The Most Beautiful Place In Hell

Download or read book The Most Beautiful Place in Hell written by William Mansfield and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Beautiful Place In Hell is a memoir about bullying that the author suffered during his early adolescence, in the mid-1970s. It describes physical, verbal, and emotional abuse, which adults were often unaware of. The book chronicles Mansfield's young adulthood and his early relationships, which were often troubled and were influenced by his bullying experience. The long term impacts of bullying are emphasized, as well as the continued prevalence of bullying in the present day. There is a dialogue about bullying today which did not exist when the author grew up. The author's sincere hope is that this memoir can make a positive contribution to that dialogue.

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Hell written by Scott G. Bruce and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America A Penguin Classic From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Download or read book Legends of the Micmacs written by Silas Tertius Rand and published by New York ; London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1894 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Queen of the Moon written by Keren Derash and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""I am Hecate, Queen of the Moon. I was in heaven and hell. I've experienced light and darkness in my life. I was up and I was down. Like the moon, I went through many stages that made me who I am today. I am Hecate, Queen of the Moon and this is my story... "" Hecate: Queen of the Moon Hecate twin sister to Ers, who's family lives on the planet Venus, gets a very special visitor the King of the Gods, Zeus. We follow the ups and downs of both Ers and Hecate. Something ensues that takes millennia to come to a head

Download or read book Shaking the Gates of Hell written by John Archibald and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News. "My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. "It goes all the way back on both sides of my family. When I am at my best, I think it comes from that sermon place." Everything Archibald knows and believes about life is "refracted through the stained glass of the Southern church. It had everything to do with people. And fairness. And compassion." In Shaking the Gates of Hell, Archibald asks: Can a good person remain silent in the face of discrimination and horror, and still be a good person? Archibald had seen his father, the Rev. Robert L. Archibald, Jr., the son and grandson of Methodist preachers, as a moral authority, a moderate and a moderating force during the racial turbulence of the '60s, a loving and dependable parent, a forgiving and attentive minister, a man many Alabamians came to see as a saint. But was that enough? Even though Archibald grew up in Alabama in the heart of the civil rights movement, he could recall few words about racial rights or wrongs from his father's pulpit at a time the South seethed, and this began to haunt him. In this moving and powerful book, Archibald writes of his complex search, and of the conspiracy of silence his father faced in the South, in the Methodist Church and in the greater Christian church. Those who spoke too loudly were punished, or banished, or worse. Archibald's father was warned to guard his words on issues of race to protect his family, and he did. He spoke to his flock in the safety of parable, and trusted in the goodness of others, even when they earned none of it, rising through the ranks of the Methodist Church, and teaching his family lessons in kindness and humanity, and devotion to nature and the Earth. Archibald writes of this difficult, at times uncomfortable, reckoning with his past in this unadorned, affecting book of growth and evolution.

Download or read book Hell's Bones written by Roy S Smith Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ah, she was so pretty. Sitting there with her long blonde hair and wonderful smile, all through his school year, Bill had idolized the beautiful little blonde girl. God, how he wished she would notice him.The pretty blonde girl seemed to know what Bill was thinking because right at that moment, she got up and walked over to him. Their eyes held for a brief moment when her sweet lips parted, and she started screaming. Bill woke up with a start, and the screaming didn’t stop.

Download or read book Don’t Give It Another Thought written by Mark D. Michael and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISCOVER THE UNBOUNDED WISDOM AND POWER OF STORYTELLING The book in your hand has some of the best and most beloved short stories you will ever read. The stories are not all original. They are the product of many years of listening. The sources from which these stories derive are eclectic. Most of them have been collected from various books, sermons, and front porches as friends and acquaintances told and retold stories they have heard over the years. This collection of stories represents over thirty years of collecting the most relevant, funny, reflective, and spiritually significant stories. Whatever you do, do not put this book down. You will miss out on a wonderful treat if you do. God gives us wisdom through many experiences. These short stories are a bastion of wisdom that will certainly enrich your life and broaden your horizons. I am glad you have it in your hand.