Download or read book A Silent Patriarch written by Daniel Fanous and published by SPCK Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fr Daniel Fanous details the life of Pope Kyrillos, a key figure in recent Coptic history, drawing on unpublished archival materials and documents"--
Download or read book The Patriarch written by David Nasaw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and interviews with Kennedy family members and friends, Nasaw tells the story of a man who participated in the major events of his times: the booms and busts, the Depression and the New Deal, two world wars and the Cold War, and the birth of the New Frontier. In studying Kennedy's life, we relive the history of the American century. "Riveting . . . The Patriarch is a book hard to put down . . . As his son indelibly put it some months before his father was struck down: 'Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your county.' One wonders what was going through the mind of the patriarch, sitting a few feet away listening to that soaring sentiment as a fourth-generation Kennedy became president of the United States. After coming to know him over the course of this brilliant, compelling book, the reader might suspect that he was thinking he had done more than enough for his country. But the gods would demand even more." - New York Times Book Review
Download or read book A Silent Patriarch written by Daniel Fanous and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Earth as in Heaven written by Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople) and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this new volume of his writings reveals, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has continually proclaimed the primacy of spiritual values in determining environmental ethics and action. For him, the predicament we face is not primarily ecological but in fact spiritual: The ultimate aim is to see all things in God, and God in all things.
Download or read book The Book of My Lives written by Aleksandar Hemon and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For fans of Aleksandar Hemon's fiction, The Book of My Lives is simply indispensable; for the uninitiated, it is the perfect introduction to one of the great writers of our time. Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American music, bad poetry, and slightly better journalism. And then, his life in Chicago: watching from afar as war breaks out in Sarajevo and the city comes under siege, no way to return home; his parents and sister fleeing Sarajevo with the family dog, leaving behind all else they had ever known; and Hemon himself starting a new life, his own family, in this new city. And yet this is not really a memoir. The Bookof My Lives, Hemon's first book of nonfiction, defies convention and expectation. It is a love song to two different cities; it is a heartbreaking paean to the bonds of family; it is a stirring exhortation to go out and play soccer—and not for the exercise. It is a book driven by passions but built on fierce intelligence, devastating experience, and sharp insight. And like the best narratives, it is a book that will leave you a different reader—a different person, with a new way of looking at the world—when you've finished. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
Download or read book Lord of the Silent Kingdom written by Glen Cook and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following The Tyranny of the Night, the second volume of The Instrumentalities of the Night
Download or read book Family Happiness written by Laurie Colwin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If anyone wrote eloquently and magnificently about affairs of the heart, it was Laurie Colwin.” —San Francisco Chronicle At first glance, Polly Solo-Miller Demarest appears to have it all. The only daughter of a distinguished and close-knit family, she marries a handsome lawyer named Henry (just like her father and brother) and has two adorable and well-behaved children, Pete and Dee-Dee. She lives in a comfortable Park Avenue apartment, works three days a week in a rewarding job at the Board of Education, and spends every August in Maine. People regularly tell her, with admiration and envy, that she has life aced. What no one suspects is that this perfect daughter, wife, and mother, always so eager to see to the happiness of others, would be willing to risk everything for love. From the moment she encounters his beautiful portraits in a group show, Polly cannot get Lincoln Bennett out of her mind. Soon she and the solitary, kindhearted painter are wrapped up in a deep and thrilling romance, and Polly has never felt more euphoric—or more terrified. Previously she divided women into two groups—those who have affairs and those who do not—and placed herself firmly in the latter category. How could she have been so wrong? And what does her passion for Lincoln say about the genuine pleasure she takes in her marriage and her family? A sophisticated, sincere, and ultimately hopeful novel about the search for fulfillment, Family Happiness is a testament to the clarity of Laurie Colwin’s vision and the elegance of her craft. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Download or read book Shadow Country written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • “Altogether gripping, shocking, and brilliantly told, not just a tour de force in its stylistic range, but a great American novel, as powerful a reading experience as nearly any in our literature.”—Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone—Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic about Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson on the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century—were originally conceived as one vast, mysterious novel. Now, in this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has marvelously distilled a monumental work while deepening the insights and motivations of his characters with brilliant rewriting throughout. Praise for Shadow Country “Magnificent . . . breathtaking . . . Finally now we have [this three-part saga] welded like a bell, and with Watson’s song the last sound, all the elements fuse and resonate.”—Los Angeles Times “Peter Matthiessen has done great things with the Watson trilogy. It’s the story of our continent, both land and people, and his writing does every justice to the blood fury of his themes.”—Don DeLillo “The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the reason a lot of people in my generation decided to be writers. No doubt about it. Shadow Country lives up to anyone’s highest expectations for great writing.” —Richard Ford “Shadow Country, Matthiessen’s distillation of the earlier Watson saga, represents his original vision. It is the quintessence of his lifelong concerns, and a great legacy.”—W. S. Merwin “[An] epic masterpiece . . . a great American novel.”—The Miami Herald
Download or read book A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877 written by Edwin S. Gaustad and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-19 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly variegated selection of short documents illustrative of the history of religion in America. The best source-book available to contemporary students and general readers.
Download or read book Taught by God written by Daniel Fanous and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though singularly important, many of the sayings of Jesus are difficult at best and incomprehensible at worst. In considering only the most difficult of the sayings, Taught by God brings together the academic rigour of modern biblical scholarship and the profound wisdom of the early Church Fathers in a unique, lively, and fascinating exegesis.
Download or read book Servant of the Shard written by R.A. Salvatore and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times–bestselling author: The much-awaited story of master assassin Artemis Entreri and the first installment in a new series set in the Forgotten Realms universe Surrounded by dark elves, Artemis Entreri tightens his grip on the streets of Calimport. While he urges caution, his sponsor grows ever more ambitious. The assassin will soon find himself on a path his most hated enemy has walked before him—a path that leads to a place where someone like Entreri would never be welcome. Drow leader Jarlaxle has ascended from dark Menzoberranzan with only civil intentions. The malevolent Crystal Shard’s influence on him intensifies until even the drow agents he brought with him grow fearful. When his own company begins to turn on him, Jarlaxle will be forced to find a savior in the man he’s come to enslave. Servant of the Shard is the first book in the Sellswords trilogy and the fourteenth book in the Legend of Drizzt series
Download or read book Patriarch Kirill in His Own Words written by Kirill and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Abandoned Princess Magic Book written by Zi SeLiuSu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a proud, aloof, talented, and elegant princess who was unrivalled in the world. She was the princess of the Sky Rain Nation, loved and doted upon by thousands, and all the men were proud to be able to see her once. Of course, she didn't care about them; he was a devilish, ruthless, dark, murderous man. He was a hero of the country who made his enemies tremble in fear, but he loved her deeply, tenderly, and with great care. However, everything appeared to be on the surface. She loved him wholeheartedly; he had plotted and sought her home! In an instant, the country fell. From the princess to the imperial concubine to the lowly servant, she endured it and kept a low profile. She lived in a lowly position in his imperial harem just to avenge her country. When they met again, he would be the cold-hearted emperor while she would be the unparalleled beauty who would bring chaos to the world ...
Download or read book The Abacus of Years written by Emily Grosholz and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two topics that seem largely unexplored by American poets of our time. One is the deep attachment parents (and perhaps most especially working parents) form for their infants and how they perceive their children (perhaps as Blake saw them) with all the wisdom of their innocence. The second is the relationship of science, mathematics and metaphysics to our everyday life. Here is a book that explores, and to some degree attempts to define, the writer's investigations in those two domains, one stemming from her experience as a mother, the other from her profession as a philosopher of science. And it is this juxtaposition of maternal emotion and detached, almost clinical, analysis that provides Grosholz's wonderful new collection with such grace and such power.
Download or read book Beyond Virtue Ethics written by Stephen M. Meawad and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary model of spiritual struggle shifts the emphasis from virtue’s acquisition to its pursuit Beyond Virtue Ethics offers a distinctive approach to virtue ethics, arguing not simply for the importance of “struggle” to virtue ethics, but that “struggle” itself is a manifestation of virtue. In doing this, Stephen M. Meawad offers a way of thinking about virtue not simply as a perfected state, but as a state that is to a greater or lesser degree a manifestation of the ideal itself, which is not attainable. Meawad affirms the concept of the unity of virtues—that is, the idea that a virtue is not a virtue unless united with other perfected virtues—which is found in God. Insofar as humans grow in unity with God, they too participate in the unity of virtues, although always to an imperfect extent. Meawad rejects a division between ethics and spirituality and provides two concrete examples of this suggested model. The first is the application of this model to the body and its implications for contemporary sexual ethics. The second is a reintegration of ethics and Scripture through the contemporary application of an ancient Patristic divine reading. This book establishes for readers a contemporary model of spiritual struggle, defining it as the exertion of effort in all conceivable dimensions—physical, emotional, psychological, and intellectual—with the intent to attain a semblance of, knowledge of, and intimacy with Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Transmigration Ancient Continent written by Ye FenFan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xin An, a famous surgeon from a traditional Chinese medicine family with a bright future, had been secretly murdered for breaking a fake medicine deal. When he woke up again, he was in another world. It was a world where there were no men or women, only males and females. As for her, she was a rare female. Her face was covered with strange veined patterns cursed by the Beast God and evaded by her clansmen like a plague. This was not the worst case scenario. The clan had made a rule that if she was unable to find a partner that could accept her within half a year, she had to leave this place!
