Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Publisher: Heinemann ISBN: 9780435908447 Category : African fiction (English) Languages : en Pages : 260
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Devil on the Cross tells the tragic story of Wariinga, a young woman who emigrated from her small rural town to the city of Nairobi only to be exploited by her boss and later a corrupt businessman.
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1620973340 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 166
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A New York Times Editors’ Choice "A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit." —Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review "Wrestling with the Devil is a powerful testament to the courage of Ngũgĩ and his fellow prisoners and validation of the hope that an independent Kenya would eventually emerge." —Minneapolis Star Tribune "The Ngũgĩ of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon’s sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval." —Bookforum An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ—the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow—decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the Cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art.
Author: Michael Fullan Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 1544317964 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 185
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Develop equity, excellence, and well-being across the whole system! The world is troubled! We need to combine a moral imperative and a system transformation to survive for the better. Education is crucial to our future but needs to play a more direct role in shaping our future. The Devil is in the Details shows how we can re-think the education system and its three levels of leadership—local, middle, and top—so that each level can contribute to dramatic turnaround for education and society. The focus is on examining details to ensure effective actions are taken, rather than assuming large pronouncements and policies will drive change. Readers will find: • Details and analysis about successful systems in California, Ontario, and Australia • Ideas for how leaders at all levels can take steps to begin • Vignettes, actions and strategies that illustrate how to address equity, excellence and well-being With the goal of transforming the culture of learning to develop greater equity, excellence, and student wellbeing, this book will help you liberate the system and maintain focus.
Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Publisher: Pantheon ISBN: 0307907694 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
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The second volume of memoirs from the renowned Kenyan novelist, poet and playwright covers his high school years at the end of British colonial rule in Africa, during the Mau Mau Uprising. 15,000 first printing.
Author: Rev. Paul T. Cross Publisher: ISBN: 9781735614328 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 178
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Breaking the Devil's Contract is a guide to learning how people engage with and submit to demonic forces. This book will help you to recognize all of the areas of your life that you have made a contract with the enemy. This contract gives the enemy the right to be in your life to control your thoughts and actions. You give the permission and the enemy takes the wheel with your agreement every step of the way. You can break this contract with God's help but you must find out how to do it in this book. Have you ever wondered why you keep sinning in a certain area of your life? Have you wondered why you keep doing the things that you do not want to do? Learn how to break this cycle with the Power of God! Break the Devil's Contract and be free in Jesus to serve God with all of your heart! You will never have to obey the Devil again when he tells you what to do! Restore the Joy of your salvation! Start reading today to break the Devil's Contract! In this book you will learn how to: - Understand the Devil's Contract and how it is formed - Break the Devil's Contract using the Power of God - Be free from satanic control, powers, and curses - Understand and use the Armor of God against the enemy - Walk in the Authority and Power of the Holy Spirit - Be filled with the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Spirit - Have the Abundant Life of Joy and Victory Jesus promised Rev. Paul T. Cross has a Master's Degree in Theology and has been in ministry for over 20 years. Rev. Cross is called by God to the Pastoral and Deliverance Ministry. He is anointed to teach the Word of God to help people learn how to break the power of the enemy. If you apply the truth in this book to your life then you will Break the Devil's Contract and never be oppressed by the Devil again! The Joy of the Lord is your strength! Get your Joy back and follow the Lord to victory!
Author: Bruce Conforth Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1641600977 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life remains unknown save for a few inaccurate anecdotes. Up Jumped the Devil is the result of over 50 years of research. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Robert Johnson since the early 1960s, and he was the person who discovered Johnson's death certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson's life and music in 1970 and made it his mission to fill in what was still unknown about him. In this definitive biography, the two authors relied on every interview, resource and document, most of it material no one has seen before. As a result, this book not only destroys every myth that ever surrounded Johnson, but also tells a human story of a real person. It is the first book about Johnson that documents his years in Memphis, details his trip to New York, uncovers where and when his wife Virginia died and the impact this had on him, fully portrays the other women Johnson was involved with, and tells exactly how and why he died and who gave him the poison that killed him. Up Jumped the Devil will astonish blues fans who thought they knew something about Johnson.
Author: Nicky Cruz Publisher: ISBN: 9780860658139 Category : Evangelistic work Languages : en Pages : 216
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Nicky's parents were both occultists, and he was expected to follow in their footsteps. But Nicky ran away, to New York City, where he became a tough, violent gang leader. Yet he was the first of his family to turn to Christ ...
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher: Back Bay Books ISBN: 031604928X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 209
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This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
Author: Mt Clark Publisher: ISBN: 9781735736112 Category : Languages : en Pages : 318
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Jay Wilson is facing a fear he never dreamed possible. His life was being deleted. A diabolical hacker, ignited by an innocent transgression in a coffee shop, is hell bent on destroying Jay's life. After recently separating from his girlfriend, Jay was already miserable. Amidst the obliteration of everything around him, he fears ruin of his final chance with Jenni most of all. Life as an orphan and runaway teen did not prepare Jay for what was yet to come. The hacker not only deleted his existence from every known database in the world, but falsified a criminal record that has Jay wanted as an international fugitive. His survival is at the mercy of three homeless men who dwell in the underbelly of Manhattan. With Jenni's help, Ted Stone, a long-retired detective who helped take down the mob in its heyday, becomes an unlikely but promising ally, along with his maverick sketch artist as they pit their old school police methods against an elite hacker who is always one step ahead. This is a novel of perseverance against all odds and one last chance for love. The dramatic conclusion of this fast-paced thriller will leave you gasping for air and checking your own computer for a DEVIL IN THE WIRE.
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