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Jeri Massi

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in Levittown, PA, The United States

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Christian, Science Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Jeri Massi is the author of the Peabody Adventures series and the Bracken Trilogy and others. Her YA novel VALKYRIES, published by Moody Press, was nominated for the Christy Award.

She is now an Indy author, writing Christian SF/Fantasy, comedy, mystery, and adventure.

You can track her booklist, adventures with cancer, and articles on Children's/YA literature at her substack:

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	The Bridge (The Bracken Series) 4.20 avg rating — 474 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Derwood, Inc. (Peabody, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crown and Jewel (The Bracken Series) 4.21 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Two Collars (Bracken Trilogy, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dangerous Game (Peabody Adventure Series #2) 4.05 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Llamas on the Loose (Peabody Adventure Series #5) 3.91 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abandoned (Peabody Adventure Series #6) 4.12 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasure in the Yukon (Peabody, #3) 3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courage by Darkness (Peabody Adventure Series #4) 3.88 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Through the Fire (Valkyries #1) 3.90 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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VALKYRIES is back in print

VALKYRIES by Jeri Massi

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A truly rare coming of age story, blending elements of boarding school memoir, sports thriller, and Christian conversion. Tracey Jacamuzzi's story is told with passion and plenty of humor, but there is a gut wrenching quality to the narrative that makes it a page turner from start to finish. -- Indiana Home Schoolers

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Series by Jeri Massi

Peabody (7 books)
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4.08 avg rating — 1,205 ratings

Bracken Trilogy (3 books)
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4.20 avg rating — 1,055 ratings

Valkyries (2 books)
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3.99 avg rating — 109 ratings

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Ramayana

by Vālmīki

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Robert Grosseteste: On the Six Days of Creation (A Translation of the Hexaemeron) (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 6)

by Robert Grosseteste

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Jeri Massi said: " Unity, unity, unity: that's what Grosseteste shows us with painstaking care: how the account of the six days of creation demonstrates the Trinity, the eternality of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the reality of the "real" world as opposed to this "acc Unity, unity, unity: that's what Grosseteste shows us with painstaking care: how the account of the six days of creation demonstrates the Trinity, the eternality of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the reality of the "real" world as opposed to this "accidental" world, the imminence of heaven.

This is not a book for lightweights. You should have some familiarity with the pre-Copernican model of the cosmos before you attempt Grosseteste, and you should be familiar with his times and with the prevailing theology and religious mindset of his age.

Modern religious Creationism is a joke, really. Evangelicals and Christian Fundamentalists believe in an atheistic universe, and they simply overlay Creation onto it. But Grossteste gives us a truly Christian, complex, and very unified view of Creation. And he's not really saying that the Genesis account is or is not literally true. The point he makes is that the narrative of Creation in Genesis is telling us about the entire world, the entire work of Jesus Christ, the entire wisdom of God. There is a breadth and scope of his understanding of the Genesis account that really does highlight the nincompoopery of Christian Fundamentalism, and yet compels the reader to embrace the truth of Creation as God's act, really, of salvation.

I write this from a religious point of view, not a historical point of view. I don't think Grosseteste should be limited to consideration for his historic value, but rather I think his greatest value remains in exactly what he says (if you can follow him). For Grosseteste lifts up God and Christ and the Holy Spirit. As a Christian, I have at last found a truly Creationist writer, and I like him. OK, the spheres thing is dated, but still, his work is brilliant and rejuvenating to people of faith. Again, this glowing review applies only if you can follow him, and I am guessing that most Evangelicals and just about all Christian Fundamentalists cannot. Thank Jerry Falwell or Bob Jones Sr or Jack Hyles for your horrible education. ...more "

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“You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics”
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“Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.”
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“For there are two courages, you know - the kind that takes dares and rides colts, and then there's the kind that lifts its light when all else is dark and goes on in the face of sorrow and loneliness and danger, and the second is true courage.”
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“You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics”
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“Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.”
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