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A BASKETFUL of WISDOM and a POCKET FILLED with GRACE

Author : Sean Mason-Corkery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983344961
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book A BASKETFUL of WISDOM and a POCKET FILLED with GRACE written by Sean Mason-Corkery and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scriptures as reflected in this book can change lives. Are you depressed, ill, demotivated or dissatisfied with your Christian life? Are you new to the Gospel? Are you looking for a relationship with Jesus that is personal or that you have not really had before? Are are you looking for the true meaning of Grace as found in this so-called "Grace Movement"?Grace, Faith and Love, a biblical perspective.Sounds very dry, doesn't it?But would you believe that for the past 1900 years, our view on these aspects of God working in our lives have been wanting? The writer of this work, not only claims the truths that scripture validates but actually puts all this information into practical use for any Born Again Believer / New Creature. With over 1500 scripture verses taken from both the Hebrew and Greek texts, the author, Sean Mason-Corkery ("ALF") indicates what the Bible actually reveals: Grace, Faith and Love work together in the person of Jesus Christ. This is because of what is referred to as "The Finished Work of the Cross" (the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ). A work never attempted before, this theologian of Grace, Sean Mason-Corkery explains and expounds in an in-depth, yet simple, way how the three components of Grace, Faith and Love, works in us, the Christian Believer, to produce true active Christian living in these post-millennial times. This is new dynamic, experiential approach that finds living the Christian life is "far" from boring.Understand this!For by the Gift of Grace we are saved through faith in Jesus. We are not dirty, rotten sinners. No, we are the Righteousness of God in Christ and we are so much more than winners. Anything that tells us differently is a lie from the very pits of Hell. We are not losers; we will never fail, that is for sure. This is because of what Jesus did on the Cross. He became Sin and took on all the imper-fections of humanity so that we do not have to pay with our individual eternal death. Through the Cross Jesus restored our relationship with God, much better than the one you had in Eden. It is all about what Jesus has done and not what we do through our own effort. The Righteousness we hold is Jesus' not ours. Gone is self-righteousness and doing "stuff" to please God under the Law (of Moses). Of the Law itself: Jesus lived it; Jesus breathed it; Jesus ate it all up and drank it all in. His life fulfilled every criteria of the Law. His life was centred on being the one who broke not one section of The Law, not even breaking one wee segment.God always had a plan to save us and bring us to Him. If God thinks we are worth saving and worthy to be called His children then who are we to disagree with our perfect Abba Father. This was what is called God's 'Plan of Election', planned before God created the World. You could say it was a blue print given by God for all of us from all eternity. Discover the eternal truths of Grace, Faith, and Love found in Scripture that the apostles and the saints believed and put into practise. This is as true today for the modern believer. Yes we can live this out in our lives today.

A Basketful of Wisdom and a Pocket Filled with Grace

Author : Sean Mason-Corkery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781983001130
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Basketful of Wisdom and a Pocket Filled with Grace written by Sean Mason-Corkery and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scriptures as reflected in this book can change lives. Are you depressed, ill, demotivated or dissatisfied with your Christian life? Are you new to the Gospel? Are you looking for a relationship with Jesus that is personal or that you have not really had before? Are are you looking for the true meaning of Grace as found in this so-called "Grace Movement"?Grace, Faith and Love, a biblical perspective. Sounds very dry, doesn't it? But would you believe that for the past 1900 years, our view on these aspects of God working in our lives have been wanting? The writer of this work, not only claims the truths that scripture validates but actually puts all this information into practical use for any Born Again Believer / New Creature. With over 1500 scripture verses taken from both the Hebrew and Greek texts, the author, Sean Mason-Corkery ("ALF") indicates what the Bible actually reveals: Grace, Faith and Love work together in the person of Jesus Christ. This is because of what is referred to as "The Finished Work of the Cross" (the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ). A work never attempted before, this theologian of Grace, Sean Mason-Corkery explains and expounds in an in-depth, yet simple, way how the three components of Grace, Faith and Love, works in us, the Christian Believer, to produce true active Christian living in these post-millennial times. This is new dynamic, experiential approach that finds living the Christian life is "far" from boring.Understand this!For by the Gift of Grace we are saved through faith in Jesus. We are not dirty, rotten sinners. No, we are the Righteousness of God in Christ and we are so much more than winners. Anything that tells us differently is a lie from the very pits of Hell. We are not losers; we will never fail, that is for sure. This is because of what Jesus did on the Cross. He became Sin and took on all the imper-fections of humanity so that we do not have to pay with our individual eternal death. Through the Cross Jesus restored our relationship with God, much better than the one you had in Eden. It is all about what Jesus has done and not what we do through our own effort. The Righteousness we hold is Jesus' not ours. Gone is self-righteousness and doing "stuff" to please God under the Law (of Moses). Of the Law itself: Jesus lived it; Jesus breathed it; Jesus ate it all up and drank it all in. His life fulfilled every criteria of the Law. His life was centred on being the one who broke not one section of The Law, not even breaking one wee segment. God always had a plan to save us and bring us to Him. If God thinks we are worth saving and worthy to be called His children then who are we to disagree with our perfect Abba Father. This was what is called God's 'Plan of Election', planned before God created the World. You could say it was a blue print given by God for all of us from all eternity. Discover the eternal truths of Grace, Faith, and Love found in Scripture that the apostles and the saints believed and put into practise. This is as true today for the modern believer. Yes we can live this out in our lives today.

The Poisonwood Bible

Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061804819
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Poisonwood Bible written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Four Loves

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Four Loves written by C. S. Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticized in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex. C.S. Lewis examines storge or empathy love; philia, friendship love; eros, romantic love; and agape, or God love. Excerpt: "GOD is love," says St. John. When I first tried to write this book I thought that his maxim would provide me with a very plain highroad through the whole subject. I thought I should be able to say that human loves deserved to be called loves at all just in so far as they resembled that Love which is God."

Having and Being Had

Author : Eula Biss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525537473
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Having and Being Had written by Eula Biss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING “A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated Press A timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York Times bestselling author, “one of the leading lights of the modern American essay.” —Financial Times “My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,” Eula Biss writes, “the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.” Having just purchased her first home, the poet and essayist now embarks on a provocative exploration of the value system she has bought into. Through a series of engaging exchanges—in libraries and laundromats, over barstools and backyard fences—she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism. Described by the New York Times as a writer who “advances from all sides, like a chess player,” Biss offers an uncommonly immersive and deeply revealing new portrait of work and luxury, of accumulation and consumption, of the value of time and how we spend it. Ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokemon, Biss asks, of both herself and her class, “In what have we invested?”

Leaves of Grass

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Leaves of Grass written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Well of Loneliness

Author : Radclyffe Hall
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473374081
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Think Black

Author : Clyde W. Ford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062890581
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Think Black written by Clyde W. Ford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Powerful memoir. . .Ford’s thought-provoking narrative tells the story of African-American pride and perseverance.” –Publisher’s Weekly (Starred) “A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing a revealing insider’s view of the tech industry. . . simultaneously informative and entertaining. . . A powerful, engrossing look at race and technology.” –Kirkus Review (Starred) In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winning writer tells the story of his father, John Stanley Ford, the first black software engineer at IBM, revealing how racism insidiously affected his father’s view of himself and their relationship. In 1947, Thomas J. Watson set out to find the best and brightest minds for IBM. At City College he met young accounting student John Stanley Ford and hired him to become IBM’s first black software engineer. But not all of the company’s white employees refused to accept a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not quit. Viewing the job as the opportunity of a lifetime, he comported himself with dignity and professionalism, and relied on his community and his "street smarts" to succeed. He did not know that his hiring was meant to distract from IBM’s dubious business practices, including its involvement in the Holocaust, eugenics, and apartheid. While Ford remained at IBM, it came at great emotional cost to himself and his family, especially his son Clyde. Overlooked for promotions he deserved, the embittered Ford began blaming his fate on his skin color and the notion that darker-skinned people like him were less intelligent and less capable—beliefs that painfully divided him and Clyde, who followed him to IBM two decades later. From his first day of work—with his wide-lapelled suit, bright red turtleneck, and huge afro—Clyde made clear he was different. Only IBM hadn’t changed. As he, too, experienced the same institutional racism, Clyde began to better understand the subtle yet daring ways his father had fought back.

One of Ours

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book One of Ours written by Willa Cather and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

The Works of Saint Augustine

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher : New City Press
ISBN 13 : 156548049X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Saint Augustine written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by New City Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this work, traditionally translated as On Christian Doctrine, Augustine combines the pedagogical methods he learned from Greek and Roman writings with the content of the Christian faith to help preachers present biblical teachings in an effective manner. This new translation is lively and accessible." Library Journal

The Complete Poetry of James Hearst

Author : James Hearst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Poetry of James Hearst written by James Hearst and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G. Sigmund, James Hearst helped create what Iowa novelist Ruth Suckow called a poetry of place. A lifelong Iowa farner, Hearst began writing poetry at age nineteen and eventually wrote thirteen books of poems, a novel, short stories, cantatas, and essays, which gained him a devoted following Many of his poems were published in the regionalist periodicals of the time, including the Midland, and by the great regional presses, including Carroll Coleman's Prairie Press. Drawing on his experiences as a farmer, Hearst wrote with a distinct voice of rural life and its joys and conflicts, of his own battles with physical and emotional pain (he was partially paralyzed in a farm accident), and of his own place in the world. His clear eye offered a vision of the midwestern agrarian life that was sympathetic but not sentimental - a people and an art rooted in place.

Rediscovering Life

Author : Anthony De Mello
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0307984958
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Life written by Anthony De Mello and published by Image. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to Anthony De Mello’s all-time bestselling work of inspiration, Awareness. Anthony De Mello was one of the most important spiritual writers of the 20th century. Since his death in 1987, his stature has only increased. His books, including Song of the Bird, Sadhana, and the international bestselling Awareness are considered by many to be some of the most influential spiritual teachings of the last 50 years. Now, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his passing, Image Books is proud to present what may very well prove to be the last published work of this beloved spiritual teacher. Based on a lecture given just months before his death, Rediscovering Life invites us to unlock the deeper meaning of our lives. By becoming aware of the circuitous and habitual nature of our limiting thoughts, we can find simple solutions that will release us from feelings of isolation, anger, sadness and depression. In short, De Mello offers us a new way to look at the world and God that will transform our lives. Rediscovering Life is a timeless and compassionate book that will awaken you to the beauty of human experience and increase your ability to see God in all things.

Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

Author : Amy Lowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sword Blades and Poppy Seed written by Amy Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Author : Khaled Hosseini
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 074758589X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

The Way of a Pilgrim

Author :
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0307569179
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Way of a Pilgrim written by and published by Image. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly? Through his journeys, and under the tutelage of a spiritual father, he becomes gradually more open to the promptings of God, and sees joy and plenty wherever he goes. Ultimately, he discovers the different meanings and methods of prayer as he travels to his ultimate destination, Jerusalem. The Way of a Pilgrim is a humble story ripe for renewed appreciation today. The recent changes in Russia have revealed the great religious traditions of that land, and this work, freshly translated for modern times, is among the finest examples of those centuries-old traditions.

Between the Acts

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180949541
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Between the Acts written by Virginia Woolf and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a picturesque English village, residents prepare for an amateur production in the grounds of their manor house. Against the backdrop of World War II looming in the background, the play becomes a microcosm reflecting the anxieties, hopes, and societal changes of the time. Through Virginia Woolf's distinctive narrative style, each character's inner world is intricately woven into the fabric of the performance, blurring the lines between reality and theatricality. Between the Acts stands as Virginia Woolf's final novel, completing her exploration of experimental narrative techniques and modernist themes. Published posthumously in 1941, the novel continues Woolf's profound literary legacy of challenging conventional storytelling and delving into the complexities of human consciousness. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

In the Time of the Butterflies

Author : Julia Alvarez
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616200995
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book In the Time of the Butterflies written by Julia Alvarez and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com