Sentences with phrase «west of here»

We were originally thinking we would move out in the country just west of here but after trying to buy 2 homes and having them fall through, we're reevaluating and looking at living close in - our kids love their schools, work and our church to be close by.

Aho, whom I know of as a painter of fairly reductive Vermont landscapes, did some pink - hued, sweepingly gestural dunescapes of Truro (Edward Hopper country), the town just west of here whose spectacular bluffs face Cape Cod Bay.

One — Unblemished Beachiness When Christopher Columbus came ashore 70 nautical miles west of here in December of 1493 with his soldiers, priests, pigs, horses, wheat, sugarcane and rats and microbes, he was on the hunt for gold.

-- Jonathan Evison, New York Times bestselling author of West of Here and The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

Check out Nancy Pearl's interview with Evison for his previous novel, West of Here.

- Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here «Hilarious... melancholy... Tatjana Soli's new novel is a wild ride across the ocean and a dangerous dive into desire and greed and revelations about revenge and ultimately, love.»

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Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington State's rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experience - it is storytelling on the grandest scale.

A second novel, West of Here, was released in February 2011 from Algonquin.

Okay, okay, this trailer is not technically for West of Here, Jonathan Evison's new epic novel — and our March top pick for fiction.

by Karen Russell The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt The Storm at the Door by Stefan Merrill Block The Summer of the Bear by Bella Pollen The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tannen We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen West of Here by Jonathan Evison

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I don't know if that's just my West Coast allegiance, but I like her and I've seen Lululemon (lulu) go from a small regional player with one store on our street here in Vancouver to a huge success, one of the fastest - growing brands in the world and fast becoming one of the best known.

«We have every problem under the sun,» said E. Gordon Gee, president of West Virginia University (WVU), speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm Health conference here Tuesday morning.

Here's an interview with Florida Congressman Allen West and Newsmax, on America's role in the Syrian conflict and the global implications of intervention.

There's a stretch of ocean off California's coastline that's different from the rest.It starts around Bodega Bay; extends south to about 50 miles west of San Francisco; and ends in the Big Sur region.This area is infamous for shark attacks, but not just any shark: an estimated 38 % of all great white shark attacks in the US happen here.

However, it actually has the lowest tax as a percentage of income — 14.5 percent — because the median household income is higher here than in West Virginia.

The ShareDesk team works out of a coworking space here in the beautiful west coast Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.

See Bob Bunting's description of what he saw on our trip together along with a gallery of photos we assembled to document what we experience here: Key West, Bob Bunting

here's a kind of proliferation of conferences where the West in particular tries to promote its vision of cyberspace and rules of behavior for cyberspace, and so this is a competitor to it,» he says.

So I'm gonna go out on a limb here and ask the people of West...

Day Four: Here's everything you need to know about why teachers across the state of West Virginia have been on strike since last Thursday.

Genealogy sites are Wild West of privacy — here's what you give away with your DNA FBI agents used GEDMatch to arrest Golden State Killer suspectAfter FBI agents used GEDMatch to arrest Golden State Killer suspect, privacy experts say the full implications of uploading your DNA online are still unknown.

So relieved to read the comments (a lot of sensible people here in America are voicing out their thoughts re: this article) following this plastic fantastic comparison of chairs used in the east and the west - a chair is just a chair - like Dionne Warwick sang... people in America know their minds now and hand manipulation of religion in every way possible is out the door.

I Glasgow here in Scotland in the 1860's the minister of Cambridge Street United Presbyterian Church in Glasgow led wealthy merchants and manufacturers to a more palatial church in the west end, a scribe chalked on the door of the new building on the opening day:

It's important for us not to say, «Look here, the West has Jeffersonian values about the rights of women, values we'd like to see you adopt,» but to argue instead from the Qur «an itself, citing verses like the one stating that God has ordained love and tenderness between the male and female in marriage, or that no man has two hearts in one bosom.

The fanatical belief systems of these fundamentalists is characterised as «medieval» (e.g. in https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/), used here in the sense of being centuries out of date and repressive, contrasted with the «liberated» society in which we live in the West.

But here's what doesn't make as much sense: Hudson Hongo at i09 has teased out the implications of a shared world between the Avengers and Arrested Development into an insane loop of shared worlds that ultimately ties the world of Adam West's 1960s Batman TV series, a DC property, into the Marvel universe.

I come from Burkina Faso, at the heart of West Africa and I represent here a peasant - farmer organisation created in 1996 to build a capability for representation and negotiation, to defend the interests of the farmers faced with certain trends, certain programs, certain policies over which they have no control.

Worldwide, these are the most populous of the Quaker meetings, and they're also quite populous west of the Mississippi River here in the USA.

The wilderness undoubtedly means here the steep, barren slope of the central Palestinian plateau, west of the Dead Sea and the lower part of the Jordan River.

The reality is, it is the separation of Church and state and having a secular legal system in the west, that give women the rights they have here.

Here is one of the supreme ironies of history: for thousands of years in the Christian West, homosexuals have been the victims of inhospitable treatment — the true crime of Sodom - in the name of a mistaken understanding of Sodom's crime.

I was the «fresh meat» at a couple of churches in the past, including more recently here in the UK at a church in West London that had hidden beliefs targeting other denominations & faiths, as well as many different lifestyles, etc..

Here, I could understand how you might be describing the West as having «excommunicated Christ» in that Western thought has ideas like separation of Church and State and many tend to believe that government should not be informed by «the Church», thus leaving the working paradigm you establish.

For a start, there are fewer vocations in the West for reasons that are known and can't be gone into here; but for us personally, the lack of vocations up to this point makes sense, somehow, in the Providence of God.

Here were people who had been distanced from a grand narrative of the spiritual and the sacramental and I was reminded of Mother Teresa's words that she had to come to the West to see «spiritual» poverty».

Now Spaniards conquered a large portion of the Americas, including the West Indies and the Philippines, and became the ruling classes in these lands; the Portuguese established themselves in a similar position in Brazil and sprinkled themselves along the coasts of Africa and here and there on the shores of India, in the East Indies and in Malacca and Macao; the French planted colonies in parts of North America and the West Indies; the Dutch, with an intermingling of French Huguenots, began a permanent colony in South Africa, and Dutch.

Here in the United States, many are now educated to believe that the history of the West is one long story of oppression and injustice.

Here, perhaps due more than to any other single factor, to the doctrine set forth in their scriptures, of the «Gathering of the Saints,» they tended to draw together into a compact social body, building their own communities as they did at Kirtland, Ohio; in Jackson County, Missouri; at Far West, Missouri; at Nauvoo, Illinois; and finally in Utah.

The fact is, however, that for the most part the doctrines here discussed have stood within the main Jewish and Christian tradition of the west.

We have two kinds of news - earthly news, which is very ugly, very discouraging and I think in the West, you get only the earthly news - a bombing here or there.

A second poem from Walt Whitman is instructive in this: that here the generality of the foregoing piece is given concreteness from the actual anecdotal record of the century of the winning of the West, and because there is revealed how the irremediable facts of limit, end, death are burned away in the sheer incandescence of the song of conquest and assertion.

Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country.

(I'm thinking of people like Lisa Sharon Harper, who has worked tirelessly on immigration reform; Justin Lee, who models and practices «living in the tension» through his work with the Gay Christian Network; Karla, the struggling mother of three whose infectious smile greets thousands of people at our local food pantry here in Rhea County; our friends from Samaritan's Purse working with Ebola patients in West Africa; or Sarah Bessey, who is expecting Tiny # 4 soon.)

Unlike theological schools in the United States, however, these university faculties are closely tied to the Protestant and Catholic churches: The ipso facto establishment of the two major Christian traditions via West Germany's church tax means that few people here question the close relationship of the faculties to the churches.

Here in the West many consider ecumenism to be a way of life; not so in other parts of the world.

Most of our people can now watch television from West Germany and they see all the goods available there and expect us to make them available here.

(I've tried to convince my friend Kurt Willems to plant his church here instead of the West coast..

Such rigid faith and uncompromising attitude apart, it is clear to more and more Christians and theologians both in the East and in the West that Buddhists, Taoists, or Muslims are here to stay for a long time, to practice their faiths not only in the lands of their birth but also in the Western society in which they have come to live in pursuit of political freedom and personal fortune.

Beginning with the external and bodily, the main place of most of our meditation here at Mercy Center is the Rose Room (so called because the unfolding rose is the symbol of enlightenment in the West just as the lotus is in the East).