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Preteen African American twin boys are orphaned in an Indian raid in 1860s Texas. One twin is captured, the other commencing a many year search for him as the early game of baseball binds them throughout.
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w:Zoom>0/w:Zoom> | |  | | The Passion of Maryam
THE PASSION OF MARYAM is a dramatic search for the person within the icon of the Virgin Mother. A pious first-century young woman suffers a profound violation that plunges her into doubt about her faith and beliefs in the God of Israel. She endures to become a wife and mother, who struggles with her entrancing and enigmatic firstborn. Their interaction at his cruel execution shines light into the shadowed layers of their relationship with each other and with the God, and climaxes her struggle to turn unfathomable evil into the transcendent mystery of the divine.
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="font-size: medium">THE PASSION OF MARYAM /b>is a dramatic search for the person embodied in the icon of the Virgin Mother. What might she really have been like? What might her relationship have been with her charismatic son and with God? While Mary and Jesus—Maryam and Yeshua—are usually pictured as embodying unsullied good, what if it had been the case that both, from the beginning, had been forced to seek the holy from an abyss of evil? Would that not reveal a particular depth and reach to their unique lives? In a m |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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