Books with author Dan Jorgensen

"The ball came to her so hard it stung her fingers, but Andrea clenched her teeth, dribbled across the lane and put up a sweeping hook shot that bounced around the rim and fell in. 'All right, Andre!' Paula cried. 'Way to hit the sky hook!' Andrea's last year at Brown Junior High might be a good one after all. With their new coach, the girls' basketball team is off to a great start. So is Andrea's relationship with Matt. But Andrea is worried about the way her friend Jill has been acting since she started to hang around the new girl from the air force base. It could wreck the whole team's chance to enter their first tournament ever. The team is going to need more than a good sky hook shot to make this season a success.

It all started with a wayward soccer ball that left 9th-grader Dawn Davis with a black eye, a sore nose...and a date with a good-looking sophomore. Before she knows what's happening, Dawn's life is a rush of school and soccer, youth group and mixed-up friendships. How did she end up playing peacemaker for the soccer team's forward line? And can she be happy with her own "no glory" position on defense? Meanwhile on the sidelines, Dawn and her youthgroup friends are working hard to gather food for the homeless. Follow Dawn through a tangle of relationships, sports and social issues that every girl can totally understand!

BOOK SIX: THE PROPHET AND HIS REVELATION (1960-1965)When the first two stages of William Branham’s ministry had been well established, the question persisted: what was the third stage to be? Following the leading of God, William Branham set about in the final five years of his life to deliver a series of sermons that would carry the church into a deeper understanding of the mysteries of the scripture that have been hidden since time began. What do the mysterious symbols in the book of Revelation mean? What is the “mystery of God” spoken of in the New Testament? These are things that have been probed at, speculated on, and debated in the institutions of Christianity for two thousand years. But what happens when God Himself undertakes to reveal the answers? It has happened, and the wonderful story is here for you to read.

BOOK SIX: THE PROPHET AND HIS REVELATION (1960-1965)When the first two stages of William Branham’s ministry had been well established, the question persisted: what was the third stage to be? Following the leading of God, William Branham set about in the final five years of his life to deliver a series of sermons that would carry the church into a deeper understanding of the mysteries of the scripture that have been hidden since time began. What do the mysterious symbols in the book of Revelation mean? What is the “mystery of God” spoken of in the New Testament? These are things that have been probed at, speculated on, and debated in the institutions of Christianity for two thousand years. But what happens when God Himself undertakes to reveal the answers? It has happened, and the wonderful story is here for you to read.

PROJECT HALO is a YA sci-fi thriller taking place in near-future Norway. It has speculative elements and would appeal to fans of THE MAZE RUNNER and BLACK MIRROR.All seventeen-year-old Charlie Walker wants is to be free of his father’s stupid expectations. Stay in school? No thanks. Get a job? Nope. Stop cursing? Hell no. But if he knew his petty rebellion would result in his own kidnapping, he might’ve reconsidered.When Charlie wakes up at Norway’s largest intelligence agency, the NIC, with a biochip in his brain, he faces problems bigger than his father’s disapproval. Charlie is their first successful experiment, and when activated, the chip will give the agency unbarred access to his vital signs and location. So much for freedom. But before his biochip can be activated, a rogue doctor offers Charlie a chance to escape. In return, he has to find and keep a flash drive hidden from the NIC.At first, agreeing to the deal seems obvious. But when NIC sends agents to hunt Charlie down, he realizes the flash drive might be more important than he thought. He’s faced with an ultimatum: hand over the flash drive, or a lethal virus will be released onto the population. If he obliges, his chip will be activated and he’ll lose his freedom forever. If he doesn’t, people will die—including his ex-friend-who-he-totally-still-hates. Including the charming hacker he has a crush on. Including his demanding father. Including himself.In a race against time and his own selfish thoughts, Charlie must decide who to trust with his deadly secret—and exactly how far he’s willing to go in the name of freedom.

Korea has long had an underground insurrectionary literature. The best-known example of the genre is the Chŏng Kam nok, a collection of premodern texts predicting the overthrow of the Yi Dynasty (1392–1910) that in recent times has been invoked by a wide range of groups to support various causes and agendas: from leaders of Korea’s new religious movements formed during and after the Japanese occupation to spin doctors in the South Korean elections of the 1990s to proponents of an aborted attempt to move the capital from Seoul in the early 2000s.Written to inspire uprisings and foment dissatisfaction, the Chŏng Kam nok texts are anonymous and undated. (Most were probably written between the seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries.) In his expansive introduction to this first English translation, John Jorgensen notes that the work employs forms or codes of political prediction (Ch. tuch’en; Kor. toch’am) allied with Chinese geomancy (fengshui) but in a combination unique to Korea. The two types of codes appear to deal with different subjects—the potency of geographical locations and political predictions derived from numerological cycles, omens, and symbols—but both emerge from a similar intellectual sphere of prognostication arts that includes divination, the Yijing (Book of Changes), physiognomy, and astrology in early China, and both share theoretical components, such as the fluctuation of ki (Ch. qi). In addition to ambiguous and obscure passages, allusion and indirection abound; many predictions are attributed to famous people in the distant past or made after the fact to lend the final outcome an air of authority. Jorgensen’s invaluable introduction contains a wealth of background on the history and techniques of political prediction, augury, and geomancy from the first-century Han dynasty in China to the end of the nineteenth century in Korea, providing readers with a thorough account of East Asian geomancy based on original sources.This volume will be welcomed by students and scholars of premodern Korean history and beliefs and those with an interest in early, arcane sources of political disinformation that remain relevant in South Korea to this day.

Jack's family is based on Rottnest Island during WWII while his father helps build an airfield. Jack and his best friend Banjo have the run of the island and a remarkable knack for getting into trouble — but as Jack says, 'I'm not that bad, I just get caught a lot!' Dafty, a simple but loveable young boy, dotes on Banjo and Jack. When Dafty seeks revenge against the local schoolmaster for a punishment inflicted on Banjo, life suddenly becomes more serious. This poignant, multi-layered text offers young readers a valuable insight into life in Australia during the war.