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![]() ![]() That might explain why some people think it’s appropriate for government to reward those tagged by the gospel as righteous at the expense of those considered negligent. Bowler told me in a recent email that “there are deep resonances between neoliberal ideologies, Republicanism, and the prosperity gospel." “Put simply, the prosperity gospel is the belief that God grants health and wealth to those with the right kind of faith,” Kate Bowler, an assistant professor at Duke Divinity School and the author of “Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel,” wrote in a New York Times op-ed. ![]() Or because they bought into the wrong spiritual brand. “Adherents to the Prosperity Gospel believe that wealth is a sign of God’s blessing and the poor are poor because of a lack of faith,” wrote Bradley A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scapegoated for violating Soviet law, they were charged with multiple counts of fabrication of evidence, falsification of interrogation protocols, use of torture to secure "confessions," and murder during pre-trial detention of "suspects" - and many were sentenced to execution themselves. In what has been dubbed "the purge of the purgers," almost one thousand NKVD officers were prosecuted by Soviet military courts. And what exactly happened in those courtrooms was unknown until now. Unlike the postwar, public trials of Nazi war criminals, NKVD operatives were tried secretly. While we now know a great deal about the experience of victims of the Great Terror, we know almost nothing about the lower- and middle-level Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD), or secret police, cadres who carried out Stalin's murderous policies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.5 million people for "counterrevolutionary" and "anti-Soviet" activity and either summarily executed or exiled them to the Gulag. ![]() ![]() crime world." In Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that Pelecanos is "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." Pelecanos would like to note that Mr. Esquire called him "the poet laureate of the D.C. He is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications. Noir 2: The Classics, as well as The Best Mystery Stories of 2008. He served as editor on the collections D.C. ![]() His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and the collections Unusual Suspects, Best American Mystery Stories of 1997, Measures of Poison, Best American Mystery Stories of 2002, Men from Boys, and Murder at the Foul Line. Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 20 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been the recipient of the Raymond Chandler award in Italy, the Falcon award in Japan, and the Grand Prix du Roman Noir in France. ![]() Pelecanos is the author of eighteen novels set in and around Washington, D.C.: A Firing Offense, Nick's Trip, Shoedog, Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go, The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame the Devil, Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, The Turnaround, The Way Home, The Cut, and What It Was. ![]() He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C., in 1957. ![]() ![]() Cole and Rawlins hook up with Mexican cattle herders and acquire jobs at the richest cattle ranch in Mexico, where Cole makes a quick name for himself by breaking 16 mustangs in four days. ![]() After taunting the young boy, Rawlins challenges him to prove his shot and must eat his words and accept his company when Bevins blows a hole through the middle of Rawlin's airborne wallet.īevins does cause trouble when he's falsely accused of horse stealing and the threesome part ways. Cole takes kindly to the younger runaway Bevins (Lucas Black, "Sling Blade") while cynical Rawlins thinks he'll only bring them trouble. Heartbroken, John teams up with best friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas, "E.T.") and heads for Mexico on horseback searching for the life of the cowboy in "All the Pretty Horses."īefore they cross the border they realize they're being trailed by a lone horseman. ![]() She's remarried and living in California, though, and decides to sell. ![]() When John Grady Cole's (Matt Damon) granddaddy dies, his mother inherits the Texas cattle ranch that John works and loves. ![]() ![]() All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is brimming with the very stuff of life and the significance found in the smallest details. ![]() ![]() sardines-and how these games relate to the nature of God. magical qualities found in a box of crayons. the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot-air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to “fly”. a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life. Here Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental United States. ![]() Today, after being embraced around the world and selling more than seven million copies, Fulghum’s book retains the potency of a common though no less relevant piece of wisdom: that the most basic aspects of life bear its most important opportunities. ![]() More than thirty years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo-a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Essays on life that will resonate deeply as readers discover how universal insights can be found in ordinary events. ![]() ![]() ![]() If anything, she was a “city girl.” But I knew what Dawn meant. ![]() M ANY YEARS AFTER MY discovery of the wedding picture, when my sister and I were well into middle age and trying to come up with ideas for Mom’s eulogy, she got on my nerves when she kept referring to Mom as a “farm girl.” Mom had left the farm when she was two years old, for crying out loud, and had lived in big cities for the rest of her life. The white wedding dress - October 27, 1942 And in the process, not only did I learn the true story of my mother, but I also discovered the story of myself. It would take me decades to uncover these secrets, using letters, an Army personnel file, interviews with family members, and, of course, the many stories, vignettes, and insights that Mom relayed to me over the years. It’s also the story of secrets, lies, a love that never died, and a woman’s long journey to self-discovery and fulfillment. This is the story of what my mother was like before she had me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Francesca's a genuine firecracker of a heroine, and her dilemma-is it worth her soul to exact justice for her father-plays out in a riveting fashion. deftly mixing historical fact and fiction."-Booklist(starred review)"The pseudonymous Poole makes a promising debut with this fast-moving historical thriller. ![]() In so doing, she sets the stage for the ultimate confrontation with ancient forces that will seek to use her darkest desires to achieve their own catastrophic ends. Navigating a web of treachery and deceit, Francesca pursues her father's killer from the depths of Rome's Jewish ghetto to the heights of the Vatican itself. At the same time, she is drawn to the young renegade monk who yearns to save her life and her soul. She becomes the confidante of Lucrezia Borgia and the lover of Cesare Borgia. Determined to avenge the killing of her father, Francesca Giordano defies all convention to claim for herself the position of poisoner serving Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, head of the most notorious and dangerous family in Italy. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover the plot that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge Europe back into medieval darkness. In the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some third-party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this and other websites. BookGorilla is published independently by Stephen Windwalker and Windwalker Media and is not endorsed by, Inc. 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Copyright © 2007 - 2023 Windwalker Media. ![]() ![]() Whipple (1991, republished 2001) and Victory in Tripoli: How America’s War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Added to my own shelf in the recent past have been The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World, by Frank Lambert (2005) Jefferson’s War: America’s First War on Terror 1801–1805, by Joseph Wheelan (2003) To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. When I asked a professional military historian-a man with direct access to Defense Department archives-if there was any book that he could recommend, he came back with a slight shrug.īut now the curious reader may choose from a freshet of writing on the subject. Henry Adams, in his discussion of our third president, had some boyhood reminiscences of the widespread hero-worship of naval officer Stephen Decatur, and other fragments and shards showed up in other quarries, but a sound general history of the subject was hard to come by. ![]() When I first began to plan my short biography of Thomas Jefferson, I found it difficult to research the chapter concerning the so-called Barbary Wars: an event or series of events that had seemingly receded over the lost horizon of American history. ![]() |