go out until Monday. Please note that the majority of our orders ship out within 24 hours, many shipping out the same day they are ordered. ![]() If you receive a confirmation e-mail from us, it means your order has been shipped and we can no longer make changes to it. If you need to cancel or make changes to an order, please do so as soon as possible - many requests we get regarding orders are not fulfilled because we find, pack, and ship the book before the buyer contacts us. We ship orders every day, Monday through Friday, (excluding Postal Service holidays) usually by 12PM. If you would like us to ship an item via another carrier, please e-mail us and we will try to accommodate you. Our international orders go via Air Mail (US Postal Service International First Class), but we try to upgrade to Global Priority (US Postal Service International Priority) when possible. Please note that we ship all "Standard" items via US Postal Service Media Mail and all "Expedited" items via US Postal Service Priority Mail as suggested by the Shipping Guidelines for Marketplace Sellers. ![]() We have been selling online since 2004 and on Biblio since 2008.įeel free to e-mail us at We would be happy to assist you. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Empire summer moon book![]() ![]() The horses multiplied in the wild, and so did the number of Indian riders. When the Pueblo tribe in New Mexico rebelled in 1680, the fleeing Spaniards abandoned their steeds. ![]() In the sixteenth century, the first conquistadors in Mexico had brought horses from Spain. The Comanche had a four-legged creature to thank for this transformation. “In exchange for meaningless promises of allegiance to Mexico (of which Texas was still a part) several Parker family heads were each given grants of 4600 acres.” This was prime real estate-heavily timbered, with meadowlands, springs, creeks, and plenty of fish and fowl. “The deal they were offered seemed almost too good to be true,” writes Gwynne. The saga begins in 1833 when 30 oxcarts carried "an extended family of religious, enterprising transplanted easterners known to their neighbors as the Parker Clan” from Illinois to Texas. In Quanah Parker, Gwynne has found the perfect vehicle for telling that story. But while this is a non-fiction book about war, it is equally a book about two nations trying to control their destinies by whatever means necessary. Gwynne, the former executive editor of Texas Monthly, details the atrocities perpetrated by each side in living color to do otherwise would be dishonest. In truth, the forty-year battle between the Comanche and the white man for control of the Great Plains and Texas was not so antiseptic. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Kokoro natsume soseki![]() ![]() He turns down his family’s urgings to settle down and marry a cousin. Despite his mother’s urgings and dying father’s pleas for him to get a job, the young man seems to want to emulate his sensei and do nothing. Years go by as the young man graduates from college. The second part of the story focuses on the young man’s home life. He warns the young man that when he hears his story his admiration of the old man will turn to disdain and disillusionment. ![]() But he promises the young man that he will tell him the story when the time is right. Who that deceased person is becomes the key to the story. His only activity is making a monthly visit a grave at a local cemetery. Sensei has no real friends other than the young man. He seems to be a scholar but doesn’t read or write, he just “hangs out.” The interesting thing about the “wise” old man is that he does nothing. Over time he develops a strong admiration for him, visiting at his home and calling him Sensei. The main character is a young man, a college student, who meets an older man at a beach resort. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Joseph heller goodreads![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a helpful and challenging volume which displays both the great influence Piper has had, and the biblical moorings of Christian Hedonism. In For the Fame of God’s Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper – a book presented to Piper at the 2010 Desiring God National Conference – Justin Taylor and Sam Storms bring together more than two dozen scholars and pastors to write about Piper’s ministry and to extend his thought. When we want to see how this truth is worked out in missions and preaching and marriage we turn to Let the Nations Be Glad! and The Supremacy of God in Preaching and This Momentary Marriage – or to Piper’s thirty years of sermons, all available online.īut John Piper is not alone in highlighting the biblical centrality of spreading a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples. “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” This central truth of Christian Hedonism summarizes John Piper’s life and ministry. Reviewed by Coty Pinckney, Desiring God Community Church, Charlotte NC For the Fame of God’s Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper,Įdited by Sam Storms and Justin Taylor (Crossway, 2010). ![]() ![]() ![]() She had a rare chance at education and encourages her niece in her writing. Ana’s aunt, Yaltha from Alexandria, is a major influence in her life. Privilege and luck are on her side: her father is the head scribe to Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee and the repulsive widower to whom she’s been betrothed dies, freeing her to marry Jesus, a travelling craftsman who caught her eye at the market. Musing on the motivation for airbrushing a spouse out of the picture, on the last page of the novel Kidd asks, “Did believe making him celibate rendered him more spiritual?” Or “Was it because women were so often invisible?” Although The Book of Longings retells biblical events, it is chiefly an attempt to illuminate women’s lives in the 1st century CE and to chart the female contribution to sacred literature and spirituality.įourteen-year-old Ana is a headstrong young woman with a forthright voice and a determination to choose her own life. ![]() ![]() Sue Monk Kidd’s bold fourth novel started as a what-if question: What if Jesus had a wife? Church tradition has always insisted that he remained unmarried, but she felt that, given the cultural norms of the Middle East at that time, it would have been highly unusual for him not to marry. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Monkey Grip by Helen Garner![]() ![]() As a writer of nonfiction, Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. In Helen Garner’s case, we should give due thanks for the former and precisely praise the latter. Too often, we precisely monitor the former and profligately praise the latter. “Honesty” is a word that, when thrown at journalism, unhelpfully describes both a baseline and a vaguer horizon, a legal minimum and an ethical summum. With characteristic briskness, she tells us that she learned two things from him: “Firstly, to start an essay without bullshit preamble, and secondly, that betrayal is part of life.” She continues, “I value it as part of my store of experience-part of what I am and how I have learnt to understand the world.” A writing lesson and a life lesson: Garner’s work as a journalist and a novelist constantly insists on the connection between writing about life and comprehending it to try to do both responsibly and honestly-without bullshit preamble, or, for that matter, bullshit amble-is what it means to be alive. ![]() In the early nineteen-sixties, when the Australian writer Helen Garner was a student at the University of Melbourne, she had a brief relationship with a twenty-four-year-old man who was her tutor. Helen Garner inspects both herself and her subjects with savage honesty. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Story of O by Pauline Réage![]() ![]() I had hard time holding my attention and had to re-read parts a lot of times to keep up with the story. They went on and on, started with one thing and ended with completely different thing. This book is not long but I struggled to finish due to the writing with the very long paragraphs and chapters. I’ve wanted to read this book for a while now, unfortunately it ended up as a painful experience. “Your hands are not your own, nor are your breasts, nor, most especially, any of your bodily orifices, which we may explore or penetrate at will.” She developed a taste for being used and abused, but how much more could she endure in the name of love? ![]() With her lover René, she decided to explore the darker side sexuality. O was a fashion photographer in the heart of Paris. Type: Standalone Book 1 of Story of O Duet ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments My sweet audrina book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Did I mention that both Audrinas share a birthday? What are the odds of that?! Anyway, Audrina is the apple of her weird father’s eye, and he manifests his love by having Audrina sit in a rocking chair in Audrina #1’s bedroom all day because that’s what fathers do. ![]() So, what is it about? Well, I’m so glad you asked because I want to dive into this, in detail, and I promise you, I have not made any of this up.Īudrina Adare is your typical 7-year-old, if your typical 7-year-old was named after her dead older sister, who went into the woods one day and never returned because she was raped and murdered. Not to mention multiple homicides that take place by pushing people down the same set of stairs.įriends, I f*cking love this bonkers, bananas, beautiful mess of a book. A recurring, warped tea party where two sisters put on their Sunday best, drink, trade insults, and pretend to be a dead aunt, communicating beyond the grave via a photograph. A villain with an evil heart and brittle bones. Sure, we dove into the incest, arsenic-laced world of Flowers in the Attic previously, but in my mind, nothing is as bonkers, over the top, “did she really just write that?!” than Andrews’ smutty, trashy, wonderful classic My Sweet Audrina. We’re rounding out our month of books we read as kids (but probably shouldn’t have) with the granddaddy of them all: My Sweet Audrina. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Picking Cotton is a New York Times best-selling book that tells the true story of the collision of the fates of Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton. ![]() ![]() Let’s look at how science in one particular criminal case illustrates the need to change procedures surrounding how live and photo lineups are conducted in California. California’s Senate Bill (SB) 923 attempts to change protocols. The genesis of legislative reform is often found at the crossroads of science and compelling cases indicative of criminal justice problems that need to be fixed. This post is a deeper dive into criminal justice reform on a more granular level. Topics about criminal justice include Indefinite Immigration Detention and America the Confiner, which references the Pretrial Integrity Act of 2017, a bill that may make material changes in the world of money bonds. I’ve posted on the subject of incarceration living ranging from the Loss of Compassion for senior inmates to the link between Pork Bellies and Private Prisons. In past posts about reentry, I looked at the Ban the Boxbill and jobs as examples of what reentering citizens face. When breaking it into components, I classify prison reform into three broad categories: criminal justice and procedures, incarceration living, and reentry. I cannot understate the wide range of subjects raised by the words prison reform. ![]() |