Bøger udgivet af Bennett & Hastings Publishing

Holy Roller Heart is a southern gothic, coming-of-age, murder mystery set in the 1950s. Thirteen-year-old Moses Grady Witt is a Missouri mugwump navigator, a'straddling a barbed-wire fence while trying to touch both sides of the ground. On one side is Pentecostal zealotry-on the other, Ozarkian witchery. The strain at times almost rips our hero apart. Lucky for Mo, his tiny twin sister, Millie Faye, is there to save him or so she thinks. Mix in a giant Russian boar, a bran'-spankin'-new, red '55 Chevrolet, a magic magnet, and a coffin that won't stay in the grave, plus a cast of unconventional characters and you're in for a wild ride in the vein of Mark Twain.

Often risky, sometimes dangerous, Suzanne Griffin's work in Afghanistan has been sustained by love. In 1968, she went to Afghanistan a neophyte. Romantic love had led her there as a newlywed, the wife of a Peace Corps Officer. Love for the Afghan people led her back thirty-four years later, a respected college dean and a widow who knew her heart and had the education, position, tenacity and grace to help Afghans improve maternal health and broaden access to education for women and girls. Love, as she says, can take you many places that you never dreamed of going.¿ In this memoir, you will see that in traditional cultures that respect wisdom and age, older, educated, energetic foreign women can overcome barriers that stop younger foreign co-workers.¿You will meet Afghans whose sacrifices for love illustrate the strength of the human heart.¿You will understand how it is possible to survive widowhood or heartache by following a compelling call to serve others on a large scale.¿You will see how one woman helps overcome perceived cultural barriers by applying the simple principles of inclusiveness, respect, and power-based negotiation.

Like many great artists throughout the millennia, Richard Wagner wrote his operas as allegories which can be represented in ways that range from the mundane to the esoteric. When Wagner's cryptic esoteric messages are deciphered they tell a story about the evolution of human freedom and consciousness that would be told two generations later in a different format, by the physicist/philosopher Rudolf Steiner. The allegories of The Ring bear a message meant for today.