Celete and Camile, both college students from different backgrounds and beliefs, face dilemmas of the choices to make. When they find themselves after noticing the earth that they once knew had changed, both students will face their own destiny and have to make their own decision because both of them had to realize what they once heard about the rapture had already taken place.
Five year old Susan O'Dey lost both of her parents in a tragic accident and lives with her grandparents, Ernest and Marie, in an idyllic little town known simply as 'the meadows.' Her day to day life is happy, but routine: that is until her grandparents' former foster daughter Jenny comes back to town. Jenny has regrets about the way she has been living her life in the city, and has returned to reconnect with her true self and those who love her the most. Ernest and Marie have plans for Jenny and Susan, but Jenny is haunted by a past that she can't seem to leave behind. Beyond the Clear Blue Sky asks: can we go home again? And if we do, will we be redeemed?
Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini. New York Times–bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year career. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Conroy’s fellowship drew from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Barbra Streisand, Janis Ian, Anthony Grooms, Mary Hood, Nikky Finney, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; his longtime friends; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on who he was. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays herewith wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched along the way.
Bridges on the Journey introduces you to your life in Christ. You'll form habits and attitudes that can create intimacy with God and spiritual growth. Get started on the right path and establish a lifetime relationship with Jesus as you learn the practice of spiritual disciplines. This is the first book in A Woman's Journey of Discipleship series. A Woman's Journey of Discipleship is more than a Bible study series; it is a process through which women learn how to walk daily with the Lord and pass on to others that same discipling vision Jesus gave His disciples. Other titles in the series include book 2, Crossroads on the Journey, and book 3, Friends on the Journey.
What sort of mad longing besets a woman—nearing fifty and recently widowed—to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda? When Your Heart Says Go answers that question. Set in 1990–’91, Judy’s story takes readers from San Diego through eleven European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India, during the lead-up to the first Gulf War. Explorations of foreign locales and interactions with strangers and acquaintances who become a lifeline to friendship are interspersed with occasional flashbacks to Judy’s life with her beloved husband, Tom, as well as his illness and death. Descriptions of sites historic and current serve as both daily life and background for Judy’s struggle to find her way as a sober, single, independent woman in the vast world as it edges toward the collapse of the Soviet Union and war in the Middle East. The outer journey serves as a container for the inner; the more Judy experiences of the world, the more she learns about herself—and the closer she gets to realizing her lifelong dream of being a writer.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dreamt of becoming a famous writer from the time that she was a young girl. After several years of searching for adventure and success, Marjorie finally found inspiration in the wild country of central Florida. While living there, she produced several popular works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize - winning novel The Yearling.
...a laugh-out-loud collection of children's wit & wisdom...page after page of genuine funnies & warm fuzzies. A must-have for all grown-ups!"--Liz Curtis Higgs, professional speaker & author of THE PUMPKIN PATCH PARABLE. A delightful, inspiring collection of stories, gathered from people across the country, about the funny, cute, interesting, & often enlightening things children have said. Over 200 stories are presented with original artwork, quotes from notable people, plus insight & suggestions from the editors. Each page is brimming over with memorable quotations & hilarious observations from real kids in real-life situations, caught in the act of being themselves. After reading these provoking stories, adults will want to tune in as never before to their own quotable kids (or grandkids). The companion journal KIDSPIRATIONAL KEEPSAKES, provides helpful how-to's to get you going, plus plenty of blank pages for starting your own priceless family heirloom to be handed down from generation to generation. "Parents will read this book & think, 'Why didn't I write down what my kids said?' KIDSPIRATION can trigger memories & bring back some of what you thought was lost. It did that for me."--Jack Canfield, co-author, CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL. Order from Quail Ridge Press, P.O. Box 123, Brandon, MS 39043. 601-825-2063; FAX: 601-825-3091; 800-343- 1583.
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