Download or read book The Tracks of His Tears written by Lucy Dennis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The news hit her in the face like an old frying pan. She did not know what to do when her cousin gave the particulars surrounding her brothers death. A brother she never set eyes on. A brother her father deliberately did not tell her about. After days and days of reading upon his trial, she grew angry about the truth, he was hanged for a crime he did not commit! Her great annoyance heightened when evidence of his innocence fell into her lap with one telephone call. An email she received was more proof that Herman Perry Dennis Jr. was framed for the murder of Ruth Farnsworth. She remembered her father and his struggle with alcoholism. She also remembered his intelligence and how people marveled at it, yet she never understood why it was impossible for him to go a day without drinking. After she listened to her cousin describe his ghastly nightmare, she finally understood. Herman P. Dennis Jr. was an upright young man, who appreciated his Blackness and was proud of it. He was very intelligent and joining the Air Force in the 1940s was proof of it. In his walk during his enlistment, he tackled with racism. He spoke and wrote about it. The beautiful young lady was killed, but not by the hands of Herman P. Dennis Jr.. Black men, by definition of Whites in those days, desired White women so much, until they would go to any length to have one, so with rape came a lynching. It did not matter if the person was guilty, someone had to pay. The town of Rosewood Florida came to mind when she began writing about her brother.
Download or read book Living the Questions of the Bible written by Luke A. Powery and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living the Questions of the Bible presents questioning as a viable and faithful Christian practice. We may think the Bible is only about getting answers, but the Bible is also a question book, revealing how the life of faith is a quest with and for God. By exploring various passages in the Bible, this book attempts to invite readers into an interrogative spirituality, one in which we learn that even God questions. Faith seeks and keeps on seeking. It may reach understanding, or it may not. Either way, our questions are a way to live the Christian life honestly, faithfully, and doxologically.
Download or read book The Crying Book written by Heather Christle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Download or read book The Persistence of the Soul in Literature Art and Politics written by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The volume combines literary, aesthetic, ethical, and political considerations of the soul in texts and works of art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, spanning cultures and schools of thought. Drawing on philosophical, religious and psychological theories of the soul, it emphasizes the far-reaching and enduring epistemological function of the concept in literature, art and politics. The authors argue that the concept of the soul has shaped the understanding of human life and persistently irrigated cultural productions. They show how the concept of soul was explored and redefined by writers and artists, remaining relevant even as it became removed from its ancient or Christian origins.
Download or read book White Tears written by Hari Kunzru and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • GQ • Time • The Economist • Slate • HuffPost • Book Riot Ghost story, murder mystery, love letter to American music--White Tears is all of this and more, a thrilling investigation of race and appropriation in society today. Seth is a shy, awkward twentysomething. Carter is more glamorous, the heir to a great American fortune. But they share an obsession with music--especially the blues. One day, Seth discovers that he's accidentally recorded an unknown blues singer in a park. Carter puts the file online, claiming it's a 1920s recording by a made-up musician named Charlie Shaw. But when a music collector tells them that their recording is genuine--that there really was a singer named Charlie Shaw--the two white boys, along with Carter's sister, find themselves in over their heads, delving deeper and deeper into America's dark, vengeful heart. White Tears is a literary thriller and a meditation on art--who owns it, who can consume it, and who profits from it.
Download or read book Tracks of My Tears written by Manswell T. Peterson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has its challenges. Growing up in as a child in Albany, Georgia held good times for Manswell Peterson and his siblings. They also held a lot of growing pains. When the one person he could depend on gets her life turned upside down, the results propel a course of lies, deception and lessons unthinkable. This is a story of one young man who challenged the odds, the critics, and social inequities that dared to destroy his life. Can Manswell defeat the obstacles that life wields at any given moment? Take a journey back in time through...The Tracks Of My Tears.
Download or read book From Promise to Peril written by James Allen and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The upwardly mobile Landesburg family sells off their modest German dairy farm to seek financial success in early-twentieth century Berlin, where their son Sigmund eventually graduates from a prestigious medical school. Sigmund’s medical practice thrives and together with his wife Marissa, the great granddaughter of Otto von Bismarck, they rise to social prominence. As a dramatic symbol of his love, Sigmund gifts Marissa with a beautiful, uniquely crafted diamond and sapphire ring to be passed down through following generations. As she grows up, Sigmund and Marissa’s daughter, Anna, an intellectual prodigy, becomes fast friends with another gifted young woman, Marta, who is to become a world-renowned violin virtuoso. By the 1930s, the rise of Nazism has begun, and the Jewish Anna and gentile Marta find themselves and their families swept into the riptide of history. From Promise to Peril: A Family Saga is the first book in the trilogy Tracks of Our Tears, which traces the Landesburgs through overwhelming obstacles as they face escalating persecution and must struggle to protect their family from the tyranny and violence that begins to surround them. A gripping, meticulously researched melding of fiction and little-known historical facts, this amazing story offers a vivid perspective on the Nazi menace through the eyes of two brilliant young women who must seize their own power to survive.
Download or read book This Will End in Tears written by Adam Brent Houghtaling and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Will End in Tears is the first ever and definitive guide to melancholy music. Author Adam Brent Houghtaling leads music fans across genres, beyond the enclaves of emo and mope-rock, and through time to celebrate the albums and artists that make up the miserabilist landscape. In essence a book about the saddest songs ever sung, This Will End in Tears is an encyclopedic guide to the masters of melancholy—from Robert Johnson to Radiohead, from Edith Piaf to Joy Division, from Patsy Cline to The Cure—an insightful, exceedingly engaging exploration into why sad songs make us so happy.
Download or read book Love is Simple written by Jo March and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You say you have only felt something close to this once before. I say the same. We sit on the edge of the lock looking down into the water... We are about to get swept away in the fastest river with nothing to hold onto but each other. "Whatever happens," I ask you, "don't let go!" And you promise me to hold on. To hold on till the end. Overcome with love for one man, and devastated by the loss of another, Jo Wyatt finds herself on a journey: a journey of understanding and spiritual discovery; a journey to uncover the truth. Simultaneously tragic and hopeful, this is a romantic story about living, dying, and loving; but most importantly, about keeping the faith. Love is Simple tells what it really means to follow your heart.
Download or read book Shadows of the Heart written by Lord'Williams and published by Words to a Page Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William and his wife, Yvonne, teeter on the brink of divorce after 25 years of marriage. Both William and Yvonne were born with special powers, and William believes that despite their mutual infidelities, they are destined to be together.
Download or read book This Is Not A Love Song written by Sean O'Leary and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is Not A Love Song is a collection of short love stories from all around Australia, with only a few happy endings but many possibilities. Travellers arrive in small towns and find unconventional love with people who are much more than what they first seem. The Sydney / Melbourne dilemma also raises its head, with people arriving or leaving the cities for love that never quite reaches its peak. Nights out seeing bands, drugs stolen from dealers, barmaids and girls on the beach. Homecomings, falling in love with places, a mystical new bar and a lover's betrayal. You'll find these, and much more, in Sean O'Leary's 'This Is Not A Love Song'.
Download or read book The Track Of The Cat written by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark's classic novel is a compelling tale of four men who fear a marauding mountain lion but swear to conquer it. It is also a story of violent human emotions--love and hate, hope and despair--and of the perpetual conflict between good and evil.
Download or read book Broken written by Lisa Edward and published by Forever Yours. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one aspiring writer, the Hamptons is the perfect place to start over and rediscover her creative spark, but she doesn't expect to find a second chance at love with the mysterious man who lives next door, in this gripping emotional read by the author of The Songbird Trilogy. After giving up my dream of becoming a writer in favor of a marriage that was destined to fail, I'd been given a second chance. A chance to discover if after seven years, free-spirited Evie Rivers still lay beneath the surface. For eight weeks, it would be just me, my laptop, and the wintry Hamptons landscape. No distractions, no interruptions. At least, that was the plan. Until he came along. Adam Walker. He was a smart, sexy Englishman hell bent on helping me find what I had lost: myself. He laughed easily and found the good in every situation, but I couldn't help wondering what sadness lay behind the smile that slipped when he let his guard down. Suddenly, though eight weeks doesn't feel like long enough, maybe eight weeks can be all it takes to change your life forever.
Download or read book 1965 The Most Revolutionary Year in Music written by Andrew Grant Jackson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the cultural and social influences that rendered 1965 a groundbreaking year in music history, exploring the rises of such artists as The Beatles and Bob Dylan, as well as the emergence of soul music and other definitive genres.
Download or read book The Song of the Tears Box Set written by Ian Irvine and published by Santhenar Trust. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 1720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After ten years of servitude, Nish is still held in the blackest dungeon of the maimed God-Emperor, his corrupt father. With the sorcerous quicksilver tears, Gatherer and Reaper, the God-Emperor controls all magic and is remaking the world in his depraved image. Now he wants Nish to be his lieutenant, to become as foul as he is. But the malevolent God-Emperor executed the only woman Nish has ever loved and, even faced with another decade in prison, he cannot serve his father. Santhenar’s only hope of freedom now rests on shy, bookish Maelys, who has been given a shameful duty by her overbearing aunts. Maelys’ gift will allow her to reach Nish’s dungeon unseen, but how can she get him out past the all-seeing gaze of Gatherer and Reaper? And even if she does, how can a friendless renegade with no magic take on the most powerful tyrant the world has ever seen? You won’t want to miss this ‘unflaggingly inventive’ fantasy series by million-selling author Ian Irvine. What reviewers say about the Three Worlds books “A compelling adventure in a landscape full of wonders.” – Locus “A page-turner of the highest order … Formidable!” – SFX on Geomancer “It is the most engrossing book I’ve read in years.” – Van Ikin, Sydney Morning Herald “Readers of Eddings, Goodkind and Jordan will lap this one up.” – Starlog “Utterly absorbing.” Stephen Davenport, Independent Weekly “For sheer excitement, there’s just no one like Irvine.” SFX on The Destiny of the Dead “As good as anything I have read in the fantasy genre.” – Adelaide Advertiser Reviews of The Song of the Tears trilogy “Hang on with both hands, because this story waits for no one.” Sandy Auden, SFX on The Fate of the Fallen. “The final payoff is fantastic. The most unflaggingly inventive storyteller we’ve seen in years.” Sydney Morning Herald on The Destiny of the Dead “This precise and beautifully crafted novel blooms from its ascetic opening to a resonant and rewarding climax. Makes what’s currently available on fantasy shelves seem hackneyed and formulaic. Utterly absorbing.” Stephen Davenport, Independent Weekly “Unbelievably, Irvine has managed to increase the pace of his story in this third and final volume – for sheer excitement, there’s just no one like Irvine around at the moment.” SFX on The Destiny of the Dead. “Whether you like interesting characters, good description or a well thought out world, this book is bound to impress you.” – Nicole Juliette, Dreamhosters.com "Another blockbuster fantasy series." Colin Steele, Canberra Times.
Download or read book The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 written by Edan Lepucki and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic collection of fiction, essays, poetry, and graphic work selected by high school students with the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki. Over the past year, fifteen Bay Area high school students have gathered each week in the basement of an independent publishing house to pore over online and print literary journals, magazines, books, plays, and graphic novels. They read things they couldn't shake and engaged in deep conversations about how good writing brings people together, no matter what else is happening around the world. With the help of New York Times best-selling author Edan Lepucki they have compiled The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019.
Download or read book Broken written by Maddie James and published by Turquoise Morning Press. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodeo took him from her once. Will it take him again? It’s been a decade since Garth Nash left the Triple R Ranch to become a bull riding star. Now he’s back home to pay his final respects to the man he’d loved like a father, and to console the pesky tomboy he’d loved like a little sister. But there’s nothing pesky or boyish about Amarilla Ray now. She’s a gorgeous, barrel-racing cowgirl who knows exactly what she wants—to compete at the Cowgirl Classic. Just once. And then she can get on with the rest of her life. Rilla had loved Garth like a big brother all those years ago, but today, her feelings are taking turns in a whole new direction, and suddenly it feels like Garth just might be the rest of her life. But rodeo took him from her once. And she knows he’s bound to leave again. Can she take the risk and fall in love? Can he? Or will rodeo win out again, and leave them both broken?
