Natural history of the Holy Land, and other places mentioned in the Bible: By Lucy Barton: With poetical illustrations, original and selected. By Bernard BartonBarton, Bernard
You Are Hereby David Nicholls is a romance that takes place while the two main characters are walking from one side of England to the other, across Yorkshire and Cumbria, from the North Sea to the Irish Sea. Rohan fromNovel Readingsmentioned this one to me, and it was pleasant enough, wi...
An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia. noun (n.) A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa. beam ...
Monkey Business – Idiom of the Day Meaning: Thoughtless actions sometimes considered pranky or even unlawful. History: The word “monkeyshine” is an ancestor of the idiom “Monkey business”. History dates back to the early 18th century, roughly in 1832. In the initial phases it meant dishon...
“traditional” but are a relatively new introduction to the local culture. This is true, for instance, in the case of the Easter activities in Ajijic, on the northern shore of Lake Chapala, where, “The local townspeople take honor in portraying the cast mentioned in the Bible. Mary, ...
Who is Robert Stanek? He is the bestselling author of many books for children and adults. Discover the worlds created by Robert Stanek, a master storyteller renowned for his epic fantasies, thrilling adventures, and captivating tales that inspire readers
not mentioned in the commentary, but available for its readers, there emerges another specter, another extension of her phantasm—the phantasm of (another) man, or a man in general. In this scheme of things, woman is the first other, and it is the other the wife creates and deals with ...
Bill Smith (Missionary under ABWE in Papua New Guinea) Another E-Mail I mentioned this to some of national believers, and believe it or not this story has some history to it. One said that they believe at night there is a great big bird or flying fox that comes out and swoops over ...
Rhaina Cohen:You know, often people would not quite remember what the book was about. I had a boss at one point write in an email to other people that I was writing a book about the power of female friendship. And I was like,Well, it’s not all about women. And also that ...
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I listen to a ton of audiobooks. Sara Novic’sTrue Biz,a book about a school for the deaf community, is an entertaining read on its own. The print version offers visual depictions of signed dialogue. For the audiobook, the author recorded these signs ...