Author: Akhil Sharma
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: father, obedient
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2001-11-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156012030
ISBN-13: 9780156012034

A stunning novel about family secrets, hailed nationwide as a masterpiece. Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the New Delhi school system, lives in one of the city’s slums with his widowed daughter and his little granddaughter. Bumbling, sad, ironic, Ram is also a man corroded by a terrible secret. With the assassination of the politician Rajiv Gandhi, Ram is plunged into a series of escalating and possibly deadly political betrayals. As he tries to save his family, his daughter reveals a crime he had hoped was long buried-and Ram, struggling to survive, must make amends after a life of de

Author: Mary Balogh
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: romance, regency, signet, bride, obedient
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1989-06-06
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 0451159624
ISBN-13: 9780451159625

Miss Arabella Wilson knows perfectly well that the handsome Lord Geoffrey Astor is marrying her only out of a sense of duty. She resigns herself to this bargain and expects no more--until she commits the most scandalous of sins: she falls in love with her own husband. Regency Romance reissue.

Author: Natalie Wexler
Publisher: Kalorama Press
Keywords: court, supreme, novel, wife, obedient
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2007-10-18
List price: $21.50
ISBN-10: 0615135161
ISBN-13: 9780615135168

A unique blend of actual 18th-century letters and sensitively imagined fiction, A More Obedient Wife tells the story of two women in the 1790s-each in a troubled marriage to a Supreme Court Justice-swept up in the little-known but fascinating early history of our nation’s premier judicial institution. Hannah Iredell, shy and insecure-and saddled with an embarrassing alcoholic mother-in-law-is plagued by doubts about her husband’s fidelity. Hannah Wilson, flirtatious and only nineteen, marries a distinguished and extravagantly wealthy man thirty years her senior, but is soon dragged

Author: Erika E. S. Evasdottir
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: orderly, life, achievement, intellectuals, autonomy, chinese, obedient
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0824828607
ISBN-13: 9780824828608

In the West, the idea of autonomy is often associated with a sense of freedom--a self-interested state of being unfettered by rules or obligations to others. This original anthropological study explores a type of "obedient" autonomy that thrives on setbacks, blossoms as more rules are imposed, and flourishes in adversity. Obedient Autonomy analyzes this model, and explains its precepts through examining the specialized and highly organized discipline of archaeology in China. The book follows Chinese students on their journey to becoming full-fledged archaeologists in a bureaucracy-saturate

Author: Warren W. Wiersbe
Publisher: David C. Cook
Keywords: faith, series, commentary, living, secret, genesis, learning, obedient
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1991-05-03
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0896938751
ISBN-13: 9780896938755

You Can Live the Life of FaithThe Apostle Paul says that those who believe in Jesus Christ "are children of Abraham." The Old Testament patriarch is our father in the faith, and like him we will be blessed if we believe in the Lord.But what is faith and how can you get it? Warren Wiersbe’s expository study of Genesis 12-25, focusing on the life and faith of Abraham, will answer your questions. In a practical and personal way, he explains: • How the life of faith begins • The four tests of true biblical faith • How to have "overcoming faith" as you face life’s battle

Author: Elizabeth Rice Handford
Publisher: Sword of the Lord
Keywords: happiness, blessing, home, way, god, obedient, wife, obey
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 1995-01
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0873985516
ISBN-13: 9780873985512

Elizabeth Rich Handford uses God’s Word to present the reason for a wife’s subjection to her husband. She shows how the husband and wife relationship is the foundation for a happy and godly home. And at the same time, she shows how a submissive wife is not an inferior partner.

Author: Glenn Wallach
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: american, culture, generations, youth, sons, discourse, obedient
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1997-02
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1558490574
ISBN-13: 9781558490574

This work examines how the discourses surrounding "youth" and "generations" in America, from the colonial era to the eve of the Civil War, emphasized continuity rather than conflict. This invested the young with a special responsibility for building a new society that preserved traditional values.