Download or read book Reaching Forever written by Philip C. Kolin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching Forever is Philip C. Kolin's ninth collection of poems, the sixth to focus entirely on spiritual poetry. Like the poet's most recent book, Benedict's Daughter: Poems (2017), the poems in this new collection are anchored in Scripture. Organized according to major Christian topics--sheep, water, God's names, eschatology--Reaching Forever is ripe with scriptural parables, symbols and imagery, settings, allusions, and speakers ranging from God to biblical characters to contemporary figures. Consistent with the Poiema Series, these poems open the "windows" of faith. But they are not simple catechesis. Rather, they "leap over the sills," to quote D. S. Martin, providing new ways of looking at Holy Writ and applying them to today's world--to see the sacred in the daily. Undeniably the most distinctive feature of Reaching Forever is the large number of poems set in the contemporary world, but contextualized through the Bible. For instance, a poem on the polyandrous Samaritan woman is paired with one about a homeless woman in a large city who also has had many husbands and children. A long litany poem about God's appearances in Scripture is followed by one on catadores (garbage pickers) who hear rumbling below the filth and wonder what God's voice is saying. A short poem on the riches of Cana seques to a spiritual lyric about monks who transform donors' pennies into bread for the poor.
Download or read book Zero Repeat Forever written by G. S. Prendergast and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping novel about an invasion of murderous creatures and one girl fighting for her life at the end of the world. He has no voice or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting. Until a human kills her… Sixteen-year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying, armored Nahx invade. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her fellow campers can only stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn’t like feeling helpless, but what choice does she have? Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend. Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival comes to depend on trusting each other…
Download or read book The Wonder of It All written by Roger A. Goodman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This portfolio of poems, songs, writings, and visual imagery communicates the blessings of God's benevolence and uncovers the wonders God has placed on our plate. In The Wonder of it All, author Roger Goodman shares the rewards and reveals the fruits of seeking God's attention. The Wonder of it All reflects Goodman's life journey as he traveled from spiritual negativism and depression, to hope, and to greater understanding of God's wondrous gifts and life's true purpose. The journey took him from frustration and confusion to confidence in his faith. Through poems, hymns, and scriptures, this compilation provides insight into faith, prayer, sin, salvation, forgiveness, redemption, love, blessings, the wonders of nature, and peace. Accented with colorful stained glass art created by Goodman, The Wonder of it All serves to inspire a deep gratitude for God's creative genius and celebrates Christ's redemptive grace. Through words and pictures Goodman instills a sense that there is hope for all on the horizon. Through Christ there is everlasting hope.
Download or read book Reaching Forever written by Philip C. Kolin and published by Cascade Books. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching Forever is Philip C. Kolin''s ninth collection of poems, the sixth to focus entirely on spiritual poetry. Like the poet''s most recent book, Benedict''s Daughter: Poems (2017), the poems in this new collection are anchored in Scripture. Organized according to major Christian topics--sheep, water, God''s names, eschatology--Reaching Forever is ripe with scriptural parables, symbols and imagery, settings, allusions, and speakers ranging from God to biblical characters to contemporary figures. Consistent with the Poiema Series, these poems open the ""windows"" of faith. But they are not simple catechesis. Rather, they ""leap over the sills,"" to quote D. S. Martin, providing new ways of looking at Holy Writ and applying them to today''s world--to see the sacred in the daily. Undeniably the most distinctive feature of Reaching Forever is the large number of poems set in the contemporary world, but contextualized through the Bible. For instance, a poem on the polyandrous Samaritan woman is paired with one about a homeless woman in a large city who also has had many husbands and children. A long litany poem about God''s appearances in Scripture is followed by one on catadores (garbage pickers) who hear rumbling below the filth and wonder what God''s voice is saying. A short poem on the riches of Cana seques to a spiritual lyric about monks who transform donors'' pennies into bread for the poor. ""From Reaching Forever''s wide-ranging collection of lyrics, midrash, and narratives--characters from the street, from the Bible, from nature--I choose to begin with Philip C. Kolin''s figure of water, for I have long been a disciple of water''s spiritual lessons. But his River and Gulf are wonderfully strange to me, transformed into keepers of sacred mysteries. The opening poem, ''Baptism, '' declares that the artist''s ''canvas/must be submerged/to be seen, '' a paradox affirming the Creator''s vision over what is ''real'' in the human world. Later a powerful chiasm closes ''River Burial'': ''But submerged sins keep coming back to shore;/the river returns the remains of the dead each night.'' What is not of God and what has not been in right relation with God will not enjoy God''s paradoxical gnosis. I am haunted by the word ''submerged, '' the ''dipping under'' that represents hiddenness and revelation at once. If, as in ''Let Their Be Land, '' the tombstones cannot be read ''because no one can find them, '' how will we gain initiation into these mysteries? A gorgeous passage from ''Soft Sifting, '' late in the collection, portends: Our passing was meant to be a soft sifting like an ark with holes returning us to earth after each seeping rain. And in ''When God Arrives, '' we are told, ''you realize you do not/have to wear/your body anymore.'' From its mysterious, paradoxical title to its unifying voice, Reaching Forever is a moving, expansive meditation on the ''already'' as also the ''not yet.''"" --Martha Serpas, author of The Diener ""Even while writing within the tradition of the twentieth-century''s Christ-haunted literature of the southern United States, Philip C. Kolin gives us poems that help us hear ''God''s voices'' in the twenty-first century. Flannery O''Connor''s readers needed to be reminded that even escaped convicts could be instruments of grace. Our Age needs to be reminded that priests can be as well. Benedictine ''monks are God''s bakers of grace'' delivering loaves of bread to ''halfway/houses, shelters, nursing homes, jails.'' Fr. Derivaux ministered to the imprisoned in Parchman Penitentiary, who wear ''striped habits / to sigh the name of Jesus.'' A retired pastor from New Orleans'' Church of the Holy Spirit ''looks the way/I think God would want to look'' during the funeral of a friend. Yet Kolin is not sentimental in the least in his apocalyptic hopefulness. This volume is peppered like ''dark-roux gumbo'' with wolves, scarecrows, serpent tattoos, black boys in the Ohio River, making us even more in awe of Kolin''s faith that we could Reach, in the sense of ''arr
Download or read book Dilated Thoughts written by Kristy Meraki and published by Kristy Meraki. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapbook is meant to challenge the reader through prose-thought. Dilated Thoughts was written with the intent to question preconceived notions and aid open-mindedness with a dash of surrealism. This is not factual, but imagery; it assembles everyday circumstances, feelings and thoughts and exploits them as a means to gain perspective.
Download or read book Eternity S Essentials Poetic Evangelism written by William R. Lavell and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eternitys Essentials Poetic Evangelism is full of enriched poetic messages, filled with inspirational challenges, comforts, and encouragement for those desiring to do Gods will and obtain an abundant life. In our world today, filled with secular influences and pressures that seem to attempt to compromise the vitality of Gods quality will and ways, Christians need to be more fully devoted like never before, strong and steadfast, alert and uncompromising, not veering to the left or right of Gods divine path and purposes for our lives. Clearly, our messed-up world with pressures of many kinds to cave, comply, or compromise, we must seek the strength of our Lord, who is stronger than the strong. It is crucial in order to maintain an abundant life. Our communion and prayer dependence upon God must be heightened to its maximum stretch of devotion. Anything less would be to live far below our privilege. For ultimate results, we must remember one of the greatest promises from our LordBe thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life. William Lavell is a Canadian graduate in the social work field. His passion for Evangelism has led him to author an inspirational novel called Casino: All That Glitters Is Not Gold, creating hope for his readers who have found themselves to have stumbled and been ensnared by counterfeit and destructive addictions. Williams book has helped countless readers reach higher ground, obtaining a pathway of freedom and peace. In Williams new novel entitled Eternitys Essentials Poetic Evangelism, he sees a harvest of hope for those seeking an abundant life promised by God to all who surrender to Gods will being done on earth as it is in heaven.
Download or read book Rayne Pilson Los Angeles Survivors written by Robert Noyola and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Noyola's signature hero Retired L.A. Cop Rayne Pilson returns and is called on once again to protect the innocent. In Gates of Brass he is called in to help with the investigation of a murdered widow. It leads him to Hitler's memoirs, a house too many people want to own, and Marilyn Monroe's diary. In The Lady Reneged Rayne Pilson is called in to stop a check cashing fraud scheme and is caught up in a terrorist plot to infect American meat with ecoli bacteria in Los Angeles. Domestic terrorism and local Nazis are exposed.
Download or read book Mountain Magic written by David Drake and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy.
Download or read book Excelsior You Fathead written by Eugene B. Bergmann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Shepherd (1921-1999), master humorist, is best known for his creation A Christmas Story, the popular movie about the child who wants a BB gun for Christmas and nearly shoots his eye out. What else did Shepherd do? He is considered by many to be the Mark Twain and James Thurber of his day. For many thousands of fans, for decades, “Shep” talked on the radio late at night, keeping them up way past their bedtimes. He entertained without a script, improvising like a jazz musician, on any and every subject you can imagine. He invented and remains the master of talk radio. Shepherd perpetrated one of the great literary hoaxes of all time, promoting a nonexistent book and author, and then brought the book into existence. He wrote 23 short stories for Playboy, four times winning their humor of the year award, and also interviewed The Beatles for the magazine. He authored several popular books of humor and satire, created several television series and acted in several plays. He is the model for the character played by Jason Robards in the play and movie A Thousand Clowns, as well as the inspiration for the Shel Silverstein song made famous by Johnny Cash, “A Boy Named Sue.” Readers will learn the significance of innumerable Shepherd words and phrases, such as “Excelsior, you fathead ” and observe his constant confrontations with the America he loved. They will get to know and understand this multitalented genius by peeking behind the wall he built for himself – a wall to hide a different and less agreeable persona. Through interviews with his friends, co-workers and creative associates, such as musician David Amram, cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer, publisher and broadcaster Paul Krassner, and author Norman Mailer, the book explains a complex and unique genius of our time. “Shepherd pretty much invented talk radio ... What I got of him was a wonder at the world one man could create. I am as awed now by his achievement as I was then.” – Richard Corliss, Time magazine online
Download or read book The Rayne Pilson Collection written by Robert Noyola and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Rayne Pilson Stories. Former Los Angeles cop, Rayne Pilson, is Robert Noyola's favorite Character. He was introduced in the 2001 short story "Catalina Gene" and has appeared in six Novellas in Various collections, before the Novel length "The Pentagram Killer" was published in 2013. This collection brings all eight of them together inside one cover.
Download or read book Head Heart A Journey Inward written by Izzy Is Real and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book dedicated to growth and the human experience. Creativity is most often found in inspiration, the art of articulating and sharing can only truly be found in vulnerability. This book is a journal of my journey into adulthood. In between each page resides my heart and mind. I hope this gives you something to think about; but more importantly I hope this reminds you that growth is never fully granted without tension and tension is never absent from discomfort.
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Download or read book Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set written by Ursula Hegi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set by Ursula Hegi brings together her four novels set in Burgdorf, Germany that explore the consequences of Hitler’s reign and the ramifications of World War II.
Download or read book Because We Were In Love written by Sandeep Tiwari and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love has the power to shape and shatter our lives, taking us from soaring heights of joy to the depths of heartbreak. "Because We Were in Love" is a collection of five real-life stories that exemplify the resilience of the human spirit. These are tales of individuals who, once in love, saw their relationships crumble, only to rebuild their lives in remarkable ways. Amid heartache, it's easy to feel that life has come to a full stop. However, these stories remind us that life's journey continues, even when the path takes unexpected turns. Love may falter, but it also has the power to transform. These narratives illustrate that love, even when it breaks us, can inspire growth. These stories take us through the highs of love, the lows of heartbreak, and the triumph of resilience. They show that the human heart can heal, broken dreams can lead to new beginnings, and life never ceases to move forward. Join us as we celebrate these individuals who emerged from heartbreak stronger, wiser, and more determined, proving that love is a catalyst for transformation.
Download or read book Boundless Deep and Other Stories written by Gen Del Raye and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories is a portrait of a family that holds together despite everything. By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows the tenacity of relationships fractured by language and distance. At the funeral of her old boss, a grandmother confronts the legacy of the draft letters she delivered as a girl during World War II. Facing the loss of his job, a father becomes the caricature strangers have always believed him to be. A graduate student living far from home is worn down by the reality of what it takes to save even a small piece of the world. Along the way, we meet communist revolutionary Shigenobu Fusako hiding out in a Tokyo hotel, submariner and war criminal Nishina Sekio in his tortured dreams, and Edwin, a half-dolphin friend, wreaking havoc in a public pool. Written in the compressed style of Amy Hempel and Lucia Berlin, these stories examine characters whose struggles submerge them, weighing them down from every angle, until they can finally float free.
Download or read book The Culture of the Culture written by Joseph S. Norman and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career that spanned over thirty years, Iain M. Banks became one of the best-loved and most prolific writers in Britain, with his space opera series concerned with the pan-galactic utopian civilisation known as 'the Culture' widely regarded as his most significant contribution to science fiction. The Culture of 'The Culture' is the first critical monograph to focus solely on this series, providing a comprehensive, thematic analysis of Banks's Culture stories from Consider Phlebas to The Hydrogen Sonata. It explores the development of Banks's political, philosophical and literary thought, arguing that the Culture offers both an image of a harmonious civilisation modelled on an alternative socialist form of globalisation and a critique of our neo-liberal present. As Joseph S. Norman explains, the Culture is the result of an ongoing utopian process, attempting through the application of technoscience to move beyond obstacles to progress such as imperialism, capitalism, the human condition, religious dogma, patriarchy and crises in artistic representation. The Culture of 'The Culture' defines Banks's creation as culture: a utopian way of doing, of being, of seeing: an approach, an attitude and a lifestyle that has enabled, and is evolving alongside, utopia, rather than an image of a static end-state.
