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The Mercy Seat

Author : Elizabeth H. Winthrop
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165680
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Mercy Seat written by Elizabeth H. Winthrop and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed novel by the author of The Why of Things tackles “the Deep South during the Gothic worst of Jim Crow times . . . truly a bravura performance” (Geoffrey Wolff). “One of the finest writers of her generation,” and author of three previously acclaimed novels, Elizabeth H. Winthrop delivers a brave new book that will launch her distinguished career anew (Brad Watson). On the eve of his execution, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones sits in his cell in New Iberia awaiting his end. Across the state, a truck driven by a convict and his keeper carries the executioner’s chair closer. On a nearby highway, Willie’s father Frank lugs a gravestone on the back of his fading, old mule. In his office the DA who prosecuted Willie reckons with his sentencing, while at their gas station at the crossroads outside of town, married couple Ora and Dale grapple with their grief and their secrets. As various members of the township consider and reflect on what Willie’s execution means, an intricately layered and complex portrait of a Jim Crow era Southern community emerges. Moving from voice to voice, Winthrop elegantly brings to stark light the story of a town, its people, and its injustices. The Mercy Seat is a brutally incisive and tender novel from one of our most acute literary observers. “Artful and succinctly poetic . . . A worthy novel that gathers great power as it rolls on propelled by its many voices.”—The New York Times Book Review “A miracle of a novel, with rapid-fire sentences that grab you and propel you to the next page . . . It’s a breakout. It’s a wonder.”—Dallas Morning News

The Mercy Seat

Author : Elizabeth H. Winthrop
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473672481
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Mercy Seat written by Elizabeth H. Winthrop and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sun begins to set over Louisiana one October day in 1943, a young black man faces the final hours of his life: at midnight, eighteen-year-old Willie Jones will be executed by electric chair for raping a white girl - a crime some believe he did not commit. In a tale taut with tension, events unfold hour by hour from the perspectives of nine people involved. They include Willie himself, who knows what really happened, and his father, desperately trying to reach the town jail to see his son one last time; the prosecuting lawyer, haunted by being forced to seek the death penalty against his convictions, and his wife, who believes Willie to be innocent; the priest who has become a friend to Willie; and a mother whose only son is fighting in the Pacific, bent on befriending her black neighbours in defiance of her husband. In this exceptionally powerful novel, Elizabeth Winthrop explores matters of justice, racism and the death penalty in a fresh, subtle and profoundly affecting way. Her kaleidoscopic narrative allows us to inhabit the lives of her characters and see them for what they are - complex individuals, making fateful choices we might not condone, but can understand.

The Mercy Seat

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429998695
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Mercy Seat written by Neil LaBute and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-02-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on September 12, 2001, The Mercy Seat continues Neil LaBute's unflinching fascination with the often-brutal realities of the war between the sexes. In a time of national tragedy, the world changes overnight. A man and a woman explore the choices now available to them in an existence different from the one they had lived just the day before. Can one be opportunistic in a time of universal selflessness?

The Mercy Seat

Author : Norman Dubie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781556592126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book The Mercy Seat written by Norman Dubie and published by . This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback edition of prize-winning collected poems; Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets. --New York Times

The Mercy Seat Revisited

Author : Nigel Bovey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780854128303
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Mercy Seat Revisited written by Nigel Bovey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding on his original book, 'The Mercy Seat', Nigel Bovey investigates the place of the mercy seat in Salvationist worship and witness.

Possess the Vision

Author : Joseph Gordon
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1597812056
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Possess the Vision written by Joseph Gordon and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man lives through death and the terror of Golgotha, hell, the devil and the lake of fire and brimstone. Read how God saves him from these things and delivers him from the judgment seat of Christ. God then shows him His vision for the church, the bride of Christ. See the first sun rise of the new earth and witness the brides¿ marriage to the Lamb. Learn all the prophetic messages that proclaim; possess the vision.

The Mercy Seat

Author : Alvetta Rolle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982624234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book The Mercy Seat written by Alvetta Rolle and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going from raunchy to redeemed is not easy. When 19 year old prostitute Sofia Douglas walks into Freedom Baptist to reconcile with her mentally abusive foster mother Julia Aaron, she is met with much more than she bargained for. Although befriended by an elderly church mother by the name of Ruth Stills, she begins to fall for Ruth's son Xavier who is handsome, caring, a minister... and married. Sofia begins an endless cycle of trying to stifle mutual feelings for a married man of God, and combat the bitterness of a mother who has her own issues, both spiritually and psychologically. With the arrival of the mysterious Sofia walks at the last night of revival, Xavier Stills and Felecia's already troubled marriage takes a tumultuous turn for the worst. Felecia and Xavier now have to fight to save their diminishing relationship, even as they try to ward off the temptation of yielding to outside influences.

Messages from the Mercy Seat

Author : Jr. Rev Dr Leroy Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984590469
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Messages from the Mercy Seat written by Jr. Rev Dr Leroy Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thompson shares a collection of meditations born from time in the presence of the Lord, words of encouragement drawn from studying the scriptures, and gleanings from the sermons and sharings in his congregation, The Triumphant Church.

God's Priceless Treasure

Author : Deborah Starczewski
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1616386657
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book God's Priceless Treasure written by Deborah Starczewski and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be encouraged by author Deborah Starczewski as she shares inspiring stories to show you how to see through the valley of darkness and treasure every single moment of your time with God.

The Why of Things

Author : Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451695845
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Why of Things written by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fast-paced, entertaining summer read” (People), The Why of Things is a “keenly observed” and “richly drawn” (The New York Times) novel about a family fighting towards hope in the wake of a terrible tragedy. Since the loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than a year ago, Joan Jacobs has struggled to keep her tight-knit family from coming apart. But Joan and Anders, her husband, are unable to snap back into the familiarity and warmth they so desperately need, both for themselves and for their surviving daughters, Eve and Eloise. The family flees to their summer home in search of peace and renewal, only to encounter an eerily similar tragedy when a pickup truck drives into the quarry in their backyard killing a young local named James Favazza. As the Jacobs family learns more about the inexplicable events that preceded that fateful evening, each of them becomes increasingly tangled in the emotional threads of James’s story: fifteen-year-old Eve is determined to solve, on her own, the mystery of his death; Anders finds himself facing his own deepest fears; and seven-year-old Eloise unwittingly adopts James’s orphaned dog. For her part, Joan becomes increasingly fixated on James’s mother, a stranger whose sudden loss so closely mirrors her own. With an urgent, beautiful intimacy that her fans have come to expect from this “bitingly intelligent writer” (The New York Times), Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop delivers here a powerful, buoyant novel that explores the complexities of family relationships and the small triumphs that can bring unexpected healing. The Why of Things is a wise, empathetic, and exquisitely heartfelt story about the strength of family bonds. It is an unforgettable and searing tour de force.

God's Amazing Grace

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780828015790
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book God's Amazing Grace written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pure Hollywood

Author : Christine Schutt
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802165656
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Pure Hollywood written by Christine Schutt and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Long and short stories from one of our most distinctive prose stylists,” the author of the National Book Award finalist, Florida: A Novel (New York, “The Best Books of the Year So Far”). Hailed by George Saunders as “a truly gifted writer,” with Pure Hollywood & Other Stories, Pulitzer Prize finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career and her inimitable style that John Ashbery once described as “pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful.” In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn love and hurt. In league with JD Salinger, Katherine Mansfield and Guy De Maupassant, in Pure Hollywood Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew. “Schutt’s haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.”—Los Angeles Times “Think Gatsby with a twist of Didion.”—BBC.com “Schutt writes stories that don’t have an ounce of melodrama in them—they feel unusually alive and honest—and few writers capture bereavement with Schutt’s precision and elegance.”—Oprah.com

Hymns of Grace

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996917605
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Hymns of Grace written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hymnal featuring the greatest hymns of church history and today.

Your Eternal Reward

Author : Erwin W. Lutzer
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0802493203
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Your Eternal Reward written by Erwin W. Lutzer and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we reflect on how we lived for Christ, we might weep on the other side of the celestial gates. To their own detriment, many Christians have emptied the judgment seat of Christ of its meaning, living like they will never meet His knowing gaze. For this they may have tears in heaven. In this provocative book, Dr. Erwin Lutzer argues that remorse in heaven awaits those who don’t live fully for God on earth. Exploring the often-overlooked Scriptures about reward and judgment for Christians, Dr. Lutzer answers questions like: How will believers be judged? Do rewards for faithfulness vary? If heaven is perfect, why do rewards even matter? His answers are immensely practical. Your Eternal Reward will prompt you to live more faithfully, whether in your conduct, your speech, or even your use of money, that you might enjoy heaven all the more. What is sown on earth is reaped in heaven, and Dr. Lutzer will have you taking this truth to heart.

The Skeletons in God's Closet

Author : Joshua Ryan Butler
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 052910055X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Skeletons in God's Closet written by Joshua Ryan Butler and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can a loving God send people to hell? Isn’t it arrogant to believe Jesus is the only way to God? What is up with holy war in the Old Testament? Many of us fear God has some skeletons in the closet. Hell, judgment, and holy war are hot topics for the Christian faith that have a way of igniting fierce debate far and wide. These hard questions leave many wondering whether God is really good and can truly be trusted. The Skeletons in God's Closet confronts our popular caricatures of these difficult topics with the beauty and power of the real thing. Josh Butler reveals that these subjects are consistent with, rather than contradictory to, the goodness of God. He explores Scripture to reveal the plotlines that make sense of these tough topics in light of God’s goodness. From fresh angles, Josh deals powerfully with such difficult passages as: The Lake of Fire Lazarus and the Rich Man The Slaughter of Canaanites in the Old Testament Ultimately, The Skeletons in God's Close uses our toughest questions to provoke paradigm shifts in how we understand our faith as a whole. It pulls the “skeletons out of God’s closet” to reveal they were never really skeletons at all.

The Quotations of Bone

Author : Norman Dubie
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321394
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Quotations of Bone written by Norman Dubie and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Norman Dubie is one of our premier poets."—The New York Times "Dubie's poems are unmatched in their incandescent imaginings, gorgeous language, and fearless tracking of the inexorably turning wheel of existence."—Booklist "Dubie [is] one of the most powerful and influential American poets."—The Washington Post In his twenty-ninth collection of poems, Norman Dubie returns to a rich, color-soaked vision of the world. Strangeness becomes a parable for compassion, each poem leading the reader to an uncommon way of understanding human capacities. In the futuristic sphere of The Quotation of Bone, the mind wanders meditatively into an imaginative and uncontainable history. The Quotations of Bone The meal of bone was a soured milk— just the heads of giant elk in a dark circle looking down on a wooden bowl of soda crackers and pork. One large knife resting in the meat of a woodsman's calloused hand. He grins at his woman who is slowly poisoning him with the stringy resins of morning glory. A tasteless turpentine with pink pig. The speeches of bone are matrimonial in early autumn— by January there's a froth of blood at a nostril. He thinks a long icicle is buried in his ear. She thinks D. H. Lawrence was a grim buccaneer. I hate most men. Adore the few named Lou. One small addendum: the dead elk are grinning too. Norman Dubie is a Regents professor at Arizona State University. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

Harpsong

Author : Rilla Askew
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184213
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Harpsong written by Rilla Askew and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his music, and their daughter with his charm. Soon he and his fourteen-year-old bride, Sharon, are on the road, two more hobos of the Great Depression, hitchhiking and hopping freights across the Great Plains in search of an old man and the settlement of Harlan’s long-standing debt. Finding shelter in hobo jungles and Hoovervilles, the newlyweds careen across the 1930s landscape in a giant figure eight with Oklahoma in the middle. Sharon’s growing doubts about her husband’s quest set in motion events that turn Harlan Singer into a hero while blinding her to the dark secret of his journey. A love story infused with history and folk tradition, Harpsong shows what happened to the friends and neighbors Steinbeck’s Joads left behind. In this moving, redemptive tale inspired by Oklahoma folk heroes, Rilla Askew continues her exploration of the American story. Harpsong is a novel of love and loss, of adventure and renewal, and of a wayfaring orphan’s search for home—all set to the sounds of Harlan’s harmonica. It shows us the strength and resilience of a people who, in the face of unending despair, maintain their faith in the land.