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  Rumours of Glory - A Memoir

  Bruce Cockburn

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  Award-winning songwriter and pioneering guitarist Bruce Cockburn has been shaped by politics, protest, romance, and spiritual discovery. He has toured the globe, visiting far-flung places such as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, Afghanistan, and Nepal, performing and speaking out on diverse issues from native rights and land mines to the environment and Third World debt. His journeys have been reflected in his music and evolving styles: folk, jazz, blues, rock, and world beat. Drawing from his experiences, he continues to create memorable songs about his ever-expanding universe of wonders.As an artist with thirty-one albums, Cockburn has won numerous awards and the devotion of legions of fans across America and his native Canada. Yet the man himself has remained a mystery. In this memoir, Cockburn invites us into his private world and takes us on a lively cultural and musical tour through the late twentieth century, sharing his Christian convictions, his personal relationships, and the social and political activism that has defined him and has both invigorated and incited his fans.

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  Gladys Aylward - The Adventure...

  Janet BENGE, Geoff benge

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  This is the powerful story of Gladys Aylward. Without formal education or a missionary organization to back her, Gladys raised her own finances for the overland trip that would bring her to the country and people that God had etched so deeply on her heart.... China! What follows is an amazing adventure of faith and determination. Gladys Aylward, a housemaid from England, dared to trust God in the face of dire and seemingly hopeless circumstances. Her amazing adventure of faith and determination is one of the truly great missionary stories of our era (1902-1970).

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  The Raven Illustrations of James...

  Christopher P. Semtner

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  The fascinating story behind the nineteenth-century artist who illustrated Poe’s classic poem—and the rediscovery of the drawings decades later. 
   
  One of the most popular poems in the English language, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” has thrilled generations of readers. In 1882, the Anglo-American artist James Carling decided to produce the definitive series of illustrations for the poem. Carling’s bizarre images explore the darkest recesses of Poe’s masterpiece, its hidden symbolism, and its strange beauty. Although the series remained unpublished at the time of the artist’s early death in 1887, the drawings reemerged fifty years later, when they entered the collection of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond. There they lined the blood-red walls of a Raven Room dedicated to their display.  
   
  For the first time, Poe historian Christopher P. Semtner reproduces the entire series—and tells the story behind these haunting works.

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  Some Iraqi forces wage campaign...

  PBS NewsHour

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  As the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State nears its end, a new campaign of revenge and retribution is underway by Iraqi forces against those suspected of fighting for or aiding the militant group. Human rights organizations report a number of extrajudicial killings, mass detentions and forced displacement. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs and videographer Alessandro Pavone report.

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  Pema Chödrön: Book Of Quotes...

  Quotes Station

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  PEMA CHÖDRÖN: BOOK OF QUOTES 
    
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  ABOUT PEMA CHÖDRÖN 
  Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and audiobooks, and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada. 
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  QUOTES SAMPLES 
    
  “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” 
    
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  “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” 
    
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  “We sow the seeds of our future hell or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now” 
    
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  “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” 
    
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  “Completely let go.” 
    
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  “Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.” 
    
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  “We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.”

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  Daughter of the River Country -...

  Dianne O'Brien, Sue Williams

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  A heartbreaking, redemptive memoir of raw power, Daughter of the River Country is the story of an extraordinary journey from a childhood as one of Australia's Stolen Generation to Aboriginal ElderBorn   in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from   her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of   widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is   her birth mother.When her adoptive mother  tragically dies and  she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is  raped, sent to the  brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her  rapist in order to  keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic  abuse, but refusing  to let her spirit be broken, Dianne finally discovers  she is a Yorta  Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is  reunited with her  birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather  was a famous  Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful  leader in her  own right, vowing to help others in any way she can.Daughter of the River Country   explores for the first time the devastation caused to Australia's  Aboriginal Stolen Generation, who were forcibly placed with white   families as part of a government assimilation programme.    'A compelling memoir   about the power of love and staying the course.' LINDA BURNEY, the  first Aboriginal Member of Australia's House of Representatives

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