Author: Sonia Sotomayor
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “searching and emotionally intimate memoir” (The New York Times) told with a candor never before undertaken by a sitting Justice. This “powerful defense of empathy” (The Washington Post) is destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery. The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. In this story of human triumph that “hums with hope and exhilaration” (NPR), she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself. She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book.
My Beloved World
Author: Sonia Sotomayor
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “searching and emotionally intimate memoir” (The New York Times) told with a candor never before undertaken by a sitting Justice. This “powerful defense of empathy” (The Washington Post) is destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery. The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. In this story of human triumph that “hums with hope and exhilaration” (NPR), she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself. She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962164
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “searching and emotionally intimate memoir” (The New York Times) told with a candor never before undertaken by a sitting Justice. This “powerful defense of empathy” (The Washington Post) is destined to become a classic of self-invention and self-discovery. The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. In this story of human triumph that “hums with hope and exhilaration” (NPR), she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself. Here is the story of a precarious childhood, with an alcoholic father (who would die when she was nine) and a devoted but overburdened mother, and of the refuge a little girl took from the turmoil at home with her passionately spirited paternal grandmother. But it was when she was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes that the precocious Sonia recognized she must ultimately depend on herself. She would learn to give herself the insulin shots she needed to survive and soon imagined a path to a different life. With only television characters for her professional role models, and little understanding of what was involved, she determined to become a lawyer, a dream that would sustain her on an unlikely course, from valedictorian of her high school class to the highest honors at Princeton, Yale Law School, the New York County District Attorney’s office, private practice, and appointment to the Federal District Court before the age of forty. Along the way we see how she was shaped by her invaluable mentors, a failed marriage, and the modern version of extended family she has created from cherished friends and their children. Through her still-astonished eyes, America’s infinite possibilities are envisioned anew in this warm and honest book.
O My Beloved
Author: F Prashenjit Shome
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482800772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This is the story of Anuksha, a beautiful young woman. After the death of her loving mother, Anuksha grew up without love and care of her abusive and drunkard father. At the age of sixteen, she found her love , Anupam, the man she loved most in life. Those were the wonderful days of her life. Days passed joyfully. Then one day, she lost her love. She felt deserted. She grew up to become a beautiful young woman. She was forced by her father to marry a drunkard man of her fathers age against her will. Her life had been a tragedy after marriage. Then another tragedy was waiting for her. Six months later, her husband had a heart attack and died. She was forced again to marry the younger brother of her dead husband, who was also like his brother. She spent a painful life . She was always abused mentally and physically. She had been a proud mother of a beautiful daughter. As her daughter grew up, she could feel her mothers pain. Anuksha spent the days remembering the wonderful memories with her lover, Anupam, and prayed to God to bring him back to her life again. Then coincidently, one day Anuksha met Anupam again. She was overwhelmed. They began to meet regularly and fulfill their desires. After the death of her husband in an accident, her daughter reunited both Anuksha and Anupam, and a boundless joy and happiness filled her life, and she began to feel like a twenty-year-young girl again.
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482800772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This is the story of Anuksha, a beautiful young woman. After the death of her loving mother, Anuksha grew up without love and care of her abusive and drunkard father. At the age of sixteen, she found her love , Anupam, the man she loved most in life. Those were the wonderful days of her life. Days passed joyfully. Then one day, she lost her love. She felt deserted. She grew up to become a beautiful young woman. She was forced by her father to marry a drunkard man of her fathers age against her will. Her life had been a tragedy after marriage. Then another tragedy was waiting for her. Six months later, her husband had a heart attack and died. She was forced again to marry the younger brother of her dead husband, who was also like his brother. She spent a painful life . She was always abused mentally and physically. She had been a proud mother of a beautiful daughter. As her daughter grew up, she could feel her mothers pain. Anuksha spent the days remembering the wonderful memories with her lover, Anupam, and prayed to God to bring him back to her life again. Then coincidently, one day Anuksha met Anupam again. She was overwhelmed. They began to meet regularly and fulfill their desires. After the death of her husband in an accident, her daughter reunited both Anuksha and Anupam, and a boundless joy and happiness filled her life, and she began to feel like a twenty-year-young girl again.
Come Away My Beloved
Author: Frances J. Roberts
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 1643522094
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Celebrating 50 Years of Frances Roberts’s Powerful Reminder of God’s All-Encompassing Love Here’s your invitation to deeper intimacy with your loving heavenly Father—with this devotional classic from Frances J. Roberts. This powerful book, featuring original text and scripture from the King James Version of the Bible, shares the ministering spirit of the heavenly Father when you need a little encouragement, hope, comfort, and conviction. Through compelling prose and poetry, author Frances J. Roberts will challenge you to a deeper intimacy with God.
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 1643522094
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Celebrating 50 Years of Frances Roberts’s Powerful Reminder of God’s All-Encompassing Love Here’s your invitation to deeper intimacy with your loving heavenly Father—with this devotional classic from Frances J. Roberts. This powerful book, featuring original text and scripture from the King James Version of the Bible, shares the ministering spirit of the heavenly Father when you need a little encouragement, hope, comfort, and conviction. Through compelling prose and poetry, author Frances J. Roberts will challenge you to a deeper intimacy with God.
Oh My Beloved!
Author: Joanne Blum, PH.D.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595214843
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
How can we make our love lives deeper and more enriching? What allows us to tap into our relationships’ soul-transforming power? How can we be sure our relationship choices are Spirit-guided rather than ego-driven? Oh My Beloved! takes as its essential theme that the soul-level love each of us longs for is first discovered within before it is enacted without. Seven sacred qualities of the divinely guided relationship are identified—preparedness, awareness, inner-directedness, emptiness, celebration, service, and spiritual midwifery—which can be used to deepen our experience of love, either with the loved ones now in our lives, or in new relationships to come. True, fulfilling, and enduring love is possible for us all.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595214843
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
How can we make our love lives deeper and more enriching? What allows us to tap into our relationships’ soul-transforming power? How can we be sure our relationship choices are Spirit-guided rather than ego-driven? Oh My Beloved! takes as its essential theme that the soul-level love each of us longs for is first discovered within before it is enacted without. Seven sacred qualities of the divinely guided relationship are identified—preparedness, awareness, inner-directedness, emptiness, celebration, service, and spiritual midwifery—which can be used to deepen our experience of love, either with the loved ones now in our lives, or in new relationships to come. True, fulfilling, and enduring love is possible for us all.
Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307264882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0307264882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
Such Is My Beloved
Author: Morley Callaghan
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 1551992221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
One of the great novels of the 1930s, Such Is My Beloved recounts the tragic story of two down-and-out prostitutes and the young priest who aspires to redeem their lives. The novel is at once a compassionate portrait of innocence and idealism, and an emphatic condemnation of a society where the lines between good and evil are essentially blurred. Such Is My Beloved is widely considered to be Morley Callaghan’s finest novel.
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 1551992221
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
One of the great novels of the 1930s, Such Is My Beloved recounts the tragic story of two down-and-out prostitutes and the young priest who aspires to redeem their lives. The novel is at once a compassionate portrait of innocence and idealism, and an emphatic condemnation of a society where the lines between good and evil are essentially blurred. Such Is My Beloved is widely considered to be Morley Callaghan’s finest novel.
Israel, My Beloved
Author: Kay Arthur
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736936025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
When Israel, My Beloved first released, it immediately captured the #1 spot on the CBA hardcover fiction bestseller list—and stayed on the list for months. Kay Arthur's dramatic, epic-style novel is now available in softcover with a beautiful new cover and a historical timeline that corresponds with the fascinating retelling of Israel's story. History comes alive as Kay begins with the tragic mistakes that led to Israel's captivity by Babylon and takes readers all the way to the modern-day miracles of triumph against all odds. A heartwarming novel filled with adventure and suspense, Israel, My Beloved is an incredible testimony of God's great love and faithfulness even in Israel's darkest hour.
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736936025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
When Israel, My Beloved first released, it immediately captured the #1 spot on the CBA hardcover fiction bestseller list—and stayed on the list for months. Kay Arthur's dramatic, epic-style novel is now available in softcover with a beautiful new cover and a historical timeline that corresponds with the fascinating retelling of Israel's story. History comes alive as Kay begins with the tragic mistakes that led to Israel's captivity by Babylon and takes readers all the way to the modern-day miracles of triumph against all odds. A heartwarming novel filled with adventure and suspense, Israel, My Beloved is an incredible testimony of God's great love and faithfulness even in Israel's darkest hour.
Immortal
Author: Jessica Duchen
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1789651166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1789651166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...
The Book of the Lover and the Beloved
Author: Ramon Llull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Book of the Lover and the Beloved; Translated from the Catalan of Ramón Lull with an Introductory Essay by E. Allison Peers
Author: Ramon Llull
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387073925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387073925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.