Download or read book The Hallowed Eve written by Jack Santino and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Northern Ireland, Halloween is such a major celebration that it is often called the Irish Christmas. A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, Jack Santino examines how the traditions exist in a nonthreatening, celebratory way to provide a model of how life could be in Northern Ireland. Halloween, concludes Santino, is a marriage of death and life, a joining of cultural opposites: indoor and outdoor, domesticity and wildness, male and female, old and young. Although current folk and popular traditions can be divisive, Halloween in Northern Ireland is universally considered to belong to everyone, regardless of their background or political leanings. The holiday is a dramatic example of how a community comes together one day a year, and these Northern Irish traditions capture the fundamental and everyday dimensions of life in Ulster.

Download or read book Space Academy written by Hannah Hopkins and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the year 2100. Earth is dying. A young woman, Elsie, has risked everything to get her newborn son, Will, aboard 'The Mayflower' - a spaceship that will transport a select number of people to a new planet they can call home. Elsie's luck takes a turn when she discovers the captain of 'The Mayflower' is an old friend. He allows her to board with her son, giving them a place on the luxurious Floor One, where they live amongst the most honoured of 'The Mayflower's' passengers. Thirteen years later, and Will is ready to start school at Space Academy, an institute specialising in subjects such as Alien Studies, Technology, and Rocket Control. While a pupil there, Will starts to uncover secrets about his father's death, becoming wrapped in a mystery that he and his friends must solve if they are to have any hope of saving humanity from the threat that lies in wait. Lose yourself in this brilliantly addictive novel as it takes you on a journey through the stars. But be warned - you might be surprised by what you find!

Download or read book Treating Her to a Hot Night written by Zenobia Renquist and published by DZRB Books. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trick to making their love work is never letting go of the magic that brought them together. A simple Halloween tradition turns into more than Vivian or Cala anticipated. They thought their wild midnight romp was a one-time thing. But their deep longing for each other remains as the days creep by. Fey magic is ready to bind them together forever, assuming they can find each other again. NOTE: This title is previously published as Heart’s Fall (Trick or Treat).

Download or read book A Lady Fair and Other Poems written by John Lars Zwerenz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lady Fair and Other Poems explores in aesthetic detail the manifold realms of the human experience. Infused with meter, measure and rhyme, the verse contained within this volume is impressionistic, rapturous and passionate. The themes within this book are varied, yet all of the poems are intertwined. Within this book is found the poetic diary of a sailor, who wanders as a troubadour through the countless gardens of a gilded world.

Download or read book Robyn s Gran written by Jinty and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever sat down with your coffee to enjoy a new book to discover it was too flowery or too hard a read for you? Well this is definitely not that book; this book is full of wee poems written in Scottish slang as the Scots tongue and poetry is close to my heart and would like everyone to enjoy some writings of my home land. I am sure you will easily understand without a translator, and very easy to read. The childrens poems mostly have little moral endings to teach simple lessons like being careful crossing the road, keeping your teeth clean and doing as you are asked. You will enjoy the exploits of many mischievous woodland beasts along with stories of gnomes and elves. Your children will slip off peacefully to sleep and dream their own magical fantasies. This book will make you laugh and cry but hopefully most of you will enjoy these easy to read poems. Robyns Gran

Download or read book Halloween and Spooky Stories of the Night written by Hseham Amrahs and published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional Halloween and Spooky Stories is a collection of tales that have been carefully selected to transport readers into the eerie and mysterious world of Halloween. These stories are designed to entertain and frighten readers of all ages, providing a spine-tingling reading experience that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. One of the things that makes this collection so special is how it captures the spirit of Halloween. These stories are not just scary for the sake of being scary; they are infused with the atmosphere and ambiance of the holiday. From the dark and stormy nights to the howling of wolves in the distance, these stories will transport you to the world of Halloween and all its spooky delights.

Download or read book A Very Good Man written by Jim Trevis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your dying son asked you to become a very good man, and you weren’t, what would you do? John Tatum’s answer is to attempt suicide. This makes no sense to psychiatrist Rose Sacare. After all, as a vice president for Hamilton Pharmaceuticals, Tatum had just launched Multi- Zan, a drug that puts multiple sclerosis into remission. Dr. Sacare personally champions Tatum’s recovery until his secret acts of bravery and generosity earn him the media’s title of the “Hero of the Homeless.” As Tatum heals and the magnitude of his good deeds mounts, his feelings for Rose grow as well, and he once again believes that happiness is within reach. Why, then, will he not reveal his true identity to his growing crowd of admirers. And why do his coworkers at Hamilton fear for his complete recovery? A story of loss and redemption, “A Very Good Man” confronts the moral issues of our times, and challenges the reader to think about what they would do to make the world a better place if given a second chance.

Download or read book The Book of Spells written by T. Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne is in love. Unfortunately, he's gay. But like any good witch, she never gives up.

Download or read book How Christianity Changed the World written by Alvin J. Schmidt and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people todayhave little sense of how their lives have benefited fromChristianity’s influence, often viewing the church withhostility or resentment.How Christianity Changed the World is a topicallyarranged Christian history for Christians and non-Christians. Grounded in solid research and written in apopular style, this book is both a helpful apologetic toolin talking with unbelievers and a source of evidence forwhy Christianity deserves credit for many of thehumane, social, scientific, and cultural advances in theWestern world in the last two thousand years.Photographs, timelines, and charts enhance eachchapter.This edition features questions for reflection anddiscussion for each chapter.

Download or read book The Christian Disciple written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Culture Progress Esc V8 written by Kenneth Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. This final volume in the VIII-volume set titled The Early Sociology of Culture, deals with human culture, and confines itself neither to contemporary life nor to Western European civilization. The author argues that, if the volume demonstrates an inadequacy of the methods used in interpreting culture and progress, the study is justified. The chapters are separated into three parts: Culture and Culture Change; Theories of Progress and The Criteria of Progress.

Download or read book To Silent Disappearance written by William Flewelling and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I keep a copy of your book "From Recurrent Yesterdays" at my place in Chapel. By coming a short time before Midday Prayer begins, I have time to "pray" a few of the poems. I marvel at how you can write a poem about every situation. And I'm absolutely in awe of the poem "Musings On The Nativity". So thank you again and again for that. Sr. Mary Fay, OSB

Download or read book The Voyage of Kings written by IronHorse and published by Ironhorse Illuminated Industries. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in an epic six-volume, 3,000 page Trilogy, with achingly beautiful, thought-provoking, thoroughly unique and skillfully crafted collections of poetry, short stories, and romantic verse, that portray the heartfelt and truly profound endeavor as a timeless and deeply memorable wedding of Word and Art . . . A wing-swept journey through the Universe, beginning in the heart of a 'fallen angel' called Ever, as he wanders through the chances and circumstances of humanity, as he drifts within the vast emptiness of his abandonment and exile among the stars, along with all the far-reaching consequences his self-serving pursuit of an ideal has brought to bear upon all Creation, and especially upon his beloved Always, whose tears are the river of this tale . . . A journey that unfolds around his surrender to a spiritual awakening, and ends with his discovery and final embrace of a remarkably simple notion - when fools set out to find what they already possess, they discover only the follies of men . . . born of an ancient yet unremembered legend, a fairy's tale, old as rhyme and even Time itself, captured in the echoes of uncountable voices across the millennia, comes an achingly beautiful love story, wrapped in the mists and myths of a place called Avalon, and whispering of the mysteries and majesties of God . . . A thoroughly unique collection of short stories and lyrical prose, called DoveTales, that weave an amazing trilogy of dreams into the most vibrant threads of faith, courage, and devotion, which are all then so cleverly crafted to become a glorious tapestry of love, loss, and the triumph of love, again . . . as seen through the eyes of Angels, as they peer into the very hearts and souls of those who always seem to search for Glory, when all they really ever need, is Grace . . . And who might enjoy reading this story ? Demographically speaking, any female between the ages of 9 and 90; any male between those very same benchmarks who would like to get to know those females (who now have a remarkably heightened view of themselves after reading it, and a whole new set of standards for those males to measure up to) . . . anyone possessing even a small spark of spiritual insight or inclination, and would be open to considering a vastly simple concept of where they might fit in the grand scheme of things, and the quite attainable realities of their role within it . . . anyone possessing a sense of wonder, and a welcoming regard for a heavenly presence in their world, along with the acknowledgement and embrace of the more compassionate virtues such as patience, tolerance, acceptance and forgiveness, with all respect given to uplifting the human condition beyond measure . . . anyone seeking a remarkably different view of mankind, as it relates to womankind; a dramatically elevated concept regarding the Feminine Ideal and its divine or spiritual significance . . . that will turn all male-dominated religious biases and historically gender-centric portrayals of a woman's place, position or importance in the pantheon of God's cast of characters, on its collective head . . . anyone seeking inspirational, lyrical, romantic, or poetic verse or prose, and wishes to explore alternative expressions of inspired, enlightened, theological, or purpose-driven thought . . . are fully cognizant and accepting of a Christian paradigm of living, and believe that when our creative knowledge embraces our artistic desires, we can achieve global understanding . . .

Download or read book The Christian Disciple and Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reflections On the Lutheran Reformation written by John L. Hoh, Jr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year on October 31 Lutherans celebrate the part of their heritage that historians mark as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in the Western (Latin) Church. This book of essays, sermons, as well as the 95 Thesis themselves (in English, Latin, and German) is a composite summary of the events of that day that changed history.

Download or read book Trick or Treat written by Lisa Morton and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween has spread around the world, yet its associations with death and the supernatural as well as its inevitable commercialization have made it one of our most puzzling holidays. How did it become what it is today? Trick or Treat is the first book both to examine the origins and history of Halloween and to explore in depth its current global popularity. Festivals like the Celtic Samhain and Catholic All Souls’ Day have blended to produce the modern Halloween, which has been reborn with new customs in America—but there are also related but independent holidays, especially Mexico’s Day of the Dead. Lisa Morton lifts the cobwebs off everything from the explosion in popularity of haunted attractions to the impact of events like the global economic recession, as well as the effect Halloween has had on popular culture through literary works, films, and television series. Taking us on a journey from the spectacular to the macabre, this book is a treat for anyone who wants to peep behind the mask to see the real past and present of this ever more popular holiday.

Download or read book It Only Hurts When I Laugh written by Doug Opalski and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remove your shoes and wade in for fun and nostalgia. Do you like sports, boilermakers, champagne, and cruising? It’s a smorgasbord. Enjoy random, quirky flashbacks. Plunge in for pleasant episodes. Drift from radio to iPad. Take what you like and leave the rest. Fun and a few tears are stirred and served.