Download or read book Pastor Elle in Wedding Stilettos written by Doris Aldrich Smith and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor Elle is finally planning her wedding to the man of her dreamswho has been in her life for eight years; he finally popped the question. Her wedding is fraught with blunders and calamities as are many well-planned weddings. Life normalizes until she becomes pregnant and has their son. Post-partum depression interferes with her ministry, which up to this point has been an over-achieving success. In the midst of life and ministry, she fights to defend the rights of the abused women she meets. A major tragedy occurs which changes her life forever. How will she maneuver through life and service? Find out as you laugh and cry along with Pastor Elle. Another story of Pastor Elle encountering the challenges of balancing life in the world of multiple needs both personally and professionally. She experiences life where she helps others as she accepts help from others. It is a fictional story that holds valuable truths about living for all of us. You will enjoy reading about Elles adventures and you will find yourself wondering about your own life experiences. Rev. Dr. Cindy Reynolds, Assistant to the Bishop of Indiana United Methodist Conference

Download or read book Pastor Elle in Practical Pumps written by and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor Elle is a young widow with a baby, who continues to serve her church while investigating her husband's wrongful death. She receives threatening notes and works with a detective to solve the case. The detective falls for her, but she thwarts his advances while continuing to keep in contact. She receives a gift which changes her attitude and her life. This is book three in a trilogy, but which stands alone. You might choose to read Pastor Elle in Heavenly Heels and Pastor Elle in Wedding Stilettos before this one. Both available on amazon.com and kindle.

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Download or read book The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry written by Roger Paulin and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man's rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel's activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent.

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