Desert Daughters, Desert Sons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Daughters, Desert Sons write by Rachel Wheeler. This book was released on 2020-11-15. Desert Daughters, Desert Sons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Desert Daughters, Desert Sons, professor Rachel Wheeler argues that a new reading of the texts of the Christian desert tradition is needed to present the (often) anonymous women who inhabit the texts. Though these women may have been included by storytellers to provide a foil to the exemplary men in the stories' foreground, Wheeler demonstrates how women's persistence in places they were not welcome witnesses to truths about where wisdom may be sought and found. In this book, Wheeler allows these women's stories to critique the desert impulse that can create a spiritual life devoid of social relationships and responsibility.
Daughters of the Desert
Daughters of the Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daughters of the Desert write by Claire Rudolf Murphy. This book was released on 2012-05-02. Daughters of the Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How would the most cherished stories of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam be different if women were the active central figures? This ground-breaking collection of short stories brings to life the women—daring, brave, thoughtful, and wise—who played important and exciting roles in the early days of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Join Esther as she stands against injustice and her king to save her people, Aisha as she leads hundreds of men into terrifying battle, and Mary as she and Elizabeth dream of the new lives growing inside them. How must Sarah have felt, turning Hagar out into the desert? And how must Hagar have felt, traveling from the safety and security of Abraham's land toward an uncertain future? These stories invite us to come to know and appreciate the struggles and triumphs of these women—mothers, daughters, believers and seekers.
Daughter of the Salt King
Daughter of the Salt King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daughter of the Salt King write by A. S. Thornton. This book was released on 2021-02-02. Daughter of the Salt King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 2021 Foreword INDIES Award Winner in Romance and Finalist in Fantasy A 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award Runner-Up in Best New Voice: Fiction “The heat and romance of the desert, the push and the pull of Emel’s desperation, and the magic and humanity of a caustic jinni make Daughter of the Salt King an irresistible ride.” —Amy Harmon, New York Times bestselling author “This riveting debut novel will leave readers eagerly awaiting Thornton’s future works.” —Booklist A girl of the desert and a jinni born long ago by the sea, both enslaved to the Salt King—but with this capricious magic, only one can be set free. As a daughter of the Salt King, Emel ought to be among the most powerful women in the desert. Instead, she and her sisters have less freedom than even her father's slaves . . . for the Salt King uses his own daughters to seduce visiting noblemen into becoming powerful allies by marriage. Escape from her father’s court seems impossible, and Emel dreams of a life where she can choose her fate. When members of a secret rebellion attack, Emel stumbles upon an alluring escape route: her father’s best-kept secret—a wish-granting jinni, Saalim. But in the land of the Salt King, wishes are never what they seem. Saalim’s magic is volatile. Emel could lose everything with a wish for her freedom as the rebellion intensifies around her. She soon finds herself playing a dangerous game that pits dreams against responsibility and love against the promise of freedom. As she finds herself drawn to the jinni for more than his magic, captivated by both him and the world he shows her outside her desert village, she has to decide if freedom is worth the loss of her family, her home and Saalim, the only man she’s ever loved. For readers who enjoy epic desert fantasies and forbidden romance like The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury, The Wrath & the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh, and Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri.
Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters
Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters write by Debora Greger. This book was released on 1996. Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers a poetic meditation on the legacy of the atomic bomb and how those who played a minor role in its creation can come to terms with the past
Bones in the Desert
Bones in the Desert - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bones in the Desert write by Jana Bommersbach. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Bones in the Desert available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Loretta Bowersock and her daughter, Terri, ran a multimillion-dollar furniture store based in Tempe, Arizona, where they were well-known and admired by many. Together, these two women seemed to be living the American Dream...until one man decided to take it all away. Over the course of two decades, Taw Benderly worked his way into Loretta's heart, home, and business. Though the couple appeared to be happy, their lives behind closed doors told another story. Terri had always known that the handsome, charming, and usually unemployed Taw was manipulating her mother—but she did not know the extent of the abuse or how far he would go to defraud her. Then, just before Christmas in 2004, Loretta went missing. It would be more than a year before Terri learned the shocking truth: That, before killing himself, Taw murdered the 69-year-old Loretta and left her. Bones in the Desert is the shocking story of a devoted mother and daughter, a successful business, and the man who would do everything to destroy it all ...
