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Father Hector, trained in agronomy and extension, delights in farming. When the bishop appoints him to San Miguel in the mountains of Mexico, he feels his prayers have been answered. The bishop's agenda differs. He directs Hector to convince the Indian congregants that miracles are not the frequent events that they are reporting. When Hector reaches San Miguel, he confronts a Protestant evangelical, who is encouraging villagers to plant cash crops and use new pesticides and modern technology. Instead of battling for souls, Hector must pit sustainable agriculture and appropriate technology against his rival. Hector's empathy and hard work win out over the charisma and charm of the Protestant, but his attempts to reduce the frequency of miracles at San Miguel are a different matter.
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'An almost perfect book' MARGARET ATWOOD. Whenever I find myself thinking in a brooding way, I must simply turn it off and think of something else. God forbid that I should turn into an eccentric. Rachel Cameron is a shy, retiring schoolmistress, tethered to her overbearing invalid mother. Thirty-four and unmarried, she feels herself edging towards a lonely spinsterhood. But then she falls in love for the first time, and embarks upon an affair that will change her life in unforeseen ways.
Rachel is an ordinary highschool girl until she gets a pair of magical katana from her mysterious teacher. While testing out their new powers, Rachel and her friends become lost on another world. A world full of dangerous warriors, ghostly animals and ruthless dragons. Alone, lost and without provisions, Rachel must find her way back to Earth. She must master TechMagic, a strangely addictive magic based on stances in her karate and kendo training. But there are other powers in the universe and many would subvert Rachel's companions. Her own swords have a possible connection to this Shadow Magic. Rachel must come to deal with all this, or risk dying on a distant and alien world
Margaret Laurence’s much admired Manawaka fiction—The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, A Bird in the House, and The Diviners—has achieved remarkable recognition for its compassionate portrayal of the attempt to find meaning and peace in ordinary life. In Writing Grief, Christian Riegel argues that the protagonists in these books achieve resolution through acts of mourning, placing this fiction within the larger tradition of writing that explores the nuances and strategies of mourning. Riegel’s analysis alludes to sociological and literary antecedents of the study of mourning, including the tradition of elegy, from Derrida and Lacan to Freud, van Gennep, and Milton. The ...
Rocavarancolia has proved its cruelty once again, but the gruesome city cannot defeat those chosen for the Harvest. Now magic is on their side and it's their turn to shine. But mysteries remain. What makes them so special to the Kingdom? And what is the significance of the Red Moon? The time has come for Hector and the rest of the children from Earth to leave the safety of their tower behind. It's time to get some answers--and no vampire, sorcerer, or creature can stop them. Meanwhile, an evil older than the Kingdom has awakened...
The thrilling conclusion to José Antonio Cotrina's fantasy trilogy shakes Rocavarancolia from East to West as ghosts of the past, creatures of the night, and powers that sleep awaken in the ultimate battle to change the destiny of the kingdom! The Red Moon has finally come and its influence will be unleashed. The city's cruelty runs through the veins of the children of the Harvest--as some find the strength to fight the darkness within, others embrace the dark path laid before them. The price of magic will see great sacrifice--one that may cost the children their humanity. As the city succumbs to the Red Moon, the group comes face to face with the wrath of an ancient evil and the looming resurrection of another. The Harvest must unite for the future of the kingdom and bring an end to an era of death and destruction.
Imagine awakening to a new reality of who you are, revealing a hidden past that has shaped your family’s history for centuries. Fact, not fiction, this experience has been shared by thousands of descendants of Sephardic Jews who fled Spain and Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries, seeking safe haven from the ruthless Spanish Inquisition. Many had already converted to Catholicism, but learned that conversion was not enough to save their lives. They established new communities throughout the world, living as Catholics on the outside, but guarding a precious Jewish heritage in secret, an observance reduced over time to mere ritual and custom. Meet a modern day member of New Mexico’s nort...
Though it may be difficult to believe, the eleven stories in this collection are based in truth. Author Jeremy Sayers hails from a family of adventurers and farmers. His father's family came to America in 1715 and settled in Virginia. His mother's family arrived much later, immigrants and migrants. All together, these people were coal miners, blacksmiths, and cowboys. Most of all, they were believers in whatever it was that let them survive one sunrise to another. And they were storytellers. Fencline and Other Stories brings some of those tales to life. Like the myths of ancient cultures, the Greeks, Hindus, Hebrews, and Native Americans, these stories tell about a particular time and place. But, they also contain something timeless. These stories give us reasons to laugh and to mourn. And the characters in these tales teach us something about coping with strife as we share little parts of their lives.