Author : Robert J. Baker
Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor (IN)
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592760688
Based on Matthew 25:31-"46, these meditations offer new "ears" to truly hear Christ and new "eyes" to truly see Him in those He calls us to help.
Author : Daisy M. Jenkins
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 2024-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
One warm Arizona morning, Daisy Jenkins was talking with God during her daily walk and lamenting to Him about the negativity, vitriol, and hatred permeating US news media. Whatever happened to kindness and goodness? Jenkins wondered. Why didn't newspapers and TV broadcasts ever highlight stories of love and support, especially in the wake of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic? Instead, American society was being bombarded with reporting on the violence, mass shootings, political wrangling, and racial injustice that kept our country angry, mistrustful, and constantly on edge. "God," Jenkins said, "somebody needs to write more about the positive things happening in our world today." God's answer was immediate: "You're a writer. Why don't you write something positive and stop waiting for someone else to do it?" As soon as Jenkins heard this call to action, she got to work. This book features thirty amazing men, ranging in age from twenty-two to ninety-eight, with heartfelt and inspiring life stories to share. Their experiences may not be a cure-all for the troubles of this world, but they offer us precious liberation, even for a short while, from negativity. They remind us that when we look for goodness, we will find that it is still alive and well and that it's high time we shine a brighter light on it to reveal the truth that the more we see the goodness around us, the more we allow others to see it within us.
Author : Mij Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781561485376
When Poppa Bombola cannot find his daughter, he searches all over the farm and even asks all the animals, but eventually he discovers that she is closer than he thinks.
Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804171645
A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. “A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page—a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so—and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved—or reviled—literary figures. In this remarkable work of nonfiction, Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature—he considers himself first and foremost as a reader—into what is sure to be one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading.
Author : Jayme R. Reaves
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 033406032X
Was the stripping and exposure of Jesus a form of sexual abuse? If so, why does such a reading of Jesus’ suffering matter? The combined impact of the #MeToo movement and a further wave of global revelations on church sexual abuse have given renewed significance to recent work naming Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse. Timely and provocative "When did we see you naked?" presents the arguments for reading Christ as an abuse victim, as well as exploring how the position might be critiqued, and what implications and applications it might offer to the Church.
Author : Carmella Harris-Brown
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1664211160
Upon reading this book your child may become more curious with things around them. It will introduce them to science, nature and animals. It may remind you of the love you had as a child for reading or someone reading to you.
Author : Lisa M. Miller
Publisher : Lisa M. Miller
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2024-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1916623026
This Halloween, Rachel, a high-class escort, is finally going to get some downtime to spend with her roommate and friends. She gets more than she bargained for when her job, which she wants to keep secret, threatens to become public knowledge.
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340977002
A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasnt about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
Author : Rainer Neumann
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0615139515
It's a summer in the sixties near a small coast side town in California. A man who has taken on the name of Shiva is driving north on Highway 1 when he picks up two young women hitchhikers in his VW van. They stop and hike to an overlook of the Pacific Ocean where they are enveloped in fog and one of the women disappears. In an incredulous daze they travel on until they reach Bolinas. The town already has an influx of bohemians and bikers and has a colorful past. After a concert in the local community center Shiva reluctantly takes on the mantel of the next enlightened master. The word spreads and Bolinas becomes a turbulent, fantastic and ecstatic place. Unfortunately Shiva cannot escape his past and in a number of hallucinations he struggles with his inner doubts and the world's problems. Eventually a man comes into Bolinas looking for his lost wife. The situation that arises requires Shiva, as well as his followers, to confront themselves and behold unforeseen consequences.
Author : William Sutcliffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1408890178
NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RED TENTACLE AT THE KITSCHIES 2017 A gripping and powerfully relevant thriller set in a reimagined London where constant surveillance is the norm, We See Everything simmers with tension and emotion. From internationally bestselling author William Sutcliffe, this is perfect for fans of Patrick Ness and Malorie Blackman. Lex lives on The Strip – the overcrowded, closed-off, bombed-out shell of London. He's used to the watchful enemy drones that buzz in the air above him. Alan's talent as a gamer has landed him the job of his dreams. At a military base in a secret location, he is about to start work as a drone pilot. These two young men will never meet, but their lives are destined to collide. Because Alan has just been assigned a high-profile target. Alan knows him only as #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.
