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Temple of Sorrow

Author : Carrie Summers

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 380 pages

File Size : 21,92 MB

Release : 2018-04-10

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ISBN : 9781987644654

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Devon Walker has one chance to turn her life around. A half-wit ogre, a legion of overgrown jungle beasts, and a power-tripping AI are trying to stop her. Relic Online is the hottest new game out there, and it's Devon Walker's best hope for escaping her hard-knock life. Thanks to her rocking achievements in other games, she's been hired as a salaried player. Even better, her new position comes with cutting-edge implants that turn RO's virtual reality into a full sensory explosion. Her only task? Drive the game's creator AI to the outermost limits of its creativity. Sounds easy, right? But when Devon logs in, her expectations shatter like an ice golem hit with a sonic blast. Wearing nothing but a cloth tunic and ragged pants, she spawns inside a ruined city overgrown by steamy jungle. With zero skills and nothing in her inventory but pocket lint, she immediately runs afoul of the city's guardian, a stone golem the size of an apartment building. The encounter does not go well. And Relic Online is just getting started with her.



Amity & Sorrow

Author : Peggy Riley

Publisher : Little, Brown

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 12,50 MB

Release : 2013-04-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0316220892

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A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they go: her husband. The girls, Amity and Sorrow, can't imagine what the world holds outside their father's polygamous compound. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of Bradley, a farmer grieving the loss of his wife. At first unwelcoming to these strange, prayerful women, Bradley's abiding tolerance gets the best of him, and they become a new kind of family. An unforgettable story of belief and redemption, Amity & Sorrow is about the influence of community and learning to stand on your own.



Temple Stream

Author : Bill Roorbach

Publisher : Down East Books

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 32,92 MB

Release : 2014-12-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1608933946

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Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine. Populated by an oddball cast of characters to whom Roorbach ("The Professor") and his family might always be considered outsiders, this book chronicles one man's determined effort—occasionally with hilarious results—to follow his stream to its elusive source. Acclaimed essayist and award-winning fiction writer Bill Roorbach uses his singular literary gifts to inspire us to laugh, love, and experience the wonder of living side by side with the natural world.



Love, Sorrow, And Rage

Author : Alisse Waterston

Publisher : Temple University Press

Page : 248 pages

File Size : 46,48 MB

Release : 2011-02-07

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1439907773

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Poor women's lives and stories of the street, etched into a narrative of the heart.



Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

Author : Jacqueline Jones

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Page : 653 pages

File Size : 16,3 MB

Release : 2010-05-07

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ISBN : 9781458755032

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The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common purpose with wives and mothers of all classes. In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to the ongoing fight for civil rights.



This Republic of Suffering

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 25,42 MB

Release : 2009-01-06

Category : History

ISBN : 0375703837

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.



A Spartan's Sorrow

Author : Hannah Lynn

Publisher : Sourcebooks Landmark

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 49,10 MB

Release : 2024-02-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781728284279

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All murders must be avenged. While the rest of Greece mourns for the war that has taken their husbands away, Clytemnestra fears the day it will bring hers back. When her husband willingly sacrifices their eldest daughter to appease the Gods, Clytemnestra vows to do whatever it takes to protect her remaining children. But in doing so she faces losing them altogether. A story of love, loss and bitter betrayals, A Spartan's Sorrow shows that sometimes you must risk it all to protect the ones you love. If you are a fan of vengeful Gods and fierce family rivalries you will love Hannah Lynn's epic tale of ancient Greece's most formidable Queen.



Grab Hands and Run

Author : Frances Temple

Publisher : Turtleback Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 38,92 MB

Release : 1995

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ISBN : 9780785761471

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In her second novel, the award-winning author of Taste of Salt explores another political hotspot in this story of a family's flight from El Salvador. Temple paints a strong picture of what the family's life was like before, during and after their journey, as well as in a U.S. Detention center.



The Tree of Sorrow

Author : Richard D Bank

Publisher :

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 42,52 MB

Release : 2021-07

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781733445689

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In his youth, when Richard Bank entered his grandparents' bedroom, he would be drawn to a photograph of his grandfather as a young man standing side by side his brother with both accoutered in WWI German military uniforms. Richard always thought that his great-uncle Berthold was Opa's only sibling and more than six decades would pass before he learned otherwise. In fact, Opa had two other brothers and two sisters, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. No one-not his Oma and Opa, nor his mother and her sister, nor extended family members ever spoke of this. Such was the way some survivors coped with living in the aftermath of humanity's most horrific crime. Bank's memoir is a tale about life in the shadow of The Tree of Sorrow.



Words for a Dying World

Author : Hannah Malcolm

Publisher : SCM Press

Page : 166 pages

File Size : 47,79 MB

Release : 2020-12-07

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0334059860

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How do we talk about climate grief in the church? And when we have found the words, what do we do with that grief? There is a sudden and dramatic rise in people experiencing a profound sense of anxiety in the face of our dying planet, and a consequent need for churches to be better resourced pastorally and theologically to deal with this threat. Words for a Dying World brings together voices from across the world - from the Pacific islands to the pipelines of Canada, from farming communities in Namibia to activism in the UK. Author royalties from the sale of this book are split evenly between contributors. The majority will be pooled as a donation to ClientEarth. The remainder will directly support the communities represented in this collection. Contributors include Anderson Jeremiah, Azariah France-Williams, David Benjamin Blower, Holly-Anna Petersen, Isabel Mukonyora, Jione Havea, and Maggi Dawn.