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Exile
Exiles: A Novel
Ron Hansen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
, 2008
finally a fiction book about gerard manley hopkins!
I just finished reading this very interesting book and encourage anyone who loves the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ to read it also. The author skillfully weaves the story of the five German sisters who died on the ship Deutschland with the story of the Jesuit ...
The Dark Elf Trilogy, Collector's Edition (Homeland, Exile, Sojourn)
R. A. Salvatore
Wizards of the Coast
, 2000
OutFreaknStanding
These are by far the best fantasy books Iv ever read.....Read all 3 of them straight through, read through breaks, and lunch at work. Stayed up to the wee hours of the night, I just could NOT put them down. You will NOT be disappointed in these grab yourself a copy ...
Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
Bill Willingham
Vertigo
, 2002
Decent detective story
This collection is an intro into the Fables-world. Simple detective story is used as a plot to introduce major characters & places.
Exile (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 4)
Aaron Allston
Del Rey
, 2007
Excellent Read and follow up to Tempest
I just finished EXILE and it was GREAT... The interaction between the characters was the same as in the movies. The way it moved to the climax of the book, was at times slow and others to fast, but it was a good read over all. I still do not like the references to ...
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
Robert Hughes
Vintage Books
, 1988
Cultural Amnesia
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding By Robert Hughes Australia is one of those faraway places you read about in National Geographic or watch on Discovery. Remote, exotic, modern yet solidly based in its history, it's a chamber of commerce ...
Silent Exodus: Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in Exile
Khaled Hosseini
Aperture/UNHCR
, 2008
Visually Powerful
I received this book today and sat down and read through it. Don't be mistaken, it is not long and it is almost completely pictures. "A picture is worth a thousand words." Never more true has it been than when I sat down with this book. My wife started to read this ...
Exile
Richard North Patterson
St. Martin's Paperbacks
, 2007
Exile
Richard North Patterson is a magnificent storyteller with a knowledge base grounded in the reality of how the world operates. All of his books are great reads, Exile is possibly his best.
Ender in Exile (Ender)
Orson Scott Card
Tor Books
, 2008
Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel. At the close of Ender's Game , Andrew Wiggin ? called Ender by everyone ? is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius ...
Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile
Rob Bell
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Don Golden
Zondervan
, 2008
Rob is my Rabbi
Rob had a way of getting you involved in the story of the scriptures and it feels like your there and he does this in the book, he makes you think and think about things that you might not think about otherwise. Its hard for a man near 30 (me) to learn to question ...
Exile (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book 14)
Kathryn Lasky
Scholastic
, 2008
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lots of action. I like these weird blue owls from the middle kingdom because it introduces weirdness. Also, I like the idea of The Striga (Blue owl from the middle kingdom; member of the dragon court who were formerly hagsfiends) somehow being completely opposite to ...
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
Orb Books
, 1996
City of Illusions
I read this book over a year ago, and usually after that amount of time I can barely remember the plot of a book let alone the details. Yet I was amazed with the City of Illusions story in this book. This is by far my favorite story by Ursula K. Le Guin, even over ...
Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
Michael Frost
Hendrickson Publishers
, 2006
A rebirth of the Christian movement
I have been a Christian for over 50 years. But for many years I have felt like an outcast by the leadership of the Christian community. I got great comfort from reading this book and connecting with the fact that there are millions of people around the world who are ...
The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (Everyman's Library)
Albert Camus
Everyman's Library
, 2004
Love, Exile, and Suffering Illuminated by Life around Death
What is the meaning of life? For many, that question is an abstraction except in the context of being aware of losing some of the joys of life, or life itself. In The Plague, Camus creates a timeless tale of humans caught in the jaws of implacable death, in this case a ...
Valentine's Exile (Vampire Earth, Book 5)
E.E. Knight
Roc
, 2007
valentine's discovery...
this is book 5 in the series...all of them have been a progressive discovery of how one discovers what one is made of, i.e., "the right stuff". David Valentine is a man for all times, a philosopher and a man of action and justice. He is challenged by an invasion of ...
Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama
Lama Dalai
HarperOne
, 1991
Hearbreaking
Knowing nothing at all about His Holiness The Dalai Lama or Tibet/China relations I was eager to learn more. As a convert from Catholicisim to Buddhism, I was pleased to read that the Dalai Lama considers himself to be just a regular human, who was chosen to fulfill ...
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