Face To Face With Papa

Author : Leonard S. Buxton
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781525552540

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This Is My Story, This Is My Song by Leonard S. Buxton Pdf

The first of two volumes to be published, in This is my Story, This is my Song, Leonard S. Buxton recounts the first half of his engaging life and his long career in ministry. He has written a very entertaining personal account of his upbringing as the son of a fire-and-brimstone Evangelical preacher during the Depression, the beginnings of his political consciousness through WWll, his college life and the strict mores of the 1950s, and moving from parish to parish with his young family during the turbulent social change of the 1960s and early 1970s. As a professor of psychology at Claflin, a black university in South Carolina, Leonard recalls his activism within the church—and literally in his own backyard—to break down the resistance to desegregation and to support the civil rights movement. This book is filled with evocative photographs and colorful firsthand history, its joys and heartbreaks: Studebakers and VWs, the Red Sox and Yankees, teen hang-outs in drugstores, music, dramatic productions, and church camping, the serious social stigma of divorce, the illegality of adultery, the scourge of polio, the loss of a child, group ‘encounter sessions,’ George McGovern, Benjamin Spock, Kent State, burning crosses . . . A man devoted to building congregations as a pastor, psychologist, parish counselor, teacher and activist, Leonard depicts characters and narrates events with remarkable acuity. This book is a rich reflection on his experiences, written with candor and humility, and observing people and events through the kind lens of his dedication to serving others and his evolving faith as a Methodist minister. To quote one of Leonard’s aspirations for this memoir, “For those still casting around an unclear future, this may say ‘Take heart; life will be full of surprises.’”

Author : Henry A. Buchanan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780759601840

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And the Rest of Alfie's Story by Henry A. Buchanan Pdf

After the Easterday Adventure with The Moonshiners, Alfie was a big boy growing toward manhood. He had eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and he had become responsible for his own actions. But with Ace as his Demon, and Junior as his ever-present Gadfly, Alfie found himself in frequent trouble. Mama was his Guiding Angel, though, and Papa was the Instrument of Punishment. Uncle Seeb was the Shining Ebony Light to illuminate his path. And LOVE for he discovered girls, and he yearned to be a Hero. His world was changing too, because Jody was now the Baby, and Willie and Cliff and Junior all went away to the War in Europe. He became the Man of the House when Papa was killed and he held in his hand Papas Watch, the Arbiter of Time and the Measuring Rod of Life.

Author : Latifa,Chékéba Hachemi
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1860499619

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My Forbidden Face by Latifa,Chékéba Hachemi Pdf

In a moving tale of oppression and courageous defiance, sixteen-year-old Latifa tells her story of growing up in war torn Afghanistan.

Author : eLBe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524546083

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Fibonacci Tales by eLBe Pdf

Fibonacci Tales are fiction written in the format of the Fibonacci sequence, hence the name Fibonacci Tales. What Fibonacci did is plug a 0 and a 1 and set the rule to always add the next two numbers. Each Fibonacci Tales book has: two one-page chapters, one two-page chapter, one three-page chapter, one five-page chapter, one eight-page chapter, one thirteen-page chapter, one twenty-one-page chapter, one thirty-four-page chapter, one fifty-five-page chapter, and one eighty-nine-page chapter for a total of 232 pages per book. Fibonacci Tales are written for all ages and in paired sets of books. The first pair of Fibonacci Tales books are Fibonacci Tales Vampire Tales and Fibonacci Tales Knights Tales. The second pair of Fibonacci Tales books are Fibonacci Tales Dust Tales and Fibonacci Tales Mother Tales. The third pare of Fibonacci Tales books will be called Fibonacci Tales Cat Tales and Fibonacci Tales Goddess Tales. These books are works in progress during mid-September 2016. The author expects to complete the third pair of Fibonacci Tales books and available around early to mid-2017. Fibonacci Tales books are designed for electronic book reading. Each pair of books includes music callouts that are essential to the stories (music has the power to calm the savage beast), and therefore, Fibonacci Tales books do not lend themselves to printed book format. Plus the cost of printing two pairs of books and pressing two CDs for each pair of books would not be cost-effective, and it would be an outright irritant for the dear reader who would have to advance the CD one tune at a time and stop the CD before the next tune began as CD players are designed to do. I would utterly hate to read Fibonacci Tales in printed book format. For that reason alone, scratch the idea of publishing Fibonacci Tales in physical book format. I will not agree. On the plus side again, I have two disinterested readers who will read and comment on Fibonacci Tales books once they are available in e-book format.

Author : Henry A. Buchanan
Publisher : Author House
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467098021

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Alfie and Papa’S Other Boys by Henry A. Buchanan Pdf

The book, Alfie and Papas Other Boys, is the fourth in a series which began with Alfies Story, Little Boy Growing Up. After that the exciting story of Alfie and the Moonshiners. Next came And the Rest of Alfies Story. I really thought that was the rest of the story. It wasnt. Now we have these tales, beginning with Papas Missing Toe, and ending with Tis a Mark of Distinction. There is not a dull moment in between these two fascinating pictures of Papas role in the lives of his four boys. Willie is the oldest, the ring leader in all their mischief, and the embodiment of primogeniture because Margaret died. There is Cliff. Granma characterized him when she said Give that boy a wheel and he will roll it off the edge of the world. And Junior is Alfies nemesis; he is just enough bigger than Alfie to taunt him, and not bigger enough to control him. Lastly, there is Alfie, the Baby, impulsive, irrepressible and curious beyond belief. But always the Baby until the arrival of Jody, ten years late for this book of Alfie tales.

Author : Dale Lucas
Publisher : Beating Windward Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983825203

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Aces & Eights by Dale Lucas Pdf

Lucas offers a new twist on the action-hero and a love letter to classic pulp fiction like no other, set in Harlem, 1926. The Queen Bee controls the speakeasies, brothels, and numbers rackets in north Harlem; Papa House controls the south. As the Queen Bee puts the final touches on her new night club, Papa House makes his move to take over all of Harlem, declaring war. However Doc Voodoo is out to maintain peace, prosperity, and autonomy for the residents.

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608191512

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Pearl of China by Anchee Min Pdf

It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary. Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea. In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of Empress Orchid and Red Azalea, brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine.

Author : Rod Mills
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462893465

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The Biddy Sparrow by Rod Mills Pdf

Author : Owen Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bookbinding
ISBN : NYPL:33433074862792

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The Track of a Storm by Owen Hall Pdf

Author : Shubhra Shah Agarwal
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781945621581

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Leatherback's Big Win by Shubhra Shah Agarwal Pdf

"Ever come across a tortoise with a mind of her own? Someone who is cheeky and likes to call a spade a spade? Ever had a problem you couldn’t solve? Ever been so nervous about something you couldn’t sleep at night? What you need is someone like me! After learning so much from my best friend Patch-back, my mentor Papa Sharpy and my student Luca back in Laguna it’s time to put my experiences into practice. I’m loyal, I’m sharp and I’m crazy. The time has come to solve Tanya’s biggest barrier and she will need all the support in the world. With the help of her wildcard entry aka Mommy and her crazy torty, Tanya sure is going on a topsy–turvy journey. I promise it will leave you enthralled, excited, happy, laughing, shocked and exasperated all at the same time. But just remember, each and every Mommy out there has strange, magical powers and Tanya and her mom are going to change the history of Hartson High School! “TANYA! Tanya! Go for it TANYA! You’re going to make them cry, all those who gave up on you” said Lili. 18 Illustrations in the book are to be colored and there are story related puzzles and activities at the end of the book "

Author : JennaKay Francis
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921636301

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The Fane Queen by JennaKay Francis Pdf

Attempting to escape the past can have devastating consequences... Ask Tavin Sylvain, who is trying to forget all about the abuse he suffered at the hands of the trolls six months earlier. Ask Kitiara, who would like to escape her sordid past in Kartonn, where she was known as the Princess of Pleasure. Or ask King Jansson van Tannen, who would like nothing better than to keep his family intact and not have to face the possibility of losing one of his own beloved children to fate. When the past rears its ugly head, all three are thrown into turmoil. Tavin, Brann and Kitiara are lost in Karsaba, without magic, without direction, without hope. And in the middle of a troll invasion. In a race against time, King Jansson and King Kyel gather their closest friends and allies to find the children before the trolls find them first.

Author : Vernadine A. Merrick
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631357930

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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down . . . by Vernadine A. Merrick Pdf

Vernadine A. Merrick’s And the Walls Came Tumbling Down is the riveting story of two twin boys’ climb out of poverty to power and the sacrifices made to get there. Jack and Joe were raised by their father in the Cleveland ghettos. Their mother died in childbirth, but the boys had plenty of aunts to give them motherly guidance and a father devoted to their success. The two boys’ lives go in separate ways—Joe turns to life on the streets and running with gangs, while Jack excels in school, eventually going to Yale. Then fate deals one a hard hand, a tragedy occurs and their worlds collide in a way that forever changes their paths. From the seedy underbelly of gang life on the mean streets to the political and powerfully elite, the unimaginable secret that one has to bear will reverberate throughout his life and set in motion a chain of events that can save or destroy him as he aspires to the most powerful office in the land. Merrick has written a breakthrough novel that encompasses the precariousness of family relationships and the lengths a father will go to save his child. It paints a compassionate picture of how a tragic mistake can test the limits of a family’s survival yet still reach the other side of forgiveness and redemption. Joe Baker is a tortured spirit, torn between truth and deception, self-awareness and self-deprivation…and many wrong choices. Jack Baker is the mirror image of Joe and can only be described as his better half. He is devoted to his father, fiercely protective of his brother and the voice of the unheard. Suzanne Montgomery, glamorous, gorgeous and rich. Her larger-than-life, Hollywood looks, mask the vulnerable woman still desperate for love. Nicola Patricks while enormously seductive, her intelligence, decency and achievements are her pride. She is now thrust into a web of lust, love and deceit. John Baker is the father of identical twin boys that he deeply loves, but begrudgingly admits to liking only one. Dirk Patterson is amongst the upper class African-American elite. Yet he is intricately connected to two brothers from the other side of the tracks. Detective Ridder Jones smells blood and goes for the jugular. The case of the high-powered Senator is no exception.

Author : Jana Evans Braziel
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813063133

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Duvalier's Ghosts by Jana Evans Braziel Pdf

"Urgently pursues those nameless ghosts of Haitians lost in the liminal space of the Black Atlantic."--New West Indian Guide "Foregrounds the experiences of refugees (particularly those refused asylum and detained in camps), the political mobilization of the diaspora in the United States, the ramifications of the policies and adjustment programmes imposed on Haiti by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and USAID."--Bulletin of Latin American Research "Theoretically sound and well researched. Braziel has written a compelling book on the literatures of post-Duvalier Haiti."--Millery Polyne, New York University "A very original study, a tour-de-force that crisscrosses the disciplinary boundaries typically separating the social sciences and the humanities. It is richly researched, beautifully written, and will surely attract much critical attention and praise."--Valerie Kaussen, University of Missouri From a position of urgent political engagement, this provocative book offers novel and compelling interpretations of several well-known Haitian-born authors, particularly regarding U.S. intervention in their homeland. Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière, Jana Evans Braziel examines how writers participate in transnational movements for global social justice. In their fictional works they discuss the United States’ many interventionist methods in Haiti, including surveillance, foreign aid, and military assistance. Through their work, they reveal that the majority of Haitians do not welcome these intrusions and actively criticize U.S. treatment of Haitians in both countries. Braziel encourages us to analyze the instability and violence of small nations like Haiti within the larger frame of international financial and military institutions and forms of imperialism. She forcefully argues that by reading these works as anti-imperialist, much can be learned about why Haitians and Haitian exiles often have negative perceptions of the U.S.

Author : Sheeraz Shah
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Papa's Coffee Machine by Sheeraz Shah Pdf

In Delhi's bustling streets, Mr. Zaidi embarks on a personal journey through virtual connections with his American-born grandchildren, Ayaan and Fazal. Amidst the aroma of kadak chai and freshly brewed coffee, Despite his reserved nature and seemingly dull existence, their conversations transcend time and distance, bringing unexpected warmth and joy. Delhi's charm and the warmth of coffee serve as the backdrop to their exchanges in this tale of intergenerational exploration. Hindered by language barriers, cultural differences, and Mr. Zaidi's reservations, their virtual encounters faltered. However, a longing for connection stirs within him, melting his apprehension away. Ayaan's coffee mug and lively spirit with the brewing curiosity of Fazal become catalysts for his own transformation. While Murad, a loving father, strives to foster a deeper bond between his sons and Mr. Zaidi. Follow Mr. Zaidi's heart, as the Zaidi family embarks on a journey of understanding and personal growth, filled with laughter, misunderstandings, and heartfelt conversations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : OXFORD:555005994

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The Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine by Anonim Pdf