We all want peace in our lives, in our family, in the world. But what we see is bickering, lies, fighting. Our jobs can be in question. Prices rise and our health can be declining. Where is peace? We are told that love is the greatest -but what we experience is misunderstandings and unforgiveness. Estrangements and divorce are rampant. People gossip and families crumble. Where is love? We are told that without faith it is impossible to please God. But where is faith when you feel like giving up? We can be so weighted down with disappointments and discouragement that we begin to lose hope that anything will change. Lord, Renew My Hope will help to renew your hope that you may ignite peace and love. Many have not lost their faith-they have lost hope. This guide can be used in small groups as well as personal reflection. Hope again! Sandra Fox is a registered nurse. She is also a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She has served for over 30 years as a women's bible study teacher and retreat speaker. She is an active member of Webster Assembly of God and resides in Victor, New York with her husband, Willard.
Dillon is eleven years old and has a terrible secret that needs to be told. This book is an aid to help educate children about what to do if they are subjected to inappropriate touches. "I've read Dillon's Secret, and I think it strikes just the right tone. When I was growing up, there was nothing in the library that hinted that what had happened to me had EVER happened to anyone else. The Bobbsey Twins certainly didn't have that kind of issue. In view of the fact that so many of the young people who come in contact with the criminal justice system also have a history of childhood sexual abuse, I think this book is VERY important." NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR - J.A. JANCE "Dillon's Secret is much more then a story; it's a way to make a huge difference in a person's life. I just wish a book like this would have been available for me when I was a child..., then I would not have had to keep a secret like Dillon's for the past 40 years." Greg, Survivor of Incest
Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our surroundings in acts of placemaking. This placemaking often considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements. It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass media and countless human interactions. A rare and crucial perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to, and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era.
In 1847, the McCord family, filled with hope for prospects of a better life, packed all their earthly belongings into covered wagons and left their homes in Indiana for Texas. The world beyond was in front of seven-year-old Fidelia, and little did she know, as the wagons traveled down the dusty trail to the southwest, that there would be the need for all the courage she could muster. Her faith would be tested and fortitude found in the most unexpected places. Let the Little Birds Sing is the beginning of Fidelia McCord's story, of the hardships she encounters and sees around her, told through the eyes of a precocious and determined girl. It is a tale set in early America inspired by the journey of a girl coming of age amidst the perils of settling in a new and untamed land.
On a Lark (The Fidelia McCord Series, Book 2) In On a Lark, Fidelia McCord has become the only surviving child of John and Mariah McCord of Pond Springs. After having borne great loss and hardship in mid-nineteenth century Texas - where moments of jubilation and jeopardy carry a girl to womanhood - Fidelia knows the weight of her choices. At the same time, far away in North Carolina, the Maloney brothers, cooking mash into whiskey in the Appalachian mountains, are making their own life-changing decisions, with Miles Maloney trying to keep his brother Jackson in check and away from the gallows. But, as Fidelia and Miles each forge their own path to a future, destiny has plans of its own. "A riveting and realistic novel of the westward expansion, inspired by real people. Life on the trail and on the Texas frontier was not easy for anyone, much less a seven-year old girl whose faith was tested...but those who persevered and survived would find new joys." --Miles O'Neal, author of The Dragon Lord Chronicles "Ms. Murphy develops the powerful characters of this story in such a way that they come alive and you feel that you know each one of them personally. On a Lark will linger long after reading it." --Jane Caraway, author of Baby in a Mailbox ******* Sandra Fox Murphy is the author of the novels That Beautiful Season and A Thousand Stars, as well as the Fidelia McCord Series, including Let the Little Birds Sing. Her collection of poems, Aging Without Grace, was released in July 2019. Originally from Glasgow, Delaware, she lives in central Texas where she hunts down small-town history.
In 1665, in Rhode Island, Ann Tallman, wife of Peter, is sentenced to fifteen lashings in Newport's town square. Her story begins, in 1647, in Barbados where Ann Hill, the daughter of English settlers, meets the dashing German merchant Captain Peter Tallman. After they wed and settle in colonial Rhode Island, after six children, after years of Peter's absences at sea, abuse, and jealousies, it was Thomas, the English indentured servant, who won Ann's heart. Refusing to leave behind her children, her choice was abruptly taken from her hands with Peter's request for divorce and the court's sentence of lashings in Portsmouth and Newport. After an escape to Jamestown in the Virginia colony where Ann and her youngest son stay with family, she is eventually drawn back to Rhode Island, to her beloved, to her children, and to her sentenced punishment. Will she be welcome among her peers, or will she be but an outcast? Will her children forgive her? Readers will love this story for its historical color and reflection of the sacrifices of New England's early settlers. This is a story of atonement, of courage, forgiveness and grace in deeply judgmental colonial America.
That Beautiful Season delves deep into the love of family and the love of the land near the Chesapeake Bay. As the country recovers from war and is then flung into an economic depression, can the Greenwood family overcome sorrow and find its way again?
Scratchboard etching is a unique art form particularly suited to animals. With detailed instructions found in this first book of a series, the secrets to creating these lovely pieces are revealed by a professional artist that has created and taught this art for years. With your success in mind, each step is detailed with words and photos in an informal approach to learning.
This novella could be the crowning achievement of American literature created during our generation."Jezebel .."oscillating between the ludicrous, demented and genuinely funny." Vocativ Fox News thought it would be just be another day at the office. They thought wrong! The Liberal Radicals teamed up with the teamsters to poison the Fox News water supply with a designer drug that makes them act out their most deviant sexual fantasies. The drug spreads through the halls of Fox News until it turns into A Fair & Balanced Fuckfest. In Mandy De Sandra's tenth book, she tells her most epic Bizarro Political Erotica yet. It is Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists meets gonzo Hustler porn featuring: Lou Dobbs Mexican omelette cum craving, Scientology creation squirt story, Stevia Shaker sex, Emmy Award masturbation, Patriotic facials, DVDA tax cut fucks, Republican rim jobs, Bill O'Reilly vibrator roller coaster, and the cumming of the Alpha Billionare Buttrons.
This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use of language and is concerned with the description of how speakers engage in conversation and other forms of social interaction involving language. Its proponents are not only linguists but sociologists and anthropologists as well. The unifying theme of these chapters is the intersection of practice and form through the construction of turns and sequences.
When she hears that her younger brother Danny has committed suicide, Sayre Lynch relents from her vow never to return to Destiny, the small Louisiana town in which she grew up. She plans to leave immediately after the funeral, but instead soon finds herself drawn into the web cast by Huff Hoyle, her controlling and tyrannical father, the man who owns the town's sole industry, an iron foundry, and in effect runs the lives of everyone who lives there. As she feared, Sayre learns that nothing has changed. Her father and older brother, Chris, are as devious as ever, and now they have a new partner-in-crime, a canny and disarming lawyer named Beck Merchant, who appears to be their equal in corruption. Soon, Sayre is thrown in closer contact with Beck and becomes convinced that something more sinister is at play than her father's usual need to dominate people and events. As she sets out to learn just what did happen to Danny, she comes to realize that there are many secrets in Destiny -- secrets that hide decades of pain and anger, and that threaten at any moment to erupt and destroy not only her father and brother, but perhaps Sayre herself. Underneath the rigid control that the Hoyles exert over the town, trouble is brewing. Old hatreds foster plans for revenge, past crimes resurface, and a maverick deputy sheriff determines that Danny Hoyle's death was not suicide, but murder. As tensions mount, threatening to ignite a powder keg of long-held hostility, Sayre finds herself inextricably drawn into a struggle with striking laborers, her unscrupulous father, and her own emotions over the love/hate relationship that is growing with Beck, a man apparently with his own agenda, and mysteries of his own. As she has shown in the dozens of bestselling novels in which she has combined hard-edged suspense with intense emotion, Sandra Brown is a master storyteller, and in her new novel she is at her very best.
For the next hour, Joe sat with his back to the wall and his shotgun across his knees, wishing the day had gone in an entirely different direction… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Sandra Brown and C.J. Box—along with their popular series characters Lee Coburn and Joe Pickett—team up for the first time ever.
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