Charis In The World Of Wonders

Author : Marly Youmans
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642291117

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Charis in the World of Wonders by Marly Youmans Pdf

"When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doors in civilized style, but my mother bade me climb into woodsy wildness and a darkness flushed with crimson light and torches …" Clambering into the branches of a tree, a young woman flees flaming arrows and massacre. She will need to struggle for survival: to scour the wilderness for shelter, to strive and seek for a new family and a setting where she can belong. Her unmarked way is costly and hard. For Charis, the world outside the window of home is a maze of hazards. And even if she survives the wilds, it is no simple matter to discover and nest among her own kind—the godly, those called Puritans by others. She may be tugged by her desires for companionship, may even stumble into an intense love for a man, and may be made to try the strength of female heroism in ways no longer familiar to women in our century. Streams of darkness run through the seventeenth-century villages of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Occult fears have a way of creeping into the mind. What young woman can be safe from the dangers of wilderness when its shadowy thickets spring up so easily in the soil of human hearts? Much will oppose Charis' longings for renewal and peace; she must pursue and discover the hero's path to a larger, more vivid life.

Author : Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781571319593

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World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Pdf

“A poet celebrates the wonders of nature in a collection of essays that could almost serve as a coming-of-age memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted—no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape—she was able to turn to our world’s fierce and funny creatures for guidance. “What the peacock can do,” she tells us, “is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.” The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world’s gifts. Warm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders is a book of sustenance and joy. Praise for World of Wonders Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year An NPR Best Book of 2020 An Esquire Best Book of 2020 A Publishers Weekly “Big Indie Book of Fall 2020” A BuzzFeed Best Book of Fall 2020 “Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” —NPR “A timely story about love, identity and belonging.” —New York Times Book Review “A truly wonderous essay collection.” —Roxane Gay, The Audacity

Author : Marly Youmans
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156027143

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The Wolf Pit by Marly Youmans Pdf

A powerful, intimate look at the Civil War on the home and battle fronts, "The Wolf Pit" is Marly Youmans's third and most accomplished novel. In it Robin, a young Confederate soldier and witness to the horrors of war, clings to what gives him strength: family pictures, psalms, and an old legend about a pair of mysterious green children found in a wolf pit. Robin carries these inside the Elmira prison camp, the very embodiment of hell. Meanwhile, Agate, the mulatto daughter of a hired-out slave, embraces the forbidden teachings of her mistress, Miss Fanny, who teaches her to love books and to write. But the hope Agate has fashioned for her future disappears when her owner, Young Master, learns of her education. Agate comes to understand the meaning of her mother's cautionary tales as she struggles to survive loss and degradation and to pit knowledge and truth against evil. By turns eloquent and harrowing, "The Wolf Pit" explores the will to endure in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and the personal tolls exacted during this chaotic period in U.S. history.

Author : Marly Youmans
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380729881

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Catherwood by Marly Youmans Pdf

It is early May 1678 when Catherwood and her one-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, get lost in the woods of the New World. Catherwood has recently immigrated from England with her husband, and they have settled near Albany, New York. Now a moment's inattention on a spring day has turned a short visit to the closest neighbors into a long sojourn in the wilderness. As summer comes, Catherwood travels through a landscape which is as harsh and unforgiving as it is majestic and lush. With the winter months quickly closing in, she searches frantically through the sparsely populated terrain for signs of human habitation as she and her child struggle to stay alive.

Author : Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681490144

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A Memory for Wonders by Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard Pdf

Here for the first time is a captivating autobiography of a French girl raised in the wild Moroccan frontier by her communist parents who fled France and vowed that "no one would speak to her of God and influence the development of her mind with oppressive superstition." Everything in her education, environment and training was targeted toward making her a perfect product of Marxist atheism. She sucked anti-Catholicism with her mother's milk. But God had other plans for Lucette. Emotionally neglected by her parents, Lucette became a "difficult child" leading a colorful life full of mischievous adventure all the while experiencing an unutterable loneliness. But the Hound of Heaven was gently pursuing her. At the age of three, upon witnessing the overwhelming beauty of a sunset after a violent sirocco sand storm, she gained the unshakable certainty that this beauty was created, and that there was a God. She began to pray. That was the first link in a chain of remarkable events that grace alone could forge, which led her to embrace the faith and become a Poor Clare nun in Algiers. Disowned by her parents, she put all her trust in Him for whom all things are possible. Her faith was rewarded with a dramatic answer to the prayers of her heart. Lucette, now Mother Veronica Namoyo, is an Abbess and foundress of two flourishing monasteries in Africa. "This compelling book is bound to touch many souls, and is an eloquent testimony that grace, love, prayer and sacrifice can conquer the world, because they can conquer man's rebellious heart." - Alice von Hildebrand, Author, By Love Refined

Author : Charis Cotter
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735269088

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The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter Pdf

A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces. Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip -- the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. The house is huge, imposing and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect -- not a fun place to spend the summer. Things start to get weird when Alice finds a dollhouse in the attic that's an exact replica of the house she's living in. Then she wakes up to find a girl asleep next to her in her bed -- a girl who looks a lot like one of the dolls from the dollhouse . . . When the dollhouse starts to change when Alice isn't looking, she knows she has to solve the mystery. Who are the girls in the dollhouse? What happened to them? And what is their connection to the mean and mysterious woman who owns the house?

Author : Marly Youmans
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142406961

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The Curse of the Raven Mocker by Marly Youmans Pdf

After her parents disappear from their isolated home in the Great Smoky Mountains, Adanta discovers the truth of the Cherokee stories her father told her and embarks on a journey to thwart the sorcery that has claimed her parents.

Author : Sheldon Vanauken
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062116703

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A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken Pdf

Beloved, profoundly moving account of the author's marriage, the couple's search for faith and friendship with C. S. Lewis, and a spiritual strength that sustained Vanauken after his wife's untimely death.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307797971

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The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates decades ago—were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives. A brilliantly inventive fabulist, Zenia had a talent for exploiting her friends’ weaknesses, wielding intimacy as a weapon and cheating them of money, time, sympathy, and men. But one day, five years after her funeral, they are shocked to catch sight of Zenia: even her death appears to have been yet another fiction. As the three women plot to confront their larger-than-life nemesis, Atwood proves herself a gleefully acute observer of the treacherous shoals of friendship, trust, desire, and power.

Author : Cyril W. Beaumont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1906830681

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The History of Harlequin by Cyril W. Beaumont Pdf

In 1922 the dance historian Cyril Beaumont contributed to the Dancing Times an article on the history of Harlequin, which as a result of continuous research since that period grew into the present volume. It covers the history of Harlequin, and of the Commedia dell'Arte, from their beginnings in the 16th century through their heydays in the 17th and 18th century and their gradual decline thereafter. The book includes more than 40 illustrations and the complete text of a Harlequinade from 1806, together with a dance for a Harlequin in Feuillet notation.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Newcomb Livraria Press
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783989889811

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Two Old Men by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

A new translation into modern American English directly from the original Russian manuscript. This edition contains an Afterword by the translator, a timeline of Tolstoy's life and works, and a glossary of philosophic terminology used throughout Tolstoy's literature and philosophy. "Two Old Men" by Leo Tolstoy is a heartwarming and touching short story that follows the friendship between two elderly peasants, Eremey and Iván, as they face the challenges of old age and the uncertainties of life. Set against the backdrop of a remote Russian village, Tolstoy's masterful storytelling weaves a poignant tale of camaraderie, resilience, and the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Through the characters of Eremey and Iván, Tolstoy portrays the timeless themes of love, companionship, and the importance of human connection. "Two Old Men" is a testament to Tolstoy's profound understanding of human nature and his ability to capture the beauty in life's simplest moments. This touching story continues to resonate with readers as a celebration of the enduring power of friendship and the wisdom that comes with age.

Author : Marly Youmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0881462713

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A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage by Marly Youmans Pdf

After a death at The White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy Georgia, to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey, he sweeps through society, revealing the highest and lowest in human nature and only slowly coming to self-understanding. He searches the points of the compass for what will help, groping for a place where he can feel content, certain that he has no place where he belongs and that he rides the rails through a great darkness. His difficult path to collect enough radiance to light his way home is the road of a boy struggling to come to terms with the cruel but sometimes lovely world of Depression-era America. On Marly Youmans’s prior forays into the world of the past, reviewers praised her “spellbinding force” (Bob Sumner, Orlando Sentinel), “prodigious powers of description” (Philip Gambone, The New York Times), “serious artistry,” “unobtrusively beautiful language,” and “considerable power” (Fred Chappell, The Raleigh News & Observer.), “haunting, lyrical language and fierce intelligence” (starred review, Publishers Weekly.) Howard Bahr wrote of The Wolf Pit, “Ms. Youmans is an inspiration to every writer who must compete with himself. I had thought Catherwood unsurpassable, but Ms. Youmans has done it. Her characters are ℜ they live and move in the stream of Time as if they had passed only yesterday. Her lyricism breaks my heart and fills me with envy and delight. No other writer I know of can bring the past to us so musically, so truly.”

Author : Marly Youmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0986690937

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Thaliad by Marly Youmans Pdf

A blank-verse epic poem set in a post-apocalyptic world that tells of the rebirth of the human race through the girl Thalia.

Author : Mary H. Manhein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732254702

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Claire Carter, Bone Detective by Mary H. Manhein Pdf

Author : Charis Cotter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 1554511836

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A World Full of Ghosts by Charis Cotter Pdf

Describes a variety of types of ghosts from around the world.