Books with author Joey Elliott

Here is an excerpt from the book that will probably give you a better general idea of what it is about: “I didnt write the life Ive lived; my life wrote me. I am not a writer; I am a piece of literature. My skin cells turn like the pages in a book. My eyes are the covers to my life, like a library of references. My words are spoken in fonts and letters and punctuation and faulty grammar. My mouth is like a typewriter that is slowly running out of ink. The paper is jammed and I am not quite sure how to fix it." The Contents of a Searching Mind is the story of someone searching for what it truly means to be alive.

Ally, Josh and Brendan are half-siblings living in Melbourne, Australia, whose family life is anything but ideal. During a chance family outing, the children discover a sacred scroll which offers them a solution to their problems... Without forewarning, the children mysteriously find themselves in first century Palestine where they are compelled to live in a strange fishing village. In their desperate quest to get back home, the children learn about family relationships and God's amazing love for them. Thrilling adventures will ensue as the children embark on the ride of their lives! This time-travelling tale allows Jesus to boldly speak to today's youth on contemporary problems, encouraging the reader to "get into" the Bible and look to Jesus for help in times of trouble.

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America.Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas.