Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780452287983 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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Gear up for swashbuckling adventure in the second “riveting”* historical thriller in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the man’s family is “not of pure blood” and is, in fact, of Jewish descent—which will all but destroy the family name. As Alatriste struggles to save the young hostage from being burned at the stake, he soon finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the heart of the Spanish Inquisition.
Author: Jonathan Franzen Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374710740 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 576
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book “So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
Author: Don Sisk Publisher: ISBN: 9781598942347 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Moral purity does not happen by accident--not in today's world. Some Christians have even given up on purity, accepting the world's suggestion that it is impossible to maintain a pure heart, mind, and body. But God's Word still commands purity. And it gives you the tools you need to protect it. In these pages, discover four fences you must build to maintain purity--and learn practical ways to keep these fences in good repair.
Author: Michael J. Monahan Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 0823234495 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 261
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How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? This book focuses on the underlying assumptions that inform this view of race and racism, arguing that it is ultimately bound up in a politics of purity-an understanding of human agency, and reality itself, as requiring all-or-nothing categories with clear and unambiguous boundaries. Monahan calls for the emergence of a creolizing subjectivity that would place such ambiguity at the center of our understanding of race.
Author: Peter Levenda Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc. ISBN: 0892546018 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 372
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Tantra is one of the most misunderstood of the esoteric disciplines. In order to get a clear idea as to the nature of Tantric ritual and belief it is necessary to go where Tantra is still practiced and from where important Tantric teachings originated a thousand years ago: the island of Java in present-day Indonesia. This book illustrates the history of Tantrism in Java with more than a hundred photographs of temples, statues and iconography dedicated to the system -- some rarely seen before, including the recently-excavated "white temple" of Yogyakarta -- and accounts of contemporary practices in the shrines, cemeteries and secret schools of Java It is this Tantra -- the Tantra of Java -- that has influenced secret societies, mystics, alchemists, Kabbalists and magicians for hundreds if not thousands of years. This book tells the story of how human sexuality became a metaphor and a template for both spiritual transformation and the manipulation of reality/ of how various sexual acts and psycho-biological states became the basis for a comprehensive cosmology that incorporates every aspect of human experience. Sometimes the secrets are buried where you least expect to find them. Sometimes they are hidden in plain sight. Sometimes... they are both. In the largest Muslim country in the world we will discover a path of Tantra so unique, yet so vibrant and alive, that we will be astonished that no one had heard of it until now.
Author: James M. Cecy Publisher: ISBN: 9780982919972 Category : Christian life Languages : en Pages : 380
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It truly is a winnable war! Tens of thousands of your fellow strugglers on five continents have attended the live seminars. Countless others have listened to the audio presentations. Now you hold in your hand the well-tested tool for becoming an Ambassador of Purity in your home, your church and your community, regardless of where you live. Be equipped to win the purity war—from a thorough presentation of Scripture, church history and from Dr. Cecy’s forty years of ministry. With great sensitivity, biblical clarity, and pastoral passion, he presents:• the fallacy of the new morality—the old immorality with a new name.• God’s design for sex as an expression of His oneness.• the steps down to the devastating results of moral failure.• the lines of defense in the daily battle with immorality.• how to guard your mind, your body and each other.• how to be made right with God, yourself and others.• how to start a revival of purity.This book includes a Discussion Guide and an extensive Personal Accountability Program for personal reflection or group study.
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Author: Don Sisk
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Author: Michael J. Monahan
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Author: United States. Congress
Author: James M. Cecy