Jim Carroll
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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When poet, musician, and diarist Jim Carroll died in September 2009, he was putting the finishing touches on a potent work of fiction. The Petting Zoo tells the story of Billy Wolfram, an enigmatic thirty-eight-year-old artist who has become a hot star in the late 1980s New York art scene. As the novel opens, Billy, after viewing a show of Velázquez paintings, is so humbled and awed by their spiritual power that he suffers an emotional...
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Series
Language
English
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At age sixteen, Yusef plans to fulfill his dreams. As a young Kuwaiti Christian, he is eager to influence not just the people living in his own region but to travel abroad. "My default posture was one of prideful superiority as I waited for everyone to catch up with my ambition and plans for the future. I couldn't wait to draw the geographic and economic map of my future. Strange for an adolescent, but there it was." Like his biblical namesake, Yusef...
Author
Language
English
Description
A GRIPPING CONCLUSION TO THIS 3-BOOK SERIES
We're transferring funds to your Shia friends at a rate of more than two billion dollars a month. I've been ordered to do so by the Supreme Leader.
Given our current economic situation, we cannot afford this, but I have no choice. The money is transmitted to an offshore account in the Caymans..."Although he is still entrenched in the Kuwaiti Parliament, Yusef is finally home in Kuwait and at peace, or...
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English
Description
Yacoub sought truth in Islam. He failed. Islam failed. BUT GOD... Despite Quranic guidance, Yacoub fell in his sin and the lack of Islamic remedy. God saved Yacoub anyway. Learn how God saves sinners even when they don't seek Him. From Yacoub's experiences, see how much God loves you.
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Language
English
Description
On August 2, 1990 Iraqi forces, led by Saddam Hussein, invaded the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Kuwait. Jim and Shirley Carroll were missionaries on assignment when the first shots were fired. This is their story…This is a true story of faith under fire.You'll be inspired as you read the Carroll's first-hand account of the events that took place during the roughly five months the US Embassy in Kuwait was under siege. This is a history lesson, an...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 91 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the teen years of the poet/musician on the streets of New York, where he shot baskets with some of the best playground stars and heroin with street characters.