Author: J. N. Hook Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497611865 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
Ever wonder what the most popular and unpopular baby names are? And how certain people and places got their names? Or are you just looking for guidance in choosing your child’s name? ALL THOSE WONDERFUL NAMES is an amusing exploration of names, familiar words, phrases, and the stories behind their origins. From the common to the confounding, this book has it all. Hear the true stories behind the naming of tropical storms, cars, fictitious characters, major league baseball teams, and more. Find out the real names of celebrities, such as Elton John, Cher, Rip Torn, Cary Grant, Liberace, and Conway Twitty. Discover counties, towns, and cities with strange names like Difficult, Tennessee; Jiggs, Nevada; Virgin, Utah; and Bosom, Wyoming. Learn unusual names for newborns—and perhaps the origin of your own surname as well.
Author: Charles Hurlburt Publisher: Barbour Publishing ISBN: 1643523546 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
There’s plenty of cotton candy for the mind and spirit. Here’s a nourishing meal. Enduring Voices books offer time-tested insights into God, scripture, and the Christian life. In Wonderful Names of Our Wonderful Lord, you’ll find 365 concise but powerful devotions based on names and titles of Jesus. See how the Lord’s amazing personality and power can only be described by scores—literally hundreds—of names. Learn more about the Ancient of Days the Branch a Crown of Glory the Dayspring from on High the Everlasting God and many, many more fascinating and uplifting names and titles of Jesus Wonderful Names of Our Wonderful Lord has been a favorite devotional for generations of believers. Read on to find the substance your soul craves.
Author: T C Horton Publisher: Barbour Publishing ISBN: 1628364564 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Busy readers will love the power-packed insights of 365 One-Minute Meditations from The Wonderful Names of Our Wonderful Lord. Drawn from the popular daily devotional, this new compilation is perfect for people on the go-busy moms, business travelers, college students, anyone needing a quick spiritual pick-me-up.
Author: Emery Lord Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1619639742 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 327
Book Description
Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake and spending quality time with her parents. But when her mom's cancer reappears, Lucy falters-in her faith and in her ability to cope. When her boyfriend "pauses" their relationship and her summer job switches to a different camp-one for troubled kids-Lucy isn't sure how much more she can handle. Attempting to accept a new normal, Lucy slowly regains footing among her vibrant, diverse coworkers, Sundays with her mom, and a crush on a fellow counselor. But when long-hidden family secrets emerge, can Lucy set aside her problems and discover what grace really means? Emotionally-charged and unforgettable, Emery Lord's storytelling shines with the promise of new love and true friendship, even in the face of life's biggest challenges.
Author: Anjali Sachdeva Publisher: ISBN: 0399593004 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
"A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives, Anjali Sachdeva's debut collection spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate: A workman in Andrew Carnegie's steel mills is irrevocably changed by the brutal power of the furnaces; a fisherman sets sail into overfished waters and finds a secret obsession from which he can't return; an online date ends with a frightening, inexplicable dissapearance. Her story "Pleiades" was called "a masterpiece" by Dave Eggers. Sachdeva has a talent for creating moving and poignant scenes, following her highly imaginative plots to their logical ends, and depicting how one small miracle can affect everyone in its wake"--
Author: David Bentley Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1532656467 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
In a bridge-building exercise between Christians, Muslims, and other people of the book, David Bentley traces the Semitic pre-Islamic origins of Islam s 99 names of God. He points the reader to Old Testament counterparts of these names as well as to Jesus comparable representations of Himself."
Author: Ossnat Almaliah Frey Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1491825359 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 221
Book Description
Did you know that Your name and the names you use for yourself and others are codes - numbers. They count and attract. In fact, Numerology is the science which explains how the simple combination of letters and sounds not only defines our basic character, energy, and purpose in life but also creates, attracts and delivers all that we want and need rightfully and magically. Would you like to know if it is the right time to start a new business? Or maybe you would like to know more about the people in your life and in what stage are they in their life path? Are you asking yourself if a certain place you are interested in, has all the right energy traits for your new business and office? Perhaps you simply want to know more about yourself, your mate, child, friend or coworker? If you were looking for real answers, than you are in the right place, for Numerology is here to help. How? Simple! Everything in this universe is energy. People's names and numbers are energy. That alone is a very important fact since our name and numbers are part of our energy - life since birth. Numerology, according to specific laws, reveals the basic truths about us as well as about our loved ones, our real estate properties, our cars, our homes, our businesses, our pets, our inventions, our boat, our yacht, our relationships, our winning and successful careers as well as every other great energy in our lives!
Author: Dinaw Mengestu Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385349998 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart—one into the deepest peril, as the movement gathers inexorable force, and the other into the safety of exile in the American Midwest. There, pretending to be an exchange student, he falls in love with a social worker and settles into small-town life. Yet this idyll is inescapably darkened by the secrets of his past: the acts he committed and the work he left unfinished. Most of all, he is haunted by the beloved friend he left behind, the charismatic leader who first guided him to revolution and then sacrificed everything to ensure his freedom. Elegiac, blazing with insights about the physical and emotional geographies that circumscribe our lives, All Our Names is a marvel of vision and tonal command. Writing within the grand tradition of Naipul, Greene, and Achebe, Mengestu gives us a political novel that is also a transfixing portrait of love and grace, of self-determination and the names we are given and the names we earn. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Author: Don DeLillo Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307817180 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 351
Book Description
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works. "The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times "DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement "DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times
Author: Shabda Kahn Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1647227763 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 101
Book Description
Discover the infinite nature of Allah with 101 inspirational cards in The 99 Beautiful Names of Allah: Physicians of the Heart Wazifa Card Deck. This Wazifa card deck explores the meanings of the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah, also known as the Sifat, or attributes of Allah. The words “Allah” and “God” refer to the ineffable Reality, the Essence of all things. The Sifat is differentiated aspects of Allah. The 99 Names have historically been invoked to awaken the consciousness of the Divine. Exploring the Sifat through the beautiful and sturdy card deck helps spiritual seekers learn and retain the meanings of the Names, supports the practice of Wazifa, or chanting their sounds, offer a fun and easy way to remember of God in daily life, andserve to form a relationship with the attributes of Allah. 101 CARDS: In addition to “God” and “Allah,” includes pronunciation, meaning and attributes of the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET: Deepen your understanding of the Names and expand your practices through the helpful informational booklet EXPERT GUIDANCE: Shabda Kahn, who serves as Pir (spiritual director) of the Sufi Ruhaniat International and is the spiritual lineage holder of the Sufi family, created these cards in response to numerous requests by students BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS: Lovely illustrations and beautiful design offer a beautiful background to the inspirational text THOUGHTFUL GIFT: The cards and booklet are housed in a sturdy box perfect for gifting or display COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Enhance your study of the Names with the book Physicians of the Heart by Pir Shabda Kahn eminent Sufi teachers Faisal Muqaddam, Imam Bilal Hyde, and Murshid Wali Ali Meyer
Author: J. N. Hook
Author: Charles Hurlburt
Author: T C Horton
Author: Emery Lord
Author: Anjali Sachdeva
Author: David Bentley
Author: Ossnat Almaliah Frey
Author: Dinaw Mengestu
Author: Don DeLillo
Author: Shabda Kahn