Unless

Author : Carol Shields
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307365897

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“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.” Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner, with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Reta’s wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Reta’s voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.

Author : Kiel Moe
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781638409144

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Unless by Kiel Moe Pdf

Dissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building. In doing so, it aims to describe how humans and nature interact with the thin crust of the planet through architecture. In particular, the immense material, energy and labor involved in building require a fresh interpretation that better situates the ecological and social potential of design. The enhancement of a particular building should be inextricable from the enhancement of its world-system and construction ecology. A “beautiful” building engendered through the vulgarity of uneven exchanges and processes of underdevelopment is no longer a tenable conceit in such a framework. Unless architects begin to describe buildings as terrestrial events and artifacts, architects will—to our collective and professional peril—continue to operate outside the key environmental dynamics and key political processes of this century.

Author : Alan Gedde
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781685172091

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Unless the Lord by Alan Gedde Pdf

Would you like to be happier? Would you like to have a stronger marriage? Would you enjoy having a better relationship with your children? Your parents? Your siblings? Wouldn't we all. In a world where we have everything at our fingertips, have more wealth than can be imagined, and are protected by many devices, God has been replaced. People are experiencing loneliness, stress, depression, and a host of many other mental illnesses. The temperature of the world continues to rise as people try to figure out what to do about climate change. Crime continues to rise as people spread further and further apart to keep themselves from harm. What if the answer to all these concerns is God? Join me as I journey through a passage that has shaped the life my wife and I have built--Psalm 127. This passage holds the keys to what ails the world unless the Lord takes you through these five verses by using the author's personal stories and some great stories in the Bible to drive a point home. That point? That "unless the Lord." Unless the Lord is a book about how culture teaches us that we can do it all on our own and that we have control; this book goes through the process of showing us that God is completely in control and that if we lived our lives that way, it would be easier; it would be more enjoyable. We would see more people living longer, healthier lives. Unless the Lord doesn't make any promises, but Psalm 127 does, and a life built on those promises could be an amazingly blessed life. Come and take the journey to freedom from the stresses of the world and enjoy "unless the Lord."

Author : Todd Smith
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768464863

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Unless We Pray by Todd Smith Pdf

"Hell is about to feel the fury of millions of praying lions - full of power, glory, and fire." - Todd Smith Our world, increasingly ravaged by darkness, is in desperate need for much more than human solutions. We need true spiritual power and authority to break through. Now is the time for the Lion of Judah to roar through His people! Pastor Todd Smith has witnessed tens of thousands of lives supernaturally transformed by the power of God as he has stewarded the North Georgia Revival in Dawsonville, Georgia. As people attend their revival gatherings and experience water baptism, documented miracle healings take place, irreconcilable relationships are restored, prodigals return to God, and the impossible become possible in one divine encounter. But revival doesn't just happen. There is a secret behind it. Pastor Todd shows how sustained revival, supernatural power, and divine encounter are directly connected to prayer. In short, power-packed chapters, you will receive tools, weapons, and strategies that arm you for victorious prayer! You will: Activate your "prayer voice" that deploys the reign of God and shatters darkness. Identify the Five Lanes of Prayer and learn how to pray the right prayers at the right times. Operate in your spiritual authority and function as Heaven's delegated authority in the earth realm. Expose satan's strategy to keep you prayerless—and learn to overcome his temptations every time. Discover what happens when we don't pray and recognize the vital role you play in the unfolding of Heaven's agenda on Earth. Read the Prayer Secrets from heroes of the faith who saw supernatural breakthroughs and victories in prayer. Don't let the forces of darkness continue to reign. Now is the time to enter into earth-shaking, darkness-shattering, Kingdom of God-advancing prayer!

Author : Mildred Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803297815

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Unless the Wind Turns by Mildred Walker Pdf

John Davis has a “dull aching sense of missing out, of not getting anywhere.” There must be millions like him, he thinks. His relations with his wife, Serena, are shallow and unsatisfying. In the late 1930s, he tries to rekindle their marriage by bringing her to a special place from his past—the Montana mountains. He is chagrined when she asks other people to join them on the camping trip. Plans are further disrupted by a catastrophe—a forest fire that rages uncontrolled for three days. Forced to reach outward to others in this crisis, the members of the party ultimately have to face themselves as well. Unless the Wind Turns is fast-moving and psychologically nuanced.

Author : Arthur Eedle
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781409218715

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Unless the Lord Build the House by Arthur Eedle Pdf

Unless The Lord

Author : John W. Macy,United States Civil Service Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Women
ISBN : MINN:31951D032965611

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"Unless We Begin Now" by John W. Macy,United States Civil Service Commission Pdf

Author : W. A. Willis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : 9780557290963

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Unless a Grain of Wheat by W. A. Willis Pdf

This is a biography of G. Christopher Willis, a Canadian missionary to China from 1921-1949. His Christian literature publishing and distribution was the last Protestant missionary work in China after the Communist takeover, continuing for another ten years under Communist rule. At a time when the church in China entered a period of prolonged spiritual famine, there remained a storehouse of Christian literature to feed the hungry and build up spiritual leaders, enabling them to faithfully feed their flocks. Today the church in China is the single most powerful witness of New Testament Christianity, standing as a witness to the Western church as it flounders in materialism and liberalism. This book is also a study of spiritual fruitfulness, using the biography as a case study to understand Jesus' words "Unless a grain of wheat" and their practical meaning in daily life. There is a way forward for a floundering Western church, to follow along the narrow path that Jesus has called it to walk.

Author : Gene Garrison,Patrick Gilbert
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612000855

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Unless Victory Comes by Gene Garrison,Patrick Gilbert Pdf

A dramatic, moving memoir of coming of age amid the chaos and terror of WWII combat by a member of the 87th Infantry Division. Gene Garrison spent a terrifying nineteenth birthday crammed into a muddy foxhole near the German border in the Saar. He listened helplessly to cries of wounded comrades as exploding artillery shells sent deadly shrapnel raining down on them. The date was December 16, 1944, he was a member of a .30-caliber machine gun crew with the 87th Infantry Division, and this was his first day in combat. Less than a year earlier, he’d entered college as a fresh-faced kid from the farmlands of Ohio. Now, as the night closed around Garrison, slices of light pierced the darkness with frightening brilliance. Battle-hardened German SS troopers using flashlights infiltrated the line of the young, untested American soldiers. Someone screamed “Counterattack!” In the maelstrom of gunfire that followed, the teenage Garrison struggled to comprehend the horrors of the present, his entire future reduced to a prayer that he would be alive at daybreak. From those first frightening, confusing days in combat until the war ended five months later, Gene Garrison saw many of his buddies killed or wounded, each loss reducing his own odds of survival. Convinced before one attack that his luck had deserted him, he wrote a final letter to his family to say goodbye, handing it to a friend with instructions to mail it if he died. From the bitter fighting west of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge to the end of the war on the Czechoslovakian border, Garrison describes the degradation of war with pathos and humor. His story is told through the eyes of the common soldier who might not know the name of the town or the location of the next hill that he and his comrades must grimly wrestle from the enemy but who is willing to die in order to carry the war forward to the hated enemy. He writes of the simple pleasure derived from finding a water-filled puddle deep enough to fill his canteen; a momentary respite in a half-destroyed barn that shields him from the bitter cold and penetrating wind of an Ardennes winter; the solace of friendship with veterans whose lives hang upon his actions and whose actions might help him survive the bitter, impersonal death they all face. The rich dialogue and a hard-hitting narrative style bring the reader to battlefield manhood alongside Garrison, to each moment of terror and triumph faced by a young soldier far from home in the company of strangers.

Author : Mechelle Kelly
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781728328713

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Courage Can't Breathe Unless You Give It Air by Mechelle Kelly Pdf

I haven’t dated or kissed a woman, since 2006. I was working through some things. Once I emerged, I started praying before bed that God allow me to spend time with a woman who was best for me and I her while we slept...dreamed, so we could develop a rapport. I wanted to relieve us of the fear and awkwardness, and move us toward love. The poems are an awakening. Allowing myself to open up to being vulnerable, loving and being loved.

Author : Thomas George
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781300298465

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Unless Horses Ride This Mesa by Thomas George Pdf

Author : Ronnell Beaty
Publisher : Ronnell Beaty
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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You Will Never Understand It - Unless You Go Through It by Ronnell Beaty Pdf

Like whispers from the soul, dive into the poetic world of Ronnell Beaty, showcasing the resilience, vulnerability, and triumphs that make us uniquely human…  In You Will Never Understand It - Unless You Go Through It, Ronnell reminds us that true comprehension can only be attained by walking the path ourselves. It serves as an empathetic invitation to step into the shoes of others, foster an understanding of diverse perspectives and nurture the bonds that connect us all. Through poetry's lens, Ronnell Beaty bares his scars, prompting you to reflect, heal or embrace your own spirit. From the hauntingly beautiful 'I Died and Came Back' to the empowering 'Speak It Into Existence,' each poem runs rife with emotion and vulnerability. Inside you'll find: * Thought-provoking free verse that illuminates a collective human experience * A seamless blend of moments, emotions, and reflections * A lens through which you can see your own life from a different perspective * A challenge to listen, empathize, and strive for a deeper understanding * Raw sentiments and candidness throughout Ready to reflect and connect? Get your copy, and let's get right into it!

Author : James Akenhead
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Interpersonal relations
ISBN : 9781926585079

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Unless You're a Hermit Success Means Working with People by James Akenhead Pdf

Success in a chaotic world does not come easily. This is no quick fix because life doesn't work with quick fixes. It takes more than passion, and courage. It requires commitment to a learned pattern of actions... a personal model that you use every day. It doesn't have to be fancy and it includes everything you do. This book sets out elements that you can use as a blueprint to examine your model. It challenges you to search for the "why" in what you do and it helps you to lock in those essentials that will help guarantee success in your personal and professional life. About the Author: Dr. James Akenhead has spent more than four decades helping: hospitals, banks, local government, schools, universities, counseling agencies, nursing homes, law enforcement, unions, and social organizations. Jim has five earned degrees. At twenty-six, he was offered his first school superintendent position. His career includes 23 years in local, county, and city superintendence's as well as 20 years as a consultant in the public and private sector; as a graduate school instructor; and as a board member and administrator in a variety of organizations. Jim was selected as a "Distinguished Graduate", school of technology, at Bowling Green State University, Ohio and, with his wife Charlene, was chosen as "Business and Professional Person of the Year" in their local community. He has been included in seven "who's who" anthologies and The Eye on Education Digest of Innovators. Dr. Akenhead is also the author of A School Leaders Playbook (2004), Uncommon Leadership (2005), School Boards: It's Time To Step Up (2008) and has a chapter titled "Looking at the Frontier" in Focusing the Whole Brain (2004), Edited by Ron Russell. He continues to be active in the Changepoint Consulting group (www.changepoint.org).

Author : Rock D. Moore
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781608447763

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Unless the Lord Build the House They Labor in Vain (Psalm 127 by Rock D. Moore Pdf

Just as the construction of a house requires much thought, preparation, and personal effort, so too does the progression of our spiritual life. A house cannot be built on a foundation that has poor footings. If this happens it will contribute to an improper or substandard base that cannot maintain what is built on top of it. Solomon writes, "Unless the LORD builds the house, its builder's labor in vain..." (Psalms 127:1 NIV). This book, "Construction, Obstruction, or Destruction" is the first volume in a series on the topic of the Lord constructing the perfect house-that is, completing us just the way that He intended us to be. Like building a house, we must follow Him appropriately as He guides us. True spiritual understanding will always manifest itself through application that honors Christ and gives glory to God. Dr. Rock D Moore, author, pastor, husband, and father has an Ed.D. in Human Services/Counseling and has served in various ministerial and leadership roles for over 25 years. Rock and his wife, Michelle, have been married ten years, and have one daughter, Faith. He is currently the pastor of a new church plant in Southern California. His contact information is: www.hishouseinthecanyons.com

Author : V.C. "Chuck" Wiley
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098019983

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Life is short, full of trouble, and a waste of time! Unless... by V.C. "Chuck" Wiley Pdf

The whole idea of this little book is for the reader to come to grips with the idea that life really is short and that the world really is in a big mess without much hope...unless. The mess is described in Part 1 and the unless (which gives us hope) is described in Part 2.