Author : Various
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387728776
A collection of 10 short stories written by 8 authors who are tackling the question of romance and what love means. Whether addressing same sex couples or robots in love, romance comes in all shapes and sizes.
Author : Andrew Boyd
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Affirmations
ISBN : 9780393322811
Revolutionizing a bestselling genre, this thinking man's parody hijacks the format of "daily affirmations" by offering "daily afflictions" to give readers inspiration, practical advice, and food for thought.
Author : Edith Schaeffer
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 1993-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441214984
Edith Schaeffer comes directly to grips with the eternal question of why we face suffering and affliction in this life, showing us how to trust in God alone for comfort.
Author : Lindsay Waller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800168817
An international thriller, the plot explores the dark side of relationships and its opposite, true love. SHE falls under the spell of a domineering control freak and is introduced into the darker side of life in sunny Spain, while trying to appease a gangster faction of Russian property buyers eager for her services. HE falls foul of mafia bosses while supervising an offshore diving operation in Azerbaijan and ends up in the middle of a bitter and bloody territorial war before escaping to the relative calm of Baku. The couple are reunited on the Costa del Sol after her recovery from an illness, while he is still feeling the effects of battle combat and gunshot wounds. But even in the calmer waters of the Mediterranean, their chances of a happy and tranquil future are once again compromised by vividly contrasting forces beyond their control.
Author : Vikram Paralkar
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941360354
The legendary Encyclopedia of Medicine is a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you've ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury you--or after? The Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo-diseases, an encyclopedia of archaic medicine written by a contemporary physician and scientist. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence. First published in English in the United States, The Afflictions has since been published in Argentina, Italy, and India. This second U.S. edition features the original illustrations created by Pia Valentinis for the Italian language edition.
Author : John Piper
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433565072
"Besides Jesus, no one has kept me from despair, or taken me deeper into the mysteries of the gospel, than the apostle Paul." —John Piper No one has had a greater impact on the world for eternal good than the apostle Paul—except Jesus himself. For John Piper, this impact is very personal. He does not just admire and trust Paul. He loves him. Piper gives us thirty glimpses into why his heart and mind respond this way. Can a Christian-killer really endure 195 lashes from a heart of love? Can a mystic who thinks he was caught up into heaven be a model of lucid rationality? Can an ethnocentric Jew write the most beautiful call to reconciliation? Can a person who lives with the unceasing anguish of empathy be always rejoicing? Can a man's description of the horrors of human sin be exceeded by his delight in human splendor? Can a man with a backbone of steel be as tender as a nursing mother? If we know this man—if we see what Piper sees—we too will love him. Paul's testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.
Author : John Milliken Thompson
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590515889
A dauntless heroine coming of age at the turn of the twentieth century confronts the hazards of patriarchy and prejudice, and discovers the unexpected opportunities of World War I Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and the Great War, Love and Lament chronicles the hardships and misfortunes of the Hartsoe family. Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year that the first railroad arrived in their county. As she matures, against the backdrop of Reconstruction and rapid industrialization, she must learn to deal with the deaths of her mother and siblings, a deaf and damaged older brother, and her father’s growing insanity and rejection of God. In the rich tradition of Southern gothic literature, John Milliken Thompson transports the reader back in time through brilliant characterizations and historical details, to explore what it means to be a woman charting her own destiny in a rapidly evolving world dominated by men.
Author : John Piper
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : 1433510464
Volume five in Piper's acclaimed The Swans Are Not Silent series powerfully illustrates through the lives of Tyndale, Judson, and Paton that the gospel advances through the sacrifices of Christ's ambassadors.
Author : Gerald Lawson Sittser
Publisher : IVP
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2008-09-19
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 9781844743452
Jesus commanded his disciples to love one another. It's a simple command to understand, but very difficult to obey. And in the local church, it sometimes seems impossible. Many of us belong to highly diverse Christian communities, where we encounter people radically different from ourselves. At the same time, controversies and difficulties often threaten to tear us apart. So how can we achieve unity within the body of Christ? Gerald Sittser examines the 'one another' statements from the New Testament, distilling much-needed biblical wisdom to help us love one another. Drawing on his own pastoral experience of the best and worst of church life, he shows us what the love Jesus commanded actually requires of us, and how to live it out in struggle and servanthood, compromise and sacrifice. This enjoyable book by a best-selling author will guide us in putting one of the most important biblical principles into practice, for the good of our local churches.
Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0593316282
In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world? COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans? Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.
