Author: Holly E. Johnson
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665713933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Arrianna is used to dealing with things on her own. Losing her mother in a car accident and then being forced to take care of her alcoholic father has given her a grim outlook on life. Vincent made one dire mistake that nearly cost him everything. They are now forced into each other’s lives. Arrianna doesn’t understand the mysterious man who always wears a hood that covers most of his face. Vincent isn’t sure what to make of the fiery young woman in his home. Reeling from the unfortunate twists in both their lives, they must work together to find closure from the past and make way for a possible future. A modern twist on Beauty and the Beast, Twisted Thorns proves life isn’t a fairy tale, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be a happy ending.
Thorns and Forgiveness
Author: Coralee June
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Determined to save my mother from her disastrous marriage, I sold my pride for a second chance with Hamilton Beauregard. Jack was convinced I could mend his family, but my heart refused to forgive. Hamilton broke me. He betrayed me. He made me fall in love with a lie. While trying to figure out my feelings, we all had to navigate my mother's toxic sham of a marriage and Joseph's deteriorating façade. My stepfather was dangerous. Deadly. During a tragic moment of weakness, his evil bloomed to life, and someone died. Hamilton is the only way I'll survive.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Determined to save my mother from her disastrous marriage, I sold my pride for a second chance with Hamilton Beauregard. Jack was convinced I could mend his family, but my heart refused to forgive. Hamilton broke me. He betrayed me. He made me fall in love with a lie. While trying to figure out my feelings, we all had to navigate my mother's toxic sham of a marriage and Joseph's deteriorating façade. My stepfather was dangerous. Deadly. During a tragic moment of weakness, his evil bloomed to life, and someone died. Hamilton is the only way I'll survive.
Little Knife
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466873531
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This eOriginal includes a new Ravkan folk tale and the first chapter of Ruin and Rising (Grisha Trilogy, Book 3). In this third Grisha Trilogy folk tale from Leigh Bardugo, a young girl's beauty causes discord in her small town, but her father's solution may prove far more dangerous. "Little Knife" is a companion story to the third book of the Grisha Trilogy, Ruin and Rising, and the stories "The Witch of Duva" and "The Too-Clever Fox." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466873531
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This eOriginal includes a new Ravkan folk tale and the first chapter of Ruin and Rising (Grisha Trilogy, Book 3). In this third Grisha Trilogy folk tale from Leigh Bardugo, a young girl's beauty causes discord in her small town, but her father's solution may prove far more dangerous. "Little Knife" is a companion story to the third book of the Grisha Trilogy, Ruin and Rising, and the stories "The Witch of Duva" and "The Too-Clever Fox." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
City of Thorns
Author: Ben Rawlence
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250067642
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist The Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it’s a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a “nursery for terrorists”; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents, it’s their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic. Its entire economy is grey. And its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a firsthand witness to a strange and desperate place, getting to know many of those who had come seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and Kheyro, a student whose future hangs upon her education. In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp, sketching the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped. Lucid, vivid, and illuminating, City of Thorns is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dabaab home.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250067642
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named a Best of Book of the Year by The Economist and Foreign Affairs Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist The Dadaab refugee camp is many things: to the charity workers, it’s a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, a “nursery for terrorists”; to the Western media, a dangerous no-go area. But to its half a million residents, it’s their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic. Its entire economy is grey. And its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a firsthand witness to a strange and desperate place, getting to know many of those who had come seeking sanctuary. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for football; Nisho, who scrapes an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and Kheyro, a student whose future hangs upon her education. In City of Thorns, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp, sketching the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped. Lucid, vivid, and illuminating, City of Thorns is an urgent human story with deep international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dabaab home.
Who is, This, JESUS ?
Author: Clifford Auten
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664280316
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Written by a non-scholar The writer is not presenting himself as a bible scholar, nor does he present himself to be anything other than what he is --- a Christian who has been observant, generally without a judgmental eye, but wondering why we do what we do and how can we do better to exemplify Christ in our lives; and, why should we? The main body of the book is a prose designed to present Jesus from the beginning through the end of time as described in the Bible. From the perspective of one whose chosen behavior resulted in the need of the Savior, the writer presents the true perspective of being personally responsible and personally participating in as well as observing the barbaric crucifixion process Jesus suffered to provide Himself as the chosen Lamb of God. Each verse of the prose is supported by scripture and each scripture is presented to the eader using five translations for the reader’s convenience for comparisons. The writer’s hope is for the reader to study the scriptures, compare them from different translations, view them in context of the surrounding verses, and more clearly see how Jesus is presented to us in the Bible. “Who is, This JESUS” began several years ago as a song to praise the Lord for who He is and what HE has chosen to do for mankind. With time, more verses were added until they would not fit in as a song, so it changed to a poem, and then more were added until the rhyming was not consistent, thus the author has chosen to consider it a prose. Please read it as though someone is speaking it rather than as an English composition. Some punctuations, capitalizations, etc., are for emphasis and hopefully will not confuse you. The first presentation is without footnotes intentionally for fluidity of reading. The second presents footnotes to validate each phrase or sentence as being supported by scripture. Then, are the scriptures coordinated with the footnotes to simplify the access of scripture for the reader. Following the prose, the writer gives his personal opinion as a non-scholar as to how to apply Biblical truth into daily life and why we should pursue doing so; followed by two poems written by the author for the enjoyment and hopefully encouragement of the reader. Translations used: NASB --- New American Standard Bible 1995 AMP ---- Amplified Bible CJB ....... Complete Jewish Bible KJV ....... King James Version |NIV ....... New International Version
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664280316
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Written by a non-scholar The writer is not presenting himself as a bible scholar, nor does he present himself to be anything other than what he is --- a Christian who has been observant, generally without a judgmental eye, but wondering why we do what we do and how can we do better to exemplify Christ in our lives; and, why should we? The main body of the book is a prose designed to present Jesus from the beginning through the end of time as described in the Bible. From the perspective of one whose chosen behavior resulted in the need of the Savior, the writer presents the true perspective of being personally responsible and personally participating in as well as observing the barbaric crucifixion process Jesus suffered to provide Himself as the chosen Lamb of God. Each verse of the prose is supported by scripture and each scripture is presented to the eader using five translations for the reader’s convenience for comparisons. The writer’s hope is for the reader to study the scriptures, compare them from different translations, view them in context of the surrounding verses, and more clearly see how Jesus is presented to us in the Bible. “Who is, This JESUS” began several years ago as a song to praise the Lord for who He is and what HE has chosen to do for mankind. With time, more verses were added until they would not fit in as a song, so it changed to a poem, and then more were added until the rhyming was not consistent, thus the author has chosen to consider it a prose. Please read it as though someone is speaking it rather than as an English composition. Some punctuations, capitalizations, etc., are for emphasis and hopefully will not confuse you. The first presentation is without footnotes intentionally for fluidity of reading. The second presents footnotes to validate each phrase or sentence as being supported by scripture. Then, are the scriptures coordinated with the footnotes to simplify the access of scripture for the reader. Following the prose, the writer gives his personal opinion as a non-scholar as to how to apply Biblical truth into daily life and why we should pursue doing so; followed by two poems written by the author for the enjoyment and hopefully encouragement of the reader. Translations used: NASB --- New American Standard Bible 1995 AMP ---- Amplified Bible CJB ....... Complete Jewish Bible KJV ....... King James Version |NIV ....... New International Version
Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter
Author: Barbara Robinette Moss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743219503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober, captured his children's timid awe, but when (more often) drunk, roused them from bed for severe punishment or bizarre all-night poker games. Their mother was their angel: erudite and stalwart -- her only sin her inability to leave her husband for the sake of the children. Unlike the rest of her family, Barbara bore the scars of this abuse and neglect on the outside as well as the inside. As a result of childhood malnutrition and a complete lack of medical and dental care, the bones in her face grew abnormally ("like a thin pine tree"), and she ended up with what she calls "a twisted, mummy face." Barbara's memoir brings us deep into not only the world of Southern poverty and alcoholic child abuse but also the consciousness of one who is physically frail and awkward, relating how one girl's debilitating sense of her own physical appearance is ultimately saved by her faith in the transformative powers of artistic beauty: painting and writing. From early on and with little encouragement from the world, Barbara embodied the fiery determination to change her fate and achieve a life defined by beauty. At age seven, she announced to the world that she would become an artist -- and so she did. Nightly, she prayed to become attractive, to be changed into "Zeus's daughter," the goddess of beauty, and when her prayers weren't answered, she did it herself, raising the money for years of braces followed by facial surgery. Growing up "so ugly," she felt the family's disgrace all the more acutely, but the result has been a keenly developed appreciation for beauty -- physical and artistic -- the evidence of which can be seen in her writing. Despite the deprivation, the lingering image from this memoir is not of self-pity but of the incredible bond between these eight siblings: the raucous, childish fun they had together, the making-do, and the total devotion to their desperate mother, who absorbed most of the father's blows for them and who plied them with art and poetry in place of balanced meals. Gracefully and intelligently woven in layers of flashback, the persistent strength of Barbara Moss's memoir is itself a testament to the nearly lifesaving appreciation for literature that was her mother's greatest gift to her children.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743219503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober, captured his children's timid awe, but when (more often) drunk, roused them from bed for severe punishment or bizarre all-night poker games. Their mother was their angel: erudite and stalwart -- her only sin her inability to leave her husband for the sake of the children. Unlike the rest of her family, Barbara bore the scars of this abuse and neglect on the outside as well as the inside. As a result of childhood malnutrition and a complete lack of medical and dental care, the bones in her face grew abnormally ("like a thin pine tree"), and she ended up with what she calls "a twisted, mummy face." Barbara's memoir brings us deep into not only the world of Southern poverty and alcoholic child abuse but also the consciousness of one who is physically frail and awkward, relating how one girl's debilitating sense of her own physical appearance is ultimately saved by her faith in the transformative powers of artistic beauty: painting and writing. From early on and with little encouragement from the world, Barbara embodied the fiery determination to change her fate and achieve a life defined by beauty. At age seven, she announced to the world that she would become an artist -- and so she did. Nightly, she prayed to become attractive, to be changed into "Zeus's daughter," the goddess of beauty, and when her prayers weren't answered, she did it herself, raising the money for years of braces followed by facial surgery. Growing up "so ugly," she felt the family's disgrace all the more acutely, but the result has been a keenly developed appreciation for beauty -- physical and artistic -- the evidence of which can be seen in her writing. Despite the deprivation, the lingering image from this memoir is not of self-pity but of the incredible bond between these eight siblings: the raucous, childish fun they had together, the making-do, and the total devotion to their desperate mother, who absorbed most of the father's blows for them and who plied them with art and poetry in place of balanced meals. Gracefully and intelligently woven in layers of flashback, the persistent strength of Barbara Moss's memoir is itself a testament to the nearly lifesaving appreciation for literature that was her mother's greatest gift to her children.
Mysteries of the Rosary
Author: Teresa Rhodes McGee
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608334236
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608334236
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Cornhill Magazine
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Flawless
Author: Yun Makan
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482833565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Right from the start, a whole new outlook on our relationship with God a Father so real, so close and so true in our struggles is struck into the mind. A brilliant book where faith can dream in colours. - Songayam Zimik Kardia, a child of God, has to find her way to Father who is waiting in Jerusalem. Though she does not understand what is to come, through her doubts and questions, she carries on. The story begins with her in school, living a normal life but during the months leading up to her 16th birthday she is haunted by Lucifer and his most trusted follower, the samurai. Flawless is the beginning of a life-changing adventure, it shows the power and rewards of faith and perseverance. It has a touch from every genre and is unique and gripping. It is the first book of a trilogy.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482833565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Right from the start, a whole new outlook on our relationship with God a Father so real, so close and so true in our struggles is struck into the mind. A brilliant book where faith can dream in colours. - Songayam Zimik Kardia, a child of God, has to find her way to Father who is waiting in Jerusalem. Though she does not understand what is to come, through her doubts and questions, she carries on. The story begins with her in school, living a normal life but during the months leading up to her 16th birthday she is haunted by Lucifer and his most trusted follower, the samurai. Flawless is the beginning of a life-changing adventure, it shows the power and rewards of faith and perseverance. It has a touch from every genre and is unique and gripping. It is the first book of a trilogy.
The Four Gospels at a Glance
Author: World English Bible WEB
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3751968172
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
- Quick view - Time saving (no unnecessary searching) - Direct comparison possible - Recommendable, e.g. in exam preparations The following book consists of all biblical Gospels in table form. Each Gospel is situated in one of four columns. The various text passages are partitioned into themes. All versions of an incident can be read parallel. Thereby, similarities and differences of numerous topics can be easily identified. To help simplify, there are dividing lines. Hence the paragraphs and dedicated contents of an act enable a quick insight. Accordingly, each Gospel can be read continuously. A better understanding is guaranteed! Absolutely worthwhile!
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3751968172
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
- Quick view - Time saving (no unnecessary searching) - Direct comparison possible - Recommendable, e.g. in exam preparations The following book consists of all biblical Gospels in table form. Each Gospel is situated in one of four columns. The various text passages are partitioned into themes. All versions of an incident can be read parallel. Thereby, similarities and differences of numerous topics can be easily identified. To help simplify, there are dividing lines. Hence the paragraphs and dedicated contents of an act enable a quick insight. Accordingly, each Gospel can be read continuously. A better understanding is guaranteed! Absolutely worthwhile!
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church's Tradition on the Holy Cross
Author: Getatchew Haile
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352511
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Tradition on the Holy Cross is a volume that combines both ancient and derived Ethiopic literature on the Cross. The work brings together all the major sources from manuscripts preserved in different monasteries and edited and translated into English. The sources include homilies by Minas bishop of Aksum, John Chrysostom, James of Sarug, as well as a number of anonymous authors, all translated from Greek during the Aksumite era. The derived literature includes works by the famous men of the pen, including the fifteenth-century Abba Giyorgis of Sägla and Emperor Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob. Poetic hymns to the Cross constitute a part of the collection, one of these being glorification of the Cross by Abba Baḥrǝy, author of several important works.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004352511
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Tradition on the Holy Cross is a volume that combines both ancient and derived Ethiopic literature on the Cross. The work brings together all the major sources from manuscripts preserved in different monasteries and edited and translated into English. The sources include homilies by Minas bishop of Aksum, John Chrysostom, James of Sarug, as well as a number of anonymous authors, all translated from Greek during the Aksumite era. The derived literature includes works by the famous men of the pen, including the fifteenth-century Abba Giyorgis of Sägla and Emperor Zär’a Ya‘ǝqob. Poetic hymns to the Cross constitute a part of the collection, one of these being glorification of the Cross by Abba Baḥrǝy, author of several important works.