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May.23.2009
From the Director of the Abroad Writing Competition:
"What a magnificent short story... It was so moving and beautiful! For days afterwards, I found myself thinking about your story..."
Mater Amabilis is about belief, grief, inner reality and illusion. A mother has lost her sons. Or has...
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Apr.30.2009
Most people believe that death is not the end. While few will baldly assert that death leads always to non-existence, there are some like Isaac Asimov, who worried that "the boredom of heaven would be even worse" than hell. In some deep place, I think many people fear that the afterlife...
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Apr.30.2009
Remember . . . it's a concept that doesn't get much press, especially in a culture that thrives on and prizes change and innovation. Yet in the midst of our obsession with what's new comes God's command to remember.
Feast can help us do just that. God instituted yearly festivals that mark...
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Mar.17.2009
- This morning they entered my room and half-smiling, informed me that I have been here for a year. Looking at them, not knowing what to say, I thought: “My God! What has happened to me? How has it come down to this? I am only twenty-four, and the woman I love has been killed, and I am not in...
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Dec.24.2008
PACKING LIGHT is a compendium of almost 40 years of poetry-writing by Marilyn Kallet. The volume includes one new book of poems, and distillations from each of her previous four books of poems. The collection ranges from humorous to profound, from love poems and erotic poems to poetry...
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Nov.17.2008
Muslims eagerly anticipate the appearance of the Mahdi, who will bring peace and tranquility to the earth. Could an infant born in Israel be this Holy One? Ari Ben Chaim, abandoned at birth, then raised on a kibbutz, now learns that four people in his life have been murdered by unknown assassis--...
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Nov.11.2008
MORE THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING THE DOG is the second collection of the best columns written over the past several years in a continuing series for The Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica, CA. These columns touch on topics that concern us all: women’s potential in our changing world, the idiosyncrasies of...
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Nov.11.2008
THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING THE DOG is a selection of the best columns written over the past three years in a continuing series for The Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica, CA. These columns touch on topics that concern us all: women’s potential in our changing world, the idiosyncrasies of society and the...
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Nov.05.2008
This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.
From Publisher's Weekly:
Daughter of Holocaust survivors, the author, a New York...
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