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Book A Smuggler s Bible

Download or read book A Smuggler s Bible written by Joseph McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its depth of vision and omnidirectional grasp of the rhythms and textures of modern life. A Smuggler's Bible marked the debut of one of contemporary fiction's most compelling and original authors. Upon its first publication in 1966, it drew a chorus of critical acclaim and comparisons to William Gaddis's The Recognitions and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. Used once upon a time to convey contraband, the familiar hollowed-out bible reappears transformed as a metaphor for the earnest attempt, perhaps futile, by David Brooke to project his life into the lives of those who have affected him to varying degrees of residual puzzlement, fascination, profit, frustration, and damage. These people -- a reserved English bookseller in Brooklyn Heights, the bizarre tenants of a Manhattan rooming house, his mother on a day of haunting insight, a mercurial and narcissistic professor of history, and finally his own father confronting death -- are the subject of David's vaunted "projections," the eight pseudo-autobiographical manuscripts he has written, now housed safely aboard a transatlantic liner on their way to a mysterious old man in London. David is the reader of his life, and as he broods over the stories, attempting to conjure his identity from its disjointed parts, yet another voice intercedes, a cunning interlocutor who alternately guides and thwarts his attempts to find a pattern of meaning in the profuse details of life. Book jacket.

Book The Bible Smuggler

Download or read book The Bible Smuggler written by Louise Vernon and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Tyndale wants to translate the Bible into English. He feels the common people of sixteenth-century England should be able to read the Scriptures for themselves. The church and government violently disagree with him. Collin Hartley, an English boy, works with Tyndale on his dangerous project. Tyndale has to flee to Europe for his life. Collin goes along. Tyndale’s enemies follow him and try to catch him. But Tyndale manages to complete the translation. Then he has the English-language Bibles printed and smuggles them into England. Along with Collin Hartley, you will participate in all the important events of this story. For 9- to 14-year olds.

Book A Smuggler s Bible

Download or read book A Smuggler s Bible written by Joseph McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Smuggler s Bible

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph McElroy
  • Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780881841466
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book A Smuggler s Bible written by Joseph McElroy and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1986 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Brook, a young professor, tries to combine the experiences of his mother, son, wife, father, and friends into a novel capturing the essence of his life, in a new edition of the first novel by the award-winning author of Hind's Kidnap. Reprint.

Book Detour

Download or read book Detour written by Lloyd Sparks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the authors excursion into the complex and contradictory world of the Bible smuggler in the 1970s. In it the author relates how he became involved through his church as a courier one summer and advanced to full time involvement in developing underground information and distribution networks. It is the chronicle of several trips into each of the then Iron Curtain countries in which the author reveals the diverse spectrum of personalities and forces that made up the Bible smugglers, Eastern European Christians and the unregistered churches in the Communist countries before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is an exciting, humorous, poignant and ultimately tragic account of a young mans experience at a pivotal point in history and his own life.

Book Smuggler Nation

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  • Author : Peter Andreas
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-16
  • ISBN : 0199301611
  • Pages : 1815 pages

Download or read book Smuggler Nation written by Peter Andreas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 1815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Contraband capitalism, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism. Providing a sweeping narrative history from colonial times to the present, Smuggler Nation is the first book to retell the story of America--and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world--as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine commerce. As Peter Andreas demonstrates in this provocative and fascinating account, smuggling has played a pivotal and too often overlooked role in America's birth, westward expansion, and economic development, while anti-smuggling campaigns have dramatically enhanced the federal government's policing powers. The great irony, Andreas tells us, is that a country that was born and grew up through smuggling is today the world's leading anti-smuggling crusader. In tracing America's long and often tortuous relationship with the murky underworld of smuggling, Andreas provides a much-needed antidote to today's hyperbolic depictions of out-of-control borders and growing global crime threats. Urgent calls by politicians and pundits to regain control of the nation's borders suffer from a severe case of historical amnesia, nostalgically implying that they were ever actually under control. This is pure mythology, says Andreas. For better and for worse, America's borders have always been highly porous. Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As Andreas shows, it goes back not just decades but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting U.S. laws but also helping to fuel America's evolution from a remote British colony to the world's pre-eminent superpower.

Book God s Smuggler to China

Download or read book God s Smuggler to China written by Brother David and published by . This book was released on 1999-10-21 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bible Smuggler Bible

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  • Author : Voice of the Martyrs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-03
  • ISBN : 9780882641300
  • Pages : 1174 pages

Download or read book Bible Smuggler Bible written by Voice of the Martyrs and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God's Word is illegal and restricted in many nations around the world, but we must obey God rather than men and take His Word to the ends of the earth. Each purchase of an NLT Bible Smuggler Bible provides The Voice of the Martyrs with the resources to smuggle one Bible to a Christian in a restricted nation. The Bible Smuggler Bible's unique features make it a valuable resource for any Christian library: instant access to a robust catalog of biblical resources through the Filament app; full-color inserts featuring stories of the impact of God's Word on persecuted Christians in countries around the world; and a full-color foldout map showing where access to Bibles is difficult, dangerous and illegal for believers in restricted nations and hostile areas. Bound in an attractive leather-like cover and featuring the New Living Translation, the Bible Smuggler Bible will encourage readers to grow in fellowship with our persecuted Christian family while meditating on truth from God's Word. The new NLT Bible Smuggler Bible, Filament-Enabled Edition has readable text, an attractive layout, and cross-references in a thin, easy-to-carry size. And while it has the same low price of basic text Bibles, the NLT Bible Smuggler Bible offers much more. It not only features a bold new design and the trusted and much-loved New Living Translation (NLT) but also includes the groundbreaking Filament Bible app. This app enables you to use your mobile phone or tablet to connect every page to a vast array of related content, including study notes, devotionals, interactive maps, informative videos, and worship music. The Filament Bible app turns this Bible into a powerful study and devotional experience, offering more to expand your mind and touch your heart than you can possibly hold in your hand. And there is no additional cost for the Filament Bible app. No additional purchase. No additional size or weight. Of course, you can use this Bible without the app, but when you want to dig deeper, grab your phone or tablet and open the Filament Bible app. It's so easy to use. AUTHOR / CONTRIBUTOR A team of 90 Bible scholars translated the original texts of Scripture into the clear, contemporary English of the New Living Translation (NLT). The result is the trusted Bible translation you can most comfortably read, understand, and apply to your life. TARGET AUDIENCE People of all ages who are looking for a Bible that is easy to carry and read, with a breadth of study and support materials but without additional cost, size, or weight. SPECIAL FEATURES . Filament-enabled edition . Handy thinline size Words of Jesus in red . Thousands of cross-references Quality lay-flat, Smyth-sewn binding Tyndale Verse Finder . Presentation page, ribbon marker, and silver gilded edging . Exclusive VOM Bible Map overviews about VOM's Bible Smuggling Network Font Size: 8.75

Book The Book Smugglers

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  • Author : David E. Fishman
  • Publisher : University Press of New England
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 1512601268
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book The Book Smugglers written by David E. Fishman and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.

Book Bible Smuggler

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louise A. Vernon
  • Publisher : Turtleback
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN : 9780613840187
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Bible Smuggler written by Louise A. Vernon and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1967 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional account of William Tyndale's struggle against the church and crown of sixteenth-century England to translate and print the Bible into English.

Book Smuggler s Cove

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  • Author : Martin Cate
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2016-06-07
  • ISBN : 1607747332
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Smuggler s Cove written by Martin Cate and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-invented; Hollywood starlets and scandals; and tiki’s modern-day revival, in this James Beard Award-winning cocktail book. Featuring more than 100 delicious recipes (original and historic), plus a groundbreaking new approach to understanding rum, Smuggler’s Cove is the magnum opus of the contemporary tiki renaissance. Whether you’re looking for a new favorite cocktail, tips on how to trick out your home tiki grotto, help stocking your bar with great rums, or inspiration for your next tiki party, Smuggler’s Cove has everything you need to transform your world into a Polynesian Pop fantasia. Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring—and often misunderstood—movements in American cultural history.

Book Bible Nation

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  • Author : Candida R. Moss
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-07-16
  • ISBN : 0691198993
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Bible Nation written by Candida R. Moss and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a “Bible nation” The Greens of Oklahoma City—the billionaire owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores—are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible’s influence on American society. In Bible Nation, Candida Moss and Joel Baden provide the first in-depth investigative account of the Greens’ sweeping Bible projects. Moss and Baden tell the story of the Greens’ efforts to place a Bible curriculum in public schools; their rapid acquisition of an unparalleled collection of biblical antiquities; their creation of a closely controlled group of scholars to study and promote the collection; and their construction of a $500 million Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Revealing how all these initiatives promote a very particular set of beliefs about the Bible, the book raises serious questions about the trade in biblical antiquities, the integrity of academic research, and the place of private belief in public life.

Book The Smuggler s Flame

Download or read book The Smuggler s Flame written by Lori Rich and published by Christian Focus. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Tyndale was a Bible smuggler. Read about how God wants us to be brave and to stand up for the truth!

Book Besides the Bible

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  • Author : Dan Gibson
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2012-01-04
  • ISBN : 083085858X
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Besides the Bible written by Dan Gibson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you decide what to read? Dan Gibson, Jordan Green and John Pattison have created this tool to make your choices easier. Besides the Bible is a guide to the wide array of great books that they believe every Christian should read—the ones that matter to the church and the world.

Book Illicit

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  • Author : Moises Naim
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2006-10-10
  • ISBN : 0307278565
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Illicit written by Moises Naim and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments.In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naím illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the hamstrung bureaucracies trying to control them. From illegal migrants to drugs to weapons to laundered money to counterfeit goods, the black market produces enormous profits that are reinvested to create new businesses, enable terrorists, and even to take over governments. Naím reveals the inner workings of these amazingly efficient international organizations and shows why it is so hard — and so necessary to contain them. Riveting and deeply informed, Illicit will change how you see the world around you.

Book Memoirs of a Bible Smuggler

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  • Author : Jeana Kendrick
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06-21
  • ISBN : 9781952406065
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Memoirs of a Bible Smuggler written by Jeana Kendrick and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young Texas couple who helped smuggle thousands of Bibles to persecuted Christians behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

Book Fire in the Bones

Download or read book Fire in the Bones written by S. Michael Wilcox and published by Deseret Book Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: