Thank You God. Thank You Jesus.: The Story of Vu (Victor) Pham

Thank You God. Thank You Jesus.: The Story of Vu (Victor) Pham

Author: Meyer Konnie

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2019-07

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781545671986

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A desperate father manages to have his two young sons smuggled onto a fishing boat with eighteen strangers escaping war-torn South Vietnam. Running out of food and water, the boat carrying six year old Vu and eight year old Giang is adrift on the ocean for five days. All are saved from starvation when would-be pirates toss them handfuls of burned rice. After spending over two years in refugee camps throughout Thailand, the boys end up in Oakland, California where they get caught up in the gang culture of theft, guns, drugs, and alcohol. Giang ends up in prison for murder. Having escaped death many times, Vu feels God's presence in his life, yet struggles with his faith. Eventually Vu marries beautiful Mylinh, and together they work at turning their lives around. Through the grace of God and the forgiveness of Jesus, Vu is able to leave his gang lifestyle behind to become a successful businessman, helping area youth find strength through fitness and faith. Konnie Meyer is a retired third grade school teacher, who spends part of her busy schedule writing a bi-monthly column for a local newspaper. She is the mother of three grown children, and enjoys spoiling her eight grandchildren ages two through eleven. Married for forty-seven years to her high school sweetheart, Konnie and her husband Bruce enjoy an active, but peaceful life on their farm with two dogs in rural northwest Ohio.


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Download or read book Thank You God. Thank You Jesus.: The Story of Vu (Victor) Pham written by Meyer Konnie and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate father manages to have his two young sons smuggled onto a fishing boat with eighteen strangers escaping war-torn South Vietnam. Running out of food and water, the boat carrying six year old Vu and eight year old Giang is adrift on the ocean for five days. All are saved from starvation when would-be pirates toss them handfuls of burned rice. After spending over two years in refugee camps throughout Thailand, the boys end up in Oakland, California where they get caught up in the gang culture of theft, guns, drugs, and alcohol. Giang ends up in prison for murder. Having escaped death many times, Vu feels God's presence in his life, yet struggles with his faith. Eventually Vu marries beautiful Mylinh, and together they work at turning their lives around. Through the grace of God and the forgiveness of Jesus, Vu is able to leave his gang lifestyle behind to become a successful businessman, helping area youth find strength through fitness and faith. Konnie Meyer is a retired third grade school teacher, who spends part of her busy schedule writing a bi-monthly column for a local newspaper. She is the mother of three grown children, and enjoys spoiling her eight grandchildren ages two through eleven. Married for forty-seven years to her high school sweetheart, Konnie and her husband Bruce enjoy an active, but peaceful life on their farm with two dogs in rural northwest Ohio.

Lie With Me

Lie With Me

Author: Philippe Besson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1501197894

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“I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that life itself might be the villain standing in their way. A stunning and heart-gripping tale.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice The critically acclaimed, internationally beloved novel by Philippe Besson—“this year’s Call Me By Your Name” (Vulture) with raves in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vanity Fair, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Out—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress and writer Molly Ringwald. In this “sexy, pure, and radiant story” (Out), Philippe chances upon a young man outside a hotel in Bordeaux who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Thomas is the son of a farmer; Philippe the son of a school principal. At school, they don’t acknowledge each other. But they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair. Despite the intensity of their attraction, from the beginning Thomas knows how it will end: “Because you will leave and we will stay,” he says. Philippe becomes a writer and travels the world, though as this “tender, sensuous novel” (The New York Times Book Review) shows, he never lets go of the relationship that shaped him, and every story he’s ever told. “Beautifully translated by Ringwald” (NPR), this is “Philippe Besson’s book of a lifetime...an elegiac tale of first, hidden love” (The New Yorker).


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Download or read book Lie With Me written by Philippe Besson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that life itself might be the villain standing in their way. A stunning and heart-gripping tale.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice The critically acclaimed, internationally beloved novel by Philippe Besson—“this year’s Call Me By Your Name” (Vulture) with raves in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vanity Fair, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Out—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress and writer Molly Ringwald. In this “sexy, pure, and radiant story” (Out), Philippe chances upon a young man outside a hotel in Bordeaux who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Thomas is the son of a farmer; Philippe the son of a school principal. At school, they don’t acknowledge each other. But they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair. Despite the intensity of their attraction, from the beginning Thomas knows how it will end: “Because you will leave and we will stay,” he says. Philippe becomes a writer and travels the world, though as this “tender, sensuous novel” (The New York Times Book Review) shows, he never lets go of the relationship that shaped him, and every story he’s ever told. “Beautifully translated by Ringwald” (NPR), this is “Philippe Besson’s book of a lifetime...an elegiac tale of first, hidden love” (The New Yorker).

Love is Our Mission

Love is Our Mission

Author: Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor

Published: 2015-01-22

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 161278934X

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Światowe Spotkanie RodzinFiladelfi a, Pensylwania, 22-27 września 2015 r. „Rodzina, która doświadcza radości wiary, daje temu wyraz w sposób naturalny. Rodzina, to sól ziemi i światło świata; to drożdże życia społecznego”. -- Papież Franciszek, 27 października 2013 r. Światowe Spotkania Rodzin, zapoczątkowane za pontyfi katu św. Jana Pawła II, są radosnym świętem rodziny i wiary obchodzonym co trzy lata. Arcybiskup Filadelfi i Charles J. Chaput powiedział, że spotkanie w roku 2015 „ma być podarunkiem nie tylko dla katolików w Filadelfi i, ale dla wszystkich ludzi dobrej woli na szerokim świecie”. "We are called to acknowledge how beautiful, true and good it is to start a family, to be a family today... We are called to make known God's magnificent plan for the family...as we accompany them amidst so many difficulties." - Pope Francis, February 20, 2014 For Pope Francis, as for his predecessors Saint John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, this is more than just talk. It is a rallying cry. This is the focus of the 2015 World Meeting of Families: Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive. For Catholics everywhere, it is a time to renew our focus on the family, the "domestic church" - what it means, why it's important, how it fits in with God's plan for us, and how we can become who God created us to be. Here is a new, fresh, and insightful way to do just that. In Love is Our Mission, you can easily explore Catholic teaching on marriage, family, sexuality, children, human dignity, and the sanctity of life. It's a guided tour through scripture and 2000 years of Church teaching in which you are awakened to the relationship God wants to have with you, the family, and ultimately the world. Self-reflection or group discussion questions bring the teachings home in a very real and practical way. As Pope Francis has said, we must, "keep before us the beauty of the family and marriage, the greatness of this human reality which is so simple and yet so rich..."


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Download or read book Love is Our Mission written by Archdiocese of Philadelphia and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Światowe Spotkanie RodzinFiladelfi a, Pensylwania, 22-27 września 2015 r. „Rodzina, która doświadcza radości wiary, daje temu wyraz w sposób naturalny. Rodzina, to sól ziemi i światło świata; to drożdże życia społecznego”. -- Papież Franciszek, 27 października 2013 r. Światowe Spotkania Rodzin, zapoczątkowane za pontyfi katu św. Jana Pawła II, są radosnym świętem rodziny i wiary obchodzonym co trzy lata. Arcybiskup Filadelfi i Charles J. Chaput powiedział, że spotkanie w roku 2015 „ma być podarunkiem nie tylko dla katolików w Filadelfi i, ale dla wszystkich ludzi dobrej woli na szerokim świecie”. "We are called to acknowledge how beautiful, true and good it is to start a family, to be a family today... We are called to make known God's magnificent plan for the family...as we accompany them amidst so many difficulties." - Pope Francis, February 20, 2014 For Pope Francis, as for his predecessors Saint John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, this is more than just talk. It is a rallying cry. This is the focus of the 2015 World Meeting of Families: Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive. For Catholics everywhere, it is a time to renew our focus on the family, the "domestic church" - what it means, why it's important, how it fits in with God's plan for us, and how we can become who God created us to be. Here is a new, fresh, and insightful way to do just that. In Love is Our Mission, you can easily explore Catholic teaching on marriage, family, sexuality, children, human dignity, and the sanctity of life. It's a guided tour through scripture and 2000 years of Church teaching in which you are awakened to the relationship God wants to have with you, the family, and ultimately the world. Self-reflection or group discussion questions bring the teachings home in a very real and practical way. As Pope Francis has said, we must, "keep before us the beauty of the family and marriage, the greatness of this human reality which is so simple and yet so rich..."

Catfish and Mandala

Catfish and Mandala

Author: Andrew X. Pham

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-09-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780312267179

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Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey--a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam--made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to America as "boat people." Following the suicide of his sister, Pham quit his job, sold all of his possessions, and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert, around a thousand-mile loop from Narita to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds "nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness." In Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen, except, of course, by his relatives, who doubt that as a Vietnamese he has the stamina to complete his journey ("Only Westerners can do it"); and in the United States he's considered anything but American. A vibrant, picaresque memoir written with narrative flair and an eye-opening sense of adventure, Catfish and Mandala is an unforgettable search for cultural identity.


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Download or read book Catfish and Mandala written by Andrew X. Pham and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey--a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam--made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His father had been a POW of the Vietcong; his family came to America as "boat people." Following the suicide of his sister, Pham quit his job, sold all of his possessions, and embarked on a year-long bicycle journey that took him through the Mexican desert, around a thousand-mile loop from Narita to Kyoto in Japan; and, after five months and 2,357 miles, to Saigon, where he finds "nothing familiar in the bombed-out darkness." In Vietnam, he's taken for Japanese or Korean by his countrymen, except, of course, by his relatives, who doubt that as a Vietnamese he has the stamina to complete his journey ("Only Westerners can do it"); and in the United States he's considered anything but American. A vibrant, picaresque memoir written with narrative flair and an eye-opening sense of adventure, Catfish and Mandala is an unforgettable search for cultural identity.

In the Crossfire

In the Crossfire

Author: Ngo Van

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1849350132

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A stunning autobiographical account of the fight for freedom in Ho Chi Min's Vietnam.


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Download or read book In the Crossfire written by Ngo Van and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning autobiographical account of the fight for freedom in Ho Chi Min's Vietnam.

U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The defining year, 1968

U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The defining year, 1968

Author: United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The defining year, 1968 written by United States. Marine Corps. History and Museums Division and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Planet of Slums

Planet of Slums

Author: Mike Davis

Publisher: Verso

Published: 2007-09-17

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1844671607

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Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.


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Download or read book Planet of Slums written by Mike Davis and published by Verso. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.

Christianity Rediscovered

Christianity Rediscovered

Author: Vincent J. Donovan

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Download or read book Christianity Rediscovered written by Vincent J. Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love Grows Everywhere

Love Grows Everywhere

Author: Barry Timms

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books

Published: 2021-12-07

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0711264201

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Love Grows Everywhere is a gentle and lyrical story that connects the love that nurtures plants with the love that nurtures our relationships with one another.


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Download or read book Love Grows Everywhere written by Barry Timms and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Grows Everywhere is a gentle and lyrical story that connects the love that nurtures plants with the love that nurtures our relationships with one another.

The Way We Get By

The Way We Get By

Author: Neil LaBute

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 0822233991

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Meet Beth and Doug, two people who have no problems getting dates with their partners of choice. After a drunken party and a hot night, they wake up to a blurry morning where the rules of attraction, sex, and society are waiting for them before their first cup of coffee. It’s very awkward—and it also leads the pair to ponder how much they really know about each other, and how much they really care about what other people think. THE WAY WE GET BY is a play about love and lust and the whole damn thing.


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Download or read book The Way We Get By written by Neil LaBute and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Beth and Doug, two people who have no problems getting dates with their partners of choice. After a drunken party and a hot night, they wake up to a blurry morning where the rules of attraction, sex, and society are waiting for them before their first cup of coffee. It’s very awkward—and it also leads the pair to ponder how much they really know about each other, and how much they really care about what other people think. THE WAY WE GET BY is a play about love and lust and the whole damn thing.