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Author: Carol Johnson
Publisher: Branden Books
Keywords: triumph, tragedy, autism
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 1994-04
ISBN-10: 0828319650
ISBN-13: 9780828319652
Julia Crowder is the mother of an autistic child and sees to it that her child is cared for throughout his school years. She sees him succeed against all odds.
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Author: Iyan Igma
Publisher: Iyan Igma
Keywords: significance
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 2009-07-03
ISBN-10: 1442170514
ISBN-13: 9781442170513
A collection of 157 poems and 10 short stories written from February 2009 to May 2009. The topics include nature, hypocrisy, love, nuclear weapons, holocaust, solar flares, hysteria, wizards, McCarthyism and the Red Scare, terrorism, Christianity, paganism, death, triumph, motherhood, optimism, Alzheimer's, Adam and Eve, Atlantis, moralists, Prohibition, modern vanity, aging, consuming insects, vengeful spiders, possession, and compassion.
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Author: John B. Trussell, Jr.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Inc.
Keywords: encampment, forge, valley, schuylkill, epic
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2007-08-01
ISBN-10: 1422314952
ISBN-13: 9781422314951
Valley Forge is not the site of a great battle, but it has long been recognized as the site of a great victory -- a victory of the human spirit. It was a triumph of endurance & dedication over starvation, nakedness, cold, disease, & uncertainty. In addition, it marks the transition of a determined but disparate, untrained, & independent-minded band of men into an effective, disciplined fighting force. For generations of Americans, Valley Forge has provided a symbol of patriotic devotion, epitomizing the ideals which brought our nation into being & which have determined its character throughout
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Author: Mark Horne
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Keywords: second, gospel, exposition, mark, according, victory
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2003-10
ISBN-10: 1591280079
ISBN-13: 9781591280071
Mark's Gospel is sometimes assumed to be the least interesting or helpful gospel - it is the shortest and speaks in a plain and direct style. Mark Horne helps us better appreciate this gospel's goals, by highlighting features not immediately apparent to the modern eye. Horne uses its Old Testament and first-century context to point out the typological roles that Jesus, John, and the disciples fulfill as the new leaders of their nation, a period when the old Israel was both restored and redefined. He shows the gospel's intricate structures of miracle cycles and other events that bring out the m
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Author: Gregory Blecha
Publisher: Gregory Blecha
Keywords: apocalypse, time, love
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2005-02
ISBN-10: 0595341632
ISBN-13: 9780595341634
The Amish have a casino on the Las Vegas Strip (no electricity, of course); the Mormon Underground rescues people from the clutches of the federal government; the Pentecostals have joined the Aryan Nation ("they were the only church that had guns"). The United States has devolved into a feudal society; epidemics rage unchecked due to the collapse of the health system; ecoterrorists are bent on destroying every landmark in the book "1,001 Must-See Sites in North America"; the population is ruled by conspiracy theories. America during the apocalypse is, in short, only a bit more twisted than it
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