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Farmer's Almanac

A Work of Fiction

By: Chris Fink

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In Chris Fink's debut work of fiction, America's rural core is cracked open to reveal moments of stark beauty and cruelty. Farmer's Almanac-a new Midwestern Gothic-is an imaginary handbook for rural living, as timeless and essential as its namesake. But this is no American pastoral. Fink's vision is more Orwell than Rockwell. Not since Winesburg, Ohio has a book so thoroughly plumbed the Midwestern character. A despairing farmer milks a dead cow, a baseball phenom chooses between the diamond and the dairy barn, and in the back of the school bus, a young girl fights back against her tormentors. Farmer's Almanac reports the new from mythical Odette County, Wisconsin, where the milk prices keep falling, and the forecast is not good." - back cover.

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Emergency Press

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0988569450

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9780988569454

Hercules and the Farmer's Wife

And Other Stories from a Cumbrian Art Gallery

By: Chris Wadsworth

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Hercules and the Farmer's Wife

And Other Stories from a Cumbrian Art Gallery

By: Chris Wadsworth

When Chris Wadsworth, and husband Michael, upped sticks in the South and moved north to the Lake District she had no inkling she was about to begin a new life as the owner of an art gallery. The small town of Cockermouth was hardly at the cutting edge of contemporary art – as the well-meaning locals were at pains to point out. ‘You’ve got to have views,’ they told her. ‘That’s what people here want!’ Chris had other ideas. And they didn’t include views. Instead she set out to find artists – famous, infamous, lost and unknown – whose work would eventually make her gallery in little-known Cockermouth not just a local but an international success. But artists are a funny bunch, and art springs from the most unexpected sources. Like Karen, the farmer’s wife, whose Turneresque canvasses were painted with whatever came to hand – hessian, skirting boards – but ‘mainly in Dulux’. Or the reclusive, transvestite Percy Kelly, whose refusal to exploit his art for personal gain, and troubled relationship with his estranged family, might have seen his work lost for ever if not for some surprising twists of fate. In Hercules & the Farmer’s Wife Chris tells their stories, and recounts the many other unlikely incidents –from the exploding treacle pudding and the mystery of the Purple House, to knitting vicars flogging Mick Jagger carpets – that make up life in a Cumbrian art gallery. By turns funny, and others bittersweet, Chris Wadsworth offers a private view of the wonderful world she discovered when she made art her business. Chris Wadsworth is the gallerist of Castlegate House Gallery in Cockermouth. Her exhibitions have included artists such as L.S. Lowry, Sheila Fell, Bill Peascod, Percy Kelly, Winifred Nicholson and Mary Fedden.

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272

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Aurum

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1781311684

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9781781311684

Hilarious Skits for Youth Ministry

By: Chris Chapman,Sue Chapman

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Hilarious Skits for Youth Ministry

By: Chris Chapman,Sue Chapman

Use these quick plays at meetings, camps, rallies, church services, outreach events, informal Bible studies and more...whenever you need a little extra punch to wake up your kids, get 'em laughing, and learning a Bible lesson in an unforgettable, hilarious way Book jacket.

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0764421859

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9780764421853

Wanted

A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders

By: Chris Hoke

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Wanted

A Spiritual Pursuit Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and Across Borders

By: Chris Hoke

Interweaving his own story with moving vignettes and gritty experiences in hidden places, a jail chaplain and minister to Mexican gang and migrant worker communities chronicles his spiritual journey to the margins of society and reveals a subversive God who’s on the loose beyond the walls of the church, pursuing those who are unwanted by the world. Wanted follows a restless young man from the sunny suburbs of his youth to the darker side of society in the rainy Northwest, where he finds the direct spiritual experience he’s been seeking while volunteering as a “night shift” chaplain at a men’s correctional facility. The jail becomes his portal to a mysterious world on the margins of society, where a growing network of Mexican gang members soon dub him their “pastor.” As he comes to terms with this uncomfortable title—and embraces the role of a shepherd of black sheep—his adventures truly begin. Hoke shares comic, heartbreaking and sublime tales of sacred moments in unlikely situations: singing with an attempted-suicide in the jail’s isolation cell, dodging immigration and airport security with migrant farm workers, and fly-fishing with tattooed gangsters. Set against the misty Washington landscape, this unconventional congregation at times mirrors the Skagit Valley’s fleeting migratory swans and unseen salmon. But Hoke takes us with him into riskier terrain as he gains and loses friends to the prison system, and even faces his own despair—as well as belovedness—on the back of a motorcycle racing through Guatemalan slums. In these stories of “mystical portraiture,” like the old WANTED posters of outlaws, Hoke bears witness to an elusive Presence that is still alive and defiant of official custody. Such portraits offer a new vision of the forgotten souls who have been cast into society’s dumpsters, helping us see beneath even the hardest criminal a fragile desire to be wanted.

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Harper Collins

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0062321382

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9780062321381

Voices of the American Past: Since 1865

By: Raymond M. Hyser,J. Chris Arndt

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Voices of the American Past: Since 1865

By: Raymond M. Hyser,J. Chris Arndt

This primary-source reader covers American history from colonization to the present. The authors emphasize the multicultural composition of the American people, hemispheric and global influence, and the development of the American political-economic system and its international dimensions. Class testing has proven that the authentic documents and diversity of perspectives presented make this two-volume collection popular with students. Features: * Introductions for chapters and individual documents provide students with historical background and context. * Review questions for each reading encourage critical thinking and provide an unbiased basis for discussion. * Inclusion of documents authored by women, African-Americans and Native Americans brings a balance of perspectives. * Coverage is inclusive of non-American perspectives on colonialism and includes historical documents from the Spanish, British, and Dutch.

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0155019643

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9780155019645

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Farmer's Almanac

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Hercules and the Farmer's Wife

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Hilarious Skits for Youth Ministry

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Wanted

Voices of the American Past: Since 1865

Voices of the American Past: Since 1865

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