Love Locked on the Rock is a story that comes to life in the minds of its readers, in all its vividity ; where two souls meet, live as one, and unite even after death sealing the promise which goes unbroken , as an epitome of true love., through their sojourn of laughter and tears, agony and victory. Fay was born to complete the incomplete, and Volin was born to love.Their love takes wings, survives through all odds and ends , weathers through the currents of life, and it goes beyond the vow taken at the altar,'till death do us part'. A romantic story that comes to life, and permits love to transcend to the heavens , as founded on the Rock. Read on, to know their story and its culmination,where love never dies. Suitable also as a christian reading material on love, family and commitment, useful for counselling sessions and inspirational reading. Epub.Europe BR 2016

An NPR Best Book of 2021 NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart? These questions murmur in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado’s strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing that their “thoughts and prayers” will protect them from the world’s violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. “The Great Escape” tells of an old woman who hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful objects she’s hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat rocks in order to stay grounded. With elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity.

As we breathe from birth to death, daily we must seek guidance. Let there be light! (Genesis 1:3). Seek the Lord and live (Amos 5:6). Believe in your heart . . . (Romans 10:9).

How did the Sierra Nevada and adjacent lands come to be the size and shape they are today? This book covers 400 million years of physical evolution in a language understandable to nonscientists, tracing the volcanic activity, the folding and building of mountains, the breaking of blocks along fault lines, and the work of erosion and glaciers that have created today's dramatic landscape. Cordell Durrell spent a lifetime reading this complex story of movement and change in the rocks of the Feather River country. He shares with readers the excitement of discovering by remote but careful inference what must have happened millions upon millions of years ago. The basic methods of geologic analysis that Durrell describes can be applied anywhere on the earth's surface, lending new fascination to our travels throughout the frozen arctic, dry deserts, tropical rainforests, low swamps, and high mountains like California's magnificent Sierra.