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I love the layout, perspective, and challenge in Beginning to Fully Rely on God. Rebecca Brown's work is God's grace ready to be revealed to those who desire an intentional relationship with God. Whether in the morning, midday, or just before bed, you will find God's truth in your life. Rebecca lets you into her heart as you read her devotions. And then she says, "Now it's your turn Tell God what you think And then listen to what God wants you to know." As you turn your attention to answering the questions she has provided after each devotion, you will find in yourself, God's providing....

The End of Youth is a collection of 13 linked stories, essays and rants, about carrying on after youth's hope is gone. In -Afraid of the Dark, - a child learns that there is good reason to be afraid. The adolescent narrator of -Description of a Struggle- finds that love can be brutal. -The Smokers- -examines an adult's realization that longevity means seeing loved ones die. Written with the same spare and vivid beauty as her earlier award-winning works, The End of Youth is certain to win even wider acclaim.

Rebecca Brown is the author of The Terrible Girls,...

"Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary" is an intimate, exquisite, and true account of what it is to help a parent die. After her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, former home care worker and award-winning writer Rebecca Brown cared for her mother during the last six months of her life. This spare, unsentimental book comes out of that experience. In short chapters headed by definitions of medical terms, she confronts anemia, chemotherapy, metastasis, cremation. Brown s is a poignant and unflinching story of how one family coped with loss and learned about the longevity of...

The girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terrible relentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sacrifice is often the only way out."

The nameless narrator of The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary lives in her studio apartment with a pack of Doberman pinchers. The dogs, led by the cruel, charismatic bitch named Miss Dog, alternate between being brutal attack animals and loyal companions, being real and otherworldly. Some chapters draw upon the ecstatic and horrifying visions of Christian mystics; others take place in the landscapes of familiar fairytales; others in the banal settings of the late-night pick-up bars or suburban picnics. The narrator uneasily inhabits these worlds until the dogs force her to take irrevocable...

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Gandhi's use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to connect to the broader Indian population.

This book looks at the politics of spinning both as a visual symbol and as a symbolic practice. It traces the genealogy of spinning from its early colonial manifestations in Company painting to its appropriation by the anti-colonial movement. This...

The story begins seven years after the conclusion of -DEATH HAS NO HOLD.- The Williams family has returned to Teylia Island to expose the truth of their late Queen's evil reign and to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to the beloved islanders.

Lucifer is in a vicious rage as he sees a great revival beginning to sweep the island he once claimed as his own. He had not expected such a crippling blow as this.

Seeing the present queen, Natasha Jansson, diligently searching for the man she believes God has chosen to be her successor, Lucifer and his hordes move quickly with...

The relationship between writers and artists has long been a collaborative one. Plato used the word ekphrasis to describe what happens when a writer writes creatively, as opposed to critically, about art. Gertrude Stein claimed that her innovative writing style was inspired by the paintings of Cezanne -- and then went on to tell Hemingway to study Cezanne if he wanted to learn to write.

In Looking Together, a dozen writers working in a range of styles and forms respond to works of art held in the permanent collection of Seattle's Frye Art Museum or exhibited there. Romantic...