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Author: John Wingspread Howell Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595213189 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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After hearing a story about a man who built a castle as a monument to his love for his wife, Eunice Motley became overwhelmed with the realization that the man she married did not love her “that much.” She then promptly disappeared. Overwhelmed by his wife’s sudden departure, Clarence Motley drove the car into the St. Lawrence, leaving their six children orphaned and forever averse to water. Thirty years later, all six are still single, and still gather at the old homestead for each other’s birthdays. Martin Motley is the youngest of the six orphans. He was ten when his mother left. He was also, she often told him, her favorite. He was the last to see her before she abandoned them. On her way out of their lives, she told Martin something cryptic about trusting his intuition and saving for a rainy day. As the story opens, Martin is forty, still a virgin, and investigating sex abuse for a living. He is the goddess patrol, avenging the desecration of young women. For fifteen years he has lived in one room saving and investing most of his income for "a rainy day," while saving himself for the perfect woman. Meanwhile, the three arenas in Martin Motley’s life converge in simultaneous crisis. Professionally, he is faced with his biggest case: allegations of sexual abuse by a popular community leader with no evidence to support them except the word of a juvenile prostitute and—Martin’s infallible intuition. Personally, Martin, with the help of his psychotherapist, is working up the courage to take one of his “perfect women” down from the pedestal and risk for a relationship. In the family, new information comes out about where his mother went all those years ago and why. What Martin does with his memories, his intuition and his unfulfilled dreams when the ghosts come charging out of every crack in the teetering floor beneath him makes for one compelling psychodrama.
Author: John Wingspread Howell Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595213189 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
After hearing a story about a man who built a castle as a monument to his love for his wife, Eunice Motley became overwhelmed with the realization that the man she married did not love her “that much.” She then promptly disappeared. Overwhelmed by his wife’s sudden departure, Clarence Motley drove the car into the St. Lawrence, leaving their six children orphaned and forever averse to water. Thirty years later, all six are still single, and still gather at the old homestead for each other’s birthdays. Martin Motley is the youngest of the six orphans. He was ten when his mother left. He was also, she often told him, her favorite. He was the last to see her before she abandoned them. On her way out of their lives, she told Martin something cryptic about trusting his intuition and saving for a rainy day. As the story opens, Martin is forty, still a virgin, and investigating sex abuse for a living. He is the goddess patrol, avenging the desecration of young women. For fifteen years he has lived in one room saving and investing most of his income for "a rainy day," while saving himself for the perfect woman. Meanwhile, the three arenas in Martin Motley’s life converge in simultaneous crisis. Professionally, he is faced with his biggest case: allegations of sexual abuse by a popular community leader with no evidence to support them except the word of a juvenile prostitute and—Martin’s infallible intuition. Personally, Martin, with the help of his psychotherapist, is working up the courage to take one of his “perfect women” down from the pedestal and risk for a relationship. In the family, new information comes out about where his mother went all those years ago and why. What Martin does with his memories, his intuition and his unfulfilled dreams when the ghosts come charging out of every crack in the teetering floor beneath him makes for one compelling psychodrama.
Author: Catherine Raphael Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1684631688 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 213
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In the beginning, the Goddess danced the world into existence. Peace reigned for generations through matriarchal rule within the Minca, Dute, and Carroo tribes. But then one man’s lust for power destroyed this balance: Vestor assassinated his sister, Mother of the Minca tribe. His army ravaged the Dute and Carroo tribes. A once-idyllic world was thrust into war, famine, and despair. Yet today, there is hope. Vestor’s niece, Cora, has a vision: if she can convince an emissary from each tribe to rendezvous at the Heart Stone, she can overthrow her evil uncle, take her rightful place as Mother Minca, and restore harmony. But the Dutes have disappeared deep into their mountains. There are rumors that the Carroos are extinct. And Cora must move swiftly—lest Vestor learn that she’s pregnant with the Mincan heir.
Author: D. R. St. John Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1665732369 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 124
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Russ is a young man whose mother is dying. In the midst of his grief, he experiences a vision encouraging him to visit a mysterious pyramid in the jungles of Guatemala. Along the way, he begins to realize he has been tasked with making a difference for all of mankind. In Journey to the Pyramid of the Goddess, meet Russ, Taupe, and Isabelle. Visit the San Francisco Bay Area, Mexico City, and the ruins of Tikal, Guatemala. Travel through time from 1974 all the way to 2051. In time, Russ relates to his doctor the story of his life-changing journey to Tikal. His experiences of love and sacrifice pass on a heavy responsibility as he recounts both adventure and pain in this journey toward a better future.
Author: Kiran Shinde Publisher: MDPI ISBN: 3036518673 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 162
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The conceptual territory of religious tourism is fluid. While recreation and leisure-based motivation and behaviors are evident in religious tourism, this volume reiterates its rootedness in tenets from religious traditions and pilgrimages. Using fresh perspectives on place-stories, rituals, performances, that are central to pilgrimage and sacred sites, essays in this volume explain contemporary expressions of religious tourism and illustrate the dynamic nature of religious tourism as an ecosystem embedded in religious practices, rituals and performances. The explanations will benefit researchers and practioners alike and they can find numerous examples that show the significance of religious tourism for sustainable development of destinations.
Author: John Wingspread Howell Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595337910 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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In St. Jude's Gospel, SK Marinangel is a Fortune 500 CEO but wants to be a mother. She goes to an executive search firm for help finding a husband. Bill Motley, is a surgically sterile, forty-something burn-out. Reprising his role in Goddess Patrol, Bill ran a spoof presidential campaign for a late-night TV show. The campaign was everybody's joke, but Bill's true aspiration. He got depressed every four years because he wasn't running. A chance meeting between SK and Bill creates a compelling story of underdogs, infertility, wasted lives, impossible cases, mayhem, miracle, unlikely romance and faith's emergence from cynical, bitter disbelief. Of Naked in Church, one reviewer wrote, "Howell writes with a nice turn of phrase lets us know that (we) can still find voices of grace at (the) center (of tragedy), not to mention the light that is always trying to form around the edges."
Author: Lynn E. Roller Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520210247 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 402
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This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.
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