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Grace to Forgive

Sequel to Grace for Tomorrow

By: Eva Schmidt

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Grace to Forgive

Sequel to Grace for Tomorrow

By: Eva Schmidt

Mary has a secret. A piece of her past is so painful and shameful that she has told only her parents. Now as a vibrant young woman from a Mennonite family, Mary’s secret stands in the way of her finding happiness. John, a missionary passionate for the Lord’s work, wants to make Mary his wife. How can Mary commit to him when he doesn’t know her true self? “Francis? Is that you?” With those four words over the phone, the life Francis—a single-mother of two—knew comes to a screeching halt. On the other end of the line is Mike, a man that Francis hasn’t seen or heard from in ten years. He is the father of her children, and he left her in the worst possible way. Now he wants to be in their life again. How can Francis ever move past what he did to them? As Mary, Francis, and their loved ones wrestle with unconscionable acts, their futures depend on the answer to one question: Can they find the grace to forgive? Although a sequel to Grace for Tomorrow, this book stands on its own as a story about the human condition and how Divine inspiration can change everything.

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FriesenPress

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1525530569

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9781525530562

Grace for Tomorrow

By: Eva Schmidt

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Grace for Tomorrow

By: Eva Schmidt

Growing up as a middle child in a happy Mennonite home, Mary enjoys good friends, excels in school, and has a growing interest in her brothers best friend. Then tragedy strikes! Marys faith in God is shattered as she questions everything she always believed to be trueGod, family, and friends. Wading through a mountain of hurts and disappointments, she struggles to find purpose in her life. Anxious and alone, Mary is forced to decide between good and evil, between life and death. Francis is a young mother of two who works the early shift as a waitress at the local diner. Weighed down by financial struggles, her husband, Mike, turns to alcohol, abuse, and infidelity. After an exceptionally violent attack, Francis wakes up to find Mike is gone. How will she raise her children by herself? God can help if they will let him . . . but will they?

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239

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WestBow Press

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1512750158

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9781512750157

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

A Novel

By: Eva Jurczyk

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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

A Novel

By: Eva Jurczyk

International Bestseller "With its countless revelations about the dusty realms of rare books, a likable librarian sleuth who has just the right balance of compassion and wit, and a library setting that is teeming with secrets, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a rare treat for readers. I loved this book!"—Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library—the ancient books shelved in the stacks, or the people who preserve them? Liesl Weiss long ago learned to be content working behind the scenes in the distinguished rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that the library's most prized manuscript is missing. Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book, but is told repeatedly to keep quiet, to keep the doors open and the donors happy. But then a librarian unexpectedly stops showing up to work. Liesl must investigate both disappearances, unspooling her colleagues' pasts like the threads of a rare book binding as it becomes clear that someone in the department must be responsible for the theft. What Liesl discovers about the dusty manuscripts she has worked among for so long—and about the people who care for and revere them—shakes the very foundation on which she has built her life. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a sparkling book-club read about a woman struggling to step out from behind the shadows of powerful and unreliable men, and reveals the dark edge of obsession running through the most devoted bookworms. February 2022 INDIE NEXT Selection January 2022 LIBRARY READS Selection January 2022 Loan Star Selection Pop Sugar 35 Must-Read Thrillers and Mystery Books

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336

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1728238609

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9781728238609

Barrelling Forward

Stories

By: Eva Crocker

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Barrelling Forward

Stories

By: Eva Crocker

Winner of the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and the CAA Emerging Writer Award, Barrelling Forward is a brilliantly crafted debut collection from one contemporary fiction’s newest literary star. Eva Crocker sees life in sharper focus than the rest of us. The objects, rituals, and scenes of everyday life take on an almost mythic quality in these stories, even while remaining intimately recognizable to us all. Crocker peers at the underbelly of poverty and work, ambition and apathy, loneliness and love, to find the sliver of beauty in each spot. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems: the boundaries between friendship and sex dissolve; power relationships are turned on their heads, if only long enough to examine them from all angles; transgressions and escapes become new kinds of traps. In “Auditioning,” a young twin makes a desperate attempt to reclaim her individuality. In “Serving,” a father and a son give parallel accounts of what it looks like when you let life eat you from the inside out. In “Star of the Sea,” a man watches his past get literally torn down before his eyes. And in the Cuffer Prize-winning “Dead Skin,” an after-school walk through the barrens leaves two boys forever changed. In stories that ache with longing even as they pulse with new possibilities, Crocker gives us an unforgettable array of ordinary people, sometimes soaring, sometimes sinking, but always, ultimately, barrelling forward towards what’s next.

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House of Anansi

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1487001444

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9781487001445

Bodies in China

Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics

By: Eva Kit Wah Man

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Bodies in China

Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics

By: Eva Kit Wah Man

This book seeks to engage Chinese philosophy to reframe existing Western scholarship in the fields of gender, body, and aesthetics. The assembled essays cover traditional and current global issues related to Chinese female bodies by addressing the following questions: Does Confucianism rule out the capacity of women as moral subjects, and hence, as aesthetic subjects? Do forms of Chinese philosophy in some ways contribute or correspond to the patriarchal Confucian culture? In what ways can Chinese philosophy provide alternative perspectives sought by Western feminist scholars? Professor Man uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore feminist philosophy through the issues of the body, aesthetical representation and gender politics, which are simultaneously historical and contextual. The first section of the book, "Body Discourses in Chinese Philosophy", brings in theoretical and philosophical discussions of Western traditions such as those of Plato, Descartes, and Kant, to examine their views on body and mind and how the Chinese philosophical ideas offered by Confucians and Daoists provide alternative body ontologies for critical feminist practices. The second section, "Chinese Bodies, Aesthetics and Art", reviews female aesthetical representations in classical traditional Chinese works ranging from The Books of Songs, women's embroidery, sexuality and suggested ways of kissing, and the contemporary body art represented by the controversial body artist He Chengyao. These chapters demonstrate the intertwining relationship among body, sexuality, aesthetics and the ascribed gendered roles in social environments. The third section, "Chinese Bodies and Gender Matters", aims to unfold the changing perceptions of femininity from imperial China to contemporary China. Case studies touch on female body ideals in the literary fantasies in late Ming, in the iron girls in Communist China, and in the Olympics Hoopla at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This section also discusses Hong Kong women's fashion in the 1960s and how their bodies were shaped by colonial politics. Finally, the subject of sex and emotion in the development of ethical discourse of Chinese female sex workers from late Qing to contemporary society is discussed alongside the impact of the global economy on female beauty today. Overall, this book discusses new conceptual models that feminist scholars are using to displace dualism and emancipate notions of the body from Cartesian mechanistic models and metaphors. The different chapters review traditional and contemporary alternatives to understanding female bodies in Chinese society. Eva Man is professor of humanities and creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics, feminist philosophy, cultural studies, art, and cultural criticism.

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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

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9629967855

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9789629967857

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Barrelling Forward

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