![]() After all, who knows what the future has in store? And yet Griffin holds Theo to it, filled with anguish and anger at having lost the one person who meant everything to him, even though Theo was dating someone else at the time he died. If you’ve experienced love and loss, you’ll know that Theo’s blithe promise is a throwaway one he can’t possibly keep. What wasn’t part of Griffin’s plan was Theo dying in a freak accident and never coming back to him, particularly as Theo promised, after a near miss with a car, that he’d never die. ![]() They’re each other’s end game, just not right now. He’s setting Theo free so that they can reunite when they’re older. When seventeen-year-old New Yorker Griffin breaks up with his boyfriend, Theo, who’s heading to college in California, he thinks he’s doing the right thing. ![]() And yet, through all the grief, loss and despondency the book holds within its 293 pages, it’s also a tale about young love, friendship and acceptance of the things we can’t, but inevitably try to, control in life. ![]() ![]() Adam Silvera’s YA novel, History Is All You Left Me, is the type of story that you start reading knowing full well that it’s going to break your heart. ![]()
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![]() Thoroughly revised, the third edition of Penton's classic text includes substantial new information on the sources of Russell's theology and on the church's early leaders. Advanced Mechanics Of Solids: 3e Prof L S Srinath, BTEC Level 3 National Sport & Exercise Sciences: Level 3Chris Manley, Apocalypse Delayed: Story Of Jehovahs WitnessesM. ![]() Others involve internal controversies, including political control of the organization and the handling of dissent within the ranks. Some of the issues he discusses are known to the general public, such as the sect's opposition to military service and blood transfusions. His book is divided into three parts, each presenting the Witnesses' story in a different context: historical, doctrinal, and sociological. As a former member of the sect, Penton offers a comprehensive overview of the Jehovah's Witnesses. James Penton's Apocalypse Delayed has been the definitive scholarly study of this religious movement. They distribute a billion pieces of literature annually, and continue to anticipate the end of the world. Ever since that time, Jehovah's Witnesses have been predicting that the world would end "shortly." Their numbers have grown to many millions in over two hundred countries. ![]() The first prophecy was not fulfilled, but the outbreak of the First World War lent some credibility to the second. ![]() Russell, their founder, advised his followers that members of Christ's church would be raptured in 1878, and by 1914 Christ would destroy the nations and establish his kingdom on earth. ![]() "Since 1876, Jehovah's Witnesses have believed that they are living in the last days of the present world. ![]() ![]() Then he stood up to straighten his tired back. Carefully, Lucas Whitaker hammered small metal tacks into the top of the coffin lid to form his mother's initials: H.W., for Hannah Whitaker. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. The startling results teach Lucas a great deal about fear, desperation, and the scientific reasoning that offers hope for a true cure. Lucas can't accept Doc's disbelief, and he joins others in the dark ritual they believe is their only hope. Doc amputates a leg as easily as he pulls a tooth, yet when it comes to consumption, he remains powerless, unwilling to try the cure he calls nonsense. Unable to manage the family farm by himself, Lucas finds work as an apprentice to Doc Beecher, doctor, dentist, barber and undertaker. ![]() He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only he had listened to news of a strange cure for this deadly disease. Lucas is grief-stricken and filled with guilt. ![]() ![]() It's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Maigret novels were translated into all major languages and several of them were turned into films and radio plays. ![]() The first novel in the series, Pietr-le-Letton, appeared in 1931 the last one, Maigret et M. He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Commissaire Maigret. ![]() Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. 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