![]() ![]() ![]() In sharing her own strategies for redefining mundane rituals so that they contribute to reverence and devotion, Weems offers a beacon of light for all believers struggling to listen for God amidst the din of worldly demands and distractions. Her own spiritual disquietude will be familiar to all who struggle to maintain faith while the details of daily life - negotiating with children and spouses, caring for ailing parents, living up to professional expectations, developing hobbies, managing finances, and planning for the future - compete for energy with one's relationship with God. ![]() In this deeply affecting book, Weems addresses the believer's yearning for God through periods of inconstancy, vacillation, and disenchantment. RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY 'Weems' book, a deep well of reflective and often uplifting prose. Yet in the midst of her celebrated work, she was experiencing a profound spiritual crisis permeated by a hollow, painful silence that seemed, at times, to mark an irreparable rupture in her communication with God. A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt Renita J. Weems has been noted and praised for her writing, galvanizing national speaking, and pioneering scholarship in the field of Old Testament studies. Throughout the past two decades, Renita J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal-the loss of husbands and sons-to the political-the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family. MacLean Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the male plague intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. The virus becomes a global pandemic-and a political one. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. ![]() The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland-a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. Only men are affected by the virus only women have the power to save us all. Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would life truly look like without men? ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Imago by N.R. Walker![]() When Jack suggests they take a short trip, Lawson agrees. Lawson’s work ensuring the survival of the Tillman Copper is as demanding as ever, and Jack’s work with the regeneration of the bushfire-ravaged national park is just as hectic. Jack Brighton and Lawson Gale have been together for six months and are very much in love. Imago is the story of finding love, bow ties, and butterflies. ![]() He just has to let go first, so these butterflies can fly. They exist only in a touch, in a kiss, in a smile. Lawson soon learns there are butterflies he can’t learn about it in books. ![]() Sometimes the most elusive creatures wear bow ties, and sometimes they can’t be caught at all. There’s more to catching butterflies, Jack realises. But then he meets Lawson, and he knows he’s met someone special. ![]() Along with his Border collie dog, Rosemary, his job, and good friends, he has enough to keep from being lonely. Local Parks and Wildlife officer, Jack Brighton, is an ordinary guy who loves his life in the sleepy town of Scottsdale. He finds himself in a small town in Tasmania on a quest from an old professor to find an elusive species that may or may not even exist. ![]() Nerdy, introverted genius lepidopterist, Lawson Gale, is an expert on butterflies. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments 1177 B.C. by Eric H. Cline![]() ![]() ![]() Many flourishing cities of Bronze Age civilization were indeed destroyed by 1177 BC or soon thereafter. This complicated process has no one explanation - and more to the point, no one cause. And in any case, the collapse of civilization among the distinct but interconnected Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians, and Babylonians of the Bronze Age took not a year, he explains, but more like a century. The title, which seems to have been the result of the publishing industry’s invincible enthusiasm for naming books after years, may soon need an update: as Cline admits, it reflects a convention among scholars about how to label the titular event that has just been revised, and has since been revised back. Cline makes his own case in the book 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed. What the specialists don’t quite agree on is how it happened. The Bronze Age lasted a long time, from roughly 3300 to 1200 BC - at the end of which, ancient-history specialists agree, civilization collapsed. But of course, his prospects for survival in that era - or indeed anyone’s - depend on which part of it we’re talking about. I’m sure I would not live more than about 48 hours, but it’d be a good 48 hours.” He may give himself too little credit: as he goes on to demonstrate in the hour that follows, he has as thorough an all-around knowledge of life in the Bronze Age as anyone alive in the 21st century. “If I could be reincarnated backwards,” he says in the lecture above, “I would choose to live back then. ![]() ![]() ![]() It gave me access to a glorious national history: but this time I had no words. I was well-versed in deflecting with broad sweeps of accepted leftist histories and resistances. It also provided the necessary fulcrum on which I could quickly change the conversation. ![]() Most of my life since childhood had been spent hiding in and finding identity in politics: It was a place of certainty when others spoke about their community identities and customs. (This, even as I identified as black since childhood.) ![]() My body-response to the question of who I was ethnically and historically was an enduring, free floating shame, buoyed by the constant references littered throughout my life that, historically, I was neither black nor white, I was a “nothing”. It was a non-answer, but equally baffling was the immediate, deep sense of shame I had about myself. I mumbled something about being from a mix of different communities. Yet this time, I was speechless.įloundering, I grasped at half-sentences, well aware that people around were starting to stare. By Karen Williams Follow question from the Pakistani government minister was not unfamiliar to me: “And what are you, are you a Zulu?” It was my early days in Islamabad and the official’s gentle ribbing was a common question. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Raggedy ann and andy story book![]() ![]() Further characters such as Beloved Belindy, a black mammy doll, were featured as dolls and characters in books. A sequel, Raggedy Andy Stories (1920), introduced the character of her brother, Raggedy Andy. When a doll was marketed with the book, the concept had great success. The character was created in 1915, as a doll, and was introduced to the public in the 1918 book Raggedy Ann Stories. Gruelle received US Patent D47789 for his Raggedy Ann doll on September 7, 1915. ![]() Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair and a triangle nose. Raggedy Ann is a character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) that appeared in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. ![]() Raggedy Ann meets Raggedy Andy for the first time illustrated by Johnny Gruelle ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Any way the wind blows book buy![]() And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough. ![]() Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled a cursed American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.įor Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages - and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Spyder Bones by Oliver Phipps![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() But, regardless of anything else, he knows his life will never be the same. Oliver has quite a few works under his belt, with notable works including Where the Strangers Live, Tears of Abandon, Spyder Bones, Secrets for Success at Your Local. Visions of Oliver Phipps worm their way into my mind in the latest hours of the night, keeping me awake as I writhe in mental agony. A spiritual struggle that most only have a vague awareness of.Īaron must make some difficult decisions. Oliver Phipps is the antagonist of my life. During this time, he is exposed to an unseen war. He is subsequently trapped in a comatose state for months. But that's about to change.Īaron, or Spyder as he is known to his friends, suffers a near death experience during combat. It's not an overly complicated existence. After serving one tour of duty in Vietnam as a cavalryman, Aaron returns for a second tour as a combat medic.Īaron's life revolves around the love of his Vietnamese girlfriend, the danger of combat and his passion for music. It's the summer of 1969 and Aaron Prescott is a seasoned soldier. This is the story of Spyder Bones, a mystic warrior. However, there are a few, who not only understand the war, but are in the very thick of it. ![]() Some have even discovered secrets beyond the veil of what we see. Many have at least a basic understanding of what is happening. Most all have chosen a side, whether they admit it to themselves or not. God, Satan, angels and demons ideals interwoven into our very existence. Many religions are based on the concepts. The eternal struggle between good and evil. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Secrets and lies nicky james![]() ![]() This job can’t be done solo, and the one other person who needs to be involved might not agree with Atticus’s desperate plan. ![]() It’s just a some pictures and a few videos, right? No big deal.īut there’s a catch. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. When a job opportunity presents itself, Atticus knows he can’t turn it down. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. This hard dose of reality after having lived a spoiled rich-kid lifestyle leaves Atticus grasping at straws to fix his precarious and unappealing situation. ![]() Atticus Charming’s spectacular announcement of his sexuality backfired, leaving him penniless, crashing in his friend’s basement, working a part-time job at a local gas station for minimum wage, and without the funds to pay for his last year of university. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was the start of an addiction that won’t let go, and takes her from planets in outer space, to the wilds of the Rain forest to Regency London and Dublin. She wrote a story about a pink-haired space vampire with a taste for sexy humans, and was more astonished than anyone when Don’t Feed the Fairies reached the quarter-finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. Eileen, a former journalist, started writing fiction in 2010 when she joined a writing class in UCD. ![]() They have also written Angels, Demons and Doms, the BDSM novella which started it all, and caught the attention of Penguin Ireland, prompting them to ask the two Irishwomen to write a hot sexy novel to compete with 50 Shades of Grey. Between them, Eileen and Caroline have written The Pleasures of Winter, The Pleasures of Summer, The Pleasures of Autumn, The Pleasures of Spring, A Touch of Winter, A Touch of Summer, A Touch of Autumn, A Touch of Spring and A Touch of Passion. I want to meet women for casual, friends-with-benefits type relationships. ![]() She claims she writes the plot while her co-writer, Caroline McCall writes the dirty bits, but everyone who has met her knows better. Hi Auntie Eileen, I’m a guy who is a bit shy and socially awkward. She is half of Evie Hunter, Ireland’s best-selling erotica author. ![]() |
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