The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

By Mitch Albom

From the writer who's encouraged thousands all over the world with books like Tuesdays with Morrie and The 5 humans You Meet in Heaven comes his so much inventive novel but, The Time Keeper--a compelling fantasy concerning the first guy on the earth to count number the hours.
The guy who grew to become Father Time.

In Mitch Albom's most up-to-date paintings of fiction, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for attempting to degree God's maximum reward. he's banished to a cave for hundreds of years and compelled to hear the voices of all who come after him looking extra days, extra years. ultimately, together with his soul approximately damaged, Father Time is granted his freedom, besides a mystical hourglass and a venture: an opportunity to redeem himself via educating earthly humans the real which means of time.

He returns to our world--now ruled by means of the hour-counting he so innocently began--and commences a trip with not going companions: one a teenage woman who's approximately to renounce on lifestyles, the opposite a prosperous outdated businessman who desires to stay without end. to avoid wasting himself, he needs to keep them either. and forestall the area to do so.

Told in Albom's signature spare, evocative prose, this remarkably unique story will encourage readers far and wide to reassess their very own notions of time, how they spend it and the way valuable it actually is.

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Petrofsky," CHAPTER XVI. THE NIHILISTS 49 Tom Swift And His Air Glider The Russian, disguising himself by trimming his beard, and putting on a pair of dark spectacles, went to the village that afternoon. While he was gone Tom, Ned and Mr. Damon busied themselves about the airship, making a few repairs that could not very well be done while it was in motion. As night came on, and the exile did not return, Tom began to get a little worried, and he had some notion of going to seek him, but he knew it would not be safe.

Peaceful measures will succeed. But I am grateful for what you can do for me. " The Nihilists were made welcome after Mr. Petrofsky had introduced them. They had strange and almost unpronounceable names for the ears of our friends, and I will not trouble you with them, save to say that the one who spoke English fairly well, and who was the leader, was called Nicolas Androwsky. There was much jabbering in the Russian tongue, when Mr.

The Russian did not answer. He was gazing earnestly at the approaching aeroplane. A moment later he took the glass down from his eye. "It's our spy again," he said. "There are two others with him. That is one of the aeroplanes owned by the secret police. " The pursuing craft was so near that the occupants could easily be made out with the naked eye, but it needed the glass to distinguish their features, and Mr. Petrofsky had done this. " cried Tom. " shouted the Russian. "No telling what they may do," and then, with a hum and a roar the motor of the Falcon increased its speed, and the big airship shot ahead.

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