Turbulent Souls:

Turbulent Souls:
Author: Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1999-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780380729302

The son of Catholic converts from Judaism chronicles his own return to the Jewish faith after being raised as an altar boy and a devout Christian. Reprint.

Choosing My Religion

Choosing My Religion
Author: Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780061132995

Choosing My Religion is a luminous memoir, crafted with the eye of a journalist and the art of a novelist by New York Times Magazine writer and editor Stephen J. Dubner. By turns comic and heartbreaking, it tells the story of a family torn apart by religion, sustained by faith, and reunited by truth.

Resilient

Resilient
Author: John Eldredge
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-06-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1400208688

Reclaim your joy and thrive through the storms of life when you find your strength in God. The human soul has a built-in yearning for joy and beauty and all good things. But that craving for life is so easily lost in the pace and demands of modern life. Join New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge as he gives you the tools you need to follow Jesus' path of supernatural resilience. Between false promises of ease and comfort on one side and the sheer busyness and stress of daily life on the other, people today are facing a shortage of peace, happiness, and strength. In Resilient, Eldredge reveals a path toward genuine recovery and resilience through Jesus himself. Drawing on wisdom from Scripture and Christian tradition, and illustrated throughout with powerful, true stories of grit and survival, Resilient will help you: Tap into the river of life that God promises his people Learn to be patient with yourself--genuine recovery from spiritual and emotional trauma takes time and intentionality Create a plan to foster resilience in your day-to-day life Discover deep wells of freedom and strength through Christ who lives within us Thriving requires a resilient soul. This book will help you find the resilience you long for when the world has gone mad--and discover in Jesus himself the strength that prevails.

Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper

Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper
Author: Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0061860794

As a boy, Stephen J. Dubner's hero was Franco Harris, the famed and mysterious running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. When Dubner's father died, he became obsessed—he dreamed of his hero every night; he signed his school papers "Franco Dubner." Though they never met, it was Franco Harris who shepherded Dubner through a fatherless boyhood. Years later, Dubner journeys to meet his hero, certain that Harris will embrace him. And he is . . . well, wrong. Told with the grit of a journalist and the grace of a memoirist, Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper is a breathtaking, heartbreaking, and often humorous story of astonishing developments. It is also a sparkling meditation on the nature of hero worship—which, like religion and love, tells us as much about ourselves as about the object of our desire.

In Turbulent Waters

In Turbulent Waters
Author: J. Lambert St Rose
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1496937856

A provocative piece of literary work! Provides a vivid exposition of the evil within our midst, the truly dark side of our Saint Lucian culture. Disturbing in its tortuosity, it is not for the faint of heart or those with deep dark secrets. It may be found offensive, inflammatory, and challenging to many of previous eras and also to those in this current era who sing and dance to the words I wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad! . . . Wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine . . . buy the things I never had! A must read, however, for those seekers of wealth, power, and status! The book does a great job of characterizing the escalating problem of depravity of the human soul stemming from social, cultural, and spiritual deficiencies. It begs the question, Has our holy mother, the Catholic church, been able to attain that nexus between Saint Lucias Afrocentric culture and Christianity? Has our local church been able to challenge and confront what has been deemed acceptable to the bourgeoisie as inherent social/cultural/spiritual values reflected in duplicity in religious outlook? The book however provides a ray of hope as it culminates in an expression of the beauty of the sacramental life provided by mother church, which is available to all in order to put on Gods armor so as to be able to resist the devils tactics. It is hoped that there are still many God-fearing persons in our society who continue to strive for the virtues of honesty and integrity, not willing to compromise the well-being of their fellowman for the sake of an insatiable ambition for power, wealth, and fame! This brilliant exposition then ought to move those who possess a genuine soul, a social and moral conscience, those who still bear light in their hearts, to bring light and life into successive generations of our beloved country, Saint Lucia, seeking to reject evil under all conditions.

Turbulent Sea

Turbulent Sea
Author: Christine Feehan
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2009-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748112782

Singer Joley Drake has always known the price she has to pay for her fame and fortune as a popular rock singer, but she's always been careful to stay away from alcohol and drugs, even if others around her haven't. But nothing can prepare her for the suspicion that someone is using her concert afterparties as a way of targeting and kidnapping teen girls and selling them into sexual slavery. Mysterious Russian Ilya Prakenskii seems to have an agenda of his own. The more dealings Joley has with him the more she struggles with the fear that he may be involved in the slavery ring. But Ilya isn't what he seems, and he becomes the only one Joley dares to trust in such treacherous times...

Quicklet on Freakonomics by Stephen D. Levitt & Stephan J. Dubner

Quicklet on Freakonomics by Stephen D. Levitt & Stephan J. Dubner
Author: Jonathan Nathan
Publisher: Hyperink Inc
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2011-11-09
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1614641463

Quicklets: Learn More. Read Less. Freakonomics was written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Levitt is an economist who is known for making connections that other people do not see, while Dubner is a journalist for the New York Times. The book started as an article about Levitt that Dubner was writing for the New York Times in 2003. They wrote the book together as an attempt to bring economics to the masses, to show in an interesting and conversational way on how economics can prove that conventional wisdom is often wrong and how it can shed new light on confusing situations. The book was published in 2005 and has somewhat become controversial for its findings.

Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism

Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism
Author: Paul J. Contino
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1725250748

In this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that incarnational realism animates the vision of the novel, and the decisions and actions of its hero, Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov. The book takes a close look at Alyosha’s mentor, the Elder Zosima, and the way his role as a confessor and his vision of responsibility “to all, for all” develops and influences Alyosha. The remainder of the study, which serves as a kind of reader’s guide to the novel, follows Alyosha as he takes up the mantle of his elder, develops as a “monk in the world,” and, at the end of three days, ascends in his vision of Cana. The study attends also to Alyosha’s brothers and his ministry to them: Mitya’s struggle to become a “new man” and Ivan’s anguished groping toward responsibility. Finally, Contino traces Alyosha’s generative role with the young people he encounters, and his final message of hope.

MESSAGE TO MORTALS

MESSAGE TO MORTALS
Author: Onuoha Emmanuel Izuchukwu
Publisher: Paper2publish
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Poetry is the soul's state captured and made feasibly relatable with words that stem from the soul's unseen depths. However, in this epoch, poetry and its unmatched prowess are on a gargantuan decline; and because of this doleful waning of poetry, "Message To Mortals" was engendered to reinstate poetry to its position globally and to show its colossal importance in the literary world and to mortals in general. "Message To Mortals" is a compilation of 130 message-filled and wits-satuated poems that convey deep messages about every relatable facet of life from faith, to love, to romance, to family, to friendship, to success, to hope, to dejection and the way out and finally, to eternity and the life after. It is worthy of being called "The Bible of poetry."