A Winter Haunting

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A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the terrible summer of 1960 -- is only the latest in his long succession of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick, blanketing early snow is starting to fall ...

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hard to stay with.......2007-06-29

I had a really hard time staying with this story.Some parts were good than it would very quickly get boring and drawn out,I found myself skipping over many pages.It is not a story that would stay with me,it just didn`t keep my interest.Not even half as good as the prequel.

A great sequal to Summer of Night.......2007-06-12

Sequels seldom match the orginal book, but this story kept me reading. If you read "Summer of Night," then I would recommend that you read a "Winter Haunting." Very good.

Enjoy a good read.......2007-03-27

After recommending "Summer of Night" to all my friends, I can add this tale to their short list as well.

Not as good as the prequel.......2007-03-08

This book left me with a lot of unanswered questions and loads of supension of disbelief. This is a sequel to Summer of Night, set about 40 years later with one of the main charcters from the first book. It was an okay read, but Summer of Night was a much more gripping book than this one was to me. I cared more about the charcters in the prequel than the charcters in this one.

An absolute must read for paranormal fanatics!.......2007-02-23

To be honest, I first bought this book because of its cover. I was in the mood for a good scary read and the old house covered in snow sitting on the front cover caught my attention and reminded me of home in Maine. This book has one of the scariest scenes that I have ever read and for those of you who have read this, you'll remember him cutting the plastic to gain acces to the second floor. If you love ghost stories or the adrenaline rush from being frightened then this is a MUST HAVE for your library!

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The Teeny Tiny Ghost Says, "No Fear!"
A Great Read-Aloud! A Sure-Fire Hit With Kids!

Whooo's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost?
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Whooo's there?

It's hard to be brave when you're a teeny tiny ghost. Especially when SOMEONE is haunting your teeny tiny house!

Chains CLICK, Chairs ROCK, Feet STOMP,

but on one is there.

Help the teeny tiny ghost and his teeny tiny cats solve this spooky Halloween mystery!

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The Teeny Tiny Ghost Says, "No Fear!".......2001-05-26

The Teeny Tiny Ghost returns to give us more insight into how to overcome fear, even if you are too small to be scary yourself. It's all about practice and repetition, so why not another visit from your child's favorite Halloween character? Kay Winters and Lynn Munsinger score again with their energetic, expressive, humorous work.

A Great Read-Aloud! A Sure-Fire Hit With Kids!.......1999-08-18

This fun-loving and playful picture book is scary enough to hold the interest of the bold child and gentle enough to entertain the timid. Kids will love and indentify with the Teeny Tiny Ghost and his two black cats. With its rhythmic prose and delightful illustrations, the book makes a great aloud - at Halloween or at any other time.

Anthology of Fear 20 Haunting Stories for Winter Nights

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Winter Collection: Chilling Short Stories With Haunting Unique Twists

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Love this author...

Winter Collection: Chilling Short Stories With Haunting Unique Twists
Cora, Miller
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Award-winning mystery writer Cora Miller has crafted eleven tales of suspense and presents them for your reading pleasure in Winter Collection. In Prisoner of Love, a young girl exacts revenge upon a date rapist.a group of boys pool their Allowance to rid the neighborhood of menace.White Nights and Vagrant Hearts reveal two very different Cinderella experiences. These are just a few of the stories that will touch your heart, make you think and stay with you long after you turn the final page.

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WOW!.......2006-12-21

This book had me on the edge of my seat.It usually takes me about 2 to 3 weeks to read a book. I finished this one in 4 1/2 hours. Each story left me wanting more and more. I will be eagerly awaiting the next installment.

Love this author..........2006-12-21

... if you like well written stories with fleshed out characters aimed at the thinking adult then this is the book for you ... takes me back to Hitchcock's STORIES THAT SCARED EVEN ME .. Great fireside read ..

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WHOOO'S HAUNTING THE TEENY TINY GHOST?
Kay Winters
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Whooo's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost? (Bk. 2) (Teeny Tiny Ghost Ser., Vol. 2)

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Kay Winters
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Jr. L.E. Modesitt
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Fun End to the Eschaton Trilogy

Pohl with another good one

Pohl at his best

I expected better

The best is last

The Far Shore of Time (Eschaton)
Frederik Pohl
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Dan Dannerman has been through hell. Caught in the middle of an interstellar war that will end only with the death of the universe, he's been captured by aliens who call themselves the Beloved Leaders, cloned repeatedly, torn from his wife, and brutally tortured.Sitting in a prison cell on an alien world, slowly going mad, Dan is finally freed by the Horch, the sword enemies of the Beloved Leaders. The time has finally come for Dannerman to strike back--but at whom?Trusting neither side, Dannerman must somehow convince the Horch to send him back to Earth so he can warn humanity of the approaching alien menace. But when he finally returns he finds an Earth far stranger than he can possibly imagine, an Earth that already has two Dan Dannermans--an Earth already under seige by the Beloved Leaders....

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Fun End to the Eschaton Trilogy.......2007-01-09

THE FAR SHORE OF TIME(1999) is a quick read, and provides a fun ending to THE ESCHATON SERIES. The first two books in the series were the slow-paced THE SIEGE OF ETERNITY(1997), and the excellent THE OTHER END OF TIME(1996).

The Eschaton is a religious concept that basically has all living beings being reborn to a heaven at the time of "the big crunch" (which occurs when The Universe stops expanding, and eventually collapses - the opposite of "the big bang"). However, this concept figures far less into THE FAR SHORE OF TIME, as it did in the first two books in the series.

In this series, man has encountered aliens, who have arrived in Earth orbit, and who are able to transport matter from one "terminal" to another. These aliens believe in The Eschaton concept, and are feuding with another alien faction - but it is unclear which set of aliens are "the good guys".

The main characters in the series end up getting "copied" in various quantities by the aliens' matter transportation technology. In THE FAR SHORE OF TIME, the story concentrates around "the third copy" of Dan Dannerman, and takes place mostly off-Earth.

Pohl with another good one.......2006-11-05

Now I am not going to lie to you and tell you this is the War and Peace of SF...however if you are in the mood for some light entertaining SF this series is for you. The author comes through again with a fun story.

Pohl at his best.......2003-09-29

Part of a true three novel trilogy Eschaton, including (The Other End of Time, The Siege of Eternity, The Far Shore of Time). This trio deals with first contact but Pohl couldn't let it be a simple aliens encounter, there are two different and of course warring alien alliances but that is as far as the "of course" goes. The leaders of earth first have to come to terms among themselves so they can choose correctly from slim, hidden and misleading evidences, which group of aliens is truthful and altruistic and which will conquer and enslave.
Besides the wonderful Sci-Fi and multitude of sentient beings there is a good study of the human psyche in captivity. Also a twist in dealing with unwanted clones; not knowing which is the original, if there is an original, which clone gets the spouse and like conundrums.
You have to stay alert to the fast pace and changing / multiplying cast. A very good read with interesting alien customs and biology's.

I expected better.......2001-10-30

There just isn't much to praise in this book. Standard aliens, standard plot, and one glaring scientific error at the end when Pohl's plot relies on methane having a greater density than average Earth atmosphere and sinking and pooling at the surface of the Earth-- in fact, methane has only about half the density of "air" and rises up through it. How does someone of Pohl's experience and stature make a freshmen chemistry mistake like this? Answer: it was a rushed book, and it shows.

The best is last.......2001-05-15

Though the third book in the Eschaton Sequence is in some ways the conclusion, Pohl leaves enough room so that more novels could be written about Dan Dannerman (well one of them at least). The third book introduces the Horch, in the form of Beert and his nest. The Docs are represented mostly by Pirraghiz, who acts as Dan's nurse and later becomes his friend. Wisely Pohl keeps the science mostly in the fictional realm, so not to overburden the reader. With over half of the book set in the "prison" camp that had been liberated by the Horch, and only the occasional appearance one of the other Dans, there was not nearly the confusion of characters, that are the same person (most of the confusion occurred when dealing with the Pats), which happen a lot in the second book. Ironically, the only drawback to the book was that most of the other characters from the other books did not make appearences.

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The Far Shore of Time - Signed
Frederik Pohl
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Far Shore of Time
Frederik Pohl
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Thomist's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition rexamines the crisis of Thomism today as thrown into relief by Vatican II, the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Following the Church's declarations on culture in the document Gaudium et spes - the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World - it was widely presumed that a mandate had been given for transposing ecclesiastical culture into the idioms of modernity. But, says Tracey Rowland, such an understanding is not only based on a facile reading of the Conciliar documents, but is flawed by Thomism's own failure to demonstrate a workable theology of culture that might guide the Church through such transpositions.

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Great book, but we still need to go even deeper .......2007-05-07

I am of the stripe that Alcuin Reid speaks of - post Vatican II is all I know. However, I've tried to peek into the attic as well, and what I've found is disturbing. And the cause of that disturbance is evidenced here in the juxtaposition of Reid's review with that of the neo-thomist Theatetus's review above him.

Rowland is trying, with as true and as helpful a reading of Aquinas as possible, to deal with the problem of modernity. It's a reading that is legitimate and does attempt to answer the honest questions that modernity has posed to the likes of the church; namely, the question of historicity and subjectivity. Fr. Norris Clarke S.J. is perhaps the eloquent exponent of this view. Then enters the likes of Theatetus who is clearly a neo-thomist who, corrupted by a rationalist (hence modernist) reading of Thomas, claims that his, not Rowland's Thomism is the antidote to Modernity. His solution to Modernity is Modernity. It's the ultimate in futility.

The very existence of this debate is disturbing because this is what is under the surface of popular faith. It's a war zone. The war of the nouvelle theologie against the neo-thomists is disturbing. The war between the integralists after Vatican II (Rahner vs. Von Balthasar etc.) is disturbing. It's all disturbing because at bottom the debates are about the nature of truth, and noone in the church can seem to agree on it. Rowland's book is comforting in light of this. However, I would love it if she were to write another book that looked even deeper into the causes of the divide we are now experiencing.

Incisive critique, but where are the thomists?.......2005-01-13

Tracey Rowland has written an excellent critique of the classical liberal assumptions that still dominate thought in much of the West. She is especially effective in dispelling the ideology of "human rights" by comparison to the classically conceived theory of right. However, there is much in this book that is baffling to me.

First, it is not clear to which "thomist tradition" she refers in the title. Certainly, the authors she criticizes, the "whig thomists" as she calls them, do not represent the main current of Thomism. And "analytical Thomism" is hardly what I think of when I hear "thomist tradition". On the other hand, the authorities she invokes, Pope John Paul II, Ratzinger, Schindler, De Lubac, Kaspar, Schmitz, and MacIntyre, are certainly not thomists in any traditional sense. They are original thinkers who vary greatly in their fidelity to Saint Thomas, freely contradicting him when it suits them. Alone of this group would I have recognized MacIntyre as a thomist, and he is no conventional one. It seems that among Catholic intellectuals "thomist" has become a designator of personal approval rather than objective doctrinal content. To be a "thomist" one does not have to agree with St. Thomas on fundamentals; it's enough to invoke his name. It is no wonder then that there are only a few references in this work to St. Thomas' own writings. None of St. Thomas' works even appear in the bibliography.

Second, there are some serious problems with her solution. She maintains that the "identities in relation" logic of the Trinity needs to be applied to the person as such, so that what constitutes us as persons is not only substantiality, but also relatedness. But St. Thomas makes it clear that only in God are persons subsistent relations. Moreover, the created relations we have to God as creatures are not reciprocal or in any way definitive of personhood. God does not have a real relation to creatures, and all creatures, whether persons or not, have this relation to God. Dr. Rowland has not grasped that while the Vatican gives lip occasional service to such theses as she presents, it effectively undermines all attempts to restore the Tradition that she wishes to vivify. Groups that wish to retain the traditional worship and theology are hammered down, exiled, or called schismatic by the very authorities to whom Dr. Rowland is appealing. As is typical of contemporary papal apologists, she does not wish to see the disturbing and scandalous elements of this papacy, and by a very selective reading of the Pope's writings would make us understand him to be a traditionalist in disguise. He is, in fact the most radically liberal Pope ever to sit in the chair of St. Peter.

Dr. Rowland's work ultimately takes us right back to where we are today. She comes down in favor of a "continental Thomism" that has less to do with St. Thomas than even the "analytical Thomism" she criticizes. (Her division of Thomism along the lines of the Continental / Anglo-American divide reveals her essentially post-modern framework.) American culture comes in for a drubbing (not unjustly) and it is suggested, although not too loudly, that today's European culture is more sympathetic to Christianity. Never mind that the Catholic Church in Europe is nearly extinct. We in America and the English-speaking countries are to take their lead. But didn't we do the same 40 years ago? It was the Rhine, not the Potomac, which flowed in to the Tiber. Let's go back to St. Thomas in the original, not to the perverted images of St. Thomas being sold to us, whether those of the "analytical thomists" or the "continental thomists". In view of her incisive critique of liberal society, it is a shame that Dr. Rowland has not recognized the source of the problems in the Church today, which remains a hierarchy and papacy resolutely attached to dubious novelties.

A Crititcal Re-Aprraisal of Vatican II.......2003-10-22

To live in the aftermath of an Ecumenical Council appears never to have been easy. In our own age, we who have grown up in the shadow of Vatican II need to remember this. We probably suffer from having been told "Vatican II changed all that" in respect of all aspects of Church life, and we may well have looked on whilst those who questioned such `changes' were consigned to perdition.

Such is the deference with which we have been taught that we must speak about Vatican II and all its works that I was astonished to read in Aidan Nichols' The Theology of Joseph Ratzinger an account of Ratzinger's substantial criticisms of the Council's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et spes. Surely this was the document of the Council par excellence? How could it be subject to such informed criticism?

The answer is that most of the documents of Vatican II contain reformable prudential judgements made in contingent circumstances; they are not dogmatic definitions to which one owes the assent of faith, but rather, largely, they seek to chart pastoral policy for the Church (eg, one can be a Catholic in good faith and believe that the Council was silly to call for the introduction of bidding prayers into the Mass-the decision is simply a matter of judgement, not doctrine). Once this is understood, it is perfectly reasonable for a peritus of the Council, as Joseph Ratzinger was, to engage in a critical evaluation of these judgements and policies.

Today, it is, surely, no less appropriate that critical evaluation should continue, particularly in the light of the almost forty years' experience since, for, even if the policies of the Council were apposite, the pastoral policies appropriate to the Church today may well not be identical to those of forty years ago.

Enter the Australian Cambridge scholar Dr Tracey Rowland. She is a "child of Vatican II" in that she has known no other period of history, and has been inoculated with the assumptions that modernity is intrinsically good and that modern culture is the apex of philosophical and humanistic achievement, and that the Church has rightly shaped her pastoral policies in accordance with them. Fortunately, though, Rowland has-rather like a child forbidden to look in an attic-delved behind these assumptions.

She has delved deeply. Its central tenet is that, in its uncritical embrace of modernity in general and of modern culture in particular, Gaudium et spes was insufficiently critical of modernity and operated from flawed understanding of culture, with the result that `modern' pastoral policies based on these errors have resulted in "a widespread loss of faith within Europe...within countries like Canada, the United States and Australia." Furthermore, Rowland argues:

Those sections of Gaudium et spes that appear to give the Church's approval to the culture of modernity were formulated without reference to a theological framework within which the concept of culture could be `eschatologically situated.' In the absence of any such theological framework, an endorsement of the culture of modernity, or select aspects thereof, can only be, as Rahner conceded, an act of faith.

To this canonisation of modern culture, Rowland juxtaposes the response of scholars of the Thomist tradition, who vary as to whether such a concept is fundamentally alien to the faith, or is complementary. Her study finds for the former, concluding:

`Pastoral strategies' that further blur the distinctions between the culture of modernity and a culture rooted in a specifically Trinitarian Christocentrism do nothing to restore the visibility of the form and further compound the crisis. Either the Church as the Universal Sacrament of Salvation is the primary source, guardian and perfector of culture within persons, institutions and entire societies, or culture becomes and end in itself-an ersatz religion-as in the Aristocratic Liberal and Nietzschean traditions, which in turn implodes into that anti-culture known as `mass culture.'

Dr Rowland draws upon an impressive and wide-ranging array of philosophical and theological sources including works by Alasdair MacIntyre, Von Balthasar, Aidan Nichols, David Shindler and John Paul II, and avoids the dry erudition of some scholarly works by regularly connecting her argument with facets of post-Conciliar life, most particularly the Liturgy. Her conclusions in here are highly significant, locating the question of the Liturgy at the very centre of the life of the Church:

It is precisely what [Cardinal] Lercaro called the `cultural patrimony of the Church,' and what Paul VI identified as the Church's rich liturgical culture, which was historically the source of the plain person's exposure to `high' or `erotic' or `aristocratic' culture and, in particular, to beauty. By depriving people of these riches through the policy of accommodating liturgical practices to the norms of `mass culture'-a culture already identified by Guardini in the 1950s as an `anti-culture'-the post-Conciliar Church has unwittingly undermined the ability of many of its own members to experience self-transcendence. This destruction in turn leads to a loss of `sapiential experience'-...a necessary element of [truly] prudential judgement-and a preparation for the virtue of hope. As a consequence, plain persons fall into the pit of nihilistic despair and/or search for transcendence in the secular liturgies of the global economy, whereas the more highly educated pursue strategies of stoic withdrawal and individual self-cultivation which are destined to end in despair, and even madness, for which the secular critics of modernity-Freud and Heidegger, for example-have no viable solutions.

This is an extremely important book, and no serious student of theology or pastor can afford to ignore it; we do live and work in the shadow of an Ecumenical Council which has-intentionally or not-revolutionised the Church, and-unless all the statistics lie-not for the better. It is utterly necessary that more scholars continue the work of thorough, loyal, critical examination of its strengths and of its very real weaknesses and of their implications for the life of the Church that Dr Rowland has begun so well.

Basis of the Church's pastoral problems since Vatican II.......2003-08-12

This book has been reviewed by the emminent Fr Peter Joseph STD in AD2000 Vol 16 No 5 (June 2003), p. 17: "Dr Rowland argues that the anti-beauty orientation of mass culture acts as a barrier to the reception of the theological virtue of hope, and ultimately fosters despair and atheism."

I found the book's insights on when to adopt/reject the concepts of rival intellectul traditions especially helpful. There are pastoral as well as important philisophical lessons in here.

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Title: Thomism unwhigged.(Culture And The Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II)(Book Review)
Author: Douglas A. Ollivant
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 143 Page: 47(3)

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