In Praise of Bells
Title | In Praise of Bells PDF eBook |
Author | John Camp |
Publisher | Robert Hale |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
The Bells
Title | The Bells PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harvell |
Publisher | Random House Canada |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2010-09-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307358259 |
Dazzling, enchanting and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper and unlikely lover — a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing. Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman banished to the church tower to ring each day the Loudest and Most Beautiful Bells in the land. His life is simple but he is content, until the day his father recognizes Moses's singular sense of hearing and its power to expose his sins. Cast into the world with only his ears to protect and guide him, Moses finds refuge in the choir of the great Abbey of St. Gall and becomes its star singer, only to endure the horrifying act of castration meant to preserve his angelic voice and turn him into a musico. In a letter to his son, Moses recounts his humble birth in eighteenth-century Switzerland and his life as a novice monk, and tells of the two noble friends — and a forbidden lover — whom he cherished during his chaotic years in Mozart's Vienna as apprentice to the great Gaetano Guadagni, and even as he ascended Europe's most celebrated stages as Lo Svizzero. But in this letter he will also reveal the astonishing secrets of his past and answer the question that has shadowed his fame: how did Moses Froben, world-renowned musico, come to raise a son who by all rights he could never have sired?
Praise the Lord with Bells
Title | Praise the Lord with Bells PDF eBook |
Author | Nikki Bronstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 38 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781880892152 |
El Deafo
Title | El Deafo PDF eBook |
Author | Cece Bell |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-09-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1613126212 |
A 2015 Newbery Honor Book & New York Times bestseller! Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful—and very awkward—hearing aid. The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear—sometimes things she shouldn’t—but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become “El Deafo, Listener for All.” And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she’s longed for.
Love Wins
Title | Love Wins PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Bell |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 006204964X |
Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them? What if it is God who wants us to face these questions? Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined. Love wins.
In Praise of Him
Title | In Praise of Him PDF eBook |
Author | Celia V. Bell |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2013-09-18 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1483691705 |
The poems and verses in this book are written to give glory, honor, and praise to God our Father, and to Jesus Christ, his son. Through them and in them is revealed all the wonderment of God; all that he is, his love, his mercy, his grace, his kindness, his sovereignty, his power, and majesty. Mere words cannot express the greatness and the goodness of God. Nevertheless, to that end these writings are done, that God be exalted, magnified and glorified. My hope and prayer is that something written herein might point someone to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Ain't I a Woman
Title | Ain't I a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Bell Hooks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2007-09-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780896087699 |
" Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism is among America's most influential works. Prolific, outspoken, and fearless."- The Village Voice  "This book is a classic. It . . . should be read by anyone who takes feminism seriously."- Sojourner  "[ Ain't I a Woman ] should be widely read, thoughtfully considered, discussed, and finally acclaimed for the real enlightenment it offers for social change."- Library Journal  "One of the twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years."- Publishers Weekly  "I met a young sister who was a feminist, and she gave me a book called Ain't I a Woman by a talented, beautiful sister named bell hooks-and it changed my life. It changed my whole perspective of myself as a woman."-Jada Pinkett-Smith  At nineteen, bell hooks began writing the book that forever changed the course of feminist thought. Ain't I a Woman remains a classic analysis of the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism within the women's movement, and black women's involvement with feminism.  bell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. The Atlantic Monthly celebrates her as one of our nation's leading public intellectuals .