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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410353689
Author : Leslie Leyland Fields,Paul J. Willis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514008348
"In Advent we prepare for the coming of all Love." —Madeleine L'Engle "At the birth of Jesus, an event of cosmic significance by which we humans still mark our calendars, the invisible and visible worlds come together." —Philip Yancey "Help us to realize, as those who love and believe in you that we, too, are pregnant with Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, and that day by day we are being enlarged." —Luci Shaw The first Christmas sermon preserved in church history was preached by St. John Chrysostom in AD 386, in which he declared, "Behold a new and wonderful mystery!" In this volume, the Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful season of anticipation and glory. Through forty-two readings from the first Sunday of Advent through Epiphany, contributors prepare us in watchful waiting for the coming of Jesus. We enter slowly so that the familiar can astonish us and become wondrous once again. Jesus is born in Bethlehem. But not only there. He is also born in us, that we might bear his presence and impart his goodness to the world.
Author : Dan Crowe,Philip Oltermann
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015064957940
Where do writers get their ideas? How do they deal with writers block? What gets them high? What gets them low? What do they do all day? With original contributions from some of the most established authors in the world, How I Write is an editorial powerhouse of more than sixty essays, featuring Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Will Self, Nicole Krauss, and many others. The idea was to create a book that worked like an old curiosity shop, full of letters, photographs, drawings, illustrations, and other scattered mementos. Edited by the creator of the cult-literary magazine Zembla and designed by art director Vince Frost, How I Write is a must have for all writers, readers, and anyone interested in books, ideas, and design.
Author : Ed Bowker Staff,Staff Bowker, Ed
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 3274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0835246426
Author : Gina Ochsner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618563725
In her eagerly anticipated collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life or a love slips away, and discovers that the human heart can be large enough for anything.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114630192
Author : Gina Ochsner
Publisher : HMH
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544253124
“A beautifully spun tale” set in a tiny town in Latvia—“an astonishing alchemy of history, romance, and fable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Maris was born knowing things: His very large, very special ears enable him to hear the secrets of the dead, as well as the memories that haunt his Latvian hometown. As a boy, he finds himself heir to an odd assortment of hidden letters, from which he would weave a story that could finally expose—and maybe even patch—the holes in the fabric of his family and their town. With humor, heart, and her characteristic “luminous writing [and] affection for her characters,” Gina Ochsner creates an intimate, hopeful portrait of a fascinating town in all its complications and charm. From the onset of World War II through the cold shock of independence, we see how, despite years of distrust, a community can come through love and loss to the joy of understanding (The New York Times). A finalist for the Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, The Hidden Letters of Velta B. is “a captivating novel of secrets, love, and memory . . . This terrific novel knocked me out” (Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black). “Intimate, vibrant, and richly colored.” —Portland Monthly “A gift on par with Joanne Harris’s Chocolat . . . Quirky, ethereal, hilarious, and sorrowful.” —Shelf Awareness “[An] extraordinary feat of storytelling . . . A spellbinding novel as tough as it is beautiful.” —Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War
Author : Gina Ochsner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0820323144
Eleven soulful stories span the globe, using folklore and myth to explore the territory separating life from death. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Author : Leslie Leyland Fields
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825445224
Women past a certain age often feel like they are fading into the background of life. The nest is emptying, limitations are increasing, and fear about aging and the years ahead grow. Even women of faith can feel a waning sense of value, regardless of biblical examples of godly women yielding fruit long after their youth is gone. But despite a youth-obsessed culture, the truth is that the second half of life can often be the richest. It's time to stop dreading and start embracing the wonder of life after 40. Here, well-known women of faith from 40 to 85 tackle these anxieties head-on and upend them with humor, sass, and spiritual wisdom. These compelling and poignant first-person stories are from amazing and respected authors including: Lauren F. Winner Joni Eareckson Tada Elisa Morgan Madeleine L'Engle Kay Warren These women provide much-needed role models--not for aging gracefully but for doing so honestly, faithfully, and with eyes open to wonder and deep theology along the way. Each essay provides insight into God's perspective on these later years, reminding readers that it's possible to serve the kingdom of God and His people even better with a little extra life experience to guide you. The Wonder Years is an inspiring and unforgettable guide to making these years the most fruitful and abundant of your life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X030052513
Author : Jeffrey Overstreet
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307446206
When thieves find an abandoned child lying in a monster’s footprint, they have no idea that their wilderness discovery will change the course of history. Cloaked in mystery, Auralia grows up among criminals outside the walls of House Abascar, where vicious beastmen lurk in shadow. There, she discovers an unsettling--and forbidden--talent for crafting colors that enchant all who behold them, including Abascar’s hard-hearted king, an exiled wizard, and a prince who keeps dangerous secrets. When Auralia’s gift opens doors from the palace to the dungeons, she sets the stage for violent and miraculous change in the great houses of the Expanse. Auralia’s Colors weaves literary fantasy together with poetic prose, a suspenseful plot, adrenaline-rush action, and unpredictable characters sure to enthrall ambitious imaginations.
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015046427004
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1664 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015062080349
Author : Elizabeth Nunez
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617755422
Set on a Caribbean island in the grip of colonialism, this novel is “masterful . . . simply wonderful . . . [an] exquisite retelling of The Tempest” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When Peter Gardner’s ruthless medical genius leads him to experiment on his unwitting patients—often at the expense of their lives—he flees England, seeking an environ where his experiments might continue without scrutiny. He arrives with his three-year-old-daughter, Virginia, in Chacachacare, an isolated island off the coast of Trinidad, in the early 1960s. Gardner considers the locals to be nothing more than savages. He assumes ownership of the home of a servant boy named Carlos, seeing in him a suitable subject for his amoral medical work. Nonetheless, he educates the boy alongside Virginia. As Virginia and Carlos come of age together, they form a covert relationship that violates the outdated mores of colonial rule. When Gardner unveils the pair’s relationship and accuses Carlos of a monstrous act, the investigation into the truth is left up to a curt, stonehearted British inspector, whose inquiries bring to light a horrendous secret. At turns epic and intimate, Prospero's Daughter, from American Book Award winner Elizabeth Nunez, uses Shakespeare’s play as a template to address questions of race, class, and power, in the story of an unlikely bond between a boy and a girl of disparate backgrounds on a verdant Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. “Gripping and richly imagined . . . a master at pacing and plotting . . . an entirely new story that is inspired by Shakespeare, but not beholden to him.” —The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . [Nunez] writes novels that resound with thunder and fury.” —Essence “A story about the transformative power of love . . . Readers are sure to enjoy the journey.” —Black Issues Book Review (Novel of the Year)
Author : Vicky Lettmann
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459613651
When Last on the Mountain is an open look at the many and astonishing ways our bodies bear both curses and blessing and is a testament to our abiding need to address in language and image the body's sure and swift betrayals. From a vantage point of life after fifty, with grace and humor these writers peer soberly at the future while maintaining their gaze on the past.-Gina Ochsner, author of The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight. ''A fun and varied read. Insightful, witty, and sometimes heartbreaking selections, but all with an underlying fire for life.''-Will Weaver, author of Sweet Land: New & Selected Stories. ''Who better to bear witness to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than writers over 50? The voices of experience collected by Lettmann and Roan are generous in their honest specificity. Prospective readers can be assured of a good and meaningful time with these stories, essays and poems.''-Sam Hodges, reporter for The Dallas Morning News and author of B-Four. ''When Last on the Mountain is a book full of treasures. From these writers comes work of substance, surprise, and death-defying candor. To read these pieces is to be inside an art that sifts through comedy, irony, and hard facts to offer the intensely interesting (yes) exhilarations of the long view.''-Joan Silber, author of Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories and The Size of the World. ''One day I will write my last downhill run, not on snow, but on paper. Not today. No. I dance, stop, dance, stop, dance, dance, dance down the mountain.''-Kaye Bache-Snyder. What sets these writers apart? Until we reach fifty, how we live and write is colored by our futures: those we expect to have and those we imagine. The perspective of the over-fifty writer takes on the hues of both past and future, tinted by memories of first loves, stained by memories of war and loss, and made more poignant by the knowledge that this spring's blooms or this morning's cup of coffee with a beloved husband may be the last and must be savored fully.These essays, stories, and poems were chosen from more than two thousand submissions of previously unpublished work. Some of the contributors-a poet laureate, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, a former foreign correspondent-have long literary histories; others-a social worker, a civil service employee, a clergywoman-began to write later in life. All of them were inspired by a call that asked for fresh and honest writing from the fullness of their lives.