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The Sacred Door and Other Stories

Author : Makuchi
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0896804585
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Door and Other Stories written by Makuchi and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions. Makuchi retells the stories that she heard at home when she was growing up in her native Cameroon. The collection of thirty-four folktales of the Beba showcases a wide variety of stories that capture the richness and complexities of an agrarian society’s oral literature and traditions. Revenge, greed, and deception are among the themes that frame the story lines in both new and familiar ways. In the title story, a poor man finds himself elevated to king. The condition for his continued success is that he not open the sacred door. This tale of temptation, similar to the story of Pandora’s box, concludes with the question, “What would you have done?” Makuchi relates the stories her mother told her so that readers can make connections between African and North American oral narrative traditions. These tales reinforce the commonalities of our human experiences without discounting our differences.

Doors to the Sacred

Author : Bridget Haase
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612614787
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Doors to the Sacred written by Bridget Haase and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through her unique gift for storytelling, combined with profound spiritual insight, Sr. Bridget Haase’s Doors to the Sacred will invite readers to open the door to the room of daily experience, stand under its ceiling of providence, walk the floors of faith, and explore its nooks and crannies of divine surprises and disguises. By so doing, they will discover that each event of life is holy, saturated with God, and filled with hope.

Children's Literature & Story-telling

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011322
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Children's Literature & Story-telling written by Ernest Emenyo̲nu and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors analyse the theories behind children's literature, its functions and cultural significance, and suggest the new directions this literature is taking in terms of its craft, themes and intentions.

Through the Last Door

Author : J. A. Jaken
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987465013
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Through the Last Door written by J. A. Jaken and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kaori Sansa's father dies, he is forced to return home to claim the throne as the rightful heir of the country of Kazure. In the aftermath of his father's death, he learns that the country he loves is riddled with corruption, and is hovering on the brink of war. Will he be able to hold the kingdom together despite the odds that are stacked against it, and somehow unlock the buried powers of Shinja, the Sacred Beast of Kazure?

Beyond the Sacred Page

Author : Jack Cavanaugh
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780310215752
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Sacred Page written by Jack Cavanaugh and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stand-alone novel in the four-part Book of Books series presents the people and the events that brought the Bible into the English language. These historical novels are told in high drama, but with great respect for God's Word and for the courageous people who translated it.

A God at the Door

Author : Tishani Doshi
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 161932248X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book A God at the Door written by Tishani Doshi and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We are homesick everywhere,” writes Tishani Doshi, “even when we’re home.” With aching empathy, righteous anger, and rebellious humor, A God at the Door calls on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to redefine belonging and unveil injustice. In an era of pandemic lockdown and brutal politics, these poems make vital space for what must come next—the return of wonder and free movement, and a profound sense of connection to what matters most. From a microscopic cell to flightless birds, to a sumo wrestler and the tree of life, Doshi interrupts the news cycle to pause in grief or delight, to restore power to language. A God at the Doorinvites the reader on a pilgrimage—one that leads us back to the sacred temple of ourselves. This is an exquisite, generous collection from a poet at the peak of her powers.

Bearing Witness

Author : Joyce Ashuntantang
Publisher : Spears Media Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Joyce Ashuntantang and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bearing Witness: Poems from a Land in Turmoil is a poetic response to the devastating Anglophone Crisis/Ambazonian Conflict in Cameroon that has killed thousands of children, women and men, displaced over half a million people and left hundreds of communities in ruins. The poems in this volume capture an all-encompassing landscape marked by alienation, despair, displacement, loss, anger, trauma, as well as courage, hope, heroism, justice and resilience. These poems also engender psychic healing which has the potential of turning victims into survivors. With over 100 poems by 73 poets—seasoned and emerging, old and young, men and women—this collection is not only a guidepost of collective memory, but also the definitive literary work of this period in Cameroon’s checkered history.

27 Views of Charlotte

Author : Mark de Castrique
Publisher : Eno Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0989609200
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book 27 Views of Charlotte written by Mark de Castrique and published by Eno Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27 VIEWS of CHARLOTTE: The Queen City in Prose & Poetry is an anthology of the city known for banking, trees, diversity, and sports. Journalists, novelists, poets, and essayists offer a broad and varied picture of life, present and past, in the legendary Southern city—from a history of the city’s stint as capital of the Confederacy, to a deeply personal essay about integrating restaurants during the civil rights era, to reflections on contemporary Charlotte’s overwhelming growth and New South reputation. Authors appreciate Charlotte’s diversity and vitality, tout its vibrant arts and food scenes, and praise surging Uptown. Yet they don’t shy away from its ongoing struggles: cultural, political, and economic. The views create a literary montage of Charlotte, reflecting its social, historic, and creative fabric.

27 Views of Raleigh

Author : Margaret Maron
Publisher : Eno Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0983247560
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book 27 Views of Raleigh written by Margaret Maron and published by Eno Publishers. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 27 VIEWS of RALEIGH: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry features the work of twenty-seven (plus two) Raleighites who create a literary montage of North Carolina's capital city in fiction, essays, and poetry. Novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and even a science fiction writer capture the city in a variety of genres—spanning neighborhoods, generations, cultural and racial experiences, historic eras—reflecting the social, historic, and creative fabric of Raleigh. As Wilton Barnhardt writes in the book's introduction, “We seem to have flourished not because we have solved all the problems of the New South, despite leading the way now and again, but because we the citizens of Raleigh decided to be erudite, cultured, enriched, and entertained . . ."

The Duel and Other Stories

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140444155
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Duel and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six classic short stories portrays the problems of everyday life in nineteenth century Russia

New Daughters of Africa

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241997011
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book New Daughters of Africa written by Various Authors and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class. Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon

Author : Mark Dike DeLancey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810873990
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.

The Man with Seven Hearts, and Other Stories

Author : Arthur Burrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man with Seven Hearts, and Other Stories written by Arthur Burrell and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Women Writing Resistance

Author : Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299236633
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book African Women Writing Resistance written by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile. Contributors include internationally recognized authors and activists such as Wangari Maathai and Nawal El Saadawi, as well as a host of vibrant new voices from all over the African continent and from the African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection provides an excellent introduction to contemporary African women’s literature and highlights social issues that are particular to Africa but are also of worldwide concern. It is an essential reference for students of African studies, world literature, anthropology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association Best Books for High Schools, Best Books for Special Interests, and Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association of School Libraries

These Precious Days

Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063092808
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book These Precious Days written by Ann Patchett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

Cameroon

Author : Sean Sheehan
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502650711
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Cameroon written by Sean Sheehan and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is an African nation with a vast history. Its rich geology includes volcanoes, tropical areas, coastal waters, hot springs, plateaus, mountains, and rain forests. Take your readers on a journey that visits both Cameroon's history and its current state. Readers learn of its struggles, triumphs, and political culture. Cameroon's economy, environmental policies, conservation efforts, and variety of wildlife are examined. Readers will experience a rich presentation of this country's lifestyles, religious practices, festivals, and culinary offerings.

The Sacred Band

Author : David Anthony Durham
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307947157
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Band written by David Anthony Durham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “David Anthony Durham has serious chops. I can’t wait to read whatever he writes next." —George R. R. Martin David Anthony Durham’s acclaimed fantasy saga, the Acacia Trilogy, continues . . . As The Sacred Band begins, Queen Corinn bestrides the world as a result of her mastery of spells from the Book of Elenet. Her younger brother, Dariel, has been sent on a perilous mission to the Other Lands. And her sister, Mena, travels to the far north to face an invasion of the feared race of the Auldek. As their separate trajectories converge, a series of world-shaping, earth-shattering battles will force the surviving children of the Akaran dynasty to confront their fates head on—and right some ancient wrongs once and for all.