Ergebnis für "Stoner" in Politik

In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo’s teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing, and the Mlambos fear the worst. Their enigmatic lodger, Zamani, seems to be their last, best hope for finding him. Since Bukhosi’s disappearance, Zamani has been preternaturally helpful: hanging missing posters in downtown Bulawayo, handing out fliers to passersby, and joining in family prayer vigils with the flamboyant Reverend Pastor from Agnes’s Blessed Anointings church. It’s almost like Zamani is part of the family....

Mia Verita is living life FFS: Forty, Female, Single, (and finally free). After a painful divorce leaves her unemployed and battling self-doubt, she sets her sights on something bigger: flipping a long-held red seat in the Texas legislature. With no political background, a dwindling bank account, and ghosts from her past tracking her every move, Mia steps onto the campaign trail determined to spark change.

What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peninsula? In Saramago's lovely fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by portents that burden them with a bemusing sense of responsibility.

Stones of Temple David takes twists and turns across various places and cultures. The novel begins in pre-war Poland and then it leads the listener through the dark ages of communism, escape to the free world, love, betrayal, espionage, and the evils of bureaucracy in the US. It also includes hallucinating time-travel.

The story takes place almost entirely inside a priest's confessional office. Chapters alternate between a psychiatrist giving her confessions to the priest and the confessions of the very patients mentioned by the psychiatrist in her sessions. Every sentence that is written in the past tense is spoken aloud to the priest or by her, and every sentence that is written in the present tense is one of the priest's thoughts or an action she experiences.

What does it take to make a domestic terrorist out of your average law-abiding citizen? For Adam Johnston, it didn't happen overnight, but ask yourself how you would react if your father was accused of treason when his only crime was advocating anti-war policy? How would you handle being arrested knowing that you were innocent and that you were only being used by the government as leverage against your own family?