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As a result of extensive research into the role of water in the body, the author, a medical doctor, believes that he has found chronic dehydration to be the cause of many conditions including asthma, allergies, arthritis, angina, migraine headaches, hypertension, raised cholesterol, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, depression, and diabetes in the elderly.
According to Dr. Batmanghelidj, the body possesses many different thirst signals. A dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of your body's water needs. He describes a variety of more reliable ones, and helps you learn to understand when your body is calling for water. In this way, he claims you can prevent, treat, and cure a variety of conditions of ill health, at no cost, with what he calls nature's miracle medicine: Water. The author explains how much water one needs to drink a day to stay healthy, and why tea, coffee, and sodas are not good substitutes for water.
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For the first time in medical history, F. Batmanghelidj, M.D., has identified the crisis calls of the body for water --pain, asthma, diabetes, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and more. He has discovered the key to a longer, healthier, and more vigorous life. He shares with you his medical breakthrough that many people put their minds and bodies under intolerable and unecessary stress and become sick simply because they do not drink enough water. Unintentional dehydration leads to illness and painful, degenerative diseases that can be prevented, treated, and cure by drinking plenty of water.
You will learn how to use water to:
* Prevent and reverse premature aging
* Eliminate pains including heartburn, back pain, arthritis, colitis pain, anginal pain, migraine headaches
* Cure asthma in a few days, naturally and forever
* Cure hypertension without diuretics or other medication
* Lose weight effortlessly and naturally, without strict dieting
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The book has nothing more to offer than its title!.......2007-10-08
I was so disappointed in this book. The author spends more time haranging doctors and insurance companies than providing useful insights on water usage. He sounds soured to the industry and the only meaningful thing I found he had to say was in the title. For those of you who haven't bought the book, just read the title, its free and great advice! Drink water!! Yes!!
Too technical.......2007-08-27
The book was filled with very good information, however, unless you're in the medical field or somewhat familiar with medical lingo, I would not recommend this book. This book is filled with 98% medical jargon and reasons our bodies need constant replenishment of water and 5% of actual information on what we can do about it. I can summarize the book in this sentence and save you money "drink plenty of water, even when you're not thirsty. Years of dehydration can and may be taking a toll on your body".
How to get healthy without a lot of meds.......2007-08-08
This book explains in fairly non-technical terms how water is used in the body, brain, circulatory system, etc. I never realized how important it was to drink plenty of water. This author makes it abundantly clear. My new water-drinking regimen has also helped me lose 5 pounds without really trying. Terrific book. Chapters on diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. Anything the reader is concerned about in terms of health. Truly informative.
yikes.......2007-07-23
Like others have said, over drinking water can make you sick. It forces minerals out including potassium which can make you constipated. The book fiber menace suggests unnatural water drinking (when not thirsty) is a cause of chronic constipation. Too much water can also cause general overhydration problems which are many (edema, sodium problems). According to some you need at most 4 8 oz glasses of fluid a day (that includes even diaretics like cucumbers and coffee) unless you are sweating a lot - some suggest food alone can cover this amount. See:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
We have a thirst mechanism for a reason. We are animals not robots. If you are sick or old, then water intake should be monitored not just for dehydration concerns, but because you wouldn't want to drink too much in that state. The body and its thirst mechanism have been serving humans well for millions of years - long before $cience came along.
Your Body's Many Cries for Water.......2007-05-19
This is an excellent book. It may be a bit too technical for some.
I would refer them to " You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty."
I do not agree with him that tap water is an acceptable form of water. Then again, this book was written in the early 1990's.
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Courageous Souls explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, prior to birth for purposes of spiritual growth. The book contains ten true stories of people who planned physical illness, having handicapped children, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, alcoholism, losing a loved one, and severe accidents. Because very different life challenges are often planned for similar reasons, readers who have not faced these specific challenges will nevertheless see themselves - and their motivations as a soul - in these stories. As readers come to realize that they themselves planned their lives, suffering that once seemed purposeless becomes imbued with deep meaning. Wisdom may be acquired in a more conscious manner; feelings of anger, guilt, blame, and victimization are replaced by acceptance, forgiveness, peace, and gratitude.
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courageous souls-Do we plan our life challanges before birth?.......2007-10-15
This book is FANTASTIC!
Everyone has a story and has things going on in their life.This book makes everything that happens to you make sense. It allows you to understand why you have ended up where you are in life.Why you have chosen certain paths.And allows you to understand and be at peace with other peoples choices and the way they live their life.
I just loved it.Everyone should have a copy.It is well written, easy to understand and informative.But above all..it just makes sense.And things seem alot more clear to me than they did before I read the book.I loved it.For anyone who needs alittle hope or clarity in their lives..read this book.
Slow read.......2007-10-12
This book has some interesting ideas but it is a slow read. Not too sure if I would recommend.
Karma is more than payback.......2007-10-11
This book really changed my perspective on my current life situation. I was quite negative about the situation I'm dealing with, feeling it was just the result of past lives in which I had incurred very bad karma and I would just have to live through it. But, after reading this book, I believe I am living this life because of contracts I made in the pre-birth planning. That changes everything for me - if I agreed to the challenges I'm working with because I wanted to help one I love, there can be no resentment, just gratitude for being able to help, and love for the one I'm struggling with. Thank you, Robert Schwartz, what a gift!
So that's why . . ........2007-10-08
If you ever want to get into the backside of your pre-birth planning of your life challenges, read Courageous Souls by Robert Schwartz. Want to know why you attract illness, accidents, birth defects? Want to know why you chose a life of alcoholism or drug addiction, or are around someone who has? Read this book. The stories, while may start out slow at first, are powerful and insightful. Just stick with them. Robert uses mediums who are able to access multiple guides at one time, and your primary guide and listen in on conversations between you and your soul group.
not credible.......2007-09-30
I got to p. 300 and started reading another book. I found this book painstakingly slow to read, the information provided by the mediums: farfetched, and the conclusions drawn by the author, hard to swallow. Often, when mediums are tired, their accuracy rate diminishes. I never heard of any of the mediums used in this book. Robert Schwartz makes everything so complicated when the subject matter is really quite easy to understand. The book just doesn't flow easily and it's not a page turner in my opinion. I'm a believer, but this book really is a waste of time and money. Read Journey of the Soul by Michael Newton, PhD. Instead of using mediums, he enters the superconsciousness of his clients and elicits information from them directly about their experiences on The Other Side.
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Many Waters (A Companion to "A Wrinkle in Time")
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We've all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we've wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don't have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientific experiment with time travel at the moment of our wish. Sandy and Dennys Murry, the "normal" boys in a family of geniuses, suddenly find themselves trudging through a blazing-hot desert, seeking a far-off oasis for shade. Their desperate wandering brings them face-to-face with history--biblical history. Soon they're feeling right at home with Noah and his family. Even so, the urgent question is, how will Sandy and Dennys get back to their own place and time before the floods--the many waters--come? As they begin to cross the invisible border into adulthood, the twins must confront their ability to resist temptation and embrace integrity.
In Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle continues the Murry family saga, which includes A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; and A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award. L'Engle's mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land. If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with space and time travel. If only the Murry twins had noticed the note on the door of their mother's lab: Experiment In
Progress. Please Keep Out
But it's too late for regrets. There's a strange-and very small-person approaching, with a miniature mammoth in tow. . . .
At last it's Sandy and Dennys's turn for an adventure-an adventure that turns serious when they discover that "many waters" are coming to flood the desert. The twins must find a way back home soon, or they will drown. But how will they get back to their own time? Can they?
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Not what I expected from a talented author.......2007-09-29
I was excited to find this book, after enjoying the L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series as a child. However, this book does not live up the expectations I had. The characters are flat and boring. I kept having to page back in the book to even keep track of which twin was Sandy and which was Dennys. L'Engle starts to frame conflict and interest between the Nephilim and Seraphim but then never follows through with any meaningful development of those two groups. There is a strange love triangle between Sandy, Dennys, and Yalith. I refer to it as strange because while Yalith appears to be a teenager, she is actually over 100 years old. Like the rest of the plot, this love interest is not particularly well developed. And parents be aware: there are some overt sexual references in this book, not at all in character with other L'Engle books I have read. The author tries to build suspense about how Yalith will be saved from the flood but even that falls flat. Overall, a disappointing book, especially coming from such a gifted writer.
This book is awesome... one of my favorites. the book was in great condition!! I've already read it since I got it........2007-09-14
This is a great book that mixes a biblical story with time travel and mythological beasts. Madeleine L'Engle has a way of writing that keeps you interested and makes your mind work. Being a Christian, I appreciate her twist of the story to add a little more life to it for her characters, Dennys and Sandy. I highly recommend this book. This book made me WANT to read books.
Good but Not for Younger Readers.......2007-01-11
I loved the L'Engle's books as a child, but didn't read the fourth until now, when my daughter is old enough to read the other three. However, my fifth grader is *not* going to read this one for many years. The religious ideas are quite interesting to contemplate, that is not the issue. But these teenage boys (Meg's older brothers) are are on the cusp of becoming men and I'm not talking about the hair on their upper lip. I cannot believe that the amazon review says "Grade 6 and up" and later in the same paragraph talks about "sexual tension". This book is not appropriate for middle schoolers. And I don't think it is even appropriate for young high schoolers.
However, if you are the right age for the book, it is a good read. Parts of it really make you think. And it is always fun to revisit old characters in a new setting.
What HAPPENED to L'Engle after the first 3 books?.......2006-07-30
I am in a unique position to provide two firsthand views of this book, unfortunately both negative criticism. One from my 5th-grade self, one from me now, 26 years old. I was in, oh, second grade or so when I read 'A Wrinkle in Time'. Suffice it to say, I was enthused, and followed it up with 'A Wind in the Door' and 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet'. But I detested 'Many Waters'. I just couldn't stand it. It bored me for some reason. That's really all I can say about my earlier self's opinion of the book. It just went on and on without anything interesting happening and reading it was a chore, not a pleasure. But I was not a big reader back then. Most of the books I read at that age I read because I had to read something for a book report, and I would pester my mom to read the real nuisance books to me that I really couldn't stand, which was most of them. She sure had high tolerance. It's only in the last few years I've been able to read novels for enjoyment, not so much because I'm so much more mature now, but because I'm able to polish them off in a day or two now. So I came across it again and decided to read it because I figured before I just wasn't ready for it. Well, more mature or not, I can provide a more thoughtful critique, if a not much more positive one. Indeed, it is profoundly lacking in action, I agree with my 5th grade self, though not enough to get me to procrastinate weeks to finish it off and then beg someone to read it to me. But now I have other problems with it too.
This is, I am sad to say, what happens when someone who has a layman's understanding of science in general tries to incorporate it in a large way into a book. I'm sorry, but it is. It expresses foremost of all a very, VERY narrowminded and antiquated view of the cosmos and Earth's and especially man's place in it. I somehow couldn't see it in 5th grade because I knew jack squat about diddly, but reading it now I was floored. I have to wonder, what century did L'Engle come from? The twentieth, which is what makes it so amazing. So now I am virtually a walking database of every concept all the big, famous, award-winning science fiction authors thoroughly and ludicrously butcher to anyone with the knowledge and intellect to see it (especially special relativity) and am very cynical about it when they try to pass on their self-inconsistent nonsense to me, the reader. L'Engle tried to tie up this mythical land and these mythical races and make it consistent with natural as well as biblical history, evidently thinking this was possible, but of course it wasn't and she ended up with something ill-informed to the extreme on every count I can think of. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against purple cows and unicorns flying through space and magic and sorcerors and whatnot for the sake of art, but when you try to tie it in with actual history and other things that are not in the artistic realm, or to try to explain it in established scientific terms that don't fit with it, to me, it just indicates ignorance, not artistic liberty. If you want to make a universe like that, it had better be set long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, and another universe altogether if you want to butcher basic scientific concepts. I don't think L'Engle had a clue what a virtual particle was beyond a simple one-sentence definition you might see in an abridged dictionary, for instance, and ineptly mixed it in with a bunch of other scientific concepts she didn't understand and a lot of religious gooble-dy-gook that sadly so many people believe unquestioningly. For example, making a reference to the evolutionary history of horses (weird that she apparently went for evolution with all the other stuff that's in here), how in the ancient past they were very small, as evidence for the claim that it shouldn't seem so strange for mammoths to have been little bitty too. Yeah, sure, so horses were once the size of dogs.... but we're talking 40 million years ago! L'Engle doesn't seem to recognize the distinction between the time when mammoths and sabertoothed tigers roamed around and one to ten thousand times longer ago than that. I guess it's all just a long time ago to her, so she didn't even know the fallacy of what she did, or worse, she really believed the universe all started up six thousand years ago and that the scientific community is mistaken about time even existing before that, but has no problem with referring to what the scientific community says existed 40 million years ago as long as she merely changes the number to 6 thousand. And of course, let's take the little bitty suits of armor from the middle ages, assume everyone in the middle ages was that short, and extrapolate it to even more ancient times and figure that people must have all been 3 or 4 feet tall back then. It gets even worse when she has the Seraphim Adnarel make the claim that the sun is younger and so brighter in the time the twins have found themselves in, and that is why Sandy and Dennys can't tolerate it. Oh yeah, the solar system was SO much younger 6000 years ago (She also doesn't realize THIS is the Solar system as our star is called 'Sol', and several times refers to all star systems as 'solar systems'). Six thousand years is to the sun as roughly half an hour is to a human lifespan today. The sun was NOT significantly different in brightness in old testament days, and in fact it would have been slightly dimmer - it has in its 5 billion year history, whether you choose to accept all of them or just the last 6 thousand - and will, for billions of years hense, in fact, GROW in brightness over time, making Earth too hot for life in two billion years or so. L'Engle apparently figured the sun to be akin to a big candle slowly dying out in a candlish sort of way over a lifespan of at most a few tens of thousands of years. And of course she abandons any semblance of the stars being natural phenomena with all that stuff about the stars getting brighter for the death of the grandfather and sending messages. A very geocentric point of view, to think all the stars out there are varying their brightness in order to express messages to little old Earth, all timed very well I might add since they're all not only many light years away and different distances away. Several times she goes on about equivalence of mass and energy as if knowing it explains the whole universe, and uses it to explain how the two Seraphim can travel through time at the end - that they turn into energy and back into matter. Well, she's a victim of a common misconception that mass can be converted to energy and vice versa but that they are not the same thing, while in fact mass is a form of energy - just a particularly concentrated one, so the Seraphim ought not to have undergone any transformation at all. And that's hardly half of the things I could gripe about. The rest are just a bit more subtle. She just repeatedly came back to things she didn't understand as if the reader's supposed to be so limited in knowledge of those topics and to conclude the connections are brilliant. Suffice it to say, however, that to a scientist, the multitudes of naive claims and naive comparisons in this book in a vain attempt to be scientific and connect it in with the mythologies invented by people who thought the world was flat are really tiresome because of the invalid assumptions they require, which an informed reader doesn't make and an uninformed reader shouldn't make. (It began to remind me of this insane man who once sat down next to me while I was eating when I was in college and started lecturing me about how neutrinos spoke to him and told him they were messengers from Jesus. I was just like -oooohhhhh kaayyyyy....) I have seen that sort of blundering around a lot, though not to such an amazing extent, and it just really gets to me. I was amused when Dennys realizes the ancient people weren't living for hundreds of years but only hundreds of days, thus having a lifespan of 2 or 3 actual terrestrial years. Anyway, instead of this book, I would recommend you read 'World Without End' by Warren Murphy and his wife. That is, if you're looking for a more rationalist take on history and you're not one of those nuts who think dinosaurs pranced around the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve six thousand years ago instead of pre-dating man by 65 million as radioisotope dating of the bones suggests, because you think the universe is only six thousand years old as apparently L'Engle did - it's nice and ironically satirical about virtually every old legend out there from every region of the world and every sufficiently ancient religion. It is a similar story (guy accidently gets sent back in time to days just before the big flood from the Torah/Old Testament), and very similar premise (although Noah is a very minor character, and just a crazy old kook) but it's much more intelligent (the setting for instance is Atlantis, not some mythical fairyland, which as everyone knows, went out with a big flood, so why not make them one and the same - a nice touch I think), more thoughtful (it has a few morals too - I like the context it put slavery in for instance), better written, funnier, far, far more consistent with natural history (no lap-cat sized mammoths, manticores, unicorns, winged angels or any sort of stubborn and extreme adherence to the most outrageous components of creationist dogma, for starters) and human history (you really think the human lifespan was so very different back then, and that people were typically 4 feet tall?), and if you're a 5th grader, most importantly, there's never a dull moment.
The best book in the series.......2006-06-09
I agree with the other reviewers who said that this book is not like the rest. I disagree when they say that the rest were the good ones and this is the bad one. I far preferred this book to the others in the series. It is nearly a straight up fantasy book, with a releiving lack of L'Engle's new age throw-ins which abound in the rest of the series.
This book chronicles Dennys and Sandy's adventure where they travel back to the area Noah lived in shortly before the flood. It presents a very unique portrayal of the seraphim and nephilim, one that is more mythical than most. L'Engle does a better job of character development in this book than in any of the others, and portrays the battle between good and evil on earth in an extraordinary way.
Overall grade: A
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The Time Quartet Box Set (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters)
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Release Date: 2001-09-11 |
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With very special cover illustrations by Peter Sís and an introduction in each novel by the author, this boxed set of Madeleine L'Engle's modern-day classic series in paperback is much welcome! L'Engle challenges concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil in each of her four riveting novels. Sís's original new cover illustrations capture the hopeful innocence of the characters and the quirky cosmic tensions of the universe. In her introduction, L'Engle writes, "What a delight to see these beautiful new covers for the Time Quartet. It is another indication that stories have a life of their own, and that they say different things to different people at different times. And it is an affirmation that story is true and takes us beyond the facts into something far more real."
The handsome paperback set includes the 1963 Newbery Medal winner, A Wrinkle in Time, plus A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award, and Many Waters. Every young reader should experience L'Engle's captivating contribution to children's literature. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter
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With over 10 million copies in print, Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Medal-winning classic, A Wrinkle in Time, along with its bestselling companions, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters, has enthralled and inspired readers of all ages. This newly designed boxed set features the stunning art of Peter Sís.
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
A book for children, but not too bad for that. A bored girl, her brothers and others get mixed up in an adventure across the space-time continuum by way of some nifty tesseract tricks.
When a strange older woman comes visiting they set off to find the father of all these children, who is a prisoner of one of your standard supervillains, a giant disembodied telepathic brain.
Such a good book.......2007-05-04
This has been one of my all-time favorite books since I first read it as a girl. It is excellent reading for elementary school children, but also fun for adults. Highly recommended!
A Wrinkle in Time.......2007-04-25
Everyone in the Murray household is impatiently awaiting the father's return. He had mysteriously disappeared while experimenting with 5th dimension time traveling. Both Mr. and Mrs. Murray are intelligent scientists. The book is about how two of their four children and their friend travel light years through time to save their father. Meg, the oldest and only sister in the family, finds it difficult to conceal her anxiety for her father. To support her and get her through life, she spends a lot of time with her brother, Charles Wallace. The two of them always had a tenacious bond. Charles Wallace is very bright, but is inexplicably known as the "dumb baby brother." Sandy and Dennys are twins at ten years old. Meg once overheard, "The twin brothers seem to be nice, regular children, but that unattractive girl and the baby boy certainly aren't all there."
Meg also has a friend named Calvin O'Keefe. He is a smart, popular basketball player a couple of grades above Meg. He and three witches help Meg and Charles Wallace try to find their father. These witches' names are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. They are all helpful and unique in their own ways. Maybe a little too unique. Are they smart enough to keep the three children unharmed?
With these interesting characters and a page-turning plot, there's no way you can miss this Newbery Medal book! As you are reading, you come up with questions such as, what does "tesseract" mean? Or, Will everyone come home safely? How does Meg learn to overcome her weakness to save her brother? Also, ask more questions when you read A Wrinkle in Time's sequel, A Wind in the Door and the rest of the series. [...].
A Wrinkle in Time Review.......2007-03-16
The Murrys are often gossiped about since the disappearance of Mr.Murry whom disappeared when Charels Wallace was just a baby (Charles Wallace is the youngest of four children).Charels Wallace is a unique boy and many people think he is a dumb and never learned how to talk when he is really in a way a genius .Margret Murry (Meg) is Charles Wallace's older sister and is the youngest of the four Murry children. Meg is doing poorly in school and is upset because of her "plainness". Eventually Charles Wallace,Meg and Calvin O'Keefe go on a crazy galactic adventure with the help of Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which and their ability to tesser.
A Wrinkle in Time is an exciting and creative story that definitely deserves the Newbery Medal. The only problems in the story were that some of the characters were hard to believe and a few things were hard to understand but all in all it was a great book.
6th grader from WI
Wonderful!!!.......2007-03-12
I've loved this book since I was a kid. Now I can listen to it while I'm walking in the mornings.
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Set in 1654, against the backdrop of the Portuguese Inquisition, this historical novel tells the story of 12-year-old Isobel. Escaping from the monastery where she and her sister have been held, she stows away on a ship in hopes of finding her parents again. Braving loneliness, storms and privateers, Isobel is befriended by a group of passengers and becomes one of the first Jewish immigrants to settle in New Amsterdam.
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Excellent and well researched!.......2006-11-23
A great book for the 5-8 grades. I read this book when I was 13 and today I write historical fiction. It is an excellent example of young adult historical fiction, This book is both well written and well researched. It tells the story of two young jewish woman, taken away from thier parents by the Portugese inquisition and sent to Brazil and thier survival during these difficult times. A worth while read!
Great blend.......2001-03-11
This book was a great blend of fact and fiction. Out of Many Waters is the story of a young girl in the Portugese Inquisition. Isobel Ben Lazar and her sister Maria were taken from their home in Portugal to a monastery in Brazil. At the time of the story, Isobel is twelve and Maria is sixteen. When the sisters are chosen to accompany two friars on their journey to Recife, Maria comes up with an escape plan. The sisters are Jewish, and they want to escape to Amsterdam, where they believe their parents are. The sisters board different ships bound for Amsterdam, and this story follows Isobel throughout her journey. Isobel hides under a longboat for several days, until the sailors on the ship discover her. She joins a band of Jewish colonists who are escaping the Inquisition. Though Isobel is a fictional character, the Jewish families she travels with are actual people. This story was a terrific blend of fact and historical fiction, a story of finding your inner self and stepping out to show your true beliefs.
Historical background and great story.......1999-12-01
"Out of Many Waters" is one of those rare books that combines historical authenticity with a great story. The main character is well-developed and her adventures are exciting. A great read that just happens to be educational!
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Voice of Many Waters: A Sacred Anthology for Today
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Many Waters: Poems from West Virginia (Mellen Poetry Series, Vol 7)
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