Download or read book The Church of Black Sparrows written by Alan Cork and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those faint whispers suddenly turned to loud, mocking laughter in Hoad's head. The picture of Quincy Pitt really looked alive and moving now. The eyes were becoming larger and larger until they bored into his brain. The mouth was yawning open, revealing more of those beast-like teeth. And as the poison filled their brains and lungs, so sanity left them. Ronan Bell is a placid, unimaginative antiques restorer whose humdrum life is suddenly turned on its head. He finds himself drawn into a world of Satanism and witchcraft, compounded when his long estranged wife, Estelle, comes back into his life. She is under the spell of Felix Hoad, head of the all-powerful QPL Corporation, and as Ronan tries to take on the mighty QPL, he is drawn into a battle to the death with the evil empire. Each path he takes leads to madness, murder and the Church of Black Sparrows.
Download or read book Black Sparrow written by Broxin Delano and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God really hate homosexuals? Do people really go to hell because they happen to love someone that society says isnt the right sex? Would Steve have eaten the forbidden fruit? Black Sparrow is a candid autobiographical narrative that chronologically surveys the life and times of an internally conflicted black gay male. This book dissects the experience of growing up gay in a conservative Episcopalian church and family and the harrowing, self-destructive pursuit to find happiness, love, acceptance, and spiritual peace. Black Sparrow is written to inspire and to evoke laughter, tears, and deliberation
Download or read book Black Sparrow written by A.J. Griffiths-Jones and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Heathrow airport, a hired assassin is boarding a plane to Paris. On the same plane is young Uzma Rafiq, heading for a new life with her French lover. The passengers carry identical suitcases, but their motives for traveling to the European city couldn't be further apart. When they accidentally pick up the wrong luggage on arrival, a deadly series of events is set in motion. As a sinister twist brings them together, they will dictate each other's destinies. Against a backdrop of The City of Lights, who will survive? A thriller full of twists and turns, A.J. Griffiths's 'Black Sparrow' is a riveting story of love, murder and deadly secrets.
Download or read book Sparrow written by Sherri L. Smith and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family sticks with family. That’s the golden rule G’ma taught Kendall. But once G’ma’s gone, Kendall has no family left—except for an aunt G’ma asked for at the end, who Kendall barely remembers. Only Aunt Janet knows what G’ma had in mind, but she never even shows up at the funeral. With child services on Kendall’s case and just 10 days to get her apartment lease renewed, Kendall sets out for Janet’s home in New Orleans to get her life in order—and her questions answered. But what she finds are new friends, like Evie, who is confined to a wheelchair, but can sing like the women on G’ma’s old records; Miss Clare, who needs Kendall’s help as much as Kendall needs hers; and Marcus, who is younger than them all, but still knows how to get by. And when Mardi Gras arrives, with its parades and prizes and music, anything seems possible—even making a fresh start, with or without Janet.
Download or read book SPARROW SPEAKS IN THIS POETIC AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY written by Barbara Julian Dean “Sparrow” and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Julian Dean, “Sparrow” Author, Dramatist, Newspaper Reporter and Playwright, is a native of Chicago, Illinois. In addition to giving dramatic recitations in Elementary, High Schools, Universities and Churches, she has entertained in the Prisons. She has appeared on television and radio shows and her poetry has been published in various newspapers and magazines. She’s also an educator and a pastor—a founder and director of the Gospel Music Hour Outreach Ministry in Homewood, Illinois. Since the second release of her book Open Door—Open Mind, Sparrow has been working with young people in Chicago public schools and as an instructor at Harold Washington College. As an educator, she is able to inspire students with her message to “look up! (love over and over, kindle universal peace).” Her works has been accepted by the Chicago Public Library; the American Library Association, the Library of International Relations; the Canadian Library Association, Ottowa, Canada; the Library Association of Great Britain, London, England; the Library of the University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; the Misyani Girls Secondary School, Machakos, Kenya, East Africa, and commercial bookstores in Chicago, Illinois.
Download or read book Sparrow s Revenge written by Paul Salsini and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Resistance fighter whose code name was Sparrow relentlessly pursues the collaborator of one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy during WWII. But in the treacherous and mysterious land of the Garfagnana, he discovers something he has long hidden within himself."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Hand in Hand written by Elizabeth Head Black and published by Bright Sky Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere along the road of life, at one time or another, we all feel lonely. In the course of a lifetime, people move, people change, people die. Hand in Hand, Walking with the Psalms Through Loneliness is written for any person who has lived long enough to move away from home, marry or divorce, be transferred in a job, send children to college, experience the death of a loved one, or outlive their peer group. It speaks to those seeking God in the hard places of life. Come relish the great comfort and hope in the reading of the Psalms. They are simple, honest, yet deeply personal and profound. The Psalms speak intimately to our circumstances, penetrating deep into our soul, healing places we often cannot reach on our own. In them, we encounter God's tender presence and care in our lonely times. In them, we can come to an immovable knowledge that God is with us. We are not alone--no matter how we feel. Appropriating this knowledge changes our perspective not only in loneliness, but also in every other situation. God is not only present but actively engaged in a powerful, pastoral way, bringing the fullness of his blessing into our lives.
Download or read book The Sparrow written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today
Download or read book An Episode of Sparrows written by Rumer Godden and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In post-World War II London, two street-tough children attempt to build a hidden garden--an act that awakens hidden courage in the children and profoundly disrupts the neighborhood.
Download or read book St Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Wings of a Sparrow written by Godfrey K. Sang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sparrow written by Gary Porter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastor Judah Greeves and his wife, Esther, live a sad, quiet life in Bethel Hollow, PA. The church they have led together for decades is dying. The small farm they built with their own hands has become unmanageable in their old age. Sparrow, their only daughter, ran away from home six years ago, and they don’t know if she is alive or dead. One night, they get a call from a stranger telling them their daughter has overdosed and died, so they pack up their pickup truck the next morning and drive 1,000 miles to identify her body and bring her back home. What happens next shatters their lives into a 1,000 pieces.
Download or read book The Power of Black Music written by Samuel A. Floyd Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and inserted calls and responses at key points in the musical narrative, Hendrix's performance of the national anthem also hearkened back to a tradition even older than the blues, a tradition rooted in the rings of dance, drum, and song shared by peoples across Africa. Bold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music. Inspired by the pioneering work of Sterling Stuckey and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author Samuel A. Floyd, Jr, advocates a new critical approach grounded in the forms and traditions of the music itself. He accompanies readers on a fascinating journey from the African ring, through the ring shout's powerful merging of music and dance in the slave culture, to the funeral parade practices of the early new Orleans jazzmen, the bluesmen in the twenties, the beboppers in the forties, and the free jazz, rock, Motown, and concert hall composers of the sixties and beyond. Floyd dismisses the assumption that Africans brought to the United States as slaves took the music of whites in the New World and transformed it through their own performance practices. Instead, he recognizes European influences, while demonstrating how much black music has continued to share with its African counterparts. Floyd maintains that while African Americans may not have direct knowledge of African traditions and myths, they can intuitively recognize links to an authentic African cultural memory. For example, in speaking of his grandfather Omar, who died a slave as a young man, the jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet said, "Inside him he'd got the memory of all the wrong that's been done to my people. That's what the memory is....When a blues is good, that kind of memory just grows up inside it." Grounding his scholarship and meticulous research in his childhood memories of black folk culture and his own experiences as a musician and listener, Floyd maintains that the memory of Omar and all those who came before and after him remains a driving force in the black music of America, a force with the power to enrich cultures the world over.
Download or read book Sparrow written by Brian Kindall and published by Diving Boy Books. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal for Pre-teen fiction 2022! Global Book Awards Gold Medal winner for children's literature 2022. A boy. A wish. A secret desire gone horribly wrong. Timothy Sperling misses his mom and dad terribly. Left behind with his morose uncle while they’re off on an expedition to avert an environmental crisis, the bird-boned boy would give anything to see them again. But when he spies a shooting star, instead of wishing to be reunited with his parents, he falters and asks for snow… only to conjure up a blizzard that won't quit! As a town that never sees winter is buried in mountains of white, Timothy teams up with a wise explorer to figure out how to stop the relentless frozen flakes. And with all the blame being shoveled on his family, the clever kid’s connection to sparrows may be his one chance to pull the city out of its deep freeze. Can Timothy undo his fateful wish and bring back the sunshine? Sparrow is a high-flying middle-grade novel. If you or your child like relatable characters, timeless settings, and high-stakes adventure, then you’ll love Brian Kindall’s feathered flurries. Buy Sparrow to take to the skies today!
Download or read book WHEN A SPARROW FALLS written by Aubrey and Roger Morris and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of today's historical stories offer total fiction or cold facts of history. When a Sparrow Falls is a powerful story of faith lost and faith restored, fused with reality and drama surrounding actual events. The novel is seen through the eyes of David Spence, a seminary student who lost his faith and dropped out of divinity school after the loss of his mother. He would later serve in the civil war under the command of the legendary General Stonewall Jackson. Spence encounters a moment of truth in the heat of battle. Rather than a bland spew of facts or an unrealistic gush of fiction, When a Sparrow Falls is a reality check for all of us when facing a crisis of faith in God.
Download or read book The Socotra Sparrow written by Frank K. Myers, Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After college, a tour of duty as a Royal Marine and an apprenticeship in a shipyard, Martin Sommerville goes to America to seek his fortune. The death of his sweetheart in an auto accident causes him to pack up and leave, seeking solace by drowning himself in work at several of the worlds famous shipyards. Finding little comfort in this venture, Marty returns to his old haunts in Northern England. A short time later, after moving to London, he meets a raven-haired beauty and her professor Father, who launch him on an exciting new career with many twists and turns. He ends up as an undercover Agent disguised as a Lecturer in the professor’s marine engineering department. Marty succumbs to the raven haired Cybil, as they develop into a crack undercover team, combating international terrorism. Their assignments thrust them into international intrigue in Great Britain, as well as Rome, and the French Riviera, where they become aligned with a wealthy German arms dealer and his Fiancé.
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
