Temptations

Temptations
Author: Otis Williams
Publsiher: Cooper Square Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2002-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781461661283

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The Temptations were the most commercially successful and critically lauded male vocal group of the Sixties and early Seventies. Through the years, the group's trademark razor-sharp choreography, finely tuned harmonies, and compelling vocals made them the exemplars of the Motown style. This is the frank, revealing story of the legendary supergroup, told by its founder.

Temptation

Temptation
Author: Janos Szekely
Publsiher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781681374383

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A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Temptation is a rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction, a Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Béla is packed off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman the moment he is born. She starves and bullies him, and keeps him out of school. He does his best to hold his own, and eventually his mother brings him back to live with her in the city. In thrall to his feckless father, Mishka, and living in a crowded tenement, she works her fingers to the bone, while Béla shares a room with a hardworking prostitute. Finally, Béla secures a job in a fancy hotel. Though exhausted by endless work, he is fascinated by the upper-crust world that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Béla grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with all the odds still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for new future.

Temptations of the Single Girl

Temptations of the Single Girl
Author: Nina Atwood
Publsiher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Dating (Social customs)
ISBN: 9781587368981

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Atwood takes readers on an inspiring journey of self-discovery and relationship recovery in this thoroughly modern fable. Through Kelly's story, readers can pinpoint which temptations they must learn to resist in order to claim the happiness--and the man--they deserve.

D monologia Sacra Or A Treatise of Satan s Temptations

D  monologia Sacra  Or  A Treatise of Satan s Temptations
Author: Richard Gilpin
Publsiher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2023-08-11
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9783368910068

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The Temptations of Jesus in Early Christianity

The Temptations of Jesus in Early Christianity
Author: Jeffrey Gibson
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1995-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780567408280

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This study lays the groundwork necessary for establishing the validity of the thesis, proposed particulary by J.H. Yoder in his Politics of Jesus, that the early church held a selective and unified view of the nature and content of the various temptations to which Jesus was regarded as having been subjected in his lifetime. This leads to a clearer view of how the early church perceived the exigencies of its Lord's mission and message, and provides fresh insights into such prominent New Testament themes as sonship, obedience, faithfulness and discipleship. It also opens up new possibilities for firmly establishing the occasion of those New Testament writings, such as the Gospel of Mark and even the Epistle to the Hebrews, where notice of and appeal to the example of Jesus in temptation appears as a prominent feature.

Temptation a treatise on Satanic influence

Temptation  a treatise on Satanic influence
Author: Samuel Ransom
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1837
Genre: Devil
ISBN: OXFORD:590825832

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Temptations Of Big Bear

Temptations Of Big Bear
Author: Rudy Wiebe
Publsiher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780307366221

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Early in his writing career, Rudy Wiebe’s imagination was caught by a heroic character of Cree and Ojibwa ancestry whose birthplace was within twenty-five miles of where Wiebe himself was born 110 years later. The man’s name translated into English was Big Bear, and he came to be the subject of one of Wiebe’s most highly praised works of fiction. A modern classic, Wiebe’s fourth novel is a moving epic of the tumultuous history of the Canadian West. The book won the 1973 Governor General's Award, and in the 1990s was made into a CBC television miniseries based on a script co-written by Wiebe and Métis director Gil Cardinal, shot in Saskatchewan’s Qu’Appelle Valley. From the early days of North America, European settlers forced Natives aside, taking over their land on which they had lived for thousands of years. Big Bear envisioned a Northwest in which all peoples lived together peaceably, and in the 1880s made history by standing his ground to keep his Plains Cree nation from being forced onto reserves. The buffalo food supply was vanishing, but Big Bear led his people across the prairie, resisting pressure to cede rights to the land and give up freedom in exchange for temporary nourishment. The struggle brought starvation to his followers, tearing apart the community and eventually his own family. The story follows Big Bear’s life as he lives through the last buffalo hunt, the coming of the railway, the pacification of the Native tribes, and his own imprisonment. Wiebe’s magnificent interpretation of Western Canadian history encompasses not only his hero's struggle for integrity and justice but also the whole richness of the Plains culture.

Ain t Too Proud to Beg

Ain t Too Proud to Beg
Author: Mark Ribowsky
Publsiher: Wiley
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010-09-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 047026117X

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The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the Temptations The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin Stone. From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized their onstage triumphs to the personal failings and psycho-dramas that played out behind the scenes, Ain't Too Proud to Beg tells the complete story of this most popular—and tragic—of all Motown super groups. Based on in-depth research and interviews with founding Temptations member Otis Williams and many others, the book reveals the highly individual, even mutually antagonistic, nature of the group's members. Venturing beyond the money and the fame, it shares the compelling tale of these sometime allies, sometime rivals and reveals the unique dynamic of push and pull and give and take that resulted in musical genius. The first book to tell the whole story of Motown's greatest group, with all-new interviews and previously undiscovered sources and photographs Gives the last word on enduring Motown mysteries, including the deaths of Paul Williams and David Ruffin and the truth behind Ruffin's tumultuous romance with Tammi Terrell Reveals the secret "can't miss" formula behind the Temptations' thirty-seven chart hits Draws on more than one hundred interviews with the group's associates, industry figures, family members, and most importantly, founding Temptation Otis Williams Ain't Too Proud to Beg takes a cohesive and penetrating look at the life and enduring legacy of one of the greatest groups in popular music. It is essential reading for fans of the Temptations, music lovers, and anyone interested in the history of American popular culture over the last fifty years.