Deliver Us from Mama!

Deliver Us from Mama!
Author: Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822240718

Mama’s back—so chaos can’t be far behind! This rip-roaring, hilarious, high-octane race to beat the stork begins when Walker Sprunt’s wife, Hayley, goes into labor with their first child. The problem? She’s in Alabama, and he is in L.A., trying his best to get through a surprise visit from his meddling mother and his bossy big sister, Savannah, when he gets the call. Unfortunately, an air traffic controllers’ strike has just begun across the nation and Walker is at a loss for what to do. But his Mama, as usual, is not. And when she proclaims “Family Road Trip!,” Walker, from experience, knows disaster can’t be far behind. And is he ever right—as the clock ticks, Mama and her squabbling offspring jump in a car and sprint across two thousand miles of America and through its most unbelievably eccentric and colorful communities, and comedic chaos follows them everywhere. Despite experiencing zany alien encounters near Roswell, New Mexico, witnessing an uproarious last-minute wedding with off-their-rockers relatives, participating unwillingly in a high-speed police chase across Texas, surviving a churning river on a daiquiri party barge, and even escaping a wild New Orleans Mardi Gras night court, this exuberantly desperate trio drive on, determined to make it to Alabama before the new baby is born. And heaven help anyone who gets in Mama’s way, because she WILL be in Birmingham in time for the birth of her first grandchild! This flat-out-funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy will get your motors racing as it delivers miles of smiles and loads of laughs!

Deliver Us from Evie

Deliver Us from Evie
Author: M. E. Kerr
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1480455407

Award-winning author M. E. Kerr challenges stereotypes in this story about a fifteen-year-old grappling with his older sister’s sexuality Parr Burrman lives with his parents and his older brother and sister on a farm in Missouri. They’re a typical Midwestern family—except for one thing. Parr’s father thinks Evie’s going to marry Cord Whittle, who’s had a crush on her forever, and settle down in their hometown to help out with the farm. Instead, she falls in love with Patsy Duff, the gorgeous, privileged daughter of the banker who holds the mortgage on the Burrmans’ property. When rumors start flying about Evie and Patsy, Parr has to contend with the derision of his classmates . . . and when he falls for a girl from a fundamentalist family who fears homosexuality like God’s wrath, he must face his own conflicted emotions. Soon, Parr’s parents—and the whole town—will know the truth about Evie. But it’s Parr who has to deal with the burden of shame when his own behavior leads to a shattering betrayal . . . and a secret he’ll carry to the grave. Written with grace, humor, and love, and featuring sympathetic characters you won’t soon forget, Deliver Us from Evie is a compassionate, vividly evocative novel by a master storyteller. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of M. E. Kerr including rare images from the author’s collection.

Deliver Us From Evil

Deliver Us From Evil
Author: J. A. Bouma
Publisher: EmmausWay Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2024-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Stand Against the Darkness Fans of the supernatural, get ready! Group X is back with their most harrowing case yet. Brace yourself for a suspenseful mystery that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about reality itself. Elijah Fox and Gina Anderson, seasoned investigators of the enigmatic Group X, never anticipated the sinister turn their personal lives would take. What begins as just another day at the Church’s investigative agency soon spirals into a deadly game of shadows and secrets. When two figures from their past resurface with haunting pleas for help in chilling missing person cases, Elijah and Gina are thrust into a cat-and-mouse dance with darkness where reality blurs with the supernatural. As they delve deeper, they unearth a web of secrets pointing to a cosmic conspiracy that stretches back to the dawn of time itself. But with every revelation comes a new peril, as malevolent forces and long-forgotten horrors conspire to veil the truth. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, Elijah and Gina must summon every ounce of courage and cunning, faith and fortitude to unravel mysteries that shroud their world in shadows. Dark and gritty with touches of humanity and humor, this heart-pounding tale will leave you breathless in this collision of reality and nightmare. Perfect for fans of Frank Peretti and Dean Koontz, this briskly paced supernatural suspense mystery offers a chilling glimpse into the abyss where unseen forces shape our reality, but Christ’s power and Christian faith ultimately triumph. Devour this gripping journey into the heart of our disenchanted age deceived by an ancient promise straight from the pit of hell itself!

Deliver Me From Evil

Deliver Me From Evil
Author: Mary Monroe
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0758283997

What happens when the life you have is not the life you want? Christine Thurman and her husband, Jesse Ray, built a business worth millions and were once deeply in love. But lately J.R. has become obsessed with his empire and Christine feels taken for granted. . .until Wade Eddie Fisher, a bad boy with good looks from Christine's past, comes back to town. Even though Wade is penniless and undependable, he reignites something deep within Christine. Before long she's immersed in a sultry affair, and has devised a plan so risky that it promises to deliver all she could possibly want--or shatter the lives of everyone close to her. . . "With its sexual triangle and triplecrossing plot, Deliver Me From Evil is modern noir." --Akron Beacon Journal "Her wildest and most entertaining novel yet." --Publishers Weekly

A Ready-Made Life

A Ready-Made Life
Author: Chong-un Kim
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1998-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780824820718

A Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of settings, voices, styles, and thematic concerns, and the best of them, masterpieces written mainly in the mid-1930s, display an impressive artistic maturity. Included among these authors are Hwang Sun-won, modern Korea's greatest short story writer; Kim Tong-in, regarded by many as the author who best captures the essence of the Korean identity; Ch'ae Man-shik, a master of irony; Yi Sang, a prominent modernist; Kim Yu-jong, whose stories are marked by a unique blend of earthy humor and compassion; Yi Kwang-su and Kim Tong-ni, modernizers of the language of twentieth-century Korean fiction; and Yi Ki-yúng, Yi T'ae-jun, and Pak T'ae-won, three writers who migrated to North Korea shortly after Liberation in 1945 and whose works were subsequently banned in South Korea until democratization in the late 1980s. One way of reading the stories, all of which were written during the Japanese occupation, is that beneath their often oppressive and gloomy surface lies an anticolonial subtext. They can also be read as a collective record of a people whose life choices were severely restricted, not just by colonization, but by education (either too little or too much, as the title story shows) and by a highly structured society that had little tolerance for those who overstepped its boundaries. Life was unremittingly onerous for many Koreans during this period, whatever their social background. In the stories, educated city folk fare little better than farmers and laborers. A Ready-Made Life will provide scholars and students with crucial access to the literature of Korea's colonial period. A generous opening essay discusses the collection in the context of modern Korean literary history, and short introductions precede each story. Here is a richly diverse testament to a modern literature that is poised to assume a long overdue place in world literature.

Deliver Us from Evil

Deliver Us from Evil
Author: Sidney Sistrunk
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2015-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681811936

When Mike promised two young illegal immigrants to ‘save them’, he didn’t realize that he would soon have two drug cartels, the FBI, the state police, a county police, a city police, the U.S. Immigration Service, and the US. Dept. of Justice, Drug Enforcement all wanting to ‘talk’ with him. If he is found out by any of those groups, then all of them will know and then his life and the children’s lives would become history. Can he save them, can he keep their identity secret, and can anyone help him? He doesn’t even like kids and now he is saddled with two of them.

The Book of Peach

The Book of Peach
Author: Penelope Stokes J.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101189231

For fans of Fannie Flagg-the acclaimed author of Heartbreak Cafe delivers a heartwarming, hilarious new novel. Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now she's back, divorced and heartbroken, trying to figure out how her life went so terribly wrong. To escape her mama's scrutinizing gaze, she spends her days in a little storefront diner called the Heartbreak Cafe, where, in the back booth, she scribbles away in her journal, waiting for enlightenment. Instead, Peach gets something even better: the unexpected friendship of an unlikely group of folks who show Peach that finding out where you're going usually means embracing where you're from.

Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs

Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs
Author: Mary McCarthy
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480465976

Three candid, affecting memoirs by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group, including a National Book Award finalist. In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy begins with her recollections of a happy childhood cut tragically short by the death of her parents during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Tempering memory with invention, McCarthy describes how, orphaned at six, she spent much of her childhood shuttled between two sets of grandparents and three religions—Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. Early on, McCarthy lets the reader in on her secret: The chapter you just read may not be wholly reliable—facts have been distilled through the hazy lens of time and distance. How I Grew is McCarthy’s intensely personal autobiography of her life from age thirteen to twenty-one. With detail driven by an almost astonishing memory recall, the author gives us a masterful account of these formative years. From her wild adolescence—including losing her virginity at fourteen—through her eventual escape to Vassar, the bestselling novelist, essayist, and critic chronicles her relationships with family, friends, lovers, and the teachers who would influence her writing career. And Intellectual Memoirs opens with McCarthy as a married twenty-four-year-old Communist and critic. She’s disciplined, dedicated, and sexually experimental: At one point she realizes that in twenty-four hours she “had slept with three different men.” Over the course of three years, she will have had two husbands, the second being the esteemed, much older critic Edmund Wilson. It is Wilson who becomes McCarthy’s mentor and muse, urging her to try her hand at fiction. Intellectual Memoirs is a vivid snapshot of a distinctive place and time—New York in the late 1930s—and the forces that shaped Mary McCarthy’s life as a woman and a writer.

The Brothers K

The Brothers K
Author: David James Duncan
Publisher: Dial Press
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030775524X

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Once in a great while a writer comes along who can truly capture the drama and passion of the life of a family. David James Duncan, author of the novel The River Why and the collection River Teeth, is just such a writer. And in The Brothers K he tells a story both striking and in its originality and poignant in its universality. This touching, uplifting novel spans decades of loyalty, anger, regret, and love in the lives of the Chance family. A father whose dreams of glory on a baseball field are shattered by a mill accident. A mother who clings obsessively to religion as a ward against the darkest hour of her past. Four brothers who come of age during the seismic upheavals of the sixties and who each choose their own way to deal with what the world has become. By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K is one of the finest chronicles of our lives in many years. Praise for The Brothers K “The pages of The Brothers K sparkle.”—The New York Times Book Review “Duncan is a wonderfully engaging writer.”—Los Angeles Times “This ambitious book succeeds on almost every level and every page.”—USA Today “Duncan’s prose is a blend of lyrical rhapsody, sassy hyperbole and all-American vernacular.”—San Francisco Chronicle “The Brothers K affords the . . . deep pleasures of novels that exhaustively create, and alter, complex worlds. . . . One always senses an enthusiastic and abundantly talented and versatile writer at work.”—The Washington Post Book World “Duncan . . . tells the larger story of an entire popular culture struggling to redefine itself—something he does with the comic excitement and depth of feeling one expects from Tom Robbins.”—Chicago Tribune

My Mother was a Woman

My Mother was a Woman
Author: Michael Dingake
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1398444170

Gender equality should be top of the agenda of discourse on human affairs. There is no rhyme nor reason for the status of women to be languishing below the male ranking. The ‘weaker sex’ label must cease forthwith. Women are strong, resilient and always unbowed. Moreover, women conceive and populate our world with all the talents the human race celebrates from time to time. Women deserve to be ululated and rewarded. The current status demeans women and denies the human race the chance to scale the heights it has the potential to scale!