Triumph in Dust
Triumph in Dust

Author: Ian Ross

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12-17

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781784975340

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Following the defeat of his rival Licinius in AD324, the Emperor Constantine has reigned for twelve years over a united Roman world. Under his patronage, Christianity continues to gain in strength and influence, while followers of the older religions increasingly feel that the traditional ways of Rome are dying away. But the emperor himself is getting old, and facing new challenges. In the east, Shapur II, the young and vigorous King of Persia, disputes Constantine's claim of protection over the Christians living within his domains. In Armenia, a state allied to Rome, the king has converted to the new faith, adding fuel to the simmering fires of Persian resentment. Now, as Constantine reaches the thirtieth anniversary of his rule, the ancestral enmity between the two great powers threatens once again to break into open war.

Shaking Off the Dust
Shaking Off the Dust

Author: Barbara Armstrong

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578774831

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Shaking Off the Dust: Personal Narratives of TriumphShaking off the Dust: Personal Narratives of Triumph is a masterful celebration of thepower to not only overcome trials and heartache, but to emerge on the other sidestronger and better. Each of the women, collectively known as Sistah Scribes, vividlywelcomes you into her world. The women's personal stories are a gift of insight into howto heal from trauma and own your power. This book is relevant for today.One author's story brings to life the pain of losing a brother at the hands of lawenforcement - complicated by police insensitivity and inability to respond responsibly topeople with mental illness.Readers will feel inspired by another woman's strength and resolve to cope with cruelchildhood trauma. She shows how she was able to turn that pain into a successfulcareer helping others.You'll learn from another author how sexual assault and mental illness affect familydynamics and the long road to healing.Many women face problems with infertility as they attempt to have a child. One writertells her story of how she met her situation head-on and made peace with it when sherealized that she would be denied the family she dreamed of.In the end, every woman has a story that only she can tell it. This book encourageswomen to write their stories, share them with others now, and preserve them forposterity.

American Triumph
American Triumph

Author: Susan Martins Miller

Publisher: Barbour Publishing

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 1607420171

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Girls are girls wherever they live—and the Sisters in Time series shows that girls are girls whenever they lived, too! This new collection brings together four historical fiction books for 8–12-year-old girls: Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years (1935), Mandy the Outsider: Prelude to World War 2 (1939), Jennie’s War: The Home Front in World War 2 (1944), and Laura’s Victory: End of the Second World War (1945), American Triumph will transport readers back to America’s overcoming of huge national challenges, teaching important lessons of history and Christian faith. Featuring bonus educational materials such as time lines and brief biographies of key historical figures, American Triumph is ideal for anytime reading and an excellent resource for home schooling.

The Dream from Dust
The Dream from Dust

Author: Lukonge Achilees

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-09

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13:

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"The Dream From Dust", is an inspirational Memoir of triumph against all odds. It is a story of Lukonge.M.Achilees, who rose from a challenging background of searing accounts of famine, Poverty, Diseases, bullying, alcoholism, and war. For eight months in the fall of 1978-1979, the African Nation of Uganda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody war the world knows little about during the fall of world's greatest African Dictator Idi Amin Dada. when bullets hit Achilees' home in devastating first battles in Kakuuto Kyotera District, Uganda, his parents hastily pilled whatever they could carry and two young babies Richard and Regina into their wooded box made and run their endless journey towards nowhere along with thousands of others. Achilees' book is a passionate and vivid account of an idyllic childhood that became the stuff of night mare. " The Dream From Dust" is a book of pain, anger, and sorrow, written with tremendous dignity and beautiful precision: a remarkable and important story of Africa and to discover-the hard way-the world of the African. Lukonge Achilees was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the low standard public schools of uganda's poorest villages only miracles had to exist for Achilees to graduate with honor and his dream of changing the world through "Social Work" and Humanitarian actions began.

Dust
Dust

Author: Hugh Howey

Publisher: John Joseph Adams

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0544838262

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Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.

The Dirty Dust
The Dirty Dust

Author: Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 030021359X

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Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley’s vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of Ó Cadhain’s original, at last brings the pleasures of this great satiric novel to the far wider audience it deserves. In The Dirty Dust all characters lie dead in their graves. This, however, does not impair their banter or their appetite for news of aboveground happenings from the recently arrived. Told entirely in dialogue, Ó Cadhain’s daring novel listens in on the gossip, rumors, backbiting, complaining, and obsessing of the local community. In the afterlife, it seems, the same old life goes on beneath the sod. Only nothing can be done about it—apart from talk. In this merciless yet comical portrayal of a closely bound community, Ó Cadhain remains keenly attuned to the absurdity of human behavior, the lilt of Irish gab, and the nasty, deceptive magic of human connection.

Oil and Dust
Oil and Dust

Author: Jami Fairleigh

Publisher: Kitsune Publishing

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 195542800X

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When all has been lost, we find ourselves… Out of the ashes of destruction, a new world has arisen. The plagues of the past—the worship of greed and pursuit of power—are gone. Now, the communities that remain in this post-apocalyptic world focus on creating connections, on forging futures filled with family and love. And all with the help of hard work, hope… and a little bit of magic. Artist Matthew Sugiyama knows this well. Traveling the countryside in search of the family he lost as a child, he trades his art for supplies—and uses his honed magic to re-draw the boundaries of reality, to fashion a world that is better for those he meets. Following glimpses of visions half-seen, Matthew—and the friends he encounters along the way—will travel a path from light to darkness and back again. A road where things lost in the past can only be found in the love of the present, and the hope for the future. And he will travel this path wherever it leads. From joy to sorrow, from tears to laughter. Because Matthew is the Elemental Artist, and he knows that though dangers arise, humanity will always triumph… in a world he has painted in shades of Oil and Dust. Author Jami Farleigh invites you to meet a rich tapestry of characters, and to travel through a world that blends fantasy, laughter, coming of age, and evocative literary stylings to create a perfect escape. Fans of The Goblin Emperor, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, The Language of Flowers, and Quarter Share will delight in this tale of humor, humanity, and the power of hope. Click “Buy Now,” to curl up with your copy of Oil and Dust today!

Triumph
Triumph

Author: Philip Wylie

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780803260139

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In the world?s upper hemisphere, only one small group has survived World War III: fourteen people, sheltered deep within a limestone mountain in Connecticut and with enough supplies and equipment to maintain their subsistence for upwards of two years. The group includes a forward-thinking millionaire and his family, a levelheaded Jewish scientist, a playboy, an aging African American servant and his daughter, a gigolo and the glamorous woman who has been his mistress, a beautiful Chinese girl, a young meter reader, two children, and a Japanese engineer. Fully aware of the outcome of the war that had raged briefly above them, the survivors seethe with hatred, fall into depression over their losses, rise to moments of superhuman bravery, and lapse into behavior that reflects their human weaknesses. Philip Wylie mercilessly predicts the inevitable end of a world that continues to function as selfishly and as barbarously as our own.

Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust

Author: John Fante

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-05-18

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0062013009

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Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.

Dust Bunnies in the Basket
Dust Bunnies in the Basket

Author: Tim Schenck

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780880284035

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Episcopal priest Tim Schenck offers good humor and spiritual direction for the journey through Lent and Easter. With keen observations and a clever wit, Schenck connects the mundane with the divine, from dust bunnies and egg hunts to foot washing and the Easter Vigil. Illustrated by popular cartoonist Jay Sidebotham, Dust Bunnies in the Basket challenges us to go deeper this Lent, to kick up some dust every now and then, to roll up our sleeves and get involved with the world and the people around us. This book is ideal for personal reflection or seasonal study groups and includes thoughtful questions at the end of each section.