Download or read book Gifts of the Visitation written by Denise Bossert and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical encounter between the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, before the births of Jesus and John the Baptist, is at the heart of Gifts of the Visitation by popular speaker and syndicated columnist Denise Bossert. She uses their story to highlight nine gifts experienced by both women as they awaited the arrival of their sons and to encourage readers to develop these gifts themselves. In her debut book, speaker, columnist, and Catholic convert Denise Bossert showcases the seasons of birth, grief, newness, and challenge experienced in the hearts of Mary and Elizabeth at the Visitation and invites readers to see these times in their own lives as opportunities to let God make all things new. Within each of those seasons, nine gifts emerge—spontaneity, courage, joy, readiness, humility, adventure, hospitality, wonder and awe, and thanksgiving—equipping readers to present Christ to the world as Mary and Elizabeth did. Bossert's encounter with Mary, which led her to Catholicism, serves as the window for discovering and exploring the gifts and helps readers look inside their own hearts to discover what the gifts of the visit between Mary and Elizabeth mean to them and how they can be Christ-bearers to others.
Download or read book Methuselah s Heart written by Mary Elizabeth Edgren and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delightful racoon Posie, who found salvation in Methuselah's Gift, has made a commitment with her friends to follow the Maker in every way possible. Taking dangerous risks, Pose and her friends try to learn more about their Maker and attempt reconciliation by helping their enemies.
Download or read book What My Mother Gave Me written by Elizabeth Benedict and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists. Whether a gift was meant to keep a daughter warm, put a roof over her head, instruct her in the ways of womanhood, encourage her talents, or just remind her of a mother’s love, each story gets to the heart of a relationship. Rita Dove remembers the box of nail polish that inspired her to paint her nails in the wild stripes and polka dots she wears to this day. Lisa See writes about the gift of writing from her mother, Carolyn See. Cecilia Muñoz remembers both the wok her mother gave her and a lifetime of home-cooked family meals. Judith Hillman Paterson revisits the year of sobriety her mother bequeathed to her when Paterson was nine, the year before her mother died of alcoholism. Abigail Pogrebin writes about her middle-aged bat mitzvah, for which her mother provided flowers after a lifetime of guilt for skipping her daughter’s religious education. Margo Jefferson writes about her mother’s gold dress from the posh department store where they could finally shop as black women. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; joy and grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, ?no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond. As Elizabeth Benedict points out in her introduction, “whether we are mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, or cherished friends, we may not know for quite some time which presents will matter the most."
Download or read book Esme s Gift written by Elizabeth Foster and published by Odyssey Books. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terror was within. Terror was without. Like her mother, she was at the water’s mercy. In the enchanted world of Aeolia, fifteen-year-old Esme Silver faces her hardest task yet. She must master her unruly Gift—the power to observe the past—and uncover the secrets she needs to save her mother, Ariane. In between attending school in the beguiling canal city of Esperance, Esme and her friends—old and new—travel far and wide across Aeolia, gathering the ingredients for a potent magical elixir. Their journey takes them to volcanic isles, sunken ruins and snowy eyries, spectacular places fraught with danger, where they must face their deepest fears and find hope in the darkest of places. Esme’s Gift, the second instalment in the Esme trilogy, is a gripping fantasy adventure for readers 12 years and over.
Download or read book The Gift of Past Lives with Mother Isabella God Elizabeth written by David Bettenhausen and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fictions of Dignity written by Elizabeth S. Anker and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifty years, debates about human rights have assumed an increasingly prominent place in postcolonial literature and theory. Writers from Salman Rushdie to Nawal El Saadawi have used the novel to explore both the possibilities and challenges of enacting and protecting human rights, particularly in the Global South. In Fictions of Dignity, Elizabeth S. Anker shows how the dual enabling fictions of human dignity and bodily integrity contribute to an anxiety about the body that helps to explain many of the contemporary and historical failures of human rights, revealing why and how lives are excluded from human rights protections along the lines of race, gender, class, disability, and species membership. In the process, Anker examines the vital work performed by a particular kind of narrative imagination in fostering respect for human rights. Drawing on phenomenology, Anker suggests how an embodied politics of reading might restore a vital fleshiness to the overly abstract, decorporealized subject of liberal rights. Each of the novels Anker examines approaches human rights in terms of limits and paradoxes. Rushdie's Midnight's Children addresses the obstacles to incorporating rights into a formerly colonized nation's legal culture. El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero takes up controversies over women’s freedoms in Islamic society. In Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee considers the disappointments of post-apartheid reconciliation in South Africa. And in The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy confronts an array of human rights abuses widespread in contemporary India. Each of these literary case studies further demonstrates the relevance of embodiment to both comprehending and redressing the failures of human rights, even while those narratives refuse simplistic ideals or solutions.
Download or read book Esme s Wish written by Elizabeth Foster and published by Odyssey Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was her last chance. Her hand twisted high in the air. When fifteen-year-old Esme Silver objects at her father’s wedding, her protest is dismissed as the action of a stubborn, selfish teenager. Everyone else has accepted the loss of Esme’s mother, Ariane—so why can’t she? But Esme is suspicious. She is sure that others are covering up the real reason for her mother’s disappearance—that ‘lost at sea’ is code for something more terrible, something she has a right to know. After Esme is accidentally swept into the enchanted world of Aeolia, the truth begins to unfold. With her newfound friends, Daniel and Lillian, Esme retraces her mother’s steps in the glittering canal city of Esperance, untangling the threads of Ariane’s double life. But the more Esme discovers about her mother, the more she questions whether she really knew her at all.
Download or read book Release Your Potential written by Elizabeth Inrig and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting involved in the local church can be an intimidating process for anyone; but women experience this in a unique way. Elizabeth Inrig believes that women offer an indispensable addition to the church. Using life-related stories, symbols and principles from Scripture, this book instructs church leaders on ways to recognize and release the spiritual potential of women in the local church.
Download or read book Anything Is Possible written by Elizabeth Strout and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout “This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett Winner of The Story Prize • A Washington Post and New York Times Notable Book • One of USA Today’s top 10 books of the year Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother’s happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton (the heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton, the author’s celebrated New York Times bestseller) returns to visit her siblings after seventeen years of absence. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout’s place as one of America’s most respected and cherished authors.
Download or read book The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined written by William F. Friedman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors address theories, which, through the identification of hidden codes, call the authorship of Shakespeare's plays into question.
Download or read book Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Division of Central Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending and on Account of Deficiencies for Prior Years Made by the Session of the Congress written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States written by United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Division of Central Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digest of Appropriations for the Support of the Government of the United States for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending and on Account of Deficiencies for Prior Years Made During Session of the Congress and the Session of the Congress written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Accounts and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin written by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
