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'With the sharp and delectable music of its dialect, the book grabs you by its teeth from the first page and never quite lets go . . . This is an urgent novel of ideas, constantly propelled by the narrator's wildfire voice' SAFIYA SINCLAIR, GUARDIAN From the Hawthornden Prize-winning author of An Olive Grove in Ends, a powerful story of broken dreams and divided loyalties Bristol, 1980. In the tight-knit neighbourhood of St. Pauls, 14-year-old Jabari is proud of his position as the only son of revered community leader Ras Levi. Raised in a world of sus laws and council neglect, Jabari finds hope in his Rastafari faith, which offers the comforting vision that one day he and his fellow believe...
ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 A GUARDIAN NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 SOHO HOUSE BREAKTHROUGH WRITER AWARD 2022 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' GUILD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2023 'A rare glimpse into the harsh realities of street life and love in luminous prose, rendered with sensitivity and without sentimentalism. An astonishing debut' Cherie Jones, author of HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in which he was raised. Far removed from the torn slips outside the bookie's, the burnt spoons and the crooked solutions his community embraces; most of all, removed from the Chris...
Gordon's is the standard nineteenth-century gazetteer for New Jersey. Mr. Gordon, who traversed virtually the entire state in compiling his book, begins the lengthy "prefatory chapter" with precise geographical and geological descriptions of the state's terrain, climate, bodies of water, roads, canals, railroads, and so forth. The gazetteer itself, which extends an additional 175 pages, covers every nook and cranny in the state, from small streams, hills, and hamlets to townships, cities, and entire counties.
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At the heart of the earliest Christian self-understanding, explicit or implicit in much Christian use of the Old Testament, and crucial for Christian theology and interpretation, the concept of 'messiah' in the Old Testament has, however, been eclipsed by the pursuit of other goals in the Old Testament studies. Few recent sustained treatments have appeared from any school of thought. The Lord's Anointed aims to redress the balance. It also recognizes that the study of this topic must always be contemporary: Old Testament studies have changed dramatically in recent years, giving rise to new challenges as well as new opportunities for Christian reading of it.
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Rev. Artis walks the reader through the Word of God and through the dark days of her own walk with the Lord to reveal Gods Light in each dark place in life. (Practical Life)
Family history of the descendants of John Porter born in 1694 in England. He immigrated to Baltimore, Maryland in 1715. He married Miss Durier in about 1725 and had six sons and one daughter, believed to have been born in Carrollton, Maryland. This book represents the descendants of their sons Moses Porter (1735-1794) and mostly of John Porter born 1737 and died 1810.
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