An Unexpected Encounter

An Unexpected Encounter
Author: Deb Marlowe
Publisher: Deb Marlowe
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2013-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

*** This novella was previously found in the anthology, An Encounter at the Museum. It has been altered slightly. An epilogue has been added. Tall, practical girls might not be worth much in man's world, but Miss Lisbeth Moreton knows she's worth more than the squire's prized heifer. To change her fate, she's run off to a date with destiny at the British Museum. Her would-be swain never shows, but an unexpected encounter with Lord Cotwell and his lonely ward might lead to altogether new prospects . . . and perhaps to love.

Coming Clean

Coming Clean
Author: Jorge L. Valdés
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008-05-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1450046606

"I was a walking bankroll, wearing $150,000 worth of jewelry and carrying as much as $40,000 cash in my pockets. Yet my friends asked: "how are you doing?" I'd sometimes reply, "miserable. I hate every second of my life, and I do not know why." Jorge ValdesAll his dreams for wealth and power came true. Then the nightmare began.As a young man in his twenties with an insatiable thirst for money and power, Jorge Valdes worked his way up inside Colombia's powerful Medellin drug cartel. His key position as head of U.S. Operations brought him into direct contact with presidents, generals, Hollywood celebrities, hired killers and kidnappers. This Cuban immigrant, raised in poverty, was living the high life in more ways than one. His deeds took him from the lap of luxury to the depths of prison and back again.Then an incredible thing happened: Jorge Valdes encountered a person much more powerful than the strongest drug lord, someone who offered something more satisfying than women, drugs, money, prestige and power.Reading more like a fast paced novel of intrigue than a traditional biography, coming clean: the true story of a cocaine drug lord and his unexpected encounter offers an insider's view of the drug industry and the greed that drives it. Told that he would never be anything but a twice convicted drug dealer; today, dr. Jorge l. Valdes, who holds a master degree from Wheaton college and a PhD. In new testament studies from Loyola University in Chicago, is a renowned national speaker who brings a message of hope, forgiveness and the power to change. He has been featured in numerous magazine covers and appeared in many national and international television and radio programs.

Encounters with Jesus

Encounters with Jesus
Author: Timothy Keller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1594633533

New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores how people are changed by meeting Jesus personally—and how we can be changed encountering him today. The people who met Jesus Christ in person faced the same big life questions we face today. Like most of us, the answers handed down to them didn’t seem to work in the real world. But when they met Jesus, things immediately started to change for them. It seems he not only had the answers—he was the answer. In Encounters with Jesus, Timothy Keller shows how the central events and meetings in Jesus’ life can change our own lives forever. "Keller's work belongs on the bookshelf of every serious Bible student." —Examiner "Keller has mined the gold from these texts of Scripture, and any Christian is bound to have their minds expanded and hearts stirred." —Grace for Sinners

My First Quran Storybook (Goodword)

My First Quran Storybook (Goodword)
Author: Saniyasnain Khan
Publisher: Goodword Books
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2014-04-26
Genre:
ISBN:

Here for young readers and listeners, are all the best treasured stories of the Quran in one beautifully illustrated volume. The stirring and dramatic stories of the great prophets, peoples and nations are unfolded as a family saga, one event leading naturally to the next. All these features in one great book: * 42 easy to read Quran stories. * A moral value with each story. * Simple language. * Vivid and charming illustrations. * A Quran reference for each story at the end of the book. Designed for use at home or at school, this book makes the message of the Quran more meaningful for children. It's the perfect way to begin your child's lifetime adventure of personal Quran reading! Especially chosen for the very young, these stories act as a foundaton on which to build a growing knowledge of the Quran.

Unexpected Encounters

Unexpected Encounters
Author: J. Berkley Reynolds
Publisher: Word Alive Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1486618405

It was a marked contrast from serving as a padre in the Canadian Army to being posted to Change Islands in the North Atlantic. My new mode of transportation couldn’t be more different from an army jeep—a thirty-eight-foot sea-faring vessel. The M.V. Messenger was to be my ocean home, but it would have been my coffin were it not for my faithful Samoyed dog, Sabre. Taking the “Good News” to the remote communities of Northern Newfoundland wasn’t without risks. Navigating through the ice floe, walking over the frozen bay, or flying with the bush pilots had its challenges. But one did not count the cost when on a divine mission. My calling was to minister to the families of fishermen and loggers nestled in the coves and bays. It was far different from my ministry in a suburban church in Metro Toronto, where the storms were of a different nature. Victor Frankel, a psychiatrist and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, affirmed that a person’s greatest search is for meaning. I have shown that life’s greatest and most difficult experiences can be overcome by trust in God’s faithful promises found in scripture. Is that a place where you might begin your search?

Borges and Me

Borges and Me
Author: Jay Parini
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0385545835

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets the famed Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. Borges—visiting his translator in Scotland—is in his seventies, blind and frail. When Borges hears that Parini owns a 1957 Morris Minor, he declares a long-held wish to visit the Highlands, where he hopes to meet a man in Inverness who is interested in Anglo-Saxon riddles. As they travel, stopping at various sites of historical interest, the charmingly garrulous Borges takes Parini on a grand tour of Western literature and ideas, while promising to teach him about love and poetry. As Borges’s idiosyncratic world of labyrinths, mirrors, and doubles shimmers into being, their escapades take a surreal turn. Borges and Me is a classic road novel, based on true events. It’s also a magical mystery tour of an era, like our own, in which uncertainties abound, and when—as ever—it’s the young and the old who hear voices and dream dreams.

Space Cat

Space Cat
Author: Ruthven Todd
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2018-05-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0486822729

Flyball, a little gray kitten with a taste for adventure, stows away on the spaceship taking his owner to the moon.

A TALE OF AN ENCOUNTER

A TALE OF AN ENCOUNTER
Author: Van Der Mok
Publisher: VAN DER MOK
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2022-10-04
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

A TALE OF AN ENCOUNTER novel has been translated into more than nine languages. Life loves to set traps, so it doesn't give us everything at the same time. When you get something, you will definitely lose something else in return. A coincidence after parting for years gives them the opportunity to meet again. A strange mixture of longing, pride, blame, and finally remorse. As soon as one of them initiates, two gates to the unknown will be opened in front of them, and they will have to choose. A threshold of returning and melting into the crucible of love again. The other threshold leads to a black hole that swallows up everything. Were we able to integrate once again and forget about the past? Will they continue, or will a memory from the past return to disturb the calmness of life after it starts smiling at them? What love can destroy in our lives? What is the outcome of multiplying jealousy by revenge? To what extent would a person turn into a narcissistic monster, ready to destroy anything for the sake of his claimed happiness? The moment of falling is the moment in which you give trust in the wrong person. Only then will he start sharpening it so as to use it as a weapon against you. Definitely, you will be his first victim.

Unexpected Subjects

Unexpected Subjects
Author: Alessandra Gribaldo
Publisher: Hau
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2020-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781912808304

Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women's words and the demands of the law in the context of adjudications on intimate partner violence. A study of institutional devices, it focuses on women's practices of resistance and the elicitation of intelligible subjectivities. Using Italy as an illustrative case, Alessandra Gribaldo explores the problematic encounter between the need to speak, the entanglement of violence and intimacy, and the way the law approaches domestic violence. On this basis it advances theoretical reflections on questions of evidence, persuasion, and testimony, and their implications for ethnographic theory. Gribaldo analyzes the dynamics that produce the subjectivity of the victim, shedding light on how the Italian legal system reproduces broader conditions of violence against women. Perfect for graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching, this book will appeal to anthropologists and scholars of law, society, and gender.