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A BOOK OF ANGELS BURNHAM, SOPHY
New York Wellspring/Ballantine 1990 0-345-36157-1 / 9780345361578 Paperback As New
Review Praise for A Book of Angels "Like all good books, it exceeds the subject and illuminates the tough, tiring, and sometimes miraculous business of living, where angels sometimes help out...The visible and invisible dance with each other continually and as far as angels are concerned, now you see them, now you don't. A Book of Angels gives us a lovely, sustained glimpse." Chicago Tribune "Charming eclectic." The Washington Post "A compelling book." The Baltimore Sun "Lovely...A Book of Angels is the apt addition to any home in which wonder and joy are still appreciated... An inspiring and touching book." Cape Cod Times--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description: A BOOK OF ANGELS tells not only the extraordinary true stories of present-day encounters with angels, but also traces the understanding and study of angels through history and in different cultures. Discover what angels look like, whom they chose to visit, how they enter our lives, and so much more.
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ANGEL LETTERS Burnham, Sophy
New York Random House Publishing Group 1991 0-345-37342-1 / 9780345373427 Hardcover As New Condition
From the Publisher "[A] PRETTY LITTLE BOOK ABOUT MIRACLES. . .Sometimes funny, sometimes reverent, sometimes inspirational." -L.A. Daily News Sophy Burnham's name has become synonymous with angels. Her first book about the beautiful presence of celestial beings in human affairs, A Book of Angels, was embraced by readers across the country and ultimately soared onto the New York Times bestseller list. So beloved is A Book of Angels that it generated a great wave of heartfelt response. Hundreds of ordinary people have written to Sophy Burnham about their own encounters with heavenly beings. Now, in Angel Letters, Burnham shares some of their moving stories. These experiences of healing, rescue, warning, and comfort, of angelic blessings seen and unseen, will bring wonder, solace, and inspiration to anyone who welcomes a little angelic intervention in everyday life. "Will make the reader stop and think-and believe in a better world." -The Pittsburgh Press Synopsis "[A] PRETTY LITTLE BOOK ABOUT MIRACLES. . .Sometimes funny, sometimes reverent, sometimes inspirational." -L.A. Daily News Sophy Burnham's name has become synonymous with angels. Her first book about the beautiful presence of celestial beings in human affairs, A Book of Angels, was embraced by readers across the country and ultimately soared onto the New York Times bestseller list. So beloved is A Book of Angels that it generated a great wave of heartfelt response. Hundreds of ordinary people have written to Sophy Burnham about their own encounters with heavenly beings. Now, in Angel Letters, Burnham shares some of their moving stories. These experiences of healing, rescue, warning, and comfort, of angelic blessings seen and unseen, will bring wonder, solace, and inspiration to anyone who welcomes a little angelic intervention in everyday life. "Will make the reader stop and think-and believe in a better world." -The Pittsburgh Press Annotation A Book of Angels was a surprise smash last season, inspiring an outpouring of emotion from its readers. Sophy Burnham's "celebration" of spirits caused many to write her about their own angelic experiences. Now Burnham has collected the best of these letters in a divine new book.
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21.00 USD
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FOR WRITERS ONLY Burnham, Sophy
New York Ballantine Books 1994 0-345-37317-0 / 9780345373175 Hardcover As New Condition
From Publishers Weekly Call it emotional rescue, this slight but useful book was compiled while Burnham (A Book of Angels) was writing steadily with no reward or promise of acknowledgment. Thus, on facing pages, she offers quotes about the struggle by published authors, then her own meditations and anecdotes about the strains of the writing life. While longer books (Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird) discuss both emotion and craft, Burnham covers the appropriate bases for the anxious, would-be artist: the trauma of beginning, the search for a place to create, the need to free-fall into fiction. No loneliness, she observes trenchantly, matches that reached when you are continually "available to others at the expense of your inner voice." And she recalls, when she once felt like a failure, meeting an artist who reminded her we can "work with all our hearts" but cannot ask for recognition. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Book Description "I see but one rule: to be clear." Stendhal If only it were as easy for most writers as it was for Stendhal. The truth about the act of writing is much more varied, even violent. In fact, there seem to be as many contradictory admonitions about how to go about doing it as there are writers themselves. With that in mind, writer Sophy Burnham has collected the thoughts of some of the greatest writers and laced them with her own observations and experiences of the writer's life. With an emphasis on the emotions that writing wrings from those who practice it, Burnham writes about beginning a work prematurely, the ecstasy when the writing is really flowing, the crash that can follow the flight -- and how to pick yourself up and continue. Most of all, you will be reassured, enlightened, and inspired to learn that, in your own writing struggles, you are not alone.
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REVELATIONS Burnham, Sophy
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Random House Publishing Group 1992 0-345-37233-6 / 9780345372338 Hardcover As New Condition
From the Publisher Naughton, Virginia, in the late 1950s was a town of old money, even older prejudice, and deeply rooted complacency. It should have been obvious to the lay leaders of the Episcopal Church that an unorthodox and troubled man like Thomas Lewis Buckford was not the right choice for pastor of Trinity Church. Tom Buckford is a man in spiritual bankruptcy. His marriage is an empty shell. The wealth and snobbery of his new parish make a mockery of his ideals, and despair has blotted out his love of God. Then Tom meets Elizabeth McEwen and sets out on a course of disaster. Tom and Elizabeth fall in love with the famished hunger of long deprivation. But this forbidden love affair soon leaps beyond the bounds of physical passion to become a consuming spiritual awakening. Just as she did in A Book of Angels, Sophy Burnham has created a magnificent portrait of the mystery, the wonder, and the searing beauty of spiritual experience. Filled with stunning insight and riveting drama, Revelations is ultimately a story of confrontation between God's will and man's, between good and evil, between the material and the spiritual, between human laws and transcendent love. Publishers Weekly Having explored heavenly visitations in her nonfiction bestsellers A Book of Angels and Angel Letters , Burnham again turns to religious themes in this well-crafted, highly absorbing novel. As the 1950s draw to a close, Episcopal minister Tom Buckford arrives in Naughton, Va., emotionally and spiritually exhausted by a failing marriage and a personal crisis of faith. Accustomed to ministering to the poor, he now leads a flock of rich, insular WASPs who are horrified by his progressive theological and racial views. A love affair with a member of his congregation restores his joy in living and leads to a direct revelation from God, but a charge of heresy soon forces him to resign from the church. He becomes a missionary, working with Indians in South and Central America until he is murdered by a Guatemalan death squad. Despite its readability, this intriguing study of spiritual bankruptcy--not Buckford's, but that of his congregation and his cynical bishop--seems at times overly reminiscent of A. J. Cronin's Keys of the Kingdom ; Buckford's interview with his bishop, with similar self-consciousness, evokes the Grand Inquisitor scene in The Brothers Karamazov . Yet Burnham's dramatic narrative invests her material with drama, irony and pathos, and provides an inspiring spiritual dimension as well. ( Sept. ) Kirkus Reviews Bestselling Burnham-author of the nonfiction A Book of Angels and Angel Letters and more-continues to explore the power of spiritual inspiration in this compelling 50's-era tragedy-featuring a Virginia pastor who falls in love with a married woman and, partly through her, experiences God's presence. From the first day, it was clear that young Thomas Buckford was the wrong man to take over as pastor of the Naughton, Virginia, Episcopal church. Idealistic, intense, disconcertingly handsome, and a veteran of a poverty-stricken parish up north, Buckford shares little with the cocktail-slugging, old-monied congregation that has brought him here. Though most of the Naughton parishioners gamely try to accommodate a priest who arrives late at parties, performs house repairs while shirtless, and wanders the neighboring hills pondering the Bhagavad-Gita, neither side is prepared when Buckford falls in love with a young, married, well-born member of the congregation. The couple's ensuing romance leads to spiritual, then carnal ecstasy, moves on to overwhelming guilt, and ends finally in what the despairing Buckford has been seeking all along-a sign of God's presence in the form of an ecstatic vision. Buckford's spiritual reawakening inspires him to shed Church protocol and instead speak directly to his congregation of love, faith, and the terrible beauty of every moment of their lives. Inevitably, his Christ-like fervor causes the community's already smoldering resentment, envy, and fear to explode. Buckford is doomed-but the Episc
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THE ECSTATIC JOURNEY Burnham, Sophy
New York Ballantine Books 1997 0-345-39507-7 / 9780345395078 Hardcover Very good Condition
Within this spiritual autobiography, bestselling author Sophy Burnham (author of The Art Crowd and A Book of Angels) reveals the myths, ordinariness, and facts of mystical experience. The myth, according to Burnham, is that angels will appear before you in times of soul-wrenching duress. The fact is that mystical experiences rarely happen when you expect them. And the ordinariness is that an encounter with the divine can occur at any time, such as immediately following a weary prayer in a bathtub (as it has with Burnham). Threading her own story with numerous firsthand accounts of mystical encounters, Burnham demystifies the mysterious while showing readers how to recognize, invite, and learn from extraordinary encounters. --Gail Hudson Review "Sophy Burnham has written an inspiring book about the most majestic dimension of human experience: the mystical realm. Mystics, it is said, swim in the sea in which the unwise drown. Learn to swim: Read this book." --LARRY DOSSEY, M.D. Author of Prayer Is Good Medicine and Healing Words "Passionate, comprehensive, and beautifully written, The Ecstatic Journey is a feast of fact and myth, knowledge and wisdom that will nourish and enlighten every spiritual voyager." --Women's Magazine "Sophy Burnham has written another very rich contribution to our coming into contact with the human spirit. I greatly respect and admire her work."
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