Download or read book Fifty Days of Solitude written by Doris Grumbach and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book: To truly understand herself, Doris Grumbach embraces solitude With a busy career as a novelist, essayist, reviewer, and bookstore owner, Doris Grumbach has little opportunity to be alone. However, after seventy-five years on the planet, she finally has her chance: Her partner has departed for an extended book-buying trip, and Grumbach has been given fifty days to relax, think, and write about her experience. In this graceful memoir, Grumbach delicately balances the beauty of turning one’s back on everything with the hardship of complete aloneness. Even as she attends church and collects her mail, she moves like a shadow, speaking to no one. Left only to her books and music in the midst of a Maine winter, she must look within herself for solace. The result of this reflection is a powerful meditation on the meaning of aging, writing, and one’s own company—and reaffirmation of the power of friends and companionship.

Download or read book One Hundred and Fifty Two Days written by Giles Paley-Phillips and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Superb, moving, beautiful' Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep He will be allowed to visit his mother soon. His mother who is terminally ill, his mother who he has been barred from seeing as he recovers from his own bout of pneumonia. Until then, with the help of his physiotherapist Freya, he must navigate his increasingly empty and isolated existence: his father, who finds solace in the bottom of a glass; his Nana Q, whose betting-slip confetti litters her handbag; his friends, who simply wouldn’t understand. Time passes with the promise of soon, but one hundred and fifty-two days later the boy will come face to face with his grief, and move beyond to a world full of possibility, hope and love.

Download or read book Days That Changed the World written by Hywel Williams and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past. Such events are the subject of Days that Changed the World. Some of the 50 days described here mark the end of an era; others the start of something new. Many are the dates of bloody battles or murders; others of momentous decisions or breathtaking discoveries. All are remembered as powerful symbols of their time. Our story begins almost 2500 years ago on 28 September 480 before the Christian Era, when the Athenian navy destroyed the Persian invasion fleet in the Bay of Salamis. Had the Persians won we might never have heard the names of Plato, Aristotle or Alexander, nor recognize the word democracy. Charting 50 such defining moments, concluding with 11 September 2001 and the destruction of New York's Twin Towers, Days that Changed the World is a unique and fascinating way to portray the story of world history. These 50 history-making days include: The Battle of the Salamis; The Assassination of Julius Caesar; The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ; The Dedication of Constantinople; The Death of Muhammad; The Coronation of Charlemagne; The Death of Genghis Khan; The Fall of Constantinople; The Defeat of the Spanish Armada; The Defenestration of Prague; The Fall of the Bastille; The Battle of Waterloo; Parliament Passing the Emancipation Act; The Battle of Sedan; The Boxer Rebellion; The First Day of the Somme; The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor; The Bombing of Hiroshima; Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream'; The Breaching of the Berlin Wall; Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison; Nine Eleven.

Download or read book Fifty Days on Board a Slave vessel in the Mozambique Channel in April and May 1843 written by Pascoe Grenfell Hill and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 50 Days of Heaven written by Randy Alcorn and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Christians, eternity is an exciting promise, but many do not know the details of what life will be like in heaven and throughout eternity. 50 Days of Heaven allows the reader to stop wondering about heaven by teaching the biblical facts regarding what's so wonderful about Heaven. The devotional provides an easy-to-follow, 50-day program that reveals the biblical information on what a Christian's life will be like in heaven. Throughout this journey, the reader will learn and meditate upon the promises, rewards, and expectations that a believer in Christ will enjoy for eternity. This devotional draws on the teachings in Randy Alcorn's best-selling book Heaven.

Download or read book Fifty Days written by Brittney Kristina and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Listen," he says. "I'll make a deal with you, okay?"I lean in closer. Tilt my head. "On day fifty, I will tell you everything.""That's a long time from now." I envision myself in the darkness, shivering within the harsh air for such a duration, and I stir anxiously. "I promise you, it's not," he insists, his blue eyes alight. "And when that day comes, and after I tell you everything, I will set you free."

Download or read book 50 Days of Hope written by Lynn Eib and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eib shares amazing, true stories of those who have been through cancer and discovers that when God and cancer meet, hope is never far away. This book is packed with a daily dose of encouragement.

Download or read book Fifty Days The Divine Disclosures During a Holy Sufi Seclusion written by Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani and published by Islamic Supreme Council of America. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings in this book emerged from the heart of Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani after spending fifty days in a seclusion prescribed by his guiding master in the Sufi Path, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani. During the course of his time, isolated in a small room in Damascus, Shaykh Hisham underwent incredible experiences, which he then shared in talks given to his students after the pre-dawn prayers each morning in Ramadan, 2005. In assigning the duty of seclusion to Shaykh Hisham, his master, Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani said: "The people have reached their limits of carrying hardship from the overwhelming extent of oppression and darkness. The intensity of the hardship required in order to invoke God to bring about the appearance of the expected Savior has just been reached. "Therefore, every night in the last third before dawn, Shaykh Hisham will be in the station of intimate discourse with his Lord. After completing the special recitations and praise on the Prophet, he has been assigned and with which he will be busy 24 hours, every night, at the most favorable time for the Lord's acceptance of supplication, Shaykh Hisham should request the Lord to send a Saviour-King to mankind, a king who is seeking God's Way. His supplication in this manner and in this state will be so effective, it will be like 124,000 saints engaged in supplication for forty days without cease. "They are asking the Lord of servants to send them a king. That is why we are sending Shaykh Hisham Effendi, whom we know very well. Other saints we do not know. "For this purpose he must not enter into any other activity. He must be present, spiritually with the Prophet and ask, "Oh Prophet of Mercy! Ask your Lord to send us a Saviour-King on the Way of the Lord." And we are looking to see the results. He must ask this only; it is the summary and distillation of the forty days seclusion and its ultimate purpose is consultation with the Prophet, upon whom be peace and blessings."

Download or read book In Six Days written by John Ashton and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would any educated scientist with a PhD advocate a literal interpretation of the six days of creation? Why, indeed, when only one in three Americans believes "the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word" according to a recent Gallup poll. Science can neither prove nor disprove evolution any more than it can creation. Certainly there are no human eyewitness accounts of either. However, certain factors are present today which are capable of swaying one's beliefs one way or the other. In this book are the testimonies of fifty men and women holding doctorates in a wide range of scientific fields who have been convicted by the evidence to believe in a literal six-day creation. For example, meet: The geneticist who concludes that there must have been 150 billion forerunners of "modern man" in order for the natural selection required by evolution to have taken place in the development of man. The evidence for such vast numbers of "prehistoric man" is in dire shortage. The orthodontist who discovered that European museum fossils of ancient man have been tampered with to adhere to evolution theories. The geologist who studied under the late Stephen Jay Gould and literally cut the Bible to pieces before totally rejecting evolution. All fifty of these scientists, through faith and scientific fact, have come to the conclusion that God's Word is true and everything had its origin not so very long ago, in the beginning, In Six Days.

Download or read book Cy Twombly written by Philadelphia Museum of Art and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly's ten-painting masterpiece Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), the pinnacle of the artist's lifelong engagement with Homer's Iliad. In his introduction, Carlos Basualdo provides an account of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's acquisition of the paintings in 1989. Richard Fletcher's and Emily Greenwood's essays explore the intertextual dimension of Twombly's project and his adaptation of Homer's literary tropes as a basis for his visual metaphors. Olena Chervonik traces Twombly's engagement with the theme of the Trojan War, which first appeared in the artist's work in the early 1960s, a decade before he made Fifty Days at Iliam. French photographer Annabelle d'Huart is interviewed by Carlos Basualdo about the circumstances of her visit to Twombly's studio in 1978, and her resulting photographs capturing the moment the paintings were being completed. Finally, Nicola Del Roscio, president of the Cy Twombly Foundation, reminisces about the setting and atmosphere of Twombly's studio in Bassano in Teverina, in central Italy, where this painting cycle was created, and addresses the artist's working process and sources of inspiration"--

Download or read book Lent Holy Week Easter and the Great Fifty Days written by Leonel Lake Mitchell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E. Galley's classic The Ceremonies of the Eucharist provides clergy, liturgical assistants, and altar guild members with clear, step-by-step guidance for the liturgies of Lent and Easter. In addition to background material for the traditions and theology of each season, Mitchell includes specific preparations and instructions for each liturgy of the paschal cycle--Ash Wednesday through Pentecost--as well as Tenebrae, the Way of the Cross, the Vigil of Pentecost, the liturgies of the catechumenate, and the chrism mass. He also provides helpful ideas for how the often complex liturgies of these seasons can be done simply and well by small congregations. Based on the liturgies of The Book of Common Prayer and the latest edition of The Book of Occasional Services, this ceremonial guide also draws on the paschal liturgies of other Anglican traditions, including those in Canada's Book of Alternative Services.

Download or read book Working Through Life Fifty Days to Jubilee written by Justin Frederick Benade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all started when I started school grade one, when my teacher tied me to a chair. From there, my life was hard. I was bullied right through my school days, made fun of, and teased. It was really hard for me as a child. I am still trying to work out why do children do it? Dont they see what they are doing is really breaking children down in spirit and in life? This book shows how I dealt with it every day. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that life would be easy. I met so many people who went through what I went through. Everyone deals with it in a different way. I concentrated on the word of God. I was talking to a teenager one day, and she had so many problems. Thats when I decided to change my poetry book to a fifty-day diary to help people overcome the obstacles in their life. By writing this book, I hope people will see what they missed in life. By casting all your burdens on to God, you will be healed. It is not an easy road to walk, and it never will be. But with God by your side, you will make it. I also did some research and found that not a lot of people can concentrate for long on something. Thats why I only made it fifty days. So that people can take time out afterwards and think about the path they walked alone, without God by their side. My aim in writing this book is that people would see that with God by their side, anything is possible and that they can overcome the biggest obstacle in life and that nothing can hold them back.

Download or read book Fifty Days in His Pursuing Love Devotional written by Kim K. Francis and published by Kim K. Francis. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXPERIENCE THE DEPTHS OF CHRIST’S CHERISHING LOVE FOR YOU! As a Christian, you are Christ’s flawless bride in whom He delights and celebrates continually. But if you don’t know this, you will miss experiencing wondrous delight in intimacy with Him. In this fifty-day companion devotional to Kim K. Francis’ His Banner over Me Is Pursuing Love, you will savor your Spiritual Bridegroom’s reminders of: Your eternal spiritual union with HimYour complete forgiveness of sinsYour pure, righteous, and holy identity in HimYour eternal safety and security in HimHis indwelling life as your source for livingYour life under the new covenant of graceThe foreign source of the ungodly thoughts you experience Fall in love for the first time or once again with the One who gave His life for you and to you, so that He would never have to live without you!

Download or read book Faithspace in the Workplace Fifty Days of Rediscovering Your Soul At Work written by S. Craig Bishop and published by Dr. S. Craig Bishop. This book was released on 2005 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fifty Days of Faith Refusing to Doubt Overcoming Fear and Celebrating Breakthrough written by Frank Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Days of Faith is designed to pull out all of the stops, and use all of your spiritual energy to (go hard) for GOD. Fifty consecutive days of using your faith is symbolic of the Jewish holiday called Jubilee, where all of your debts were cancelled and everything lost was restored. This book will also help to eradicate worry and correct the mistakes that keep you from receiving the manifestation of God's promises as you develop your faith in God.

Download or read book 50 Days for a Firm Foundation written by Rick Joyner and published by Morningstar Publications Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This daily devotional is designed to strengthen the foundations of your spiritual life through a fifty day study of God’s plan as revealed in the Scriptures. This study will challenge you to search out the heart of God like never before.

Download or read book Jesus Calling 50 Devotions for Busy Days written by Sarah Young and published by Tommy Nelson. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you charge into the busy day, take a few minutes to equip yourself. Jesus Calling®: 50 Devotions for Busy Days brings the warmth and insight that more than 40 million people have enjoyed through the encouraging words of Sarah Young and curates these devotions specifically to prepare you to handle busy days by setting aside your worries and enjoying God's peace. Jesus Calling®: 50 Devotions for Busy Days features 50 topical readings from Jesus Calling® combined with relevant Scripture verses on the topics of peace, calm, and perspective. This book is part of a three-book series for teens, each focusing on a felt need. The other two books in the series focus on themes of thankfulness and growing in faith. These books are great for an individual study and make a great set for gift giving. Readers around the world already love how Sarah's words help them connect with Jesus. Now the new Jesus Calling® topical devotionals offer a way to focus even more deeply on the major felt needs in your life . . . and the lives of your friends, family, church, school, and friends.