The Mormon Mirage: A Former Member Looks at the Mormon Church Today
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By Latayne C. Scott
Narrated By Tamara Marston
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Three decades after leaving the Mormon faith, Latayne Colvett Scott looks back to her original journey out of Mormonism and the reasons why she left. Revised and updated, this third edition of The Mormon Mirage presents both a fascinating inside look at Mormonism and new and formidable evidence against its claims and teachings.
The desert is no place for ocean-dwelling Kampii like Aluna and Hoku, especially now that Aluna has secretly started growing her tail. But the maniacal Karl Strand is out to conquer the Above World, and the horselike Equians are next on his list. Aluna, Hoku, and their friends - winged Calli and Equian exile Dash - race to the desert city of Mirage, intent on warning the Equians and forming an alliance. Unfortunately, Strand’s clone, Scorch, has gotten there first. Now the Equian leader has vowed to take all his people to war as part of Strand’s army.
In 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller - president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency - is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting down, Nate goes after the killer, but he’s in for the biggest surprise of his career. Demonstrating once again that he is the master of true-crime fiction, Max Allan Collins’ story of the birth of Las Vegas - and the dirty deeds that floated all around it - is a masterpiece of modern noir. Heller follows the trail as it leads to Hollywood and Las Vegas....
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 28 mins)
By Nina Burleigh
Narrated By Cassandra Campbell
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Little more than 200 years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation: and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt.
Former Time magazine Jerusalem bureau chief Aikman takes a sober, balanced look at the Middle East, issuing a challenge to take a uniquely Christian approach to the Middle East rather than religious crusading.
In 30 years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered Amber's Mirage--a shining cliff above a spring that ran heavy with gold. But his young sidekick took up the search to find the gold--a search that would cost him two years away from wild Ruby, the woman he loved.
The Bob Edwards Show, Nina Burleigh and Geraldine Brooks, January 3, 2008
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By Bob Edwards
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Bob talks with journalist Nina Burleigh about the world's first Egyptologists. In 1789 Napoleon Bonaparte led a group of French intellectuals and scientists to Egypt to bring "democracy to the Arabs". Burleigh's book Mirage is an historical account of a situation we see repeating itself today. Then, for 11 years, Geraldine Brooks was a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Her beat included some of the world's hotspots: Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East.