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Author: Charlie Valentine Publisher: English Mill Press ISBN: 9780977218707 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 406
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"It is America in the 1950s. Four different families play out their individual lives in different parts of the country.... Circumstances compel three of the families to head West to California for a fresh start for their children. No one can predict the high-stakes drama and devasting results that ensue when their lives intersect. This tale, the first in a trilogy, follows the families as they struggle with their lives, loves, and longings."--Cover, p. 4.
Author: Charlie Valentine Publisher: English Mill Press ISBN: 9780977218707 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 406
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"It is America in the 1950s. Four different families play out their individual lives in different parts of the country.... Circumstances compel three of the families to head West to California for a fresh start for their children. No one can predict the high-stakes drama and devasting results that ensue when their lives intersect. This tale, the first in a trilogy, follows the families as they struggle with their lives, loves, and longings."--Cover, p. 4.
Author: Mary Wood Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 1509811192 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
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Brighter Days Ahead is a moving story set against the backdrop of the Second World War, from Mary Wood, the author of In Their Mother’s Footsteps. War pulled them apart, but can it bring them back together? Molly lives with her repugnant father, who has betrayed her many times. From a young age, living on the streets of London’s East End, she has seen the harsh realities of life . . . When she’s kidnapped by a gang and forced into their underworld, her future seems bleak. Flo spent her early years in an orphanage, and is about to turn her hand to teacher training. When a kindly teacher at her school approaches her about a job at Bletchley Park, it could be everything she never knew she wanted. Will the girls' friendship be enough to weather the hard times ahead?
Author: Charlie Parr Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Last of the Better Days Ahead is a collection of short stories that are all tangentially related to the songs on the album of the same name. The songs contain these stories, sometimes hidden and other times merely implied. The record was put out by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 2021. from Introduction by Abraham Smith: Charlie's a national treasure: a philosopher-poet with crossroads-esque guitar skills and he brings the same dew-stew compote to his fictions. The sentences are the guitar: haunting and jabbing and unfurling like ferns fueled by dinosaur knee-dust and purpling thunderstorms: rumbling greased, repealing the first patent for the ox harness, toppling jostle wild, domino river spider side-to-side, endless as southern MN soy field summer sunsets with a quick backwards hitching yard train twitch toward the moonwalking Mississippi Charley Patton sang, then darting on through longjumps elliptical like hummingbirds playing fast with hectoring honey hives.
Author: Steven Pinker Publisher: House of Anansi ISBN: 148700169X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 128
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Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals and societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. In the seventeenth semi-annual Munk Debates, which was held in Toronto on November 6, 2015, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and bestselling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell to debate whether humankind’s best days lie ahead.
Author: Jane Jacobs Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307425452 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 255
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In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we’re at risk of cultural collapse. Jacobs—renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities—pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation, and government; and the self-regulation of the learned professions. The corrosion of these pillars, Jacobs argues, is linked to societal ills such as environmental crisis, racism, and the growing gulf between rich and poor. But this is a hopeful book as well as a warning. Drawing on a vast frame of reference—from fifteenth-century Chinese shipbuilding to Ireland’s cultural rebirth—Jacobs suggests how the cycles of decay can be arrested and our way of life renewed. Invigorating and accessible, Dark Age Ahead is not only the crowning achievement of Jane Jacobs’ career, but one of the most important works of our time.
Author: Dayspring Publisher: Dayspring ISBN: 9781648702914 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 160
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As they color their way through comforting Scriptures and encouraging messages, overactive minds will find rest in God's care for them. While the world is ever-changing, God stays the same. He is our rock and our foundation. When we set our eyes on Him, releasing our troubles and cares into His hands, we find true rest. Our worries fade away. Set Your Mind on Things Above: A Devotional Coloring Book provides a wonderful way to turn one's thoughts from worry and fear, and toward God's peaceful gifts. Matching over 75 stress-relieving devotions with beautifully illustrated coloring pages, this "ultimate" coloring book is the perfect outlet for more than creative expression. It helps to quiet the world and bring individuals closer to the Creator..
Author: Ramsis F. Ghaly MD Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1532059655 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 1600
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Deeper and deeper as the human spirit roams with fascination unto Divinity. Never enough roaming! This is my eleventh book of Christianity and the human brain. As a neurosurgeon for thirty years, I have found unlimited bonds between the Christian Divinity and the human brain. My neurosurgical humanity eagerly desires to explore Divinity. Since my childhood goes back decades and is deeply rooted, I meditate with my Christian brain searching for common understanding of spirituality in humanity. It is hard to describe this through each book and I find myself seeking more Divine clarifications. My meditation is achieved thorough reading the Holy Bible with my neurosurgical human brain. I try to peel my deep thoughts layer by layer as if I am dissecting the human brain in neurosurgery in actual life. The book touches on many timely aspects of our human life with personal spiritual views and poems. The book consists of Twelve major Sections and each section ranges from 8 to 23 chapters with total of 137 chapters. The main sections include: My Christian Dreams in Neurosurgery, Monasticism in My Life, Mothers and Children: Angels Living, Human Brains and Spirituality, Jesus Love, The Persecuted Christ and Christ Followers, Royalty and Heavens with Jesus, Last Hours in humanity, Spiritual Reflections, Views and Poems, Law and the Spirit, Sacred Medicine and Patients Testimonials. As a Coptic Christian from Egypt, I was raised in keeping up with strong Christian Orthodox practice in daily living. Perhaps the strength of the book is incorporating Jesus the Almighty God in everything I do, not only in daily living but also with my patients in Neurosurgery practice. There is a dire need of such a book especially in an era where Christianity continued to be persecuted worldwide and denied in a daily basis as evidenced through public restraining of Lord Jesus Christ in our daily life. The human brain and Neurosurgery are in Jesus God as Christ the Lord is in human brain and Neurosurgery. I hope for the reader to find spiritual use of the book and a closer relationship to our Holy Trinity: God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Author: Steve Brown Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781984983862 Category : Languages : en Pages : 124
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Are you prepared to survive a sudden and tragic loss of a loved one? I wasn't, and I paid a heavy price. Things YOU need to know and think about ahead of time, and how to survive and cope with a tragic loss when it happens, from a survivors point of view. I lost my wife of 18 years and was thrust into single parenthood of four young kids in an instant. But with hard work and help, we have regained our lives and are thriving again. Also included, tips on how to act around a bereaved person. A special section written by one of my daughters, who was only 12 when her mother died, called "Through a Childs Eyes" describes what it's like to lose a mother at such a young age.
Author: Jeffrey A. Ingraham Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1638747342 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 97
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During the early part of 2019, our Sunday school lessons centered on the Old Testament prophets, particularly the minor prophets. It was a great challenge to understand their messages and the messages' relevancy for our times. It seemed as if there really were no significant differences in these books of prophecy, as the minor prophets all seemed to be saying the same thing. Of course, there are differences in the messages and ministries of the minor prophets, hence, my attempt to show so. My goal was to summarize the writings and ministries of the minor prophets and show their relevancy for today. This I did through a series of sermons that were initially delivered in the Calvary Baptist Church during the winter of 2019. My goal was to make the teachings of the minor prophets understandable to every segment of our membership. The approach was more inspirational than overly scholarly. Each chapter of the book is provocatively titled and begins with a story or illustration that centers on that particular subject. The intent was to reference something that the reader could relate to and see how the prophet addresses that matter. Of course, not every single detail of the prophet's message is included due to the constraints of time, etc. My hope is that the readers of this book will come to know God better and to have a relationship with him. They will see that in spite of people's imperfections, our God is perfect and faithful toward us. The minor prophets challenge us to live faithfully for God. To the extent I have been able to evoke this kind of response from my readers, I give all glory and honor to God.
Author: Charlie Valentine
Author: Charlie Valentine
Author: Mary Wood
Author: Charlie Parr
Author: Steven Pinker
Author: Ian Goldin
Author: Jane Jacobs
Author: Dayspring
Author: Ramsis F. Ghaly MD
Author: Steve Brown
Author: Jeffrey A. Ingraham