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30 Days of Love " A Spiritual Journey"
by: Sly Fleming
Publisher: Inheritance Changers
Published: 2011-06-20
ASIN: B00579XRQS
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| | More details | | How can you love when you might not know the true meaning? This simple four-letter word is easily defined without context. However, once context is added, it changes. For instance, is the love God had for the world the same as the love you have for home cooking? Is love for a spouse the same as love for a child? The purpose of this book is to explore 30 different types of love through 30 different entertaining scenarios. But be forewarned" because God inspired this book, it will invoke thought and divine revelation, so read it at a slow pace. This book guarantees moments of reflection and insight. Also, because of its 30 different and independent accounts of love through poetry and short stories, it is an easy read and the perfect travel book. Just remember life and love are choice driven, so choose 30 Days of Love, and you will not be disappointed. |
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A Book of strife in the form of the diary of an old soul
by: George MacDonald
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd
Published: 1922
ASIN: B0008C0ADW
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| | More details | | When I am very weary with hard thought, And yet the question burns and is not quenched, My heart grows cool when to remembrance wrought That thou who know'st the light-born answer sought Know'st too the dark where the doubt lies entrenched-- Know'st with what seemings I am sore perplexed, And that with thee I wait, nor needs my soul be vexed. |
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A Collection of Joy (VALUE BOOKS)
by: Helen Steiner Rice
Publisher: Barbour Books
Published: 2011-02-01
ASIN: 1616262044
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| | More details | Acclaimed poet Helen Steiner Riceâs beautiful verse has been treasured for decades. Her work continues to speak to readers as they experience the profound joy in Barbour's newest 160-page Value Book! Readers will be inspired to share Helen Steiner Riceâs beloved verse again and again with A Collection of Joy. Poems like "A Sure Way to a Happy Day" and "Itâs a Wonderful World" will delight your heart and lift your spirit. |
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A Family Christmas
by: Caroline Kennedy
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2007-10-30
ASIN: B001Q3MAC6
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| | More details | | "When I began assembling [this] collection, I was skeptical that I would learn anything new about Christmas, but reading and reflecting on the history and spirit of Christmas brought back many memories, and taught me a great deal ⦠The literature of Christmas ranges from the miraculous to the tragic, the profound to the ridiculous, but always represents the connection to something larger than ourselves." âCaroline Kennedy In A Family Christmas, Caroline shares the Christmas poetry, prose, scriptural readings, and lyrics that are most dear to her, drawing on authors as diverse as Harper Lee, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King Jr., Billy Collins, John and Yoko, and Charles Dickens. There are also many lesser-known gems throughout and personal treasures from her own family -- including a young Carolineâs Christmas list to Santa Claus and a letter from her father as President to a child concerned about Santaâs well-being. This diverse and unique anthology will become a timeless keepsake, and will enrich your heart and mind with the spirit of Christmas. A Family Christmas includes selections from: Groucho Marx, Emma Lazarus, Mark Twain, Sandra Cisneros, Pearl S. Buck, Truman Capote, Gabriela Mistral, Ogden Nash, Clement Clarke Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Marianne Moore, Calvin Trillin, E. B. White, and many more. Caroline Kennedy is the editor of the New York Times bestselling A Family of Poems, Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Patriotâs Handbook, and Profiles in Courage for Our Time, and is the coauthor of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. She serves as the Vice Chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools. |
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Abelard & Heloise: The Letters and Other Writings
by: Peter Abelard
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Published: 2007-03-16
ASIN: 0872208753
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| | More details | | The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, The Letters and Other Writings features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both The Calamities of Peter Abelard and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant former student and lover -- an exchange whose intellectual passion, formal virtuosity, and psychological drama distinguish it as one of the most extraordinary correspondences in European history. Thanks to this edition, Latin-less readers will be better placed than ever to see why this undisputed milestone in the intellectual life of medieval France is also a masterpiece of Western literature. In addition to the The Calamities and the letters -- the first complete English translation of all seven in more than eighty years -- this volume includes an Introduction, a map, and a chronology, Abelard's Confession of Faith, letters between Heloise and Peter the Venerable, the Introduction to The Questions of Heloise, and selected songs and poems by Abelard, among them a previously untranslated "shaped" poem, "Open Wide Your Eyes." Extracts of "lost" letters sometimes ascribed to Abelard and Heloise are given in appendixes. |
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Everyman's Library (Paper))
by: John Henry Newman
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Ltd.
Published: 1993-04-15
ASIN: 046087232X
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| | More details | | This book is part of the "Everyman" series, which has been totally re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type. The book includes a themed introduction, chronology of life and times of the author, glossaries of Latin and Greek terms and a selection of criticism. Once a famous Anglican clergyman, Newman left his living in the 1840s, recanted his former criticism of the Roman Catholic Church, and entered the priesthood, becoming - ultimately - a cardinal. Framing his "Apologia" in reply to a "grave and gratuitous slander" which he felt Charles Kingsley had made against him, Newman overcame his characteristic shyness and produced one of the masterpieces of spiritual writing: honest, passionate, scrupulous and moving. |
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Be Safe Little Boy: Words of Love for Moms
by: Karen Kingsbury
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2006-05-02
ASIN: 0310814480
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| | More details | | The relationship I share with my sons---Tyler, Sean, Josh, EJ, and Austin---is a very special one. For every moment I spend cuddling with them and reading to them, playing with them and sharing closeness, I am always mindful of my calling to take a step back and let my little boys become young men. Boys are rough and tumble. They wrestle hard and play hard and often they are ready to suit up for a game or take the wheel of the car long before we're ready to let them go. This thought played in my heart as I wrote Be Safe Little Boy. This emotional look at mothers and sons is my way of reminding myself, again, of my role in mothering my boys. Love them long and close, yes. Build bonds that will last forever, always. But be willing to take a step back, pray without ceasing, and let them grow up. I pray you find a closer walk in your own relationships as you read. |
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ [illustrated]
by: Lew Wallace
Publisher: Art & Poetry Publishing
Published: 2011-03-09
ASIN: B004RJ43ZI
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| | More details | illustrated: contains 20 original illustrations
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The story tells of the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Ben-Hur's childhood friend Messala arrives back home as an ambitious commanding officer of the Roman legions. They come to realize how much they have changed and now hold very different views and aspirations. During a military parade a brick falls from the roof of Judah's house and barely misses the Roman governor. Although Messala knows that they are not guilty, he condemns the Ben-Hur family. Without trial, Judah is sent to work until death as a Roman galley slave, his mother and sister are thrown into prison and all the family property is confiscated. Through fate and good fortune, Judah survives and manages to return to Jerusalem, to seek revenge against his one-time friend and redeem his family. Running in parallel with Ben-Hur's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, who comes from the same region and is a similar age, mirroring themes of betrayal, conviction and redemption. Ben-Hur witnesses and is inspired by the rise of the Christ figure and his following who challenge Roman tyranny and talk of keys to a greater kingdom.
Language: English
Drop Caps: yes
Separate chapters: yes
Kindle Superior Formatting: yes
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Beyond Our Selves
by: Catherine Marshall
Publisher: W Publishing Group
Published: 1961-06
ASIN: 0070406022
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| | More details | | In the HODDER CHRISTIAN ESSENTIAL series and originally published in 1962. The author uses personal experiences and biblical reflection to explain how exchanging self-will for God's will is like exchanging a mask for the real self which will lead to a more direct relationship with God and a more meaningful faith. |
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Beyond Tuesday Morning (September 11 Series #2)
by: Karen Kingsbury
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2004-12-14
ASIN: 0310257719
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| | More details | | The hope-filled sequel to the bestselling One Tuesday Morning In this new novel by Karen Kingsbury, three years have passed since the terrorist attacks on New York City. Jamie Bryan, widow of a firefighter who lost his life on that terrible day, has found meaning in her season of loss by volunteering at St. Paul's, the memorial chapel across the street from where the Twin Towers once stood. Here she meets a daily stream of people touched by the tragedy, including two men with whom she feels a connection. One is a firefighter also changed by the attacks, the other a police officer from Los Angeles. But as Jamie gets to know the police officer, she is stunned to find out that he is the brother of Eric Michaels, the man with the uncanny resemblance to Jamie's husband, the man who lived with her for three months after September 11. Eric is the man she has vowed never to see again. Certain she could not share even a friendship with his brother, Jamie shuts out the police officer and delves deeper into her work at St. Paul's. Now it will take the persistence of a tenacious man, the questions from her curious young daughter, and the words from her dead husband's journal to move Jamie beyond one Tuesday morning. 'Jamie Bryan took her position at the far end of the Staten Island Ferry, pressed her body against the railing, eyes on the place where the Twin Towers once stood. She could face it now, every day if she had to. The terrorist attacks had happened, the World Trade Center had collapsed, and the only man she'd ever loved had gone down with them. Late fall was warmer than usual, and the breeze across the water washed over Jamie's face. If she could do this, if she could make this journey three times a week while Sierra was in school, then she could convince herself to get through another long, dark night. She could face the empty place in the bed beside her, face the longing for the man who had been her best friend, the one she'd fallen for when she was only a girl.' |
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Black Beetles in Amber
by: Ambrose Bierce
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Published: 2007-01-15
ASIN: 1426466099
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| | More details | | I conceive it the right of an author to have his fugitive work collected in his lifetime; and this seems to me especially true of one whose work, necessarily engendering animosities, is peculiarly exposed to challenge as unjust. |
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Conamara Blues
by: John O'Donohue
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2001-04-10
ASIN: 0060196440
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| | More details | In this new collection of poetry, John O'Donohue explores the natural and emotional landscape of his native Conamara County, revealing a pastoral vision that is both personal and universal, mystical and of this world. O'Donohue's instinctive awareness of the contrasts of his land -- its places of light and darkness, its movements and its stillness -- is magically brought to life in his richly lyrical yet deceptively transparent language. Translating the beauty and splendor of Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara Blues at once reawakens a sense of intimacy with the natural world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of our relationship to this world. Whether exploring the silent, eternal memory of Conamara or focusing on the power of language and the vagaries of human need and passion, O'Donohue tenderly reveals the fragile vulnerability of love andfriendship. The result is a musical, transcendent, and deeply moving series of poems that exemplifies O'Donohue at his finest. Written with penetrating insight and distilled transparence, Conamara Blues offers a singular and lasting imaginative vision of a landscape of hope and possibility -- powerfully exhibiting the mastery of a poet at the height of his lyric powers. |
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Cries of The Spirit
by: Marilyn Sewell
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000-04-07
ASIN: 0807068497
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| | More details | Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation, sexual intimacy, and childbirth to caretaking, household rituals, and death. These writings represent a healing vision of the sacred that emerges from the particular consciousness of women-a vision that partakes of the world of earth and flesh.
With contributions by Maya Angelou, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Hildegard of Bingen, Lucille Clifton, Annie Dillard, Joy Harjo, Erica Jong, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Kathleen Norris, Marge Piercy, Starhawk, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, and others. |
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Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
by: John Donne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987-04-16
ASIN: 0195041739
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| | More details | | One of Donne's most important and haunting works in prose, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was composed in less than a month, during an illness that nearly cost the writer his life. Donne divided the book into twenty-three sections, each corresponding to a stage of his illness and each consisting of a meditation, an expostulation, and a prayer. Filled with powerful images of mortality and immortality that have moved readers throughout the centuries, it provides a coherent spiritual message relevant not only to Donne's life but to the lives of all people. |
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Diary of an Old Soul
by: George MacDonald
Publisher: AUGSBURG BOOKS
Published: 1994-01-01
ASIN: 0806627344
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| | More details | | George MacDonald offers a prayer for each day of the year, reflecting on some aspect of God's relationship with us. |
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Divine Comedy
by: Dante Alighieri
Publisher: Christian Audio
Published: 2009-04-20
ASIN: 1596446773
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| | More details | | Charles Eliot Norton masterfully translates with beautiful prose one of the greatest works in literature. Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice. A single listening will reveal Dante's visual imagination and uncanny power to make the spiritual visible. Dante's reputation as the outstanding figure of Italian letters rests mainly on the Divine Comedy, a long vernacular poem in 100 cantos (more than 14,000 lines) composed during his exile. Dante entitled it Commedia ; the adjective Divina was added in the 16th cent. It recounts the tale of the poet's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, and is divided accordingly into three parts. In Hell and Purgatory Dante is guided by Vergil, through Heaven, by Beatrice, for whom the poem is a memorial. The work is written in terza rima, a complex verse form in pentameter, with interlocking triads rhyming aba, bcb, cdc, etc. A magnificent synthesis of the medieval outlook, the Divine Comedy pictures a changeless universe ordered by God; its allegorical theme is the gradual revelation of God to the pilgrim. It is also a religious dialogue on the gradations of earthly sin and piety as well as on such topics as predestination and classical philosophy. The symbolism is complex yet highly rational; the verse is musical; and the entire work is one of great imagination. Through his masterpiece Dante established Tuscan as the literary language of Italy, surpassed all previous Italian writers, and gave rise to a vast literature. "Dante Alighieri." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. |
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Fascinating Stories of Forgotten Lives (Great Lives Series)
by: Charles R. Swindoll
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2005-10-18
ASIN: 0849900166
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| | More details | The Old Testament is filled with characters whose lives have great lessons to teach us. In this newest edition in the best-selling Great Lives Series, Charles Swindoll gives us portraits of 12 such figures. Within these stories you will find lessons of leadership, trials and tribulations. You will hear of those who experienced God's anointing and also those who felt His displeasure but most of all you will find stories of His infinite patience with those He created. Charles Swindoll, in his trademark warm and insightful style, illuminates the lives of such characters as: Cain, Esau, Daniel, Elisha, Jonah, Saul, Abigail, and Jabez. You will enjoy reading the Old Testament like you never have before. Additional Titles in the Great Lives Series Include: - Great Lives: David (0-8499-1382-9) $22.99
- Great Lives: Elijah (0-8499-1386-1) $22.99
- Great Lives: Esther (0-8499-1383-7) $22.99
- Great Lives: Joseph (0-8499-1342-x) $22.99
- Great Lives: Moses (0-8499-1385-3) $22.99
- Great Lives: Paul (0-8499-1749-2) $22.99
- Great Lives: Job (0-8499-1389-6) $22.99
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Footprints of a Pilgrim
by: Ruth Bell Graham
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2001-03-27
ASIN: 0849916755
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| | More details | Footprints Of A Pilgrim is Ruth Bell Graham's life story told in her own words (weaving together her prose and poetry) with added tidbits and anecdotes from her family (husband Billy and her children Gigi, Anne, Franklin, Ruth and Ned) and many of her friends (including Barbara Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Jan Karon, Patricia Cornwell and others). With snatches of insight and glimpses of grace, Footprints Of A Pilgrim tells the story of a life (a very full and special life) complete with memories of joy, pain, brokenness, and healing. Also included are many never before published pictures which illustrate the remarkable journey of Ruth Bell Graham, as a child of a missionaries in Quingjiang, China in 1920, until today at her home in Little Piney Cove, Montreat, North Carolina. |
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For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics
by: Roger Housden
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2009-11-01
ASIN: 1401923879
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| | More details |                Roger Housden, author of the best-selling Ten Poems to Change Your Life, celebrates the growing popularity of mystical poetry with this beautiful compilation from the Christian contemplative tradition. Although the writings of the Sufi mystics (Rumi and Hafez) and the Indian mystics (Mirabai and Kabir) have reached a wide audience in recent years, the poetry of the Christian mystics has yet to be discovered by a general audience. For Lovers of God Everywhere, a collection of nearly 100 poems from both historic and contemporary writers,  heralds the reemergence of the great spiritual voices of the Christian traditionâa tradition with its own love songs to God, cries of longing, and bliss of union.                In this collection, Roger introduces us to some of the foremost poets of both the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. He takes us from the wisdom of the Desert Fathers to the passion of St. Augustine, through the medieval ecstasies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena, to the subtleties of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila; and on to contemporary voices such as Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, and Mary Oliver. Rogerâs insightful commentary on each poem inspires us to take its words more deeply into our souls and shows how the mystical tradition transcends sectarian divides and speaks to the heart of humanity. |
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