Resurrections: Vignettes about Discovery, Relationships, Personal Empowerment and Preternatural Experiences is a anthology of brief yet refreshing inspirational and spiritual stories adroitly written by Nicholas Smeed. The individual stories comprising Resurrections include: The Petroglyph; Real Monsters; Tempting Fate; Penetration; Time, Space, and Ghosts; Absorption; Bewitched; Encounters; The Office; It Catches Up; Irish Music; Phoenix; Six Coyotes; The Crystal; Loneliness; Predatory Instincts; Victorian House; Premonitions; The Boys in the Barroom; The Girls at the Coffee House; Revelations; Cairns; Inspiration; Prognostications; Love; Reconciliations; Second Coming; Sojourn; Dreams; Transformation; and an epilogue - Convergences. Each vignette embodies a moment of insight or the translucent whisper of a hidden idea in this engaging and highly readable collection.

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Best translation of this work. Useful notes and essays. Highest recommendation.

"The Roaring Boy" was the first book I read from Edward Marston. The marriage of Elizabethan theater and murder were very surpising and enjoyable.
The main character of Marston's books, Nicholas Bracewell, was a fresh change to other characters I have read in many books.

"The Roaring Boy" was about two innocent people who were murdered and how Nicholas went searching for who killed them. The other characters such as: Lawrence Firethorn, Edmund Hoode and Barnaby Gill added life to the book. I enjoyed the camaderie that each other had for the others around them. "The Roaring Boy" was very intruging and exciting to read.

Routine Circumcision : The Tragic Myth is a very important book from a journalist and ex-tv person.

Result? To the point and packed with information that you just don't get easily from a lot of post-natal personnel who'll just tell you everything's "routine.".

In the US today the gentital mutilation of young males is not a holdover amongst Jews and Muslims--it is practicsed on millions of innocent kids.

THINK: if a kid has to be 18 to pierce his tongue or tattoo himself they why the rush to lop off the "crown" of the family jewels?

Here is a book that will please anyone looking for an extraordinary biography. I would also advise you to buy this book before it goes out of print. Nearly anything ever written about Mosley eventually gets sold out because there is usually a lot more interest in him than publishers forecast.

Many Americans know that Mosley was the most prominent British fascist leader prior to the Second World War, but few know that prior to that he was the member of parliament who was given the task of constructing an economic plan capable of getting Britain out of the Great Depression.

Although many leading socialists of the day supported his ideas, including his personal friend in America, Franklin Roosevelt, the British government was not bold enough to act, adopting the attitude of just muddling through.

That's why Mosley started up his fascist movement. The death of Mosley's first wife contributed to his determination to implement his ideas, and the private correspondence published in this book explains why for the first time.

After World War 2, Mosley's view was that the nationalisms of Europe were obsolete, and that the European economic cooperation of the EEC was the first wave of a better future. He also forecasted that within the United States the European population would find a similar reorganizing just as necessary.

How very difficult it must have been for a respected and successful establishment liberal to provide a balanced assessment of his own father, the founder of British Fascism, but Nicolas Mosley accomplishes this feat superbly. Fascism is obsolete of course, but there had to have been some wonderful quality in Oswald Mosley's own character as well, because shortly before his death he turned over all his personal papers - not to more conservative members of the family - but to Nicholas, his ideological opposition. Read this one for sure, for these are the revelations of a family tormented - yet never completely divided - by the world conflict which pulled at their souls.

I literally read this book twice. And as I turned the pages and saw breathtaking after breathtaking photograph and read the journalist's history of Russia, I kept reminding myself that this is not fiction. This books makes one pause and ponder ... a very long time.

Having grown up in a Dutch home, the feast of St. Nicholas, which we called Sinterklaas, was the highlight of the year in our family, as it still is in most Dutch families. While the feast has been secularized over the years, and is celebrated by Catholics, Protestants, Jews and atheists alike, there is always an acknowledgment of the Bishop of Myra and his many charitable deeds back in the 4th century.

With this background, I was drawn to "The Saint Nicholas Secret: A Story of Childhood Faith Reborn in the Heart of the Father." The author, Dennis E. Engleman, tells about the most disappointing day in his life, when his mother told him St. Nicholas wasn't real, and how it left a long-lasting emptiness in his heart. He sought to avoid any reference to St. Nicholas with his own children, in the hopes of sparing them the same disappointment. But kids being kids, he was asked the inevitable question.

Engleman goes on to describe a business trip to Europe, and a life-changing string of events. While on a tour of the Chartres Cathedral in France, the guide explains a sculpture they are viewing, and he is shocked to discover he is talking about a real person known as St. Nicholas. He hears some of the same stories I heard in my childhood, such as the one about the young bishop Nicholas saving three young women from poverty by secretly providing money for their dowries to their poor father.

Then he skeptically listens to stories of miracles associated with the remains, or relics, of St. Nicholas, originally buried in Myra (now in Turkey), but which were moved to Bari, Italy in 1087. As it turned out, Bari was the final destination on Engleman's business trip, so he decided to visit the Basilica Pontifica Di. S. Nicola. There at the dark candlelit crypt, by the sarcophagus of St. Nicholas, in the wonder of the place, he recites a letter he had written as a child:

Dear St. Nicholas,

Please bring me something nice. I have tried to be good. I love you.

Your friend,

Dennis Engleman

I cannot begin to describe the power of the experience that follows, but suffice it to say he receives a "gift...finding the hope and faith which had been lost long ago."

When I picked up this book, I thought it was designed to be read aloud to children, but parents (or any adult) should really read it first. It reawakens some of those childhood wonders and disappointments that many of us have experienced, and then helps to build a sense of awe and wonder at this wonderful saint, recognised by all Christian traditions, who really lived and served Christ faithfully, and continues to live in heaven.

The book concludes with "Suggestions to Parents," which will help readers decide how to handle the St. Nicholas question in their own homes. There is also an Epilogue which quotes extensively from a twelfth century document about St. Nicholas.

This book is a little gem, a quick read, but well worth the time, especially during the Advent season when we hear so much about Santa Claus, whose name is derived from Sinterklaas, and whose name is really St. Nicholas.

This is an excellent fantasy with real historical information regarding the true origins of the Saint Nicholas legends.
Told in a very entertaining manner. Complete with time travel and comedy and pathos all rolled into one enchanting story.
I look forward to this becoming a film or TV show or as it was originally written, as a play. Highly recommended for the entire family.