Word Gossip
Author: William Lewery Blackley
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Lewery Blackley
Publisher:
Published: 1869
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Lewery Blackley
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kelsey McKinney
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0063020270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Read it for twists on twists, meditations on faith, and a deeply thoughtful treatment of an evangelical community." — Glamour, Beach Reads That Are Like Summer in a Book “A thoughtful and candid meditation on faith, family, and forgiveness . . . fabulous.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had Recommended by Good Housekeeping, Elle, Parade, Real Simple, Glamour,Refinery29,Bustle, Oprah Daily, The Millions, Shondaland, Yahoo!, Literary Hub, and more! A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover an unsettling secret about their father, the head pastor of an evangelical megachurch, that upends their lives and community—a story of family, identity, and the delicate line between faith and deception. Luke Nolan has led the Hope congregation for more than a decade, while his wife and daughters have patiently upheld what it means to live righteously. Made famous by a viral sermon on purity co-written with his eldest daughter, Abigail, Luke is the prototype of a modern preacher: tall, handsome, a spellbinding speaker. But his younger daughter Caroline has begun to notice the cracks in their comfortable life. She is certain that her perfect, pristine sister is about to marry the wrong man—and Caroline has slid into sin with a boy she’s known her entire life, wondering why God would care so much about her virginity anyway. When it comes to light, five weeks before Abigail’s wedding, that Luke has been lying to his family, the entire Nolan clan falls into a tailspin. Caroline seizes the opportunity to be alone with her sister. The two girls flee to the ranch they inherited from their maternal grandmother, far removed from the embarrassing drama of their parents and the prying eyes of the community. But with the date of Abigail’s wedding fast approaching, the sisters will have to make a hard decision about which familial bonds are worth protecting. An intimate coming-of-age story and a modern woman’s read, God Spare the Girls lays bare the rabid love of sisterhood and asks what we owe our communities, our families, and ourselves. “A deeply felt book about love — love for family and community, for people who sustain you and people who disappoint you. And love for God, too, which Kelsey McKinney writes about with humane and incisive frankness.”—Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over “The accomplishment of this canny novel is in positing coming of age itself as a loss of faith—not only in the church, but in our parents, our family, and the world as we thought we understood it.” — Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind and Rich and Pretty
Author: Chad Bennett
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1421425378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Word of Mouth brings together the insights of queer and lyric theory to tell the story of how gossip modeled forms of sociality and voice that poets experimented with over the course of the twentieth century. Through a set of case studies of culturally diverse American poets--Gertrude Stein, Langston Hughes, Frank O'Hara, James Merrill, and others--who absorbed and contended with the loose talk that swirled about them and their work, the book argues that gossip became a vehicle for the performance of alternative sexualities and concomitant meditations on alternative modes of poetic practice. At the heart of this argument is a queer revaluation of modern lyric poetry. Attending to gossip's key role in modern and contemporary poetry enables a recognition of the unpredictable ways that conventional understandings of the modern lyric poem--as, for example, an utterance smudging the lines between private and public, knowing and unknowing, intimacy and strangeness--have been shaped by, and afforded a uniquely suitable space for, the expression of queer sensibilities. More than simply mapping a curious poetic mode, then, Word of Mouth contributes a crucial, and largely neglected, queer perspective to current lyric studies and its renewed scholarly debate over the practices and forms of lyric poetry. The book presents new and instructive queer contexts for understanding the influential formal achievements of Stein, Hughes, O'Hara, and Merrill, and uncovers the unexpected ways that the history of the modern lyric intertwines with histories of sexuality"--
Author: Matthew C. Mitchell
Publisher: CLC Publications
Published: 2013-09-03
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1619580772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With gossip being so prevalent in our culture, it can be hard to resist listening to and sharing stories about other people's business. But what does God say about gossip? In Resisting Gossip, Pastor Matt Mitchell not only outlines the scriptural warnings against gossip, but also demonstrates how the truth of the gospel can deliver believers from this temptation.
Author: Silvia Federici
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2018-10-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1629635847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and outlines the consequences for the women affected and their communities. She argues that, no less than the witch hunts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the “New World,” this new war on women is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation. These processes are founded on the destruction of people’s most basic means of reproduction. Like at the dawn of capitalism, what we discover behind today’s violence against women are processes of enclosure, land dispossession, and the remolding of women’s reproductive activities and subjectivity. As well as an investigation into the causes of this new violence, the book is also a feminist call to arms. Federici’s work provides new ways of understanding the methods in which women are resisting victimization and offers a powerful reminder that reconstructing the memory of the past is crucial for the struggles of the present.
Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 0307806669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the nature, morality, and aesthetics of gossip; examines gossip in history and the psychology of gossip; and analyzes gossip--as subject and literary technique--in plays, letters, biographies, and novels.
Author: Kathleen Feeley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-08-06
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1137442301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes.
Author: Robert M. Gorrell
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The myriad ways our language has been shaped by successive conquests
Author: Stephen M. Wylen
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780881254693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The key to happiness lies in peaceful relationships with others. And often the key to peaceful relationships lies in watching our words. Gossip presents simple rules to guide us on what to say and what not to say in every situation, drawn from the ancient wisdom of Jewish sages - presented in a way that is immediately relevant to contemporary American life. There is no need to analyze yourself endlessly, nor to learn how to manipulate other people, either for their own good or yours. Learning to identify and avoid improper gossip, while making your words a source of comfort and reassurance to your friends and loved ones, is all it takes.