Showing results for "The Reconciliation" in Literature & Fiction

On her baptismal day, Becky Zook ran from the church, leaving her stunned Amish community behind. She only wanted to see something of Gott’s vast world, but city life didn’t turn out as planned. Tricked into a sham marriage, Becky has come home humbled, wiser...and pregnant. Her mamm and daed are welcoming, and helping an overburdened young widow gives Becky a new sense of purpose. But after creating such a scandal, Becky feels unworthy of a loving husband - let alone a wunderbaar man like Atlee Stauffer.

Despite its futuristic technical trappings, enduring family bonds are at the core of this riveting techno-thriller. An alien virus that prolongs life has infected a couple, Zakariah and Mia Davis, and made their blood a valuable black-market staple due to its rejuvenating effects. The eternal virus has not affected their son Rix, and Zakariah is consumed with the search for an active sample to inoculate the teenager against mortality.

Christian and his friends are confronted by the all-powerful being that started it all. Can they overcome their biggest nightmare imaginable?

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific English writer of short stories and novels and is frequently credited as being the father of science fiction. 'The Reconciliation' is the story of two old enemies who had quarrelled as students, but who are now attempting to reconcile by spending an evening together. But as they drink more whisky, the old antagonism raises its head again...and then one man suggests a boxing match....

Thirty years ago, a progressive rock band called The Yellow Kings began recording what would become their first and final album. Titled The Final Reconciliation, the album was expected to usher in a new renaissance of heavy metal, but it was shelved following a tragic concert that left all but one dead.

When a signal from the Grand Master of the Universal Energies Ontology draws them into a quest on a dead world, the ensuing adventure will either lead them to a way to stop the incursions from savagespace or bring them to their doom. Darius and his motley crew of misfits must risk everything to protect sentient life across the galaxy. Can they overcome the challenges and save everyone before the mindflayers annihilate everything?

When patrolman Brandon Hall comes upon a broken-down car on a Colorado highway, he finds a young girl in a bloodied nightgown at the wheel. In the back seat, the brutalized body of a teenage boy. The girl will say only one word: Hurt. When the girl is admitted to the hospital, the doctor on call is Brandon’s ex-wife, Olivia Blake. For Olivia and Brandon, the traumatized Jane Doe opens a floodgate of memories. It’s been four years since they shared their own tragedy—the unsolved disappearance of their eight-year-old daughter, Carly, and the end of their marriage.

Persuasion is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony and insight that sets Jane Austen's work apart. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and separated years before. The story of how their reunion forces a recognition of the false values and people that drove them apart gives Persuasion its enduring power.

Alex and Diana reconcile after Alex foils the robbery at Diana's jewelry store and she realizes that she was wrong about him. In the process, Alex's father, the leader of the biking club cartel, is locked up in prison and Alex discovers that his father had been holding back things from him such as his inheritance.

Wounded Genrenaut Mallery York returns to active duty just in time for the team to be deployed to the rom-com region of the romance world. There, everyone is beautiful, office workers can afford palatial midtown apartments, and hearts are won and broken on every corner. But before they can fix the broken love story, they have to find it. Mallery takes the lead, bringing her expertise to bear and leading Leah to wonder whether there’s a space for her on the team now that Mallery is back.

A group of friends found that Hitler is using time travel as a weapon against the Allies. Now it is up them, John, Carlos, Cheeno, and Mike, to recruit others to help stop this nightmare from coming true.

La certeza de vivir al final de los tiempos desafía a nuestro personaje a desentrañar un misterio que lo abarcará todo: el pasado, el presente, el futuro, la Tierra, la vida en la Tierra, su propia gesta personal. Develar cuál es su papel en el momento más trascendental de su mundo, le exigirá descubrir el propósito de la existencia y la herencia genética. Para proyectarse al futuro y cumplir su misión, tendrá que escapar de la matrix alienadora y alcanzar la libertad de la reconciliación.

In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to allow us to see through the eyes of indigenous people. In it, he hits hard on matters of residential schools, the environment, suicide among indigenous youth, domestic abuse, and so on, but also writes poems of love and hope. Chief Laforme’s universal message is, “We should not have to change to fit into society, the world should adapt to embrace our uniqueness.”

It’s been 17 years since the tragic summer the McAvoy sisters fell apart. Lindy, the wild one, left home, carved out a new life in the city, and never looked back. Delia, the sister who stayed, became a mother herself, raising her daughters and running the family shop in their small Ohio hometown on the shores of Lake Erie. But now, with their mother’s ailing health and a rebellious teenager to rein in, Delia has no choice but to welcome Lindy home.

Depuis trente ans, Paul a fait de son histoire familiale, et du désastre que fut son enfance, la matière même de ses romans. Une démarche que ses frères et sœurs n'ont pas comprise, au point de ne plus lui adresser la parole pendant de longues années. Et puis arrive le temps de la réconciliation. Paul décide de réunir à déjeuner, dans la maison qui est devenue son refuge, tous les protagonistes de sa tumultueuse existence : ses neuf frères et sœurs, leurs enfants et les siens, et même ses deux ex-femmes. Viendra qui voudra. Et advienne que pourra.

Kelly Whitely is at the height of her career, selling the latest miracle drug to doctors and pharmacies across the country. But concerns about the side effects have her longing for the day when she can quit her high-paying job and really focus on saving her marriage and teenage daughter. She keeps trying to talk to her husband, Daniel, about it, but every time she brings it up, he retreats further and further away from her.

A wise, very old, strongly clairvoyant lady leads us on a fictional journey through an imaginary land that symbolizes the levels of conscious of the mind of Homo sapiens. Perhaps there are many universes. Perhaps there is an unlimited number of virtual realities.

In this thought-provoking essay, Life Coach and Author Joseff McKenneth Goodwin, explores how modern civilization, shaped by a “colonized dream,” manipulates our beliefs, relationships, and overall existence. Through a reflective journey, the essay challenges listeners to examine the hidden forces that influence their desires, values, and pursuit of success. Blending philosophical insights with spiritual perspectives, it uncovers how societal conditioning has trapped us in cycles of self-sacrifice, emotional disconnection, and constant striving for external validation.

Die junge Studentin Maja sieht jede Nacht im Traum das Bild von Blut, das an einer Wand herunter rinnt und wie sie selbst mit der Hand die noch warmen Schlieren verwischt. Bald ist ihr klar, dass der Traum mit ihrer Erzfeindin Christiane zu tun haben muss und eines Morgens findet sie eine Mordwaffe in ihrer eigenen Küche vor.

Alicea Davis shares her God-given hope, strength, and healing poetry with others to help move America forward in the much needed reconciliation process that will aid in more effective race relations. Davis personally relates to the current pain and anger that so many are facing due to racial unrest. As a young black woman, she experienced intense anger towards white Americans when she awakened to the reality of racism still existing in our society.