Showing posts with label coming of age novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coming of age novel. Show all posts

Thursday, April 19, 2012

'The Scroll' - Destiny awaits!

"What determines the worth of an archaeological artifact? Does the value come from the component materials, the previous owners’ identity, the historical significance or something else? In “The Scroll,” Grant R. Jeffrey and Alton L. Gansky offer their opinions on the topic and that opinion is enormous, as are its implications.


The title scroll, a document scribed on copper, provides clues to the location of hidden treasures spirited away from the Temple in Jerusalem prior to its destruction. A team of biblical archaeologists assemble to follow the clues in the document in an effort to locate the precious artifacts. Here’s the catch: the treasures won’t go in to a museum. Instead they will be used to rebuild the Temple and outfit its priesthood."

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Monday, April 11, 2011

'Daughter of the Caribbean' by Norma Jennings


"Olivia invites you to visit Jamaica and her childhood home, Twickenham, in Norma Jennings’s debut novel, 'Daughter of the Caribbean.'



A young girl of mixed race parentage, Olivia spends much of her childhood in Jamaica in the company of her grandmother, Edith. Miss Edith, known to locals as Sedith, has known good times and difficult ones. As custodian of the family history, she passes the information down to her grandchildren. Little Olivia takes in the information even as it helps to shape her."

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