The Poisonwood Bible
Title | The Poisonwood Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061804819 |
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.
All the Women of the Bible
Title | All the Women of the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Lockyer |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780310281511 |
This volume, part of Lockyer's All Series, contains detailed indexing of the life and times of all the women of the Bible.
Tagged
Title | Tagged PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Wise |
Publisher | FaithWords |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007-09-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0446510335 |
- Tagged is the second book in the Tribulation Survival Series. The first book, Wired, was published in Warner Faith trade paperback in 3/04. - The author of 27 books, Robert L. Wise is best known for his Mega-Millennium series, which has combined sales of over 365,000 copies. It is comparable to the bestselling Left Behind series by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. - Robert L. Wise, Ph.D., is an archbishop, lecturer, and Bible teacher who has spoken throughout Europe and the Far East. He is vice president of Feed the Children and a member of the Writers Guild of New York City.
The Life and Remarkable Career of Adah Isaacs Menken, the Celebrated Actress
Title | The Life and Remarkable Career of Adah Isaacs Menken, the Celebrated Actress PDF eBook |
Author | George Lippard Barclay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Actors |
ISBN |
God Is the Umbrella of Women in the Bible
Title | God Is the Umbrella of Women in the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Mutambanengwe |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2012-08-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1477221867 |
Florence Marilyn Mwandiitaani Mutambanengwe was born in Harare on the 1st of June 1942. She is the second child of nine children; six boys and three girls. She grew up on farm with her Grand-father a Methodist Reverend and Step-grand-mother until she was six and she went back to Harare to school. She did her primary education in Harare, went to boarding school for Grade 8, which they called Standard Six. Then she did her Secondary Education at Old Mutare Mission School. She went back to Harare where she trained as a Nurse for three and half years. She left Nursing and went to Ghana where she was trained as a Secretary. Later she went to Canada where she did an Instructors Diploma at the University of British Columbia. Professionally she worked as a Private Secretary for fifteen years; then worked as a Lecturer for nineteen years. Though she was born in a Methodist Christian family, married to an Anglican Christian family; she became a Born Again Christian in 1986. She became a Deacon in the Ambassadors for Christ Ministries International Church and was later ordained as an Elder. In this respect she attended and organised several workshops and conferences and has been to many different countries. Her passion in all her books is for people to read the bible for themselves. And get the word directly from God and experience what God has in store for them. This is her fourth book, which goes to show that what the bible says: that with God anything is possible is true if you press on. Florence has looked after several orphans and widows; and gets satisfaction in seeing how well the orphans have turned out. Most of them are doing exceedingly well.
The Red Tent
Title | The Red Tent PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Diamant |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1997-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0312169787 |
Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah shares her perspective on religious practices and sexul politics.
The pearl of great price: being a choice selection from the revelations, translations, and narrations of J. Smith
Title | The pearl of great price: being a choice selection from the revelations, translations, and narrations of J. Smith PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
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