Books with author Christian Rodska

A brief guide to Christianity based on the teachings of the new testament.Some excerpts:"However believing in God today is more relevant than ever. Christianity and the message of Jesus Christ is all about our relationship with the people around us.""Those who believe and imitate Jesus Christ in the showing of love to others essentially are guaranteed their own resurrection and spiritual continuity after death. There is life after death (salvation) for all who follow Jesus Christ in their behavior and treatment of others.""Of course certain things have changed in the last 2000 years. When the new testament was written women 's rights were different to what they are now. Also beliefs in premarital sex and gay rights have changed. So some of the material in the new testament is old fashioned. However this is no reason to dismiss the whole text."

The 19th century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannon shot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young señorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of 11 books chronicling the adventures of Horatio Hornblower.

Well-trained and obedient, Jet is Fred Parry's perfect companion on his night-time poaching raids. But when Fred is caught and thrown into prison, nobody wants Jet. Nobody, that is, except an army officer. It is autumn 1939 and Britain is at war. Jet is taken to military kennels and given a number: D67. She is trained to run assault courses, track the enemy and rescue the injured. Then she is sent to France on active service. Will Jet survive - and will Fred Parry ever find his beloved dog again?

In Greenmantle, Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S. Blenkiron, the American determined to fight the Kaiser; and Sandy Arbuthnot. Greenmantle himself is partly modeled on Lawrence of Arabia. The intrepid four move in disguise through Germany to Constantinople and the Russian border to face their enemies-the grotesque Stumm and the evil beauty of Hilda von Einem.