My Father The Year Of The Golden Man
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My Father The Year Of The Golden Man
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Author : Francis J. D. Hyland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10
My Father The Year Of The Golden Man written by Francis J. D. Hyland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10 with categories.
Francis J D Hyland's latest novel My Father (The Year of the Golden Man), is the semi-biographical sequel to his earlier work My Son (A Journey), which I also read. My Father (The Year of the Golden Man) brings back most of the original characters, however, given that the principal narrator in each novel is different - father in one, son in the other, a new reader could start with either book without being displaced. The principal narrator of this story is the young American-born Oliver who sports blond dreadlocks and is in a loving relationship with Phaedra. His father, Xavier, was born and raised in Ghana on the West Coast of Africa, hardly a decade after independence. Xavier retains the warm, wild and free spirit of his birth-country and yearns to return. But that Ghana is no longer a place, but a time, thereby frustrating Xavier's efforts at a literal, geographical repatriation. Xavier has inherited his own father Albert Lewis' sense of adventure from that vast and wonder-filled continent and time. All this, as Oliver discovers, making his father anything but conventional - a mix between Mowgli and Denys Finch Hatton abruptly uprooted from Africa and deposited in a small, cold English town. And the huge effect that has on him, and knock-on effect on Oliver. This is Oliver's discovery - and trying to make sense - of himself, the adult world about him, and his relationship with his unconventional father, while enjoying the loving support of his partner Phaedra. And to help him, guide him even, is his father's journal. The love element is explicitly promoted as crucial in the relationship between Oliver and Phaedra, as it is in that between Xavier and Julia. Both couples enjoy exemplary levels of mutual commitment and romantic affection that are the envy of onlookers. The links between the main characters' lives and the author's philosophy are clearly and relevantly drawn, with striking additional examples from African folklore. Meanwhile the other characters swing in and out of and around Oliver's life, adding insight and prompting reflections useful to Oliver's journey of discovery. Places are clearly portrayed and often imbued with effective atmospherics to add dimension to the picture. The visits to India and also to the Blue Ridge Mountains are particularly vividly observed. Despite the author's gentle writing style, this is not always a gentle read. Hard hitting topics such as Huntington's Disease, bereavement, suicide and murder are dealt with. And while the author strikes a skilful balance between frankness and sensitivity, he also steeps these topics in reflections of his personal Eastern beliefs. So as Oliver travels throughout America, Europe and Asia, reading through his father's journal, two things become increasingly apparent to him, as well as to the reader, 1/ that despite initially perceived differences between father and son, Oliver is hardly the conventional man either, and 2/ the roads upon which father and son journey may appear different, but are essentially the same, and will in due course lead to the same destinations.
Mining For Gold
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Author : Tom Camacho
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2019-08-16
Mining For Gold written by Tom Camacho and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-16 with Religion categories.
Godly thriving leaders are precious and valuable, but developing those leaders is not easy. Many leaders feel stuck, tired and frustrated in their growth and calling. This can change. There is gold in God’s people, waiting to be discovered. Let’s learn to draw out that treasure and help others flourish in their life and leadership.
The Book Of Lies
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Author : Brad Meltzer
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2008-09-02
The Book Of Lies written by Brad Meltzer and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Fiction categories.
Brad Meltzer--author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date. In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history. In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found. Until now. Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family's greatest secret: his long-lost father, who's been shot with a gun that traces back to Mitchell Siegel's 1932 murder. But before Cal can ask a single question, he and his father are attacked by a ruthless killer tattooed with the anicent markings of Cain. And so begins the chase for the world's first murder weapon. What does Cain, history's greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world's greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed thousands of years apart, have in common? This is the mystery at the heart of Brad Meltzer's riveting and utterly intriguing new thriller
Jesus My Father The Cia And Me
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Author : Ian Morgan Cron
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2011-06-06
Jesus My Father The Cia And Me written by Ian Morgan Cron and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-06 with Political Science categories.
A touching memoir of life with an alcoholic father who secretly works with the CIA, a dark pilgrimage through the valley of depression and addiction, and finding a faith to redeem and a strength to forgive. "This is a record of my life as I remember it—but more importantly, as I felt it." At the age of sixteen, Ian Morgan Cron was told by his mother that his father, a motion picture executive, worked with the CIA in Europe. This astonishing revelation, coupled with his father's dark struggle with alcoholism, upended the world of a teenager struggling to become a man. Born into a family of privilege and power, Ian's life is populated with colorful people and stories as his father takes the family on a wild roller-coaster ride through wealth and poverty and back again. Decades later, as he faced his own personal demons, Ian realized that the only way to find peace was to voyage back through a painful childhood marked by extremes—privilege and poverty, violence and tenderness, truth and deceit—that he’d spent years trying to escape. A fast-paced, unique memoir about the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of The Road Back to You Details his father’s struggle with alcohol and Cron’s own journey from addiction to twenty-three years of sobriety Encouragement to see God’s redemptive power through life’s struggles In this surprisingly funny and forgiving memoir, Ian reminds us that no matter how different the pieces may be, in the end we are all cut from the same cloth, stitched by faith into an exquisite quilt of grace.
Nobody S Son A Memoir
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Author : Mark Slouka
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2016-10-18
Nobody S Son A Memoir written by Mark Slouka and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"I have never before read anything except Nabokov’s Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection’s shaping devices." —Geoffrey Wolff Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial—admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell—in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.
Reading My Father
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Author : Alexandra Styron
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011
Reading My Father written by Alexandra Styron and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.
The Holy Bible Containing The Old And New Testament
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
The Holy Bible Containing The Old And New Testament written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with categories.
The Holy Bible
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
The Holy Bible written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with categories.
Iron John
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Author : Robert Bly
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-03-31
Iron John written by Robert Bly and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-31 with Social Science categories.
Robert Bly writes that it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out, that a man can no longer depend on them. Iron John searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be, drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend. Robert Bly looks at the importance of the Wild Man (reminiscent of the Wild Woman in Women Who Run With the Wolves), who he compares to a Zen priest, a shaman or a woodman. 'This book needs to be read, I believe, not as a dry work of scholarship to be judged coolly by the mind, but as the work of a poet struggling to convey an emotional experience and lead us to what he has found within himself' Guardian 'Eclectic and unclassifiable. Iron John is a work whose mentors are the prophetic poets and crazies, William Blake and Walt Whitman' Sydney Morning Herald 'Important.timely.and powerful' New York Times
The Holy Bible Containing The Old And New Testaments Translated Out Of The Original Tongues
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: New York : [s.n.]
Release Date : 1885
The Holy Bible Containing The Old And New Testaments Translated Out Of The Original Tongues written by and has been published by New York : [s.n.] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Bible categories.