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Twenty six year old Vernon Jackson is every woman's dream. He is handsome, tall and is the manager of a major telephone corporation. Vernon is also quite the ladies man, he can have any date he wants without any effort. However, with every date Vernon has, comes with some hilarious misfortune. While dating a woman, Vernon either gets hurt, arrested and homeless. In the middle of the story, we find out why this player is being played.
What happens on Sunday morning is only a glimpse into the life of a pastor. As spiritual leader and confidant, newly appointed Pastor Timothy Wells must overcome his insecurities to keep Gethsemane Community Church from folding. With a jealous associate pastor and his conniving wife waiting in the wings, Timothy must also counsel some of his members through their darkest hour. He will have to rely heavily on his faith if he is to rebuild his Father's House.
In 1937 and 1938, Ernest Hemingway made four trips to Spain to cover its civil war for the North American News Alliance wire service and to help create the pro-Republican documentary film The Spanish Earth. Hemingway’s Second War is the first book-length scholarly work devoted to this subject. Drawing on primary sources, Alex Vernon provides a thorough account of Hemingway’s involvement in the Spanish Civil War, a messy, complicated, brutal precursor to World War II that inspired Hemingway’s great novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Vernon also offers the most sustained history and consideration to date of The Spanish Earth. Directed by Joris Ivens, this film was a landmark work in the deve...
An essayistic memoir on being a soldier. Alex Vernon's Most Succinctly Bred explores war by exploring around war, by operating in the margins. Vernon records his ongoing relationship with war and soldiering, from growing up in late Cold War 1980s middle America to attending West Point, going to and returning from the first Gulf War, and watching, as a writer and academic, the coming of the second Iraq war. Unlike a mere essay collection, this book has a trajectory, and the chapters, appearing in rough chronological order, loop in and out of one another. It is not a narrow autobiography that attempts to account only for the writer's life; it uses that life to illuminate the lives of its readers, to tell us all about the time and place in which we find ourselves. War has seasoned this reluctant soldier; it has wounded him as it wounds all soldiers. But war has not stopped Alex Vernon's life. A large part of what we read here is a fascinating story of recovery.
There is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature—one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American flag, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, or Burt Lancaster rolling around in the surf in From Here to Eternity. In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America’s late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of masculinity in the culture at large. He highlights the gap between the cultural conception of masculinity and the individual experience of it, and exposes the myth of war as an experience that verifies manhood. Drawing on a wide range of work, from the w...
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The action begins in present day Nottingham, England, in a monastery, but later jumps to a farm in South Africa. The Rage Inside is the first book in The Quest for Eternity series of five books. Five youths are brought to Earth from another dimension that has been thrown into war. Suddenly, they find themselves alone, orphaned, and deserted in a strange place. They must hide from an evil organisation that wants their knowledge on how to travel gateways to the other dimension. The youths are rescued and protected by a secretive brotherhood of monks and a mysterious mentor who trains and prepares them for their return to their real world. The narrator's adventures include an epic journey where he must learn self-control, discipline, and how to master his fears. The narrator is talented in advanced fighting techniques, but must learn to control them before he can challenge Death. Book One is the first step in the narrator's journey, leaving him with the knowledge that he has much to learn and a long way to go before he can call himself a warrior. This is The Rage Inside.
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