Author: Ngina Otiende
Publisher: Pambozuri Press
ISBN: 9780692365489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
We've heard that marriage is a land of endless and automatic bliss. As a result, most of us walk into marriage expecting bliss without any intentional effort on our part. So what happens when the blues - challenges and adjustments of young marriage - check in during those early days of marriage? How do we escape the trap of wheel-turning in blues land and break into enduring bliss? Ngina Otiende answers this question in Biblical, practical ways that will impact and change your marriage! She shares from her own marriage, showing wives how God can use them to turn the direction and dynamics of their marriages from blues to bliss. You'll be encouraged and challenged to overcome the mindsets and attitudes that stop you from becoming all that God created you to be in your marriage. Take a journey through tough marital subjects like intimacy, submission, communication and even finances, and learn how to navigate all this and more as you build a foundation for a marriage that will last
Blues to Bliss
Author: Ngina Otiende
Publisher: Pambozuri Press
ISBN: 9780692365489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
We've heard that marriage is a land of endless and automatic bliss. As a result, most of us walk into marriage expecting bliss without any intentional effort on our part. So what happens when the blues - challenges and adjustments of young marriage - check in during those early days of marriage? How do we escape the trap of wheel-turning in blues land and break into enduring bliss? Ngina Otiende answers this question in Biblical, practical ways that will impact and change your marriage! She shares from her own marriage, showing wives how God can use them to turn the direction and dynamics of their marriages from blues to bliss. You'll be encouraged and challenged to overcome the mindsets and attitudes that stop you from becoming all that God created you to be in your marriage. Take a journey through tough marital subjects like intimacy, submission, communication and even finances, and learn how to navigate all this and more as you build a foundation for a marriage that will last
Publisher: Pambozuri Press
ISBN: 9780692365489
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
We've heard that marriage is a land of endless and automatic bliss. As a result, most of us walk into marriage expecting bliss without any intentional effort on our part. So what happens when the blues - challenges and adjustments of young marriage - check in during those early days of marriage? How do we escape the trap of wheel-turning in blues land and break into enduring bliss? Ngina Otiende answers this question in Biblical, practical ways that will impact and change your marriage! She shares from her own marriage, showing wives how God can use them to turn the direction and dynamics of their marriages from blues to bliss. You'll be encouraged and challenged to overcome the mindsets and attitudes that stop you from becoming all that God created you to be in your marriage. Take a journey through tough marital subjects like intimacy, submission, communication and even finances, and learn how to navigate all this and more as you build a foundation for a marriage that will last
Christmas Bliss
Author: Mary Kay Andrews
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250019729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"Antiques dealer Weezie Foley and her best friend BeBe Loudermilk are feeling a little overwhelmed as the December holidays approach in Savannah. Weezie is trying to prepare for her Christmas wedding to Daniel Stipanek while he's off in New York City working as a guest chef for the beautiful Carlotta Carlucci. The very pregnant BeBe is set to deliver at any minute, although she refuses to marry the baby's father, even though she's in love with him."--Library Journal.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250019729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"Antiques dealer Weezie Foley and her best friend BeBe Loudermilk are feeling a little overwhelmed as the December holidays approach in Savannah. Weezie is trying to prepare for her Christmas wedding to Daniel Stipanek while he's off in New York City working as a guest chef for the beautiful Carlotta Carlucci. The very pregnant BeBe is set to deliver at any minute, although she refuses to marry the baby's father, even though she's in love with him."--Library Journal.
Blues and Bliss
Author: George Elliott Clarke
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554582342
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke offers readers an impressive cross-section of those voices. Jon Paul Fiorentino’s introduction focuses on this polyphony, his influences—Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, and the canon of literary English from Shakespeare to Yeats—and his “voice throwing,” and shows how the intersections here produce a “troubling” of language. He sketches Clarke’s primary interest in the negotiation of cultural space through adherence to and revision of tradition and on the finding of a vernacular that begins in exile, especially exile in relation to African-Canadian communities. In the afterword, Clarke, in an interesting re-spin of Fiorentino’s introduction, writes with patented gusto about how his experiences have contributed to multiple sounds and forms in his work. Decrying any grandiose notions of theory, he presents himself as primarily a songwriter.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554582342
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Blues singer, preacher, cultural critic, exile, Africadian, high modernist, spoken word artist, Canadian poet—these are but some of the voices of George Elliott Clarke. In a selection of Clarke’s best work from his early poetry to his most recent, Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke offers readers an impressive cross-section of those voices. Jon Paul Fiorentino’s introduction focuses on this polyphony, his influences—Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, and the canon of literary English from Shakespeare to Yeats—and his “voice throwing,” and shows how the intersections here produce a “troubling” of language. He sketches Clarke’s primary interest in the negotiation of cultural space through adherence to and revision of tradition and on the finding of a vernacular that begins in exile, especially exile in relation to African-Canadian communities. In the afterword, Clarke, in an interesting re-spin of Fiorentino’s introduction, writes with patented gusto about how his experiences have contributed to multiple sounds and forms in his work. Decrying any grandiose notions of theory, he presents himself as primarily a songwriter.
Bliss + Blues = Bipolar
Author: Jason Park
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736666203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736666203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Conjugal Bliss
Author: John Nichols
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826354858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
What happens when two oft-divorced and middle-aged sex fiends tie the knot again? Birds do it, bees do it, and Roger and Zelda do it whenever their teenage kids aren’t looking. Their ecstasy is boundless. But when the darker side of Paradise rears its comical head, they suddenly find themselves trapped in a Three Stooges movie directed by Freddy Krueger. This takeoff on matrimony will make you laugh, scream, or grind your teeth in recognition. If you are hitched yourself, take three Valiums before reading!
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0826354858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
What happens when two oft-divorced and middle-aged sex fiends tie the knot again? Birds do it, bees do it, and Roger and Zelda do it whenever their teenage kids aren’t looking. Their ecstasy is boundless. But when the darker side of Paradise rears its comical head, they suddenly find themselves trapped in a Three Stooges movie directed by Freddy Krueger. This takeoff on matrimony will make you laugh, scream, or grind your teeth in recognition. If you are hitched yourself, take three Valiums before reading!
Jelly Roll
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375709894
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of the self at its strongest.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375709894
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of the self at its strongest.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
ISBN: 0385379315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Dr. Seuss’s very first book for children! From a mere horse and wagon, young Marco concocts a colorful cast of characters, making Mulberry Street the most interesting location in town. Dr. Seuss’s signature rhythmic text, combined with his unmistakable illustrations, will appeal to fans of all ages, who will cheer when our hero proves that a little imagination can go a very long way. (Who wouldn’t cheer when an elephant-pulled sleigh raced by?) Now over seventy-five years old, this story is as timeless as ever. And Marco’s singular kind of optimism is also evident in McElligot’s Pool.
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
ISBN: 0385379315
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Dr. Seuss’s very first book for children! From a mere horse and wagon, young Marco concocts a colorful cast of characters, making Mulberry Street the most interesting location in town. Dr. Seuss’s signature rhythmic text, combined with his unmistakable illustrations, will appeal to fans of all ages, who will cheer when our hero proves that a little imagination can go a very long way. (Who wouldn’t cheer when an elephant-pulled sleigh raced by?) Now over seventy-five years old, this story is as timeless as ever. And Marco’s singular kind of optimism is also evident in McElligot’s Pool.
Blissful Blues
Author: Rhea Madan
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525508695
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Encapsulating the chaos and angst of a young heart and old soul combined, within the structured format of stanza and verse, Blissful Blues is the first offering of an up-and coming poet, with life experiences and wisdom far beyond her years. With subjects touching upon everything from love and loss to bigotry and betrayal, its message speaks clearly to its readers in a voice worth hearing. Whether you’re looking back on your life and remembering the good old days when you first fell in love and had your heart broken, or looking forward to that first kiss and afraid of all it will mean ... Blissful Blues has something for you.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525508695
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Encapsulating the chaos and angst of a young heart and old soul combined, within the structured format of stanza and verse, Blissful Blues is the first offering of an up-and coming poet, with life experiences and wisdom far beyond her years. With subjects touching upon everything from love and loss to bigotry and betrayal, its message speaks clearly to its readers in a voice worth hearing. Whether you’re looking back on your life and remembering the good old days when you first fell in love and had your heart broken, or looking forward to that first kiss and afraid of all it will mean ... Blissful Blues has something for you.
Reincarnation Blues
Author: Michael Poore
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 039917849X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. “Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try? Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn’t make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her. More than just Milo’s lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living—as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he’ll never have to leave her side again. But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. As darkly enchanting as the works of Neil Gaiman and as wisely hilarious as Kurt Vonnegut’s, Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking. Because it’s more than Milo and Suzie’s story. It’s your story, too. Praise for Reincarnation Blues “The most fun you’ll have reading about a man who has been killed by both catapult and car accident.”—NPR “This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.”—Chicago Review of Books “Charming . . . surprisingly light and uplifting . . . It reads like a writer having fun.”—New York Journal of Books
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 039917849X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. “Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try? Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn’t make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her. More than just Milo’s lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living—as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he’ll never have to leave her side again. But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. As darkly enchanting as the works of Neil Gaiman and as wisely hilarious as Kurt Vonnegut’s, Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking. Because it’s more than Milo and Suzie’s story. It’s your story, too. Praise for Reincarnation Blues “The most fun you’ll have reading about a man who has been killed by both catapult and car accident.”—NPR “This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.”—Chicago Review of Books “Charming . . . surprisingly light and uplifting . . . It reads like a writer having fun.”—New York Journal of Books
Between the Bliss and Me
Author: Lizzy Mason
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 164129115X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Acclaimed author Lizzy Mason delivers a moving contemporary YA novel about mental illness, young romance, and the impact of family history on one teen’s future, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, Robin Benway, and Kathleen Glasgow. When eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman announces that she has decided to attend NYU, her overprotective mom is devastated. Her decision means she will be living in the Big City instead of commuting to nearby Rutgers like her mom had hoped. It also means she’ll be close to off-limits but dreamy Grayson—a guitar prodigy who is going to Juilliard in the fall and very much isn’t single. But while she dreams of her new life, Sydney discovers a world-changing truth about her father. She knew he left when she was little due to a drug addiction. But no one told her he had schizophrenia or that he was currently living on the streets of New York City. She seizes the opportunity to get to know him, to understand who he is and learn what may lie in store for her if she, too, is diagnosed. Even as she continues to fall for Grayson, Sydney is faced with a difficult decision: Stay close to home so her mom can watch over her, or follow her dreams despite the risks?
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 164129115X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Acclaimed author Lizzy Mason delivers a moving contemporary YA novel about mental illness, young romance, and the impact of family history on one teen’s future, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, Robin Benway, and Kathleen Glasgow. When eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman announces that she has decided to attend NYU, her overprotective mom is devastated. Her decision means she will be living in the Big City instead of commuting to nearby Rutgers like her mom had hoped. It also means she’ll be close to off-limits but dreamy Grayson—a guitar prodigy who is going to Juilliard in the fall and very much isn’t single. But while she dreams of her new life, Sydney discovers a world-changing truth about her father. She knew he left when she was little due to a drug addiction. But no one told her he had schizophrenia or that he was currently living on the streets of New York City. She seizes the opportunity to get to know him, to understand who he is and learn what may lie in store for her if she, too, is diagnosed. Even as she continues to fall for Grayson, Sydney is faced with a difficult decision: Stay close to home so her mom can watch over her, or follow her dreams despite the risks?