Author: Leslie Schwartz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525534644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Following a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction after more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz was sentenced and served her time with only six months' sobriety. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others--whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell--she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places.
Great Chapters of the Bible
Author: G. Campbell Morgan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725227460
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
G. Campbell Morgan Reprint Series Foreword If it is true that the measure of a person's greatness is their influence, not only on his own time but on future gen- erations, G. Campbell Morgan must be regarded as a great person. His greatness is seen not only in the wide impact of his ministry on both sides of the Atlantic, but in the fact that his books are still read and studied sixty-five years after his death. Named one of the ten greatest preachers of the twentieth-century by the contributing board of Preaching magazine, Morgan made the Bible a new and living book not only to the congregations who listened to him, but the vast multitude of persons who read his books. Fox sixty-seven years Morgan preached and taught the Scriptures and served churches in England and the United States. What is remarkable is that his commentaries and expositions of the Bible still speak to persons of a new millennium. There have been many changes in the world since he faithfully preached and taught the Scriptures, but the wide appeal of his books testify to the timelessness of his message. Although he held pastorates in the Congregational and Presbyterian denominations, he had an ecumenical appeal to persons of all denominations and traditions. The mystic Thomas รก Kempis once wrote, "He to whom the eternal word speaks is delivered from many opinions." In one of his sermons, he referred to the words of Amos that there would be a famine for hearing the word of God (Amos 8:11). The timeless work of G. Campbell Morgan addresses that hun- ger, as his books enable his readers to get beyond opinions to the living Word. Wipf and Stock Publishers have rendered a great gift to the religious world in reprinting dozens of Morgan's books. This growing collection makes his books more available, so that readers have an option other than searching the internet for used, and often expensive, copies. Among this collection is the classic The Great Physician and commen- taries on the Gospel of Matthew and John. Persons seeking a living faith and a meaningful encounter with God would profit from reading any of these Morgan books. Near the end of his ministry, in a sermon entitled "But One Thing," Morgan commented on how Portugal changed the words of a coin after Christopher Columbus discovered America. No longer did the inscription say, Ne Plus Ultra (nothing more beyond) but Plus Ultra (more beyond). It is the hope of the G. Campbell Morgan Trust that the reprint- ing of these books will bring readers to the "more beyond," and an even deeper encounter with the Word in Scripture. The Morgan Trust Richard L. Morgan Howard C. Morgan John C. Morgan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725227460
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
G. Campbell Morgan Reprint Series Foreword If it is true that the measure of a person's greatness is their influence, not only on his own time but on future gen- erations, G. Campbell Morgan must be regarded as a great person. His greatness is seen not only in the wide impact of his ministry on both sides of the Atlantic, but in the fact that his books are still read and studied sixty-five years after his death. Named one of the ten greatest preachers of the twentieth-century by the contributing board of Preaching magazine, Morgan made the Bible a new and living book not only to the congregations who listened to him, but the vast multitude of persons who read his books. Fox sixty-seven years Morgan preached and taught the Scriptures and served churches in England and the United States. What is remarkable is that his commentaries and expositions of the Bible still speak to persons of a new millennium. There have been many changes in the world since he faithfully preached and taught the Scriptures, but the wide appeal of his books testify to the timelessness of his message. Although he held pastorates in the Congregational and Presbyterian denominations, he had an ecumenical appeal to persons of all denominations and traditions. The mystic Thomas รก Kempis once wrote, "He to whom the eternal word speaks is delivered from many opinions." In one of his sermons, he referred to the words of Amos that there would be a famine for hearing the word of God (Amos 8:11). The timeless work of G. Campbell Morgan addresses that hun- ger, as his books enable his readers to get beyond opinions to the living Word. Wipf and Stock Publishers have rendered a great gift to the religious world in reprinting dozens of Morgan's books. This growing collection makes his books more available, so that readers have an option other than searching the internet for used, and often expensive, copies. Among this collection is the classic The Great Physician and commen- taries on the Gospel of Matthew and John. Persons seeking a living faith and a meaningful encounter with God would profit from reading any of these Morgan books. Near the end of his ministry, in a sermon entitled "But One Thing," Morgan commented on how Portugal changed the words of a coin after Christopher Columbus discovered America. No longer did the inscription say, Ne Plus Ultra (nothing more beyond) but Plus Ultra (more beyond). It is the hope of the G. Campbell Morgan Trust that the reprint- ing of these books will bring readers to the "more beyond," and an even deeper encounter with the Word in Scripture. The Morgan Trust Richard L. Morgan Howard C. Morgan John C. Morgan
Chapters from My Autobiography
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142707853X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read today. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142707853X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read today. To find more books in your format visit www.readhowyouwant.com
Chapter 3G1. Planimetric map compilation with trimetrogon photographs
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Category : Surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Proceedings of the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Nebraska, at Its ... Annual Convocation
Author: Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter of Nebraska
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Pages : 132
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The Life of Christ: Seed time. The first conflicts. The crisis, chapters 1-2
Author: Bernhard Weiss
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Pages : 424
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Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, of the State of Wisconsin
Author: Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter of the State of Wisconsin
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Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Pages : 706
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Fall and Winter Handbook for FFA Chapters
Author: Wisconsin Association of FFA, Inc
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Category : Agricultural students
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Category : Agricultural students
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Le Morte D'Arthur
Author: Sir Thomas Malory
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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2017 CFR Annual Print Title 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System Chapters 15 to 28
Author: Office of The Federal Register
Publisher: IntraWEB, LLC and Claitor's Law Publishing
ISBN: 1640242171
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher: IntraWEB, LLC and Claitor's Law Publishing
ISBN: 1640242171
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682-1801. ...
Author: Pennsylvania
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Pages : 644
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