Author : Helena Kriel
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Authors, South African
ISBN : 9781928420477
"South African-born Helena Kriel is commissioned to write the screenplay for what later become a hit Hollywood movie, Kama Sutra, based on the ancient Indian manuscript on sex and love. In the year she travels to India to do her research, back home in South Africa, her beloved brother Evan is diagnosed with AIDS. Little does she know that everything she seeks to learn about love will be revealed in the battle to keep Evan alive."--Back cover.
Author : Kelvin J. Cochran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1684511615
Decades fighting other people’s fires prepared Kelvin Cochran to face his own fiery trial. He overcame poverty, prejudice, and pain to fulfill a childhood dream of helping others, rising to the top of firefighting’s professional ladder in Atlanta, Georgia. At one time nationally recognized as “America’s fire chief,” Kelvin unexpectedly found himself caught in a fireball of controversy over his orthodox Christian beliefs, for which he ultimately was fired by the city—making him a focal point in a national battle over religious freedom. Misrepresented by activists and the media, Kelvin relied on his faith to bring him through. In due course he emerged from the flames of scandal unscathed, like the friends of the prophet Daniel who were thrown into the burning furnace. Kelvin’s story is a sobering warning of how Christians faithful to biblical teachings are increasingly at risk of persecution in today’s culture. It is also an inspiring example of overcoming racial prejudice and adversity, and finding the courage to take the heat and stand for the truth.
Author : Douglas McCulloh
Publisher : Inlandia Institute
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2020-02-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781732403291
Fire as omen and elemental force, as metaphor and searing personal experience--these are the subjects Douglas McCulloh explores in Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West. California's diverse ecologies are fire-prone, fire-adapted, even fire-dependent. In the past two decades, however, West Coast wildfires have exploded in scale and severity. There is a powerful consensus that we have entered a new era--nature unbalanced, the end of the stable world. Douglas McCulloh has assembled the work of 16 artists who bring us incendiary images from active fire lines and psychic burn zones. Together the 16 artists face fire, sift its aftermath, struggle with its implications. Throughout is the uneasy sense that wildfire is a stand-in, a site of displacement for more immaterial fears, for the amorphous anxieties of the age. This book is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography February 22-August 9, 2020.
Author : Helena Kriel
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781928420637
Author : kc dyer
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307375951
Facing Fire, the dramatic sequel to A Walk Through a Window, demonstrates author kc dyer's unique ability to fashion historical narrative into a page-turner. dyer keeps her young audience simultaneously informed and entertained. dyer's vivid, captivating style entices readers into the dramatic stories of those who have risked everything to make their way to Canada. Follow Darby as she witnesses first-hand the feats of the Underground Railroad, the shocking, fiery expulsion of the Acadians, and the electrifying lead up to the War of 1812.
Author : Larry Brown
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1616208708
NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER “One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfect introduction.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times On January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, fire department to try writing full-time. In On Fire, he looks back on his life as a firefighter. His unflinching accounts of daily trauma—from the blistering heat of burning trailer homes to the crunch of broken glass at crash scenes—catapult readers into the hard reality that drove this award-winning novelist. As a firefighter and fireman-turned-author, as husband and hunter, and as father and son, Brown offers insights into the choices men face pursuing their life’s work. And, in the forthright style we expect from Larry Brown, his narrative builds to the explanation of how one man who regularly confronted death began to burn with the desire to write about life.
Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Mayor
Publisher :
Page : 1354 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Publisher :
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
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Author : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Publisher :
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Mayors
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Author : Eliot Marshall
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781544501673
Eliot Marshall has always been a fighter-from overcoming bullies and bigots who targeted his half-black, half-Jewish heritage to using his martial-arts prowess to become part of the UFC. But beneath his badass exterior, Eliot struggled with severe anxiety, until he learned to live a life of true purpose.In The Gospel of Fire, Eliot shares his incredible story of breaking down and learning to build himself back up by acknowledging his shortcomings, accepting his challenges, freeing himself from fear, and maximizing his opportunities. Sharing the experiences and tools that helped him battle back from the edge of despair, Eliot shows you how to discover your own "why" and refocus your days on "how" to achieve it.You past doesn't define you, and your present can set you free. With Eliot's example, you can find your path and the power to remake your life.
