84 Results for : shacks
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Finding God in the Shack , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 284min
What would it be like to lose your youngest child to a serial killer? And then to have God invite you out for a conversation at the very shack where the terrible deed took place? And then imagine that the door to that shack of horrors opened....and before you knew it you had been swept up in the motherly embrace of a large African American woman? This most unlikely of stories, as told in William Young's The Shack, has become a runaway best seller and it is easy to see why. The book brings us on a redemptive journey through the shacks of deepest pain and suffering in our lives, guided by the triune God of Christian faith. Aware both of the excitement and uncertainty generated by The Shack, theologian Randal Rauser takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the pages of the story. In successive chapters he explores many of the books complex and controversial issues. Through these chapters Rauser offers an honest and illuminating discussion which opens up a new depth to the conversation while providing the reader with new opportunities for Finding God in The Shack. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Mueller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oasi/000508/bk_oasi_000508_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Building With Logs (Legacy Edition)
Building With Logs (Legacy Edition) ab 16.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Classic Manual On Building Log Cabins Shelters Shacks Lookouts and Cabin Furniture For Forest Life. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 584min
In 1934 all the national publications sent their star reporters to remote Virginia to cover the trial of Erma Morton: a beautiful 21-year-old mountain girl with a teaching degree, accused of murdering her father – a drunken tyrant of a man.Four seasoned journalists descend upon the small town – nothing sells papers better than a wronged woman on trial, or descriptions of “backwards” mountain life. Yet instead of rundown shacks and horse-drawn buggies, they found gas stations and coal company executives…but the truth can always be manipulated to suit the audience.Except that among them is Carl Jennings, an 18-year-old novice journalist from Tennessee who accurately reports on the trial and the citizens of the town. So when their articles conflict, Carl is condemned for perjury, while the other journalists sell Erma Morton’s verdict to the highest bidder. Soon, it is not the actual murder that is of interest, but the vultures attracted to the death. In the midst of all this, Carl continues to search for the truth, relying on his younger cousin, Nora – gifted with the “sight” – for help.A stunning return to the lands, ballads, and characters upon which she made her name, The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is a testament to Sharyn McCrumb’s lyrical and poetic writing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Luke Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/002236/bk_brll_002236_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Delivery as Dispossession (eBook, ePUB)
A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, typically seeking to fly under the state's radar. Yet in most cases, occupiers wind up in dialogue with the state. In Delivery as Dispossession, Zachary Levenson follows this journey from avoidance to incorporation, explaining how the post-apartheid Constitution shifts squatters' struggles onto the judicial register. Providing a comparative ethnographic account of two land occupations in Cape Town and highlighting occupiers' struggles, Levenson further demonstrates why it is that housing officials seek the eviction of all new occupations: they view these unsanctioned settlements as a threat to the order they believe is required for delivery. Yet in evicting occupiers, he argues, they reproduce the problem anew, with subsequent rounds of land occupation as the inevitable consequence. Offering a unique framework for thinking about local states, this book proposes a novel theory of the state that will change the way ethnographers think about politics.- Shop: buecher
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Delivery as Dispossession (eBook, PDF)
A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, typically seeking to fly under the state's radar. Yet in most cases, occupiers wind up in dialogue with the state. In Delivery as Dispossession, Zachary Levenson follows this journey from avoidance to incorporation, explaining how the post-apartheid Constitution shifts squatters' struggles onto the judicial register. Providing a comparative ethnographic account of two land occupations in Cape Town and highlighting occupiers' struggles, Levenson further demonstrates why it is that housing officials seek the eviction of all new occupations: they view these unsanctioned settlements as a threat to the order they believe is required for delivery. Yet in evicting occupiers, he argues, they reproduce the problem anew, with subsequent rounds of land occupation as the inevitable consequence. Offering a unique framework for thinking about local states, this book proposes a novel theory of the state that will change the way ethnographers think about politics.- Shop: buecher
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Header 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 565min
“What’s a header?”Fifteen years ago, Travis Clyde Tuckton asked that self-same question to his ancient grandfather, and the answer came in a rampage of twisted bloodlust, missing persons, and the most macabre and indescribable act of vengeance that human consciousness has ever devised...Now, in those same desolate woods, amongst dilapidated shacks behind whose rickety doors no one dare look, something even worse has come to curse the land of simple folk, a jubilee of murderous perversity and sexual abomination too hideous to describe. Only the courage of Travis Tuckton could ever begin to set things back to rights but, lo, Travis and his grandfather are long dead...Ah, but their relatives aren’t! And it will be these stout-hearted men who shall rise to the occasion of the most horrific revenge in the history of the backwoods - an eye for an eye, a head for a head! Not even unearthed graves, molested corpses, abducted tots, and an unspeakable human monstrosity can thwart the might of right.Join steadfast hayseeds Helton, Dumar, and Micky-Mack as they venture forth into a wretched mire of unadulterated horror, where the symbol of ultimate evil is not a psycho-killer, nor a demon, but the full-tilt rev of power tools screaming through the endless night...Header 2Where revenge is all in the mind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucas Boyd. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/176898/bk_acx0_176898_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 711min
In 1974, a disenfranchised young man from a broken home set out to do the impossible. With $100 in his pocket, a beat-up cavalry saddle, and a faraway look in his eye, John Egenes saddled his horse Gizmo and started down the trail on an adventure across the North American continent.Their seven-month journey took them across 11 states, from California to Virginia, ocean to ocean. As they left the pressing confinement of the city behind them, the pair experienced the isolation and loneliness of the southwestern deserts, the vastness of the prairie, and the great landscapes that make up America.Across hundreds of miles of empty land, they slept with coyotes and wild horses under the stars, and in urban areas, they camped alone in graveyards and abandoned shacks. Along the way, John and Gizmo were transformed from inexperienced horse and rider to veterans of the trail. With his young horse as his spiritual guide, John slowly began to comprehend his own place in the world and to find peace within himself.Full of heart and humor, Egenes serves up a tale that's as big as the America he witnessed, an America that no longer exists. It was a journey that could only have been experienced step by step, mile by mile, from the view between a horse's ears. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Egenes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/226699/bk_acx0_226699_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hush Now, Don't Explain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 519min
Honor, an orphan, finds her way to the Victorian boarding house where she thinks her mother might have birthed her. World War II has just ended, which alerted many Americans to the world beyond, but Honor and Billy's lives are limited to the dead-end town of DeForest Junction, Ohio, and its nearby notcherie, where exotic women sell their bodies to the rail men. Alongside her mixed-race "cousin" Billy, Honor grows to womanhood, cared for by Miss Alsada and enchanted by the colorful stories of the shanty store owner, Mr. Augustus Willard, who claims to have traveled far and wide. One day, an itinerant blues musician shows up at the boardinghouse, electrifying Billy with his skill at the upright piano. He departs just as quickly, leaving behind hints that he might be Billy's father. Soon after Buster Stanley's departure, men in white hoods burn a cross in the field behind the boardinghouse and torch a number of shacks occupied by black families. Honor and Billy decide to leave DeForest Junction - a feat they accomplish with the help of Mr. Willard, whose shanty store was burned. With Honor disguised as a boy for safety's sake, the three friends ride the rails southward to their ultimate destination, New Orleans. Billy is on the trail of Buster Stanley, but Honor is on an intense quest for Honor. How will she escape the fate of those women, waiting for a man to fill up the void in her life? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Annette Romano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/076532/bk_acx0_076532_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Heaven's Witches: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 313min
Lou, an alcoholic, is sick of the fake churches that drive him to drink. Ren shows up to give him a ride to work so he’ll be on time...and tells him he’s also tired of the hypocrisy and is starting a real church.Farrell has just been excommunicated because the van driver at Praiseville wouldn’t go get all the souls he won, and Farrell rebuked him. When Ren gives him a ride home, the pastor speaks of hating the fake churches, too.Hank lives in the boonies - a circle of shacks called Gooney Hill - and is unchurched. When he runs into Ren at the gas station after work, Hank finds a spiritual home.Burt is sick of his job, where his boss promotes corrupt youth instead of Burt, who has seniority. But when Ren walks into his bar, he encourages Burt to stay sober and work with diligence. Ren also reminds him those worldly fools will be damned.Sky is the praise-and-worship leader at Ren’s church. As a former local rock star who’d kill anybody for a quarter, it won’t be hard to keep the rule with a rod of iron.Ren, a preacher and a prophet, may be the answer these searching souls need. Or is he? What’s with the hateful new order?Yet, when all but Hank try to leave, Lou and Burt find themselves about to fall off the wagon...until Ren shows up wherever they are to stop them. Then, Ren wants special privileges he says only the pastor of a "real church" should have. Now, Lou and Burt must decide to go back to the hooch or endure the corruption. And Farrell must find a way to bring Ren to justice...by any means necessary. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Russ Jankovitz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173435/bk_acx0_173435_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Catch the Jew! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 756min
Catch the Jew! recounts the adventures of gonzo journalist Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel and the Palestinian Authority for seven months in search of the untold truths in today's Holy Land. With holy chutzpah, Tenenbom boldly goes where no Jew has gone before, at times risking his life as he assumes the identities of Tobi the German and even Abu Ali in order to probe into the many stories in this strange land and poke holes in all of them. From the self-hating leftists in Tel Aviv to the self-promoting PLO execs in Ramallah, from the black-clad Haredim of Bet Shemesh to the glowing foreign human-rights activists in Beit Hanina, from Jewish settlers and the Christians who come from abroad to toil with them to ardent Jerusalem monks and Bedouins in surprisingly glorious shacks, Tenenbom takes on the people of the land, getting to know them and disarming them as he breaks bread and mingles with anyone and everyone. Does Palestinian wife number one hate the Jews more than she hates wife number two? Who finances cash-rich NGOs pursuing a Judenrein Israel? Who sets Palestinian olive groves on fire and why? What is the emotional gravity that pulls idealistic human-rights activists from other countries to Israel and only to Israel? Who are the flaming feminists who sacrifice their lives for the rights of polygamists? Whose land is this, anyway? By turns poignant, enraging, and laugh-out-loud funny, this unique travelogue lays bare the intensity of this turbulent land in an unprecedented, eye-opening education, person by person, city by city, and meal by meal. You will never look at Israel the same way again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shlomo Zacks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/033230/bk_acx0_033230_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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