Download or read book A Lily Among the Thorns written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way for Christians to think about sexuality Author Miguel De La Torre, a well-respected ethicist and professorknown for his innovative readings of Christian doctrine, rejectsboth the liberal and conservative prejudices about sex. He insteaddevelops an ethic that is liberative yet grounded soundly in theBible; a sexuality that celebrates God’s gift of great sex byfostering intimacy, vulnerability and openness between lovingpartners. In A Lily Among the Thorns, De La Torre examines theBible, current events, history and our culture-at-large to show howand why racism, sexism, and classism have distortedChristianity’s central teachings about sexuality. The authorshows how the church’s traditionally negative attitudestoward sex in general—and toward women, people of color, andgays in particular—have made it difficult, if not impossible,to create a biblically based and just sexual ethic. But when theBible is read from the viewpoint of those who have beenmarginalized in our society, preconceived notions aboutChristianity and sex get turned on their heads. Taking onhot-button topics such as pornography, homosexuality, prostitution,and celibacy, the author examines how “reading from themargins” provides a liberating approach to dealing withissues of sexuality.

Download or read book Lillie s Treasures written by Annie Smith-Hoke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Doon Heather Smith was born on December 7, 1934 in Canton, China. Youngest of four siblings, her father was an American of Scotch Irish descent, her mother a Eurasian from Shanghai. By the time she was four she had traveled from Canton to Shanghai, to Manila, then back to Shanghai where she then lived continuously with her maternal grandparents and aunt until the advent of World War II. Caught in Japanese occupied Shanghai on December 7, 1941, she and her siblings were subsequently interned by the Japanese in Chapei as non-combatant civilians in early 1943. At the time her sister was 14, brothers 12 and 10, and she was eight years old. Alone in camp, the three youngest children were in charge of only their eldest sister. On September 18, 1943, her sister’s fifteenth birthday, the four children, along with 1500 fellow inmates, were repatriated to the United States, a country they did not know, as exchange prisoners of war. Transported on the Japanese ship Tia Maru, they were taken to Goa, India, a Portuguese colony. There they were exchanged for Japanese non-combatants from the United States. At Goa they boarded the Swedish liner HMS Gripsholm. It took them to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Rio de Janeiro and New York City. Thene they went by rail on the Super Chief to Los Angeles where they met their mother for the first time in five years.

Download or read book Evening Street Review Number 12 written by Patti Sullivan and published by Evening Street Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to Haylie Elizabeth Jordan November 11, 1999 to April 19, 2015 Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clarity and depth, it practices the widest eclecticism. Evening Street Review reads submissions of poetry (free verse, formal verse, and prose poetry) and prose (short stories and creative nonfiction) year round. Submit 3-6 poems or 1-2 prose pieces at a time. Payment is one contributor’s copy. Copyright reverts to author upon publication. Response time is 3-6 months. Please address submissions to Editors, 2881 Wright Street, Sacramento, CA 95821. Email submissions are also acceptable; send to the following address as Microsoft Word or rich text files (.rtf): [email protected]. thanks for all you were and all you would have been Evening Street Review is centered on the belief that all men and women are created equal, that they have a natural claim to certain inalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. With this center, and an emphasis on writing that has both clarity and depth, it practices the widest eclecticism.

Download or read book Lily of the valley written by A.K. Nowak and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real life story about a young girl growing up in Poland who faced multiple challenges. Experienced it all from being led astray by a religion, abused and betrayed finding the will to become a strong person and make a better life after it all.

Download or read book The Gilded Lily written by Deborah Swift and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longing for a life beyond housemaid chores and her drunken father's abuse, Ella Appleby of mid-17th-century England and her sister flee to London and take up with a dashing gentleman with ties to the underworld, unaware that they are being pursued by her former employer's twin brother.

Download or read book Lily la Tigresse written by Alona Kimhi and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious second novel from actress and bestselling novelist Alona Kimhi holds up a comically warped mirror to contemporary Israel, as well as the very notion of "chick lit." Inhabiting a dark fairy-tale version of modern life, drawing equal inspiration from Angela Carter and the iconography of the classic horror movie, this is the story of Lily, our proudly overweight and romantically unlucky protagonist, who discovers a wild freedom in part through her friendship with a Russian prostitute, Ninush. This is a world of cellulite-dissolving panties, sex change as an outlet for self-expression, and the final triumph of the titular tigress; where metamorphosis is the rule, and where the waking world has become a funhouse prowled by our wildest desires.

Download or read book The Lily Theater written by Lulu Wang and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2001-11-06 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lily Theater is a strikingly original debut novel-an international literary sensation-based on the author's experience growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. When twelve-year-old Lian Shui accompanies her mother to reeducation camp, no one imagines that Lian will receive an education. But detained along with her mother are some of China's greatest thinkers and they take an interest in young Lian. She in turn delivers lectures of her own to the creatures inhabiting a pond she dubs "The Lily Theater." These ideas inform her life when she returns to school and reunites with her best friend Kim, a peasant girl through whom Lian ultimately learns about the painful failings of Mao's teachings-and of life.

Download or read book A Lily on the Heath written by Colleen Gleason and published by AVID PRESS. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lush, romantic, and unputdownable!" --New York Times bestselling author Cheryl Bolen "Gleason is such a fine writer!" --New York Times bestselling author Norah Wilson From NEW YORK TIMES and USA Today bestselling author Colleen Gleason... Courtly love and chivalrous knights meet passion and deception in the turbulent medieval court of England. An honorable man: Malcolm de Monde, Lord of Warwick, needs a wife. He reluctantly journeys to the royal court where his plan is simple: find a dutiful woman, gain the king’s approval for his choice and return to Warwick with his chosen lady wedded, bedded, and carrying his heir—all before winter. An independent woman: Judith of Kentworth, Royal Falconer and lady-in-waiting, is a woman from Malcolm’s past. Although she is a confidante of the queen, Judith’s beauty and vivacity attract the unwanted attentions of the king--and this the woman who commands winged predators becomes the prey herself. A simple plan that goes awry when Lord Malcolm is reacquainted with Judith, once betrothed to his friend—and a woman who is nothing like the meek wife he seeks...but who may be exactly the type of woman he needs. An impossible choice: Malcolm offers Judith a chance to escape her predicament...but can she risk entangling her own chivalrous lord in dangerous web of royal intrigue? The Medieval Herb Garden Series does not have to be read in order. However, for those who want to read it in chronological order, the stories go as follows: LAVENDER VOWS A WHISPER OF ROSEMARY SANCTUARY OF ROSES A LILY ON THE HEATH For readers who enjoy the lush medieval romances by Roberta Gellis, Jill Barnett, Lara Adrian and Paula Quinn.

Download or read book Lily The Blackwood Wolves Saga 1 written by Bonnie Bliss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Blackwood is torn between two strong men... One, Wallace is her perfect idea of a partner, loving, loyal and handsome. The second, Bryn, is her true mate, the man chosen for her by nature and her family. Denial and naivety for nature's choice, sends her into a rage of independence against the laws of her own destiny, family and her own father. Wallace Kirk is assigned to protect the beautiful Lily since her birth... His loyalties are tearing him apart. His own mate, dead, taken from him, fills his thoughts as Lily begs for his attention. She needs him, but not as much as the wolf that prowls in her flesh. Bryn Kemp's nature and need fill his flesh... Yet his true mate, the woman chosen for him, denies her destiny. His battle for her and his own pride must overcome her feisty rebellious streak. Both men must fight for her in the throes of oncoming battle and she must make the right choice. A decision that will shape the war.

Download or read book The Sixth Lily Chronicles written by Deirdre Derry and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age long ago, gifted hands carved magnificent caverns in a mountain on the roof of the world; their existence was known only to the holy men entrusted with the secrets secured within. But everything changed in Earth Solar year 3026 AD, when these same men became guardians of a female infant who would one day determine the future of mankind. Some two hundred years later, the same mountain is visited by Petra, the first genetically enhanced female. She has arrived to complete her formal education and be trained as a Warrior just as her foremothers had done before her. On a mission to the far side of the galaxy, Petra survives in a hostile and dangerous universe, encountering a British army officer who lives in the 1800s but whose spirit has come to her in waking dreams to protect and love her. But her fate takes an unexpected turn when an assassination attempt forces her to venture into alien space, where she becomes instrumental in the survival of her species. The Sixth Lily Chronicles is a story of love, honor, spirituality, and of one woman's destiny that becomes far more than she ever expected or desired.

Download or read book The Arrival of Lily Curtis written by Rachel Brimble and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the mention of an arranged marriage, Elizabeth Caughley feels her life is over at the age of three and twenty'so she hatches an escape plan. She will reinvent herself as a housemaid. Overnight, Elizabeth becomes Lily - on the understanding if her attempt at independence fails, she will return home and marry a man of her parents? choosing. Viscount Westrop will ensure his legacy is passed to his own son one day. Even though he feels insurmountable pity for the unborn child already, he knows how much pain a broken promise can cause and will do what is right. But with the arrival of his new housemaid, his plans are thrown into disarray. Lily is funny and feisty and the most beautiful creature on earth - Andrew is thunderstruck. But if anyone suspects how much he wants to ravish her and endlessly love her, Andrew's lineage will undoubtedly be in peril.

Download or read book A Lily of Old France written by Eric Rede Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lily Loves To Love written by Maureen Reil and published by Maureen Reil. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever read a book and thought I do not want the main character to end up with the predictable hero? I wish she had gotten with the other man instead. Well here is your chance to change that scenario and choose whom you would like Lily to love. In this book, many comical things tend to happen to and around Lily Lockhart as she deals with her job, her love life and her family. Not to mention her friends. So like a lot of us, she is simply an ordinary woman trying to survive this modern world and not always getting it right before mistakes come back to bite her on the bum. As the quirky but loveable girl just cannot help herself sometimes. This is all before trying her hand at a spot of charity work, when she decides that life is far too short to spend it selfishly. At the start of the year, she ends her engagement and before long, there is plenty of male interest heading her way. We are talking about ‘The Handsome One’ (Sean) and ‘The Funny One’ (Tom). In addition, there is also ‘The Rich One’ (Peter) but Lily cannot choose between them. Therefore, in the closing chapters, it is down to you ‘the reader’ to decide who wins Lily's heart since there is a fun multiple-choice style ending to the story. Will you pick the boyfriend, the best friend or the boss? Only one problem, she’s pregnant so ‘who’s the daddy’?

Download or read book A Lily Never Pretends written by Rupashree Rangaiyengar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is said that a cat has nine lives. Priya vows fervently that she has lived more. Rohan wants to leave it all behind. They don't know where to start. This book is a transformative journey of a single mom and her little boy growing up together and trying to find answers."

Download or read book Lily Cigar written by Tom Murphy and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical saga of one strong woman’s journey from poverty and servitude in New York City to a new life in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. At ten, Lily Malone watched her mother die in their shabby apartment on Mulberry Street. Ma’s last wish was for Lily to keep an eye on her wild, rebellious brother—but after the two children move into the Catholic orphanage, she’s helpless to stop Fergy from abandoning her and heading out west to find gold in California. With the last of her family gone, Lily has little choice but to eventually accept a position in another family’s household. They’re Irish like her, but far wealthier—and it is here that the innocent girl begins to understand that she has little to bargain with aside from her beauty. This is the story of a young woman fighting her way out of hardship, as she learns to sell her body at an elegant brothel; becomes a mother desperately trying to keep the truth from her daughter; and finally is forced by love to return to the city of her shame and seek to conquer it. Moving from tenement squalor to the Fifth Avenue splendor of old New York, from the rolling decks of a great clipper ship to the brawling streets and magnificent Nob Hill mansions of San Francisco, through storm and earthquake and fire, Lily Cigar is a breathless saga of love, intrigue, and illicit passion.

Download or read book Lily and the Golden Lute written by Amanda Steinhoff and published by Codefore Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a wonderful story about swashbuckling pirates who happen to be young women. The books audience is age group 10-18. This is the female version of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn with a tinge of romance and science fiction that gives a unique flair to the story. Do not be surprised if the future holds more volumes about Lili Washington's romantic adventures with her crew.

Download or read book The Lily and the Falcon written by Jannine Corti-Petska and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bianca degli Albizzi is outraged when sworn enemy Cristiano de'Medici asks for her hand in marriage. With her father's blessing, she weds the handsome warrior to end the war between Florence's two powerful families. But headstrong Bianca vows to teach her husband that loyalty cannot be bought...not even by seduction. Cristiano, a well-known warrior with the wealth of a king, could have any woman he desires. But for the sake of peace he ends up with a defiant bride who awakens his deepest passion. Her vengeful scheming puts them both in peril, but is he prepared to sacrifice his life to safeguard the woman who has stolen his heart?