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Author: Anne McConnell Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN: 162897379X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporary works of literature from France, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The book includes discussion of works by nine different authors, including Anne Carson, Marie NDiaye, Paul Auster, and César Aira. It considers the way that specific texts identify and interrogate textual boundaries, and also draw attention to questions of closure. Each of these texts also reflects on the way we experience and write about edges and endings in our lives.
Author: Anne McConnell Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing ISBN: 162897379X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporary works of literature from France, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The book includes discussion of works by nine different authors, including Anne Carson, Marie NDiaye, Paul Auster, and César Aira. It considers the way that specific texts identify and interrogate textual boundaries, and also draw attention to questions of closure. Each of these texts also reflects on the way we experience and write about edges and endings in our lives.
Author: Sandy Nathan Publisher: ISBN: 9780976280989 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 0
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Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice is a series of fascinating real-life stories about a woman who learned to listen to a voice that, for most of her life, she feared and distrusted even though she knew it would serve her to heed it. A voice that provided spiritual as well as practical direction and inspiration. A voice that guided her out of her negative patterns and propelled her to the Gathering, a Native American spiritual retreat. By reading of her adventures, awarenesses, and awakenings you also gain an insight into what is possible for you and an abundance of simple, fun, practical techniques to enhance your own search for Self. This is a book that will leave you knowing that you can hear the voice of Spirit every moment of every day. And it will leave you with some tangible things you can do to get to the place of trusting what it says. Is it simple? Yes. Is it easy? Not exactly. It's a lot like stepping off the edge. Book jacket.
Author: Cameron Kelly Rosenblum Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062932098 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 395
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From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend’s death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and We Were Liars. It’s the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High’s in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who has been her social oxygen since middle school. But summer is when Hattie goes to her family’s Maine island home. Instead of sitting inside for eight weeks, waiting for her to return, Reid and their friend, Sam, enter into a pact—to live it up, one party at a time. But days before Hattie is due home, Reid finds out the shocking news that Hattie has died by suicide. Driven by a desperate need to understand what went wrong, Reid searches for answers. In doing so, she uncovers painful secrets about the person she thought she knew better than herself. And the truth will force Reid to reexamine everything.
Author: Laura Trujillo Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0593157613 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 209
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In this “seismically moving memoir” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman asks a seemingly impossible question in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide: How do you mourn a loved one as you repair the injuries they inflicted? “Laura Trujillo resurfaces from the dark ‘sub-basement’ of despair with assurances for us all: There is hope. There is healing. Always, there is love. This book will save lives.”—Connie Schultz, author of The Daughters of Erietown ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker Laura Trujillo had been close to her mother for most of her adult life, raising her four children within a few miles of their beloved grandmother’s Phoenix home. But just three months after moving her young family to Cincinnati for a new job, Laura receives shocking news: Her mother had taken her own life—by jumping off a ledge into the Grand Canyon, a place Laura knew her mother had always loved. Laura and her mother had shared a profound and special bond, yet each had also kept from the other the deepest truths about their lives. As an adult, Laura finally broke her silence about the sexual abuse she had suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather—a secret Laura had buried to protect her mother. After her mother’s death, Laura embarks on an emotional odyssey, searching for clues that could explain the depression, intergenerational trauma, and shared heartbreaks in her family. When she returns to the Grand Canyon, it becomes an oasis that nurtures Laura’s search for redemption and peace. As Laura wrestles with her feelings, she forges a new path forward. Moving and intimate, powerfully told, Stepping Back from the Ledge is a remarkable exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter, and of the hope that can come from facing the truth.
Author: Thomas M Wilson Publisher: Fremantle Press ISBN: 1925164357 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 266
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Stepping Off is a book for locals and travellers alike. It is the story of the south-western corner of Western Australia: an environmental history, a social history, an invitation to reconnect with the land – and in doing so, to reconnect with ourselves.
Author: Michael Cadnum Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 150401975X Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 139
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A teenage boy searches for revenge on the streets of Oakland The battle is nearly over. The outsiders—who came to Oakland looking for excitement—are about to get back on the highway and go home. But they hurt 1 of Zach’s friends, and he can’t let that stand. He hurls a chunk of concrete at their car, starting a fight that turns into a riot. The police flood the streets with teargas, and Zach gets lost in the chaos. In the melee, he finds something someone left behind—something that will poison his life. It’s a .38 pistol, and once he picks it up, he can’t let it go. Zach hates violence, but since he quit high school, he feels its power creeping into his life every day. When his father is shot during a robbery, Zach’s newly found pistol gives him the power to take revenge—if his heart will let him pull the trigger.
Author: Bruce Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1452055904 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 475
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A STORY SET IN SOUTHERN AFRICA ABOUT EVERYTHING? YES EVERYTHING! IT IS A MIX OF FAMILY, ADVENTURE, ROMANCE, PAIN, HAPPINESS, LOVE AND THE NATURE OF "PERSPECTIVE" WHERE, FOR EXAMPLE, DARKNESS IS PERCIEVED AS A CAUSE FOR RECOGNISING AND VALUING LIGHT! YOU COULD SAY IT IS A MIX OF STORIES WHICH ILLUSTRATE THE FACT THAT IT IS ALWAYS THE 'CAUSE' WHICH BRINGS INTO BEING EVERYTHING THAT IS!WHAT YOU READ IN THIS BOOK DERIVES FROM TRUE INCIDENTS SPICED WITH POETIC LICENCE WHEREVER DEEMNED NECESSARY. THE PLACES SUCH AS COUNTRIES, TOWNS, CAMPS AND COUNTRYSIDES ARE REAL BUT THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS PORTRAYED ARE FICTIONAL AND THE PEOPLE POSING IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE STANDING IN ON BEHALF OF THEM.
Author: Shelly Anderson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1304059839 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 308
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What would tempt a young woman to run off to a country she knew almost nothing about? I was that young woman. Fleeing a bitter divorce and my safe, but mundane, life I accepted a job in Saudi Arabia, a country that by all reports was the most austere on earth. I ran headlong into an unexpected adventure that would change my life forever. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - mysterious, beautiful and dangerous. A land of stunning desert landscapes where modern ways co-exist uneasily with ancient traditions. An enigma of a place where the state executioner is revered, where beautiful women shroud themselves in black, and ferocious desert sandstorms turn high noon into darkest night. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with the Middle East and its people, their proud history, and their gracious hospitality. This is my story.
Author: James Gardner Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 145205102X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 328
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James was only five years old and travelling home to Devon after holiday with his family in Scotland in 1986, when tragedy struck. The car was involved in a serious accident just outside Bristol, leaving him fighting for survival on life support. When he emerged from his coma, doctors discovered that he was seriously brain damaged, leaving the left side paralysed. Within the blink of an eye James had been transformed from a gregarious, fun-loving little boy into a rag doll. But with a lot of loving support, he began the long and difficult road to recovery. His attitude was inspirational, and for years he threw himself into rehabilitation. As James grew up he began to feel misunderstood and not able to reach the level of normality he so yearned for. He felt that there was no longer any point to his life. When James asked his doctor for help, the reality of his situation suddenly struck. Suicide would be the ultimate failure. This is the story of James' life and how he fought tooth and nail to stay alive. It is both his autobiography and a guide to personal development. Since making the conscious decision not to give up hope, James has gone on to travel the world and teach English abroad. James is open and honest about the things in which he has found great solace during his darkest hours, and he credits the teachings of Kabbalah, an increasingly popular form of Jewish mysticism, for helping him refocus his life. The singer Madonna, a long term exponent of the spiritual teaching, has been an inspirational figure for James. James is now a picture of good health; despite continued weakness in his left side and a limp, he walks confidently and with a purpose.
Author: David Rakoff Publisher: Doubleday Canada ISBN: 0385676174 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 112
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From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
Author: Anne McConnell
Author: Anne McConnell
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Author: Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
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Author: Thomas M Wilson
Author: Michael Cadnum
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Author: Shelly Anderson
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