In the Eye of the Storm
Title | In the Eye of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Sigrid Grabner |
Publisher | Ignatius Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2021-08-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1642291838 |
Rome in the year A.D. 590. A plague is tearing through the city. Pope Pelagius II is dead. Outside the walls, Lombard soldiers are raising their swords. What can save the Eternal City? All eyes, and all hopes, are on the next pope. Veteran writer Sigrid Grabner tells the dramatic story of Pope Gregory I—a poor monk known now to history as Saint Gregory the Great. Born to a noble family and trained in Roman law, Gregory had been prefect of the city of Rome as a young man, but he gave up his power and wealth to walk in the footsteps of Saint Benedict. Everything changed when he was raised, against his will, to the highest office in Christendom and found himself, as he wrote to one friend, "in the eye of a storm"; at the helm of an "old and rotten ship". Although Gregory sensed only his inadequacy, he not only steered Rome clear of a shipwreck, but laid the foundations for the future of Europe. In fourteen years as pope, he instituted sweeping financial reforms, ensured legal protection for the poor, developed a system of musical notation, wrote influential works of theology, quieted the Byzantines and the warring Lombards, and led a citywide pilgrimage to the church of Saint Mary Major that, tradition says, brought an end to the plague. Grabner''s vivid narrative of the life of Pope Gregory I reads like a novel, evoking the landscape of early medieval Italy with humanity and realism. It brings us face-to-face with a man who, for all his weakness, became an instrument in the hand of God and let himself be made great.
Eye of the Storm
Title | Eye of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Messner |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2012-02-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0802723136 |
Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community, Placid Meadows, is anything but placid.
Storm and Silence
Title | Storm and Silence PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Thier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 2016-03-19 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN | 9783000513510 |
Freedom - that is what Lilly Linton wants most in life. Not marriage, not a brood of squalling brats, and certainly not love, thank you very much But freedom is a rare commodity in 19th-century London, where girls are expected to spend their lives sitting at home, fully occupied with looking pretty. Lilly is at her wits' end - until a chance encounter with a dark, dangerous and powerful stranger changes her life forever... Enter the world of Mr Rikkard Ambrose, where the only rule is: Knowledge is power is time is money Winner of the People's Choice Award 2015
Under the Eye of the Storm
Title | Under the Eye of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | John Hersey |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593080831 |
Dr. Tom Medlar’s sailboat, the Harmony, is his pride and joy, and the focus of more lavish and meticulous care than he affords to either his career or his marriage. But then one day Tom takes his wife, Audrey, and their friends, Flick and Dottie Hamden, out for a pleasure cruise and into the unexpected path of a hurricane. As the deadly storm rages around them, the fault lines in the friendships and marriages begin to crack, and John Hersey’s riveting adventure story rapidly becomes something deeper and more unsettling. Widely praised on its initial publication in 1967, Under the Eye of the Storm remains a masterpiece of psychological fiction from one of the most accomplished authors of the twentieth century.
Through the Eye of the Storm
Title | Through the Eye of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Cholene Espinoza |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1933392185 |
A pioneering female fighter pilot loses her soul in the Iraq war, only to find it again in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in this true story of recovery, relief, and redemption on the Mississippi coast.
Eye of the Storm
Title | Eye of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Thomas |
Publisher | Capstone Classroom |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781404818453 |
Looks at hurricanes, how they form, the effects they can have, and how to stay safe.
In the Eye of the Storm
Title | In the Eye of the Storm PDF eBook |
Author | Max Lucado |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Inc |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2012-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0849947324 |
The author paints a picture of Christ's calm in what he calls "the second most stressful day in the life of our Savior." He shows the secret of transforming panic into peace, stress into serenity, and chaos into control.