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Putnam Adult. Good. 24 x 15cm. Hardcover. 2004. 448 pages. Ex-library.<br>A former senior military analyst with t he U.S.Naval War College offers a thought-provoking analysis of t h… Mehr…

Putnam Adult. Good. 24 x 15cm. Hardcover. 2004. 448 pages. Ex-library.<br>A former senior military analyst with t he U.S.Naval War College offers a thought-provoking analysis of t he United States and global security that utilizes recent militar y history and strategy; economic, political, and cultural factors ; and foreign policy and security issues to examine the future of war and peace, as well as America's role in the international co mmunity. 100,000 first printing. 100,000 first printing. Editori al Reviews Review This bold and important book strive s to be a practical strategy for a Second American Century. In th is brilliantly argued work, Thomas Barnett calls globalization th is countryÂ's gift to history and explains why its wide dissemina tion is critical to the security of not only America but the enti re world. As a senior military analyst for the U.S. Naval War Col lege, Barnett is intimately familiar with the culture of the Pent agon and the State Department (both of which he believes are due for significant overhauls). He explains how the Pentagon, still i n shock at the rapid dissolution of the once evil empire, spent t he 1990s grasping for a long-term strategy to replace containment . The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Barnett argues, re vealed the gap between an outdated Cold War-era military and a ra dically different one needed to deal with emerging threats. He be lieves that America is the prime mover in developing a future wor th creating not because of its unrivaled capacity to wage war, bu t due to its ability to ensure security around the world. Further , he believes that the U.S. has a moral responsibility to create a better world and the way he proposes to do that is by bringing all nations into the fold of globalization, or what he calls conn ectedness. Eradicating disconnectedness, therefore, is the defini ng security task of our age. His stunning predictions of a U.S. a nnexation of much of Latin America and Canada within 50 years as well as an end to war in the foreseeable future guarantee that th e book will be controversial. And that's good. The Pentagon's New Map deserves to be widely discussed. Ultimately, however, the mo st impressive aspects of the book is not its revolutionary ideas but its overwhelming optimism. Barnett wants the U.S. to pursue t he dream of global peace with the same zeal that was applied to p reventing global nuclear war with the former Soviet Union. High-l evel civilian policy makers and top military leaders are already familiar with his vision of the future?this book is a briefing fo r the rest of us and it cannot be ignored. --Shawn Carkonen From Publishers Weekly Barnett, professor at the U.S. Naval War Colle ge, takes a global perspective that integrates political, economi c and military elements in a model for the postâ?September 11 wor ld. Barnett argues that terrorism and globalization have combined to end the great-power model of war that has developed over 400 years, since the Thirty Years War. Instead, he divides the world along binary lines. An increasingly expanding Functioning Core of economically developed, politically stable states integrated int o global systems is juxtaposed to a Non-Integrating Gap, the most likely source of threats to U.S. and international security. The gap incorporates Andean South America, the Caribbean, sub-Sahara n Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and much of southwest Asi a. According to Barnett, these regions are dangerous because they are not yet integrated into globalism's core. Until that process is complete, they will continue to lash out. Barnett calls for a division of the U.S. armed forces into two separate parts. One w ill be a quick-strike military, focused on suppressing hostile go vernments and nongovernment entities. The other will be administr atively oriented and assume responsibility for facilitating the t ransition of gap systems into the core. Barnett takes pains to de ny that implementing the new policy will establish America either as a global policeman or an imperial power. Instead, he says the policy reflects that the U.S. is the source of, and model for, g lobalization. We cannot, he argues, abandon our creation without risking chaos. Barnett writes well, and one of the book's most co mpelling aspects is its description of the negotiating, infightin g and backbiting required to get a hearing for unconventional ide as in the national security establishment. Unfortunately, marketi ng the concepts generates a certain tunnel vision. In particular, Barnett, like his intellectual models Thomas Friedman and Franci s Fukuyama, tends to accept the universality of rational-actor mo dels constructed on Western lines. There is little room in Barnet t's structures for the apocalyptic religious enthusiasm that has been contemporary terrorism's driving wheel and that to date has been indifferent to economic and political factors. That makes hi s analytical structure incomplete and more useful as an intellect ual exercise than as the guide to policy described in the book's promotional literature. Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Bookli st It has been generally recognized that the end of the cold war and the emerging threat of international terrorism presented new challenges in planning American diplomatic and military strategy. What has often been lacking is a coherent, integrated vision tha t assesses the new threats to American interests and provides a c omprehensive plan for coping with them. Barnett, a senior strateg ic researcher and professor at the U.S. Naval War College, presen ts his operating theory, which sees the principal threat to Ameri can security arising from dysfunctional or so-called failed state s, which provide fertile ground for the recruitment and sustenanc e of terrorists. On the other hand, as such past adversaries as R ussia and China are integrated into global economic and political systems, they are less threatening. To counter these threats, Ba rnett suggests some bold, even revolutionary, changes in our mili tary structure and in the dispersion and utilization of our force s. Of course, both his analyses and remedies are open to debate, but Barnett's compelling assertions are worthy of strong consider ation and are sure to provoke controversy. Jay Freeman Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review His w ork should be read not only by policy makers and pundits, but by anyone who wants to understand how the world works in the Age of Terror. -Sherri Goodman; Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Thomas Barnett is one of the most thoughtful and original think ers that this generation of national security analysts has produc ed. -John Petersen, President, the Arlington Institute Barnett puts the world into context. -Esquire About the Author Thomas P. M. Barnett is a senior adviser to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Central Command, Special Operations Command, the Joi nt Staff and the Joint Forces Command. He formerly served as a se nior strategic researcher and professor at the U.S. Naval War Col lege and as Assistant for Strategic Futures in the OSD's Office o f Force Transformation. He is a founding partner of the New Rule Sets Project LLC, and his work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and Esquire , where he is now a contributing editor. Excerpt. ® Reprinted b y permission. All rights reserved. Preface An Operating Theory of the World WHEN THE COLD WAR : ED, we thought the world had ch anged. It had-but not in the way we thought. When the Cold War e nded, our real challenge began. The United States had spent so m uch energy during those years trying to prevent the horror of glo bal war that it forgot the dream of global peace. As far as most Pentagon strategists were concerned, America's status as the worl d's sole military superpower was something to preserve, not somet hing to exploit, and because the future was unknowable, they assu med we needed to hedge against all possibilities, all threats, an d all futures. America was better served adopting a wait-and-see strategy, they decided, one that assumed some grand enemy would a rise in the distant future. It was better than wasting precious r esources trying to manage a messy world in the near term. The gra nd strategy...was to avoid grand strategies. I know that sounds incredible, because most people assume there are all sorts of mas ter plans being pursued throughout the U.S. Government. But, amaz ingly, we are still searching for a vision to replace the decades -long containment strategy that America pursued to counter the So viet threat. Until September 11, 2001, the closest thing the Pent agon had to a comprehensive view of the world was simply to call it chaos and uncertainty, two words that implied the impossibilit y of capturing a big-picture perspective of the world's potential futures. Since September 11, at least we have an enemy to attach to all this chaos and uncertainty, but that still leaves us desc ribing horrible futures to be prevented, not positive ones to be created. Today the role of the Defense Department in U.S. nation al security is being radically reshaped by new missions arising i n response to a new international security environment. It is tem pting to view this radical redefinition of the use of U.S. milita ry power around the world as merely the work of senior officials in the Bush Administration, but that is to confuse the midwife wi th the miracle of birth. This Administration is only doing what a ny other administration would eventually have had to do: recast A merica's national security strategy from its Cold War, balance-of -power mind-set to one that reflects the new strategic environmen t. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 simply revealed the yawning gap between the military we built to win the Cold War and the differe nt one we need to build in order to secure globalization's ultima te goal-the end of war as we know it. America stands at the peak of a world historical arc that marks globalization's tipping poi nt. When we chose to resurrect the global economy following the e nd of World War II, our ambitions were at first quite limited: we sought to rebuild globalization on only three key pillars-North America, Western Europe, and Japan. After the Cold War moved beyo nd nuclear brinkmanship to peaceful coexistence, we saw that glob al economy begin to expand across the 1980s to include the so-cal led emerging markets of South America and Developing Asia. When t he Berlin Wall fell in 1989, we had a sense that a new world orde r actually was in the making, although we lacked both the words a nd the vision to enunciate what could be meant by that phrase, ot her than that the East-West divide no longer seemed to matter. In stead of identifying new rule sets in security, we chose to recog nize the complete lack of one, and therefore, as regional securit y issues arose in the post-Cold War era, America responded withou t any global principles to guide its choices. Sometimes we felt o thers' pain and responded, sometimes we simply ignored it. Ameri ca could behave in this fashion because the boom times of the new economy suggested that security issues could take a backseat to the enormous changes being inflicted by the Information Revolutio n. If we were looking for a new operating theory of the world, su rely this was it. Connectivity would trump all, erasing the busin ess cycle, erasing national borders, erasing the very utility of the state in managing a global security order that seemed more vi rtual than real. What was the great global danger as the new mill ennium approached? It was a software bug that might bring down th e global information grid. What role did the Pentagon play in thi s first-ever, absolutely worldwide security event-this defining m oment of the postindustrial age? Virtually none. So America drif ted through the roaring nineties, blissfully unaware that globali zation was speeding ahead with no one at the wheel. The Clinton A dministration spent its time tending to the emerging financial an d technological architecture of the global economy, pushing world wide connectivity for all it was worth in those heady days, assum ing that eventually it would reach even the most disconnected soc ieties. Did we as a nation truly understand the political and sec urity ramifications of encouraging all this connectivity? Could w e understand how some people might view this process of cultural assimilation as a mortal threat? As something worth fighting agai nst? Was a clash of civilizations inevitable? Amazingly, the U.S . military engaged in more crisis-response activity around the wo rld in the 1990s than in any previous decade of the Cold War, yet no national vision arose to explain our expanding role. Globaliz ation seemed to be remaking the world, but meanwhile the U.S. mil itary seemed to be doing nothing more than babysitting chronic se curity situations on the margin. Inside the Pentagon, these crisi s responses were exclusively filed under the new rubric military operations other than war, as if to signify their lack of strateg ic meaning. The Defense Department spent the 1990s ignoring its o wn workload, preferring to plot out its future transformation for future wars against future opponents. America was not a global c op, but at best a global fireman pointing his hose at whichever b laze seemed most eye-catching at the moment. We were not trying t o make the world safe for anything; we just worked to keep these nasty little blazes under control. America was hurtling forward w ithout looking forward. In nautical terms, we were steering by ou r wake. Yet a pattern did emerge with each American crisis respo nse in the 1990s. These deployments turned out to be overwhelming ly concentrated in the regions of the world that were effectively excluded from globalization's Functioning Core-namely, the Carib bean Rim, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Mi ddle East and Southwest Asia, and much of Southeast Asia. These r egions constitute globalization's ozone hole, or what I call its Non-Integrating Gap, where connectivity remains thin or absent. S imply put, if a country was losing out to globalization or reject ing much of its cultural content flows, there was a far greater c hance that the United States would end up sending troops there at some point across the 1990s. But because the Pentagon viewed all these situations as lesser includeds, there was virtually no reb alancing of the U.S. military to reflect the increased load. We k new we ne, Putnam Adult, 2004, 2.5, Harcourt. Very Good. 1.1 x 5.7 x 8.3 inches. Hardcover. 2007. 192 pages. Name on ffep.<br>At a caf table in Lahore, a bearded P akistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to thi s fateful meeting . . . Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped u p by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his infatuation with elegant, beautif ul Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalte d level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopt ed city suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Er ica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love. Editori al Reviews Mohsin Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke, dealt with the confluence of personal and political themes, and his second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, revisits that territory in the person of Changez, a young Pakistani. Told in a single monologue, the na rrative never flags. Changez is by turns naive, sinister, unctuou s, mildly threatening, overbearing, insulting, angry, resentful, and sad. He tells his story to a nameless, mysterious American wh o sits across from him at a Lahore cafe. Educated at Princeton, e mployed by a first-rate valuation firm, Changez was living the Am erican dream, earning more money than he thought possible, caught up in the New York social scene and in love with a beautiful, we althy, damaged girl. The romance is negligible; Erica is emotiona lly unavailable, endlessly grieving the death of her lifelong fri end and boyfriend, Chris. Changez is in Manila on 9/11 and sees the towers come down on TV. He tells the American, ...I smiled. Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be re markably pleased... I was caught up in the symbolism of it all, t he fact that someone had so visibly brought America to her knees. .. When he returns to New York, there is a palpable change in att itudes toward him, starting right at immigration. His name and hi s face render him suspect. Ongoing trouble between Pakistan and India urge Changez to return home for a visit, despite his paren ts' advice to stay where he is. While there, he realizes that he has changed in a way that shames him. I was struck at first by ho w shabby our house appeared... I was saddened to find it in such a state... This was where I came from... and it smacked of lowlin ess. He exorcises that feeling and once again appreciates his hom e for its unmistakable personality and idiosyncratic charm. While at home, he lets his beard grow. Advised to shave it, even by hi s mother, he refuses. It will be his line in the sand, his statem ent about who he is. His company sends him to Chile for another b usiness valuation; his mind filled with the troubles in Pakistan and the U.S. involvement with India that keeps the pressure on. H is work and the money he earns have been overtaken by resentment of the United States and all it stands for. Hamid's prose is fi lled with insight, subtly delivered: I felt my age: an almost chi ldlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that att aches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by w earing a suit in a city not of his birth. In telling of the janis saries, Christian boys captured by Ottomans and trained to be sol diers in the Muslim Army, his Chilean host tells him: The janissa ries were always taken in childhood. It would have been far more difficult to devote themselves to their adopted empire, you see, if they had memories they could not forget. Changez cannot forget , and Hamid makes the reader understand that--and all that follow s. --Valerie Ryan <B class=h1>A Conversation with Mohsin Hamid <A>Set in modern-day Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid's debut novel, Moth Smoke, went on to win awards and was listed as a New York Times N otable Book of the Year. His bold new novel, The Reluctant Fundam entalist, is a daring, fast-paced monologue of a young Pakistani man telling his life story to a mysterious American stranger. It' s a controversial look at the dark side of the American Dream, ex ploring the aftermath of 9/11, international unease, and the dang erous pull of nostalgia. senior editor Brad Thomas Par sons shared an e-mail exchange with Mohsin Hamid to talk about hi s powerful new book Read the Interview with Mohsin Ha mid From Publishers Weekly Hamid's second book (after Moth Smoke ) is an intelligent and absorbing 9/11 novel, written from the pe rspective of Changez, a young Pakistani whose sympathies, despite his fervid immigrant embrace of America, lie with the attackers. The book unfolds as a monologue that Changez delivers to a myste rious American operative over dinner at a Lahore, Pakistan, cafe. Pre-9/11, Princeton graduate Changez is on top of the world: rec ruited by an elite New York financial company, the 22-year-old qu ickly earns accolades from his hard-charging supervisor, plunges into Manhattan's hip social whirl and becomes infatuated with Eri ca, a fellow Princeton graduate pining for her dead boyfriend. Bu t after the towers fall, Changez is subject to intensified scruti ny and physical threats, and his co-workers become markedly less affable as his beard grows in (a form of protest, he says). Erica is committed to a mental institution, and Changez, upset by his adopted country's growing and self-righteous rage, slacks off at work and is fired. Despite his off-putting commentary, the damage d Changez comes off as honest and thoughtful, and his creator han dles him with a sympathetic grace. (Apr.) Copyright Reed Busine ss Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reser ved. From Booklist *Starred Review* Presented in the form of a m onologue, which is a difficult technique to manage in a novel bec ause the author has to ensure plausibility while guarding against monotony, Hamid's second novel succeeds so well it begs the ques tion--what other narrative format than a sustained monologue coul d have been as appropriate? Generally, this is a 9/11 novel or, r ather, a post-9/11 one. But to see it on its own terms, which, be cause of its distinctive scenario, is impossible not to do, it el udes categorization. A young Pakistani man, educated at Princeton and employed in a highly prestigious financial-analysis firm in New York, was about to start a brilliant career and had fallen fo r a young woman whose commitment to him, it must be admitted, was partial and elusive when the terrorist attacks occurred. Answeri ng to his own conscience, he could not remain in the U.S. By the pull of his true personal identity, he must return to Pakistan, d espite his reluctance to leave the enigmatic but beguiling young woman behind. From the perspective of a few years later, the youn g man relates his American experiences to an American man he meet s in a cafe, whose visit to Lahore may or may not have to do with the young man's recent anti-American activities. This novel's fi rm, steady, even beautiful voice proclaims the completeness of th e soul when personal and global issues are conjoined. Brad Hooper Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Re view I read Mohsin Hamid''s The Reluctant Fundamentalist with inc reasing admiration. It is beautifully written--what a joy it is t o find such intelligent prose, such clarity of thought and exposi tion--and superbly constructed. The author has managed to tighten the screw of suspense almost without our being aware it is happe ning, and the result is a tale of enormous tension. I read a lot of thrillers--or rather I start reading a lot of thrillers, and p ut most of them down--but this is more exciting than any thriller I''ve read for a long time, as well as being a subtle and elegan t analysis of the state of our world today. I was enormously impr essed. (Philip Pullman) A brilliant book. With spooky restraint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of the mos t recent episode of distrust between East and West. But this book does not merely excel in capturing a developing bitterness. The narrative is balanced by a love as powerful as the sinister force s gathering, even when it recedes into a phantom of hope. It is t his balance, and the constant negotiation of the political with t he personal, that creates a nuanced and complex portrait of a rel uctant fundamentalist. (Kiran Desai) A searing and powerful acco unt of a Pakistani in New York after 9/11. (Mira Nair, director o f The Namesake) Brief, charming, and quietly furious ... Hamid . .. is an artist of fantastic cunning, and his second novel (follo wing the rightly praised Moth Smoke) demonstrates ... that it is possible to simultaneously address the byzantine monstrosity of c ontemporary existence and care about the destiny of one''s charac ters ... [A] resounding success. (The Village Voice) The author develops Changez''s character so convincingly that by mid-book, r eaders understand Changez''s anger, even if they don''t agree wit h it ... brilliantly written and well worth a read. (The Seattle Times) ... taut and accomplished ... (The San Francisco Chroni cle) ... elegant and chilling ... (The New York Times) Extreme times call for extreme reactions, extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary with this novel, and for those who want a different voice, a different view of the aftermath of 9/11, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is well worth reading. (The Washington Post) It''s a testament to author Mohsin Hamid''s skill that Cha ngez, despite this cold-blooded admission, remains a partly sympa thetic character ... Everything we know comes to us by his voice, by turns emotionally raw, teasingly ambiguous, fawning and tinge d with menace. We read on to see what he will reveal, increasingl y certain that he will also conceal. (The Dallas Morning News) F ar from seeming bothered by the literariness of literature, Mohsi n Hamid appears to savor it. Ambiguity starts out as the delicate organizing principle of his novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist. By the end of the book it has turned into the disturbing payoff. (New York Review of Books) From the Inside Flap At a caf table i n Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy Americ an stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that ha s brought them to this fateful encounter ? Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeto n, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Sams on. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan soci ety at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family bac k in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relatio nship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. A nd Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even l ove. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a riveting, brilliantly uns ettling exploration of the shadowy, unexpected connections betwee n the political and the personal. From the Back Cover Praise for THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST A brilliant book. With spooky rest raint and masterful control, Hamid unpicks the underpinnings of t he most recent episode of distrust between East and West. But thi s book does not merely excel in capturing a developing bitterness . The narrative is balanced by a love as powerful as the sinister forces gathering, even when it recedes into a phantom of hope. - - Kiran Desai, author of The Inheritance of Loss Beautifully wr itten -- what a joy it is to find such intelligent prose, such cl arity of thought and exposition -- and superbly constructed. The author has managed to tighten the screw of suspense almost withou t our being aware it is happening, and the result is a tale of en ormous tension -- more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time, as well as being a subtle and elegant analysis of the state of our world today. -- Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials About the Author MOHSIN HAMID grew up in Lahore, Pak istan, and attended Princeton and Harvard. His first novel, Moth Smoke , was a Betty Trask Award winner, PEN/ Hemingway Award fina list, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His writing ha s also appeared in Time, The New York Times, and other publicatio ns. He lives in London. From The Washington Post Some books are acts of courage, maybe because the author tries out an unproven s tyle, addresses an unpopular theme or allows characters to say th ings that no one wants to hear. Mohsin Hamid's new novel, The Rel uctant Fundamentalist, does all those things. Told in the form of an extended monologue, the novel reflects on a young Pakistani 's almost five years in America. After excelling at Princeton, Ch angez had become a highly regarded employee at a prestigious fina ncial firm. He seemed to have achieved the perfect American life. We know from the beginning, however, that it will not last long. Changez narrates his story from a caf in Lahore, his birthplace , while speaking to an American man whose role is unclear. Change z tells him, Yes, I was happy in that moment. I felt bathed in a warm sense of accomplishment. Nothing troubled me; I was a young New Yorker with the city at my feet. (Tellingly, while he didn't see himself as a foreigner during this time, the two colleagues c losest to him were also outsiders: one non-white, the other a gay man who grew up poor.) In the aftermath of Sept. 11, as the tone of the country becomes more hostile, Changez's corporate cloak l ifts, and his life in America no longer seems so perfect. Parall eling the narrative of Changez's work life is the tale of his rom antic involvement with Erica, an elegant and well-to-do New Yorke r who has emotional baggage that eventually leads to a breakdown. The impossible love story softens the book, allowing Changez to tell the same story from a different perspective. Both of his pot ential conquests (America, Erica) have deep appeal, yet both have been damaged, making it impossible for them to be part of Change z's life. Hamid's writing is strongest when Changez is analyzin g the finer points of being a foreigner, well-liked as an exotic acquaintance. When he goes out with Erica, Harcourt, 2007, 3, Howard Books. Very Good. 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Hardcover. 2005. 236 pages. <br>Sandi Patty, the most awarded female vocalist in c ontemporary Christian Music, saw her stellar career go into a tai lspin. Now she tells the story of her long road to restoration. F rom the agony of divorce nearly ten years ago, Sandi has moved fr om center stage to the back row of the church balcony and back in to the spotlight. This book is the heart-touching narrative of h er years as an acclaimed recording artist balancing her role as a doring mother to four children, her fall from public acclaim, and the steps she worked through with her church and pastor to find forgiveness and peace --- all under the harsh glare of national m edia attention. Sandi's story also includes insightful vignettes from their bustling blended family (Sandi's four children and th ree stepchildren) and the inspiring way God worked in the adoptio n of an eighth child, their precious Sam. Sandi's performance sc hedule is full once more but there's a difference in her music an d her heart that reflects the unforgettable journey she's made to reach the other side of hurt and find healing and forgiveness in Christ. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly In this inspi ring memoir, Grammy- and Dove Award-winning singer Patty recounts her rise in Christian music, her devastating fall from grace and the long road back to God. In the early 1990s, Patty separated f rom her husband and began an extramarital affair with a back-up s inger who was also married. Patty repeatedly covered up the affai r and lied about it before confessing to her pastor and other chu rch members, and asking forgiveness from those she had wronged. S he doesn't make excuses for her behavior; although she discusses some of the emotional baggage she carried (including childhood se xual abuse by a trusted babysitter), she knows that her actions w eren't in keeping with Christian teachings or her family's trust. Refreshingly, she offers no titillating details about the affair itself or about the pain in her marriage that led to the initial separation. Now married to the singer she fell in love with, Pat ty is the mother to eight children in a yours-mine-and-ours blend ed family and devotes a fair portion of the book to describing th eir new life. Although the writing style is a bit gushy and the a ccount could have used better editing (the titular story about Pa tty crying in the back row of a church is repeated twice in full) , this memoir is a powerful testimony to the joy of forgiveness. (Feb. 15) Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of R eed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. About the Author Sandi Pa tty is the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history with thirty-nine Dove Awards, five Grammy Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards. Her twenty-four albums have sold more than eleven million units including three platinum and five gold recordings. In 2004 Sandi was inducted into the GMA Hall of Fame and in 2005 she penned her autobiography Broken on the Back Row. She has regularly appeared on network TV including The Toni ght Show, Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, CNN, and Entertainment Tonight. ., Howard Books, 2005, 3<

2005, ISBN: 9781582294261

Howard Books. Very Good. 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Hardcover. 2005. 236 pages. <br>Sandi Patty, the most awarded female vocalist in c ontemporary Christian Music, saw her stellar caree… Mehr…

Howard Books. Very Good. 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Hardcover. 2005. 236 pages. <br>Sandi Patty, the most awarded female vocalist in c ontemporary Christian Music, saw her stellar career go into a tai lspin. Now she tells the story of her long road to restoration. F rom the agony of divorce nearly ten years ago, Sandi has moved fr om center stage to the back row of the church balcony and back in to the spotlight. This book is the heart-touching narrative of h er years as an acclaimed recording artist balancing her role as a doring mother to four children, her fall from public acclaim, and the steps she worked through with her church and pastor to find forgiveness and peace --- all under the harsh glare of national m edia attention. Sandi's story also includes insightful vignettes from their bustling blended family (Sandi's four children and th ree stepchildren) and the inspiring way God worked in the adoptio n of an eighth child, their precious Sam. Sandi's performance sc hedule is full once more but there's a difference in her music an d her heart that reflects the unforgettable journey she's made to reach the other side of hurt and find healing and forgiveness in Christ. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly In this inspi ring memoir, Grammy- and Dove Award-winning singer Patty recounts her rise in Christian music, her devastating fall from grace and the long road back to God. In the early 1990s, Patty separated f rom her husband and began an extramarital affair with a back-up s inger who was also married. Patty repeatedly covered up the affai r and lied about it before confessing to her pastor and other chu rch members, and asking forgiveness from those she had wronged. S he doesn't make excuses for her behavior; although she discusses some of the emotional baggage she carried (including childhood se xual abuse by a trusted babysitter), she knows that her actions w eren't in keeping with Christian teachings or her family's trust. Refreshingly, she offers no titillating details about the affair itself or about the pain in her marriage that led to the initial separation. Now married to the singer she fell in love with, Pat ty is the mother to eight children in a yours-mine-and-ours blend ed family and devotes a fair portion of the book to describing th eir new life. Although the writing style is a bit gushy and the a ccount could have used better editing (the titular story about Pa tty crying in the back row of a church is repeated twice in full) , this memoir is a powerful testimony to the joy of forgiveness. (Feb. 15) Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of R eed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. About the Author Sandi Pa tty is the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history with thirty-nine Dove Awards, five Grammy Awards, and four Billboard Music Awards. Her twenty-four albums have sold more than eleven million units including three platinum and five gold recordings. In 2004 Sandi was inducted into the GMA Hall of Fame and in 2005 she penned her autobiography Broken on the Back Row. She has regularly appeared on network TV including The Toni ght Show, Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, CNN, and Entertainment Tonight. ., Howard Books, 2005, 3<

2019, ISBN: 9781582294261

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Halcyon Publishing. Very Good. 25 x 19 centimetres. Paperback. 2008. 206 pages. <br>Fifteen years ago on a shoe string, a wing and a p rayer, Graeme Sinclair started 'Gone Fishi… Mehr…

Halcyon Publishing. Very Good. 25 x 19 centimetres. Paperback. 2008. 206 pages. <br>Fifteen years ago on a shoe string, a wing and a p rayer, Graeme Sinclair started 'Gone Fishin'. It rapidly became o ne of hte most popular programmes on TV. Tragedy struck after a f ew years when Graeme suddenly developed multurple sclerosis, and the fishing, diving, free-moving host of the show was suddenly co nfined ... ., Halcyon Publishing, 2008, 3, BCNZ Enterprises. Good. 29 x 21cm. Paperback. 1985. 207 pages. Cover worn.<br> ., BCNZ Enterprises, 1985, 2.5, Upstart Press. Near Fine. 6 x 1.2 x 9.25 inches. Paperback. 2019. 304 pages. <br>Spanning the four seasons of a year, Necessary Sec rets tells the story of Dennis (Den) Sparks and his three adult c hildren. Starting with Den contemplating his mortality on the day of his 70th birthday, the year ahead is told from four different points of view. A searing picture of NZ society today, the famil y ... ., Upstart Press, 2019, 4, 9.78067E+12. Good. 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d). Paperback. 1992. 472 pages. Cover worn<br>Chronicling one of the greatest and most popular national cinemas, Republic of Images traces the evolutio n of French filmmaking from 1895-the year of the debut of the Cin ematographe in Paris-to the present day. Alan Williams offers a u nique synthesis of history, biography, aesthetics and film theory . ... ., 9.78067E+12, 1992, 2.5, Howard Books. Very Good. 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches. Hardcover. 2005. 236 pages. <br>Sandi Patty, the most awarded female vocalist in c ontemporary Christian Music, saw her stellar career go into a tai lspin. Now she tells the story of her long road to restoration. F rom the agony of divorce nearly ten years ago, Sandi has moved fr om center stage to the back row of the church balcony and back in to ... ., Howard Books, 2005, 3<

ISBN: 9781582294261

Howard Books. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex libra… Mehr…

Howard Books. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Howard Books, 2.5<

ISBN: 9781582294261

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