Author : Monia Mazigh
Publisher : ARACHNIDE EDITIONS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487001803
Tells the story of a mother and daughter at two important moments in history, the Tunisian Bread Riots in 1984 and the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2010.
Author : Saint Augustine
Publisher : Gateway Editions
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1996-09
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This work was written by St. Augustine late in his life with the intention of supplying a well-educated Roman layman with a brief but comprehensive exposition of the essential teachings of Christianity. It contains many of his most profound and mature definitions of his thoughts on sin, grace, and predestination, and is regarded as an indispensable guide to Augustinian Christianity.
Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496441842
The first in an epic two-book saga, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters as each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world. "Ambitious, strong-willed Marta Schneider leaves her home in rural Switzerland at the beginning of the 20th century. She's determined to flee her abusive father, loving but weak mother, and the constraints placed on women. Meeting interesting characters all along her journey, she works her way to Canada. There she buys a boardinghouse and meets her match in Niclas Waltert, a German engineer with a farmer's heart. Through Marta's sharp elbows and the sweat of Niclas's brow, the family eventually arrives at an increasingly comfortable life in California's Central Valley. The second half of the story is told from the point of view of constitutionally timid daughter Hildemara Rose."--Publishers Weekly.
Author : Katie Davis Majors
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0735290547
New York Times bestseller How do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for? When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people she desired to serve. But joy often gave way to sorrow as she invested her heart fully in walking alongside people in the grip of poverty, addiction, desperation, and disease. After unexpected tragedy shook her family, for the first time Katie began to wonder, Is God really good? Does He really love us? When she turned to Him with her questions, God spoke truth to her heart and drew her even deeper into relationship with Him. Daring to Hope is an invitation to cling to the God of the impossible—the God who whispers His love to us in the quiet, in the mundane, when our prayers are not answered the way we want or the miracle doesn’t come. It’s about a mother discovering the extraordinary strength it takes to be ordinary. It’s about choosing faith no matter the circumstance and about encountering God’s goodness in the least expected places. Though your heartaches and dreams may take a different shape, you will find your own questions echoed in these pages. You’ll be reminded of the gifts of joy in the midst of sorrow. And you’ll hear God’s whisper: Hold on to hope. I will meet you here.
Author : R. Wayne Willis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1630874027
This volume throws out a lifeline to all who are running low on hope--those going under, losing their grip, slipping away, falling, failing, listing, losing, lost--as well as to those looking to enliven and embolden their hope. Hope's Daughters takes a comprehensive, 360-degree approach to hope, drawing inspiration from nature, history, poetry, science, philosophy, religion, psychology, fiction, art, biography, sports, children, and current events. This hope "reader" is deeply personal, drawing on the author's thirty years spent in hospital chaplaincy plumbing the depths with patients, their families, and their caregivers. Willis writes not from some ivory tower, but out of the hot caldron of human suffering. As "a lover of words, quotations, and stories, and one who aspired to serve others as a hope-prompter," Willis packs every page with a two-minute drill to jumpstart hope each day. For hurried people, this book removes life's husk and gets straight down to the kernel. As a cornucopia of wisdom and hope, Hope's Daughters is an eminently practical gift for those seeking to keep hope alive and well.
Author : Madeleine Blais
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0802193420
“Beautifully written . . . A celebration of girls and athletics.” The national bestselling sports classic from a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist (USA Today). Expanded and updated with a new epilogue, Madeleine Blais’ book tells the story of a season in the life of the Amherst Lady Hurricanes, a girls’ high school basketball team from the Western Massachusetts college town. The Hurricanes were a talented team with a near-perfect record, but for five straight years, when it came to the crunch of the playoffs, they somehow lacked the desire to go all the way. Now, led by senior guards Jen Pariseau, a three-point specialist, and Jamila Wideman, an All-American phenom, this was the year to prove themselves. It was a season to test their passion for the sport and their loyalty to each other, and a chance to discover who they really were. As an off-season of summer jobs and basketball camps turns to fall, as students arrive and the games begin, Blais charts the ups and downs of the team and paints a portrait of the wider Amherst community, which comes to revel in the athletic exploits of their girls. Finally, a women’s team was getting the attention they deserve. And the Hurricanes were richly deserving; these teenage girls are fierce and funny, smart and ambitious, and they are the heart of this gripping book. “Extraordinary.” —The Baltimore Sun “A picture of a changing period in American sports history, when a town rallied around its female athletes in a way that had previously been reserved for males.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Sister Stanislaus Kennedy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1407041045
"Take time to live - it's what life is for." This is an inspiring and thought-provoking work of vision from multi-bestseller Sister Stanislaus Kennedy. A timely and prescient collection of thoughts and reflections, with one central message: we have the time, if we make the choice to take time... 'Even the most convinced cynics will find something in Sister Stan's basic premise' -- Ireland on Sunday 'Very beautifully written' -- ***** Reader review 'A book I want to read & reread in order to plumb its depths' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************* SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS ON TIME FOR EVERYBODY Now is the Time looks beyond the boundaries of any one faith or church and draws on the great spiritual and philosophical traditions of east and west. As Sister Stan focuses on a line of poetry from one of the world's great authors, an idea from a psychotherapist or philosopher, or a proverb from oriental wisdom, she weaves her own thoughts around them in a way that presents them afresh, and allows us to see them from a new perspective. This is book for everyone battling with today's current climate: young or old, male or female, for the converted, the irreligious or plain disaffected. Reflective, contemplative and spiritual, it is the perfect tonic to our busy and relentless world...
Author : John Steptoe
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 1987-03-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0688040454
Mufaro was a happy man. Everyone agreed that his two daughters were very beautiful. Nyasha was kind and considerate as well as beautiful, but everyone -- except Mufaro -- knew that Manyara was selfish, badtempered, and spoiled. When the king decided to take a wife and invited "The Most Worthy and Beautiful Daughters in the Land" to appear before him, Mufaro declared proudly that only the king could choose between Nyasha and Manyara. Manyara, of course, didn't agree, and set out to make certain that she would be chosen. John Steptoe has created a memorable modem fable of pride going before a fall, in keeping with the moral of the folktale that was his inspiration. He has illustrated it with stunning paintings that glow with the beauty, warmth, and internal vision of the land and people of his ancestors.
Author : Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780763709761
The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the research findings from international qualitative human science studies on hope conducted in nine countries including Australia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Taiwan, The United Kingdom, And The United States. The findings from these qualitative research studies enhance the knowledge base on the phenomenon of hope, shed new light on its meaning, and expand understanding of human becoming theory.
Author : Nancy Guthrie
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1496414896
A healing book for those in the wake of life’s devastating storms. We can never plan for the unexpected turns of this life that sometimes lead to great personal suffering. Sometimes that suffering can overshadow everything and threaten to pull us under. Nancy Guthrie knows what it is to be plunged into life’s abyss. Framing her own story of staggering loss and soaring hope with the biblical story of Job, she takes you by the hand and guides you on a pathway through pain—straight to the heart of God. Holding On to Hope offers an uplifting perspective, not only for those experiencing monumental loss, but for anyone going through difficulty and failure. (Includes an 8-week study on the book of Job for readers who want to dig deeper into what the Bible says about dealing with suffering and grief.)
