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There are two generations of Indians in America. The first generation (that emigrated from India) tends to maintain most of their socio-religious traditions - culturally and religiously. The second generation has a unique culture - one that is partly Indian and partly American. The American Church has had a decreased spiritual influence on both the first and second generation in varying degrees. Although there are several major world religions...

Greed, pride, and the search for a masterpiece. Shelley Anderson wants her college diploma to be the escape ticket away from Bishop Hill, a former Midwestern Swedish communal society. A reckless driver sends Shelley off the road and into the mysterious past of folk artist Olof Krans. Drafted into finding Krans's last painting, her only clues are: an old woman's dreams and an uncle's guilty conscience. Shelley pounds the brick sidewalks of Bish...

Humanity goes to great lengths to do away with their perceived imperfections, but where does the journey take them, and are they any better for it? Imperfections brings together some of the best up-and-coming authors, for a veritable smorgasbord of fiction...and no genre is safe. There's a taste of horror, a sampling of fantasy, a soupçon of drama, and a dash of science fiction, all with a distinct dystopian flavour. Included in this anthology...

THE GOLD MINERS' RESCUE, Introducing Sheldon Jackson -- As Adam Christian graduates from the famous Sitka Industrial and Training School, he dreams of one day becoming famous-like Dr. Sheldon Jackson, who started the school. The last thing Adam wants to do is return to his dull life in northern Alaska, so he asks Dr. Jackson if he can join him on his 1897 expedition to the Yukon to rescue hundreds of starving gold miners. Surprisingly, Dr. Jac...

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The sit-watch-and-listen format for church meetings isn't cutting it. "Jesus seldom, if ever, monologued. He interacted, " says Charles H. Kraft, Fuller Seminary professor. This book calls for making church services participatory. It also offers stories in which 25 church leaders explain how they are doing so. Because most church services spotlight performance by professionals, they encourage passivity rather than participation among the peopl...

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Why invest in land? You don't have to worry about tenants, insurance, and fixing up a house. Investing in land can be a lower risk more stable investment with greater long term results. Unlike the stock market, you own something tangible that you can actually see, touch and use. Wealthy real estate investors know that there has never been a better time to invest in land-- if you know what you are doing! This book will show you the secrets that...

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In the troubled city of Strand, the City Watch and Governor's Guard struggle to fend off the criminal empires who rule their streets. Between the corruption, smuggling, underground slaving, mass larceny and a rebellious group attempting to usurp the throne, Guardsman Eirik's life shows no signs of getting any easier. Yet the arrival of group seeking a stolen artifact heralds a coming disaster for the already rotten city. Uncertain if he can tr...

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When everyman Calder Boyd starts to lactate, the Manhattanite becomes a media cause célèbre nicknamed the Milkman and old and new problems spill forth. The son of a former NBA star and a Norwegian artist, Calder copes with his strained marriage, losing his copywriting job at a boutique ad agency, a male-empowerment espousing mailman and a porn-star performance artist who wants to exploit him. He also deals with his late father's legacy and his...

Anticipation suspended in the moment before the first kiss. A mother singing to her unborn child. Lovemaking. A child exploring a playground. The aftermath of an argument. The poems in Claudia McGhee's Paperlight invite you into the everyday connections that form, exist, and dissolve between parent and child, lovers, friends. Even though love has no physical weight, and is, in fact, paperlight, these poems share the lived experiences that reve...

The Siren Sonnets is a collection of sonnets presented through the mythological persona of a Siren. It is a book of poems of longing and desire, thwarted and found.

The Paper Girl is a poetry chapbook that details the coming of age story of a daughter growing up in a Baptist fundamentalist home in New Jersey. The girl is a working class paper girl who is sometimes invited into the private world of her privileged neighbor's lives where she tries to make sense of what family means. She is good at observing, processing, and reflecting upon the loneliness, kindness, and freedom of others around her. But to he...

Inside every story lies more than one truth. "Come, boy, I will give you a reading...show me your hands." Jeffery Rossi wants to be a man of logic but finds himself basing his life's decisions on a prophecy delivered at the hands of an old gypsy fortuneteller. The death of his beloved wife coupled with the loss of what he thought would be his carefully crafted future, have spun him onto a path of self-destruction. "Three children will come fro...

Light in Unopened Windows by Priscilla Turner Spada is a collection of poems, "with an ear tuned to both formal poetry and free verse, " * that opens windows to the past. Poems about a family's history--a father killed in WW II, a widowed mother living into her 100th year--express the poet/daughter's response to these and other losses. The poems "are at once elegies and celebrations, a tribute to feelings that endure and outlast the absences l...