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Author : Jonathan Odell
Release : 2015-02-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 025/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by : Jonathan Odell
Download or read book Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League written by Jonathan Odell. This book was released on 2015-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a revision of The view [from] Delphi, originally published by MadAdam/Cage, copyright A 2004."--Title page verso.
Author : Jonathan Odell
Release : 2015-04-03
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Book Synopsis Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League by : Jonathan Odell
Download or read book Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League written by Jonathan Odell. This book was released on 2015-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big, beautifully written story of courage and friendship in the Deep South in the pre - Civil rights era. If you liked The Help, you'll love this. Set in 1950s Mississippi, this is the story of two young mothers, Hazel and Vida - one wealthy and white and the other poor and black - who have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their children, and a deep and abiding loathing for one another. Embittered and distrusting, Vida is harassed by Delphi's racist sheriff and haunted by the son she lost to the world. Hazel, too, has lost a son and can't keep a grip on her fractured life. After drunkenly crashing her car into a Christmas manger scene, Hazel is sedated and bedridden. Hazel's husband hires Vida to keep tabs on his unpredictable wife and to care for his sole surviving son. Forced to spend time together with no one else to rely on, the two women find they have more in common than they thought, and together they turn the town of Delphi on its head. This is the story of a town, a people and a culture on the verge of a great change that begins with small things . . . like an unexpected friendship.
Author : Jonathan Odell
Release : 2005-08-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The View from Delphi by : Jonathan Odell
Download or read book The View from Delphi written by Jonathan Odell. This book was released on 2005-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-civil rights era in Mississippi, two young mothers--one white and one black--have only two things in common: the devastating loss of their sons, and a deep loathing for one another. Now, they reluctantly start to see the other as her last chance at personal redemption.
Author : Shems Friedlander
Release : 1992-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Whirling Dervishes by : Shems Friedlander
Download or read book The Whirling Dervishes written by Shems Friedlander. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism is the esoteric aspect of Islam. Its purpose is to convey direct knowledge of the eternal. The Sufis impart knowledge through lineages that go back to the Prophet Muhammud. In these various Sufi orders, the zikr, the repetition of "la illaha illa'llah" (There is no God but God), is part of initiation ceremonies. In fact, the method of the Sufis is zikr, and the manner in which zikr is performed is the essential difference among the various orders. The Dervishes repeat their zikr as they turn. They empty their hearts of all but the thought of God and whirl in the ecstatic movements of His breath.
Author : Jonathan Odell
Release : 2012-11-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Healing by : Jonathan Odell
Download or read book The Healing written by Jonathan Odell. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield’s intense grief over losing her daughter crosses the line into madness when she takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada. Troubled by his wife’s disturbing mental state and concerned about a mysterious plague that is sweeping through the plantation’s slave quarters, Master Satterfield purchases Polly Shine, a slave woman known as a healer who immediately senses a spark of the same gift in Granada. Soon, a domestic battle of wills begins, leading to a tragedy that weaves together three generations of strong Southern women. Rich in mood and atmosphere, The Healing is a powerful, warmhearted novel about unbreakable bonds and the power of story to heal.
