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| Author | : Michael Novak |
| Publisher | : Encounter Books |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2010-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1594034117 |
The leaders of the American Revolution, unlike the leaders of the French revolution, did not set out to erase religion. Indeed, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pray to Divine Providence in the face of the British bombardment of Boston. In establishing a new model of self-government, the Founders believed that they were not only acting according to reason and common sense, but also obeying a religious duty. Benjamin Franklin proposed as their motto: “Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.” In telling the story of the forgotten—if not deliberately ignored—role of faith in America’s beginnings, Michael Novak probes the innermost religious conviction of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other of our Founders. He shows that while the American eagle could not have taken flight without the empirical turn of mind embodied in John Locke’s teaching on the ends of government and the consent of the governed, the men who made America also believed that liberty depends as much on faith as on reason. In the course of his illustrious career, Michael Novak has written several prize-winning books on theology and philosophy. In On Two Wings he has created a profound mediation on American history, and on human nature and destiny as well.
| Author | : Randall Kenan |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2020-08-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1324005475 |
Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.
| Author | : Penny Mickelbury |
| Publisher | : Bywater Books |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2019-05-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612941508 |
In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity, and then, gradually, in friendship. And in the case of Abby and Genie, something much more.
| Author | : Abbas Kazerooni |
| Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2012-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1743430000 |
This amazing true story of a boy fleeing Tehran on his own during the Iran-Iraq War provides a powerful child's-eye view of political tumult, separation, survival, dreams and triumphs in a moving memoir that chronicles extraordinary times in an ordinary boy's life.
| Author | : Leon Forrest |
| Publisher | : Moyer Bell |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781559211925 |
| Author | : Virginia Frances Schwartz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780773733022 |
If I Just Had Two Wings is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
| Author | : Margarita Engle |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2015-08-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1481435221 |
Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not.
| Author | : James Marshall |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780618316595 |
For use in schools and libraries only. Silly Minnie finds herself in all kinds of trouble when she accepts a balloon ride from a crafty fox, and it is up to her sensible friend Harriet to rescue her.
| Author | : Aimee Agresti |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547626150 |
In the thrilling sequel to "Illuminate, " angel-in-training Haven Terra heads to New Orleans, where she faces off with a formidable group of demons known as The Krewe.
| Author | : Adrian Phoenix |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2008-01-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1416584765 |
HIS NAME IS DANTE. Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination. HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY. F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own. HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS. What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer -- and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man -- who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire -- in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....
