After Swain Hammond, an aloof minister, hears God speak and attempts a miracle cure for Jakey Miles, a youngster accidentally blinded when Swain heard God, his congregation begins to worry about their minister's peculiar behavior

Revelation: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Payne, Peggy

United States

Simon&Schuster

After Swain Hammond, an aloof minister, hears God speak and attempts a miracle cure for Jakey Miles, a youngster accidentally blinded when Swain heard God, his congregation begins to worry about their minister's peculiar behavior

Revelation

Banks Channel Books

From the author: This book is the story of a women's clothing company that is built on helping every person develop their individual style and meet their personal goals. That means every employee as well as every customer. I found as I began work on this project, sponsored by the clothing company, that what might have been for me a routine copy-writing job instead became an important piece of my life's work. As an outsider to the company, I realized early in the process of the research that this organization was serious-and enthusiastic-about encouraging development of individual potential. This was a philosophy close to my own heart, an idea that I too want to promote. So writing for Doncaster helped me to get out a piece of my own message. Thus, I became an example of the company's hiring philosophy: to find people who can meet the company's needs through fulfilling their own individual dreams.

Doncaster: A legacy of personal style

Tanner Co

Travelers become captives in the Saraswati Guest House when inter-religious violence traps them in the ancient town of Varanasi, India, on the sacred Ganges River with the eccentric guest-house keeper, Madame Natraja. A first novel. 12,500 first printing.

Sister India

Riverhead Hardcover

The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the Ganges The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House, and meeting Madame Natraja, "a one-woman blend of East and West," as well worth a side trip. Over the course of a weekend, several guests turn up, shocked to encounter a three-hundred-some-pound, surly white woman in a sari. Then a series of Hindu-Muslim murders leads to a citywide curfew, and they unwittingly become her captives. So begins a period of days blending into nights as Natraja and her Indian cook become entangled in a web of religious violence, and their guests fall under the spell of this ancient kingdom--at once enthralled and repelled by the begging children, the public funeral pyres, the holy men bathing in the Ganges at dawn.
This is a traveler's tale, a story about the strange chemistry that develops from unexpected intimacies on foreign ground. And Peggy Payne's extraordinary talent vividly conjures up the smells of the perfume market, the rhythms of holy men chanting at dawn, the claustrophobic feel of this ancient city's tiny lanes, and the magic of the setting sun over the holy Ganges. For anyone who has harbored a secret desire to go to India and be transformed, Sister India, called "mesmerizing" by Gail Harris and "a modern version of E. M. Forster's classic A Passage to India" by Dan Wakefield, takes you on this journey without ever leaving home.

Riverhead Trade

A novel for courageous readers and seekers, COBALT BLUE is a turbulent, gorgeous ride into sacred sex, compulsion, obsession, unmentionable attractions, and ultimate empowering redemption. Burned out from work and a break-up, Andie Branson, a 38-year-old commercial artist in a small Southern town, hungers for whatever will force her out of her familiar limits. She has a sudden, shocking religious encounter, kundalini rising, the physical experience of tantric enlightenment. When this mysterious, seductive yet terrifying brush with the divine catapults Andie into compulsive sexual behavior she must find what has seized her and stop these new disturbing cravings. Andie's struggle to regain control of her mind and body is complicated by a too-close connection with her glamorous parents, especially her magnetically attractive father, and by working closely with a bigoted U.S. Senator, the man who for her personifies evil. Her story ranges from the elegant golf town of Pinehurst, North Carolina, to the raucous and shadowy byways of pre-Katrina New Orleans, with pauses in India, Ecuador, and other exotic locations.

Cobalt Blue

Religion & Spirituality

Roundfire Books

Sensing she's about to get bad news, Darcy, sixteen, feels herself--or her spirit, to be more exact--rise weightless, out of her body, lifting off the seat of the patio chair. How can this be happening? Her light-bodied airy self hovers high in a backyard tree.\nShe is not alone! A beautiful teenage boy, shy as a deer, stands in the branches nearby. He sees her and vanishes--as she is pulled back into her body, again tight-packed in her skin.\nHer father is talking. Her parents are separating. She's stunned--the three of them always seemed special, unbreakable. Yet she's wildly excited by what just happened--though fears she's lost her family and her mind in the same afternoon.\nWhile her father is in his own religious crisis, she enters an entrancing spirit realm. Must she live a half-life in each of two worlds or must she make an impossible choice? Can the tree boy Risto ever pass as a regular guy? And what becomes of a young spirit being like him? In My Life On Earth and Elsewhere, Darcy has to find a way around barriers present since before the beginning of time.

My Life on Earth and Elsewhere

Teen & Young Adult

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hydra Publications

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Revelation: A Novel

Revelation

Doncaster: A legacy of personal style

Sister India

Sister India

Cobalt Blue

My Life on Earth and Elsewhere