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1) Allegory
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Allegory should be compared to a tour through the mind of one Clifford C. Chase, a confused "drop out, cop out and a loser." It is a trip through a surrealistic world of fantasy colliding with touches of reality. After reading the second page of a letter to a commissioner, the reader is introduced to a man with no past to speak of. His present life is in shambles and his future only seems to lead to a dead end to the point that he feels that suicide...
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What if an enemy, captured you by controlling your desires?
Rising from the waters of a mysterious pond, Adam finds himself in a strange new world, a golden paradise. Ten years later, still obsessed with finding the pond and his way back home, Adam receives a suspicious message from an enigmatic little girl inviting him to the high country, which is at war with the golden paradise.
Adam can't avoid the war, and once captured, he and his friend Abigail...
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Imagine if you were the only human made by Creator and He wanted a relationship with you, but you found it difficult to relate to Him. This award-winning book challenges readers to trust in God in spite of our fears and misconceptions. A compelling, emotional, and thought-provoking allegory of one's relationship with God. In this spiritual fantasy, Creator makes one human, named Cherished. Instead of creating a second human to be a companion for Cherished,...
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"You may not understand your calling in the Lord fully, but I assure you, you are called to do great things." ~Jacob English, Pastor
Twelve-year-old Phillip tends the family sheep and cows as he wrestles with the notion of his being known before he was formed. Through an encounter with the "King of the Holy Word," Phillip learns of a purpose and destiny far greater than he could ever imagine.
But there is war in the land. The Great Dragon seeks...
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These poems are about "the moment inside the body / when joy is not born as much as it is made out of anything / the rest of the world doesn't want." Using land and South Texas's flora and fauna as references, these poems explore aloneness and manhood as articulations of want, asking the reader to "take a moan by the hand, see what good it does." Thematically, these poems address loss after transformative experiences, admitting to a reader, "All night...
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Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" was so popular in Victorian times that it is mentioned in many classics of that era including George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", amongst others. It is the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, the titular Vicar, his wife Deborah and their six children who live an idyllic life in a country parish. The Vicar...
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One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean to chains. Always one step ahead of Javert, Valjean encounters the tragic Fantine, and ultimately rescues Fantine's daughter, Cosette, from her wretched life with the Thénadiers, treating the child as his own as she comes of age in pre-revolutionary...
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Bewilderment chronicles volume 1
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"Maybe, once or twice in your life, you've experienced a surge of destiny so strong it made you believe in miracles. Such bolts from the blue seem to hit when weariness or ill fortune have plowed through the ground of reason, breaking it up so magic can take root. What follows is so perfect that to call it accidental defies belief. Diana Archer is an absolutely -- mathematically! -- average woman, living an unremarkable life, when destiny reaches...
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In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.
A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonely woman reflects on her failed marriage and the single act of violence, years buried, that brought about its destruction. In these eight beautifully written, achingly poignant, and occasionally heartbreaking...
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Forced to return to land to seek a cure from the polluted waters that suppress all mermaid powers, Tessa must face a changed world. Jennis is planning another world-wide attack, that is just as imminent as the internal war brewing inside her own mind. She must modify her perspective to face the challenges, and share her wisdom with others in need.
The secrets of her mysterious past further unfold, revealing connections and experiences that transcend...
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In a world where the human population has been decimated, self-reliance is the order of the day. Of necessity, the few remaining people must adapt residual technology as far as possible, with knowledge gleaned from books that were rescued and have been treasured for generations. After a childhood of such training, each person is abandoned by their parents when they reach adulthood, to pursue an essentially solitary existence. For most, the only human...
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Maurice Gandy creates a looping, feverish narrative in this collection of riveting rhyme about sun, sand, and the search for the perfect wave. The Calpocalypse describes the wanderings of a group of itinerant California surfers on the beaches of San Francisco and Mexico in the 1960s. A far cry from Funicello and Avalon, characters like Macho Peaches, The Duke of Tan, and Coyote Conquistador introduce us to the real psycho-spiritual world of the surfers'...
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A survey of two literary devices that are indispensable for understanding salvation history
A biblical type is a person, place, or thing in salvation history that corresponds to a later person, place, or thing in the scriptural text. An allegory is a passage that says one thing in order to say something else. Both are common literary devices in the Bible that are vital for understanding truths about Jesus Christ found nowhere else.
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17) In His Steps
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First published in 1896, Charles Monroe Sheldon's "In His Steps" is a classic of Christian literature whose premise centers on the idea of emulating Christ in one's everyday life. The story concerns the lives of the residents of the fictional railroad town of Raymond, located somewhere in the Northeastern United States. When an out of work man, Jack Manning, appeals for help from Reverend Henry Maxwell, pastor of the first church of Raymond, and later...
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This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief, respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to convey a more nuanced and complete understanding of the many facets of transcendence. Part I puts forward...
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Angus Fletcher is distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His books include Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare and A New Theory for American Poetry. Harold Bloom (1930–2019) was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University.
Anyone who has ever said one thing and meant another has spoken in the mode of allegory. The allegorical...
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Despite vast distances apart from each other, giant language barriers, drastically different religious beliefs, and other significant interferences in cultural interactions; societies across the globe inexplicably have told stories of mythical creatures such as dragons, aliens, vampires, and more. It would seem human beings are hardwired to react a given way to certain character types.
Psychologist, Carl Jung, called these primordial icons "archetypes."...
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