Bøger af Jeremy Campbell

Fast-paced, heartwarming & inspired by a real Labrador Retriever, Between the Mountains is a suspenseful tale about people whose lives become connected by a stray dog.

"Jeremy Campbell's novel resides solidly within a tradition of Southern storytelling that shows us an old world through new eyes... a beautifully fresh folktale." - Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish¿Fast-paced, heartwarming and inspired by a real Labrador Retriever, Between the Mountains is a suspenseful tale about a group of people connected through a stray dog. Roscoe was a nomad, roaming alone across a small town until he met J.D., the leader of a community center whose never-ending loyalty rivals that of the old lab. When a figure from the past targets Roscoe, shock and outrage ripple through the mountain town. J.D. and his friends band together as the threat becomes clear: protect the dog, protect the entire community.Arley, a college student struggling to reveal her true self after returning home, witnesses a disturbing incident that leads her to Emma, an entrepreneur with a knack for speaking her mind. As whirlwind events unfold around them, the two new friends must choose to confront their own personal histories or jeopardize their future relationships, their livelihood and love.Between the Mountains is an emotionally charged page turner that examines the importance of community, the limits of forgiveness and the power of hope.

A nation that could drink "near beer" during Prohibition and fight a "quasi-war" with France is unlikely to be fastidious about absolutes. Alexis de Tocqueville, sharp-eyed visitor to Jacksonian America, thought ambiguity was a peculiarly American style, reflecting a certain restlessness and love of novelty, the fear of getting stuck in a rut he noticed on his travels. Americans preferred to leave language open, as one would leave a door or a window open, to make a quick exit when prudence dictated. Ambiguity is a device for finding options and exits. second thoughts and on the fly decisions. It is an enabler of democracy. It haunts the US Constitution. One historian calls the text's loose wording the saving "lubricant," that greased the joints of that eighteenth century masterpiece. Yet inexactitude can also be pernicious. It has been held responsible for the Civil War, the Great Depression and the hypertrophy of the powers of the modern American presidency. In today's contentious and polarized politics, its intensely pluralistic society, ambiguity is more in vogue than ever. It tends to dilute antagonisms and ideological fixity. This book discovers it in unexpected places, recruited for surprising reasons, part of American exceptionalism's exceptional genius for compromise. Often, it is not a pretty story. Notorious is Congress's habit of weasel-wording legislation to muffle its effect on sensitive sections of the electorate, then leaving the Supreme Court to disambiguate the language. Critics have also accused the Court of handing down "fat and flabby" opinions, motivated by an over-eager desire to find an elusive consensus among the justices. Morality is growing indistinct. Sins that used to be clear-cut, Biblically prohibited and universally deplored, are now unstable and hard to pin down. Racism, an offense that needs all the ambiguity it can get, and was skirted gingerly in the founding documents, has lost its definition. Overt, deliberate and highly injurious racism is rare, and severely punished. What survives is ambiguous racism, "implicit," the kind that can be read in more than one way by more than one person. It may exist below the threshold of consciousness. And along with subtle racism is subtle sexism, sometimes lurking beneath the "chivalrous" behavior of men, which reinforces gender stereotypes. The United States began double-minded about the prospects for a stable republic. The Authors of the new nation were under no illusions as to the defects of human nature, and its perpetual failure to come up to expectations. They harbored deep misgivings as to whether the ordinary citizen had the virtue, the intelligence and the character to preserve the precious liberties that were in their gift. So the wise Founders decided to adopt a somewhat paradoxical view of the situation. They were dubious about Americans, but optimistic about America. The fact that this was illogical, paradoxical, and did not bear close examination, nevertheless set the stage for an astonishing future for the country.

A dog can change everything.In this novel inspired by a true story, three strangers set out to save a dog living in the woods along a small-town road. Their unlikely partnership leads to major life changes as they try to protect Poppy, the little pup at the center of their new friendship. Bell already cares for an enormous family of pets, but her heart aches to help just one more. Emma packs her hectic schedule with so many side hustles she has no time for what really matters. Charles lost his passion for life after his father died. New relationships are tested as they try to save the dog. Together, the newly-formed friends lean on one another during some of life's toughest moments, including a devastating tornado, failed dreams and heartbreaking loss. Can Poppy, their four-legged friend, help her people find their own path back home?

A dog can change everything. Three strangers become unlikely friends as they spend a year searching for a stray pup and find each other along the way. Can a four-legged friend help its people find their own path back home?

A grand work of philosophy and history, The Many Faces of God shows how our religious conceptions have been shaped by advances in technology and science. Beginning his narrative in the 1600s and concluding with the fervor of the millennium, Jeremy Campbell shows how Isaac Newton and his generation altered the medieval definition of God from one interpreted through divine messengers to an all-knowing, autocratic God who watched over the scientific wonders of the universe. Arguing that religions harbor a secret fear that science may one day explain God away, Campbell masterfully shows how twentieth-century technology and theology have become intertwined, often to the detriment of both disciplines. Illuminating the writings of such intellectual luminaries as Calvin, Luther, Einstein, and Niels Bohr, all the way up to John Updike, The Many Faces of God is a sweeping history of religious and scientific thought in the Western world.