Download or read book Sailor Song written by Gerry Smyth and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current modern revival of sea shanties, and seeks to celebrate and to explore the historical, musical and social history of the traditional sea song through 40 beautiful, mournful, haunting and uplifting shanties. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each one alongside musical notation. The lyrics are elaborated with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and non-fictional, that appear in the songs from the great age of sail to the last days of square-rig. Where appropriate, a direct digital link is made to a shanty recording in the British Library Sound Archive.

Download or read book No Ordinary Noel written by Pat G'Orge-Walker and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slapstick funny. . .the sermon on good neighbors and blessings in disguise comes just in time for Christmas. --Publishers Weekly Even feisty prayer warrior Sister Betty has never seen the kind of trouble brewing at Crossing Over Sanctuary church. The financially-struggling members have until Christmas day to pay off millions in debt to The Cheater Brothers' Piece of Savings Bank. And Reverend Leotis Tom refuses to accept any of trustee Freddie Noel's sinful mega-lottery winnings. Instead, he hopes bickering church mothers Bea Blister and Sasha Pray Onn's money-raising schemes will provide heaven-sent rewards--while he renegotiates with God. The only way Sister Betty can help Freddie save his beloved church is to open the reverend's eyes to his congregation's history of wildly unholy--but profitable--secrets. . .and stay two steps ahead of the mothers' "Geriatric Mafia." Between scandal and near-disaster, Sister Betty will need all her faith to prove that blessings in disguise are blessings nonetheless. . . "One of my favorite writers of all time." --Zane

Download or read book Bootlegger of the Soul written by Suzanne Lance and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning novelist William Kennedy is perhaps best known for his Albany Cycle, a series of novels that put Albany on the world's literary map alongside James Joyce's Dublin, Gabriel García Márquez's Macondo, and William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Bootlegger of the Soul offers a fresh and authoritative overview of Kennedy's long literary career and his astonishing trajectory from journalist to struggling novelist to Pulitzer Prize winner. Included here are reviews, interviews, and scholarly essays on Kennedy's work, as well as essays, speeches, a play, and a short story by the author himself, together with more than fifty historical and personal photographs. Lively, readable, and brimming with the infectious wit and lyrical prose that animates Kennedy's novels, Bootlegger of the Soul is a celebration of a writer still working hard at his craft at age ninety.

Download or read book The Shanty Book written by Richard Runciman Terry and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Greatest Books of Spiritual Wisdom written by Martin Luther and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 8048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of fundamental religious works presenting the theology, philosophy and spirituality of Christianity: The Philosophy of Religion: The Confessions of St. Augustine (Saint Augustine) On the Incarnation (Athanasius of Alexandria) On the Soul and the Resurrection (Gregory of Nyssa) On the Holy Spirit (Basil the Great) Pastoral Care (Pope Gregory I) An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (John of Damascus) Summa Theologica (Saint Thomas Aquinas) The Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis) A Treatise on Christian Liberty (Martin Luther) The Interior Castle (St. Teresa of Ávila) The Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence) The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine) The Natural History of Religion (David Hume) Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (David Hume) The Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards) The Essence of Christianity (Ludwig Feuerbach) Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche) All of Grace (Charles Spurgeon) Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness (Andrew Murray) Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton) The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton) The Sovereignty of God (Arthur Pink) The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Leo Tolstoy) Three Essays on Religion (John Stuart Mill) The Spirituality of a Man: The Conduct of Life (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lessons in Truth (Emilie Cady) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen) Thoughts are Things (Prentice Mulford) The Game of Life and How to Play It (Florence Scovel Shinn) A New Christ (Wallace D. Wattles) The Swamp Angel (Prentice Mulford)

Download or read book Soul Runner written by Jon Guenther and published by Spirit Fire Books. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1988. As a former Hasidic Jew raised in the Bronx, Dr. Abram Aronsfeld is no stranger to trouble. Now the secret organization known as ARK is sending him into Communist-controlled Romania to rescue the beautiful Ileana Tarus, a Christian Gypsy woman who possesses information vital to ARK's intelligence operations. Spearheading the subjugation of her people is the evil Drago Profis, a despot backed by the current regime. When Bram realizes that it's not Ileana but her whole village that needs rescuing, the two will embark on a perilous adventure from which only their foolhardy courage and Almighty God can save them all!

Download or read book Spiritual Two By Fours and Other Wake Up Calls written by Kimberly Rooney and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you feeling stuck, unfulfilled, and without purpose? Do you feel like a cast member, deck crew, employee, or stagehand in your own life? In this book, author Kimberly Rooney shows you how to take control of your life and become your own director, captain, CEO, choreographer, and policymaker. Its the wake-up call youve been longing forthe doorway to finding your inner strength and voice. Kims own dance with adversity began at age twenty-nine, when she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritiswhich she affectionately refers to as Arthur. In Spiritual Two-by-Fours, she shares her journeyher dance with Arthurto find the mix of gifts that made her director and choreographer of her life. With openness and vulnerability, she shares what you need to know so that you too can overcome any adversitywhether physical, emotional, or spiritual. Whether you have created your challenges or they have cut in to your life dance, you get to choose how you respond. You get to take responsibility for your happiness, inner peace, and overall well-being. You have what it takes. You have the power within. And you can shift your life to make it spectacular. So make yourself head policymaker of your own life and get ready for the rideknowing that Spiritual Two-by-Fours will guide you every step of the way.

Download or read book The Soul of a Soldier The True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War written by Myron M. Miller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soul of a Soldier: the True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War by Myron M. Miller What happened to a soldier's soul during the Civil War as he faced the horrors of war?Why did a man leave behind a wife and two very young children to serve in the army? Who was Samuel K. Miller before, during and after the Civil War? What was the Mounted Pioneer Corps, and what was their critical role in keeping an army moving? Why was he chosen to be in that unit? When a woman was left with children while her husband went off to the Civil War, what pressures did she face because he was away? How did the women manage their homes while their husbands were away? What were the feelings of a Union soldier as he faced his “brothers” across the picket lines, the Confederates whom he came to know personally? What did they eat? Where did they live and sleep? What did they wear, and where did they get what they needed? What volunteer organizations sprung up to help the soldiers as they fought in the battlefields, either by providing physical help, or in aiding them to be in contact with their loved ones? From his vantage point, somewhat unique because of the positioning of the Mounted Pioneer Corps during battles, what did he see of the battles? What were the forces for and against the war in his community back in Pennsylvania? Who were the Copperheads? What happened to his four Ellis family brothers-in-law who also served in the Union Army? All these questions are answered in this book, “The Soul of a Soldier: the True Story of a Mounted Pioneer in the Civil War.” At age 42, Samuel K. Miller volunteered for the 211th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in September 1864 and served until June 1865. During his nine months in the service, he wrote 46 letters to his wife and, through her, to their one and five year old sons at their home in the little town of Hartstown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, population less than 200. This book contains the 46 letters that Samuel wrote during his time in the service of the Union Army, first as an infantryman, then in the Mounted Pioneer Corps attached to the Headquarters of the Union Ninth Corps. Portions of those letters are organized into 17 thematic chapters, which provide the answers to the questions raised above. Samuel's letters provide a penetrating look into his soul, because of the highly personal nature of his letters. His letters reveal his character, values, his aspirations. Demetrius, an ancient Greek orator, literary critic, rhetorician and governor of Athens for ten years, once wrote: “Everyone reveals his own soul in his letters. In every other form of composition it is possible to determine the writer's character, but in none so clearly as the epistolary [the letters].” Demetrius' words apply to Samuel Miller, for Samuel revealed his soul in his letters.

Download or read book The Higher Spiritualism written by John Calvert Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Soul written by Charles Sherwood Farriss and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Soul s Journey written by Mary Shumilak and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All refugees flee the looming threat of extinction. This is a powerful story of one Polish family’s escape from war-torn Europe after the Second World War, and the life they built as newcomers in a small community in western Canada. They brought with them the hope for a better life, but their war time experiences were a constant burden interfering with their inner peace and desire for security. The story of their lives, struggles and successes, aims to create a legacy of hope for their descendants and anyone with a similar cultural history or experience. It is a must read for those wanting an understanding of that era, as well as seeing how the experiences of this family were reflective in many ways to today’s ongoing refugee crisis.

Download or read book Spirit Lake written by MacKinlay Kantor and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shantytown USA written by Lisa Goff and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word “shantytown” conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States. Lisa Goff restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in America’s urban landscape, showing how the basic but resourcefully constructed dwellings of America’s working poor were not merely the byproducts of economic hardship but potent assertions of self-reliance. In the nineteenth century, poor workers built shantytowns across America’s frontiers and its booming industrial cities. Settlements covered large swaths of urban property, including a twenty-block stretch of Manhattan, much of Brooklyn’s waterfront, and present-day Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Names like Tinkersville and Hayti evoked the occupations and ethnicities of shantytown residents, who were most often European immigrants and African Americans. These inhabitants defended their civil rights and went to court to protect their property and resist eviction, claiming the benefits of middle-class citizenship without its bourgeois trappings. Over time, middle-class contempt for shantytowns increased. When veterans erected an encampment near the U.S. Capitol in the 1930s President Hoover ordered the army to destroy it, thus inspiring the Depression-era slang “Hoovervilles.” Twentieth-century reforms in urban zoning and public housing, introduced as progressive efforts to provide better dwellings, curtailed the growth of shantytowns. Yet their legacy is still felt in sites of political activism, from shanties on college campuses protesting South African apartheid to the tent cities of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.

Download or read book The Land of Hugh written by W.T. Lewis and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land of Hugh, is a Spiritual Journey of a 10 year old boy struggling to free his family from the grip of their own minds illusions. Along the way he meets teachers, guides and new friends that help him realize who and what he really is as a child of the Creator. As he travels through mystical lands always moving closer to his own ultimate truth, he experiences, challenges that drag him through his childhood forcing him to face his fears, find unconditional love and discover Spiritual Truths that change his perspective and shatters the illusions and passions of his mind. Taking this journey with Hugh allows the reader to question his own traditional values and beliefs in ways that positively enhance their own thoughts and attitude toward life's incredible journey to our Source . Mr. Lewis's intent is for each of us to discover our own truth and then discover "Soul".

Download or read book Quilt of Souls written by Phyllis Biffle Elmore and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yellow House meets Hidden in Plain View in this multigenerational memoir that celebrates African American quilting, family, and honoring the past. At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked off her front porch in Detroit and dropped on her grandmother Lula Horn’s doorstep in rural Alabama. Phyllis felt utterly abandoned until Grandma Lula showed her both all-encompassing love and her intricate “Quilts of Souls.” Phyllis listened intently as Lula told epic stories of folks who had passed on as she turned their clothing into breathtaking quilts for their families. Grandma Lula’s generosity of spirit, strong will, and creative soul animate every page and through the quilts, she paints portraits of extraordinary Black women born before and after the Civil War. They are enslaved people, laundresses, storytellers, healers, and quilters whose stories have gone untold until now. Beautifully written and brilliantly told, Phyllis weaves back and forth through time, piecing together true tales of racism, sexism, and colorism, but also strength and pride, creating a multigenerational patchwork honoring her family and ancestors. From the lush visuals to the powerful history, Quilt of Souls is oral tradition written and preserved for posterity. “Like the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, who create masterpieces from cast-off fabrics, Phyllis Biffle Elmore in Quilt of Souls: A Memoir uses snippets of history and fragments of memories to craft a narrative that is a powerful and poignant read.” –Jessica B. Harris, New York Times best-selling author of High on the Hog "A fascinating read that unravels how storytellers are born and made, with the goal or retelling family history, culture, loves, losses, victories, and the tragedies of memoerable people, from cradle to grave." –Omar Tyree, best-selling author and NAACP Image Award winner

Download or read book The Sword and the Soul written by William Rattle Plum and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soul s Passion Truly Yours written by Niladri and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soul’s Passion—Truly Yours is a refined collection of rhymes scripted and sketched over three decades of silent observations. The approach has been simple—from effort to achieve a dream, unselfish ambition, but confronted with many a false start as in False Flinch. It also awakens us to indulge in psychological turmoil which intrudes into our mind space such as in The Discovery of Silence, Dotage Mellow or Dalliance. Dearest Mother is the touch points of human deeds against man’s lust over softer beings but the woman of West-Asian origin accused and executed. Man and Nature, The Stopped Watch or the Emeritus Clerk will reveal the desire to achieve unlimited pleasures ignoring Mother Earth and self-achievement that uses deceit. It also contains many more thought-inciting servings through rhymes in motion. Thus embark upon at your leisure, to calm your thoughts and heart and ignite fellow feeling and travel with me for a journey worth going on.