[PDF] Dark Hope eBook

Author : David Shulman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1459627121

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For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, those images leave us at a loss: from our vantage at home, it's hard for us to imagine the struggles of those living in the midst of the fighting. Now, American - born Israeli David Shulman takes us right into the heart of the conflict with Dark Hope, an eye - opening chronicle of his work as a member of the peace group Ta'ayush, which takes its name from the Arabic for ''living together.'' With Dark Hope, Shulman has written a book of deep moral searching, an attempt to discover how his beloved Israel went wrong - - and how, through acts of compassionate disobedience, it might still be brought back.

Author : Monica McGurk
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1938416694

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For years, Hope Carmichael, survivor of a shocking child abduction, has lived a sheltered existence under the protection of her fanatically religious father. Now, liberated by her mother, Hope prepares to start life over as a normal kid in an Atlanta, Georgia, high school. Normal, that is, until Hope meets Michael, a gorgeous emancipated teen with a mysterious past and a strong interest in Hope. Soon, Hope’s life is filled with questions. What’s behind the angry looks Hope gets from Lucas, leader of a gang of students? Who’s responsible for sending Hope strange valentines inscribed with Bible quotations? How does this relate to the sinister business of human trafficking that operates on the periphery of Hope’s suburban world? And is Michael really a protector, or something more sinister—and just why does he seem so familiar? In an epic narrative that takes readers from the back streets of Atlanta to the height of Vegas penthouses and beyond, Dark Hope introduces The Archangel Prophecies, a saga of vast mythological scope and great moral urgency.

Author : Craig Groeschel
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310342961

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Can God be good when life is not? Rediscover faith in the character, power, and presence of God. Even in the questions. Even in the hurt. "I want to believe, I want to have hope, but . . ." Pastor and bestselling author Craig Groeschel hears these words often and has asked them himself. We want to know God, feel his presence, and trust that he hears our prayers, but in the midst of great pain, we may wonder if he really cares about us. Even when we have both hope and hurt, sometimes it's the hurt that shouts the loudest. In Hope in the Dark, Groeschel explores the story of the father who brought his demon-possessed son to Jesus, saying, "I believe! Help my unbelief!" In the man's sincere plea, Jesus heard the tension in the man's battle-scarred heart. He healed not only the boy but the father too, driving out the hopelessness that had overtaken him. He can do the same for us today. As Groeschel shares his pain surrounding the health challenges of his daughter, he acknowledges the questions we may ask in our own deepest pain: "Where was God when I was being abused?" "Why was my child born with a disability?" "Why did the cancer come back?" "Why are all my friends married and I'm alone?" He invites us to wrestle with such questions as we ask God to honor our faith and heal our unbelief. Because in the middle of your profound pain, you long for authentic words of understanding and hope. You long to know that even in overwhelming reality, you can still believe that God is good. Hope in the Dark is also available in Spanish, Esperanza en la Oscuridad.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1608465799

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“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker

Author : Linda Andrews
Publisher : Linda Andrews
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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They have survived an extinction level event and a meltdown. Now the remnants of the human race face their toughest enemy: Each other. Sealed under mountains of rock, the emerging civilization is beginning to fracture. Can the cracks be patched or will mankind's last refuge become its tomb? Redaction: Will this be mankind's final chapter in the Book of Life? Approximately 100K words. WARNING: This book contains violence and graphic language.

Author : Ashley Hope Pérez
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1467776785

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A Michael L. Printz Honor Book "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people. "[This] layered tale of color lines, love and struggle in an East Texas oil town is a pit-in-the-stomach family drama that goes down like it should, with pain and fascination, like a mix of sugary medicine and artisanal moonshine."—The New York Times Book Review "Pérez deftly weaves [an] unflinchingly intense narrative....A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism."―starred, Kirkus Reviews "This book presents a range of human nature, from kindness and love to acts of racial and sexual violence. The work resonates with fear, hope, love, and the importance of memory....Set against the backdrop of an actual historical event, Pérez...gives voice to many long-omitted facets of U.S. history."―starred, School Library Journal

Author : Bart Larson
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Consolation
ISBN : 9780975500125

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Photographs and short stories by the author, a hospice chaplain in Missouri.

Author : H. D. Smith
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2021-09-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781942030249

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Claire's got the boss from Hell. Seriously. Honest to God, he's the Devil. She got dropped into this job five years ago when her mother tried to weasel out of her deal by dying. Ha! The joke was on Claire. And so was Mom's debt.In this job, you don't want to get the Red Folder from HR. The retirement package blows. And a pink slip is a one-way ticket to Hell.But when Claire's accused of somehow murdering Junior, The Boss's immortal son, it's no use pleading innocent. Someone's setting her up, and she's got no choice but to run-and try to figure out why there's a target painted on her back.Her only hope is to solve Junior's murder before the Cleaners catch up with her. She didn't count on being kidnapped by the four most dangerous hellspawn still alive. And discovering there's a secret flowing in her blood not even she knew about? That's just icing on the Underworld cake.Note to reader: Book 1 of this four-book series contains a kickass paranormal girl with a so-not-glam PA job, a quest that takes her from the sunny Caribbean to the decidedly sunless Underworld, druids, demons, pagans, and the boss from Hell. The Devil's Assistant series is best read in order.

Author : Chögyam Trungpa
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0834821443

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Lessons on the true purpose and power of meditation, from one of the great masters According to the Buddha, no one can attain basic sanity or enlightenment without practicing meditation. It is the essential spiritual practice—and nothing else is more important. In The Path is the Goal, Chögyam Trungpa teaches us to let go of the urge to make meditation serve our ambition; thus we can relax into openness. We are shown how the deliberate practice of mindfulness develops into contrived awareness, and we discover the world of insight that awareness reveals. We learn of a subtle psychological stage set that we carry with us everywhere and unwittingly use to structure all our experience—and we find that meditation gradually carries us beyond this and beyond ego altogether to the experience of unconditioned freedom. The teachings presented here—all in Trungpa's concise, accessible style—provide the foundation that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did.

Author : Boyd Craven III
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2019-05-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781099042317

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Wes and Raider have found themselves in the thick of things once again. The KGR are hitting back relentlessly and, with Jessica's group feared to be wiped out, the homestead falls into a quiet panic. Paranoia is running rampant, and rightly so: there's a mole who has been working for Spider in their midst. After learning more about how the KGR operate, and where some of their caches are, Wes's group goes on the offensive. Everything changes with Jess's revelation; they know they have to keep the pressure up to keep their freedom. Even with Spider's taunting and the knowledge that he has more moles planted within Wes's inner circle, the group pushes on. They are outmanned, outgunned, and running low on supplies. It's time for them to become even more unconventional. Wes has to go back to his roots to come up with a plan to not only flush out the traitors, but to put a major hurt on their foes. The group has underestimated the ruthless nature of the KGR and is thinking they are finally getting ahead of their enemies, when Emily starts to unravel. There's hope, but will that dark hope be enough for everyone to still survive?