Author: Maurice BlanchotPublisher:
ISBN: 9780823250998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Essays and reviews published during the Nazi occupation of France.
Holy Desperation
Author: Heather KingPublisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 0829445153
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
2019 International Book Awards, Finalist: Christianity 2018 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Third Place: Prayer, Books about Prayer 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers’ “Excellence in Publishing Awards,” First Place: Inspiration 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers’ “Excellence in Publishing Awards,” BOOK OF THE YEAR When life has driven you to your knees, the only thing that works is prayer. Desperation has many faces: the addict who has hit bottom; the laid-off worker struggling to make the next house payment; the person who seems to have it all together but is wracked with fear, guilt, anger, or shame. We know we need help, but we are afraid to let anyone—especially God—see how broken we truly are. In Holy Desperation, Heather King demonstrates that, when we’re desperate, it’s precisely the right time to cry out to God. King, a survivor of addiction and other forms of desperation, begins with the basics of how to pray when you’re uncertain that God exists or when you feel that you’re beyond God’s reach. She challenges the assumptions that only the saintly can pray and that prayer ought to be tidy and nice. She reveals how prayer leads us beyond ourselves and into a life of purpose, lived for the good of others. Ultimately, Holy Desperation is an invitation to engage in bold, come-exactly-as-you-are prayer, offering a way forward, upward, and outward for anyone desperate enough to cry out for God’s help and presence. You are not alone.
Expat
Author: Christina Henry de TessanPublisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 1580055206
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
It's one thing to travel abroad—to stay in charming hotels and deliberate over whether to visit this museum or relax at that café even to head off the beaten track for a glimpse of "real" life—and another thing altogether to move to another country. Expat chronicles the experiences of twenty-two ordinary women living extraordinary lives in outposts as far flung as Borneo, Ukraine, India, Greece, Brazil, China and the Czech Republic. In vivid detail, these writers share how the realities of life abroad match up to the expat fantasy. One woman negotiates the rough courtesies of Serbia, finding lives limned by harshness and an insurmountable spirit. Another is tutored on English manners by an eclectic bunch from Liverpool: "The cardinal sin in America is to be insincere, whereas the cardinal sin in England is to be boring." For some, their new home prompts them to reconnect or confront lost parts of themselves: One woman rediscovers her Judaism—in Japan; another writer's Western outlook is challenged by Javanese mysticism. Many share their own naíve blunders and private confessions: a Thanksgiving dinner that doesn't translate in Paris, a sudden yearning for bad Hollywood films. And all discover that what it means to be "American" is redefined, again and again. taps into the bewilderment, the joys and surprises of life overseas, where the challenges often take unexpected forms and the obstacles overcome are all the more triumphant. Featuring an astonishing range of perspectives, destinations and circumstances, this collection offers a beautiful portrait of expatriate life.
The Deaconry - Gamma Team
Author: Deakon ReevesPublisher: Elkleaf Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
What is more devastating than an EMP blast? More destructive than a Super Volcano? Or more debilitating than an all-out Cyber Attack ... and even Biological Warfare? No apocalyptic event killed America. It was more Malignant - and all around us before we cared to notice. This is Book Three in the Revival Team Series where we meet Gamma Team: The Deaconry. With Revival Teams growing within America's broken landscape - a need is discovered. And it is not so different than that need that was realized over two thousand years ago, by Jesus Disciples as they were building the Church. Provisions. Supplies. Administration. Coordination. All these things are vital to the reckoning of a movement. So a new kind of team emerges. Those who will struggle behind the scenes in order to provide for those who fight on the front lines. But nothing is safe in the wasteland of Old America, where there are bandits, lawlessness and debauchery. Not only in the big cities but also along the supply routes. Still, they press on. Knowing that they are "members of the body" and that their work is crucial to the cause for revival... Because all God's people have purpose. But can America yet be truly revived? Reborn from these ashes? "We don't know- ...but we're going to try." Series Description: Decades of Moral Decay. 'Unchecked.' 'Unfettered.' An erosion of common decency. Until finally ... it was too late. Feigning freedoms. No more protections. No more justice. Just a split nation with a corrupt shell of a government that has it's own sinister agenda. So is all lost? No- not yet. There are those who would turn things back. Soldiers and Scholars. Modern day Psalmists and Priests. Men and Women- They are: 'REVIVAL TEAMS.' Self appointed fighters for the cause, Reviving that which has been lost. Why bother? Why not just submit? They do it for God... They do it for country... They do it for all that is Right and Holy. The Revival Team Series by Deakon Reeves is Serious Christian Adventure, fraught with Spiritual Mission, Conviction, and Purpose. Join in the journey today!
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel
Author: Rainer Maria RilkePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393882098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A stunning, revelatory new translation of the only novel by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, from one of “the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post). A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its outcasts, muses on his family history, and lays bare his earliest experiences of fear, tenderness, and desolation. With a poet’s feel for language and a keen instinct for storytelling, Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly fractured coming-of-age narrative, kaleidoscopic in its alternation of vivid present encounters and equally alive memories of childhood. Strikingly contemporary, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge reveals a writer metabolizing his own experiences to yield still-essential questions about fiction and reality, empathy and psychosis, and—above all—life, love, and death. In a fascinating introduction, award-winning translator Edward Snow explores the overlaps between Rilke’s experiences and those of his protagonist, and shows with granular attention the novel’s capacity for nuance and sympathy. Snow’s exquisite translation captures as never before the astonishing cadences and musical clarity of the poet’s prose. It reveals The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge as an urgent contemporary achievement, more than one hundred years after it was written.
Midnight at Spanish Gardens
Author: Alma AlexanderPublisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
On the eve of the end of the world, 20 December 2012, five friends meet in Spanish Gardens, the cafe where they had celebrated their college graduation twenty years before. Over Irish coffees, they reminisce—and reveal long-held and disturbing secrets. Each friend in turn is given a curious set of instructions by an enigmatic bartender named Ariel: "Your life is filled with crossroads and you are free to choose one road or another at any time. Stepping through this door takes away all choices except two—the choice to live a different life, or return to this one...." Each in turn passes through the portal and are faced with new lives and challenges. Their decisions show a new life—or something far worse. At the end of the world, it's a chance for redemption, or a chance to learn something about themselves. International bestselling author, Alma Alexander, mixes a world or possibilities and paths. What if you could change the past—go right instead of left, fall in love with a different person, change careers or families, or even change your sex. Midnight at Spanish Gardens brings those choices to life.
Author: Angelica
Author: Sharon ShinnPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780441011469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Two hundred years ago, the god Jovah created a legion of land dwelling angels, led by an appointed Archangel. Now, Jovah has a new appointee: Archangel Gaaron. For his life-mate, his Angelica, Jovah has chosen a woman named Susannah. Slowly, an unspoken affection develops between the two. But there is a terrible threat besetting the land-and the true hearts of Archangel and Angelica may never be known.
On Not Being Someone Else
Author: Andrew H. MillerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674238087
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
“To be someone—to be anyone—is about...not being someone else. Miller’s amused and inspired book is utterly compelling.” —Adam Phillips “A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been...Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about the unreal ones. Still, there will be moments when, for good or ill, we feel confronted by our unrealized possibilities.” —New Yorker We live one life, formed by paths taken and untaken. Choosing a job, getting married, deciding on a place to live or whether to have children—every decision precludes another. But what if you’d gone the other way? From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, Jane Hirshfield to Carl Dennis, storytellers of every stripe consider the roads not taken, the lives we haven’t led. What is it that compels us to identify with fictional and poetic voices tantalizing us with the shadows of what might have been? Not only poets and novelists, but psychologists and philosophers have much to say on this question. Miller finds wisdom in all of these, revealing the beauty, the allure, and the danger of sustaining or confronting our unled lives. “Miller is charming company, both humanly and intellectually. He is onto something: the theme of unled lives, and the fascinating idea that fiction intensifies the sense of provisionality that attends all lives. An extremely attractive book.” —James Wood “An expertly curated tour of regret and envy in literature...Miller’s insightful and moving book—both in his own discussion and in the tales he recounts—gently nudges us toward consolation.” —Wall Street Journal “I wish I had written this book...Examining art’s capacity to transfix, multiply, and compress, this book is itself a work of art.” —Times Higher Education
France in the Age of Henri IV
Author: Mark GreengrassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317896300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This study was the first systematic attempt to reach behind the myth of Henri IV - famous for having brought order to France after long civil war - and explores the reality of his achievement. This Second Edition has been substantially updated.
