Download or read book Marry or Burn written by Valerie Trueblood and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Seven Loves comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature of modern marriage, the life–shattering heartbreak that often accompanies its collapse, and the fickle way in which the boundaries between us can be broken, erased, and newly defined. At her daughter's wedding, an alcoholic widow finds a new beginning when she is swept off her feet by the bride's former secret lover. A man finds himself in a position of terrible power when he discovers his ex–wife's boyfriend with another woman. A woman who killed her policeman husband in a rage struggles to reconcile feelings of emotional worthlessness and a longing for human affection after two decades in prison. A widower of twenty–three years introduces his wary daughters to his new love, a woman whom he has decided to marry one week after meeting, and who once took an axe to a bear to save her husband. Trueblood unites past and present through her characters' complex personalities as she skillfully unravels their tumultuous relationships, giving readers a glimpse into marital circumstances that, though often tragic, will surely ring familiar.
Download or read book Marry Burn written by Rachel Rose and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth collection from award-winning poet Rachel Rose, Marry & Burn is a journey through a troubled relationship and a troubled city, charting the territory of love and addiction, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Inspired by struggles both personal and global, these are not gentle poems—they probe deep into comforting personal and cultural myths, rending them to pieces even as they expose the beauty in the bright shards that remain. Although the language of blazing passion resonates throughout the discussion of love, longing and addiction, the driving rhythms often resemble more closely the relentless pounding of the ocean: “The sky’s cauldron / tips a black storm to swarm the harried / hawk, call, Shame! Shame! Dawn has come / in flame.” The golden glow of the ancient world, the dark sweetness of fairy tales, overlay these harsh contemporary moments of rape and addiction, loneliness and poverty, casting them in the richer light of another era. The pain of letting go, whether of love, old habits or cherished personal myths, permeates the collection. But these poems insist that once the dike has broken, once the myths have crumbled, the possibility emerges of building something new.
Download or read book Holy Bible NIV written by Various Authors, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 6637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
Download or read book Getting Ready for Marriage written by Jim Burns and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Burns and Doug Fields wish you the very best for your wedding, but sadly, they won't be able to make it. What they are here for is your marriage. Jim and Doug have seen it all. They have worked with many couples and have studied extensively to uncover the essential elements for making marriages thrive. This book is their early wedding gift to you: a comprehensive, easy-to-navigate road map for beginning your union. Filled with premium fuel for the journey—including meaningful exercises, hard truths, and conversations starters—this book will nourish and guide your relationship for the long haul.
Download or read book Mr Burnside s Responsibility written by Thomas Cobb and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ones We Burn written by Rebecca Mix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blood-witch's mission to assassinate the prince she is betrothed to is compromised by the discovery of a deadly plague--and the beautiful princess intent on stopping it.
Download or read book Marry or Burn written by Valerie Trueblood and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Seven Loves comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature of modern marriage, the life–shattering heartbreak that often accompanies its collapse, and the fickle way in which the boundaries between us can be broken, erased, and newly defined. At her daughter's wedding, an alcoholic widow finds a new beginning when she is swept off her feet by the bride's former secret lover. A man finds himself in a position of terrible power when he discovers his ex–wife's boyfriend with another woman. A woman who killed her policeman husband in a rage struggles to reconcile feelings of emotional worthlessness and a longing for human affection after two decades in prison. A widower of twenty–three years introduces his wary daughters to his new love, a woman whom he has decided to marry one week after meeting, and who once took an axe to a bear to save her husband. Trueblood unites past and present through her characters' complex personalities as she skillfully unravels their tumultuous relationships, giving readers a glimpse into marital circumstances that, though often tragic, will surely ring familiar.
Download or read book Return to Love The Journey Isn t Over written by Larry Cochran and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of the Christian to live this life is very dependent upon what they understand to be reading and learning from the bible. In the original book "Love, An Essential Journey, An Essential Proof", I tried to point out that love is a requirement for the Christian. In this book I tie that reality to the very first Sermon that Jesus Christ preached. He went on later in his ministry to explicitly say that love fulfills the law.
Download or read book Love Poetry and Immortality Luminous Insights of the World s Great Thinkers written by William Gerber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and illustrates the individuating characteristics - and the interrelationships - of love, poetry, and literary immortality (such immortality, that is, as writers may win, in the sense of being long remembered and appreciated by future readers). From the book's numerous quotations of glittering literary passages, it is evident that love is often expressed in poetry, and that many authors (especially those writing about love) have expressed the winsome hope that their works would be greatly cherished by later generations. Part One of the book illustrates by passages of matchless poetry the joys and perils of love and other outstanding features of love. Part Two outlines the history of expressions by writers in many cultures of their confidence or hope that their works will make them immortal.
Download or read book Question of Truth written by Gareth Moore and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Christians accept that 'homosexual acts are wrong' on the authority of the Church. For many others such teaching contradicts what they know to be the obvious truth. In this book Gareth Moore closely and dispassionately examines the bases of Christian 'anti-gay' arguments. Moore critically explores the language that we use to describe and define human sexuality and what this means for what we think we know about sex, identity and morality.At the centre of this work is a thorough and revolutionary analysis of the Bible on homosexuality posing such questions as: Is there a unified biblical teaching on sex or homosexuality? Are we misreading the Bible by applying modern thinking and terms? Must Christians accept Paul's supposed rejection of homosexuality when they do not follow all of his teaching (for example his low estimation of marriage - 1, Cor, 7)?For Moore the criticism that gay practice is remote from Christian values is just as true of straight life. Gay Christians are often responsible and thoughtful moral agents and to propose otherwise is both unreasonable and deeply disrespectful. It is a precondition of being heard that we listen and in the end the gospel can only be preached effectively by those who listen.
Download or read book The Ante Nicene Fathers Tertullian pt 4th Minucius Felix Commodian Origen pts 1st and 2d written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is She Dead Yet written by Lawanna Lynn Campbell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up with an alcoholic parent, Lawanna Lynn (Lynn) walked on eggshells and learned to be submissive and codependent. She sought comfort and solace in Christianity and married at an early age. On the outside, Lynn and her husband were the perfect couple; but secretly, for nearly 23 years, she endured domestic violence that included rape and assault at the hands of her husband, who was also a business owner and church leader. Join Lynn as she attempts to get help from some religious leaders who instead told her to keep silent about the abuse and his addiction to drugs and alcohol, extramarital affairs, and destructive behavior. Learn what she did right, what she did wrong, the warning signs of domestic abuse, and the five deadly marriage deal-breakers. Walk with her as she takes matters into her own hands and gets the legal, therapeutic, and spiritual help needed to make a new life for herself and build healthy relationships. This poignant, true story will take you on a journey from the pulpit to the prison cell as Lynn strives to set herself free from a life of pain, shame, and guilt. Find out if she keeps the faith or if she turns away from God as she faces her most devastating challenge of all, and learn how you can break the cycle of abuse. This gripping tale of a pastors wife will keep you riveted to every word until the amazing surprise ending! For more information go to www.isshedeadyet.com.
Download or read book Do All to the Glory of God written by Watchman Nee and published by Christian Fellowship Publishers. This book was released on 1974-06-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains lessons 29-38 of a series on practical Christian living delivered by the great Chinese pastor-teacher Watchman Nee at a training session of Christian workers in Kuling, Foochow, China in 1948.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Melancholy what it Is with All the Kinds Causes Symptoms Prognostics and Several Cures of It in Three Partitions written by Robert Burton and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Poems and Major Prose written by John Milton and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.
Download or read book Butterflies Will Burn written by Federico Garza Carvajal and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Spain consolidated its Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or "Vir" went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the "abominable crime and sin against nature"—sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and hundreds of sodomites were tortured, garroted, or burned alive for violating Spanish ideals of manliness. Yet in reality, as Federico Garza Carvajal argues in this groundbreaking book, the prosecution of sodomites had little to do with issues of gender and was much more a concomitant of empire building and the need to justify political and economic domination of subject peoples. Drawing on previously unpublished records of some three hundred sodomy trials conducted in Spain and Mexico between 1561 and 1699, Garza Carvajal examines the sodomy discourses that emerged in Andalucía, seat of Spain's colonial apparatus, and in the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico), its first and largest American colony. From these discourses, he convincingly demonstrates that the concept of sodomy (more than the actual practice) was crucial to the Iberian colonizing program. Because sodomy opposed the ideal of "Vir" and the Spanish nationhood with which it was intimately associated, the prosecution of sodomy justified Spain's domination of foreigners (many of whom were represented as sodomites) in the peninsula and of "Indios" in Mexico, a totally subject people depicted as effeminate and prone to sodomitical acts, cannibalism, and inebriation.
Download or read book A Complete Collection of the Historical Political and Miscellaneous Works written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1698 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
