Author: Vanessa Davis Griggs
Publisher: Dafina Books
ISBN: 0758273606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Full of crazy church politics and a huge cast, Griggs keeps this on-going story alive by addressing the challenges of living by Biblical rules with homespun humor. --Publishers Weekly Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she's dreamed of for so long. There's just one complication: she's not sure who the father is. Apparently, after a night of drinking with her ex-coworker and ally Darius Connors, it could be him. Considering her husband's track record, chances are it is. Still, Paris prays it's not Darius, and decides to keep quiet about her worries. Especially because Darius isn't ready to give up on his crumbling marriage. . . Meanwhile, after a battle to keep her adopted daughter and an ugly confrontation with Paris's family, Gabrielle Mercedes has finally found love and happiness. But when her father shows up, paroled from prison, she fears she's in for another round of trouble. As all three navigate the path from sin to redemption, can they forgive their way to the other side? "I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style." --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author
Author: Larry Dixon
Publisher: Christian Focus
ISBN: 9781857928044
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In a time of Christian confusion and evangelical erosion, Jesus' teaching about the destiny of the wicked needs to be emphasized. Is there a biblical doctrine of hell or are Christians free to hold a variety of viewpoints on this issue? In this book Larry Dixon examines many of the current theories on hell and encourages the reader to take the Bible's teaching on Hell as seriously as Jesus Christ did in order to tell people the Good News that we know so that they won't spend eternity on The Other Side of the Good News. Dixon looks at three alternative views to the traditional doctrine of hell, universalism, annihilationism and post-mortem conversion. In the last chapter he asks "Does it make any difference what view Christians hold about the Other Side?" and "Can there be alternative positions within the church?"
Author: Bettye DeLoach Presley
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481744208
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
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In Doses of Dis Ease, Bettye DeLoach Presley offers a new and refreshing perspective for poetry. By writing poems that are both easy to read and easy to understand, she embraces readers who normally shy away from poetry. Tapping into her creativity, she has chosen a format that strays from the ordinary presentation of poems. Her titles have been crafted to catch your eye and claim your attention. She promises a sense of connection as well as a sense of identity and release through humor, analogy and symbolism. Her poems offer variety and unique style.
Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822384329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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Drawing on deconstruction, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and subaltern studies, The Other Side of the Popular is as much a reflection on the limitations and possibilities for thinking about the politics of Latin American culture as it is a study of the culture itself. Gareth Williams pays particular attention to the close relationship between complex cultural shifts and the development of the neoliberal nation-state. The modern Latin American nation, he argues, was built upon the idea of "the people," a citizenry with common interests transcending demographic and cultural differences. As nations have weakened in relation to the global economy, this moment—of the popular as the basis of nation-building—has passed, causing seismic shifts in the relationships between governments and cultural formations. Williams asserts that these changed relationships necessitate the rethinking of fundamental concepts such as "the popular" and "the nation." He maintains that the perspective of subalternity is vital to this theoretical project because it demands the reimagining of the connections between critical reason and its objects of analysis. Williams develops his argument through studies of events highlighting Latin America’s uneasy, and often violent, transition to late capitalism over the past thirty years. He looks at the Chiapas rebellion in Mexico, genocide in El Salvador, the Sendero in Peru, Chile’s and Argentina’s transitions to democratic governments, and Latin Americans’ migration northward. Williams also reads film, photography, and literary works, including Ricardo Piglia’s The Absent City and the statements of a young Salvadoran woman, the daughter of ex-guerrilleros, living in South Central Los Angeles. The Other Side of the Popular is an incisive interpretation of Latin American culture and politics over the last few decades as well as a thoughtful meditation on the state of Latin American cultural studies.
Author: Leslie Derville
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Author: Jeffrey Hubbard
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578110113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Follow two wandering travelers of the beat as they journey down a path of self awareness and self destruction. Climb down the concrete rabbit hole into a sonic world of madness and mayhem. Through the back alleys and abandoned buildings into a man made psychedelic Eden of tomorrow. Starting in an underground tunnel in Pittsburgh our two heroes navigate the underground stations of the United States while their imaginations are in full control. World class DJs, alien contact, revolution, dope smuggling, sex, pain, bliss, heaven, hell, and death are all in store for these kids. They fly out of control over the plains of a long forgotten desert and then back to their home to face complete destruction. Letting go of the world they once knew and throwing all fear aside. Letting love be their guide into an unknown world beyond human comprehension. Take the trip where you will not have a chance to look back. You will forever know that there is something on the other side. Based on real life hallucinations
Author: Bob Adamov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978618414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 1944 a mysterious German raider from Hitler's pirate fleet disappears in the Caribbean. Years later, a Soviet frigate sinks off Grand Cayman Island. A tragedy on the dangerous wintry ice of Lake Erie causes Washington Post investigative reporter Emerson Moore to escape to the Cayman Islands. There, he is drawn into the intrigue surrounding nefarious Jamaican drug lord, Pryce Clarke, and his surreptitious underwater activities in Boatswain's Bay off of DiveTech. At the same time, Moore stumbles across information regarding the missing German raider and uncovers a deadly Soviet Union plan for the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The provocative cast of characters include Moore's Ex-Navy SEAL buddy Sam Duncan, legendary Put-in-Bay singer Mike Mad Dog Adams, an attractive and reticent Jamaican woman, a furtive Royal Cayman Police Superintendent and the rapscallions at Durty Reid's Bar and Grille in Red Bay. From the wintry ice of the Lake Erie Islands to the warm breezes of the Cayman Islands, The Other Side of Hell delivers a pirate's treasure of murder, mayhem and suspenseful underwater scuba action with eels, barracuda and jellyfish. Each copy of the book includes a companion 11-song CD entitled The Other Side of Hell, written and sung by popular island singer Mike Mad Dog Adams.
Author: Brad Warner
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608688054
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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A reader-friendly guide to Zen Buddhist ethics for modern times In the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality — the realization that everything in the universe forms a single, integrated whole — is especially difficult to grasp. In The Other Side of Nothing, Zen teacher Brad Warner untangles the mystery and explains nonduality in plain English. To Warner, this is not just a philosophical problem: nonduality forms the bedrock of Zen ethics, and once we comprehend it, many of the perplexing aspects of Zen suddenly make sense. Drawing on decades of Zen practice, he traces the interlocking relationship between Zen metaphysics and ethics, showing how a true understanding of reality — and the ultimate unity of all things — instills in us a sense of responsibility for the welfare of all beings. When we realize that our feeling of separateness from others is illusory, we have no desire to harm any creature. Warner ultimately presents an expansive overview of the Zen ethos that will give beginners and experts alike a deeper understanding of one of the world’s enduring spiritual traditions.
Author: M.D. Nygaard
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557595002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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On the eve of her birthday, Ashley wakes to find her family murdered and an unusual mist cloaking her guiding a deadly hunger.A dark voice beseeches her to seek her new fate as an immortal being, plunged into a world ruled by laws and myths long forgotten. Along the way she meets Apollo-One born of two fathers. Together they travel lost to their souls, confronting unholy secrets, blood betrayals and wars of the past.Violent passions erupt as she fights her hunger for blood and lustful desires for her new companion. Will she ever find the safety of her loves arms or will she destroy him along with the others? Who is she and why was she made? What prophecy is it that she is to fufill...?
Author: John Matteson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America. December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The changes they underwent led to profound repercussions in the country’s law, literature, politics, and popular mythology. Taken together, their stories offer a striking restatement of what it means to be American. Guided by patriotism, driven by desire, all five moved toward singular destinies. A young Harvard intellectual steeped in courageous ideals, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. confronted grave challenges to his concept of duty. The one-eyed army chaplain Arthur Fuller pitted his frail body against the evils of slavery. Walt Whitman, a gay Brooklyn poet condemned by the guardians of propriety, and Louisa May Alcott, a struggling writer seeking an authentic voice and her father’s admiration, tended soldiers’ wracked bodies as nurses. On the other side of the national schism, John Pelham, a West Point cadet from Alabama, achieved a unique excellence in artillery tactics as he served a doomed and misbegotten cause. A Worse Place Than Hell brings together the prodigious forces of war with the intimacy of individual lives. Matteson interweaves the historic and the personal in a work as beautiful as it is powerful.
