Author: Janie DeVos
Publisher: Lyrical Press
ISBN: 1516104323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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In turn-of-the-century Florida, a family comes of age, and a daughter finds her destiny entwined with a land as full of promise as it is danger. The steamy, sweltering banks of Florida’s Ocklawaha River don’t look much like Glory Land to young Eve Stewart, despite her father’s proclamation. But it’s here that Eve, her three siblings, and their parents will settle in July, 1875. Within a few years, Eve’s father, Hap, has made good on his assurances. They have a large, weathered clapboard house and a comfortable life, thanks to Hap’s job on a steamboat. Eve and her twin sister, Ivy, are blossoming into young women. Yet as Ivy grows more involved in medicine making under the tutelage of a neighboring black woman, her path leads away from the family. Eve, an aspiring writer, loves her home though she longs to see the wider world beyond its swamps and shores. But when she discovers a secret Ivy’s been keeping, Eve must decide between protecting the family name or saving her sister. With the help of a half-Creek Indian tracker, Max Harjo, Eve sets out to find Ivy, beginning a journey that will dare her to follow her ambitions and her passion wherever they lead.
Author: Karolyn Smardz Frost
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374531256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The Blackburns' improbable journey from bondage to freedom pulsates with the breath-catching urgency of a thriller, yet this remarkable story is true . . . An invaluable testament to resistance, resilience, and a once-denied but unalienable right to life and liberty.--Rene Graham, "The Boston Globe."
Author: Pastor Daniel Jones
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489741046
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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This book reveals God’s answers to complex questions. The first sermon deals with what is the primary business of the Church. The primary purpose of the Church is to witness to the world about Jesus. The second sermon shows the fantastic likeness between physical birth and spiritual birth. The third sermon explains how God speaks to Christians. The fourth sermon tells what it will be like when Christians stand before God. The fifth sermon tells what the marks of a Christian are. The sixth sermon tells how to get joy from God’s Word. The seventh sermons tell us where God lives. You will be amazed to find out where God lives. The ninth sermon tells what the bible teaches about overcoming worry. The tenth sermon will teach you fantastic truth concerning foot washing.
Author: David M. Atkinson
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591600529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Author: Michelle Martin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113594914X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American children's picturebooks, one can find a wealth of titles ranging from Happy to be Nappy to Black is Brown is Tan. In this book, Michelle Martin explores how the genre has evolved from problematic early works such as Epaminondas that were rooted in minstrelsy and stereotype, through the civil rights movement, and onward to contemporary celebrations of blackness. She demonstrates the cultural importance of contemporary favorites through keen historical analysis — scrutinizing the longevity and proliferation of the Coontown series and Ten Little Niggers books, for example — that makes clear how few picturebooks existed in which black children could see themselves and their people positively represented even up until the 1960s. Martin also explores how children's authors and illustrators have addressed major issues in black life and history including racism, the civil rights movement, black feminism, major historical figures, religion, and slavery. Brown Gold adds new depth to the reader's understanding of African-American literature and culture, and illuminates how the round, dynamic characters in these children's novels, novellas, and picturebooks can put a face on the past, a face with which many contemporary readers can identify.
Author: Don R. Wilkins
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412058996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Questions no one ever asks: "Who does God think he is? Does God make you sick? Christianity: Truth or Fiction?" These commentaries might help you find the answers.
Author: Sara Gallardo
Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN: 180533090X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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"Land of Smoke is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite Argentinian authors." – Samanta Schweblin, author of Seven Empty Houses Dazzling, hallucinatory short stories by a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez, whose groundbreaking novel January is being published in English for the first time Resplendent with otherworldly imagery and beguiling prose, Land of Smoke presents a uniquely compelling voice in Latin American literature. An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden, the envy of all his neighbours, is floating away with him on board. A young woman moves to Buenos Aires, bringing with her a replacement head. A meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas, completely unprepared for what he will encounter there. Dazzling and hallucinatory, the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism – but with Gallardo’s distinctive, idiosyncratic slant.
Author: Margaret Scott Haycraft
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Author: R. T. Kendall
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1616383488
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Kendall ("Jealousy: The Sin No One Talks About") tackles the problem of pride, bringing out into the open the challenges a majority of people face in overcoming the pride and self-righteousness that were introduced to mankind by the serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Author: Eileen Maddocks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732451186
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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The opening chapters of the book of Genesis hint at the challenges our species will face. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil symbolizes materialism, and the tree of life the Word of God. Its detail rich pages, and multifaceted allegories, history, hymns and stories, reveal a succession of Divine Messengers right down to the present day
