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  The Great Thirst

  Part One:

  Prepared

  A Serial Archaeological Mystery

  by

  Mary C. Findley

  copyright Mary C. Findley 2015

  Findley Family Video Publications

  The Great Thirst Part One: Prepared – A Serial Archaeological Mystery

  by Mary C. Findley

  copyright 2015 Findley Family Video

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  “Speaking the truth in love.”

  Scripture references are as follows: The Bible: The King James Version, public domain. The New American Standard Version: Scripture quotations taken from the New American Standard Bible Registered, Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation Used by permission. Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.0. Copyright © 1996-2013 by ISV Foundation. Used by permission of Davidson Press, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.

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  Acknowledgments

  Cover credits: Book One: Professional man and woman images (Keith Bradley and Natalia Ramin) from iStock

  “Couple-waiting” (teens in “have faith” shirts) image from Kozzi.com uploaded by Wright Artistry www.wrightartistry.com

  Book Two: Scuba image from pixabay.com by user tpsdave

  Book Three: Cabin/lodge image from pixabay.com by user markusspiske

  Background texture from pixabay.com, by user Zeana

  Artifact image from https://www.fouman.com/ Iranian Historical Photo Gallery source for Darius I Persepolis Gold Plates

  These plates were found by archeologists in 1938, in Persepolis, near modern day Shiraz, Iran. There were two gold plates and two silver plates in a stone box, written on in cuneiform script. The plates date to 518 – 515 BC.

  Tesla Roadster (chapter header image) 13 April 2010 Author Thomas Doerfer Wikimedia Commons

  Fingers with dust (section divider image) from pixabay.com user Unsplash

  The Bible as Literature class science demonstration in Chapter Fourteen is adapted from the website https://www.madaboutjesus.net/index.html “Object Lesson One: One Sin”

  One Night With the King is a movie mentioned several times in the series. Released 2006 in the United States, it is based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen. It is a dramatization of the biblical story of Esther, who risked her life by approaching the king to request that he save the Jewish people. The movie was produced by Matt Crouch and Laurie Crouch of Gener8Xion Entertainment

  Table of Contents

  Chapter One – “Mr. Safety”

  Chapter Two – The “Bible as Literature” Class

  Chapter Three – A Doomsday Duffelbag

  Chapter Four – “We’ll Give You Money”

  Chapter Five – A Bradley Central “Do-Over”

  Chapter Six –Missed the Bus

  Chapter Seven –Dinner with the Principal

  Chapter Eight – Girls’ Night In

  Chapter Nine – Prayer and Popcorn

  Chapter Ten – Big Changes

  Chapter Eleven – Just a Cold

  Chapter Twelve – The Great Thirst

  Chapter Thirteen– Seal of the Testaments

  Chapter Fourteen – Not Not Not a Liar

  Chapter Fifteen– Grandma’s Advice

  Chapter Sixteen – The Ransomed Sheik

  Chapter Seventeen – “I Wish There Was a Map”

  Chapter Eighteen – “Are You So Selfish?”