Behind the Water Line
Kionna Walker LeMalle
Winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize, “Behind the Waterline” takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is abotu to happen, in this novel that mixes magical realism with reality.
When Hurricane Katrina approaches New Orleans, teenaged Eric and his grandmother and many of their neighbors decide to ride out the storm. Kionna Walker LeMalle’s masterful debut novel brings her readers, like the rising water, onto Eric’s street in the Third Ward, where stranded dogs bark for a time, where neighbors are floating on doors, and where Eric and his grandmother must take refuge in his second floor bedroom. After days of heat dwindling supplies, and relentless rising water, neighbors begin to disappear and Eric’s grandmother, already known as an eccentric, begins to falter. It is then that Eric–in a dream, a hallucination or something else–discovers a room beyond his closet wall, a place he has never seen. What he discovers inside will send him on a path to discover secrets to survival, bitter progress, and, ultimately, the history of his own people–those he sorely misses and those he never knew.
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Absolute Basics: Christian Theology for Ordinary People
(The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith)
Dr. Philip Tallon
“Absolute Basics: Christian Theology for Ordinary People (and The Absolute Basics of the Christian Faith)” is a visual introduction to the core beliefs of the Christian faith. Following the pattern of the Nicene Creed, Absolute Basics explains the essential teachings of the church in plain language, with accompanying illustrations and Bible verses.
The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume I: Theoretical Perspectives 1st ed. 2023 Edition
Shannon Holzer (Editor)
The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume I: Theoretical Perspective deals with the relationship between Religion and its long history that has played out throughout time and across the globe. Countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe approach the subject of religion and state in various ways. While the word religion to westerners usually brings Christianity to mind, in Japan it is Shintoism and Buddhism. Volume II offers chapters on the relationship of both Shintoism Buddhism to the Japanese state. It is very easy to see how the deeply traditional Japanese citizens may come into the conflict with the strictly secular Japanese state. It also contains chapters about mosque and state as well as synagogue and state.
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