John Fraser lived with his mother and father in the backwoods of North Carolina.Squire Fraser, a strict but kind Scotsman, was determined that his son should have a gentleman’s education, and so he sent John to the coastal town of Edenton to be tutored by Dr. Clapton, an English clergyman.While there, John made many friends. Sir Nat Dukinfield, a young rake, Captain Tennant, the Collector of the Port at Edenton and Eve, his daughter.Captain Flood, a riverboat skippe...

"Strangers opening their hearts on the phone makes me feel my life’s not all wasted.They tell me about their lives. Their broken marriages. They tell me about their parents kicking them out. Their own children they aren’t allowed to see. They tell me they went by the platform and they were a train whistle away from taking one more step. "

This is the first collection in book form of a number of Boyd’s short stories. These stories are as particularly southern as their subject, the small southern community. They emphasize dialogue rather than description and illustrate the economy of the skilled writer who discards false ornaments of style.Originally published in 1952.A UNC Press Enduring Edition — UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distingui...

At age 35, Tracy found herself tragically widowed with three small children to raise. Join her on this compelling journey as she takes you through the miraculous road of healing. Everyone, at one time or another, will experience some type of loss, whether it be the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job, the loss of hope, or the loss of a dream. Whatever the loss, Tracy reveales that God can and will take you to the place of enjoying life again. Through the steps in this book, you will be ...

Sean wanted to feel weightless. Lose the echo of his voice. Climbing up on my rooftop and stretching our hands out in the night trying to catch a beam of moonlight, it wasn’t enough anymore.

"Sometimes you miss a call for a new money-saving phone plan. A call about that tax return you forgot to send. You miss a call from your daughter. Those unread messages you don’t open anymore. Voicemails piling up you don’t listen to but you’re too afraid to delete."

Leonard James is on an extraordinary quest: to be a man of value. The outcast of a dysfunctional family, Leonard is perplexed and incensed by life's injustices, beginning with the untimely death of cousin Butch. Leonard vows to overcome the adversity in his life. However, he resorts to alcohol and becomes addicted after failing to free himself from his frustration and anxiety. Life events, some of which are of Leonard's own making, leave him a vagabond without direction. Disillusioned, Leo...

"The point of the impact shouldn’t be far from here. Entire families, care home residents, barbers, lawyers and teenagers with no driving licensesdrove all the way there. Pitching a tent and getting stoned, strumming acoustic guitars. Waiting to be vaporised with the big explosion.This is like a war movie. Only this is for real and there’s just one single bullet the size of a planet."

This book explores humanities struggles to find excellent forward paths which define realities for all generations to participate. For instance, energy of today we are calling for solar and wind to replace fossil fuels. This does not meet the requirements of future needs; however, water power plants can meet this in a much shorter time to construct, and less space required to generate huge amounts of energy for cities the size of New York. Imagine 1giggawatt in the size of a football field...

How can we connect the Gospels--the fundamental texts of Christian faith--to our own experience of inner and outer life? This is the question that animates Connecting to the Gospel. In it James Boyd White presents a series of Gospel passages, together with the sermons he gave on these passages as a lay preacher in the Episcopal Church, with brief commentaries and questions on each as well. The whole is designed as an aid to thought and reflection about the issues raised by the Gospel passa...

How are we to read the Gospels and bring them into our lives? The idea of this book is that the Gospels are not merely rules for life, or stories illustrating moral lessons, or statements of theological doctrine, but invitations to thought and conversation. The Gospels are full of problems, uncertainties, and tensions; these difficulties call upon us to engage with the Gospels in a new way: to read them, to ask questions about them, to live with them, alone and together. The way we do that...

The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, congressional deliberations, and the culture of contemporary politics. In each of these intersections between law, culture, and politics, traditional expectations have been transformed in ways that p...