Author : Eliot Pattison
Publisher : Soho Crime
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Former Beijing investigator Shan becomes our Don Quixote. . . . Set against a background that is alternately bleak and blazingly beautiful, this is at once a top-notch thriller and a substantive look at Tibet under siege" ("Publishers Weekly").
Author : Laura E. Wolfe
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781944967277
Walking the lonely streets of a new, unfamiliar town, Sasha feels displaced and alone. His grandmother is dying; the children in the neighborhood laugh when he walks by. And there is a dragon under his bed¿he is sure! When Sasha cries for help, God and His saints hear him, and he has an experience that both changes his life and sweetens his soul. Sasha and the Dragon is a modern fairytale to be treasured by children and adults alike.DISTINCTIVES:¿Inspired by a real-life prayer by a little boy to his guardian angel¿For ages 5 to 12
Author : Arjia Rinpoche
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1605291625
On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a precocious toddler their white handloomed scarves and congratulations for having given birth to a holy child—and future spiritual leader. Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at the age of two and fled Tibet 46 years later. In his gripping memoir, Rinpoche relates the story of having been abandoned in his monastery as a young boy after witnessing the torture and arrest of his monastery family. In the years to come, Rinpoche survived under harsh Chinese rule, as he was forced into hard labor and endured continual public humiliation as part of Mao's Communist "reeducation." By turns moving, suspenseful, historical, and spiritual, Rinpoche's unique experiences provide a rare window into a tumultuous period of Chinese history and offer readers an uncommon glimpse inside a Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
Author : Jim Burgen
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400205638
Becoming a dragon is a dangerously subtle process. You make a long chain of bad choices. The chain gradually wraps around you. Layer by layer, it begins to take on the aspect of scales. One day you glance at yourself in the mirror and a monster is staring back at you. You aren't who you used to be. You aren't who you want to be. You're not who you were created and designed to be. Instead, you're a dragon. When Jim Burgen was nineteen years old, he realized how easy it had been to become a dragon. He knew he didn't want to be one anymore . . . but how? No More Dragons is the story of our common, hopeful journey from dragonhood back to personhood. As Pastor Burgen narrates the remarkable process of reclaiming himself from himself, he implores modern church goers to shake off the trivialities of churchiness in favor of the substantive questions that make a spiritual transformation: “Is Jesus the only one who can undragon people?” “Why don't I like most churches?” “Where is God in difficult times?” “How do you shed decades of gnarly scales?” Some choices will lead you to a better life. Some will kill you. Some choices will add a new layer of scales to your dragon, and some will slough them off. No More Dragons is about asking Christ to deliver you and learning how to obey him.
Author : C. E. White
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2023-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781733248792
Having a dragon as a pet is really fun and a little dangerous...but what do you do when he doesn't like baths and he's so big you can't make him take one? You pray, of course! A little boy learns to take things to God when they're too big for him. God doesn't always answer the way you think He will, but He's always listening and guiding us to what's best!
Author : Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1681490129
The Harry Potter series of books and movies are wildly popular. Many Christians see the books as largely if not entirely harmless. Others regard them as dangerous and misleading. In his book A Landscape with Dragons, Harry Potter critic Michael O'Brien examines contemporary children's literature and finds it spiritually and morally wanting. His analysis, written before the rise of the popular Potter books and films, anticipates many of the problems Harry Potter critics point to. A Landscape with Dragons is a controversial, yet thoughtful study of what millions of young people are reading and the possible impact such reading may have on them. In this study of the pagan invasion of children's culture, O'Brien, the father of six, describes his own coming to terms with the effect it has had on his family and on most families in Western society. His analysis of the degeneration of books, films, and videos for the young is incisive and detailed. Yet his approach is not simply critical, for he suggests a number of remedies, including several tools of discernment for parents and teachers in assessing the moral content and spiritual impact of this insidious revolution. In doing so, he points the way to rediscovery of time-tested sources, and to new developments in Christian culture. If you have ever wondered why a certain children's book or film made you feel uneasy, but you couldn't figure out why, this book is just what you need. This completely revised, much expanded second edition also includes a very substantial recommended reading list of over 1,000 books for kindergarten through highschool.
Author : Robert J. Wicks
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1933495448
“Riding the Dragon gives the reader the chance to look for the lessons that are often hidden in our sorrows.”—Goodreads reviewer Twenty years and 70,000 copies after it was first released, Riding the Dragon—by popular author, speaker, and psychologist Robert J. Wicks—continues to help thousands each year to confront the “dragons” of stress, discouragement, burnout, and unexpected change that everyone struggles with in their daily lives. Instead of pretending these difficulties don’t exist or trying to remove them entirely, Wicks offers ten lessons to help us face them, overcome them, and grow from them. These simple yet profound lessons draw on the wisdom of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions as well as Wicks’s experience as a psychologist, and include pairing clarity with kindness, seeking perspective daily, and building a barrier of simplicity. Riding the Dragon is a concise, compassionate, and knowledgeable guide for anyone experiencing or supporting someone facing personal or professional challenges. This twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface from the author, highlighting how Riding the Dragon is, perhaps now more than ever, an indispensable spiritual and psychological companion for all of us who are yearning for our lives to be transformed.
Author : Eliot Pattison
Publisher : Random House
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1407095277
Disgraced former Beijing Inspector Shan Tao Yun has been living in the remote mountains of Tibet since his unofficial release from a work camp. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, he's lived with the forbidden lamas for the past year. But now there's apparently been a murder in a ruined monastery and the very officials who exiled Shan are after his help. In a baffling case involving the FBI, Chinese Ministers, and British relief workers, Shan travels from Tibet to Beijing to the U. S. to find the links between murder, missing art, his former gulag, and his own long-unseen son.
Author : Sharon J. Mondragon
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Kolenda
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1629996572
The supernatural realm is very real, and it directly impacts our day-to-day lives. Often spiritual battles lie behind our everyday struggles. Though the spiritual world is invisible, we are not unaware of the enemy’s schemes. Through God’s Word and the power of the Holy Spirit we are equipped to be more than conquerors through Christ!
