Author: Dolly Ogawa-Amsk
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631359444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Father Rossi is the pastor of a small parish in an older area of Los Angeles who finds himself with a medical problem that seems impossible. While he is wrestling with the realities, God decides to send him Tabbris, the Angel in charge of Free Will and Alternative Solutions. The medical problem is that his twin that is now growing in his abdomen. The Bishop and Rossi’s uncle Guido Rossini decide that something must be done about his condition. Rose, a bag lady, is enlisted by Tabbris. Father Rossi is not only pregnant, but also on the run. Rose helps Father Rossi hide and escape. Lupe is a karate instructor who has been Father Rossi’s housekeeper since she got out of jail, convicted of killing her abusive husband. Rossi has two cousins, Joey and Louisa; she’s pregnant and supports him, along with Jimmy and Arthur, a gay couple. Rossi’s condition tests his faith and his outlook. He realizes that no one has the right to make decisions about someone else’s body. Religion has rules that don’t fit everyone. He wrestles with his dilemma and he empathizes with others who have problems that don’t fit the standard answers. Do gay people have the right to marry? Is abortion a good thing in some circumstances? Rossi is also forced to think about his future as a priest.
Angels, Babies & Bad Guys
Author: Dolly Ogawa-Amsk
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631359444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Father Rossi is the pastor of a small parish in an older area of Los Angeles who finds himself with a medical problem that seems impossible. While he is wrestling with the realities, God decides to send him Tabbris, the Angel in charge of Free Will and Alternative Solutions. The medical problem is that his twin that is now growing in his abdomen. The Bishop and Rossi’s uncle Guido Rossini decide that something must be done about his condition. Rose, a bag lady, is enlisted by Tabbris. Father Rossi is not only pregnant, but also on the run. Rose helps Father Rossi hide and escape. Lupe is a karate instructor who has been Father Rossi’s housekeeper since she got out of jail, convicted of killing her abusive husband. Rossi has two cousins, Joey and Louisa; she’s pregnant and supports him, along with Jimmy and Arthur, a gay couple. Rossi’s condition tests his faith and his outlook. He realizes that no one has the right to make decisions about someone else’s body. Religion has rules that don’t fit everyone. He wrestles with his dilemma and he empathizes with others who have problems that don’t fit the standard answers. Do gay people have the right to marry? Is abortion a good thing in some circumstances? Rossi is also forced to think about his future as a priest.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 1631359444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Father Rossi is the pastor of a small parish in an older area of Los Angeles who finds himself with a medical problem that seems impossible. While he is wrestling with the realities, God decides to send him Tabbris, the Angel in charge of Free Will and Alternative Solutions. The medical problem is that his twin that is now growing in his abdomen. The Bishop and Rossi’s uncle Guido Rossini decide that something must be done about his condition. Rose, a bag lady, is enlisted by Tabbris. Father Rossi is not only pregnant, but also on the run. Rose helps Father Rossi hide and escape. Lupe is a karate instructor who has been Father Rossi’s housekeeper since she got out of jail, convicted of killing her abusive husband. Rossi has two cousins, Joey and Louisa; she’s pregnant and supports him, along with Jimmy and Arthur, a gay couple. Rossi’s condition tests his faith and his outlook. He realizes that no one has the right to make decisions about someone else’s body. Religion has rules that don’t fit everyone. He wrestles with his dilemma and he empathizes with others who have problems that don’t fit the standard answers. Do gay people have the right to marry? Is abortion a good thing in some circumstances? Rossi is also forced to think about his future as a priest.
Just Babies
Author: Paul Bloom
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307886859
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others’ actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice. Still, this innate morality is limited, sometimes tragically. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Bringing together insights from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. Along the way, he examines the morality of chimpanzees, violent psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and explores our often puzzling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race. In his analysis of the morality of children and adults, Bloom rejects the fashionable view that our moral decisions are driven mainly by gut feelings and unconscious biases. Just as reason has driven our great scientific discoveries, he argues, it is reason and deliberation that makes possible our moral discoveries, such as the wrongness of slavery. Ultimately, it is through our imagination, our compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought that we can transcend the primitive sense of morality we were born with, becoming more than just babies. Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307886859
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others’ actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice. Still, this innate morality is limited, sometimes tragically. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Bringing together insights from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. Along the way, he examines the morality of chimpanzees, violent psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and explores our often puzzling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race. In his analysis of the morality of children and adults, Bloom rejects the fashionable view that our moral decisions are driven mainly by gut feelings and unconscious biases. Just as reason has driven our great scientific discoveries, he argues, it is reason and deliberation that makes possible our moral discoveries, such as the wrongness of slavery. Ultimately, it is through our imagination, our compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought that we can transcend the primitive sense of morality we were born with, becoming more than just babies. Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Angel Baby
Author: Richard Lange
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316219843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award: A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer. To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe , a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife. With the pace and relentless force of a Scorsese film, ANGEL BABY is the newest masterpiece from one of the most ambitious and talented crime novelists at work today.
Publisher: Mulholland Books
ISBN: 0316219843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award: A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer. To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe , a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his perfect, obedient wife. With the pace and relentless force of a Scorsese film, ANGEL BABY is the newest masterpiece from one of the most ambitious and talented crime novelists at work today.
Angel's Back: What's Next
Author: Brenda/William G. Wright
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477131558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Angel; A Hustling Diva with a Twist - a dark, thrilling and gruesome saga that explores the underground world of criminals- Angels Back; What’s Next is the equally gripping sequel that can give the mobsters, assassins and Italian mafia a run for their lives and for their money. Wright’s new book is a fitting comeback with twice the danger and twice the excitement, featuring a natural born deadly trio that is a force to be reckoned with.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477131558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Angel; A Hustling Diva with a Twist - a dark, thrilling and gruesome saga that explores the underground world of criminals- Angels Back; What’s Next is the equally gripping sequel that can give the mobsters, assassins and Italian mafia a run for their lives and for their money. Wright’s new book is a fitting comeback with twice the danger and twice the excitement, featuring a natural born deadly trio that is a force to be reckoned with.
Margin of Error
Author: Edna Buchanan
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1626812489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
A movie star comes to Miami—and mayhem ensues—in this crime thriller by an Edgar Award finalist: “[An] extremely likable heroine” (Publishers Weekly). Crime reporter Britt Montero had to shoot a man to save her own life, and the memory of it is tormenting her. So when a major Hollywood actor strides into the newsroom, hoping to do research for the character he portrays, the seemingly cushy job is given to Britt in the hope that it will help her recover from her traumatic experience. But the assignment turns out to be not so much fun: An obsessed madwoman stalks the star, and mysterious mishaps, accidents, and deaths push him and Britt closer together. Both are menaced by the stalker—or perhaps, by someone else who is determined to sabotage the film and murder its leading man . . . “[An] irresistible series.” —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1626812489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
A movie star comes to Miami—and mayhem ensues—in this crime thriller by an Edgar Award finalist: “[An] extremely likable heroine” (Publishers Weekly). Crime reporter Britt Montero had to shoot a man to save her own life, and the memory of it is tormenting her. So when a major Hollywood actor strides into the newsroom, hoping to do research for the character he portrays, the seemingly cushy job is given to Britt in the hope that it will help her recover from her traumatic experience. But the assignment turns out to be not so much fun: An obsessed madwoman stalks the star, and mysterious mishaps, accidents, and deaths push him and Britt closer together. Both are menaced by the stalker—or perhaps, by someone else who is determined to sabotage the film and murder its leading man . . . “[An] irresistible series.” —Kirkus Reviews
Angel a Hustling Diva with a Twist
Author: Brenda Wright.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477286136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This third sequel to angel a hustling diva with a twist is based mostly on angels children (Gloria) her daughter baby girl and son (little Ramon) known as King has taken stacking paper to levels that people only dream about, Gloria a. k. a. baby girl being a prominent attorney in Chicago has taken criminalization up a few notches, and Angel has come out of hiding only to get caught up in a police shoot out and survives again. ANGELS A HUSTLING DIVA WITH A TWIST THIRD SEQUEL, ANGELS RETIREMENT WILL SHE RETURN?
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477286136
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This third sequel to angel a hustling diva with a twist is based mostly on angels children (Gloria) her daughter baby girl and son (little Ramon) known as King has taken stacking paper to levels that people only dream about, Gloria a. k. a. baby girl being a prominent attorney in Chicago has taken criminalization up a few notches, and Angel has come out of hiding only to get caught up in a police shoot out and survives again. ANGELS A HUSTLING DIVA WITH A TWIST THIRD SEQUEL, ANGELS RETIREMENT WILL SHE RETURN?
Evangelina, Warrior Angel
Author: Russell Marrone
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666778028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
In this era of fantastical beings and superheroes, let us not forget the original superheroes of the universe--angels. In this second installment of her saga, Evangelina, a minor angel, has been called into service as a guardian angel. She is given a very special ward, the Glory Child, Jonathan. The young boy, just two years old, is a once-in-a-millennia gift from God to mortals and he is destined to improve the human condition. In an effort to use the child as a negotiating piece, Lucifer sends Beelzebub, a Prince of Hell, to kidnap the child. Arriving too late to thwart the demons, Evangelina chases the kidnappers across the country to the gates of Hell. During the battles between the recently minted guardian angel and the demons that confront her, Evangelina discovers her true powers as an angel.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666778028
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
In this era of fantastical beings and superheroes, let us not forget the original superheroes of the universe--angels. In this second installment of her saga, Evangelina, a minor angel, has been called into service as a guardian angel. She is given a very special ward, the Glory Child, Jonathan. The young boy, just two years old, is a once-in-a-millennia gift from God to mortals and he is destined to improve the human condition. In an effort to use the child as a negotiating piece, Lucifer sends Beelzebub, a Prince of Hell, to kidnap the child. Arriving too late to thwart the demons, Evangelina chases the kidnappers across the country to the gates of Hell. During the battles between the recently minted guardian angel and the demons that confront her, Evangelina discovers her true powers as an angel.
Game On
Author: Andra-Cristiana Stan
Publisher: Andra-Cristiana Stan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Mona Landing back home to my dad from abroad upon finishing my PhD studies should have been the happiest moment of my life, right? Nah.... A punishing to my soul and heart news hits me right from my father's lips. I need to marry Frederik Shawn tomorrow morning, a 31 hot billionaire and dangerous mafia head, to settle a 40 million debt my and my dad's companies have to him as an investor. I, Mona Sandler, 26, curvy, genius, businesswoman, rebel, badass, with a life in the shadows even my own dad knows nothing about, break before this crushing to my all settlement between Frederik and my dad to prevent the entire collapse of our companies. However, he's going to have me on papers only and I'll make his life a living hell. The name I possess in the shadows is Pandora Angel.... He wants me? He doesn't know what he's asking for.... But.... When I meet him for the signing of the marriage contract in his own office, something in me responds to him. Yet, I'm on revenge mode, and I'm not going to surrender to the crawling feelings he summons in me. To pay debts back? Okay. To be his real wife? HELL NO! Frederik Oh? You guys want me to reply to what she has said above? Alrighty then. She's mine. Forever. No matter the war she'll have against me. She's taken, no matter the means. She's my baby. MY Pandora Angel. And I love her...MADLY! But she'll torture me SO bad.... And I won't lower my game either. Game on for REAL LOVE! Liked that, honey? Huh? Oh! You're so mine, love.... Prepare for lunatic and true love, retaliation, comedy, action, mafia, contemporary romance, business world, rivals, with the touch of the paranormal! Game On is the first book in the Billionaire's Baby Angel series. Book's Tagline: When she's a descendant from a divine bloodline... *This book contains language and mature themes.
Publisher: Andra-Cristiana Stan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Mona Landing back home to my dad from abroad upon finishing my PhD studies should have been the happiest moment of my life, right? Nah.... A punishing to my soul and heart news hits me right from my father's lips. I need to marry Frederik Shawn tomorrow morning, a 31 hot billionaire and dangerous mafia head, to settle a 40 million debt my and my dad's companies have to him as an investor. I, Mona Sandler, 26, curvy, genius, businesswoman, rebel, badass, with a life in the shadows even my own dad knows nothing about, break before this crushing to my all settlement between Frederik and my dad to prevent the entire collapse of our companies. However, he's going to have me on papers only and I'll make his life a living hell. The name I possess in the shadows is Pandora Angel.... He wants me? He doesn't know what he's asking for.... But.... When I meet him for the signing of the marriage contract in his own office, something in me responds to him. Yet, I'm on revenge mode, and I'm not going to surrender to the crawling feelings he summons in me. To pay debts back? Okay. To be his real wife? HELL NO! Frederik Oh? You guys want me to reply to what she has said above? Alrighty then. She's mine. Forever. No matter the war she'll have against me. She's taken, no matter the means. She's my baby. MY Pandora Angel. And I love her...MADLY! But she'll torture me SO bad.... And I won't lower my game either. Game on for REAL LOVE! Liked that, honey? Huh? Oh! You're so mine, love.... Prepare for lunatic and true love, retaliation, comedy, action, mafia, contemporary romance, business world, rivals, with the touch of the paranormal! Game On is the first book in the Billionaire's Baby Angel series. Book's Tagline: When she's a descendant from a divine bloodline... *This book contains language and mature themes.
X-Men
Author: Ed Brubaker
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 0785171460
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren't there to meet it - the Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since House of M! This crossover epic may spell the end of mutantkind unless the X-Men can save their entire species from some of their deadliest enemies. Collects X-Men: Messiah Complex One-Shot, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #492-494, New X-Men (2004) #44-46, X-Men (2004) #205-207, X-Factor (2005) #25-27
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 0785171460
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Just when it looked like there was no possibility of a future for mutants, hope arrives. But the X-Men aren't there to meet it - the Marauders and Purifiers beat them to it. Now the race is on to get the first new mutant since House of M! This crossover epic may spell the end of mutantkind unless the X-Men can save their entire species from some of their deadliest enemies. Collects X-Men: Messiah Complex One-Shot, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #492-494, New X-Men (2004) #44-46, X-Men (2004) #205-207, X-Factor (2005) #25-27