A Weary Land
Title | A Weary Land PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Houston Jones |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2021-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820360198 |
In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South’s western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the meaning of Arkansas’s acreage, while their labor transformed its landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the brutality and increasing labor demands of the “second slavery”—the increasingly harsh phase of American chattel bondage fueled by cotton cultivation in the Old Southwest. Jones contends that enslaved Arkansans were able to repurpose their experiences with agricultural labor, rural life, and the natural world to craft a sense of freedom rooted in the ability to own land, the power to control their own movement, and the right to use the landscape as they saw fit.
Shadow in a Weary Land
Title | Shadow in a Weary Land PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Jones |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2015-10-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504023501 |
A retired Foreign Service officer and a young state department security officer are hired to protect an Arab-American who may be the target of a terrorist threat. As these two very different men travel together into the intifada, a gigantic terrorist plot unfolds which will change both of their lives forever.
The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal.
Title | The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Review and Herald Pub Assoc |
Total Pages | 712 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Hymns, English |
ISBN | 9780828010627 |
Waiting on God
Title | Waiting on God PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne Stiles |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2015-08-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441248544 |
We have all experienced a disconnect between God's promises to us and our everyday reality. We wait, without understanding why. We want to know God's plan so that we can trust it--but God so often hides his plan so that we will trust him. What can we do in the meantime as we are waiting for an answer, a change, or a miracle? With deep compassion, Wayne Stiles helps readers understand why God makes them wait. Unpacking the Old Testament story of Joseph, Stiles shows readers how to find comfort and opportunity in the time between God's promises and his answers, revealing the perspective-altering truth that sometimes when we think we are waiting on God, he is actually waiting on us. Anyone who has felt a disconnect between God's promises and their reality, who doesn't know what God wants them to do next, or who struggles with the brokenness of their world will find in Wayne Stiles a wise and trustworthy guide to finding peace in the pauses.
The Hour of Land
Title | The Hour of Land PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
Publisher | Sarah Crichton Books |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2016-05-31 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0374712263 |
America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.
A Rock in a Weary Land
Title | A Rock in a Weary Land PDF eBook |
Author | Charles H. Mitchner |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 1999-08-01 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780966341904 |
The Beautiful Land
Title | The Beautiful Land PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Averill |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 363 |
Release | 2013-06-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101610980 |
Takahiro O’Leary has a very special job… …working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines—as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig—until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world. If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school—because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak’s ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he “borrowed” to transport them both to an alternate timeline. But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land—and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it. The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warp—horribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world…