Author: Katelyn Detweiler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698155645
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Mina is seventeen. A virgin. And pregnant. Mina is top of her class, girlfriend to the most ambitious guy in school, able to reason and study her way through anything. But when she suddenly finds herself pregnant—despite having never had sex—her orderly world collapses. Almost nobody believes Mina’s claims of virginity. Her father assumes that her boyfriend is responsible; her boyfriend believes she must have cheated on him. As news of Mina’s story spreads, there are those who brand her a liar. There are those who brand her a heretic. And there are those who believe that miracles are possible—and that Mina’s unborn child could be the greatest miracle of all.
Author: Sherry Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964875609
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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This is a healing book for former Catholics who have no intention of returning to the church, but who nevertheless continue to be affected by the rigidity of their Catholic upbringing. This book takes a candid, honest look at the experiences, thoughts and feelings of many former Catholics. It offers numerous ways of working creatively with these issues, a means of moving into greater self-understanding and awareness.
Author: Bob Shacochis
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196160
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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“Every war brings forth one perfect book. . . . Now we have The Immaculate Invasion, the masterpiece of the 1994 US assault on and occupation of Haiti.” —Chicago Tribune Widely celebrated upon its original publication in 1999, National Book Award winning writer Bob Shacochis’s The Immaculate Invasion is a gritty, poetic, and revelatory look at the American intervention in Haiti. In 1994, the United States embarked on Operation Uphold Democracy, a response to the overthrow of the democratically elected Haitian government by a brutal military coup. As a reporter for Harper’s, Bob Shacochis traveled to Haiti and was embedded—long before the idea became popular in Iraq—with a team of Special Forces commandos for eighteen months. He came away with tremendous insight into Haiti, the character of American fighters, and what can happen when an intervention turns into a misadventure. In The Immaculate Invasion, Shacochis captures the exploits and frustrations, the inner lives and heroic deeds of young Americans as they struggle to bring democracy to a country ravaged by tyranny. The Immaculate Invasion is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what has happened in Haiti in the past, its current state, and its future path. “An extraordinary book about an extraordinary event . . . I felt transported to Haiti. I could hear it. I could smell it. At moments I felt moved almost to tears, only to find myself, a page or two later, laughing out loud.” —Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine
Author: Tom O’Lenic
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1636980554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
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Ahead of this year’s 50th anniversary of the National Football League’s most unforgettable play, Steelers Hall of Famer Franco Harris’ “Immaculate Reception,'' comes the book Immaculate: How the Steelers Saved Pittsburgh. Immaculate weaves together the historical stories of Pittsburgh and its beloved professional football team like the linear strands of DNA—antiparallel, twisting throughout, and irrevocably connected together.
Author: Cesar D. Favila
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197621899
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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"It was mid-December 1610 in Mexico City. The Church was in its preparatory season of Advent, leading up to the celebration of Christ's birth at Christmas. The nuns of the Encarnacion convent had just celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, on 8 December. But now, in this time usually filled with joy, some of the nuns were nervous. Their choirbooks were missing. Without them, the nuns would not be able to celebrate the anniversary of Christ's birth adequately. A musician priest of the metropolitan cathedral, located just three blocks from the convent, had caused the nuns' alarm: Antonio Rodríguez Mata (d. 1643) had all five of the missing books. He had borrowed them from Sister Flor de Santa Clara, the convent "vicaria de coro" (choir vicar) but had failed to return them despite the convent's repeated requests. The diocesan vicar general and the attorney general were summoned. The nuns of the Encarnación demanded that Mata be imprisoned if he failed to return the books immediately following the denunciation. The threat of jail time was serious, but so too was the alleged offense: Mata was impeding the nuns from performing their liturgical music for Christmas"--
Author: Rosilie Hernández
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487504772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Immaculate Conceptions investigates the religious imagination - sacred truth communicated through contingent and contextually determined theological propositions - as deployed in early modern Spanish textual and visual representations of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.
Author: Scott B. Pruden
Publisher: Scott B. Pruden - Author
ISBN: 0615348254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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In a near future ravaged by killer hurricanes, rampant overdevelopment and increasingly underdressed waitresses, ex-newsman Jon Templeton has had the worst Thursday of his life. He's forced to fight off an amorous co-worker at the PR job he hates, only to have his wife discover his admirer's panties in his pocket. Now he's dead, interrupted on his way to his heavenly reward by Eli, an elderly Rastafarian surfer who claims to be the Supreme Being. Still reeling from having lost any chance of redemption in his human life, Jon is offered a mission: Discover for the surprisingly clueless deity the true identity of Lucas Scheafer, deputy to the Rev. Lawrence Whitaker and his sultry wife, Veronica, leaders of the sexually free-wheeling Church of the New Revelation, headquartered in America's new Sin City, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Jon's quest is paralleled by that of Mako Nikura, reluctant heir to a weapons and aerospace fortune, who hopes to find the secret to his father's death and its connection to the domestic terrorist organization SHAG. Little do Jon and Mako know, but their paths lead to the same exceptionally odd - and potentially cataclysmic - destination.
Author: Charles Polonsky
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430322896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Do you know me? I live in the suburbs. I have been married for 30 years and have two sons. I could be your neighbor, business associate, friend or relative. Even if you did know me, you really wouldn't. No one alive would know that I was recruited into the CIA when I was nineteen. I was sent to Vietnam in May of 1970 as the leader of a covert team of black ops in a classified operation called 'Project Angel.' I was very good at what I did but when I discovered the truth about the war, the people responsible for the war and some of our Countries darkest secrets, I went 'off the reservation.' I destroyed all their drug operations in Southeast Asia and rescued over 2,000 American POWs. They tried to assassinate me. They killed my men. I killed all of them. I left Vietnam and went to Washington, DC to stop the lies and deceptions. I secretly met with President Nixon. I found the conspirators, killed them all and helped end the war. I died in Vietnam. I was re-born. This is my story.
Author: Robert Chiappetta
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1681391686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Although the risk of death and great bodily harm were foreseeable, rather than changing their conduct they chose to run the risk. A sinister gamble virtually assuring death with the greatest possible violence. It is apparent that both corporations had willfully entered into an amoral and criminal quagmire that the law can only begin to address. The children's mortal wounds are quintessential examples of theocratic and bureaucratic corruption fulfilling their deadly potential.
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Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434957128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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