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Benevolent Keepers

Author : Louise Rainey

Publisher : Twisted Pine Publishing, LLC

Page : 543 pages

File Size : 38,10 MB

Release : 2023-06-05

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1961663015

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Saving the world is a bloody, ruthless endeavor. The Bridle demands absolute devotion from all citizens. The old, infirm, and unwilling are discarded, even if they possess coveted Salt abilities. Some agents are born into the empire, others harvested throughout the oblivious world, but all are trained to battle and infiltrate from childhood. Though born in different worlds, Lucy and James are both eager to prove their worth to the Bridle. As an outcast agent trainee, Lucy tries to hide the magical pink sparks spilling from her fingers. Her unflinching loyalty to the Bridle is the brightest light in her bleak existence as she sits on the cusp of gaining everything she ever wanted. Plucked from his miserable life in the clutches of Salt-traders, James struggles to survive his latest kidnapping. Grateful for his rescue, he’s assigned to be the Butcher Prince’s companion by his terrifying benefactor. Will either agent have the strength and cunning to see through the lies and make their escape? Seasons change. Empires fall. The Bridle watches over all. _______________ Unique fantasy adventure book that ignores all the common science fiction and fantasy fiction tropes, and keeps the reader guessing until the end! Available in fantasy paperback books as one of the new fantasy novels 2023. Sure to become the next fantasy books for adults top read!



Benevolent Keepers

Author : Louise Rainey

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,9 MB

Release : 2023-05-30

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ISBN : 9781961663008

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Saving the world is a bloody, ruthless endeavor.The Bridle demands absolute devotion from all citizens. The old, infirm, and unwilling are discarded, even if they possess coveted Salt abilities. Some agents are born into the empire, others harvested throughout the oblivious world, but all are trained to battle and infiltrate from childhood. Though born in different worlds, Lucy and James are both eager to prove their worth to the Bridle.As an outcast agent trainee, Lucy tries to hide the magical pink sparks spilling from her fingers. Her unflinching loyalty to the Bridle is the brightest light in her bleak existence as she sits on the cusp of gaining everything she ever wanted.Plucked from his miserable life in the clutches of Salt-traders, James struggles to survive his latest kidnapping. Grateful for his rescue, he's assigned to be the Butcher Prince's companion by his terrifying benefactor.Will either agent have the strength and cunning to see through the lies and make their escape?Seasons change. Empires fall. The Bridle watches over all.









The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right

Author : Nami Kim

Publisher : Springer

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 35,93 MB

Release : 2016-11-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 3319399780

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This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean Protestant Right’s gendered politics. Specifically, the volume explores the Protestant Right’s responses and reactions to the presumed weakening of hegemonic masculinity in Korea’s post-hypermasculine developmentalism context. Nami Kim examines three phenomena: Father School (an evangelical men’s manhood and fatherhood restoration movement), the anti-LGBT movement, and Islamophobia/anti-Muslim racism. Although these three phenomena may look unrelated, Kim asserts that they represent the Protestant Right’s distinct yet interrelated ways of engaging the contested hegemonic masculinity in Korean society. The contestation over hegemonic masculinity is a common thread that runs through and connects these three phenomena. The ways in which the Protestant Right has engaged the contested hegemonic masculinity have been in relation to “others,” such as women, sexual minorities, gender nonconforming people, and racial, ethnic, and religious minorities.







And the Criminals with Him

Author : Will D. Campbell

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 48,60 MB

Release : 2012-07-20

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1621894193

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In 1972, Will Campbell published an issue of the Committee of Southern Churchmen's journal, Katallagete, to shed light on the US prison system. None could anticipate how the system would expand exponentially in the next four decades. Today, the US operates the world's largest prison system, incarcerating nearly 1 in every 100 American adults. How did this expansion happen? What is the human toll of this retributive system? How might "ambassadors of reconciliation" respond to such a punitive institution? Replicating the firsthand nature of Will Campbell's original Katallagete collection, twenty new essays pull back the veil on today's prison-industrial complex. The plea throughout this collection is not for some better, more progressive institution to exact justice. Rather, the invitation is to hear from voices of experience how the system functions, listen to what the institution does to those locked in its cells, consider what an execution involves, and, most importantly, contemplate the scandalous call to be in reconciled community with those whom society discards and the system silences. Our story is that there are neither good nor bad people, neither felon nor free world. We are all one.



Seduction, Prostitution, and Moral Reform in New York, 1830-1860

Author : Larry Whiteaker

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 19,50 MB

Release : 2021-12-12

Category : History

ISBN : 1000525392

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First published in 1998. In June 1831 the New York Magdalen Society published its first annual report. The Society charged that widespread sexual deviation, primarily in the form of prostitution, existed in New York City. The Magdalen Report claimed that approximately ten thousand women earned their livings as public prostitutes, and another ten thousand were “private or part-time prostitutes.” The Magdalen Society’s establishment and the subsequent publication of the Magdalen Report marked the beginning of a crusade in New York City to curtail sexual deviation and this study looks at the changes and reforms that took place.