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In a world that often demands unwavering faith, Carson Cawthon Matthews dares to chronicle her raw, intimate journey through doubt and devotion. Diagnosed with severe OCD at fourteen, Matthews found herself trapped in a labyrinth of intrusive thoughts that threatened to sever her relationship with God. Yet in the depths of her struggle, she discovered an unexpected truth: uncertainty is an integral part of any faith journey.
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Saying grace at mealtime is a time-honored tradition for many families and a newfound source of spiritual connection for others. Whether you're a master at giving the blessing or fairly new to this sacred art, Graces will bring inspiration to your meals and special gatherings.
Seeing the need for such inspiration at her family's table, June Cotner compiled a notebook of poems, prayers, and songs that she solicited from friends, strangers, family...
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Our pets. They are our loyal companions and our faithful friends, a constant source of joy and inspiration. In this endearing anthology of prayers and poems, June Cotner has handpicked choice writings by some of the world's most notable animal lovers to celebrate the playful, the poignant, and the profound ways these wonderful creatures touch our daily lives.
Selections include Emily Dickinson's astute observations of her cat, Roger Caras' thoughts...
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God of All Flying Things is a gentle companion for those seeking God in the midst of lives full of beauty, longing, and mystery.
In this intimate collection of prayers and poems, Rachel Devenish Ford writes from the quiet spaces of her devotion to Christ. These are the words of someone who has sat quietly in sorrow, who has shouted prayers into the dark, and who keeps looking for the presence of God in birdsong, breath, and daily bread.
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No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that of Heinrich Heine, his role model, in that it appears...
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450+ Poems, Prayers, Hymns and Blessings
This treasury of beautiful and powerful pieces is the perfect companion for marking holidays, milestones, and the seasons. You'll discover prayers to Janus from Horace and Ovid, a traditional Scottish blessing for Imbolc, an invocation to Pan by Aleister Crowley, an ode to Proserpine by Mary Shelley, a pharaoh's hymn to Isis, a song for Lammas by Gwydion Pendderwen, and many, many more.
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This book contains a lovely collection of Christian stories, poetry and prayers. The stories have all been taken from the bible and retold especially for children, making them enjoyable and easy to learn. This book is a perfect gift for any Christian child, and including many poems and prayers will ensure that they never go to bed without first saying a word to God.
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This powerful little book contains a collection of enlightening quotes, notes, poems and prayers. This book is designed to allow the reader to go to any page, at any time and dive into some good news. To enlighten is to "shed light on" and that is the purpose of this book. To shed light on something that hopefully makes the reader feel better about life and the World we inhabit.
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Step into a world where giggles meet grace, and bedtime turns into a sanctuary of song. Psalms For Children is a heartwarming collection of 30 gentle poems and prayers that help young hearts discover the beauty of worship, wonder, and walking with God.Inspired by the honesty of David's psalms and the softness of childhood faith, each poem speaks directly to a child's everyday joys and struggles-fear of being alone, the thrill of singing to Jesus,...
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The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart's work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart's poetry both in the United States and abroad. This volume performs a valuable service by bringing together the best of Hart's work from seven published collections, some of them now...
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Angifi Dladla is a poet and playwright who writes in both English and Zulu. He is the author of eight plays and a poetry book in Zulu titled Uhambo. For many years he has been a writing teacher and director of Femba Writing Project, publishing school and prison newspapers, and the anthologies Wa lala, Wa sala and Reaching Out: Voices from Groenpunt Maximum-Security Prison. Lament for Kofifi Macu is Angifi Dladla's first collection of poems in English...
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Born in Orlando West, Soweto, in Johannesburg, Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker and writing teacher who rose to prominence in the 1980s, a turbulent period in South Africa's history. Originally published in 1999, The Bavino Sermons includes such memorable poems as 'Lines for Vincent', 'Riding the victim train', 'To Gil Scott-Heron', 'Crab attack','Rap Ranting' and 'The Fela Sermon'.
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"A rat climbs onto the desk of a bored office worker. A family dog never stops coming back to life. Every prisoner on earth is freed. A man becomes friends with a bank robber who abducts him. A baby is born transparent. James Tate's work, filled with unexpected turns and deadpan exaggeration, 'fanciful and grave, mundane and transcendent' (New York Times), has been among the most defining and significant of our time. In his last collection, written...
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Classic poems from a famous American poet
This volume represents, under one cover, the major work of the man whom critics and readers have designated the authentic poet of his American generation. For this collection, James Dickey has selected from his four published books all those poems that reflect his truest interests and his growth as an artist. He has added more than a score of new poems-in effect, a new book in themselves-that have not previously...
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Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara Blues at once reawakens a sense of intimacy with the natural world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of our relationship to this world. Whether exploring the silent,...
19) Deed
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"In poems both physical and spiritual, torrin a. greathouse (she/they) writes about being a trans woman and genderqueer, about being disabled, and about the violence that ghosts through these states of being, of body"-- Provided by publisher.
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Thomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author's new collection, Among the Bloodpeople, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political, the personal, and the secret. Each essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica's prime minister on antigay...




