Held Captive

Author : Maggie Haberman
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739436073
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Captive written by Maggie Haberman and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a June night in 2002, Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her own bedroom. for months afterward her distraught family prayed for her safe return while a massive manhunt was undertaken. Then, in March of the following year, Elizabeth Smart was discovered alive just a few miles from home, the prisoner of a man who believed himself the messiah and his loyal, complacent wife. What happened to Elizabeth during her nine months of captivity is shocking; how she finally gained her freedom is remarkable. And now the story can be told -- including startling information about the controversial investigation. -- book jacket.

Author : Maggie Haberman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060580209
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Captive written by Maggie Haberman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the kidnapping of Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart, including details about her captivity, how she gained her freedom, and information about the police investigation.

Author : Amanda Lindhout
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451645627
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A House in the Sky written by Amanda Lindhout and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Author : Richard VanDerBeets
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498404
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Captive by Indians written by Richard VanDerBeets and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women.

Author : Shelley Shepard Gray
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0718078020
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Held Captive written by Shelley Shepard Gray and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of a beautiful woman—but first he’ll have to right the wrongs that were done to her. Major Ethan Kelly has never been able to absolve himself of the guilt he feels for raiding a woman’s home shortly before he was taken prisoner during the Civil War. He is struggling to get through each day until he once again crosses paths with Lizbeth Barclay—the very woman he is trying to forget. Life after the war is not much different for former Captain Devin Monroe until he meets Julianne VanFleet. He knows she is the woman he’s been waiting for, but he struggles to come to terms with the sacrifices she made to survive the war. When Ethan and Devin discover that their former colonel, Adam Bushnell, is responsible for both Lizbeth’s and Julianne’s pain, they call on their former fellow soldiers to hunt him down. As the men band together to earn the trust of the women they love, Lizbeth and Julianne seek the justice they deserve in a country longing to heal.

Author : John Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329662326
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith Not Held Captive written by John Daniel Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face it. Life is tough. Daily we face life's PITS, PRISONS, STORMS, AND TRIALS. Days are long and harsh. Those promotions never come. The criticism cuts deeper and deeper. The bills arrive before the paycheck. The spouse is more bitter than the night before. The kids are on your last nerve. Your future doesn't seem so bright. Let's be honest. Life throws us a curve-ball at times. It throws us into depressing pits and lonely, impenetrable prisons. Sometimes life just gets just plain unbearable. However, there is hope! Scripture details the lives of brave heroes who faced their pit head on. Gleaning from their struggles, we learn of God's love for His people. Like the heroes of the Bible, we too can spiritually grow, learn, strive, and overcome any troublesome time we may face. Don't stay put in your pit. Let your faith not be held captive by the world. Grab hold of God's rope of hope, and be set free.

Author : Denis Janz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199359547
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luther's The Church Held Captive in Babylon written by Denis Janz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, Address to the German Nobility, in which he urged secular authorities to take a strong hand in "reforming" the Roman church. In October, he published The Church Held Captive, and by December the deepest theological rationale appeared in The Freedom of a Christian. With these three books, the relatively unknown Friar Martin exploded onto the Western European literary and religious scene. These three works have been universally acknowledged as classics of the Reformation, and of the Western religious tradition in general. Though Reformation scholars have been reluctant to single out one as the most important of the three, Denis Janz proposes a bold case for The Church Held Captive. In the first entirely new translation in more than a century, Janz presents Luther's text as it hasn't been read in English before. Previous translations stifle the original text by dulling the sharpest edges of its argumentation and tame Luther by substituting euphemisms for his vulgarities. In Janz's dual language edition we see the provocative, offensive, and extreme restored. In his wide-ranging introduction, Janz offers much-needed context to clarify the role of The Church Held Captive in Luther's life and the life of the Reformation. This edition is the most reader-friendly scholarly version of Luther's classic in the English language.

Author : Catherine R. Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780920831991
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Captive written by Catherine R. Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael A. Peters
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811084114
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein’s Education: 'A Picture Held Us Captive’ written by Michael A. Peters and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to educators who are not philosophy specialists, this book offers an overview of the connections between Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and his own training and practice as an educator. Arguing for the centrality of education to Wittgenstein’s life and works, the authors resist any reduction of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to remarks on pedagogy while addressing the current controversy surrounding the role of training in the enculturation process. Significant events in his education and life are examined as the background for successful interpretation, without lending biographical details explanatory force. The book discusses the importance of Wittgenstein’s training and dismissal as an elementary teacher (1920-26) in light of his later, frequent use (1930s-40s) of many ‘scenes of instruction’ in his Cambridge lectures and notebooks. These depictions culminated in his now famous Philosophical Investigations -- a counter to his earlier philosophy in the Tractatus. Wittgenstein came to distinguish between empirical inquiries into how education, language or mathematics might ideally work, from grammatical studies of how we learn on the rough ground to normatively go-on as others do – often without explicit rules and with considerable degrees of ambiguity, for instance, in implementing new guidelines during a curriculum reform or in evaluating teachers. The book argues that Wittgenstein’s reflections on education -- spanning from mathematics training to the acquisition of language and cultivation of aesthetic appreciation -- are of central significance to both the man and his pedagogical style of philosophy.

Author : Maggie Haberman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060580208
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Captive written by Maggie Haberman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the kidnapping of Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart, including details about her captivity, how she gained her freedom, and information about the police investigation.