The Adventures of Meek and the Island of Jewel


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Meek is a colorful bird with a jeweled beak, bright feathers, and dreams of places and adventures that lie beyond his island. He keeps trying to fly off, but is never strong enough. When a storm's headwinds carry Meek far away, he ends up in a strange place, with even stranger creatures. What will Meek discover and should one be careful what they wish for? Or will Meek find a dream come true? "Children's imaginations will soar as they join Meek, the wonderful, jeweled parrot, on far-off adventures while meeting new wise friends who offer sound advice. The Adventures of Meek is sure to be your child's favorite book." - Julie A. Brown, M.Ed "The text alone could make a child's imagination go wild, but the vibrant illustrations will catch the eye of anyone who picks up the book. I want more adventures with Meek." - Kara Morrisey, Senior Behavior Therapist "Meek's exploits will appeal to everyone. I interact with people every day who possess Meek's sense of adventure and curiosity. As a father of four, let Meek's contagious spirit spring into your world!" - George Balen, partner at HomeExchange.com Anthony R. Pitko says Meek came to him in a dream. "I saw his colors and the stories of my life came out in the rhymes I was writing.




To Calais, In Ordinary Time


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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS, SCOTSMAN and SPECTATOR Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a Scots proctor sets out for Avignon and a young ploughman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to Calais. Coming in their direction from across the Channel is the Black Death, the plague that will wipe out half of the population of Northern Europe. As the journey unfolds, overshadowed by the archers' past misdeeds and clerical warnings of the imminent end of the world, the wayfarers must confront the nature of their loves and desires. A tremendous feat of language and empathy, it summons a medieval world that is at once uncannily plausible, utterly alien and eerily reflective of our own. James Meek's extraordinary To Calais, In Ordinary Time is a novel about love, class, faith, loss, gender and desire - set against one of the biggest cataclysms of human history.




Forest and Stream


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Loving to Know


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Knowing is less about information and more about transformation; less about comprehension and more about being apprehended. This radical book develops the notion of covenant epistemology--an innovative, biblically compatible, holistic, embodied, life-shaping epistemological vision in which all knowing takes the shape of interpersonal, covenantal relationship. Rather than knowing in order to love, we love in order to know. Meek argues that all knowing is best understood as transformative encounter. Creatively blending insights from a diverse range of conversation partners--including Michael Polanyi, Michael D. Williams, Lesslie Newbigin, Parker Palmer, John Macmurray, Martin Buber, and James Loder--Meek offers critically needed "epistemological therapy" in response to the pervasive and damaging presumptions that those in Western culture continue to bring to efforts to know. The book's innovative approach--an unfolding journey of discovery-through-dialogue--itself subverts standard epistemological presumptions of timeless linearity. While it offers a sustained and sophisticated philosophical argument, Loving to Know's texts and textures interweave loosely to effect therapeutic epistemic transformation in the reader.







Jewel's Story Book


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Adventure


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Our Island Story


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Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.