It’s Saturday evening David is watching Madagascar. Charlie is sleeping. As I sit here in front of the computer working I feel a PEACE come over me. As I begin to put together my Fathers Day Gift Guide 2020 Guide #4.
I can feel the LORDS hands on my home and my work. I would like to Thank the LORD for bringing all these companies to work withe me. Would you please help me thank them by visiting there websites, Social Sites and thanks them for being open during this time of uncertainty due to Covid-19.
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Weight of Smoke Review Link (Book 1):
This year celebrates the 400th anniversary of several important historical events in Jamestown, the first surviving colony in the New World, and the first to have a representative assembly, beginning the irrevocable course from colony to independent nation. In honor of this historic year in American history, George Robert Minkoff is releasing “The Weight of Smoke,” the first acclaimed historical fiction novel in his Land of Whispers trilogy series, as an audiobook narrated by renowned Shakespearean actor, Nigel Gore. Gore’s narration gives Minkoff’s language the dramatic lyricism of the English Stage.
Noted as an evocative historical fiction masterpiece, “The Weight of Smoke” is being released as an audiobook to give further depth and engagement to listeners who treasure American history. Step back in time and sense the auditory connection fusing past and present, while a pivotal moment in U.S. history is narrated. The storytelling captures the nation-making events of 400 years past. Recounted by Nigel Gore, his magnetic vocal performance brings another level of depth to Minkoff’s story, elevating it from print through the thoughts and voices of unforgettable characters.
The novel chronicles the lives of Captain John Smith, Powhatan, and Pocahontas, as they assume their true identities. The far-ranging saga explores the beginnings of the British Empire, and in particular how the English came to the New World to create a Utopia, and instead founded a slave state.
Dragons of the Storm (Book 2)
NEW YORK (PRWEB) JULY 25, 2019
When Powhatan forcibly adopted Captain John Smith into his tribe, he declared that after three wounds the river would speak to him. While fishing in the Chesapeake toward the end of a long expedition, Smith is stabbed by a stingray and falls deathly ill. Because he is set to assume presidency of Jamestown on their return, the fate of the colony may depend upon his recovery. The old alchemist and mariner, Jonas Profit, doctors this second wound, and to ease Smith’s suffering starts to tell of the daring circumnavigation of the world by Francis Drake. So begins the second volume of George Robert Minkoff’s visionary epic, “In the Land of Whispers,” revealing the desperate events in the lives of both Drake and Smith that will lead finally to a permanent settlement for the Elizabethans in the New World. George Robert Minkoff’s classic, “The Dragons of the Storm” is brought to life by the narration of Nigel Gore. Now available as an audiobook for the first time, Gore portrays a riveting novel to listeners ready to embark on an adventure.
“The Dragons of the Storm is as enthralling as The Weight of Smoke. I think John Smith and Francis Drake would rejoice in George Minkoff’s lively re-creation of them,” said Edmund Sears Morgan, historian, of the print edition.
John Smith is followed from the initiation of the volume into a year of unforeseen trials and their consequences. While the London Company’s aristocrats broker the colony’s fate with their wealth and power, Jamestown colonists struggle an ocean away merely to survive in an unforgiving land. The one man who might save the colony from itself, John Smith, will have to confront not only his enemies, and the legacies of his spiritual fathers, but also the mysteries of his destiny.
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, “The Dragons of the Storm” has been issued as an audiobook, narrated by Shakespearean actor Nigel Gore. Minkoff says, “Gore’s narration brings an immediacy and beauty to the text very similar to the experience of watching a play, infusing the narrative with a heightened reality of a motion picture. The trials of Drake and Smith are seen in a context of mutinies, explorations, and confrontations with worlds neither has experienced. Drake, returning from his circumnavigation of the world, becomes one of the richest men in England, one of a few commoners ever to attain nobility. Smith never rises to the English court. His battles with the Indians and the colonists are never fully revealed in England, while Drake’s epic battle with the Armada was mostly seen from the English coast. Gore speaks this drama as if it were truly before his eyes.”
“The Dragons of the Storm” can be purchased online here. For information regarding George Robert Minkoff,
Author George Robert Minkoff says, “One of my objectives in writing the book was to tell the complete story of John Smith, who lived one of the most spectacular lives in English history. He was, in truth, the first American tragic hero. He saved the colony. He dealt with great humanity with the Native Americans, who learned to respect him above all other Englishmen. When Pocahontas went to England, she brought with her several important members of the Native American tribes of the Chesapeake, whose purpose was to discover if Smith was still alive. Powhatan, Pocahontas’ father, needed Smith to protect him from the English. For all the good that Smith did, he received no rewards from the English colony: no land, no stipend, nothing. His only reward was to be slandered and forgotten.”
Presented as the final work of the famous explorer and author, Captain John Smith, “The Weight of Smoke” details the disastrous first two decades of the Jamestown colony. Entwined with the colony’s fractious beginnings are the adventures of Sir Francis Drake, retold around the campfires by an old alchemist, Jonas Profit, who sailed the Spanish Main with Queen Elizabeth’s great navigator. Drake’s vision haunts Smith, both in the land and in his humanitarian quests. In Jamestown, Smith finds himself at the center of a desperate clash for survival; the struggle involves him in the mysteries of an unknown land—the New World. Richly written with metaphorical dynamism, flavored with Elizabethan authenticity, and now read by the introspective and powerfully articulate Gore, the audiobook captivates audiences with language and imagination, as the colonial turmoil permeates the senses.
Presented as a first-person manuscript measuring the fall of humanity, the audiobook graciously reminds us that “all failures are failures of the soul.” In Jamestown, the naïve notion of the privileges of birth clashes with Smith’s own feelings about the worth of an individual based on work, ambition, and talent. Anecdotes about New World trade routes and goods, such as the influence of tobacco for both recreation and medicine, add another dimension of relatability, reminding the reader of societal developments. “The Weight of Smoke” is a story chronicling the formation of the American character.
Referring to In the Land of Whispers as a trilogy, narrator Nigel Gore says, “The books are a wonderful mix of brilliant perception, in-depth historical research, and a thrilling narrative. Throughout, global and corporate politics blend with courageous human endeavor and adventuring on the high seas, all set against the backdrop of the discovery and founding of America. George has created a language that always is brilliant and surprising.”
“The Weight of Smoke” audiobook trilogy can be purchased online here. For information regarding George Robert Minkoff, visit georgeminkoff.com. For press or review inquiries, contact Olga Gonzalez at info(at)pietrapr.com, or call 212-913-9761.
About George Robert Minkoff
A rare book dealer for fifty-two years, George Robert Minkoff is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America, and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Minkoff serves on the Board of Directors of the Poetry Society of America, currently serving as Secretary. George Robert Minkoff Inc. Rare Books is known internationally for the selling of manuscripts and letters of major American and English writers. Minkoff has written the “Bibliography of the Black Sun Press” and the “Bibliography of the Black Manikin Press,” both standard references in the field. Additionally, George Robert Minkoff has authored the trilogy In the Land of Whispers, a historical novel concerning the English in the New World. The three volumes are: “The Weight of Smoke,” “The Dragons of the Storm,” and “The Leaves of Fate.”
The Leaves of Fate (Book 3)
NEW YORK (PRWEB) AUGUST 12, 2019
As the celebration continues for the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony, so does the story of Captain John Smith. As his story progresses through the final volume, the reader finds Smith under threat of death by his enemies at Jamestown. Plots of his assassination in the air, he escapes to encounter Henry Hudson on his explorations. The final volume of George Robert Minkoff’s In the Land of Whispers trilogy, “The Leaves of Fate,” now available as an audiobook, comes to life through the dramatic reading of renowned Shakespearean actor, Nigel Gore.
Between 1610 and 1630, the Jamestown settlement in the English colonies begins to take shape. The colonists leave the safe confines of the walled-in town and establish farms nearby, growing the popular cash crop, tobacco. Infringing on the lands held by the local Native Americans causes a series of conflicts between the white settlers and the local tribes. Pocahontas’s marriage to John Rolfe, who physically resembles John Smith, brings peace between the tribes and the English. Smith is isolated in England writing his stories of his Jamestown experiences. His reunion with the dying Pocahontas in London is brief and bittersweet. In the silence of their last parting there is the devastating realization for both of what might have been.
Intermingled with these current events is Smith’s remembrance of his discussions with Jonas Profit, an alchemist and a sailing mate of Sir Francis Drake. Drake’s last encounters with the Spanish and his last attacks on the Spanish colonies are also revealed. All the while, Smith is receiving reports of the growing corruption in Jamestown, and the colonies move inexorably toward becoming a slave economy built around the cultivation of tobacco.
The novels that comprise In the Land of Whispers are the chronicles of the first two generations of the English in the New World. In fact, the trilogy is a chronicle of the rarely discussed relationship of the Elizabethan Age with alchemy. George Minkoff is a very talented writer whose use of English is similar to that of a Shakespearean sonnet. If you value the tone and construction of the English language in sentences that are poetic in nature and add refinement to the ordinary novel, you will enjoy and savor this book. Minkoff says of the audiobook, “Nigel Gore’s reading brings an immediacy and drama to the language that underlines the epic quality of this so American work.”
For the first time, “The Leaves of Fate” is available for purchase as an audiobook, as well as the full “In the Land of Whispers” trilogy. For information regarding George Robert Minkoff, visit minkoffaudio.com. For press or review inquiries, contact Olga Gonzalez at info@pietrapr.com, or call 212-913-9761.
About George Robert Minkoff
A rare book dealer for fifty-two years, George Robert Minkoff is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America, and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Minkoff serves on the Board of Directors of the Poetry Society of America, currently serving as Secretary. George Robert Minkoff Inc. Rare Books is known internationally for the selling of manuscripts and letters of major American and English writers. Minkoff has written the “Bibliography of the Black Sun Press” and the “Bibliography of the Black Manikin Press,” both standard references in the field. Additionally, George Robert Minkoff has authored the trilogy In the Land of Whispers, a historical novel concerning the English in the New World. The three volumes are: “The Weight of Smoke,” “The Dragons of the Storm,” and “The Leaves of Fate.”
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It’s a fun coloring book with a travel theme.
When Dogs Fly is the perfect Father’s Day gift. It can help a restless dad unwind during this stay-at-home time, and remind him of how awesome life is!
When Dogs Fly is designed to quiet his mind with 30 exquisites illustrations and inspirational quotes. He may choose from a variety of humorous, whimsical, inspirational, patriotic, or mind-intriguing patterns of airplanes and dogs.
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- EXTRA – Unwind your mind with Medicoloring, a new meditative technique described in this book. This easy technique can be done anywhere and anytime. It’s a perfect antidote to the stress of everyday life.
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Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
