Download or read book This Is My America written by Kim Johnson and published by Ember. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present? Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.

Download or read book The Damascus Way Acts of Faith Book 3 written by Janette Oke and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia has everything money can buy...except for acceptance by either the Gentiles or the Jews. Her Greek father already has a wife and family, leaving Julia and her Hebrew mother second-class citizens. But when they are introduced to followers of the Way, they become part of that community of believers. Abigail's brother, Jacob, now a young man, is attempting to discover his own place as a Christian. He is concerned that being more serious about his faith means trading away the exhilaration of his current profession as a caravan guard. Hired by Julia's father to protect the wealthy merchant's caravans on the secretive "Frankincense Trail"--undercover transport of this highly valuable commodity--Jacob also passes letters and messages between various communities of believers. He is alarmed to find out that Julia, hardly more than a girl, is also a messenger. Can their immediate mistrust be put aside to finally bring their hearts together?

Download or read book GANGA written by JAWAHARLAL SHANMUGAM and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiction is a triangular love story with differences and uniqueness. The Sadhu closes his eyes for a minute and is in an intense prayer. Then, he opens his eyes and looks at Ganga. SADHU: Beti, your name is Ganga. You have some divine connection with this place and the Lord. The Lord has called you for some purpose. You have the blessings of Lord Kashi Viswanath, Aadhi Shakthi Visalakshi, Bhagwan Maha Vishnu, and Ganga Ma in this holy place. This boy, Jamal, is another God. You don't leave him. There is some unique bond between both of you. My Lord Mahadev tells me that some good thing will happen to both of you soon. Let me tell you the truth. It is difficult for people to survive in Ganga once she pulls you. But you survived the mighty current. It indicates that the Lord was with you. He was waiting for Jamal to take you. Karna is stunned listening to the Sadhu. Is he the messenger of Lord Mahadev to deliver some divine message? The sadhus jumping into the river and saving Ganga and Jamal look like some form of divine intervention. Karna goes forward and holds Ganga's hands. Who is this wonderful Jamal? What is his connection with Ganga, Sadhus, Karna, and Arjun at the holy and sacred place, Varanasi? The story unfolds

Download or read book The Damascus Way written by Davis Bunn and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting drama of the early church; a young caravan guard delivers messages among the new followers as he learns what it means to be a Christian.

Download or read book The Place of Stones written by Ali Hosseini and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2018 John Gardner Fiction prize The Place of Stones is Ali Hosseini’s newly translated first novel, his second book to appear in English. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the revolution of 1979. Haydar and Jamal are best friends, and their families have always made their living from the land in the foothills of Iran’s Zagros Mountains. Haydar is a dreamer who searches the hills for an ancient treasure called the Black Globe. Jamal is in love with Haydar’s sister, Golandam, and he attempts to accommodate himself to modernization as a way to create a better life for the two of them. The rapacious conversion of farmland to brick factories draws the trio into escalating conflict with the village landlord. As Jamal, Haydar, and their families confront land reform, industrialization, revolution, and war, their lives are pulled forcefully toward the explosive events that will change them all. In masterfully crafted prose that never sinks into sentimentality, The Place of Stones illuminates how a lost past continues to shape the present.

Download or read book A Collection of Theatre Works written by Ernest McCarty Jr and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest McCarty, Jr. is a native of Chicago, who has authored and co-authored more than 27 produced plays and musicals, and has been associated with ETA in Chicago and Quaigh Theatre in New York City before becoming Artistic Director of New Horizon Theatre in 1994. His first production, I Dreamt I Dwelt In Bloomingdales was presented at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City in 1970. Other theatrical works produced in New York City include Dinah! Queen of the Blues, presented at the Westside Arts Theatre starring Sasha Dalton and When the Spirit Moves, starring Tony Award-winner Trazana Beverly, The Exchange and The Separate Vacation. Among his plays and musicals produced in Chicago are Madame Hortense, the tone poem A Cosmic Night, Recollection Rag, Love Spirit! And Brazilian Rendezvous. Eleven of his plays and musicals have been produced in Pittsburgh, including Madame Hortense, The Exchange, A Window To Home, Closing Notice, The Hex, A Cosmic Night, Life After Coma, Give Us Another Tune, The Region (An American Opera), Outrun the Rain, Journey of the Spirits as well as his musical review Love Spirit! His play Recollection Rag aired on WQED-TV and his score The Martin Luther King Suite, which aired on NBC-TV, received an Emmy. Ernest’s directing credits include Humbug Man, Brazilian Rendezvous, A Cosmic Night, The Separate Vacation, Madame Hortense, Recollection Rag, The Exchange, Samm-Art Williams’ Home, A Window to Home, Life After Coma, The Tap Dance Kid, GIve Us Another Time, The Region, Rain and Rivers, Outrun the Rain, Kim El’s and KL’s The Poet’s Corner, Deadwood Dick and Cheryl West’s Jar The Floor. Ernest is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He was named Prolific Playwright of 1998 by In Pittsburgh. His play Recollection Rag (The Exchange) received the Hoyt W. Fuller Once-Act Play Festival Award and his play Madame Hortense received a Joseph Jefferson Award.

Download or read book Standing in the Fire written by Tom Doyle and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Even ISIS Can Scare Them Off Followers of Christ need to relearn what it means to stand courageously for their faith rather than merely survive in a climate of fear. Instead of motivating believers to action, today’s headlines appear to be paralyzing them. Standing in the Fire demonstrates the church triumphant through the lives of people who stood strong and didn’t run away in the face of overwhelming danger. These Middle Eastern heroes of faith fear God more than terrorist groups like ISIS. Supported by Tom Doyle’s commentary on events, the stories included show how these Christians are not living as victims, but victors in Christ.

Download or read book The Eternal Masquerade written by Vincent Thurman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing, suspenseful, and compelling, The Eternal Masquerade takes readers through the next phase of The Eternal Darkness saga. As The Eternal Secrets came to an end, readers witnessed the betrayal and heartbreak between Jenessa and Camden and the lengths Seth Crenshall would go in order to achieve his desires. Deceptions played a major part in the many friendships and family reunions and in the end, demolished any hopes of family connections. Haven-Crest is a town that harbors conniving and deadly secrets. The power struggles are revealed as the dead body count starts to rise. The Committee and Reverend Carl Wardrett fight for the same cause of protecting the innocent residents of Haven-Crest, but there are different views as to what keeps the battle lines drawn between right and wrong. As the various masquerades are revealed in this story, one in particular will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end. Readers can now enjoy twists and turns that leave them speechless as they enter The Eternal Masquerade.

Download or read book A Color Blind Beauty written by The Families and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Color Blind Beauty By: The Families What would be of humanity if she does not know flowers whilst love remains the answer to our living world of understanding? A Color Blind Beauty is a romance novel that profoundly speaks of why our difference should be our strength as it allows us a brilliant perception towards race, religion, gender equality, politics, and nationality. Mr. Wade was born to an Irish American mother and African father. His wellness signifies love above hate, and he is lucky to have found a colorblind beauty for a sweetheart. She works as an event organizer with the State Government of Illinois, where she hails from, while he starts as an unknown writer. It is the supreme power of love against all forms of challenge. Their love story will remind the world and her people about the importance of such unions. Take the journey and unfold the mystery of this wonderful novel.

Download or read book Into a Raging Blaze written by Andreas Norman and published by riverrun. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stockholm, September 2011. Carina Dymek is on a fast track for promotion at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, when she is approached by a stranger and given a USB stick containing a report to circulate in her department. Unwittingly, she delivers a time bomb of classified information that sends her career up in flames and puts her on the radar of the security service, Säpo. Tasked with investigating how Dymek gained access to the confidential report, the formidable Bente Jensen of Säpo is quietly approached by the British MI6, who have an undisclosed interest in the leak. She finds out that Dymek's boyfriend is an Egyptian Swedish national. But it's MI6 who link his family to an extreme faction within the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo. The case explodes into an international manhunt. Liaising with the ruthless MI6, Bente uncovers the secretive plans contained in that leaked report: plans for an omnipotent Europe-wide Intelligence Service. Forces hone in on Dymek, while Bente begins to suspect she is a red herring caught in a far wider net: one in which social media is abused for intelligence and civil rights are sacrificed to national security. Andreas Norman, a former Swedish Ministry official, has written an explosive expose of Anglo-American spying and surveillance on European civilians in the name of counter-terrorism. This dizzying thriller anticipated the Edward Snowden revelations and rocked Sweden on publication.

Download or read book Acts of Faith written by Davis Bunn and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Bestselling Novels in One The Acts of Faith trilogy is a sweeping saga set in Israel and beyond during the months and years immediately following the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Authors Davis Bunn and Janette Oke have woven an intriguing story featuring compelling fictional characters who interact with the men and women who were central to the rise of Christianity. Amid religious, political, and cultural persecution, these courageous few must shape and preserve a faith that will stand the test of time.

Download or read book Battling Angels written by Matthew Stafford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if? Satans project to enslave humanity was born when that one little question was asked. If successful, bloodthirsty demons numbering in the millions will escape hell by possessing the bodies of humans, while those not possessed are doomed into slavery and forced to commit vile acts of depravity. Lilith, Satans emissary on earth, uses her beauty and insidious power to mesmerize and stimulate forbidden desires in men and women to ensure the success of Satans plan. Gods angels must tackle devastating odds as their newest angel, a twenty-year-old from North Carolina, trained by his heavenly mentor and lover, must survive many efforts to destroy him. Only then will his destiny be realizedthat of becoming the most powerful Archangel everand working with his earthly companions to save humanity from Satans plan of domination. Will humanitys lust for forbidden desires and the formidable powers of the horrific demons beat Gods own powerful and courageous Battling Angels?

Download or read book Playing for Love written by Ashlie Knapp and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie Randall has a secret that haunts her every day. A secret that makes trusting a man an impossibility. She wants nothing more than to live a quiet, simple life as a teacher. Even though he's portrayed as a stereotypical, professional athlete ladie's man, all Jamal Jenkins, the starting point guard for the Thunder, wants is to live his life out of the limelight with the people he loves most. Can Jamal help Cassie believe that he can be trusted or will she continue to believe that all men are like the one she fears most?

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Download or read book No Time for Tears written by Cynthia Freeman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “ambitious” New York Times bestseller tells the multigenerational saga of a Russian-Jewish family who emigrates to America and eventually Israel (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Chavala Rabinsky is sixteen when her mother dies and she becomes the caretaker of her five siblings. Beautiful and wise beyond her years, Chavala catches the eye of Dovid Landau, a poor cobbler whose dreams transform her life when he marries her. But Odessa, Russia, is a dangerous place in 1905. The Landaus flee the pogroms of their homeland for Ottoman-ruled Palestine—until escalating violence forces the family to become wanderers again. Rich in passion and scope, No Time for Tears sounds a call of love and liberation that will ring out for generations to come.

Download or read book Operation Olive Tree written by Jemil Metti and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2018-11-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Olive Tree is about two opera-talented, Oasis of Peace High School teenagers, Irith Goldman, an Israeli, and Jamal Shaheen, a Palestinian. Their passion for opera grows into a friendship and a dream to sing for peace. Despite initial support from the Israeli Ministry of Education and intensive opera coaching from Tel Aviv University’s award winning voice trainer Susan Roth, they are frequently haunted by cultural prejudices related to decades of warfare over territory and religion. In addition, the support of family and friends is dormant because of their collective mistrust of Irith’s partnership with her Palestinian singing prodigy who has family ties to an uncle, a terrorist suspect, and a childhood friend, an abused risk taker with regular brushes with the law. On the other hand, Jamal’s father fears losing him to opera, preferring his career to advance along the path of his older siblings in the medical field. But, nobody could have predicted the direction their careers take following their exposure to the life of a Mossad agent in Baghdad, Iraq, where Irith emerges as Russian-Swiss opera star Tatyana Smirnoff, and Jamal an escaped fugitive from Israeli law!

Download or read book Where The Air Is Sweet written by Tasneem Jamal and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic saga that charts three generations of an Indian family in Uganda In 1972, dictator Idi Amin expelled 80,000 South Asians from Uganda. Though many had lived in East Africa for generations, they were given ninety days to flee as their country descended into a surreal vortex of chaos and murder. Spanning the years between 1921 and 1975, Where the Air Is Sweet tells the story of Raju, a young Indian man drawn to Africa by the human impulse to seek a better life, and the two generations that follow him and carve a niche for themselves in a racially stratified colonial and post-colonial society. This is the story of a family: their loves, their griefs and their sudden expulsion by one of the world’s most terrifying tyrants. “Beautifully written and brimming with intelligence. A wonderful debut.” —Katrina Onstad, author of the Giller Prize nominee Everybody Has Everything