Books with title Harvesting

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Small Great Things and My Sister's Keeper, a novel exploring the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family.Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave.Harvesting the Heart is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, and recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Kristin Hannah. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters, and explores motherhood with a power and depth only she is capable of. “A brilliant, moving examination of motherhood, brimming with detail and emotion.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch “Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. This story belongs to… the lucky reader.” —The New York Times Book Review

Written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, Harvesting the Heart recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Sue Miller. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left when she was five. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence, and shameful memories of her past, make her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense of self worth. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters and explores issues and emotions readers can relate to.

Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. Now, having left home and her father for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, Paige finds herself with a child of her own. Emotionally and physically exhausted, overwhelmed by the demands of her family, Paige cannot forget her mother's absence or the shameful memories from her own past. Her next step would have been unthinkable before her doubts about her maternal ability crept into her mind. Is it possible Paige’s baby would be better off without her?

The world you know is perceived to be a big place, the solar system is even bigger, the universe is bigger still, but if you compare that to my dimension, it is tiny but as size is all relative not entirely insignificant, though fairly dull if you compare it to the many others. Most people will only ever be able to perceive their own dimension and so they stay pretty fixed in their own world, but occasionally some individuals are set free and they enter into a whole new way of thinking. Shattering everything they ever knew, to a life style they could never comprehend, and for one young girl it was just about to start of a journey from which she could never return.This young girl appeared to be an ordinary girl, a girl much like any other. A girl that could have quite easily have been living next door to you, you might have even past her on the streets. She lived as thousands, possibly millions, of other teenage girls do, with the normal hopes, fears and concerns. Until one crucial day, something happened that would change everything, not just in her life, but in everybody else’s. A chain of events started that would ultimately decide the fate of the human race, despite the fact that very few of them where aware of our existence. This girl was called Charlotte Luna Pitch, and this history altering day was when she finally joined the world of shadows.She entered a dimension, a dimension called Indention, where she would join a superior race of beings. The Shadows. She would find herself combating the human race against all the odds, while discovering her connection to her elements and allowing her to free the powers she within her. But ultimately she discovered something that is irreplaceable...... Love. Charlotte finally getting used to the new dimension she was thrown into, is then torn from it, returning to her old one; where she now has to hide her newly discovered powers, while trying to help her Masters achieve world domination. It would all be in a day’s work if it wasn’t for her trying to keep her new love alive with her mentor Athelo, as rival Emily is starting to submerge, who helps put their love to the test, along with Charlottes own abilities, but only her true inner strength will pull her through the troubled times ahead, through war and loss. Will the fabric that holds our dimensions together break with the sudden disruption? Win or lose she would not; could not, ever be the same.

Pastor Moorman's book is written to help those congregations who wish to undertake cross-cultural ministry. Included in this book are sociological terms and concepts, the history of immigrants and refugees, how the Bible portrays ethnic diversity and step-by step guidelines for successful outreach. Pastor Moorman provides this information in a clear and understandable way, drawing on his extensive experience as a pastor in multicultural urban communities since 1977.