Download or read book Brooklyn Hellfire written by Francis X. Holt and published by . This book was released on 2023-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Purified by Fire written by Stephen Prothero and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kennedy Jr. show. Purified by Fire tells the fascinating story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years. Stephen Prothero synthesizes a wide array of previously untapped source material, including newspapers, consumer guides, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines such as Reader's Digest to provide this first historical study of cremation in the United States. He vividly describes many noteworthy events—from the much-criticized first American cremation in 1876 to the death and cremation of Jerry Garcia in the late twentieth century. From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era to the baby boomers of today, this book takes us on a tour through American culture and traces our changing attitudes toward death, religion, public health, the body, and the environment.
Download or read book The Hellfire Club written by Jake Tapper and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950's D.C. in this "potent thriller" (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper. Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. Amid the swirl of glamorous and powerful political leaders and deal makers, a mysterious fatal car accident thrusts Charlie and Margaret into an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a plot that could change the course of history. When Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his principles and his newfound political career...but for his life.
Download or read book The Sewing Room written by Barbara Cawthorne Crafton and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these insightful essays, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers, the homeless, the bereaved, AIDS patients, and others in need of personal and spiritual help. She shares honestly her own emotions as she grapples with the harsh realities of the world, while delighting in the humor and joy found in everyday living. Crafton compassionately recounts the unique stories of the men, women, and children she worked with during her service as a port chaplain in New York and New Jersey and as a minister at Trinity Church on Wall Street. In doing so, she weaves together threads of the mundane and the traumatic, the lovely and the ugly, and the down to earth and the holy, creating an original tapestry of the richness of life.
Download or read book Hellfire written by Nick Tosches and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of singer Jerry Lee Lewis details his early life, music, controversial marriage, problems and decline, endurance, and revival in popularity.
Download or read book Foxy Ned Hanlon written by Tom Delise and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length biography of Ned Hanlon, a Hall of Famer but yet an underappreciated figure in baseball history. As a first generation Irish-American, Ned Hanlon left behind a childhood in the cotton mills to become a star player in the major leagues and the famous manager of the colorful 1890s Baltimore Orioles. He traveled the world on an all-star team and was a key member of the first attempt by baseball players to unionize, which led to the creation of the upstart Players' League. Hanlon was an innovative and shrewd tactician whose strategies and ideas helped baseball transition from its rough infancy into the modern game we know today. As one of the premier baseball minds of his time, "Foxy Ned" also exerted a profound influence on the sport through the managerial tree he established, which includes Hall of Fame managers such as John McGraw, Miller Huggins, and Connie Mack.
Download or read book It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It written by Robert Fulghum and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author to the reader: Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher. As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was real in a way that much of what I learned in school was not. It was education that came out of my life experience. As a teacher, I was always surprised by what I learned from these amateur hours. A kid I was sure I knew well would reach down into a paper bag he carried and fish out some odd-shaped treasure and attach meaning to it beyond my most extravagant expectation. Again and again I learned that what I thought was only true for me . . . only valued by me . . . only cared about by me . . . was common property. The principles guiding this book are not far from the spirit of Show-and-Tell. It is stuff from home—that place in my mind and heart where I most truly live. P.S. This volume picks up where I left off in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, when I promised to tell about the time it was on fire when I lay down on it.
Download or read book Childhood on Fire written by Talisha Hunter and published by The Evolution of Ink, LLC. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Childhood on Fire: My Journey from the Hell of Baltimore to High Water," is a true story based on events that happened in Talisha's life. It is a gritty, harrowing tale of how she endured and prevailed over heinous acts and unspeakable atrocities, challenging Talisha to change her life in ways she never thought would otherwise be possible. This is a remarkable story of tragic loss and incredible redemption, one in which Talisha conquered her past, and now lives in a way where she is far more at the cause of her experience rather than at its mercy. Talisha believes that hardships for most people are part of life, but for some, these tests can seem monumental and insurmountable when viewed through the narrow and unenlightened lens of childhood. Talisha was separated from her mother while still only in grade school, abandoned by her birth family, placed in foster care, and ultimately raised in a brutally unsympathetic environment far from the home she once knew. Throughout her early years, Talisha dealt with separation anxiety, codependence, dissociative identity disorder, and a string of bad relationships, all arising from the severe, repetitive, and soul-numbing effects of living with damaged, dysfunctional people and succumbing to the trials and tribulations that most others have been fortunate to avoid. Wrenching disillusionment and overt abuse were Talisha's constant companions, and it would not be until her early thirties that she realized her world was ablaze. Talisha had suffocated in physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual anguish, and was near physical death on the night that she contemplated suicide. Like all of us, though, this brave girl had a choice: choose life or end life, and Talisha chose to not only keep going, but to embrace the pain with open arms and acknowledge the harm it had done. Talisha stared unflinchingly at the full-length film of her years of suffering and decided that very day that it all stopped here and now. She went through a remarkable transformation, a rebirthing experience that healed that little girl trapped inside her, and when she did, Talisha resurfaced as a refined, sharp, and powerful woman. Enjoy this book, but more importantly, take its lessons and become the best version of yourself, starting today.
Download or read book Hellfire written by Jake Logan and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum is trapped between a gang of kill-crazed outlaws and a band of screaming scalp hunters. He has an empty holster, a battered body, and a desperate woman. Odds were against him.
Download or read book Toni Tati written by Toni Tati and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I dont remember the circumstances that led to this. But my mother pushed me and pressed me against her legs. As I fought to get away from that pressure, she made it even more painful. She sat me on her feet and lifted my head. My eyes encountered hers as she leaned to grab my mouth. I could tell her anger from that look. Her head scarf almost fell as she struggled to maintain me.
Download or read book HellFire written by Mia Gallagher and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a midsummer’s evening a young Dublin woman, Lucy Dolan, prepares for a showdown that will help make sense of a heart-breaking and brutal atrocity that happened thirteen years earlier, changing her life forever. As she waits for the arrival of the charismatic figure who is the key to the mystery, she recounts her life story – a rich and extraordinary tale spanning two generations of storytellers and deal-makers, fortune-tellers and gamblers, businessmen and warlords, and the people that feared, served and betrayed them. With each twist of this tumultuous story Lucy revisits her childhood and early adolescence – trying to get her head around the things people do in the name of love and hate, greed and desire – and she pieces together afresh the events that led to the night that still haunts her.
Download or read book Pacific Hellfire written by Jonathan Scofield and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Falling While Sitting Down Stories written by Joshua Fields Millburn and published by Asymmetrical Press. This book was released on 2012-07-28 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human? How does a person find meaning in his or her life when everything's falling apart? Falling While Sitting Down is a short story collection about dealing with loneliness and discontent while balancing hope and despair. Ultimately, this book's stories deal with finding meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. The first four stories in this collection, written by Joshua Fields Millburn, discuss the struggles we face as we attempt to discover the meaning of our lives. "It's All So Quiet in Brooklyn," this collection's longest piece, follows a young but aging musician as he approaches thirty and finds himself coping with loneliness and depression in the aftermath of several life-changing events. He feels utterly alone, so he leaves Ohio to search for meaning in the most unlikely place: Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. "A Radically Attenuated History of Generation X" is, as the title suggests, an incredibly short story that attempts to summarize a particular ethos for an entire generation through the eyes of two characters on a dinner date. The title story, "Falling While Sitting Down," follows an unnamed boy through eighteen years of growing up in an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, showing the emotional muscles it takes to survive such circumstances. The collection's final story, "Loneliest Man," considers the loneliness and real-life costs of poor relationship decisions from the point of view of a particularly troubled man. As a bonus, three talented young writers--Colin Wright, Chase Night, and Mark D. Robertson--contributed to this collection, expanding the narrative beyond the scope of Joshua Fields Millburn's four stories. The seven stories in this collection vary drastically, but they all share one thing in common: each story is about what it's like to be a human being during incredibly complex times.
Download or read book As a Decade Fades written by Joshua Fields Millburn and published by Asymmetrical Press. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People don't know how to love the ones they love until they disappear from their lives. As he approaches thirty, Jody Grafton's career as a singer-songwriter falls apart: he loses his record deal, his money, his fame--even his desire to create new music. While he stares at the rubble of his one-hit-wonder musical career, his mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, his marriage ends abruptly, and Jody starts drinking heavily to deaden his new reality. When he hasn't a single reason left to live, he attempts suicide and ends up in a psych ward where he's prodded with questions he isn't yet prepared to answer. Amid the tailspin, Jody receives a phone call from his recently estranged girlfriend and she has unexpected news: she's pregnant. As a Decade Fades begins with this phone call. As his twenties twilight, Jody Grafton grapples with loneliness, depression, lust, and infatuation while glancing at the mounting wreckage in his rearview. When he can't fit--or force--the pieces of his life back together, he leaves his native Ohio to search for answers in the most unlikely of places.
Download or read book The Hellfire Club written by Jake Tapper and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Congressman stumbles on the powerful political underworld of 1950's D.C. in this "potent thriller" (David Baldacci) and New York Times bestseller from CNN correspondent Jake Tapper. Charlie Marder is an unlikely Congressman. Thrust into office by his family ties after his predecessor died mysteriously, Charlie is struggling to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, DC, alongside his young wife Margaret, a zoologist with ambitions of her own. Amid the swirl of glamorous and powerful political leaders and deal makers, a mysterious fatal car accident thrusts Charlie and Margaret into an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a plot that could change the course of history. When Charlie discovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of governance, he has to fight not only for his principles and his newfound political career...but for his life.
Download or read book Approaching Jehovah s Witnesses in Love written by Wilbur Lingle and published by CLC Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like hiding when Jehovah’s Witnesses ring your doorbell? Have you tried to convey your faith to them...and gotten nowhere? It’s proven and practical guide which includes questions, answers, conversation starters and other great witnessing tools that will help you speak to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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