Letters--mostly of the nuts-and-bolts, practical variety--between Thomas Wolfe and his literary agent, Elizabeth Nowell. Nowell served as Wolfe's editor for many of his short stories, paring them down to make them acceptable to magazines. Oddly enough, his attitude toward her was grateful rather than adversarial, and their deep mutual respect is clearly evident in these letters. Originally published in 1983. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
This book sounds a bold call for loyalty to God and to God's Davids. God's Davids are leaders-male and female-who are safest to follow because of their unwavering passion to be intimate with Christ. God is turning the hearts of fathers to the children, and giving the children a heart of loyalty to the fathers. Knowing the power of loyalty to produce Kingdom blessing at every level, Satan has done everything in his power to give this subject a bad reputation. But today's generation isn't buying it anymore. Now, more than ever, the bride of Christ is giving her heart with intense loyalty to her Beloved and preparing eagerly for His return. Get ready, this book could rock your world.
Maudlin challenges much of the existing biographical material on the writer and offers a fresh view on the final years of his life. Through the utilization of primary and secondary sources including letters, interviews, recordings, and newspaper clippings, Mauldin offers a candid account of the life of Thomas Wolfe from the time of his visit to North Carolina in 1937 until his untimely death in 1938. Mauldin chronicles details of Wolfe's shocking change in publishers and his complex relationships with his editors, family, friends, and his mistress. This examination goes beyond Wolfe's life and extends into the period after his death, revealing details about the reaction of family and friends to the passing of this literary legend, as well as the cavalierpublishing practices of his posthumous editors. Mauldin's narrative is unique from other biographical accounts of Thomas Wolfe in that it focuses solely on the final years in the life of the author.
This book describes how love develops our spiritual and better nature and is the basis of happiness. God's love permeates the world and sustains it. We share a part of God's spirit and consciousness. His reality is love which we reflect and strive for. When we are loved and love another, our spiritual nature flourishes and is manifested in our behavior. Marriage is the home of love, mutual devotion and support. Through your love and devotion for each other, you achieve your finest potential. A deep and abiding love ultimately leads to sacrifice for one another. The happiness and welfare of your loved one is your happiness. When you have reached this stage of selfless love, you have found the essence of God's love. You will be beyond love and a part of God's everlasting spirit of love. You have realized that love is the only reality. All factors related to the development and sustainment of love and marriage, including issues such as adultery and divorce are discussed.
Part 1 For some, trust, love, and loyalty is a matter of perspective. To others, it's a way of life... After a lifelong friendship, Lailani and Simba are finally getting married. They've faced many obstacles together, but right when Lailani thinks everything is calm, they're faced with more problems. A blast from the past threatens to ruin the life they built together and thought they'd always have. Lailani and Simba promised to hold on and never let each other go, but will their loyalty be tested yet again? Exactly how far will they go to protect their peace and their union? Melanie and Quincy have gone through the storm and rain together, including facing the death of their first child. They were once a couple who had everything and thought they'd be together forever, but trust issues got in the way. Circumstances in life brought them together again, but not as a couple. They seem to have a love-hate thing going on, but is it to only cover the true feelings they still have for each other? Unfortunately, more trust issues arise and it can affect everything, including their ability to participate in Simba and Lailani's wedding together. Lauren has done well getting her life back on track after overcoming a drug addiction and doing a bid in prison. However, one of her weaknesses has always been making hasty decisions involving relationships. She finds herself struggling with her feelings for Darian and not allowing them to put her back at square one. She's a woman in love, but she also has too much to lose if things go wrong. She's faced with a decision between letting love win or giving in to other people's demands on how she should live her life. Charisma is a single mother who wants three important things: trust, love, and loyalty. While that's not too much for her to ask, she seems to break the code of all three. She's fortunate to have Vamp step up and help her raise a child that's not his, but she still has feelings for him. In an effort to break up his relationship with Keyani, she hooks up with his enemy, thinking that'll make him come back to her. She has a lot more growing up to do and her friends Lailani, Melanie, and Lauren aren't afraid to let her know that. Will she take heed before she finds herself involved in a dangerous situation? These four friends have formed an amazing sisterhood, but their drama is thick and their issues with trust, love, and loyalty can impact something they all care about; Simba and Lailani's wedding. Part 2 Loyalty is everything. Betrayal is the ultimate sin... Simba has to put his life and freedom on the line as he goes on one final mission to find out who crashed his wedding and wants to take him out. He's determined to get to the bottom of things once and for all so he can live at peace with his new wife, Lailani, and their children. Secrets begin to unravel that will not only have him on edge but question the loyalty of everyone around him. Who can he trust? Quincy is just as determined as Simba to find out who was responsible for wreaking havoc in their lives. Like Simba, he's also begun to look at everyone sideways and doesn't have confidence in anyone's loyalty. Melanie and his cousin, Brandon, warn him about getting involved. Against his better judgment, he does anyway. Before he knows it, things backfire and he's in a fight for his life. Will he be able to protect himself and his family from an unknown enemy? Vamp and Darian get on board with helping Simba and Quincy, but at the expense of betraying the trust of their loved ones. Keyani becomes suspicious of Vamp as he comes up with lie after lie to cover his involvement. Will she stick around or will she leave? Darian also faces issues with Lauren, but he has even bigger problems of his own. These four friends get caught up in proving their loyalty, but will it be the death of them?
Hussein’s starkly beautiful novel Beyond Love plunges us into the 1991 Gulf War and its aftermath. Huda, the young woman at the center of the story, experiences the deprivation and humiliation of life in sanctioned Iraq, working in the satirically named al-Amal factory (factory of hope) making men’s underwear. While surveillance and fear permeate daily life, Huda dares to vote “no” in the referendum for Saddam Hussein. This courageous act could have led to her death had she not fled to the closest border, Jordan, where the novel begins. Huda is not alone: Iraqi exiles are legion there, all waiting to be relocated and start new lives. Unable to go home or to feel settled in a foreign city, she struggles to overcome her grief and haunting memories of the war and the Shi’ite uprising. In letters, diaries, and oral stories, Hussein’s characters viscerally portray the pain of war and the alienation of exile. Originally published in Arabic in 2003, Beyond Love introduces English-language readers to one of the leading voices in Iraqi fiction today.
For some, trust, love, and loyalty is a matter of perspective. To others, it's a way of life...After a lifelong friendship, Lailani and Simba are finally getting married. They've faced many obstacles together, but right when Lailani thinks everything is calm, they're faced with more problems. A blast from the past threatens to ruin the life they built together and thought they'd always have. Lailani and Simba promised to hold on and never let each other go, but will their loyalty be tested yet again? Exactly how far will they go to protect their peace and their union?Melanie and Quincy have gone through the storm and rain together, including facing the death of their first child. They were once a couple who had everything and thought they'd be together forever, but trust issues got in the way. Circumstances in life brought them together again, but not as a couple. They seem to have a love-hate thing going on, but is it to only cover the true feelings they still have for each other? Unfortunately, more trust issues arise and it can affect everything, including their ability to participate in Simba and Lailani's wedding together.Lauren has done well getting her life back on track after overcoming a drug addiction and doing a bid in prison. However, one of her weaknesses has always been making hasty decisions involving relationships. She finds herself struggling with her feelings for Darian and not allowing them to put her back at square one. She's a woman in love, but she also has too much to lose if things go wrong. She's faced with a decision between letting love win or giving in to other people's demands on how she should live her life.Charisma is a single mother who wants three important things: trust, love, and loyalty. While that's not too much for her to ask, she seems to break the code of all three. She's fortunate to have Vamp step up and help her raise a child that's not his, but she still has feelings for him. In an effort to break up his relationship with Keyani, she hooks up with his enemy, thinking that'll make him come back to her. She has a lot more growing up to do and her friends Lailani, Melanie, and Lauren aren't afraid to let her know that. Will she take heed before she finds herself involved in a dangerous situation?These four friends have formed an amazing sisterhood, but their drama is thick and their issues with trust, love, and loyalty can impact something they all care about, Simba and Lailani's wedding.
He had to save the world to redeem his sins. But the world had already ended. So he lurched along through his pointless corporeal existence, awaiting an overdue reunion with his perished family. Bereft of purpose in a man-made apocalypse, Noblé worked in the most suicidal profession, one known to expedite a longed-for reunion with his wife and daughter. They called it couriering, the simple act of escorting people, usually climate refugees escaping famine and drought, from one place to another. Desperate to leverage favor with the fates, he eschewed all material attachments and compensation for his deeds. As he dawdled over the years, playing at living while his mind was lost in the afterlife, a creeping and overwhelming feeling of failure to fulfill his destiny with his family took hold. The contagion of this intractable depression drove him toward suicide. On his way to die, he happens upon a benign, unremarkable young woman, who unknowingly holds the key to saving a once thought to be unstoppable global warming feedback loop. She possesses the one thing humanity needs to repent for its ancestors’ ecocide, and more important to Noblé, the one thing he needs to atone to get back to his family. His mind is mired in the afterlife with his loved ones, and the black hole pull of such a longing has him losing his earthly sanity more every minute. But fate, it seems, is not finished with him yet.
Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal. The book demonstrates how the development of the 'Ajami literary tradition is entwined with the flourishing of the Muridiyya into one of sub-Saharan Africa's most powerful and dynamic Sufi organizations. It offers a close reading of the rich hagiographic and didactic written, recited, and chanted 'Ajami texts of the Muridiyya, works largely unknown to scholars. The texts describe the life and Sufi odyssey of the order's founder, Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba Mbakke (1853-1927),his conflicts with local rulers and Muslim clerics and the French colonial administration, and the traditions and teachings he championed that permanently shaped the identity and behaviors of his followers. Fallou Ngom evaluates prevailing representations of the Muridiyya movement and offers alternative perspectives. He demonstrates how the Mur?ds used their written, recited, and chanted 'Ajami materials as an effective mass communication tool in conveying to the masses Bamba's poignant odyssey, doctrine, the virtues he stood for and cultivated among his followers-self-esteem, self-reliance, strong faith, work ethic, pursuit of excellence, determination, nonviolence, and optimism in the face of adversity-without the knowledge of the French colonial administration and many academics. Muslims beyond the Arab World argues that this is the source of the resilience, appeal, and expansion of Muridiyya, which has fascinated observers since its inception in 1883.
Josian Royce's late masterpiece, The Problem of Christianity, is based on a series of lectures he delivered at Manchester College, Oxford, in 1913. It presents his philosophical interpretation of Christianity's fundamental ideas--community, sin, atonement, and saving grace; shows their relevance to the current confluence of world religions; and grounds his position upon a personal transformation into genuine loyalty toward the community of the entire human family. The Problem opens up a mine of surprising treasures while its prophetic voice speaks to contemporary issues and current movements in ecumenics and inter-religious dialogue. Frank M. Oppenheim's new introduction highlights its relevance to some of the pressing problems of the new century. "A notable contribution to the interpretation of Christian ideas."--The Nation "Royce has contributed largely to the treasures of religious thought."--New York Times
