Author: Pat G'Orge-Walker
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758272308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In her most soulful and side-splitting send-up of church life yet, Pat G'Orge-Walker's hilarious cast of parishioners battle their worst vices, the funny and serious sides of aging, and each other. . . Mother Sasha Pray Onn and Mother Bea Blister live on the edge--of Christianity, that is. As senior matrons of the Ain't Nobody Saved but Us-All Others Goin' to Hell church, their devotion to the Lord must compete with their secret passions for gambling, long-held grudges, and their jealousy of Sister Betty. Both Mothers are put to the test when Reverend Bling Moe Bling gives them two tickets to Las Vegas, where they'll be attending the Mothers Board Conference with Sister Betty. As their bickering, gambling and chaos ensues, redemption will be no small miracle in the city of sin. "Christian comedy fiction at its best." --Library Journal
Somewhat Saved
Author: Pat G'Orge-Walker
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758272308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In her most soulful and side-splitting send-up of church life yet, Pat G'Orge-Walker's hilarious cast of parishioners battle their worst vices, the funny and serious sides of aging, and each other. . . Mother Sasha Pray Onn and Mother Bea Blister live on the edge--of Christianity, that is. As senior matrons of the Ain't Nobody Saved but Us-All Others Goin' to Hell church, their devotion to the Lord must compete with their secret passions for gambling, long-held grudges, and their jealousy of Sister Betty. Both Mothers are put to the test when Reverend Bling Moe Bling gives them two tickets to Las Vegas, where they'll be attending the Mothers Board Conference with Sister Betty. As their bickering, gambling and chaos ensues, redemption will be no small miracle in the city of sin. "Christian comedy fiction at its best." --Library Journal
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758272308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In her most soulful and side-splitting send-up of church life yet, Pat G'Orge-Walker's hilarious cast of parishioners battle their worst vices, the funny and serious sides of aging, and each other. . . Mother Sasha Pray Onn and Mother Bea Blister live on the edge--of Christianity, that is. As senior matrons of the Ain't Nobody Saved but Us-All Others Goin' to Hell church, their devotion to the Lord must compete with their secret passions for gambling, long-held grudges, and their jealousy of Sister Betty. Both Mothers are put to the test when Reverend Bling Moe Bling gives them two tickets to Las Vegas, where they'll be attending the Mothers Board Conference with Sister Betty. As their bickering, gambling and chaos ensues, redemption will be no small miracle in the city of sin. "Christian comedy fiction at its best." --Library Journal
Praise1208
Author:
Publisher: Dynamic Creative Solution
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher: Dynamic Creative Solution
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Plant Propagation
Author: Maurice Grenville Kains
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429013575
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This 1916 book provides gardeners and nurserymen with information on the fundamental principles of plant propagation.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429013575
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This 1916 book provides gardeners and nurserymen with information on the fundamental principles of plant propagation.
Gender and the Poetics of Excess
Author: Karen Jackson Ford
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628468785
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. The excesses discussed here, like the criteria of decorum against which they are perceived, cannot be itemized as an immutable set of traits. Though decorum and excess shift over time and in different cultures, their relationship to one another remains strikingly stable. Thus, nineteenth-century standards for women's writing and late twentieth-century standards bear almost no relation. Emily Dickinson's do not anticipate Gertrude Stein's or Sylvia Plath's or Ntozake Shange's. Yet the charges of indecorousness leveled at these women poets repeat a fixed set of abstract grievances. Dickinson, Stein, Plath, Jayne Cortez, and Shange all engage in a poetics of excess as a means of rejecting the limitations and conventions of “female writing” that the larger culture imposes on them. In resisting conventions for feminine writing, these poets developed radical new poetries, yet their work was typically criticized or dismissed as excessive. Thus, Dickinson's form is classified as hysterical, and her figures tortured. Stein's works are called repetitive and nonsensical. Plath's tone is accused of being at once virulent and confessional, Cortez's poems violent and vulgar, Shange's work vengeful and self-righteous. The publishing history of these poets demonstrates both the opposition to such an aesthetic and the necessity for it.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628468785
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. The excesses discussed here, like the criteria of decorum against which they are perceived, cannot be itemized as an immutable set of traits. Though decorum and excess shift over time and in different cultures, their relationship to one another remains strikingly stable. Thus, nineteenth-century standards for women's writing and late twentieth-century standards bear almost no relation. Emily Dickinson's do not anticipate Gertrude Stein's or Sylvia Plath's or Ntozake Shange's. Yet the charges of indecorousness leveled at these women poets repeat a fixed set of abstract grievances. Dickinson, Stein, Plath, Jayne Cortez, and Shange all engage in a poetics of excess as a means of rejecting the limitations and conventions of “female writing” that the larger culture imposes on them. In resisting conventions for feminine writing, these poets developed radical new poetries, yet their work was typically criticized or dismissed as excessive. Thus, Dickinson's form is classified as hysterical, and her figures tortured. Stein's works are called repetitive and nonsensical. Plath's tone is accused of being at once virulent and confessional, Cortez's poems violent and vulgar, Shange's work vengeful and self-righteous. The publishing history of these poets demonstrates both the opposition to such an aesthetic and the necessity for it.
Chasing Harry Winston
Author: Lauren Weisberger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743290127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Making a pact that they will change the things that most challenge them within a year's time, Manhattan friends Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana shed their downtrodden identities in order to pursue the high life.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743290127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Making a pact that they will change the things that most challenge them within a year's time, Manhattan friends Emmy, Leigh, and Adriana shed their downtrodden identities in order to pursue the high life.
Time Warp
Author: R. M. Rajgopal
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1685866549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a collection of short stories which is truly pan-Indian. It deals with many sub cultures that exist in India. The various stories have been written between 1986 and now. The book is, in a sense, a peep into middle India through this time period with its strengths, weaknesses, frailties, idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. All of it is true to life and readers can relate to the stories easily.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1685866549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This is a collection of short stories which is truly pan-Indian. It deals with many sub cultures that exist in India. The various stories have been written between 1986 and now. The book is, in a sense, a peep into middle India through this time period with its strengths, weaknesses, frailties, idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. All of it is true to life and readers can relate to the stories easily.
Church Quarterly Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Sinners & Saints
Author: Victoria Christopher Murray
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451608179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley bring their favorite heroines together in a novel that will delight their legions of fans. Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel Jackson Adams are not your typical first ladies. But they’ve overcome their scandalous and drama-filled pasts to stand firmly by their husbands’ sides. When a coveted position opens up—president of the American Baptist Coalition— both women think their husbands are perfect for the job. And winning the position may require both women to get down and dirty and revert to their old tricks. Just when Jasmine and Rachel think they’re going to have to fight to the finish, the current first lady of the coalition steps in . . . a woman bigger, badder, and more devious than either of them. Double the fun with a message of faith, Sinners & Saints will delight readers with two of their favorite characters from two of their favorite authors.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451608179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate Billingsley bring their favorite heroines together in a novel that will delight their legions of fans. Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel Jackson Adams are not your typical first ladies. But they’ve overcome their scandalous and drama-filled pasts to stand firmly by their husbands’ sides. When a coveted position opens up—president of the American Baptist Coalition— both women think their husbands are perfect for the job. And winning the position may require both women to get down and dirty and revert to their old tricks. Just when Jasmine and Rachel think they’re going to have to fight to the finish, the current first lady of the coalition steps in . . . a woman bigger, badder, and more devious than either of them. Double the fun with a message of faith, Sinners & Saints will delight readers with two of their favorite characters from two of their favorite authors.
The Heirs of Prime
Author: Connor Oswald
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663246610
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In a world of elemental super-powered tyrants called Primals, Zep, our impulsive and mainly incompetent protagonist, faces everything from killer flying cars to gods among men. AJ, Zep's older and far more competent brother, creates a wristband that can do anything from stopping bullets to sending an enemy flying with just one punch. When AJ realizes just how powerful the wristband is he decides he needs more for the rest of the group; the only problem is that the only way to make more is in the hands of the Primal called Tecton. Will they succeed in avoiding the wrath of elemental gods, or will they fall victim to the Heirs of Prime?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663246610
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In a world of elemental super-powered tyrants called Primals, Zep, our impulsive and mainly incompetent protagonist, faces everything from killer flying cars to gods among men. AJ, Zep's older and far more competent brother, creates a wristband that can do anything from stopping bullets to sending an enemy flying with just one punch. When AJ realizes just how powerful the wristband is he decides he needs more for the rest of the group; the only problem is that the only way to make more is in the hands of the Primal called Tecton. Will they succeed in avoiding the wrath of elemental gods, or will they fall victim to the Heirs of Prime?
Heathens Go to Heaven Too
Author: Lisa Kpotie
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546273158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Heathens go to Heaven too! What do you do when your entire life has revolved around the church and your only goal is to try and live a life worthy of getting into heaven? Well, that seems a little impossible when so much drama finds its way into the lives of three best friends and the mother of one of the friends. Ashley is working on her life, and success is her ultimate goal. Now that she has opened a senior citizen facility, life couldn’t get more interesting as she gives back to her community and deals with a troublesome old lady that just happens to be her mother. Ashley is her mother reincarnated, and as much as she tries to deny it, they are a hilarious team of church-filled drama. Shirley tried to do everything correctly but continues to find herself in the ultimate situation of betrayal, lies, and of all things, a strip club. Her marriage is coming apart at the seams, and her faith in God, friendships, and herself has hit a pivotal moment of finding strength in all three. Alicia is a single mother of three, and for once in her life, she has chosen to make better decisions—that is, until the true love of her life resurfaces. With a baking business on the side, Alicia puts her faith in God and navigates through her confusion with the help of her friends. Her vows to God are tested as she struggles to remain steadfast and celibate. Come take a roller-coaster ride of hilarious events that even in pain you find laughter. Join these three best friends as they build an unbroken bond between heartache and happiness.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1546273158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Heathens go to Heaven too! What do you do when your entire life has revolved around the church and your only goal is to try and live a life worthy of getting into heaven? Well, that seems a little impossible when so much drama finds its way into the lives of three best friends and the mother of one of the friends. Ashley is working on her life, and success is her ultimate goal. Now that she has opened a senior citizen facility, life couldn’t get more interesting as she gives back to her community and deals with a troublesome old lady that just happens to be her mother. Ashley is her mother reincarnated, and as much as she tries to deny it, they are a hilarious team of church-filled drama. Shirley tried to do everything correctly but continues to find herself in the ultimate situation of betrayal, lies, and of all things, a strip club. Her marriage is coming apart at the seams, and her faith in God, friendships, and herself has hit a pivotal moment of finding strength in all three. Alicia is a single mother of three, and for once in her life, she has chosen to make better decisions—that is, until the true love of her life resurfaces. With a baking business on the side, Alicia puts her faith in God and navigates through her confusion with the help of her friends. Her vows to God are tested as she struggles to remain steadfast and celibate. Come take a roller-coaster ride of hilarious events that even in pain you find laughter. Join these three best friends as they build an unbroken bond between heartache and happiness.