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"The Powell brothers, Muir and Moody, are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams and not the slightest idea of what to do about them. Moody, the older and wilder brother -- embittered by the death of his father, by years of fighting his mother, and by his jealousy of Muir's privileged place in the family -- takes to moonshine and gambling and turns his anger on his brother. Muir escapes, hoping to find...
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An Oprah's Book Club SelectionAn unflinching tale of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life, Gap Creek chronicles the challenging first year in the marriage of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards. After losing both her father and brother before turning 17, Julie faces fire, flood, grifters, sickness, and starvation with grim determination and remarkable stamina. By capturing the earthy details of rural life, including raw, riveting accounts of everything...
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On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him. Novelist and historian Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of a runaway slave named Jonah Williams, who, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina plantation on which he was born with only a few saved coins, a knife, and the clothes on his back. No shoes, no map, no clear idea of where to head, except...
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An Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times best-seller, this powerful novel is the starkly naturalistic story of a young woman's struggles in early 20th-century Appalachia. Richly crafted from the tiny details of everyday life, Gap Creek is a place that listeners will find unforgettable. Julie Harmon is a hard worker living a hard life. Only a teenager, she has already witnessed the deaths of her brother and father when she loses herself in the...
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Mason-Dixon Lines "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush" poetry by Robert MorganRobert Morgan drives home a similar message with three poems. They address "memory" on the grandest scale- not merely familial or communal but epochal and even geologic." . . . for ten millennia, the bonesseemed wreckage from a mighty dream . . . "
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When Gap Creek was published in 1999, it became an instant national bestseller, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers to the story of a marriage begun with love and hope at the turn of the twentieth century. Set in the Appalachian South, it followed Julie and Hank Richards as they struggled through the first year and a half of their union. But what of the years following? What did the future hold for these memorable characters? The Road to Gap...
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The lyrics of our favorite hymns are rich in images that can help us in our daily walk with God--they are miniature Bible studies that lead us effortlessly toward worship, testimony, exhortation, prayer, and praise. They're bursts of devotional richness with rhyme and rhythm. They clear our minds, soothe our nerves, verbalize our worship, summarize our faith, and sing our great Redeemer's praise. Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan has gathered favorite...
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On Time Statues: Time is a place. Each moment is a statue in time, always rooted in that time and that place. Visits include Martin Luther King Jr., Timothy Leary, Pat Norman, Rollo May, Allen Ginsberg, Ernst Beier, Singapore, Guam, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, a Taotaomona jungle spirit. In the final BOOK FIVE of an eight decade lifespan revisit to "Human Family".
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The lyrics of our favorite hymns are rich in images that can help us in our daily walk with God--they are miniature Bible studies that lead us effortlessly toward worship, testimony, exhortation, prayer, and praise. They're bursts of devotional richness with rhyme and rhythm. They clear our minds, soothe our nerves, verbalize our worship, summarize our faith, and sing our great Redeemer's praise. Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan has gathered favorite...
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On Time Statues: Time is a place. Each moment is a statue in time, always rooted in that time and that place. Visits include Martin Luther King Jr., Timothy Leary, Pat Norman, Rollo May, Allen Ginsberg, Ernst Beier, Singapore, Guam, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, a Taotaomona jungle spirit.
11) Time Statues
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Time is a place. Each moment is a statue in time, always rooted in that time and that place. Memory allows us to visit them.
After eight decades of this, I have amassed a library of memories. Stacks after stacks of time statues archives.
So much that it can take minutes or more to access just one memory and only with patience.
Elders do better at this when we imagine our search as an ordering at a restaurant. Then, usually, it will come.
Arriving...
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DO YOU DESIRE A DEEPER WALK WITH GOD?
Is your heart truly hungry for
- A more intimate fellowship with Christ?
- A deeper experience of God's presence and power?
- A life lived that is more pleasing and more spiritually fruitful for the glory of God?
In this book of messages by a humble servant of Christ, you will learn some of the secrets of that intimate walk with God for which you have longed. God has provided the way not only for forgiveness of...
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¿Los dones carismáticos cesaron en la iglesia primitiva?
Los padres de la iglesia responden.
La aparición y aceptación generalizada de la validez de la experiencia carismática ha generado muchas preguntas. Una de las principales es: "¿Qué pasó con los dones del Espíritu después del período del Nuevo Testamento?" El Dr. Ronald Kydd busca responder esa pregunta al retroceder en los primeros tres siglos de la iglesia cristiana y explorar...
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Time is a place. Each moment is a statue in time, always rooted in that time and that place. Visits include Martin Luther King Jr., Timothy Leary, Pat Norman, Rollo May, Allen Ginsberg, Ernst Beier, Singapore, Guam, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, a Taotaomona jungle spirit.
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The lyrics of our favorite hymns are rich in images that can help us in our daily walk with God- they are miniature Bible studies that lead us effortlessly toward worship, testimony, exhortation, prayer, and praise. Bestselling author Robert J. Morgan has gathered 366 hymns, including favorites such as "Amazing Grace" and "Rock of Ages," as well as classic, lesser-known gems. Each devotional begins with Scripture, includes a story about the hymn or...
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An American doctor has his brain transplanted into a Uyghur body in China after an accident in Tibet. He awakes from the surgery as Dr. Wu, who rehabilitates and begins work in China, althoough he still thinks of himself as Roger Scully, MD. After several adventures in China, he returns to the US to restart his career as Scully, but the Colorado medical board accuses him of impersonating a dead person. They have the Chinese death certificate to prove...
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On Time Statues: Time is a place. Each moment is a statue in time, always rooted in that time and that place. Visits include Martin Luther King Jr., Timothy Leary, Pat Norman, Rollo May, Allen Ginsberg, Ernst Beier, Singapore, Guam, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, a Taotaomona jungle spirit. In BOOK TWO of an eight decade lifespan revisit to "Language & Influence".
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Del Arte a la idea: ensayos sobre Arte Conceptual proporciona un panorama general de una de las tendencias más importantes e influyentes del arte americano y europeo de los últimos treinta años. Robert Morgan define y aclara las premisas del Arte Conceptual, centrándose en las obras de una serie de artistas internacionales, entre los que destacan Joseph Kosuth, Hans Haacke, Sherrie Levine y Joseph Beuys. Examina su evolución desde sus comienzos...
19) Chimera Conflict
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Slowly waking from his coma, strange sensations bombard Roger Scully, MD. Hissing noises and flashing lights. A foreign language he partially understands. Mandarin? His hospital wrist band identifies him as Wu Zicheng. He does not recognize his bearded Asian face. What happened?
His brain now functions in a Uyghur's body. After rehabilitation, he settles into life as a Chinese surgeon, living with Lushan Zhao, a medical student.
Wu's arrest as a...
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Helen Humphreys' brother, Martin, was her closest ally and friend. Two years ago, he suddenly became ill and died in just a few months. In the year that followed, Humphreys wrote this intense and affecting memoir. Though the book is deeply personal, it is also, inescapably, about the devastating events that we all experience.
As the year goes on, Humphreys begins to restructure her life. She absorbs the seasons, landscapes, she gets a new dog, plants...