This guide describes more than 90 monasteries and retreat centers in the Northeast in detail and lists an additional 220. All offer affordable accommodations where visitors can join the activities or simply enjoy the peace and tranquility. 9 maps.

Sanctuaries- The Northeast: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats of United States

Jack Kelly

Marcia M. Kelly

Religion & Spirituality

Harmony

"Jack Kelly writes like a man ready for a rumble." -New York Daily News
"One of the rules... You don't mess with married women. It's tempting, sure. Forbidden Fruit. He got, I want. But you're only buying trouble and there's enough trouble to be had for nothing."
So says police officer Ray Dolan. But when the sultry Sheila Travis moves in next door, the rules go out the window.
Line of Sight is a stunning example of the neo-noir genre, complete with breathtaking plot twists, crackling dialogue, and sizzling eroticism. It promises to establish Kelly as one of the most stylish writers of crime fiction, on a level with Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, and Walter Mosley.
Ray Dolan is a man haunted by looking. He spends his days keeping watch over a decaying rust-belt city, his nights peering at the stars. Then the seductive glimpse of a woman's shape in a window draws him into a nightmare of murder and accusation.
Dolan knows who's innocent and who's guilty. But does he know how to escape from a terrifying sexual and moral labyrinth The story unfolds in prose that has the glint of a knife blade in the dark.
The explosive novel reminds the reader that each of us walks through a minefield of hidden obsession and unexpected passion. A wrong step, a wrong look, can transform our desires into violence with lethal suddenness.
Line of Sight brings to mind noir classics like Double Indemnity and Body Heat. At the same time, the novel goes beyond the hard-boiled genre to explore the moral and emotional dimensions of obsession, crime, and police power in American society.

Line of Sight

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hyperion

Voice

How David faces the giant, and his other adventures, as he goes on to lead his people, is one of the greatest stories in all of Scripture.

Young King David - Heroes of he Bible

Playmore and Waldman

Teaches students the life stories of great American heroes while enhancing reading skills. By providing students with this important foundation, this title offers a fresh approach to teaching American culture while expanding fluency.

HEROES OF AMERICA~BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Reference

English as a Second Language

BARONET BOOKS

As the pace of life quickens and people feel depleted physically, emotionally, and spiritually, going on retreat to recuperate and regenerate has become a common practice. The quiet and seclusion of a monastery, abbey, or retreat center provide the time, space, and conditions for the mind and heart to come to stillness. This volume features 127 such places, which the Kellys have visited. About one third of these are new, and the other two thirds come from the Kellys earlier regional guides, Sanctuaries: The Northeast and Sanctuaries: The West Coast and Southwest. In addition, there are over 1,000 listings of other places not visited. Many are Catholic or Episcopalian, but there are also Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi, and even Jewish havens, and a few that have no religious affiliationin all, a choice of over 1,200 retreats, in every state of the union, where it is possible to find refuge, peace, and true refreshment.

Sanctuaries: The Complete United States: A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Bell Tower New York

In this coming-of-age tale, a Hawaiian farm boy whose father has died sets out to explore the meaning of a disturbing dream and plunges into an adventurous encounter with the past, present and future of his ancient culture. Keoni s unsettling dream comes to life as he stumbles upon an army of bulldozers razing his beloved forest to build a luxury development. Drifting between dreams and reality, Keoni resolves to seek the wisdom of his ancestors, revered in the Hawaiian cultural tradition. As his quest progresses, Keoni plunges into a luminous lava cave inhabited by ancient spirits; surfaces at sea, and comes to rest at a sacred Hawaiian monument where great tribal leaders have sought refuge in the past. In a spiritual awakening, Keoni learns to listen to his heart and trust the timeless values of his culture. The future of his people and of all creatures, he realizes, ultimately depends upon how well they safeguard their rich forests and farmland. Keoni s Dream is an engaging vehicle for teaching children the power of positive values, as well as the richness of the native cultures being lost to development worldwide. The Hawaiian principles Keoni draws upon in his journey, such as forgiveness, honesty, harmony and unconditional love, are set forth in vivid language, and in original art by renowned Big Island artist Calley O Neill. To create this powerful allegory on overcoming childhood fears, author Jack Kelly draws upon decades of experience developing educational and recreational programs for children, farming on the Big Island and leading Hawaiian conservation and preservation efforts.

Keoni's Dream

Children's Books

Pleiades Publishing

Invented by Chinese alchemists to frighten evil spirits, the simple mixture of saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened the end of feudalism and the rise of the nation state, and greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution. Jack Kelly ranges over cultures, technological innovations and the contributions of Michelangelo, Cortes and Guy Fawkes, among others, to present the gripping account of a substance that Francis Bacon declared to 'have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world'.

Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics : the History of the Explosive Tath Changed the World

History

Military

A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history. ''The Erie Canal rubbed Aladdin's lamp. America awoke, catching for the first time the wondrous vision of its own dimensions and power.'' -- Francis Kimball, American architect. The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier. Men and women saw God face-to-face, gained and lost fortunes, and reveled in a period of intense spiritual creativity.Heaven's Ditch illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this ''psychic highway,'' from its opening in 1825 through 1844. ''Wage slave'' Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, one encounters America's very first ''crime of the century,'' a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers.A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history.

Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal

Americas

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Gunpowder : The History of the Explosive That Changed the World

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

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