Author: David Hill
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307767213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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A spellbinding novel of sin and salvation, adultery and revenge in a small Mississippi town... Once Leona Sayres was a good Southern woman married to the town preacher. But from the day Averill buried her newborn baby girl, Leona has seethed in unspeakable loneliness and rage. She knows there is only one way to ease her pain. Leona must murder that sensuous man of God, her husband, Averill Sayres. Suddenly Leona has done the unthinkable. And from out of the silent woods around her parsonage, from the dusty Mississippi hills, come the cries and whispers of her past, of the circumstances that brought her to this time and place: a murderer waiting for justice to arrive. Reliving a life gone terribly wrong, Leona cannot see that she is only one part of a far more complex drama. For all his lies and secrets, Averill Sayres had secrets beyond her guessing. And for all her talk of loyalty, Leona’s own best friend has played a role in Leona’s fate. Now Leona cannot stop what she herself has set in motion: a chain of events that will unmask an astounding secret, and change a town and its people forever.

Author: Donald Stokes
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9780316817806
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Copiously illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full-color photographs, this large format paperback book contains the essential information that backyard nature enthusiasts want and need -- to attract butterflies to their yards.

Author: Joanna Weaver
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307569020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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CBA BESTSELLER • More than a million copies sold! An invitation for every woman who’s ever felt she isn’t godly enough, isn’t loving enough, isn’t doing enough. “Easy to read, personal, and well-written with a message much more than surface deep. Joanna probed, challenged, and encouraged me to live day by day as Mary in a Martha world.”—Carole Mayhall, author of Come Walk with Me and Here I Am Again, Lord The life of a woman today isn’t all that different from the lives of Mary and Martha in the New Testament. Like Mary, you long to sit at the Lord’s feet . . . but the daily demands of a busy world just won’t leave you alone. Like Martha, you love Jesus and really want to serve him . . . yet you struggle with weariness, resentment, and feelings of inadequacy. Then comes Jesus, into the midst of your busy life, to extend the same invitation he issued long ago to the two sisters from Bethany. Tenderly, he invites you to choose “the better part”—a joyful life of intimacy with him that flows naturally into loving service. With her fresh approach to the familiar Bible story, Joanna Weaver shows how all of us, Marys and Marthas alike, can draw closer to our Lord: deepening our devotion, strengthening our service, and doing both with less stress and greater joy. This book includes a twelve-week Bible study for individual or group use. A Study Guide and a corresponding ten-session video series on DVD or online are available separately.

Author: Eric Carle
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524739553
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30

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The all-time classic picture book, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life? For the first time, Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now available in e-book format, perfect for storytime anywhere. As an added bonus, it includes read-aloud audio of Eric Carle reading his classic story. This fine audio production pairs perfectly with the classic story, and it makes for a fantastic new way to encounter this famous, famished caterpillar.

Author: E. Scott Tapscott
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146347072X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Depicting the painful start-and-stop process, which is an inevitable part of humankind’s quest for a more enlightened world, BRUSHED by the BUTTERFLY’S WINGS presents the first three decades of the Twentieth Century as a complex period in which a visionary few are beginning to see the errancy of an unjust society and its retentive belief systems. Set in the Southern-most foothills of the Appalachians, it is a fictional account of those few, of the circumstances that propelled them and the resistance that they met; a story of human courage, which pits family member against family member and an idealistic minority against a complacent majority who can see neither a reason for nor the irreversibility of a restlessness that seethes beneath a facade of false civility on the part of some and painful acquiescence on the part of others. A must-read for anyone interested in the deterrent effects of a world more comfortable with the supposed wisdom of traditionalism than with new conceptual realities and the changing paradigms that accompany them.

Author: Rachel Eve Moulton
Publisher: MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN: 0374720037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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"A brutal, incredibly bizarre exploration of insanity, guilt, love, and the darkness inside all of us . . . This novel is a hybrid monster that's part Lovecraftian nightmare and part literary exploration of evil." —Gabino Iglesias, NPR Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes will take her as far as the Badlands. But Lowell is not as harmless as he seems, and a vicious scuffle leaves Emma bloody and stranded in an abandoned town in the Black Hills with an out-of-gas van, a loaded gun, and a snowstorm on the way. The town is eerily quiet and Emma takes shelter in a diner, where she stumbles across Earl, a strange little boy in a tinfoil mask who steals her gun before begging her to help him get rid of “George.” As she is pulled deeper into Earl’s bizarre, menacing world, the horrors of Emma’s past creep closer, and she realizes she can’t run forever. Tinfoil Butterfly is a seductively scary, chilling exploration of evil—how it sneaks in under your skin, flaring up when you least expect it, how it throttles you and won't let go. The beauty of Rachel Eve Moulton's ferocious, harrowing, and surprisingly moving debut is that it teaches us that love can do that, too.

Author: Rick Mikula
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 9781580173353
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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A guide to creating habitats suitable for butterflies offers advice on growing host and nectar plants, building nets and cages, and caring for and feeding butterflies, and provides identification clues for various species.

Author: Patty Dann
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834840340
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Featuring writing prompts and tips from one of the “great [writing] teachers of NYC,” this guide to memoir writing will help you discover the power and pleasure of bringing your memories to life (New York Magazine) Sometimes all it takes is a single word to spark a strong memory. Bicycle. Snowstorm. Washing machine. By presenting one-word prompts and simple phrases, author and writing teacher Patty Dann gives us the keys to unlock our life stories. Organized around her ten rules for writing memoir, Dann’s lyrical vignettes offer glimpses into her own life while, surprisingly, opening us up to our own. This book is a small but powerful guide and companion for anyone wanting to get their own story on the page. We all have stories to tell, and Patty Dann can help you bring them forth.

Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569472181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future—the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Their dyaspora, much like a butterfly's fluctuating path, is a shifting landscape in which there is much travel between two worlds, between their place of origin and their adopted land. This compilation of essays and poetry brings together Haitian-Americans of different generations and backgrounds, linking the voices for whom English is a first language and others whose dreams will always be in French and Kreyòl. Community activists, scholars, visual artists and filmmakers join renowned journalists, poets, novelists and memoirists to produce a poignant portrayal of lives in transition. Edwidge Danticat, in her powerful introduction, pays tribute to Jean Dominique, a sometime participant in the Haitian dyaspora and a recent martyr to Haiti's troubled politics, and the many members of the dyaspora who refused to be silenced. Their stories confidently and passionately illustrate the joys and heartaches, hopes and aspirations of a relatively new group of immigrants belonging to two countries that have each at times maligned and embraced them.

Author: D. O. Grant
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982249951
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854

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LILY-BUTTERFLY – And The Path Of Life’s Experiences – The story began on the island of Kawomaya, in a remote valley village named Yaj. In part one of the story Lily-Butterfly was created from a onetime sexual encounter between her birth mother Gina and her step-father Ivan. Gina denied the pregnancy from beginning to the birth of Lily-Butterfly and beyond. At birth Gina gave Lily-Butterfly to her mother Leila, who was Ivan’s wife. Six years later Gina returned to demand that Lily-Butterfly come to live with her for her own secret and unresolved negative intentions. Lily-Butterfly’s birth mother Gina saw her as her secret shame and tried to demolish her spirit, soul, mind, body, and life. Throughout Gina numerous attempts Lily-Butterfly refuse to be destroyed. Lily-Butterfly survived regardless of the negative things her birth mother Gina did to her. Lily-Butterfly was successful in overcoming abuse, her passion for learning, and in all areas of her life. Part two of this story continues on with Lily-Butterfly moving from the island of Kawomaya to Somerville, Massachusetts in the United States of America to first live with her grandmother and mother; whom she decided to call Manana Leila. The journey continues with Lily-Butterfly improving her life, education, and professional career. Parenting her two daughters, and discovering her chosen destiny and life’s purpose career. To this day Lily-Butterfly uses her talents to serve as tools to assist mother and father-nature and humanity. Read LILY-BUTTERFLY – AND THE PATH OF LIFE’S EXPERIENCES – PART ONE AND TWO. They are like an entertaining movie series, and ancient visual oral tradition storytelling. These books can inspire, motivate, improve awareness on unconditional love and compassion, assist with positive transformation, transcending suffering, and teach patience. LILY-BUTTERFLY JOURNAL – PERSONAL LIFE STORY REVIEW is another book in the Lily-Butterfly series. This book can assist with your personal life story review. Enjoy.