Author: May SartonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393309577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Includes the page proofs of her novel.
As We Are Now
Author: May SartonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393309577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Includes the page proofs of her novel.
As We Are
Author: Donald H. ClarkPublisher: Lethe Press
ISBN: 1590215079
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
"Published originally by Alyson Publications, Boston, Mass., 1988."
Even As We Breathe
Author: Annette Saunooke ClapsaddlePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 1950564088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. The experience introduces him to the beautiful and enigmatic Essie Stamper—a young Cherokee woman who is also working at the inn and dreaming of a better life. With World War II raging in Europe, the resort is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners of war. A secret room becomes a place where Cowney and Essie can escape the white world of the inn and imagine their futures free of the shadows of their families' pasts. Outside of this refuge, however, racism and prejudice are never far behind, and when the daughter of one of the residents goes missing, Cowney finds himself accused of abduction and murder. Even As We Breathe invokes the elements of bone, blood, and flesh as Cowney navigates difficult social, cultural, and ethnic divides. Betrayed by the friends he trusted, he begins to unearth deeper mysteries as he works to prove his innocence and clear his name. This richly written debut novel explores the immutable nature of the human spirit and the idea that physical existence, with all its strife and injustice, will not be humanity's lasting legacy.
As We Are Now
Author: May SartonPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497646316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Bestselling author “May Sarton has never been better than she is in this beautiful, harrowing novel about being old, unwanted, yet refusing to give up” (The Boston Globe). After seventy-six-year-old Caro Spencer suffers a heart attack, her family sends her to a private retirement home to wait out the rest of her days. Her memory growing fuzzy, Caro decides to keep a journal to document the daily goings-on—her feelings of confinement and boredom; her distrust of the home’s owner, Harriet Hatfield, and her daughter, Rose; her pity for the more incapacitated residents; her resentment of her brother, John, for leaving her alone. The journal entries describe not only her frustrations, but also small moments of beauty—found in a welcome visit from her minister, or in watching a bird in the garden. But as she writes, Caro grows increasingly sensitive to the casual atrocities of retirement-home life. Even as she acknowledges her mind is beginning to fail, she is determined to fight back against the injustices foisted upon the home’s occupants. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.
On Earth As We Are In Heaven
Author: Suela BrownPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326448609
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
""On Earth as We Are in Heaven"" is for all who hunger for the manifestation of God's will and kingdom in and through their life. It calls us as believers out of the place of defeat, powerlessness and lack of fruitfulness, and into the place of power and victory in Christ, so helping us to become overcomers. It sheds light on the purpose of our earthly life from heaven's perspective and enables us to discover what it means to have become a new creation and how to live as such. It highlights some of the most important biblical truths which will renew our mind and enable us to receive what Christ has made available to us as the heirs of salvation. It discusses the gift of righteousness, abiding with Christ in heavenly places, living by the Spirit, becoming like Christ, the need for empowerment and revelation, prayer, overcoming faith and more. Apostolic teaching, personal testimony, visions from heaven and prophetic insight are all interwoven in this book.
As We Think, So We Are
Author: James AllenPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451681917
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Discover a fresh and accessible interpretation of the century-old work of James Allen, one of the founders of the self-help movement. As We Think, So We Are, the fifth book in the Library of Hidden Knowledge, invites you to explore the pioneering teachings of James Allen and apply them to your own life. Dr. Ruth Miller offers modern interpretations of three of Allen’s most insightful essays: As We Think, Light on Life’s Difficulties, and Above Life’s Turmoil. Using clear, concise language paired with practical applications, Miller creates an accessible way to delve into and explore the fundamental processes that determine how we interact with—and understand—the world. Allen’s seminal theories in metaphysics introduced millions in the last century to the Law of Attraction, one of the most transformative paths to fulfillment in the modern age. In As We Think, So We Are, we find Allen’s writing to be as important and life changing today as it was a hundred years ago.
For Such As We Are Made Of, Such We Be
Author: Augusta ToomerPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365601641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
"For Such As We Are Made of, Such We Be" portrays people beset with conflicts and choices destined to change their lives. Each story is unique. Finding themselves immersed in unexpected quandaries, the characters discover their inner resources to be deeper than they imagined. The stories address still-controversial moral issues, embracing recent progressive developments while remaining firmly rooted in a core value for loving commitment. Augusta Toomer's writing reflects the valuable perspective of a woman whose views have evolved over nearly a century lived in the deep South. As a committed Catholic, her frame of reference shifted during the civil rights movement of the 1950's, shifted again in the 1960's Vatican II sea change, and again in the 1980's when she became an ally to the gay community during the AIDS crisis. Her stories both charm and challenge the reader, presenting a rare opportunity to see with the compassionate eyes of a progressive Southern woman who is 95 years old.
As We Are and As We May Be
Author: Sir Walter BesantPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465612866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Those who begin to consider the subject of the working woman discover presently that there is a vast field of inquiry lying quite within their reach, without any trouble of going into slums or inquiring of sweaters. This is the field occupied by the gentlewoman who works for a livelihood. She is not always, perhaps, gentle in quite the old sense, but she is gentle in that new and better sense which means culture, education, and refinement. There are now thousands of these working gentlewomen, and the number is daily increasing. A few among them—a very few—are working happily and successfully; some are working contentedly, others with murmuring and discontent at the hardness of the work and the poorness of the pay. Others, again, are always trying, and for the most part vainly, to get work—any kind of work—which will bring in money—any small sum of money. This is a dreadful spectacle, to any who have eyes to see, of gentlewomen struggling, snatching, importuning, begging for work. No one knows, who has not looked into the field, how crowded it is, and how sad a sight it presents. For my own part I think it is a shame that a lady should ever have to stand in the labour market for hire like a milkmaid at a statute fair. I think that the rush of women into the labour market is a most lamentable thing. Labour, and especially labour which is without organization or union, has to wage an incessant battle—always getting beaten—against greed and injustice: the natural enemy of labour is the employer, especially the impecunious employer; in the struggle women always get worsted. Again, in whatever trade or calling they attempt, the great majority of women are hopelessly incompetent. As in the lower occupations, so in the higher, the greatest obstacle to success is incompetence. How should gentlewomen be anything but incompetent? They have not been taught anything special, they have not been 'put through the mill'; mostly, they are fit only for those employments which require the single quality that everybody can claim—general intelligence. Hopeless indeed is the position of that woman who brings into the intellectual labour market nothing but general intelligence. She is exactly like the labourer who knows no trade, and has nothing but his strong frame and his pair of hands. To that man falls the hardest work and the smallest wage. To the woman with general intelligence is assigned the lowest drudgery of intellectual labour. And yet there are so many clamouring for this, or for anything. A few months ago a certain weekly magazine stated that I, the writer, had started an Association for Providing Ladies with Copying Work—all in capitals. The number of letters which came to me by every post in consequence of that statement was incredible. The writers implored me to give them a share of that copying work; they told terrible, heart-rending stories of suffering. Of course, there was no such Association. There is, now that typewriting is fairly established, no copying work left to speak of. Even now the letters have not quite ceased to arrive.
As We Are
Author: Willa OkatiPublisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1784302643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Can the rebels with a cause change their ways, or will they miss their chance? Wild, rebellious, and rakish, Cade's been a bad boy since the day he was born. Don't get him wrong—he's as aware of his faults as he is his virtues, and he thinks he'd be better off without a mate of his own. He'd be a hell of a handful to keep up with. Then a chance encounter brings Cade into Dennis' path. Blind since birth, Dennis prides himself on being plainspoken and knowing how to have a good time. He isn't looking for a soulmate either, but after meeting Cade he's tempted to change his mind. Can the rebels with a cause change their ways, or will they miss their chance?
For Small Creatures Such as We
Author: Sasha SaganPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 073521879X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"A charming book, ringing with the joy of existence." --Richard Dawkins The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, For Small Creatures Such as We is part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, a luminous celebration of Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed. Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. When Sagan herself became a mother, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions--from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and more--growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience without relying on a religious framework. As Sagan shares these rituals, For Small Creatures Such as We becomes a moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughter, a marriage, and the natural world--a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.