A Question of Mercy

A Question of Mercy
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Publisher : Grove Press
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0802135498
ISBN-13 : 9780802135490
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis A Question of Mercy by : David Rabe

David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers. Thomas and Anthony are lovers struggling with Anthony's final, exhausting battle with AIDS. Joined by their friend Susanah and a retired doctor, whose help Thomas has requested , they fashion a heartbreaking friendship as they work through the stages of a plan to relieve Anthony of his illness and his life. Rabe creates a passionate depiction of four people confronted with the reality of a loved one's fight with death, and a compelling dramatic event that poses the question: "What would you do?"

Mercy Matters

Mercy Matters
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Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
Total Pages : 128
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ISBN-10 : 9781612789989
ISBN-13 : 1612789986
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Mercy Matters by : Mathew N. Schmalz

“Wherever there are Christians, everyone should find an oasis of mercy.” —Pope Francis Whether dealing with adoption, sobriety, bullying, the Boston Marathon bombing, or friendship with a Jehovah’s Witness, Mathew Schmalz’s own life serves as the backdrop for his reflections on the complex nature of mercy—how we give it, and how we receive it. From a home for lepers in India to a halfway house in the Bronx, the author probes his experiences to reveal mercy as a virtue that doesn’t necessarily come easily, but is infinitely rewarding. Discussion and reflection questions at the end of each chapter allow you to dig deeper into your own ideas about mercy, what it looks like in your life, and how to move toward a more merciful existence. Perfect for individual or group study.

The Book of Mercy

The Book of Mercy
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Publisher : Mariner Books
Total Pages : 280
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0156005190
ISBN-13 : 9780156005197
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book of Mercy by : Kathleen Cambor

Isolated from his children and tormented by memories of his flamboyant wife, a retired fireman becomes so fascinated with the lost art of alchemy and its promise of immortality that he is institutionalized.

A Mercy

A Mercy
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9780307373076
ISBN-13 : 030737307X
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis A Mercy by : Toni Morrison

A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.

Ask No Mercy

Ask No Mercy
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Publisher : AmazonCrossing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1503958787
ISBN-13 : 9781503958784
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Ask No Mercy by : Martin Österdahl

Global intrigue, espionage, and mystery from a thrilling new international voice. Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent in the Stockholm archipelago, and his own mysterious family past. Now behind a desk at Vektor, a think tank conducting research on Russia, he's met his match--and fallen in love--with fierce fellow operative Pashie Kovalenko. Like all of Vektor, she's set her sights on the tenuous future of her country. When Pashie goes missing in Saint Petersburg, Anger rushes headlong into a volatile Russia, where a new president is about to be elected in the midst of a technological revolution. At the movement's heart is a start-up Pashie had been investigating, one surrounded by rumors of organized crime and corruption. But the truth is more shocking than Anger could have ever expected. Now time is running out for Pashie. Racing through a storm of violence and deception, Anger gets ever closer to a sensational secret--and to the Russian madman with dreams of restoring one of the cruelest regimes in the history of the world.

The Justice of Constantine

The Justice of Constantine
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 310
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780472118298
ISBN-13 : 0472118293
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis The Justice of Constantine by : John Dillon

An examination of Constantine the Great's legislation and government

Mercy in the City

Mercy in the City
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Publisher : Loyola Press
Total Pages : 143
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780829438932
ISBN-13 : 0829438939
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Mercy in the City by : Kerry Weber

When Jesus asked us to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, and visit the imprisoned, he didn’t mean it literally, right? Kerry Weber, a modern, young, single woman in New York City sets out to see if she can practice the Corporal Works of Mercy in an authentic, personal, meaningful manner while maintaining a full, robust, regular life. Weber, a lay Catholic, explores the Works of Mercy in the real world, with a gut-level honesty and transparency that people of urban, country, and suburban locales alike can relate to. Mercy in the City is for anyone who is struggling to live in a meaningful, merciful way amid the pressures of “real life.” For those who feel they are already overscheduled and too busy, for those who assume that they are not “religious enough” to practice the Works of Mercy, for those who worry that they are alone in their efforts to live an authentic life, Mercy in the City proves that by living as people for others, we learn to connect as people of faith.

The Office of Mercy

The Office of Mercy
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Publisher : Penguin Group
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780143124375
ISBN-13 : 0143124374
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Office of Mercy by : Ariel Djanikian

“A cool and compelling” (Flavorwire) debut of a new postapocalyptic world for fans of The Hunger Games On the screen and on the page, dystopian fantasies have captivated the public imagination. In The Office of Mercy, debut novelist Ariel Djanikian has conceived a chilling, post-apocalyptic page-turner that has earned her glowing comparisons to George Orwell and Suzanne Collins. In America-Five, there is no suffering, hunger, or inequality. Its citizens inhabit a high-tech Utopia established after a global catastrophe known as the Storm radically altered the planet. Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley works in the Office of Mercy, tasked with humanely terminating—or “sweeping”—the nomadic Storm survivors who live Outside. But after she joins a select team and ventures Outside for the first time, Natasha slowly unravels the mysteries surrounding the Storm—and the secretive elders who run America-Five.

River Marked

River Marked
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 306
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780441020003
ISBN-13 : 0441020003
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis River Marked by : Patricia Briggs

In the sixth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, coyote shifter Mercy Thompson and Alpha werewolf Adam finally reach the alter. But when they make the Columbia River their honeymoon destination, their newlywed bliss turns into a fight for survival... Being a different breed of shapeshifter—a walker—Mercy can see ghosts, but the spirit of her long-gone father has never visited her. Until now. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River—and innocent people are dying. As other walkers make their presence known to Mercy, she must reconnect with her heritage to exorcise the world of the legend known as the river devil.

A Piglet Named Mercy

A Piglet Named Mercy
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 37
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781536210453
ISBN-13 : 1536210455
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis A Piglet Named Mercy by : Kate DiCamillo

Every porcine wonder was once a piglet! Celebrate the joy of a new arrival with this endearing picture-book prequel to the New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something different would happen. And one day it does, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door. In a delightful origin story for the star of the Mercy Watson series, a tiny piglet brings love (and chaos) to Deckawoo Drive — and the Watsons’ lives will never be the same.