The Enlightenment of Angeline
The Enlightenment of Angeline

Author: Joshua Berkov

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-29

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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"I should explain a bit, lest you think that I just despise my children for no good reason." - Angeline. Angeline Sims is no shrinking violet. She's tough, opinionated, bossy, and she's got a bone to pick with nearly everyone in her life.Set in the fictitious Eastern North Carolina small town of Shelbington, Angeline has been given a terminal diagnosis, with mere months left to live. Upon learning of this news, her adult children and grandchildren come home for one last visit. There is no love lost between any of the family members, and they all have secrets that they voluntarily or involuntarily reveal throughout the course of the novel, culminating in an explosive family dinner at which the biggest bombshells are dropped. Told in first-person narratives by the main protagonist and other characters, the story uses humor to touch on a number of hot-button issues, from race relations and racial profiling to LGBTQ issues, to the #MeToo movement, and to the subjugation of religion for profit. As Bette Davis once said in the 1950 movie All About Eve, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night!"

The Enlightenment of Esther
The Enlightenment of Esther

Author: Joshua Berkov

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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October 3, 1989. Seventy-nine-year-old wealthy Jewish widow Esther Kellerman lives in a small suburb outside of Columbus, Ohio. Esther thinks she has a pretty good life. She plays bridge, reads for her book club, and routinely drives her Cadillac DeVille into the mailboxes of her neighbors. Her latest mailbox mishap leads her to the doorstep of some mysterious new residents of her neighborhood. As she introduces herself to Sarah, the elderly woman who answers the door, Esther soon realizes that there's something wrong with her. Eighty-nine-year-old Muriel Schwartz has also met the new neighbor Sarah, along with Sarah's son David and daughter-in-law Dianne. David and Dianne ask Muriel to look in on Sarah for a couple of hours each day while they're at work, and because Muriel is having financial troubles and needs the money, she agrees to help out. When Esther hears of this plan, she offers to lend a hand. Eighty-five-year-old Rosalie Sherman, Esther's widowed sister-in-law, thinks that both Esther and Muriel have lost their minds and wants no part in what she sees as a ridiculous care-giving arrangement doomed to fail. Rosalie never shies away from saying what she thinks, but Esther is taken aback at Rosalie's emphatic refusal to help out with Sarah. With a touch of humor and a lot of heartfelt warmth, The Enlightenment of Esther paints a vivid portrait of the lives of Esther and her contemporaries, all in their seventies and eighties, and how their relationships intersect and intertwine in ways even Esther couldn't have predicted. But if anyone can solve this mystery of just exactly who Sarah, David, and Dianne are, Esther Kellerman can!

American Psychic & Medium Magazine. January 2017
American Psychic & Medium Magazine. January 2017

Author: Maximillien de Lafayette/ American Federation

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1365627632

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American Psychic & Medium Magazine. January 2017. Published by the American Federation of Certified Psychics and Mediums, New York. Also available in "Economy Edition" black and white interior. Contents: COVER STORY: Patrice Cole, the most influential and prettiest astrologer in the universe. Every Witch Way by Patti Negri. The whole truth about the afterlife by Maximillien de Lafayette. The Near-Death Experience. Landscape of the afterlife. Description of the geographical location and different zones and levels of life afterlife. Materialization of the spirit of Ahmad Chawki. The awful existence of souls in the lower parts of the afterlife. Apparitions and materialization of dead people (Materialized spirits). New York 6th international vote: The United State and the world's best lightworkers. By name, category and rank.

American Psychic & Medium Magazine. January 2017. In full colors. Deluxe Edition
American Psychic & Medium Magazine. January 2017. In full colors. Deluxe Edition

Author: Maximillien de Lafayette/ Times Square Press

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1365627578

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American Psychic & Medium Magazine. January 2017. In full colors. Deluxe EditionAmerican Psychic & Medium Magazine. January 2016. In full colors. Deluxe Edition. Published by the American Federation of Certified Psychics and Mediums, New York. Also available in "Economy Edition" black and white interior. Contents: COVER STORY: Patrice Cole, the most influential and prettiest astrologer in the universe. Every Witch Way by Patti Negri. Reiki by Sunanda Sharma.The world of spirit and beyond by Angeline Kim-Kyna Tan. The disgraceful Cold Reading and Hot Reading! How to spot a fake psychic.Interviews with Chat with Patti Negri, Jennifer Wallens, Melissa Stamps, Vickie Gay. The whole truth about the afterlife by Maximillien de Lafayette. The etheric-astral body. Description of the geographical location and different zones and levels of life afterlife. New York 6th international vote: The United State and the world's best lightworkers. By name, category and rank.

New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment
New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment

Author: Brett C. McInelly

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-11-09

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1683931629

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The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way to the secularization of Western society and to modernity. To whatever extent the Enlightenment can be credited with giving birth to modern Western culture, historians in more recent years have aptly demonstrated that the Enlightenment hardly singled the death knell of religion. Not only did religion continue to occupy a central pace in political, social, and private life throughout the eighteenth century, but it shaped the Enlightenment project itself in significant and meaningful ways. The thinkers and philosophers normally associated with the Enlightenment, to be sure, challenged state-sponsored church authority and what they perceived as superstitious forms of belief and practice, but they did not mount a campaign to undermine religion generally. A more productive approach to understanding religion in the age of Enlightenment, then, is to examine the ways the Enlightenment informed religious belief and practice during the period as well as the ways religion influenced the Enlightenment and to do so from a range of disciplinary perspectives, which is the goal of this collection. The chapters document the intersections of religious and Enlightenment ideas in such areas as theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.

Susan Angeline Collins: with a Hallelujah Heart
Susan Angeline Collins: with a Hallelujah Heart

Author: Janis Bennington Van Buren

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1664225749

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Ten percent of book profits will go to the Susan Angeline Collins Scholarship at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa. Get ready to delve into a world of hardship, challenge, and fulfillment. Explore the life of African American Susan Angeline Collins and be inspired by her faith, pioneering attitude, missionary successes, unfailing courage, and belief in everyone’s right to an education. As Miss Collins’ life unfolds before you, relevant social issues affecting people of color are intertwined. Issues examined include economics, education, gender, race, religion, and Africa’s colonization from her 1851 birth in Illinois until her 1940 death in Iowa. Her resourcefulness in overcoming obstacles during her 33-year commitment to missionary service in the Congo Delta Region and Angola is compelling. Miss Collins’ story demonstrates the difference one person can make in the lives of an unknown number of women and children, some orphaned and homeless and others escaping early marriage and subservience. Her leadership is evidenced when starting a girls’ school in the northern Angolan high plateau region years before Mary Jane McLeod Bethune initiated her school for African-American girls in Florida. You will be gratified to discover how this diminutive bundle of energy achieved recognition as a stalwart missionary, leader, teacher, nurse, construction manager, and surrogate mother to “her girls.”

A History of Western Philosophy of Education in the Age of Enlightenment
A History of Western Philosophy of Education in the Age of Enlightenment

Author: Tal Gilead

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1350074500

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This volume traces the history of Western philosophy of education through the Age of Enlightenment. The period between 1650 and 1850 was one of rapid intellectual development that revolutionized how education is viewed. Even the most progressive thinkers of the start of this period would have found the educational ideas expressed at its end odd, alien, and even dangerous. Shaped by broad intellectual movements, such as the Enlightenment, the counter-enlightenment and romanticism, as well as by the work of exceptional individuals including John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hélvetius, Mary Wollstonecraft, Pestalozzi, Fröbel and Emerson, the educational philosophy of this period has laid the foundations of how we think of and conduct education today. About A History of Western Philosophy of Education: An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of education, this five-volume set that traces the development of philosophy of education through Western culture and history. Focusing on philosophers who have theorized education and its implementation, the series constitutes a fresh, dynamic, and developing view of educational philosophy. It expands our educational possibilities by reinvigorating philosophy's vibrant critical tradition, connecting old and new perspectives, and identifying the continuity of critique and reconstruction. It also includes a timeline showing major historical events, including educational initiatives and the publication of noteworthy philosophical works.

A Tangle Of Magicks: An Improper Adventure 2
A Tangle Of Magicks: An Improper Adventure 2

Author: Stephanie Burgis

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1848774818

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Regency England's feistiest twelve-year-old is back! When Kat Stephenson's family arrive in Bath in search of a suitor for her sister, it's not long before Kat discovers that the town is fizzing with wild magic. Stumbling upon a plot to harness the magic in the Roman Baths, Kat finds that her brother has unwittingly become involved. To foil the plot and save her brother she must defy the Order of the Guardians and risk losing her magical powers, forever . . .

Normal People Dont Live Like This
Normal People Dont Live Like This

Author: Dylan Landis

Publisher: Persea Books

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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“Wonderful! Leah and Helen are authentic, vulnerable characters, whose intimate truths are exposed at perfect, unexpected moments.”—Elizabeth Strout At the center of this startling fiction debut is Leah Levinson, a teen at sea in the anonymous ordeals of a middle-class upbringing on the Upper West Side in the 1970s. In ten installments, written from varying perspectives, we witness her uneasy relationships with faster, looser peers—girls she is drawn to but also alienated by. No one, though, alienates Leah more than her mother, Helen. Estranged yet intertwined, they struggle within the confines of their personalities, unaware of how similar their paths are. Just when they seem at a lonely impasse, each makes an impulsive change—Leah taking a risky trip abroad, Helen renting a secret room in a welfare hotel. Jolted from their old patterns, the two of them independently glimpse the possibility of a more hopeful life. Dylan Landis is a gifted portraitist of unforgettable female characters. Normal People Don’t Live Like This is a striking debut.