So Much Owed
So Much Owed

Author: Jean Grainger

Publisher:

Published: 2020-03-11

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13:

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West Cork, Ireland 1919An Irish doctor sickened by one war. His children determined to fight the next. When Dr. Richard Buckley returns home to Ireland to his wife and beloved hometown of Dunderrig, his mind is wearied by the ravages of The Great War. Disillusioned by the horror and pointlessness of battle, his civilian transition strains more than just his state of mind, as his marriage crumbles beneath the weight of duty. Out of the rubble of this doomed relationship, twins James and Juliet arrive-born into an uncertain and hostile new world. Against the backdrop of this idyllic town, this story takes you to the furthest reaches of Nazi occupied Europe. James and Juliet come of age in a world on the brink of chaos, where the remnants of rebellion at home have snowballed into the unthinkable horrors of yet another world war.James and Juliet find themselves embroiled in the conflict in ways that tests everything they thought to be true. Historically rich and moving, the story of this Irish family, caught in the throes of wartime Europe is a testament to the strength of the human spirit, and the enduring power of love.

Under a War-Torn Sky
Under a War-Torn Sky

Author: L.M. Elliot

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1409591344

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Shot down on a mission, 19-year-old bomber pilot Henry is alone in a treacherous land. Desperate to get back to his family and the girl he loves, he is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers and the cunning of the French Resistance. But in his battle to survive the deadly journey across Nazi-occupied Europe, he must face a terrible choice: can he take someone's life to save his own?

Owed
Owed

Author: Joshua Bennett

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0525505652

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From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker) Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an "arresting debut" that was "abounding in tenderness and rich with character," with a "virtuosic kind of code switching." Bennett's new collection, Owed, is a book with celebration at its center. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care. Spanning the spectrum of genre and form--from elegy and ode to origin myth--these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way of being in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of the past and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.

The Purity War
The Purity War

Author: James M. Cecy

Publisher:

Published: 2011-08-30

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780982919972

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It truly is a winnable war! Tens of thousands of your fellow strugglers on five continents have attended the live seminars. Countless others have listened to the audio presentations. Now you hold in your hand the well-tested tool for becoming an Ambassador of Purity in your home, your church and your community, regardless of where you live. Be equipped to win the purity war—from a thorough presentation of Scripture, church history and from Dr. Cecy’s forty years of ministry. With great sensitivity, biblical clarity, and pastoral passion, he presents:• the fallacy of the new morality—the old immorality with a new name.• God’s design for sex as an expression of His oneness.• the steps down to the devastating results of moral failure.• the lines of defense in the daily battle with immorality.• how to guard your mind, your body and each other.• how to be made right with God, yourself and others.• how to start a revival of purity.This book includes a Discussion Guide and an extensive Personal Accountability Program for personal reflection or group study.

What We Owe Each Other
What We Owe Each Other

Author: Minouche Shafik

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2022-08-23

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 069120764X

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From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.

So Much Owed
So Much Owed

Author: Jean Grainger

Publisher:

Published: 2013-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781914958120

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An Irish country doctor is sickened by all he saw in the First World War. His children are now determined to fight in World War 2. How far can you stretch the ties that bind a family? In the turbulent and uncertain times of Ireland in 1919, the birth of two children revitalise a small town. Dr. Richard Buckley returns home to his wife and beloved hometown of Dunderrig, weary and heart-sick over the horror and pointlessness of The Great War. Soon, trouble is coming from all sides-Richard's unhappy wife leaves Dunderrig, and a Nazi occupied Europe marches steadily closer to home. In the blink of an eye, the peace he'd craved and enjoyed since his days on the battlefield are gone. Meantime, James and Juliet come of age in a world on the brink of chaos, where the remnants of rebellion at home have snowballed into the horrors of yet another world war. Their father doesn't see the twins choosing different paths-dangerous paths-that will test everything, including their love for their country, their family, and each other. Historically rich and moving, the tale of two children from the Irish countryside caught in the throes of wartime Europe is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and its willingness to endure. Experience this critical time in history like never before in So Much Owed. One reviewer said 'Move over Maeve Binchy, this book is unputdownable.' Another wrote 'I loved this book, meticulously researched, yet accessibly written, you'll be enthralled for the first page to the last.' Winner of Best Historical Fiction 2016 -Author's Circle Award.

What You Owe Me
What You Owe Me

Author: Bebe Moore Campbell

Publisher: Berkley Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780425186312

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Matriece is determined to collect what she thinks a huge cosmetics conglomerate owes her late mother.

What We Owe to Each Other
What We Owe to Each Other

Author: T. M. Scanlon

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000-11-15

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 067400423X

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How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.

No More Champagne
No More Champagne

Author: David Lough

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1250071275

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Meticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of the iconic British war leader's private struggle to maintain a way of life instilled by his upbringing and expected of his public position. Lough uses Churchill's own most private records, many never researched before, to chronicle his family's chronic shortage of money, his own extravagance and his recurring losses from gambling or trading in shares and currencies. Churchill tried to keep himself afloat by borrowing to the hilt, putting off bills and writing 'all over the place'; when all else failed, he had to ask family or friends to come to the rescue. Yet within five years he had taken advantage of his worldwide celebrity to transform his private fortunes with the same ruthlessness as he waged war, reaching 1945 with today's equivalent of £3 million in the bank. His lucrative war memoirs were still to come. Throughout the story, Lough highlights the threads of risk, energy, persuasion, and sheer willpower to survive that link Churchill's private and public lives. He shows how constant money pressures often tempted him to short-circuit the ethical standards expected of public figures in his day before usually pulling back to put duty first-except where the taxman was involved.