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I love crafting! Regardless of the type---beading, painting, decoupage, collage, etc. ---I enjoy it. Crafting can be a great hobby, or generate a lucrative income. Since I enjoyed crafting so much, I finally decided to take what I love and generate income. After all, I can now become my own boss and not worry about being stressed out on a regular eight hour job. This book is intended for beginner crafters as well as seasoned crafters. Whatever you're...
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In Touched, author Shanell T. Smith makes visible the often silenced or ignored narratives of survivors of sexual violence. The book tells the author's story of her personal traumatic experience with sexual violence by a church leader and focuses on the responses that she received from people in the church (clergy and lay folk) once she "sounded the alarm." These responses either justified, ignored, or denied that the horrific act occurred, resulting...
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The "Great Whore" of the Book of Revelation, the hostile symbolization used to illustrate the author's critique of empire-has attracted considerable attention in Revelation scholarship. Smith seeks to dismantle the either/or dichotomy within the "Great Whore" debate. Using postcolonial womanist interpretation of the woman Babylon, Smith highlights the simultaneous duality of her characterization, her depiction as both a female brothel slave and as...
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A family is devastated by the sudden, unexplained illness and death of their mother, Caroline. The cause of death initially is unknown and tensions rise over a dispute for an autopsy. When the cause of death is revealed, their already strained relationship is torn apart as suspicions arise from among them. Faith in God, dogged determination and support of her husband, helps Virginia through the pain to uncover a darkness that will change their lives...