Mark of the Lion : A Voice in the Wind, An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure As the Dawn (Vol 1-3)

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This classic series has inspired over half a million readers. Both loyal fans and new readers will want the 10th anniversary editions of this beloved series. These editions include a new foreword from the publisher, a new preface from Francine Rivers, and discussion questions suitable for personal and group use.

#1 A Voice in the Wind: Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.

#2 An Echo in the Darkness: Turning away from the opulence of Rome, Marcus is led by a whispering voice from the past into a journey that could set him free from the darkness of his soul.

#3 As Sure As the Dawn: Atretes. German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness . . . but his life is about to change forever.

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Amazing story!.......2007-10-07

An amazing story that brings you back to the foundation of your faith, as they did for me. I laughed, cried, and rejoiced with the characters as they went through their trials and tribulations. Kudos to Francine Rivers for bringing a remarkable story for generations to come!

an insight into 1st century Christians.......2007-08-27

This series was so great. Not only does it keep your attention in an entertaining way but it makes you think more about what it was like for 1st century Christians.

Great christian fiction........2007-08-24

Didn't get a lot done while reading this book, couldn't put it down. The story draws you in and you also learn alot about this time, the Roman Empire and the plight of their conquered peoples. Can be a little gruesome in parts. Highly recommend.

for reading and re-reading - books that keep on giving.......2007-08-09

Francine Rivers' "Mark of the Lion" series provides believable plots; well-crafted, fully-human characters; satisfying love stories; and practical instruction in Christian living. These books are fun to read, but they go beyond that to provide a deep satisfaction that you can't get from mere entertainment. Also delightful are her polished writing and her attention to historical details. Her careful craftsmanship delights the heart AND the mind. History buffs, romance readers, and students of practical Christian living should all enjoy these books.

Excellent novels.......2007-08-09

These books have really spoken to me. Ms. Rivers has done her homework when it comes to historical accuracy, even printing a glossary of terms in the back of the book. The story lines and characters are outstanding, and beautifully illustrate the story of God's love for us.

A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion #1)

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Submerge yourself in Roman history!
Not for the faint-hearted
Breath taking
greatest book ever!
Great Book

A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion #1)
Francine Rivers
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ASIN: 0842377506

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#1 A Voice in the Wind: Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.

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Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome.

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Submerge yourself in Roman history!.......2007-10-10

Short of jumping into a time machine and visiting the Roman Empire at the fall of Jerusalem, this is the best method I would suggest for understanding the setting of the New Testament. The "world" that is referred to in Paul's writings is clearly understood for what it was, and the parallels to our lives today are uncanny and alarming. Be warned, however, Rivers graphically, but appropriately shows the Roman Empire for what it was, so this book is not for the faint hearted or young readers. I challenge you to read it and see if you ever think about the Jews, Romans and other Gentiles of the Early Christian Age in the same way ever again.

Not for the faint-hearted.......2007-08-22

It was difficult for me to come up with a rating for this book. It was well-written with a captivating story. The ending left me wanting to know more about the characters and I will probably read the next book in the series just to find out what happens. I am also a fan of Francine Rivers and have loved a number of her other books.

The problem I had with the book was the graphic portrayal of the Roman empire during the time of the story. The author was very open about the society of the times and that meant that there was a lot of violence and sexual innuendo throughout the story. As I generally tend to like authors who do not sugar-coat their stories I was puzzled as to why this bothered me.

I do tend to be very squeamish when it comes to gory violence. The fights of the Roman Empire were quite violent and were vividly portrayed that way. The sexual content also bothered me. There weren't any details but the author gave enough information to leave little to the imagination. This is probably came from the fact that she wrote Romance novels before switching to Christian Fiction. I personally thought it was a little over done.

My favorite character in the book was Julia; the spoiled rich girl who reminded me of Lady Macbeth from Shakespeare. It was her story that kept me reading as I wanted to know more about what was going to happen to her and I wanted to see what other choices she might make. It was the flaws in her character that made her the most interesting to read about.

I tend to read books in the Christian genre when I'm looking for a good story without an overabundance of scenes I would prefer not to read. If this is not why you would pick up this book then it may be the right one for you. I would not recommend this book for young teens or anyone who wants to avoid reading material that has a lot of violence and sex as it is impossible to avoid in this book. When I make my choice in ratings I base it on whether or not I would own or would re-read the book. In this case I would not do either but I can easily see why someone else would answer yes to both of those questions.

In summary, if you are not bothered by violent fight scenes and/or sexual innuendo then you may very well enjoy this book. It was definitely an interesting read and it gave me a greater insight into the Roman Empire. For me, it proved a little too strong for my tastes.

Breath taking.......2007-05-30

From the moment I began reading this novel it simply took my breath away. I just could not stop, and when I had to put it down, I was counting the minutes or hours that I had until I could begin. I highly recommend this book.

greatest book ever!.......2007-05-20

THIS BOOK IS AMAZING!!! i just got finished reading the series for the third time and honestly, outside of the Bible, this book has done more to encourage my walk with the Lord than any non-fiction book...its wonderful! francine rivers has been blessed with words to make stories come alive. loved it! you should buy it and read it!!!

Great Book.......2007-01-12

Excellent Historical Fiction. Great series. This book and its sequel are wonderful. A great witness to those who would read romance novels. An engaging testimony without being to preachy or schmaltzy.

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A Philosophical Look at Bird Hunting in the Heartland
A wonderful book even for the non-hunter

Voices on the Wind
C. Mason
Manufacturer: Countrysport Press
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ASIN: 0892725796

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What is bird hunting really all about? For answers to this question, C. Stanley Mason turns an ear to the wind. His listening has produced these essays, in which he rehearses the lessons taught -- and the questions left unanswered -- by the breeze that blows through wild places.

The results are often funny, sometimes sorrowful, always passionate, yet humble and ever hopeful. Through it all, from northern grouse woods to prairie duck marshes, Mason discerns a unifying story of life, death, and resurrection.

Voices on the Wind combines hunting tales with environmental history and thoughtful reflection about why bird hunters do what they do. Here is a celebration of bird hunting as spiritual quest, as participatory environmentalism, and as a powerful metaphor for the search for grace and goodness.

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A Philosophical Look at Bird Hunting in the Heartland.......2006-02-09

This book published in 2002 is for experienced and new bird hunters alike. Through description of hunting a variety of wild birds in the midwestern U.S., author C. Stanley Mason teaches the reader a philospophy of hunting that values wild birds and places; challenges; uncertainty; simplicity and tradition. Nine essays explore hunting ethics, historical changes in land use, government farm subsidies, the decline of some gamebirds, and the place of predators. This is not a detailed how-to book for the beginner. It is a solid contribution to the 21st Century bird hunting literature. I am glad to have had the opportunity to read this book, and I would give it to a friend.

We are treated to 179 pages of stories of hunting pheasants, quail, dove, ducks, ruffed grouse, woodcock, turkey and snow geese from Kansas to Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Most of the hunts focus on one hunter and one dog, but some include friends or whole gangs of hunters. Game preserves are mentioned as venues to train dogs and shoot at birds but not as places to hunt.

The wind is portrayed as a sort of riverine spiritual entity, and together with the prairie it forms a unifying theme of the book. Author Mason carefully layers some of the stories, and his eye is sensitive enough to invite us to see grace in faces, settings and actions that seem familiar. The book includes a few simple drawings of gamebirds, a feather, a dog, and a hunter holding a shotgun. There is also a brief foreward by Michael McIntosh, a very well-known hunting writer.

The book ranges from laugh-out-loud humorous when describing the follies of hunting companion Walt to tear-renderingly beautiful in a final story that covers life, death and renewal with the familiarity and engagement of a local legend.

Occasionally the philosophy wanders a bit, as on page 131, "With the geographic expansion of my consciousness has come a heightened sensibility toward the darkness of my world and others, and with this sensibility has come a dying like that of immigrant trees." This is contemporary literature not a collection of the sort of simple hunting tales that could be found in a 1950's hunting magazine.

A wonderful book even for the non-hunter.......2005-08-24

This is a beautifully written book, even for the non-hunter. Mason really knows how to draw you into his story and he artfully folds in history, biology and philosophy to tell his tales. This is one of those books that stops time while you're reading it--that's what good reading is all about!

How to Whistle Like a Pro (Without Driving Anyone Else Crazy)

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Good book for the beginner and the experienced Whistler.
Out of Date
Surprisingly Excellent Book!
Learn how to whistle, right here!

How to Whistle Like a Pro (Without Driving Anyone Else Crazy)
David Harp , Jason Serinus , and Don Mayne
Manufacturer: Musical I Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0918321603

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Good book for the beginner and the experienced Whistler........2003-08-21

I have read this book and have used it to teach people to whistle. I had the pleasure of receiving my copy from the author him self. David did a great job this is the book to learn how whistle. Unless you have a pro whistler handy to give private lessons. I am a two time Grand Champion Whistler this is the book to start with.

Out of Date.......2003-03-27

This book comes with a RECORD! I haven't had a record player in a decade so the usefulness was limited. It could be terrific but without a record player I will never know.

Surprisingly Excellent Book!.......1999-04-24

Being a full time professional whistler, I was surprised at the excellent insight into the art shown by David Harp. He may not be a full time "pro" but you would never be able to tell it by reading this well done book.

Learn how to whistle, right here!.......1998-02-10

For anyone that has even a passing interest in whistling, this book is a must-have. David Harp is an experienced teacher, and he covers everything: mouth physiology, music theory, techniques for improving your current whistling, and information on his favorite practitioners of this portable music. I consider myself an experienced whistler, and I learned a lot from this entertaining and enjoyable book.

Walking with the Wind (Voices and Visions in Film)

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Not haiku ... acute visual perception translated into verse

Walking with the Wind (Voices and Visions in Film)
Abbas Kiarostami
Manufacturer: Harvard Film Archive
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The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami

ASIN: 0674008448

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This bilingual edition of recent verse by the celebrated Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (award-winning director of such films as Close-Up and Taste of Cherry) includes English translations of more than two hundred crystalline, haiku-like poems, together with their Persian originals. The translators, noted Persian literature scholars Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and Michael Beard, contribute an illuminating introduction to Kiarostami's poetic enterprise, examining its relationship to his unique cinematic corpus and to the traditions of classic and contemporary Persian poetry. Of interest to enthusiasts of cinema and literature alike, Walking with the Wind--the second volume in Harvard Film Archive's series "Voices and Visions in Film"--sheds light on a contemporary master who transforms simple fragments of reality into evocative narrative landscapes.

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Not haiku ... acute visual perception translated into verse.......2002-04-19

The translators of this work provide a very astute introduction to the poetry placing it in perspective with regards to Kiarostami's cinematography, the Persian poetic tradition and 20th century innovation. Through this they guide the reader to listen for the space between objects compared, to observe the "grand scheme" implied in the particular, to note how the "obvious" is unobserved and surprising.

An example from the introduction of this last point: "... a sycamore leaf / falls softly / and rests / on its own shadow"

The poems are like haiku in that they are minimalist and nature based. However, the sensibility of the cosmic purpose present in these poems differs from the sensibility of cosmic nowness of the (Zen) haiku tradition.

An example: "... the clock /reads seven minutes to seven" reads in these poems as "seven" intentionally invoking cultural connotations. In haiku, it would more likely read as factual observation ... enlightened observation, perhaps, but observation.

The book is beautifully printed, Persian and English side by side, one poem per page. The poems must be read slowly, allowing the visual image time to form in your mind... but what perfect visual images ... images to savour and explore. My one regret ... I cannot read the Persian in this bilingual edition.

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Na Leo I Ka Makani/Voices on the Wind: Historic Photographs of Hawaiians of Yesteryear
Palani Vaughan
Manufacturer: Mutual Publishing / Editions Limited
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Binding: Hardcover

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Voices in the Wind: The Forgotten Island
Shirley Walters Faulkner
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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ASIN: 141848542X

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The British Virgin Islander sold his Legacy for a bowl of porridge - his hometown is bursting at the seams with the outsider to whom he's given Carte Blanche - unaware that his wings have been clipped he is now the endangered specie and must be watchful less he become like the Dodo and Maori - flightless birds from New Zealand extinct for over a century. Marx asserts that history repeats itself, the first is tragedy and the next time farce. "In the Caribbean we often appear to be sleep-walkers reliving history and repeating the farce."

Voices on the Wind: Polynesian Myths and Chants

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Voices on the Wind: Polynesian Myths and Chants
Katharine Luomala
Manufacturer: Bishop Museum Press
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The Winds of the Soul : Heaven's First Voice to Us

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The Winds of the Soul : Heaven's First Voice to Us
Gregory C. D. Young
Manufacturer: Davidic Pub.
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ASIN: 0615115381

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Most of us are vaguely aware of the fact that we have lost something of ourselves critically essential to our Psychological and Spiritual welfare as we've grown older. Yet, though we know of something missing, we're not quite sure as to what it is or what we should do about it. We just know that we didn't always feel this way, as if part of us has gone to sleep or has become sedated in some fashion, or just didn't fully awaken with the rest of us in the morning. We feel that we've lost undefined portions of ourselves, of our youth, including our spontaneity, our hope for the future, and the Spiritual connections we had with everything around us. Something has changed in our countenance. Things have grown dimmer and have lost their clarity. These are common feelings for us all, and they seem to increase the older we get. Moreover, this existential sentiment has been addressed in everything from classic romantic poetry to the Bible. It seems to be a problem f! aced continually by each generation and by every culture throughout history. The Winds of the Soul by Clinical Psychologist, Neuroscientist, and Oxford University graduate Dr. Gregory C.D. Young, Ph.D. (Oxon.) explains in a Christ-centered, Biblically sound, and psychological astute manner how we actually lose the most valuable parts of ourselves as we age---how forgetting our early memories and those quintessential experiences with the Spirit and our sensitivities to our Goodly feelings is tantamount to losing a working awareness of the most important parts of who we really are and who we used to be, even the source of our intelligence, intuition, and creativity, our capacities for kindness and compassion, and those critical parts of our personalities that are fundamental for our happiness and essential for our Spiritual integrity. Beautifully written in the manner of heartfelt warmth, penetrating insight, and common sense style reminiscent of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis, well respected and esteemed classic Christian authors of the last two centuries, this is a book that can touch and enlighten every core aspect of our life, and thus the potential for personal/individual improvement and societal change is without precedence—overcoming the obstacles that separate us from ourselves and each other by eradicating the afflictions of injustice, throwing down the walls of intolerance, cutting away the thickets of ignorance and the briars of strife, abolishing the cruelties of prejudice while breaking every yoke of oppression—all by gently rebuilding the bridges to those lost and forgotten within us, reconciling with the wisdom and understanding previously made a part of us all. This landmark book wonderfully spans the gulf between Self-Help Psychology and Christian-Spiritual-Inspirational-Religion. Although it is an intellectually sound Christian offering, one that deeply adheres to Gospel Principles and the Biblical teachings of Jesus Christ, it represents a new direction in intellectual thought and understanding for all Christians. It succinctly "asks and answers" the questions that nobody else has and in a way that everybody can quickly relate and easily understand, capturing the interest of its readers and carrying them on a fascinating and positively rewarding journey of self-understanding and Spiritual discovery. This is an adventurous "self-help guide" that poignantly addresses the common psychological and spiritual concerns of every one of us—a "user's manual" and "layman's handbook" offering a new, fresh, and engaging Christ-centered commentary that simply teaches how we may recapture and regain those treasurable, missing, and critically ! essential pieces of ourselves that Christ Himself directs. The Winds of the Soul is not "New Ageism," nor is it something based on Secular Humanism or some popular religious or social trend, but a thoroughly competent spiritual understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, unfolding His insights and teachings in ways nev

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The Voice Within the Wind
Greywind
Manufacturer: Grey House in the Woods
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Want an engrossing murder mystery? Read on!

strong British police procedural
Last Seen in Aberdeen: A Sergent Mornay Mystery (Scottish Mystery Series)
M.G. Kincaid
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ASIN: 0743467574

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In her acclaimed mystery debut, M.G. Kincaid introduced the complex Scottish detective Seth Mornay. Now Mornay must solve a murder while caught between the spotlight of unwanted fame and the shadowy past he'd hoped to leave behind. After the events of The Last Victim in Glen Ross, the image-conscious authorities have branded CID Sergeant Mornay a hero -- a label he would rather shun. But when Mornay is assigned the high-profile case of a young boy's disappearance, his best efforts fail: the murdered boy's body is found not far from his home. While wading through a list of evasive suspects, Mornay's own life threatens to come undone when his long-estranged father becomes a prime suspect in a heroin smuggling case -- a situation made worse by the unwelcome return of a bitter adversary to the Grampian Police department. Now, with both his career and his father's life on the block, Mornay must overcome all obstacles -- both professional and personal -- in the hunt for a child killer....

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Want an engrossing murder mystery? Read on!.......2006-08-17

This was my introduction to this series (one previous book to this). The book is well written, well paced, and with great characterizations that are completely believable. I thought it was particularly good at building a picture of the complex web of relationships and politics within the Scottish police.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I plan to purchase the other book in the series, and I fervently hope the author and publisher plan to continue this taut, compelling series. Really an excellent read.

strong British police procedural.......2004-10-27

Young Matthew Adair was LAST SEEN IN ABERDEEN in broad daylight and then in the twinkling of an eye he vanished. No ransom demand was ever made and a Scottish task force was convened to find the child that caught the whole nation's attention. It was during a traffic accident when a horse trailer turned upside down that Matthews' lifeless body was found, the victim of blunt force trauma to the head. Also, inside the trailer were two dead lambs that belonged to Finovar Castle.

CID sergeant Seth Mornay is currently working the case trying to find the boy's killer. The job is not made easier by Deputy Justice Minister Lord Mindo Gordon, who is using Matthew's death to make a bigger name for himself by insisting the police are not working hard enough to find the killer. If that wasn't enough Mornay's father is under investigation for smuggling drugs and Pamela who is carrying his child is in a coma in a hospital while her sister is threatening to sue Seth for custody. Evidence in Matthew's murder seems to implicate the inhabitants of Finovar Castle and in particular David Lockward who refuses to tell the police where he was on the day Matthew was kidnapped.

M.G. Kincaid has written a brilliantly plotted British police procedural that stars Seth Mornay who first appeared in THE LAST VICTIM IN GLENN ROSS. Readers gain more insight into the complex character of the hero whose professional and personal lives are falling to pieces. LAST SEEN IN ABERDEEN gives armchair travelers a feel for what life in Scotland is like. This author's star is on the rise.

Harriet Klausner

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