The ransom


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Ransom


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In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.




The Father's Love Volume 2- February


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“Abraham, take your son whom you love so much and sacrifice him as a burnt offering to Me on one of the mountains in Moriah.” Ever wondered what was going on in Abraham’s mind when God asks that of him? In this second instalment of ‘The Father’s love series,’ the veil between the mortal and the immortal world is further lowered for the reader to see first-hand the workings behind the scenes. From the perspective of an omniscient narrator, we follow the later adventures of Father Abraham and his son Isaac all the way to the early introductions of his grandsons—Esau and Jacob— and all the drama, lies, passion, betrayal, and fun in-between. Action-packed with colourful depictions of angelic activity of the kingdoms of Light and Darkness, ‘Volume 2 - February’ whisks the reader away on a fantastical rollercoaster ride through the eternal chess matches between angels and fallen angels; demons and heavenly beasts; hybrids and humans; the Dark Lord and the Great-Father-of-Spirits. With bated breath, we cheer, boo, weep, sigh and shout in triumph as we watch these characters race against time to destroy or secure humanity’s salvation plan.










Hymns for Worship


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The Ransom of Mercy Carter


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Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her "English" family. She slowly discovers that the "savages" have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?