Download or read book Almost Midnight written by Michael W. Cuneo and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the pope. On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also turned his twelve-gauge shotgun on Lawrence’s wife and their paraplegic grandson. The crime took place in a region known mostly for Pentecostal fervor, country music, and family-friendly tourism. But soon the murders would expose a dark underbelly in the Ozarks: Lloyd Lawrence was a notoriously violent crystal-meth kingpin, killed by an aspiring drug dealer named Darrell Mease.Capturing the raw circumstances that took Mease from his clean-cut youth to the front lines of Vietnam and an aftermath of drug use, Almost Midnight unites an unforgettable range of characters in some of America’s most peculiar locales. When Mease and his girlfriend fled to the Southwest on a hair-raising road trip, this only brought Mease closer to death row. After his conviction, he claimed to receive a religious revelation guaranteeing that his life would be saved by miraculous intervention, a long-shot prediction that came true. A bizarre twist of fate brought Pope John Paul II to Saint Louis, where he pleaded with Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan to commute the sentence just months before Carnahan’s fatal plane crash. In a triumph of investigative journalism, Michael Cuneo gained unprecedented access to Mease and immersed himself in the culture of the Ozarks, exploring its bucolic farms and seedy strip joints, and the lives of its preachers, cockfighters, and outlaws. By turns chilling and riveting, Almost Midnight brilliantly evokes the life of controversial renegade Mease, and the stranger-than-fiction world he still inhabits.
Download or read book Redemption s Dark Secrets written by Elara Crowe and published by Elara Crowe. This book was released on 2024-07-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redemption's Dark Secrets Step into the hidden depths of a seemingly peaceful town in "Redemption's Dark Secrets," a gripping tale of romance and danger that will leave you breathless. Charlie never intended to stop in Redemption, Wisconsin. Lost and in search of directions, she stumbled upon this quaint town and found herself inexplicably drawn to its charm—and to a mysterious stranger. But as she begins to settle in, the shadows of her past catch up with her, bringing danger to her new doorstep. What Charlie doesn't know is that Redemption holds secrets more sinister than her own. As she navigates a budding romance, she uncovers a web of dark truths lurking beneath the town’s serene surface. With each revelation, the stakes grow higher, and Charlie must confront the terrifying reality that the real threat may be closer than she ever imagined. Can Charlie uncover the truth hidden within Redemption's dark secrets before it's too late? Or will the town's mysteries consume her? Perfect for fans of romantic suspense and mystery thrillers, "Redemption's Dark Secrets" is a must-read. Dive into a world where love is intertwined with peril and every secret comes with a price.
Download or read book written by and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extremely popular haggadah anthology features numerous anecdotes, vignettes, and themes from the lives of our great Torah scholars--most of them previously unpublished. With great skill and wisdom, the author weaves together a collection of Torah insights that are both inspiring and intellectually stimulating. Offers the haggadah text in Hebrew and English, and all commentary in English.
Download or read book Firebinders Fleur written by Isobelle Cate and published by Isobelle Cate. This book was released on 2022-03-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who can she trust? Fleur Fenwick, a firebinder, is on the run. After her friend is killed, she unearths a secret that can spell life or death for all firebinders, including her brother. When the police get involved, the detective assigned to protect her not only sends her heart racing, but also seems to know the reason why there are forces who want firebinders dead. Cynn Cruor warrior Ewan Blair returns to the city to fulfill a promise he made to a woman-child. While on patrol with fellow Cynn Cruor Blake Strachan, he encounters a beautiful woman who not only holds her own in a fight with the Scatha Cruor but also sets his blood afire with a desire he never thought possible. Dead bodies start piling up, illuminated manuscripts with hidden clues, and Fleur’s brother goes missing. It’s a race against time to get firebinders to safety. Through it all, the sensual conflagration between Fleur and Ewan is undeniable. So is the threat to them both. ***CONTENT WARNING: This story contains adult language and situations intended for audiences 18+ ONLY***
Download or read book The Journey to Midnight written by Matthew Griffin and published by Griffin Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The souls that have seen the darkest days can shine the brightest light" God wasn't finished with him. Matt Griffin scheduled his suicide for midnight. He was tired and exhausted. But this wouldn't be a rushed event. He'd planned his earthly exit so none of his four sons would find him, and that his death would ensure they had a better life without him. A father, a former Navy Search and Rescue Swimmer, law enforcement officer, an undercover cop who spent years pretending to be someone he was not, Matt decided he had nothing left to offer his ex-wife, his family, his friends, or his community. But God had bigger plans - and a chance phone call only hours before he decided he'd crawl into his SUV and put his gun to his head, stopped him in his tracks, and changed his life and the lives of thousands of others. The Journey to Midnight is Matt Griffin's memoir about his childhood journey from the inner city and poverty, to a lacrosse scholarship at Morristown-Beard, one of the richest, most prestigious high schools in the country, to the US Navy, then a career as a law enforcement officer and undercover cop. Matt shares the heartbreak of divorce, the joy of single fatherhood, the dark streets of the drug world, and the thing that almost killed him, and killed 228 police officers in 2019, and continues to kill 22 military veterans per day - SUICIDE.
Download or read book Crowe V Gary State Bank written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Redemption written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is God changeable? Does He have different gospels for different people? The story of redemption takes you behind the scenes in the struggle between God and Satan. It explains how the conflict began, what the issues are, and how the outcome is already assured. It traces the theme of God's relationship with man from the garden of Edan to the return of Christ and beyond.
Download or read book Chochmo U mussar written by Solomon Breuer and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading for Redemption written by Christian R. Davis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to define and explain the archetypal pattern of redemption that underlies our whole notion of resolution in literature and to demonstrate, through multiple examples, that successful literature--poems and stories that have shown endurance or popularity--uses this pattern in specific ways. This theory should help readers to interpret both particular works of literature and the general notion of literature. The pattern of redemption employed here, in its ideal form, involves the sacrifice of an innocent redeemer to save something that has been lost. Because this pattern of redemption is typically associated with Christianity, this book can be taken as proposing a Christian theory of criticism. Current textbooks on literary criticism and theory cover a range of perspectives, such as Marxism, feminism, multiculturalism, reader response, and queer theory, but they invariably ignore the field of Christian criticism. Therefore, this book may be most useful as a supplementary text for courses in literary criticism that might include a Christian perspective. At the same time, however, the terms and methodology proposed here are not exclusive to or dependant on Christian beliefs, so readers of all types may find this approach useful. The greatest strength of this book is its application of the theory to numerous examples from a wide range of genres and periods of literature, testing the theory on classical and Shakespearean works such as the Iliad and Odyssey, Hamlet and Coriolanus; best sellers such as The Lord of the Rings, Le Petit Prince, Valley of the Dolls, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; horror stories such as Frankenstein; postcolonial novels such as Things Fall Apart and The Kite Runner; and lyric poems. Consequently, even readers who are skeptical of the assumptions used here should find the many concrete examples thought-provoking.
Download or read book Hawthorne s Redemption written by Gary P. Cranford and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves to feed human nature with both a religious and literary mood. It may bring the reader a little closer to an understanding of life's complexities, or it may challenge the reader's own philosophical self, as he or she discovers the unraveling of Hawthorne's. The editor of the book, which has been composed from his memory of an unknown student's work, claims to have unearthed a rare discovery that may unveil a mystery that has puzzled the best of minds in the literary field for many years. In the words of its author, his purpose is clear: "I have thought to publish my interpretations of Hawthorne's novel so that those critics in the field of literature, who will, may have additional cause for which to expound their intelligence, either in trying to better understand this mystery, or to salvage the old cherished ambiguities by which the public brain is presently intoxicated. If I am correct in only a few of my impressions, hopefully the main ones, we shall have to reappraise Hawthorne as a literary prophet who hoped for and predicted a future time when mankind would look more favorable upon the creation, man." Both the author and editor send the reader on a journey into the mind and heart of an American icon which have too long been misunderstood and underappreciated. He asks the reader to drink deep from the depths of his or her own intuitive awakenings, and encourages each to rediscover the man who created The Scarlet Letter. In so doing, one may see the vexations and conflicts in his own life as a "dark necessity" to be endured, as in the character of his beloved Hester, who speaks to the heart of every human, and in behalf of our own human nature.
Download or read book The Story of Redemption written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1979 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is God changeable? Does He have different gospels for different people? The story of redemption takes you behind the scenes in the struggle between God and Satan. It explains how the conflict began, what the issues are, and how the outcome is already assured. It traces the theme of God's relationship with man from the garden of Edan to the return of Christ and beyond.
Download or read book The Romance of Redemption written by M. R. De Haan and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the main themes and important prophetic message ofd the book of Ruth in this devotional exposition.
Download or read book The Particulars of Rapture written by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her commentary on the book of Exodus—the stories of slavery and liberation, the burning bush, the revelation at Sinai, the golden calf, the shattering of the tablets, the building and consecration of the tabernacle—Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg weaves a magnificent tapestry of classical biblical, talmudic, and midrashic interpretations; literary allusions; and insights from the worlds of philosophy and psychology into a narrative that gives us fascinating new perspectives on the biblical themes of exodus and redemption.
Download or read book An Episode of Jewish Romanticism written by Ernest H. Rubinstein and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining romanticism in the thought of Jewish philosopher, Franz Rosenzweig, this book compares his magnum opus, The Star of Redemption, with Leo Baeck's essay, "Romantic Religion," and Friedrich Schelling's Philosophy of Art, texts representing two distinct and, to a large extent, opposed interpretations of romanticism. Rosenzweig's thought was shaped by two intellectual histories: Germany's and Judaism's. Because romanticism had such a definite impact on modern German writing and thought, it becomes a question whether, and to what extent, Rosenzweig, too, was a romantic. Part of the force of the question derives from the tensions sometimes noted between Jewish and romantic worldviews. In this book, author Ernest Rubinstein shows The Star of Redemption to be along the spectrum of ideas that extends between Baeck and Schelling, and thus illustrates a qualified romanticism.
Download or read book The Poor Man s Evening Portion written by Robert Hawker and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love s Redeeming Work written by Geoffrey Rowell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a rich vein of writing within Anglican tradition that has helped to form the theology and spirituality of the contemporary church. For many readers, much of this material remains unfamiliar and is often difficult to access. Love's Redeeming Work draws together the works of major writers from the sixteenth century to the present day who have contributed to this development. Each selected writer is introduced with a brief biography, which gives background information about the author, and highlights the relationships that existed with others from the same period. This will enable the reader to set the writings in their proper context, enhancing understanding of the material. The selections then follow. In some instances these may be familiar, but other examples will introduce fresh ideas for every reader. Each writer's selection is concluded with a list of source texts, which can encourage readers to explore in more depth those areas which intrigue and excite them. Love's Redeeming Work traces a path that has enabled Anglicanism in particular, and the wider church as well, to develop an ever-deepening awareness of the need for a spiritual depth in the Christian life informed by a better knowledge of tradition. In exploring this material, it is the compilers' hope that readers will find new riches that will encourage and sustain their own quest for holiness.
Download or read book Opinions and Decisions of the Railroad Commission written by Railroad Commission of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
