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Spice Box
by Grace Livingston Hill[From the front dust jacket flap:] For twenty-seven years, Martha Spicer's life had followed the same dreary, predictable pattern. By day she was employed as the reliable buyer for women's lingerie in a large department store where she was derogatorily referred to as "Spice Box." Every evening she returned to a lonely room in a third-rate boarding house. However, Martha's life changed rapidly when she inherited the home of the aunt and uncle she had visited dutifully twice a year. Much of the change was due to the influence of the boisterous yet friendly boy next door, Ronald MacFarland. Although at first Martha looked upon him as a "hoodlum," his infectious grin and unselfish deeds soon won her heart. With the aid of his creativity and hard work, Martha transformed the dark and dreary house into a bright, cozy, and comfortable home. Martha's personality also transformed as she poured out her pent-up love, happiness, and generosity upon neighbors, co-workers, and even needy people she didn't know. Therefore, when Ronald rescued a homeless, tired, and starving young woman who had fainted from hunger and illness, he knew who would be willing to nurse her back to health. Sure enough, as soon as Martha Spicer laid eyes on the sickly yet beautiful girl, her heart and help went out to her. But she was alarmed by the stranger's condition. Was it too late to save her? Martha was puzzled, too. Who was this fragile, delicate young lady? What had driven her to flee her home and family?" You'll find many more books by Grace Livingston Hill in the Bookshare collection including Exit Betty with many more to come.
Spider in a Tree
by Susan StinsonJonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over hellfire in his most famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice, no matter how mighty, drowns all others. Grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine unexpectedly in this New England tale.
Spiders, Snakes, Bees, and Bats: Level 2 (I Can Read! #Level 2)
by Various AuthorsDid you know—There are thousands of different kinds of spiders? That snakes smell with their tongues? Read all about God¹s creepy, crawly creations!
Spielräume des Affektiven: Konzeptionelle und exemplarische Studien zur frühneuzeitlichen Affektkultur
by Kai Bremer Andrea Grewe Meike RühlDer Band eröffnet interdisziplinäre Zugriffe auf die Dynamik affektiver Normen und Normierungen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Welchen Normen war affektives Handeln unterworfen? Gab es geschlechterspezifische Unterschiede, die die Spielräume des Affektiven und die Möglichkeiten, diese zu verändern, prägten? Wie wurden diese Spielräume gesellschaftlich konnotiert und in den Künsten thematisiert? Diese und verwandte Fragen werden konzeptionell und exemplarisch mit Beiträgen aus Theologie, Philosophie, Literatur-, Musik-, Kunst- und Geschichtswissenschaft behandelt.
Spilled Ink
by Nadia HashimiIn this insightful and affecting YA novel by well-loved author of books for adults and middle graders Nadia Hashimi, an Afghan American teenager's small town is thrown into controversy and violence when her brother, taking a stand against hatred, plays a prank that some think went too far…When Yalda hears that her twin brother, Yusuf, will be performing with his band at a local venue, she lets her friends convince her to sneak out to see his show. But the night has something else in store: After the opening band makes some ugly jokes about “terrorists,” Yusuf uses his time in the spotlight for an impulsive stunt responding to the hate speech. Suddenly, simmering tensions begin boiling over in their Virginia town, where many Afghan refugees have sought safety. When a video of Yusuf’s performance goes viral online, it seems like everyone in town turns against their family’s restaurant, leaving their livelihood in jeopardy. And then Yusuf is seriously injured in a mysterious fall.Despite her grieving and frightened family, friends she is not sure she can trust, and a town that no longer feels like a safe home, Yalda must try to find her own voice—and do what she can to change her world for the better.
Spilling the Light
by Julián Jamaica SotoThe light must spill to shine. The thing you must be is yourself. Intimate and uncompromising, Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto’s debut collection Spilling the Light is a luminous offering to their communities and a defiant declaration of their worth in a world hostile to their queer, disabled, and brown being. “America, is this freedom?” they ask. “I cannot prove to you that / I am a person,” writing boldly of identity, community, liberation, and erasure through a prism of tender moments and powerful reckonings. These are poems of broken hallelujahs and codes/witching, of hunger and fire, of hope and resilience. They are complex, tender, and empowering. They embolden us to become our truest selves, willing us to survive.
Spilt Milk: Devotions for Moms
by Linda VujnovIn a mother’s land of milk and honey, the milk is often split and the honey is usually smeared all over the face of the baby in his high chair. Linda Vujnov has been there and knows exactly what it feels like. As she recounts the continuing adventures of parenting her four children, Maddy, Zack, Ty, and Carson, she offers a quirky, down-to-earth perspective on life for mothers who need to be reminded that God’s grace is always there, even when things don’t work out exactly as you had originally planned. Spilt Milk is a collection of brief, hilarious stories mixed with biblically based applications that will encourage busy mothers in their spiritual journey. Each chapter includes a corresponding Scripture verse intended to support the lesson learned from the experience. Written by a Gen-X mom, these stories remind us that, even in the midst of the questions, the craziness, the wonder of raising kids, and the joy of being a wife, God is right there alongside us to help us cope with life's little messes and mix-ups.
Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story
by Peter ZheutlinRide away on a 'round-the-world adventure of a lifetime—with only a change of clothes and a pearl-handled revolver—in this trascendent novel inspired by the life of Annie Londonderry.&“Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.&”—Susan B. Anthony Who was Annie Londonderry? She captured the popular imagination with her daring &‘round the world trip on two wheels. It was, declared The New York World in October of 1895, &“the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman.&” But beyond the headlines, Londonderry was really Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young, Jewish mother of three small children, who climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and pedaled away into history. Reportedly set in motion by a wager between two wealthy Boston merchants, the bet required Annie not only to circle the earth by bicycle in 15 months, but to earn $5,000 en route, as well. This was no mere test of a woman&’s physical endurance and mental fortitude; it was a test of a woman&’s ability to fend for herself in the world. Often attired in a man&’s riding suit, Annie turned every Victorian notion of female propriety on its head. Not only did she abandon, temporarily, her role of wife and mother (scandalous in the 1890s), she earned her way selling photographs of herself, appearing as an attraction in stores, and by turning herself into a mobile billboard. Zheutlin, a descendent of Annie, brilliantly probes the inner life and seeming boundless courage of this outlandish, brash, and charismatic woman. In a time when women could not vote and few worked outside the home, Annie was a master of public relations, a consummate self-promoter, and a skillful creator of her own myth. Yet, for more than a century her remarkable story was lost to history. In SPIN, this remarkable heroine and her marvelous, stranger-than-fiction story is vividly brought to life for a new generation.
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: A Haunted Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste
by Fred E. KatzBoone and Cali volunteered to help transform an old mining town into a summer camp for their church. But that was before they stumbled onto the secret underground tunnels, the ghost stories, and the legendary Madman of the Mine. Could a camp really be haunted? It was up to them to solve this mystery and turn Camp Fear into Camp Fearless!
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Attack of the Killer House
by Fred KatzAnna and Johnny Greger are looking forward to a quiet day at home. When Jonny's science project - a robot - attacks Anna, she thinks it's just Johnny playing a joke. But she knows something is terribly wrong when her hair dryer flies, their video game shoots back at them, and the lawn mower takes off on its own. But a house can't attack people. Or can it?
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Birthday Cake and I Scream
by Fred E. KatzIt's MacKenzie's twelfth birthday. He'd like a paintball party, but his mom books the party at Spookie the Clown's Hall of Pizza. Unlimited play on the video games makes it pretty cool, until Spookie shows up with some games of his own. Soon, all the kids want to win is a chance to get out!
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Dr. Shiver's Carnival
by Fred E. KatzLooks can bee deceiving when fear backs you into a corner. Enjoy thrills and chills with the kids in this story who have fun as they demonstrate Christian character based on love for God, parents, and one another. You'll share a scare. . . But, of course, ghouls and ghosts are strictly in the imagination. Kyle Conlon discovers that a bizarre carnival has mysteriously appeared overnight right next door to his uncle's house. He and this three friends, Sara, Sammy and Brent, set out to investigate.The carnival's owner, Dr. Shivers, invites the four of them to try all the amusements for free - if they're brave enough.
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Hospitals Make Me Sick
by Fred E. KatzWhile on a trip in the mountains, Scotty injures his elbow. But to their amazement, Scotty, his brother, Michael, and their cousin Deanna find that the hospital might be hazardous to their health! The chief doctors - Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll - are quite spooky, the hospital gowns have bullseyes painted on them, and the only way to escape is to solve a mysterious riddle.
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Not A Creature Was Stirring
by Fred KatzJust before leaving with his parents to go skiing before Christmas, Connor Morgan breaks his leg. Fortunately, Great Aunt Bergen is coming to watch the house, and Conner can stay with her.But there is something very strange about Aunt Bergen, and strange things start to happen when she arrives.
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Pizza With Extra Creeps
by Fred KatzWhen Max Walker hear a ghostly moaning coming from the room next to his and sees eyes peering at him from behind the curtains, he begins to believe the rumors that his new house is haunted. Could all the pizza he's been eating cause him to see and hear strange things?Max is sure it's more than Pizza With Extra Creeps!
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Stay Away from the Swamp
by Fred KatzClint Gleeson's dad wants to buy the "swamp" next to their house. Legend has it the land is inhabited by snake ghosts and other creepy creatures. At first Clint laughs at the ridiculous legend. But a crawling fear cuts short Clint's laughter when he thinks he sees what couldn't possibly be real.
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: Stay Tuned for Terror
by Fred KatzKari, Juan, Matthew, and Bethany's favorite TV show - Tales of Terror - is looking for four new hosts. But when the invitation comes to audition at an old abandoned house, the kids find them selves caught in a real life Talesof Terror episode. Are they trapped is a spooky TV set? Stay tuned. . . For terror!
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: The Phantom of Phys Ed
by Fred KatzIt was bad enough being the new kid at Crider Middle School. But when Caitlin bumps into the locker of Hezekiah Bones - the kid who disappeared over fifty years ago - she thinks she received his curse. Yet if this "phantom of phys ed" isn't real, then why is she breaking out in a rash, her friend turning invisible, and a mysterious person following her?
SpineChillers Mysteries Series: The Venom Versus Me
by Fred KatzBrook Darrow and her dad go to a cabin so he can work on his law exams. Weird things start to happen when Brook discovers she has trespassed into forbidden territory. How can the legend of the feathered serpent be true? Will Brook be its next victim?
Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender, and History (Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society #9)
by Miriam B. PeskowitzMiriam Peskowitz offers a dramatic revision to our understanding of early rabbinic Judaism. Using a wide range of sources—archaeology, legal texts, grave goods, technology, art, and writings in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin—she challenges traditional assumptions regarding Judaism's historical development.Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Of these, rabbinic Judaism was the most successful, becoming the classical form of the religion. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Peskowitz re-examines this critical moment in Jewish history and presents a feminist interpretation in which gender takes center stage. She shows how notions of female and male were developed by the rabbis of Roman Palestine and why the distinctions were so important in the formation of their religious and legal tradition.Rabbinic attention to women, men, sexuality, and gender took place within the "ordinary tedium of everyday life, in acts that were both familiar and mundane." While spinners and weavers performed what seemed like ordinary tasks, their craft was in fact symbolic of larger gender and sexual issues, which Peskowitz deftly explicates. Her study of ancient spinning and her abundant source material will set new standards in the fields of gender studies, Jewish studies, and cultural studies.
Spinning Out of Control
by Vickie McdonoughAfter both her parents die and Amy is left destitute, she has no choice but to sell everything and seek out her next of kin, her cousin Kathryn, only to find that she'll soon be gone, too. With Kathryn dying, Amy is unexpectedly thrown into the position of mother and homemaker. and she can't comprehend how a loving God could allow a young mother to die when her babies need her so much. Knowing what her father was like, Amy refuses to trust any man; so she doesn't understand when Kathryn's husbands returns and wants to be a part of his children's lives. When Micah Walsh returns home to find he has a new baby, a daughter who doesn't remember him, and a wife who ha passed away, the thought of going right out to the woods looks better and better. But he might just stay to figure out who this woman is who has taken Kathryn's place. Does God have a plan for Micah and Amy, whose lives seem to be spinning out of control?
Spinoza Dictionary
by Dagobert D. RunesIn this work, Baruch Spinoza, one of the cardinal thinkers of all times, answers the eternal questions of man and his passions, and God and nature. In the deepest sense, this dictionary of Spinoza's philosophy is a veritable treasury of sublime wisdom. In his introduction, Dagobert D. Runes, a life-long student of the philosopher, sheds new light on Spinoza's private, political and religious life, and exposes and explains the dramatic story of his apostasy. If the reader despairs of the business of finding his way through Spinoza's works, here he will find a reliable guide speaking in Spinoza's own words. "The grand ideas of Spinoza's Ethics are brought out clearly in this book: not less than the heroic illusions of this great and passionate man." --Albert Einstein
Spinoza Dictionary
by Dagobert D. RunesThis A-to-Z reference volume presents definitions, propositions, and explanations of Spinoza&’s thought—all in the philosopher&’s own words. The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza remains one of the most significant thinkers of our time. Yet his works, written in a rigidly geometric form of argumentation, are notoriously difficult to navigate. Expertly edited by Dagobert D. Runes, Spinoza Dictionary presents an alphabetical selection of Spinoza&’s own writings, making essential definitions, concepts, and passages immediately accessible. In his introduction, Runes sheds new light on Spinoza&’s private, political, and religious life, and exposes and explains the dramatic story of his apostasy. If the reader despairs of finding his way through Spinoza&’s works, here he will find a reliable guide speaking in Spinoza&’s own words. &“The grand ideas of Spinoza&’s Ethics are brought out clearly in this book: not less than the heroic illusions of this great and passionate man.&” —Albert Einstein
Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy
by Steven NadlerOver the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy, consider the various dimensions of the rich, important, but vastly under-studied relationship between Spinoza and earlier Jewish thinkers. It is the first such collection in any language, and together the essays provide a detailed and extensive analysis of how different elements in Spinoza's metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political and religious thought relate to the views of his Jewish philosophical forebears, such as Maimonides, Gersonides, Ibn Ezra, Crescas, and others. The topics addressed include the immortality of the soul, the nature of God, the intellectual love of God, moral luck, the nature of happiness, determinism and free will, the interpretation of Scripture, and the politics of religion.
Spinoza and Other Heretics, Volume 2: The Adventures of Immanence
by Yirmiyahu YovelThis ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity—and examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-one bestseller in Israel, Spinoza and Other Heretics is made up of two volumes—The Marrano of Reason and The Adventures of Immanence. Yirmiyahu Yovel shows how Spinoza grounded a philosophical revolution in a radically new principlethe philosophy of immanence, or the idea that this world is all there is—and how he thereby anticipated secularization, the Enlightenment, the disintegration of ghetto life, and the rise of natural science and the liberal-democratic state.In The Adventures of Immanence, Yovel discloses the presence of Spinoza's philosophical revolution in the work of later thinkers who helped shape the modern mind. He claims it is no accident that some of the most unorthodox and innovative figures in the past two centuries—including Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Heine, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein—were profoundly influenced by Spinoza and shared his view that immanent reality is the only source of valid social and political norms and that recognizing this fact is necessary for human liberation. But what is immanent reality, and how is liberation to be construed? In a work that constitutes a retelling of much of Western intellectual history, Yovel analyzes the rival answers given to these questions and, in so doing, provides a fresh view of a wide range of individual thinkers.