The Crimson Thread

In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation, finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks, and kitchen knives. During the bloody eleven-day battle, Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two Australian soldiers. Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. They are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering White Mountains. Both are among the seven thousand Allied soldiers left behind in the desperate evacuation from Crete’s storm-lashed southern coast. Alenka hides Jack and Teddy at great risk to herself. Her brother Axel is a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator and spies on her movements. As Crete suffers under the Nazi jackboot, Alenka is drawn into an intense triangle of conflicting emotions with Jack and Teddy. Their friendship suffers under the strain of months of hiding and their rivalry for her love. Together, they join the resistance and fight to free the island, but all three will find themselves tested to their limits. Alenka must choose whom to trust and whom to love and, in the end, whom to save.

"Once upon a Time" Is Timeless The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with her family, is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J. P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save the business, that she is so skillful she can "practically spin straw into gold." Amazingly, in the course of one night, Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns -- with the help of Ray Stalls, a man from her tenement who uses an old spinning wheel to create dresses that are woven with crimson thread and look as though they are spun with real gold. Indebted to Ray, Bertie asks how she can repay him. When Ray asks for her firstborn child, Bertie agrees, never dreaming that he is serious....

Ribbon of the sea -- Bird in a bottle -- Yesterday -- Memory shots -- Gotta dance -- The eraser -- The elusive Milena -- Remy's quantum realities -- One-centimeter journey -- Five stories of hide-and-seek -- Alice in Shadowland -- Alice in Bookland -- Que sera sera -- 24,000 kisses -- The thief's tango -- Joker Joe -- Flame -- Hide-and-not-go-seek -- Lena's death -- Fallen angel

Joses and Jude are brothers with a common goal; they both seek to defeat and expel the Romans from Palestine and rule Israel themselves. The problem is, only one of them can rule. Who wins will decide the course of history. Jesus was a warrior and a mystic, and he did not consider the two to be mutually exclusive. The question is, who was Jesus? 'The Crimson Thread' points to the obvious, and the reader is in for a big surprise. The book has loads of action, a host of visions, and the exposure of nearly all sacred cows.

Understanding the redemptive thread of Christ is the key to unlocking the mystery of the Bible! Countless people read the Bible with a desire to learn more about God; however they find the text difficult to understand and abandon their attempts to comprehend it. The Bible is meant to be understood as a whole and not in parts. It can be frustrating to pursue answers to life's difficult questions unless you perceive how the entire Word of God and life are strongly bound together by an intricate thread. Written by award-winning author Joshua A. McClure, The Crimson Thread of the Bible is not a study of the actions, stories, and exploits of people in the Bible, instead it is a story about God's faithfulness and determination to carry out His plan to redeem His fallen people. It reveals the constant thread throughout the Bible that tells how God's Divine plan is fashioned in eternity and how the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ were always central to His plan. With straight talk on kingdom living, this groundbreaking book speaks to the one who longs for the God who invites us to reach for Him. In it you will find that unlocking the mystery of the Bible leads you to a road of transformation and gives you a new sense of spiritual vigor!

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two sons, their grandchildren, even their faithful old dog--is on the porch, listening contentedly as Abby tells the tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different too: Abby and Red are growing older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them, and the fate of the house so lovingly built by Red's father. Brimming with the luminous insight, humor, and compassion that are Anne Tyler's hallmarks, this capacious novel takes us across three generations of the Whitshanks, their shared stories and long-held secrets, all the unguarded and richly lived moments that combine to define who and what they are as a family.

"This tapestry thing is very cool and all," Phoebe said, "but we just want to get back to our dad. Can you help us or not?" "Yes, I can help you, but only if you help me," Sophia replied. "Sure. What do you need?" asked Derek. "Cords and threads stained by blood." On an archeological trip to Turkey, sixteen-year-old Derek Paloma and his fourteen-year-old sister, Phoebe, experience an earthquake and are separated from their father while exploring an ancient underground city in Cappadocia. There, they stumble upon a mysterious, deteriorated tapestry and a time traveler named Yaldar. Together, they travel through centuries, recovering the needed threads, which they bring to the weaver, Sophia, to reconnect the panels and restore the Tapestry of Time. Will Derek be able to collect a thread from Yeshua's robe? Will Phoebe and Derek finish their job so they can reunite with their father? What is the crimson thread? Only the Tapestry of Time will tell!