Ashes Rain Down
Author: William Luvaas
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781881471172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ten eerie tales woven together and set in an apocolyptic landscape.
Author: William Luvaas
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781881471172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ten eerie tales woven together and set in an apocolyptic landscape.
Author: Angela Jackson-Brown
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0785240454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s—and then the Klan descends. A moving story that confronts America’s tragic past, When Stars Rain Down is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. The summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, is unseasonably hot, and Opal Pruitt senses a nameless storm brewing. She hopes this foreboding feeling won’t overshadow her upcoming 18th birthday or the annual Founder’s Day celebration in just a few weeks. She and her Grandma Birdie work as housekeepers for the white widow Miss Peggy, and Opal desperately wants some time to be young and carefree with her cousins and friends. But when the Ku Klux Klan descends on Opal’s neighborhood, the tight-knit community is shaken in every way possible. Parsons’s residents—both Black and white—are forced to acknowledge the unspoken codes of conduct in their post-Reconstruction era town. To complicate matters, Opal finds herself torn between two unexpected romantic interests—the son of her pastor, Cedric Perkins, and the white grandson of the woman she works for, Jimmy Earl Ketchums. Faced with love, loss, and a harsh awakening to an ugly world, Opal holds tight to her family and faith—and the hope for change. “When Stars Rain Down is so powerful, timely, and compelling . . . an important and beautifully written must-read of a novel.” —Silas House, author of Southernmost 2021 Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction – Finalist Stand-alone novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Author: Mesu Andrews
Publisher: Revell
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0800734076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stunning biblical novel based on Job's life told by the women who loved him.
Author: Brian D. Ruppert
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-23
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 1684173388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on the ninth to the fourteenth centuries, this study analyzes the ways in which relics functioned as material media for the interactions of Buddhist clerics, the imperial family, lay aristocrats, and warrior society and explores the multivocality of relics by dealing with specific historical examples. Brian Ruppert argues that relics offered means for reinforcing or subverting hierarchical relations. The author's critical literary and anthropological analyses attest to the prominence of relic veneration in government, in lay practice associated with the maintenance of the imperial line and warrior houses, and in the promotion of specific Buddhist sects in Japan.
Author: Suzanne Dracius
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0813933196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Climb to the Sky collects a novella and eight stories by one of the most celebrated and versatile French Caribbean writers, Suzanne Dracius. Set in the author's native Martinique and spanning the twentieth century, these narratives display a powerful grasp of the individual set against an often violent history. The multi-generational novella "Her Destiny on Climb to the Sky Street" opens with the gripping account of a runaway slave's survival of disease and abuse aboard a slave ship and concludes with his descendant, a young woman living in a post-abolition world whose life of abuse and torture by her employers nonetheless resembles that of a slave. In "Sweat, Sugar, and Blood," a woman held captive by her husband in their home must choose between safe ignorance and dangerous knowledge. Other stories, such as "Chlorophyllian Creation" and "Written in Lime Juice," convey the intimacy and directness of autobiographical essays. Each of Dracius's heroines achieves a transcendental experience through her own imagination and will, whether she is escaping natural catastrophe (such as the eruption of Mount Pel e), enduring jail time under interrogation by the national police, or coping with the ennui of life in a bourgeois home. Although the results of these historical, natural, or existential circumstances are unpredictable, what unites these women is deliverance. CARAF: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from the French
Author: Rita Williams Atkinson
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1883, one of the premier hotels in the country, the Newhall House Hotel, burns to the ground. Guests included General Tom Thumb of sideshow fame, popular stage performers, and prosperous businessmen. What brought those people to the Newhall House Hotel on that fateful night? What caused the fire? How did those who survived do it, and how were they affected by the horror of that night?
Author: Edwin J. Houston
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2021-01-19
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Krakatoa is a little island in the Straits of Sunda, about thirty miles west of the island of Java, and nearly the same distance east of the island of Sumatra. It is uninhabited and very small, measuring about five miles in length and less than three miles in width. Its total area is only thirteen square miles. This little piece of land made itself famous by what took place on it during the month of August, 1883.
Author: Martin Dunelind
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1506704670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally crowd funded for publication in 2015, this illustrated prose-art book fusion features five unique tales ranging from Norse mythology to apocalyptic science fiction to fantasy. The Dark North showcases artwork by Scandinavia's leading illustrators and concept artists--including Peter Bergting, Henrik Pettersson, Joakim Ericsson, Magnus Olsson, and Lukas Thelin--and is written by Martin Duneland. With a foreword by author and filmmaker Clive Barker, this anthology is sure to delight--and terrify--any horror fan in equal measure.