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| Author | : Allan Gurganus |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2013-09-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 087140379X |
Returning to his mythological Falls, North Carolina home of Widow, the author presents three novellas set in today's South, a place revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties and superior telecommunications.
| Author | : Allan Gurganus |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2014-05-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0871407787 |
Returning to his mythological Falls, North Carolina home of Widow, the author presents three novellas set in today's South, a place revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties and superior telecommunications.
| Author | : Sam Riviere |
| Publisher | : Catapult |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2022-07-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1646221338 |
For readers of Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives and Muriel Spark's Loitering with Intent, this "sublime" and "delightfully unhinged" metaphysical mystery disguised as a picaresque romp follows one poet's spectacular fall from grace to ask a vital question: Is everyone a plagiarist? (Nicolette Polek, author of Imaginary Museums). A scandal has shaken the literary world. As the unnamed narrator of Dead Souls discovers at a cultural festival in central London, the offender is Solomon Wiese, a poet accused of plagiarism. Later that same evening, at a bar near Waterloo Bridge, our narrator encounters the poet in person, and listens to the story of Wiese's rise and fall, a story that takes the entire night—and the remainder of the novel—to tell. Wiese reveals his unconventional views on poetry, childhood encounters with "nothingness," a conspiracy involving the manipulation of documents in the public domain, an identity crisis, a retreat to the country, a meeting with an ex-serviceman with an unexpected offer, the death of an old poet, a love affair with a woman carrying a signpost, an entanglement with a secretive poetry cult, and plans for a triumphant return to the capital, through the theft of poems, illegal war profits, and faked social media accounts—plans in which our narrator discovers he is obscurely implicated. Dead Souls is a metaphysical mystery brilliantly encased in a picaresque romp, a novel that asks a vital question for anyone who makes or engages with art: Is everyone a plagiarist?
| Author | : Grady Hendrix |
| Publisher | : Quirk Books |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2018-09-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1683690214 |
“A gloriously over-the-top scare fest that has hidden depths. Readers will root for Kris all the way to the explosive, poignant finale.”—Publishers Weekly From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. Only a girl with a guitar can save us all. Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead guitarist of Dürt Würk, a heavy-metal band on the brink of breakout success until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom, leaving his bandmates to rot in obscurity. Now Kris works as night manager of a Best Western; she’s tired, broke, and unhappy. Then one day everything changes—a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band. Kris hits the road, hoping to reunite Dürt Würk and confront the man who ruined her life. Her journey will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a celebrity rehab center to a satanic music festival. A spine-tingling horror novel, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, pill-popping, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul.
| Author | : Joey Hartstone |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2023-06-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0593315197 |
A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. “A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning pages like the best of Grisham or Turow." —Michelle King, co-creator of The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Evil The town of Marshall, Texas, is the epicenter of intellectual property law in the US—renowned for its speedy trials and massive payouts. One of its best lawyers is James Euchre. His newest client, Amir Zawar, is a CEO forced to defend his life’s work against a patent infringement claim. But when a beloved hometown hero is murdered, all signs point to Zawar, an outsider with no alibi. With the help of a former federal prosecutor and a local PI, Euchre hopes to uncover the truth. In his first criminal case, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Euchre fears either an innocent man will be sent to death row, or he’ll help set a murderer free. The Local is a small-town thriller crackling with courtroom tension right up to the final verdict.
| Author | : John M. Watanabe |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2010-07-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0292786735 |
The Maya of Santiago Chimaltenango have experienced increasingly rapid, even violent, integration into Guatemalan society in the last fifty years, yet they still distinguish themselves ethnically from Spanish-speaking Guatemalans and other Maya. Why this sense of ethnic identity persists—and also changes—over time is the focus of Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World, a beautifully written ethnography of a Mam-speaking Maya town in the western highlands of Guatemala. John Watanabe uniquely explores how Chimaltecos themselves define their local distinctiveness. This approach uncovers significant continuities in lifeways and world view that might otherwise remain imperceptible to an outsider. Another important feature of the study is that it updates Charles Wagley's pioneering research in the community during the 1930s. Watanabe identifies both the external, historical factors that have prompted change in the community since Wagley's time and the people's responses to these changes.
| Author | : Coleman M. Ford |
| Publisher | : Crossway |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2024-07-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1433575523 |
Recovering the Wisdom of Early Christian Figures to Effectively Shepherd Modern Churches In addition to the regular demands of preaching and shepherding, modern pastors feel undue pressure to entertain congregants and increase attendance numbers. Often, churches resort to the latest business models to keep pace. But true, life-giving guidance lies in Scripture and the wisdom of those having come before us. Ancient Wisdom for the Care of Souls helps pastors to embrace a classic, biblical vision of ministry through the study of selected pastoral virtues and early church figures. Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory the Great both referred to ministry as "the care of souls." Calling for a "return to the sources," professors Coleman M. Ford and Shawn J. Wilhite ponder what a scriptural vision of ministry is, how patristic voices help inform this vision, and how pastors today can cultivate this pastoral vision in their churches. Each chapter examines an important pastoral topic—such as humility, the sacraments, and contemplative theology—and brings it to life through a constructive model and profiles of early church fathers. Encouraged by the patristic wisdom of Irenaeus, Athanasius, John Chrysostom, and more, readers learn a simple and slower model for pastoring that they can emulate as they care for their communities. A slower pace of life may, in fact, help pastors cultivate the soil of souls more richly and, as a result, return to ministry as "the care of souls." Applicable: Enriches the spiritual and ministerial practices of modern pastors through ancient church wisdom, pastoral reflections, and examples from Scripture Theological and Historical: Features detailed profiles of church fathers, including Ambrose of Milan, Augustine, Gregory of Nazianzus, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and others Written for Students and Pastors: Ideal for college-level courses, as well as new or seasoned ministers
| Author | : Tara Zahra |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2008-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0801446287 |
Zahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents.
| Author | : Nicole Archambeau |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2021-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501753681 |
In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people, she finds, understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they sought cures in confession. Archambeau draws on a rich evidentiary base of sixty-eight narrative testimonials from the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel, which was held in the market town of Apt in 1363. Each witness in the proceedings had lived through the outbreaks of plague in 1348 and 1361, as well as the violence inflicted by mercenaries unemployed during truces in the Hundred Years' War. Consequently, their testimonies unexpectedly reveal the importance of faith and the role of affect in the healing of body and soul alike. Faced with an unprecedented cascade of crises, the inhabitants of Provence relied on saints and healers, their worldview connecting earthly disease and disaster to the struggle for their eternal souls. Souls under Siege illustrates how medieval people approached sickness and uncertainty by using a variety of remedies, making clear that "healing" had multiple overlapping meanings in this historical moment.
| Author | : Alyce Sky Reyes |
| Publisher | : Alyce Sky Reyes |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2024-03-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9811896550 |
In the mystical world of spells and magic, Nyx finds herself facing an unexpected challenge when her younger sister, Trixy, goes missing during a routine journey through the mirrors as part of her seer training. What was meant to be a simple exercise turns into a desperate search as Trixy's soul fails to return to her body, leaving her lost in the vastness of space and time. As the school launches a frantic hunt for Trixy, Nyx is haunted by strange dreams. In these dreams, she is confronted by visions of a man she loved in her past lives, each time with a different face but the same soul. In every life, this man meets a tragic and untimely end, leaving Nyx to wonder if there is a connection between her dreams and the legend her grandmother narrated over dinner. Will she find herself meeting the one in her visions, or are those simply common nightly dreams? As Nyx navigates through a world of magic, mystery, and unbreakable curses, she must confront the ultimate question: is her sister forever lost, or can she find a way to bring her back? Book 1 of Cursed sequel - Trapped, is a gripping tale of love, loss, and the unbreakable bonds that tie us together across lifetimes, weaving a captivating narrative that will leave readers eagerly awaiting the next installment in Nyx's journey.
