Multireligious Reflections on Friendship: Becoming Ourselves in Community presents a multi-religious discussion of spiritual and ethical formation through friendship. Contributors discuss the positive effects of friendship and some of the culturally diverse ways that friendships develop. Friends help us co-exist in diverse societies, live sustainably in our ecosystems, heal from trauma, develop inner virtues, engage wisely in social action, and connect with the divine. While friendship is ...

This is a tense story of a young slave girl trying to escape the coming devastation of Herculaneum during the 79.CE Vesuvius eruption. It's well-paced, with great characterization and believable situations. It's well-researched with a lot of elements of the time period which gives the reader an authentic picture of the era. Mira knows what's coming and her goal is to save her young charge, Remy. The whole book takes place in less than twenty four hours and keeps the action flowing from the...

A young Roman girl talks her father into taking her along on his trip to the Pompeii markets. Along the way she enjoys the sights and learns new things about the country she lives in from her father. They visit old friends of her father along the way, and she listens in to the stories they share while dining.Arriving in Pompeii is the best part for Mira, who has never before been further than the closest village. Seeing noble Romans and courtesans carried in litters; eating at a ca...

When Mira becomes Remy's nursemaid, it feels as though she has moved up in the world. For a while she acts superior because her new position in the main house brings new clothes, and a real bed in the room she shares only with the child in her care.Before long she discovers the change does not protect her from the possibility of being sold the same as any other slave. Nor does it keep her safe from those who spy on others to better their own life.While trying to plan her es...

It is Vesuvius has awakened.In a vision one year earlier, Mira, a fifteen-year-old slave, saw the devastation of Herculaneum, and extinguishing of all life there as Vesuvius's molten centre poured down its sides to cover Herculaneum.To fulfil the promise made to the mother of the child in her care, Mira must convince the slave set to guard her, by the child's father, to let them slip away, or to flee with her.Though there is little time left to reach safety, their D...