James Carpenter

Honeyed Words and Bitter is the story of two childhood friends who come of age in the hills of Appalachia and make their way to the pulpit by very different paths, Honey from a family of bootleggers and by way of a season of prostitution and Jimmey through divinity school. When a duplicitous evangelist avails himself of Honey's brothel and convinces her that saving souls is far easier and more lucrative than managing a whorehouse, she gives herself to Jesus during a Pentecost service in a false confession so convincingly acted that no one in the church doubts that they have witnessed a true miracle, God's carving of an apostle from the heart of a whore. Jimmey begins as a devout divinity student but experiences a crisis of faith triggered by his sexually-abused roommate's leap from the chapel bell tower. Though he tries to recover his faith by way of a sojourn in the wilderness and a search for a church that practices a compassionate Christianity, his journey ultimately cripples that bit of faith he's left with.Jimmey's and Honey's stories continually diverge and reconnect, each the singular anchor in the other's life-until her tragic death leaves Jimmey "To wonder what distant ancestor first looked to the stars and wept and vainly prayed to that fragmented luminance in some proto-lyrical petition, Deliver me from this pain."

The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite., a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Getting a vasectomy these days can be a responsible social gesture, but for Hank and Chuck back in 1950s Appalachia, it's but a boozy night's whim and all about hating to use rubbers, leaving them unprepared for how complicated their lives are about to get because nobody told them that they would have to keep using those slimy things until they'd experienced twenty ejaculations. With malleable resolve, they work through the embarrassment of producing semen samples, counting down their ejaculations, and actually talking about sex with their partners. They also bravely confront daunting obstacles of mean-spirited doctors and nurses, judgmental preachers, just plain nasty neighbors, a partner's infidelity, and an inexplicable out-of-wedlock pregnancy-all while falling in love and without anybody getting shot.

The movement of the moon in space had been well documented by the second half of the nineteenth century. In this monograph, which first appeared in 1874, James Nasmyth (1808–90) and James Carpenter (1840–99) pay closer attention to the lunar surface, notably illustrating their work with photographs of accurate plaster models. At this time, many questions about the moon's properties were still open. Could the moon support life? Did it have an atmosphere? How had its craters been formed? Marshalling the latest available evidence, Nasmyth and Carpenter provide their answers in a text accompanied by explanatory diagrams. Also included are theories on planetary formation, a discussion of lunar volcanism, and a vivid imagining of a day on the moon's surface, describing everything from low lunar gravity to the sudden, monthly sunrise. The work remains an instructive resource, reflecting the state of contemporary astronomical knowledge.