Altared

Author: Kyle Tackwell Ball
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647420539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
When Kyle Tackwell Ball’s search for a quaint country home near Florence, Italy, in move-in condition somehow led to the purchase of an abandoned church in a small borgo near Greve-in-Chianti called Le Convertoie, she ended up with much more than a project to overcome her newly contracted “empty nest syndrome.” Ball soon found herself starring in a “Stones and Bones Classic”; the ruin she’d purchased would require years of renovation and an endless amount of money before it would become habitable. But her journey had unexpected rewards, too: she reconnected with some wonderful friends, made new ones, learned the language of her newly adopted home country, and became experienced in the Italian knack of getting around the system. Most importantly, she learned to appreciate Italian culture, food and wine, and how rewarding it is to give new life to a beautiful old building. Ball’s renovation was featured in the March 2010 “Before & After” issue of Architectural Digest, beautifully documented by Kim Sargent of Sargent Architectural Photography.

Altared

Author: Claire
Publisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307730735
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
A provocative exploration of the beauty and vitality of Christian love and how it differs from a cultural paradigm of marriage, singleness, and romance.

Altared Ground

Author: Brian Schroeder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134718136
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
One of the most pressing concerns for contemporary society is the issue of violence and the factors that promote it. In Altared Ground: Levinas, History and Violence Brian Schroeder stages an engagement between Emmanuel Levinas, one of the leading figures in 20th century Continental philosophy, and Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and others in the history of ideas. Not merely an exposition of Levinas' original and complex thinking, Brian Schroeder seeks to re-read the history of Western philosophy and religion by going beyond Levinas' alternatives to traditional theories of the self in order to suggest a notion of subjectivity that is not grounded in violence.

Gods of the City

Author: Robert A. Orsi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253212764
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 420

Book Description
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Why? Because We Still Like You

Author: Jennifer Armstrong
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0446574341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
From the bestselling author of Sienfeldia, a behind-the-scenes history of the Mickey Mouse Club that is a treat for anyone who grew up with Walt Disney's television classic. Full of nostalgia, this book gives you the never before told story of how The Mickey Mouse Club paved the way for all that came after, from its humble beginnings as a marketing ploy, through its short but mesmerizing run, to the numerous resurrections that made it one of television's first true cult hits--all through the recollections of those regular kids-turned-stars who made it a phenomenon. It will reveal, for the first time ever, the stories of Annette, Darlene (and her famous rivalry with Annette), Cubby and Karen, Bobbie and the rest of the beloved cast. It will explore, through the reminiscences of former fans who grew up to be some of television's finest minds, what made the show so special. Finally, it will examine why the formula the creators of the show invented is more relevant than ever, and whether we'll ever see yet another Club for a new generation. Take a trip down memory lane with the original Mickey Mouse Club cast and creators, through drama and unexpected fame, to see how an television institution came into being.

Revealed By Darkness

Author: Chloe Elgar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578929156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Since childhood for reasons she couldn't understand, Chloe was drawn to the dark and all that lived there. Seeing and feeling things that others couldn't or wouldn't, she was forced into a lonely life. The lines between "good girl" and "bad girl'" quickly became her guidebook, making her shove parts of herself into hiding. Life took her on a fiercely adventurous journey that led her to discover the unexplainable perfection of the wild. To find herself and her magic, she had to meet her ancestors, face her fears, and learn to walk alone in the darkness. This is a story about an intuitive who spends half of her life running away from her gifts, and the rest of it running towards them. In telling a different story about the dark, she invites the reader to examine their own imbalanced relationship with darkness and intuition. A coming of age story about a girl who learns to claim her power and her voice by befriending the dark. It is courageously vulnerable, honest, and raw. You will find yourself, and your memories in the pages of this book.

Sexy Feminism

Author: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547738307
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
A rallying call for a new brand of 21st-century feminism--a feminism that is doable, cool, and, yes, even sexy.

The Bride's House

Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429977515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Whiter Than Snow and Prayers for Sale comes a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who have all lived in the same Victorian home called the Bride's House. It's 1880, and for unassuming seventeen-year-old Nealie Bent, the Bride's House is a fairy tale come to life. It seems as if it is being built precisely for her and Will Spaulding, the man she is convinced she will marry. But life doesn't go according to plan, and Nealie finds herself in the Bride's House pregnant---and married to another. For Pearl, growing up in the Bride's House is akin to being raised in a mausoleum. Her father has fashioned the house into a shrine to the woman he loved, resisting all forms of change. When the enterprising young Frank Curry comes along and asks for Pearl's hand in marriage, her father sabotages the union. But he underestimates the lengths to which the women in the Bride's House will go for love. Susan is the latest in the line of strong and willful women in the Bride's House. She's proud of the women who came before her, but the Bride's House hides secrets that will force her to question what she wants and who she loves. Sandra Dallas has once again written a novel rich in storytelling and history, peopled by living, breathing characters that will grab hold of you and not let you go.

Rebuilding the Altar

Author: Pat Schatzline
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1629991473
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
The Holy Spirit has become a stranger.

The Land of Counterpane

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609731526
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents an illustrated poem from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses."