Editorial Content for Still
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Lauren Winner's STILL is a book about faith and doubt, loss and grief, honesty and despair, community and loneliness --- and a glimmer of hope. In other words, it's a book about many things, but it's mostly a collection of "notes" on the author's crisis of faith following the death of her mother, her unhappy six-year marriage, and her subsequent divorce. Read More
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In the critically acclaimed memoir GIRL MEETS GOD, Lauren F. Winner chronicled her sojourn from Judaism to Christianity. Now, in STILL, she describes how experiences of loss and failure unexpectedly slam her into a wall of doubt and spiritual despair.
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In the critically acclaimed memoir GIRL MEETS GOD, Lauren F. Winner chronicled her sojourn from Judaism to Christianity. Now, in STILL, she describes how experiences of loss and failure unexpectedly slam her into a wall of doubt and spiritual despair.
About the Book
In the critically acclaimed memoir GIRL MEETS GOD, Lauren F. Winner chronicled her sojourn from Judaism to Christianity. Now, in STILL: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, Winner describes how experiences of loss and failure unexpectedly slam her into a wall of doubt and spiritual despair: “My belief has faltered, my sense of God’s closeness has grown strained, my efforts at living in accord with what I take to be the call of the gospel have come undone.”
Witty, relatable and fiercely honest, Winner lays bare her experience of what she calls the “middle” of the spiritual life. In elegant and spare prose, she explores why --- in the midst of the overwhelming anxiety, loneliness, and boredom of her deepest questioning about where (or if) God is --- the Christian story still explains who she is better than any other story she’s ever known. STILL is an absorbing meditation combining literary grace with spiritual wisdom. It is sure to resonate with anyone looking to sustain a spiritual life in the midst of real life.
Editorial Content for Sipping From the Nile
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"The events precipitated by the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 spun the Egyptian Jews relentlessly out of their comfortable homes and influential positions and scattered them around the globe. Read More
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Born into a prominent, sophisticated Jewish family who spend time in Europe and live in the Middle East, author Jean Naggar’s coming-of-age memoir tells the story of her protected youth in an exotic multicultural milieu.
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Born into a prominent, sophisticated Jewish family who spend time in Europe and live in the Middle East, author Jean Naggar’s coming-of-age memoir tells the story of her protected youth in an exotic multicultural milieu.
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Born into a prominent, sophisticated Jewish family who spend time in Europe and live in the Middle East, author Jean Naggar’s coming of age memoir tells the story of her protected youth in an exotic multicultural milieu. To Naggar her childhood seemed a magical time that would never come to an end. But in 1956, Egyptian President Nasser’s nationalizing of the Suez Canal set in motion events that would change her life forever.
An enchanted way of life suddenly ended by multinational hostilities, her close-knit extended family is soon scattered far and wide. Naggar’s own family moves to London where she finishes her schooling and is swept into adulthood and the challenge of new horizons in America. Speaking for a different wave of immigrants whose Sephardic origins highlight the American Jewish story through an unfamiliar lens, Naggar traces her personal journey through lost worlds and difficult transitions, exotic locales and strong family values. The story resonates for all in this poignant exploration of the innocence of childhood in a world breaking apart.
Editorial content for Tribulations of the Shortcut Man
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Did you read SHORTCUT MAN by p.g. sturges? That worthy title introduced Dick Henry, an ex-LAPD cop who was drummed out of the force because of the righteous shooting of a member of a protected class, circa 21st-century USA. Henry is a shortcut man, a part vigilante-for-hire, part unlicensed PI --- the guy you call when you realize that the justice system is neither and that you need to take a shortcut to obtain a just result. Henry is excellent at what he does, and has the ability to determine when a certain amount of finesse is required and when a certain degree of violence is necessary. Read More
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Dick Henry is the Shortcut Man, assisting people with sticky situations in the belief that the shortest solutions may not always be legal. In TRIBULATIONS OF THE SHORTCUT MAN, he reluctantly assists an old girlfriend, pole dancer Pussy Grace.
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Dick Henry is the Shortcut Man, assisting people with sticky situations in the belief that the shortest solutions may not always be legal. In TRIBULATIONS OF THE SHORTCUT MAN, he reluctantly assists an old girlfriend, pole dancer Pussy Grace.
About the Book
Dick Henry is the Shortcut Man, assisting people with their sticky situations in the belief that the shortest answer to many problems may not always be legal. In TRIBULATIONS OF THE SHORTCUT MAN, he reluctantly provides assistance to an old girlfriend, pole dancer Pussy Grace.
After Pussy’s boyfriend, rich and famous developer and septuagenarian Art Lewis, has inexplicably cut off communication with her, Dick and Puss enter Lewis’s mansion disguised as gas company employees to investigate. Everything quickly goes to hell. Dick and Puss flee, leaving the very dead Art Lewis behind. Dick anticipates arrest until news breaks the next morning: Art Lewis has just gotten married and is now enjoying his honeymoon. Realizing a conspiracy is afoot, Dick must navigate his way through the underbelly of Los Angeles and a motley crew of miscreants in pursuit of justice.
