Download or read book The Drowning of the Saints written by Paul Perry and published by Salmon Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection introduces a young writer with a distinctive new voice, full of verve and promise. A past winner of the Hennessy New Writer of the Year Award, Paul Perry's collection is filled with sensual, lyrical, and beautifully crafted poems that are often infused with a dream-like magic and arouse a sense of longing, searching, and questioning. Whether it is a rumination on a gate to a farm, a painting by Breughel, the end of a love affair, or the armada's wreckage off the coast of Ireland, Perry infuses his work with a spiritual luminosity and a relentless search for meaning. Paul Perry graduated from Brown University and was a James Michener Fellow of Creative Writing at the University of Miami and C. Glenn Cambor Fellow of Poetry at the University of Houston. His work was selected for The Best American Poetry 2000 collection. "A remarkable triumph"-Fred D'Aguiar

Download or read book Saints at the River written by Ron Rash and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a major voice in Southern literature comes award-winning author Ron Rash's Saints at the River, a novel about a town divided by the aftermath of a tragic accident--and the woman caught in the middle. When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that bears the river's name are thrown into the national spotlight. The girl's parents want to attempt a rescue of the body; environmentalists are convinced the rescue operation will cause permanent damage to the river and set a dangerous precedent. Torn between the two sides is Maggie Glenn, a twenty-eight-year-old newspaper photographer who grew up in the town and has been sent to document the incident. Since leaving home almost ten years ago, Maggie has done her best to avoid her father, but now, as the town's conflict opens old wounds, she finds herself revisiting the past she's fought so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, the reporter who's accompanied her to cover the story turns out to have a painful past of his own, and one that might stand in the way of their romance. Drawing on the same lyrical prose and strong sense of place that distinguished his award-winning first novel, One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash has written a book about the deepest human themes: the love of the land, the hold of the dead on the living, and the need to dive beneath the surface to arrive at a deeper truth. Saints at the River confirms the arrival of one of today's most gifted storytellers.

Download or read book The Drowning Eyes written by Emily Foster and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Dragon Ships began to tear through the trade lanes and ravage coastal towns, the hopes of the archipelago turned to the Windspeakers on Tash. The solemn weather-shapers with their eyes of stone can steal the breeze from raiders' sails and save the islands from their wrath. But the Windspeakers' magic has been stolen, and only their young apprentice Shina can bring their power back and save her people. Tazir has seen more than her share of storms and pirates in her many years as captain, and she's not much interested in getting involved in the affairs of Windspeakers and Dragon Ships. Shina's caught her eye, but that might not be enough to convince the grizzled sailor to risk her ship, her crew, and her neck. PRAISE FOR THE DROWNING EYES "The Drowning Eyes is a magic- and wind-filled adventure, peopled with excellent and strong characters. The story made me want to sail the coastline on a boat of my own and see if I could call up a storm. In Emily Foster's debut novella, apprentice Windspeaker Shina must return her people's power to them before the Dragon Ships destroy everything . . . unless Shina destroys it by accident first. So vividly rendered, you'll be tempted to wash the salt-spray from your clothing after reading The Drowning Eyes." - Fran Wilde, author of Updraft At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Abe Sapien The Drowning and Other Stories written by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980’s, new BPRD agent Abe Sapien was set to retrieve the corpse of a powerful warlock off the coast of France. Abe quickly finds himself in a battle with a century old evil in the form of demonic monks. Mike Mignola and Jason Shawn Alexander’s premiere Abe solo series sets the stage for a collection of tales tracing Abe’s times both as an agent of the BPRD, and delving into his long-hidden origins. A haunted lake, South American vampires, and a mad scientist seeking out man’s missing link are chronicled here! This paperback omnibus edition collects Abe Sapien: The Drowning, The Devil Does Not Jest, and Lost Lives and Other Stories.

Download or read book Saints Preserve Us written by Sean Kelly and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious and comprehensive, the ultimate guide to the universe of saints—and what each one means. Cross-referenced by birthdays, professions, and ailments, this is a must-have for any true believer with a proper sense of fun. Your name . . . your birthday . . . your nationality . . . your job . . . your hobby, each entitles you to the Papally Prescribed, Perpetual Personal Protection of a Plethora of Powerful Patrons in Paradise. Whatever your problem—social, sexual, or spiritual—or illness—mental or physical, chronic or acute—a Holy Host of Heavenly Helpers is at Hand. And you don’t even have to be Catholic! All you do need to discover the identities of Your Very Own Patron Saints, and to avail yourself of their Guaranteed Supernatural Assistance, is this Blessed Book. • Religiously researched! • Fanatically comprehensive! • Compulsively cross-indexed! • Incredibly credulous!

Download or read book Medieval Saints Lives written by Emma Campbell and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contending that the study of hagiography is significant both for a consideration of medieval literature and for current theoretical debates in medieval studies, this book considers a range of Old French and Anglo-Norman texts, using modern theories of kinship and community to show how saints' lives construe social and sexual relations. Focusing on the depiction of the gift, kinship and community, the book maintains that social and sexual systems play a key role in vernacular hagiography. Such systems, along with the desires they produce and control, are, it is argued, central to hagiography's religious functions, particularly its role as a vehicle of community formation. In attempting to think beyond the limits of human relationships, saints' lives nonetheless create an environment in which queer desires and modes of connection become possible, suggesting that, in this case at least, the orthodox nurtures the queer. This book thus suggests not only that medieval hagiography is worthy of greater attention but also that this corpus might provide an important resource for theorizing community in its medieval contexts and for thinking it in the present. EMMA CAMPBELL is Associate Professor of French at the University of Warwick.

Download or read book Abe Sapien The Drowning 4 written by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In _Abe Sapien: The Drowning_ #4, the terrible secrets of Saint-S̩bastien come to light as Abe pushes deeper into the mystery of the island and a legacy of evil that spans the life of humanity itself. Written by _Hellboy_ creator Mike Mignola and featuring the haunting art of Jason Shawn Alexander (_Damn Nation_, _The Secret_, _The Escapists_), _Abe Sapien: The Drowning_ is the story of _Hellboy_ mainstay Abe Sapien's first solo adventure. "There is just one word for Alexander's art: amazing."Silver Bullet Comics

Download or read book The Lives of the Saints written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hymns for the Drowning written by Nammāḻvār and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition recognizes 12 avatars devoted to Visnu who lived in the 6th and 9th century in the Tamil speaking region of South India.

Download or read book Without God s Standards Christians Saints Are Drowning in the Pews written by James Daughtry and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If we seek the Lord, and trust and obey HIM in our times of trouble, God will exercise HIS authority over the enemy of our spirit, soul and body. When Leaders choose to drop, compromise, and criticize God's standard(s), they not only discredit God, they exalt themselves as the new gods. When churches and its leaders delete standards, they're totally dismissing the Spirit, for it is the Spirit of the Lord, which elevates His standard His word in His people's obedient hearts of love to Protect, Bless and Perfect them." One of the goals held by many Christian pastors is to grow his or her congregation. Inspired by pastors such as Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and other mega-church heads, the pastors of smaller congregations prioritize church growth and size over evangelism and effectiveness. The result? Churches that now reinterpret, rewrite and reshape Christian doctrine and God's holy word to accommodate aspects of popular culture. In an effort to increase attendance, many congregations now use the word "inclusiveness" to permit and overlook overtly sinful behavior and attitudes. From casual or overtly provocative attire to ongoing behavior that flies directly in the face of Judeo-Christian ethics and morality, the Church has fallen into the trap of "nonjudgmentalism," hamstrung by the belief that because Jesus preached to sinners, the Church must condone sin. Without God's Standards, Christians (Saints) Are Drowning In The Pews displays the results of this new set of priorities - cultural decay, chaos and confusion, even among those who have been faithful. The book seeks to refocus attention on the Church's primary objective - that of evangelism, moral education and saving souls - even if it means some congregants won't feel "comfortable." Ultimately, the elevation of morality to a place above pop culture will restore a sense of peace and attitude of respect to all people, even those who reject the message from the pulpit.

Download or read book The Drowning Spool written by Monica Ferris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, knows how to untangle even the most knotty of mysteries. But a soggy murder case might have Betsy in over her head… Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn’t hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to teach a class on the tricky punch needle technique, Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers. Unfortunately, the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety. A young woman is found floating in Watered Silk’s therapy pool, and Betsy’s sleuthing skills are immediately called upon to figure out who drowned her. But the list of suspects is more twisted than any Betsy has encountered before. The young woman had three lovers—each with a motive for the murder. It’s up to Betsy to sort out the snarl of romantic entanglements and find a killer, or the wrong man is bound to get pinned for a crime he didn’t commit… FREE EMBROIDERY PATTERN INCLUDED

Download or read book Hymns for the Drowning written by Nammalvar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this book are some of the earliest about Visnu, one of the Hindu Trinity, also known as Tirumal, the Dark One. Tradition recognizes twelve alvars, saint-poets devoted to Visnu, who lived between the sixth and ninth century in the Tamil-speaking region of south India. These devotees of Visnu and their counterparts, the devotees of Siva (nayanmar), changed and revitalized Hinduism and their devotional hymns addressed to Visnu are among the earliest bhakti (devotional) texts in any Indian language. In this selection from Nammalvar's works, the translations like the originals reflect the alternations of philosophic hymns and love poems, through recurring voices, roles and places. They also enact a progression"from wonder at the Lord's works, to the experience of loving him and watching others love him, to moods of questioning and despair and finally to the experience of being devoured and possessed by him.

Download or read book Lives of the Cambro British Saints written by William Jenkins Rees and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Drowning written by J.P. Smith and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every seven years, a boy disappears from Camp Waukeelo. Who will be next? It doesn't take long for a little boy to disappear. Joey Proctor can't swim, but that doesn't stop camp counselor Alex Mason from leaving him out on a raft in the middle of the lake in a fit of rage. Alex only meant to scare the kid, teach him a lesson. He didn't mean to forget about him. But now Joey is gone... and his body is never found. More than twenty years later, Alex is a success. The proof is there for anyone to see, in the millions of dollars he makes, his lavish house, his beautiful wife and daughters. And no one knows what happened that summer at camp. At least, no one should know. But it looks like Joey Proctor may be back to take his revenge...

Download or read book Mediaeval and Modern Saints and Miracles written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medi val and Modern Saints and Miracles written by George Perkins Marsh and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Saints in Limbo written by River Jordan and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “River Jordan’s Saints in Limbo is a compelling story of the mysteries of existence and, specially, the mysteries of the human heart.” –Ron Rash, author of Serena and Chemistry and Other Stories “I lose myself in River’s writing–transported to a different time and place– and in this case, to one that makes the ordinary mystical and magical. I give it FIVE diamonds in the Pulpwood Queen’s TIARA!” –Kathy L. Patrick, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs and author of The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life Ever since her husband Joe died, Velma True’s world has been limited to what she can see while clinging to one of the multicolored threads tied to the porch railing of her home outside Echo, Florida. When a mysterious stranger appears at her door on her birthday and presents Velma with a special gift, she is rattled by the object’s ability to take her into her memories–a place where Joe still lives, her son Rudy is still young, unaffected by the world’s hardness, and the beginning is closer than the end. As secrets old and new come to light, Velma wonders if it’s possible to be unmoored from the past’s deep roots and find a reason to hope again. Praise for River Jordan “[River Jordan’s] literary spice rack has everything you need to put together a good book.” –Rick Bragg, author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man “River Jordan writes so beautifully.” –Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming