Author : Charlene Spretnak
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780062506979
This is an invitation to a spiritual awakening. The author demonstrates the relevance of spiritual issues to pragmatic concerns - of modern life, weaving the diverse insights of spiritual traditions into a tapestry of creativity and renewal. By the author of Lost Goddesses of Early Greece.
Author : Lenny Duncan
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1506464076
"This lyrical testament to life as 'a blind date with mercy' will challenge and inspire."--Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] In 1991, when he was 13 years old, Lenny Duncan stepped out of his house in West Philadelphia, walked to the Greyhound station, and bought a ticket--the start of his great American adventure. Today Duncan, who inspired and challenged audiences with his breakout first book, Dear Church, brings us a deeply personal story about growing up Black and queer in the U.S. In his characteristically powerful voice he recounts hitchhiking across the country, spending time in solitary confinement, battling for sobriety, and discovering a deep faith, examining pressing issues like poverty, mass incarceration, white supremacy, and LGBTQ inclusion through an intimate portrayal of his life's struggles and joys. United States of Grace is a love story about America, revealing the joy and resilience of those places in this country many call "the margins" but that Lenny Duncan has called home. This book makes the bold claim that God is present with us in the most difficult of circumstances, bringing life out of death.
Author : Joy Williams
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307787877
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • This "beautifully crafted" (The New York Times Book Review), haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes—in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, State of Grace bears the inimitable stamp of one of our finest and most provocative writers.
Author : Rachael Lucas
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250129990
Whip-smart, hilarious, and unapologetically honest, Rachael Lucas's The State of Grace is a heartwarming story of one girl trying to work out where she fits in, and whether she even wants to. “Sometimes I feel like everyone else was handed a copy of the rules for life and mine got lost.” Grace is autistic and has her own way of looking at the world. She's got a horse and a best friend who understand her, and that's pretty much all she needs. But when Grace kisses Gabe and things start to change at home, the world doesn't make much sense to her any more. Suddenly everything threatens to fall apart, and it's up to Grace to fix it on her own.
Author : Mandy Miller
Publisher : Literary Wanderlust
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2021-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781942856719
Down on her luck lawyer, Grace Locke learns her client is actually innocent of murder. Grace must fight the system and a drug cartel to bring the right perpetrator to justice.
Author : Hilary Badger
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 163079015X
"Originally published in 2014 by Hardie Grant Egmont ... Australia"--Page facing title page.
Author : Marie Force
Publisher : HTJB, Inc.
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1952793300
Christmas at the White House Wouldn’t Be Complete Without a Murder or Two… The holiday season is under way in Washington, D.C., but Metro Police Lieutenant Sam Holland is busier than ever as she contends with the murder of a well-liked wife, mother and businesswoman found bound, gagged and dead for quite some time inside her minivan, miles from her home. Who could’ve wanted her dead badly enough to make her suffer for days before she died? Sam is determined to close the vexing case before a much-needed vacation with her family, but the universe has other ideas when a second murder—this one someone she knows—has her wondering if the vacation is going to happen. Meanwhile, Sam’s husband, President Nick Cappuano, deals with the first national tragedy on his watch, forcing him on the record on a contentious issue as he fills the role of comforter-in-chief to a nation reeling from another senseless act of violence. All the while, a custody battle for the twins he and Sam took in after their parents’ murder is looming, casting a dark cloud over everything this holiday season. With chaos swirling all around them, will Sam and Nick be able to pull off a big family Christmas at the White House? As always, Sam and Nick turn to each other for comfort in the storm that is their life together. Join Sam, Nick, Scotty, Elijah, Aubrey, Alden and Skippy, the First Dog, as they celebrate a Christmas like no other.
Author : T. J. Jackson Lears
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 022679444X
"T. J. Jackson Lears's No Place of Grace is a landmark book in the fields of American Studies and history, known for its rigorous research and original, near-literary style. A study of responses to the culture of corporate capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century, No Place of Grace charts the development of modern consumer society through the embrace of antimodernism, the effort among many middle and upper class Americans to recapture feelings of authenticity, vigor, depth, and connection. Rather than offer true resistance to the increasing corporate bureaucratization of the time, however, antimodernism helped accommodate Americans to the new order-it was therapeutic rather than oppositional, a forerunner to today's self-help culture. And yet antimodernism contributed a new dynamic as well, "an eloquent edge of protest," as Lears puts it, which is evident even today in anticonsumerism, sustainable living, and other practices. This edition, with a lively and discerning foreword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, celebrates the book's 40th anniversary"--
Author : Philip Barry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 1975
Category : American drama
ISBN :
You and I.--White wings.--Holiday.--Hotel Universe.--The animal kingdom.--Here come the clowns.--The Philadelphia story.--Second threshold.
Author : Kelly DiPucchio
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 136804168X
A fresh, fun, and "thought-provoking" New York Times bestseller about the American electoral college and why every vote counts from bestselling and award-winning duo Kelly DiPucchio and LeUyen Pham. "Where are the girls?" When Grace's teacher reveals that the United States has never had a female president, Grace decides she wants to be the nation's first and immediately jumpstarts her political career by running in her school's mock election! The race is tougher than she expected: her popular opponent declares that he's the "best man for the job" and seems to have captured the votes of all of the class's boys. But Grace is more determined than ever. Even if she can't be the best man for the job, she can certainly try to be the best person! This timely story not only gives readers a fun introduction to the American electoral system but also teaches the value of hard work, courage, independent thought -- and offers an inspiring example of how to choose our leaders.
