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Download or read book Crossings written by Richard A. Heckler and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book about the moments that change our lives, Heckler follows a lifelong hunch that there is a pattern to the way in which people grow and change as they encounter the "Unexpected."
Book Synopsis The Crossings of Life by : Celeste Hudson-Watson
Download or read book The Crossings of Life written by Celeste Hudson-Watson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about rebellion and Gods' love, and it is a testimony of how He never gave up on me. God called the Israelites stiff-necked people because they rebelled repeatedly against Him. He allowed persecution to come upon them from their enemies and they repented, He would send a vindicator to rescue them and this happened many times. People are rebelling today and because God loves us, He gave His Son to be our vindicator. Jesus paid the cost and He will rescue us when we repent and believe. Now is your 'Time to Decide', will you break the cycle of rebellion and become the person that God has created you to be. You can cross over and live the fulfilled life of purpose you have always wanted to live.
Download or read book Crossings written by Melissa Inouye and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actual letters, lightly edited to be comprehensible to a general audience and to preserve people's privacy, generally reflecting the perspective of a bald Asian American Mormon feminist religious studies China scholar.
Download or read book Crossings written by Alex Landragin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." —Publishers Weekly "Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended." —Library Journal (Starred Review) Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has spanned seven generations. With each new chapter, the stunning connections between these seemingly disparate people grow clearer and more extraordinary. Crossings is an unforgettable adventure full of love, longing and empathy.
Download or read book Crossings written by Elam S. Kurtz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DR. ELAM S. KURTZ WAS A MAN OF GREAT VISION, a man of deep faith, and a man of enormous energy. With these qualities, and more, God formed, fashioned, and refined a person, and a medical doctor, who had a profound and pervasive positive influence upon the many people whom his life touched and whom he served. To his patients he was known as Dr. Kurtz, or Doc. To his friends he was referred to as Elam. His family addressed him as Dad, or, in later years he was affectionately referred to as Pop. Pops eighty-six years of life yielded numerous transitions and changes in various areas and aspects of his living, or crossings as Dad alluded to these transitions. This book attempts to capture and share many of these crossings. Yet, more than relating just the actual crossings, the hope is that readers will discover in these pages inspiration and motivation for their own journey crossings. By reflecting upon how one of Gods children--Elam S. Kurtz--embraced the transitions and crossings of life with great vision, deep faith, and enormous energy, may we also learn, and put into practice, the great lessons of life, seeking to serve God and humankind with our very best.
Book Synopsis The Enchantment of Modern Life by : Jane Bennett
Download or read book The Enchantment of Modern Life written by Jane Bennett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.
Download or read book Crossings written by Jon Kerstetter and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing, beautifully told memoir by a Native American doctor on the trials of being a doctor-soldier in the Iraq War, and then, after suffering a stroke that left his life irrevocably changed, his struggles to overcome the new limits of his body, mind, and identity. Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter’s life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself. Crossings is a memoir of an improbable, powerfully drawn life, one that began in poverty on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin but grew by force of will to encompass a remarkable medical practice. Trained as an emergency physician, Kerstetter’s thirst for intensity led him to volunteer in war-torn Rwanda, Kosovo, and Bosnia, and to join the Army National Guard. His three tours in the Iraq War marked the height of the American struggle there. The story of his work in theater, which involved everything from saving soldiers’ lives to organizing the joint U.S.–Iraqi forensics team tasked with identifying the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons, is a bracing, unprecedented evocation of a doctor’s life at war. But war was only the start of Kerstetter’s struggle. The stroke he suffered upon returning from Iraq led to serious cognitive and physical disabilities. His years-long recovery, impeded by near-unbearable pain and complicated by PTSD, meant overcoming the perceived limits of his body and mind and reimagining his own capacity for renewal and change. It led him not only to writing as a vocation but to a deeper understanding of how healing means accepting a new identity, and how that acceptance must be fought for with as much tenacity as any battlefield victory.
Book Synopsis A Path in the Mighty Waters by : Stephen Russell Berry
Download or read book A Path in the Mighty Waters written by Stephen Russell Berry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tells the story of how people experienced the eighteenth-century crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, exploring the transformative journey undertaken by the thousands of Europeans who journeyed in search of a better life. Stephen Berry shows how the ships, on which passengers were contained in close quarters for months at a time, operated as compressed "frontiers," where diverse groups encountered one another and established new patterns of social organization. As he argues that experiences aboardship served as a profound conversion experience for travelers, both spiritually and culturally, Berry reframes the history of Atlantic migrations, giving the ocean and the ship a more prominent role in Atlantic history. The ocean was more than a backdropfor human events: it actively shaped historical experiences by furnishing a dissociative break from normal patterns of life and a formative stage in travelers' processes of collective identification"--
Book Synopsis Crossing to Safety by : Wallace Stegner
Download or read book Crossing to Safety written by Wallace Stegner and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.
Download or read book Cancer Crossings written by Tim Wendel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The author’s daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront of this effort cared for his brother at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York. Wendel went in search of this extraordinary group, interviewing Lucius Sinks, James Holland, Donald Pinkel, and others in the field. If there were a Mount Rushmore for cancer research, they would be on it. Despite being ostracized by their medical peers, these doctors developed modern-day chemotherapy practices and invented the blood centrifuge machine, helping thousands of children live longer lives. Part family memoir and part medical narrative, Cancer Crossings explores how the Wendel family found the courage to move ahead with their lives. They learned to sail on Lake Ontario, cruising across miles of open water together, even as the campaign against cancer changed their lives forever.
Download or read book Crossings written by John Sallis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-04-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues that The Birth of Tragedy is a rethinking of art at the limit of metaphysics. His close reading focuses on the complexity of the Apollinian/Dionysian dyad and on the crossing of these basic art impulses in tragedy. "Sallis effectively calls into question some commonly accepted and simplistic ideas about Nietzsche's early thinking and its debt to Schopenhauer, and proposes alternatives that are worth considering."—Richard Schacht, Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis Get a Life by : Laura Peyton Roberts
Download or read book Get a Life written by Laura Peyton Roberts and published by Bantam Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight high-school students overcome their differences to unite and raise money for a student with leukemia.
Download or read book Electric Railway Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Street Railway Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transit Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stone Crossings written by L. L. Barkat and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace. Sometimes it's hard to see. And even harder to receive. When you're hurt or angry or confused or doubtful, grace can seem as hard to grasp as sky. But actually, it's as real and solid as stones: tangible, weighty, something to hold on to, a way through streams of pain, shame, abuse. In these pages L.L. Barkat shares her own painful, powerful story with us. Weaving in truth from Scripture, words from other writers and stories of people who've come alongside her in her journey, she shows us the unexpected ways and places she's discovered grace: grace that has helped her open her heart to love, discover a way past fear, find freedom from shame. Her story will help you find the rock of God's grace in the midst of your own broken, hard places. And his grace will give you a new story to tell.
Book Synopsis Crossing the Deserts of Life by : J. M. Wright
Download or read book Crossing the Deserts of Life written by J. M. Wright and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12-29 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I meditated on how I could establish a relationship with God. Ive come to believe that it was necessary for me to encountered my past so that I would eventually seek Him. In my life experiences I've always found myself wandering and alone, with no one to give me guidance or encouragement. It seemed like I was bewildered and lost as I trudged through my life. My desert-like crossings were emotionally and mentally exhausting, but turn out to be a learning experience. I learnedto journal some episodes of my past and this book is the reward ofdoing that. I'm sometimesable to see the error of my ways and now am capable to pray forchange,and notmake the same mistakes again. I've come to a place in my life where I can seemy emotional and spiritual growth from my book.I saw, how, attimeI was self-absorbed and I did not trustanyone, not even God. I'm able toreflect back on the struggles and confusion of my adolescent,not knowing what direction to take, never making rational decisions.Some of my experiences led me deep into the deserts andmade me considerturning my life over to God. Never did Irealized that these difficulties would catapult me to a spiritual dimension that revealed God's love forme. Godstill continues to develop and mature myrelationship with Him. I concluded that as long as I stayed self-reliant and self-centered, I would be distantfrom God, then my relationship with others willremainempty and desolate like a desert. Because of His unconditional love for me, He has led me to a place of rest and restoration, away from the confusion in my desert, an oasis in the Desert.
