Download or read book Dorothy and Jack written by Gina Dalfonzo and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we push past the surface and allow real, grounded, mutually challenging, and edifying friendships to develop? We need only look at the little-known friendship between eminent Christian thinkers Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis to find out. Born out of a fan letter that celebrated mystery novelist Sayers wrote to Lewis as his star was just beginning to rise, this friendship between a married woman and a longtime bachelor developed over years of correspondence as the two discovered their mutual admiration of each other's writing, thinking, and faith. In a time when many Christians now aren't even sure that a man and a woman can be "just friends" and remain faithful, Gina Dalfonzo's engaging treatment of the relationship between two of Christianity's most important modern thinkers and writers will resonate deeply with anyone who longs for authentic, soul-stirring friendships that challenge them to grow intellectually and spiritually. Fans of Lewis and Sayers will find here a fascinating addition to their collections.

Download or read book Why Friends are Friends written by Jack L. Willcuts and published by Barclay Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deception Episode I written by Alessandro Macedonio and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the depths of the Milky Way, young Jack, born on the planet Waspyx, is caught by a "deception." A very real dream transports him to Earth in 2018, where the young man with a thousand ultra-terrestrial talents finds himself in the body of Jack Smiths, a likeable teenager from Utah. The young man mixes with the people of St. George and tries to fathom the secrets of that fascinating, unique population. In the Zion Canyon, the boy from Waspyx and his new friends find two precious stones that will accompany them on an adventure at the limits of reality. While trying to find the wealthy, mad scientist, Mr. Salicov, our adventurers find themselves prisoners in the other parallel universe of MU. Here, bewitched by the new world, the eleven explorers continue their journey through the untouched habitat of the immense Mount Oluk. Along steep paths, they will all fall prey to the evil of the Numstairus and the poisonous Dexuss, beings of low intellect who will show everyone the true aspect of the mystery. All of this will lead the group to rediscover their love of nature as their awareness is reawakened. Amid a thousand obstacles, our explorers will try to survive in the hope of finding the right way to return home...

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Download or read book Captain Jack for President written by John Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a beautiful Spring morning in Jonesport Maine, Captain Jack Harper of Harper Industries walks into Moby's restaurant for his morning cup of Moby's jo, unsuspecting that it would be the beginning of a life change, not only for him, but for his community and quite possibly the country. Captain Jack had been a man of integrity and honor his entire life; a man of service to his community. Little did he know that his community would be asking him to be a man of service for the entire nation. In the quiet of the morning, as the locals debated politics and listened to the typical rhetoric of the incumbent and presidential contenders, a stranger to the town was sitting in the corner taking it all in. As the locals began talking about what life would be like under a presidency of Captain Jack, the stranger became more intrigued about who this Captain Jack character might be. When the townsmen finally approached Jack, encouraging him to make a run for the presidency, the stranger, Dexter Wyman, chair of the Constitution Party, introduced himself and joined the fray. Jack reluctantly accepted the challenge to run under the Constitution part banner, with the assistance of the entire township. Will Jack finish the race? Will he be shutdown before getting off the starting block? Will he be eliminated permanently by organized, empowered politicians who don't appreciate a newcomer to the field?

Download or read book My Name Is Jack Johnson But I m Not The Singer written by Jill Johnson and published by Two Peas Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A typical family—husband, wife and two children—were thrust into a life of uncertainty when their youngest son, Jack, was diagnosed with autism. Together, the family navigated a new reality they could not perceive while guiding Jack through a world his mind struggled to comprehend. Their hardest trial, however, came when Jack was diagnosed with brain cancer as a teen. MY NAME IS JACK JOHNSON, BUT I’M NOT THE SINGER is the story of a family’s love, perseverance, and determination in the face of unpredictable difficulties. Through Jill Johnson’s journal writings and memories, we get an insightful view into autism, childhood cancer, and the strength of a unique young man. Often touching, sometimes funny, and occasionally heartbreaking, this memoir is Jack’s walk through a life well-lived, not because of adversity, but in spite of it.

Download or read book The Mars Exile written by Anthony Sheehy and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one man make a difference? Plucked from his home on false charges and exiled to a barren world with little chance of survival, David Brennan and the people he meets on Mars must overcome all the challenges Mars can send them, and a few more sent from Earth. This trilogy tracks the lives of the early pioneers and their children on Mars as they face their fears, overcome the challenges and ultimately establish a new society.

Download or read book Believe written by Stacie M. Salvo and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Let me be plain. All are given the opportunity to be obedient to God. They must either choose to step out in faith or choose to make their own plans and beg Him to bless them anyway. There is some peril involved in stepping out in faith. You will be hunted by the most vile, desperate creatures in existence. Even now you are being followed more intently and attacks are being plotted as you consider your choice." Before her meeting with a mysterious stranger, Mina Bennett thought her life was normal. Her biggest problems were things like making it to campus on time and navigating the troublesome line between best friend and boyfriend with her classmate Peter. When eerie things start happening, her life gets much more complicated after she is visited by an angel who tells her that an invisible but very real war is happening all around her. The scariest part is... her very soul is at stake. We all have a choice to make, but what if that choice changed the course of your whole life? Would you choose to live a sheltered existence or would you choose to fight in a war you never even knew existed? Mina is faced with such a choice, and she will never be the same again. In this battle of spiritual warfare, she must learn literally to put on the whole armor of God and fight demons. Her trials culminate in facing a larger-than-life threat, but with a little help, she comes to realize that the victory is already won. Believe will take you on a fast-paced journey that will question where you stand spiritually. At the end, like Mina, you will be faced with a choice. What will your decision be?

Download or read book Elements and Elephants written by H.D. Nels and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Bisson is a welder from Calgary, sharing a business with his brother and disapproving, emotionally distant father. Rather than celebrating his birthday with his family, Jack prefers to avoid his father and spend the evening out on his own. Jack’s meets Willem in a gay bar, a meeting that will change his life significantly.br.brWillem de Vries is a South African on a temporary work permit in Canada. Although smitten with Jack, Will’s insecurities lead him to abandon Jack when he suddenly returns to South Africa.br

Download or read book In Every Way written by Nic Brown and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapel Hill college student Maria finds herself in a predicament—unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her mother's diagnosis with cancer, Maria's decision to give her daughter up for adoption is one that seems to be in everyone's best interest, especially when it comes to light that the child's father hasn't exactly been faithful to her following the birth of her daughter. So when her mother proposes an extended trip to sleepy coastal town Beaufort—the same town that the adoptive couple Maria chose for her daughter just happens to live in—Maria jumps at the chance to escape. Perhaps not surprisingly, Maria finds herself listless and bored soon after her arrival in Beaufort, and a summer job seems like a cure. She has kept close watch on the couple she chose to adopt her daughter—they live mere blocks away—and, as opportunity demands, she accepts a position as their nanny. Maria ingratiates herself into the family—hesitantly, at first, and then with all the confused and chaotic fervor of a mother separated from her child. In Every Way is a heartfelt novel that brings to light the unknowing destruction that heartache can manifest, and brims with the redemptive power of new.

Download or read book A Reimagined Faith written by J. A. Bouma and published by EmmausWay Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Purchase includes a free online course on faith*** What do you do when the faith you’ve always known no longer makes sense? That’s the haunting, confusing, unexpected question confronting twentysomething Peter Daniel Young after a friend doubts whether Christianity makes sense of life and has anything to offer. More troublesome yet: the right Christian answers Peter was trained to give since childhood are for questions no one is even asking—including his friend, and even himself. Which leaves him questioning what he’s always believed — leading to a crisis of faith the likes of which he has never before experienced. While not abandoning his childhood faith, Peter launches into a journey of exploration and discovery, reimagining faith for his world and questioning what the essence of the Christian message is in the first place. Along the way, he is confronted by rising doubts, encouraged by friends new and old, questioned by those close to him, and challenged to own his faith for himself. What he discovers is all at once terrifying and thrilling — for this story is the drama of his faith’s death and rebirth. Written in the self-discovery style of John Green’s coming of age stories, with shades of such classics as C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, J. A. Bouma’s tale is the first story in a fresh, insightful spiritual coming of age series for a new generation wondering if the Christianity they’ve always known still matters in these dynamic times — and whether there might be something more to help make sense of life. Drawing from his own spiritual journey as a young adult, Bouma writes a stirring fable of resonance and truth for those wrestling with deep questions of faith, life, and everything in between. Whether you are facing your own crisis of faith and wondering whether Christianity still matters, or you know someone who is struggling themselves, discover along with Peter what the Christian message means for him, his family and friends, his life in the Church — and for you.

Download or read book Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief written by Jessica Hendry Nelson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief is a fresh and ferocious memoir-in-essays that maps the boundaries of love, language, and creative urgency. When Nelson’s father dies from an accident caused by complications from alcoholism, she knows immediately she has inherited his love—that it left his body, traveled through the air, and entered her own. And so, she needs a place to put it. She needs to know what to do with it, how not to waste it, how to make something with it, how to honor it and put language to it. So, she places it with her brother, Eric, whose opioid addiction makes his death feel always imminent. With her partner, Jack, together for fifteen years. With her exhausted, grieving mother, her best friend Jessie, women at the gym she’s never had the courage to speak to, but loves completely. But mostly, she places it with her future child, the one she does not yet have but deeply wants. The child who is both the question of love—and the answer to it. So, when Jack suddenly confesses that he does not want to have children—not with her, not ever—the someday vessel for her boundless and insatiable love hunger swiftly disappears, taking with it a fundamental promise of her life: motherhood. Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief catalyzes from this place. Fluidly navigating through past, present, and future, Nelson asks: Where does her desire to have a child come from? How does wonder charge and change a life? Are the imperatives to make art and to make a child born from the same searching place? Are they both masked and misguided attempts to thwart death? Nelson investigates the tremulous makings and unmakings of our most intense and fragile bonds—family, friends, lovers—with searing insight, humor, and tenderness.

Download or read book Eyes of the Garden written by Mark Cobbs Lewis and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyes of the Garden By: Mark Cobbs Lewis Our universe is one of many, but there are few who truly understand what that means. Lucy Haddad and Joey Sanders do, and their friendship and seemingly supernatural connection might have the power to change the world. The pair met when they were children, and Lucy was the only person who could bring Joey, an autistic savant, out of his shell. Their bond was unique, and their accomplishments were remarkable. As adults, they went their separate ways for a time, but fate brought them back together. The story of Lucy and Joey spans the globe. Together, they will assemble a group of remarkable individuals and fight evils that lurk in the shadows. Together, they will plan and execute one of the most incredible schemes the world has ever seen. Everything and everyone is connected in ways that most of us could never conceive. Can opposing forces find balance? Can the world be made whole?

Download or read book Challenging Stories written by Anne Burke and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can Canadian educators begin to instill cultural sensitivity and social awareness in elementary and secondary school students? This vital text attempts to answer that question by bringing together literacy scholars and practicing teachers in a unique cross-Canadian exploration of children’s literature and social justice. Through reflection on the experience of teaching with various Canadian texts including picture books, novels, and graphic novels, the contributors behind Challenging Stories create a “pedagogy of discomfort” that will encourage both educators and their students to develop critical literacy skills. The compelling contributions to this collection highlight the complexities of teaching with texts that address issues of discrimination, historical marginalization, colonialism, racial and gender intolerance, sexual orientation, language, and cultural diversity. The authors offer first-hand insight into the possibilities and challenges of implementing curricular and pedagogical changes to promote equity and social justice in the classroom. Featuring the stories of participating teachers and an annotated bibliography of children’s literature, this invaluable resource will prove to be essential reading for current and future educators.

Download or read book The Life of an Airborne Ranger written by Michael B. Kitz-Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two: Take Care of Your Men—part of the trilogy—continues with Jack and Mary Clarke’s careers flourishing. Jack’s training continues at the infantry school, air assault school, and in reestablishing his jump status. His mentor, Lt. Gen. Frank Stafford, is now commander of Eighth Airborne Corps and invites Jack for a special assignment to research small unit tactics in the two airborne divisions at Fort Bragg. Jack uncovers an old boy network that has led to substandard basic military skills. With one unit scheduled for deployment to Vietnam, there is great concern making their readiness a priority. First Lieutenant Donovan leaves for his third tour in Vietnam as a company commander, where he commands two successful operations against VC-rocket launcher sites, receiving numerous commendations for valor. He is now the most highly decorated soldier in the military, but he again clashes with Orin Jensen’s incompetence. Returning from Vietnam as acting battalion commander, Mary Clarke surprises Jack with a planned trip to Austria. Their love of opera and classical music fills their evenings in Salzburg and Vienna. Jack has also discovered his wife’s independent wealth, having inherited a substantial sum from an aunt and uncle unable to have their own children. Money will never be a problem for the Donovans, whose family has been enlarged with a Welsh terrier named Patton. Jack, now a battalion commander with the Seventy-Fifth Airborne Rangers, plans and commands a major field training exercise at Fort Benning. Using high-altitude qualified parachutists, which includes himself, he outsmarts a larger force to win the exercise. Daring maneuvers against the Tenth Mountain Division allow Jack’s rangers to win yet another FTX at Fort Drum and new promotions. Mary Clarke, with a new PhD from the University of Maryland, fills large lecture halls at NC State University. She is one of few professors on campus that give failing grades to students that are not up to the mark, even while students line up for her classes, which includes graduate-level courses on the romantic novels and their many moral characters of Ayn Rand and Victor Hugo.

Download or read book Histerotica The Complete Collection written by Evelyn Ellis and published by Writewood Creations Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From medieval England to America’s Swinging Sixties, Histerotica is the complete collection Evelyn Ellis’s erotic stories of taboo couplings and innocence lost. Her stories explore fertility, blood ties, sex that is off-limits, older man-younger woman seductions and the intensity of the burn when passion is let off the chain. The heroines are virgins meeting lust for the first time. Their instructors are older men—mad doctors, evil landlords, filthy teachers and dirty but delicious uncles. These are erotic adventures of taboo seductions and sizzling romance, vividly presented in consensual scenes of carnal discovery that will set you on fire.