Read and Download eBook Full
Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1476708525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s.
Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1451620780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis early novel from bestselling author James Lee Burke is a gritty coming-of-age story about a young Kentucky miner growing up in the Appalachian mountains who’s torn between his family life and the lure of the city. James Lee Burke, a writer who “can touch you in ways few writers can” (The Washington Post) brings his brilliant feel for time and place to this stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here, Perry Woodson Hatfield James, a young man torn between family honor and the lure of seedy watering holes, must somehow survive the tempestuous journey from boyhood to manhood and escape the dark and atavistic heritage of the Cumberland Mountains.
Author: Julia Baird
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2024-10-08
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 006341273X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A powerful book from one of my favorite writers on something we all need more of...and could give more of.' — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy “Luminous. . . . A work to both devour and savour, Baird has, once again, written a book the world needs now.'”—Guardian From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace. Grace is hard to define. It can be found when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared humanity, being kinder, bigger, better with each other. If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the opposite: forgiving the unforgivable, favoring the undeserving, loving the unlovable. Sadly, we live in an era when grace is increasingly rare. Our growing distrust of the media, politicians, and each other has choked our ability to trust, to accept, to allow for mistakes, to forgive. What does grace look like in today’s world, and how do we recognize it, nurture it in ourselves and express it, even in the darkest of times? In this luminously beautiful, deeply insightful, and timely book, Baird explores the meaning of grace and how we can cut through negativity to find it today.
Author: James Lee Burke
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2011-08-23
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1401304230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux , as he weaves together the struggles of three very different men. Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life-but the only break he gets lands him in penal servitude. J.P. Winfield, a hick with a gift for twelve-string guitar, finds his break into show-biz leads to the flipside of the American dream. Avery Broussard, descendant of an aristocratic French family, runs whiskey when what remains of his land is repossessed... The interlocking stories of these three men are an elegy to the realities of life in 1950s Louisiana, their destinies fixed by the circumstances of their birth and time. Yet each carries the hope of redemption...
Author: Steven Charleston
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Published: 2021-01-05
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1506465749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarkness will not last forever. Together we can climb toward the light. They were as troubled as we, our ancestors, those who came before us, and all for the very same reasons: fear of illness, a broken heart, fights in the family, the threat of another war. Corrupt politicians walked their stage, and natural disasters appeared without warning. And yet they came through, carrying us within them, through the grief and struggle, through the personal pain and the public chaos, finding their way with love and faith, not giving in to despair but walking upright until their last step was taken. My culture does not honor the ancestors as a quaint spirituality of the past but as a living source of strength for the present. They did it and so will we. In the same voice that has comforted and challenged countless readers through his daily social media posts, Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest Steven Charleston offers words of hard-won hope, rooted in daily conversations with the Spirit and steeped in Indigenous wisdom. Every day Charleston spends time in prayer. Every day he writes down what he hears from the Spirit. In Ladder to the Light he shares what he has heard with the rest of us and adds thoughtful reflection to help guide us to the light Native America knows something about cultivating resilience and resisting darkness. For all who yearn for hope, Ladder to the Light is a book of comfort, truth, and challenge in a time of anguish and fear.
Author: Sterling Andrus Leonard
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Boyan, L.M.F.T.
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre you ready to change how you interact with your child's other parent? To do so, consider the words of apostle Paul who said, "Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Unfortunately, many post-divorce adults remain angry, blaming, bitter and unforgiving. Some choose to remain stuck in this destructive pattern for years. In order to renew your mind, stop blaming and begin focusing on your own responsibilities and what you yourself can do differently. In this book, you will find ideas to help transform yourself from a frustrated coparent to a peaceful coparent who is aligned with your faith. With practice and hard work, you mature into a more loving, forgiving, and patient coparent. You will be challenged to honestly assess yourself, recognize your ego and pride, and take ownership for your contribution to the conflict. It is time to transform your thinking, your assumptions, and your reactions and defuse conflict while improving your self-control, developing your patience, and stop wasting time trying to change anyone but yourself. Only when you become self-aware and you engage God in the process can you become the person God truly wants you to be.
Author: Irma B. Jaffe
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780823221806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Surazeus Astarius
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-07-16
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 1365261328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHermead of Surazeus is an epic poem in pentameter blank verse about the greatest philosophers and scientists who contributed to the growth of civilization. Volume 5 contains in 20,780 lines of blank verse the following episodes: Library Of Demetrios Phalereus, Garden Of Epikouros, Spheres Of Arkhimedes, Organ Of Ktesibios, Parallels Of Eratosthenes.
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 1954
ISBN-13: 1631491350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal Winner of the Audie Award The New York Times bestseller from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation” (NPR)—takes its place among the most notable works of contemporary English literature. In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent specters undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors, laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly). This “brilliant . . . monumentally ambitious” tale from the gutter is “a massive literary achievement for our time—and maybe for all times simultaneously” (Washington Post).
