Author: Natalia Borges Polesso Publisher: AmazonCrossing ISBN: 9781542019774 Category : Women Languages : en Pages : 0
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From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic transcending the boundaries of literary romance. Amora dares explore the way women love each other--the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed. Violence, sickness, chaos, tenderness, beauty, and freedom adorn these pages in a mosaic of unforgettable moments, including a lesbian granddaughter discovering unexpected commonalities with her grandmother, a teenager's tryst with her friend after disenchanting sex with a boy, and an old couple's dreamy Sunday-morning ritual. Sweeping nearly every major Brazilian literary prize in 2016--including the Prêmio Jabuti and Prêmio Açorianos de Literatura--Amora has propelled Natalia Borges Polesso to the forefront of the international literary world.
Author: Grant Hallstrom Publisher: ISBN: 9780982150337 Category : Languages : en Pages : 334
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Amazon #1 New Release for Christian Historical Fiction - September 10, 2020 Amazon #1 New Release for Ancient Historical Fiction - September 10, 2020 Amora is an emotional historical Christian novel of forgiveness and redemption. A wealthy patrician denounces his Christian wife and her slave to die in the arena, only to find his life turned upside down while the slave's lover pursues a quest for vengeance. This engaging historic epic is based on the true story of the noblewoman who inspired Justin Martyr's petition to the Roman Senate. Amora is a story of sacrifice, a sweeping action-adventure and a moving examination of spirituality and faith. This powerful story will, unquestionably, resonate with people of faith, and has enough universal appeal to find a home with other audiences as well. Explore the path to forgiveness and healing while witnessing the characters struggle with their pains of loss and betrayal, the burden of guilt, and the drive for revenge. Executive reviews: "Amora is without a doubt, the most emotional Historical Christian story I have ever read." "The core concept of the novel feels like Christian forgiveness on a collision course with revenge." "The ideas of vengeance and forgiveness as two sides of a coin is a really compelling underlying motif for this novel." "I loved the inexorable pull of vengeance and betrayal pulling on all the characters. Knowing that the merciless hand of fate is moving towards Leo, creates the kind of delicious tension that drives stories in this genre." "We watch these characters struggle in different ways but all of them find their way to the same place at the end. I liked seeing the tension throughout the book as these moments of fate and decision wound together." "The novel does a great job zooming out for the big picture but also being able to really focus in on intimate human details and moments with these characters." "The blending of several distinct and quite separate storylines come together very well and provide an emotionally satisfying end to the book." "Amora is a heartfelt message of hope and forgiveness narratively crafted, with compelling characters wrapped in a historical, gladiator-style gut-wrenching saga." - Stefan Swanepoel, New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author, Author and co-author of over 50 books and reports
Author: John Ponder Publisher: Pink Flamingo Media ISBN: 195091030X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 154
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Spies Amora and Luna are sent to the planet Diana undercover. The two are lesbian lovers. Their assignment is to sleep with the powerful men who have conquered this female dominated planet and learn their secrets. While the Federation of planets drove the invaders off, the raped women of Diana will soon give birth to their children. It’s decided that the male babies must be controlled. They devise a method of doing this so extreme that it’s kept secret. Once on Diana, Amora and Luna are allowed only in the tourist islands, where visitors can act out their wildest fantasies. The rest of the planet is strictly off limits. Tensions grow between the lesbian couple when Amora’s desire for sex with men is reawakened through meeting submissive men she finds there.
Author: Hershey H. Friedman Publisher: Transaction Publishers ISBN: 141285427X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 397
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Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts—the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash—in a clear, readable, and accessible manner. These works have influenced the Jewish people in many ways, and all are replete with humor and wit. Inevitably, this oeuvre of Jewish humor has itself influenced generations of comics, as well as genres of humor. The authors use examples of Biblical humor from several broad categories, including irony, sarcasm, wordplay, humorous names, humorous imagery, and humorous situations. Because their primary purpose is not to entertain, but to teach humanity how to live the ideal life, much of the humor in the Talmud and the Midrash has a single purpose: to demonstrate that evil is wrong and even, at times, ludicrous. This may help explain why approximately 1,500 years after its closing, the Talmud is still such a fascinating work. God Laughed is the latest addition to Transaction’s Jewish Studies series.
Author: Adalyn Grace Publisher: Imprint ISBN: 1250307805 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
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The thrilling sequel to instant New York Times bestseller All the Stars and Teeth, called “captivating” by Tomi Adeyemi, “Vicious and alluring” by Hafsah Faizal, and “phenomenal” by Adrienne Young. Now author Adalyn Grace is back with more high seas adventure in All the Tides of Fate, this electrifying fantasy, perfect for fans of Stephanie Garber’s Caraval and Sarah J. Maas’s Throne of Glass series. Through blood and sacrifice, Amora Montara has conquered a rebellion and taken her rightful place as queen of Visidia. Now, with the islands in turmoil and the people questioning her authority, Amora cannot allow anyone to see her weaknesses. No one can know about the curse in her bloodline. No one can know that she’s lost her magic. No one can know the truth about the boy who holds the missing half of her soul. To save herself and Visidia, Amora embarks on a desperate quest for a mythical artifact that could fix everything—but it comes at a terrible cost. As she tries to balance her loyalty to her people, her crew, and the desires of her heart, Amora will soon discover that the power to rule might destroy her. An Imprint Book Praise for All the Stars and Teeth: “Jam-packed with swashbuckling adventure, swoonworthy romance, and dark, lush magic.” - Christine Lynn Herman, author of The Devouring Gray “If an epic sea fantasy filled with strange pirates and vengeful mermaids speaks to your interests, well...we may have found your favorite book ever....a tale of magic and second chances that’s fresh and thrilling in equal measure.” –Entertainment Weekly One of Buzzfeed's "Most Anticipated YA Books of 2020"
Author: Yehouda Enzel Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107090466 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 789
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Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.
Author: T Sree Praharshitha Publisher: Verses Kindler Publication ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 147
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Until the Ink Lasts" carries a piece of the author's soul in its stories with certain beliefs and thoughts of various poets and writers, who shared a glimpse of the world they possess in their minds. This anthology brings about a revitalizing set of stories and experiences that leave their mark on hearts.
Author: Jason Kalman Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press ISBN: 0878201955 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 606
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Despite its general absence from the Jewish liturgical cycle and its limited place in Jewish practice, the Book of Job has permeated Jewish culture over the last 2,000 years. Job has not only had to endure the suffering described in the biblical book, but the efforts of countless commentators, interpreters, and creative rewriters whose explanations more often than not challenged the protagonist's righteousness in order to preserve Divine justice. Beginning with five critical essays on the specific efforts of ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish writers to make sense of the biblical book, this volume concludes with a detailed survey of the place of Job in the Talmud and Midrashic corpus, in medieval biblical commentary, in ethical, mystical, and philosophical tracts, as well as in poetry and creative writing in a wide variety of Jewish languages from around the world from the second to sixteenth centuries.
Author: Natalia Borges Polesso
Author: Katharina Ende
Author: Grant Hallstrom
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Author: John Ponder
Author: Hershey H. Friedman
Author: Adalyn Grace
Author: Yehouda Enzel
Author: T Sree Praharshitha
Author: Jason Kalman