[PDF] Miracles At High Desert Camp eBook

Author : Kendra Atleework
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1643751417

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WINNER OF THE SIGURD F. OLSON NATURE WRITING AWARD “Blending family memoir and environmental history, Kendra Atleework conveys a fundamental truth: the places in which we live, live on—sometimes painfully—in us. This is a powerful, beautiful, and urgently important book.” —Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Her parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful if harsh landscape prone to wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Above all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But when Kendra’s mother died when Kendra was just sixteen, her once-beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile, as climate change, drought, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of tall trees, full lakes, water everywhere you look. But after years of avoiding her troubled hometown, she felt pulled back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return, emptiness and bounty, the realities of a harsh and changing climate, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Terry Tempest Williams, and Rebecca Solnit, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer.

Author : Thomas H. Williams
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1462873693

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The Thomas Ward is like a small stream in the mountains, that emerges from a tiny spring and trickles on down the hillside to join the creek on its way to the river. No attempt has been made to get all the information, about all the people who live, or have lived, within its boundaries. Neither is the material collected, considered to be the most important or free from errors. This book is just "a cup of water" dipped from the little stream, as it journeys on its way, no attempt is made to dip up all the water or stop its flow. It is hoped, that like the cup of cool water from the tiny stream, this book will refresh the reader, and the stream of time flows on. To those pioneers, both young and old who had the courage to combine all the natural resources which the creator so wisely stored in these mountains, rivers and valleys along with the brawn and brain that He gave man. The Miracle of the Desert came to be.

Author : Susan Smith
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1646546326

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More Than a Miracle is one woman’s journey through life challenges such as being a divorced single working mother of three young boys; surviving and coping with violent rape; and facing life/death struggles with major illnesses. Susan Smith experienced a true miracle that would shape her determination to survive chemotherapy, radiation, a stem cell transplant for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, major heart failure, kidney failure, and complicated back surgery. This book is her story of survival and inspiration. One night, a voice resounded through her saying, “You have work to do.” She didn’t know what it meant, except it had delivered her from a death sentence. As Susan’s life continued, she wondered if the work was simply to survive. But as time went on, she realized that her story inspired many people who told her she should write a book. This book would be the catalyst for the work she needed to do—to give people hope and inspiration. Throughout the book, Susan describes many things she relied on for survival. Things like positive attitude, common sense, humor, and developing creativity contributed to her determination to survive and tell her story.

Author : Anna Korte
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047402871

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This book contains a multidisciplinary collection of studies on women in miracle stories found in texts ranging from religious classics to contemporary literary fiction. Miracle stories are a genre of great importance for the study of women's religious inheritance and for the historical and cultural understanding of women as 'makers of faith'. Miracle stories are very generally speaking more open to popular religion and culture than, for instance, doctrinal and official ecclesiastical texts, and as such, they can be of special interest to the study of women's lives and religious aspirations. Remarkably, up till now this genre has not been looked at from this point of view. This book aims to open this field for further research by presenting case studies from diverse angles and disciplines. Some of the questions this book tries to answer are: What do miracle stories specifically tell us about women? Are there some (types of) miracles that are in particular related to (certain groups of) women? What do these stories tell us about women as performers and/or subjects of miracles? What can be said about the social function and religious meaning of miracles by specifically looking at the way certain groups of women are practising and experiencing miracles? By including research on miracle stories in contemporary fiction written by women this book also wants to acknowledge and research the disputed status of 'miracles' as well of 'women' in our present society which is moving from modernity to post-modernity. Please note that Women and Miracle Stories is previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 16681 8, still available).

Author : GERRITY JAMES
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1468563904

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Dominic Amiccis Sicilian blood was up because he wanted his stolen money back and theTampa Bay Kid dead. The Cuban cigar smuggling operation into Ybor City had been lining Amiccis pockets with easy money until the Kids gang of street rats had interrupted the flow. While the Kid was away at his mothers funeral, his band of half-breed teens had made a mistake. Now everybody was paying for it. After Amiccis henchmen sunk the pontoon boat that the Kid and his friends lived on and started killing off the kids one by one, the Kid takes actions into his own hands. Soon everybody wants a piece of the Tampa Bay Kid: the nasty gangsters of Ybor City, Tampa Police Homicide Detective Dave OBrien, the lovely television news reporter Laura Jeanette, and the meticulous and cunning hit woman known in the underworld as D.M. Under the unrelenting pressure, something is going to explode. Can the Kid bust out of the mean streets of Tampa Bay and find a new way of living? Can he save his girlfriend Kim-Lu and his loyal mentor Doc, the retired professor? The Kids hope is spiked when running from certain death. He dashes right into the arms of Buck Running Cloud. Buck persuades the Kid to come to the high desert to find peace. Another journey unfolds - leading the Kid to a breathtaking wilderness and a way of living beyond his wildest dreams. Armed with his new experience from Camp Foley and Buck Running Cloud, the Kid returns to Tampa Bay to settle all accounts saving the big bang for Dominic Amicci. But nobody said it was going to be easy.

Author : Jennifer LeClaire
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493430130

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Throughout the Bible, we read stories of individuals praying desperate prayers--and receiving miracle answers. This leaves us with a question: What does it take to push through--to break the miracle barrier? In this powerful new release, apostolic leader Jennifer LeClaire reveals a surprising key to obtaining breakthrough, veiled in the prayer lives of people crying desperately to see godly desires manifested, loved ones delivered, and enemies defeated. She teaches believers how to cry out to God, and how to sustain the desperate kind of faith undaunted by obstacles, opposition, and odds--prayer in faith that breaks the miracle barrier.

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945
ISBN : 156311013X

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Consists primarily of biographies of soldiers.

Author : Karen Kingsbury
Publisher : FaithWords
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2008-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 044655474X

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Guardian angels do exist and God still performs miracles. In this simple yet engaging compilation, bestselling author Karen Kingsbury retells some of the incredible stories she's heard from teenagers over the years.