Blood Diamonds of the Lost Bazaar
Blood Diamonds of the Lost Bazaar

Author: Rickey Pittman

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2022-10-26

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 150924378X

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Blood Diamonds of the Lost Bazaar takes readers into two very different worlds—from the Lost Bazaar Art Gallery in small-town North Louisiana into Sierra Leone and its dark, violent and sad world of Blood Diamonds and boy soldiers. Caitlin, a beautiful and talented artist, ends a stormy relationship with her musician boyfriend Hunter and journeys to Sierra Leone. Von Vermeer, a wealthy, charming diamond merchant pursues her, and though attracted to him at first, Caitlin is horrified to discover that he is actually a corrupt, deranged diamond smuggler whose crazed obsession threatens her safety. Caitlin returns to Louisiana with Tejan, her adopted son, and rebuilds her relationship with Hunter, hoping to experience the joy of a loving family and redemptive love. But Vermeer follows her to Louisiana, bringing with him the violence she thought she had escaped, threatening her newly found happiness.

The Baptist Bootlegger
The Baptist Bootlegger

Author: Nicholas Lyon

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2022-12-13

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1509246002

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Ezekiel Wilson preaches in support of prohibition so that his flock will believe him to be an upstanding Baptist minister. And so that he can continue in his illegal bootlegging operation. But when prohibition is finally enforced, he finds himself pitted against immovable forces, including the God he’s so long claimed to serve. At the close of 1958, Ezekiel is preaching and bootlegging; Robert Arrington is coming to terms with his rebellious nature; Nigel Baxter is sent to enforce the tired prohibition laws in hopes of repealing them. As 1958 gives way to 1959, the fight for prohibition increases and all three lives are caught in the crosswires.

The Engagements
The Engagements

Author: J. Courtney Sullivan

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0307958728

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A People Magazine Top 10 Best Books of the Year • The New York Times best-selling author of Maine returns with an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan “A Diamond is Forever,” and four unique marriages that will test how true—or not—those words might be. "Sullivan is a born storyteller. Like its mineral muse, Engagements shines."—Entertainment Weekly Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years, but their son’s messy divorce has put them at rare odds; James, a beleaguered paramedic, has spent most of his marriage haunted by his wife’s family’s expectations; Delphine has thrown caution to the wind and left a peaceful French life for an exciting but rocky romance in America; and Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. As the stories connect to each other and to Frances’s legacy in surprising ways, The Engagements explores the complicated ins and outs of relationships, then, now, and forever.

The Intercourse of Troubled Thoughts
The Intercourse of Troubled Thoughts

Author: Joseph Emeka Anumbor

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 1452028052

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This book is a direct offspring of the schism in the Worldwide Anglican Communion concerning its traditional and future identity, which came apart in 2003 over the election of V. Gene Robinson, a practicing gay priest as the Bishop of New Hampshire, United States. When 62 out of 107 leaders of the Episcopal Church {US Anglicans} confirmed his ordination at its triennial conference later that year, the ice that held "God's frozen people" together for so long began to thaw. For the 38 provinces of World Anglicanism, it's been a sloppy and loud reversal of communion since its February 10-15, 1997 "Second Anglican Encounter in the South", at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The prophetic theme of that meeting; "The Place of Scripture in the Life and Mission of the Church in the 21st Century", has been challenged by theologically "enlightened" American, British and Canadian Councils. Revisionist ministers and methods then began to dictate the life and mission of these dioceses.

Before the Ruins
Before the Ruins

Author: Victoria Gosling

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1250759145

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Named a Best New Book of 2021 (so far) by Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub and Bustle A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt about four friends, an empty manor, and a night that will follow them for the rest of their lives It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David—charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates the dynamics of their lifelong friendship. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen fifty years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game—half treasure hunt, half friendly deception—begins. But the Game becomes much bigger than the necklace, growing to encompass years of secrets, lies, and, ultimately, one terrible betrayal. Meticulously plotted and gorgeously written, Before the Ruins is a page-turner of the highest order about the sealed-off places in our pasts and the parts of ourselves waiting to be retrieved from them.