Author: Deborah James
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598582747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Author: Celia Castellanos
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359604382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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Author: Lois Daniel
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569764468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Writing the story of one's life sounds like a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. This warmhearted, encouraging guide helps readers record the events of their lives for family and friends. Excerpts from other writers' work are included to exemplify and inspire. Provided are tips on intriguing topics to write about, foolproof tricks to jog your memory, ways to capture stories on paper without getting bogged down, ways to gather the facts at a local library or historical society, inspired excerpts from other writers, and published biographies that will delight and motivate.

Author: Jane Lopes
Publisher: Hardie Grant
ISBN: 9781743795323
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Sometimes we just want someone to hand us a bottle of wine. Sometimes we want to learn more about that wine. And sometimes we want to feel something about wine. In Vignette, sommelier Jane Lopes recommends the 100 bottles of wine (and some spirits and beers) to best expand your wine journey, giving you a complete palate education of the important styles, grapes, regions, and flavors of this magical and ever-growing world. Alongside that, you will find imaginative ways to engage with the foundational wine knowledge that underpins a good drinking experience. And then there is Jane's own narrative – the stories of triumph and defeat that comprise her life in wine. It's part memoir and part wine book, but a lot more fun than either alone. These are wines to live with, learn from and take solace in – a joyous, surprising, and revelatory response to that age-old question, "What should I drink?"

Author: Paul E. Miller
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1631468812
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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More than 500,000 copies sold! Updated and expanded! Prayer is hard. Often, unless circumstances demand it—such as an illness or saying grace before a meal—most of us simply do not pray. This kind of prayerlessness can leave us with a distressed spirit and practical unbelief characterized by fear, anxiety, joylessness, and spiritual depression. A Praying Life is a prayer guide that has encouraged thousands of Christians to pursue a vibrant prayer life full of joy and power and has helped them learn how to pray faithfully and courageously. A life of prayer invites you to a life of connection to God. When Jesus describes the intimacy that He seeks with us, He talks about joining us for dinner (Revelation 3:20). This book reminds readers that prayer is simply making conversation with God a rhythm of daily Christian life. A Praying Life includes chapters about: How to deal with unanswered prayer How to start a prayer journal Does prayer make a difference? Now with added chapters addressing prayers of lament and further guidance for using prayer cards, Paul Miller invites you to foster prayer that regularly hopes, trusts, and expects God to act. Learn to develop helpful habits and approaches to prayer that will enable you to return to a childlike faith and witness spiritual growth today! “This book will be like having the breath of God at your back. Let it lift you to new hope.” —Dan B. Allender, PhD, author of Bold Love

Author: Bill McKibben
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
ISBN: 1571313001
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben's home territory, New York's Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution problems in the densely populated Curitiba, Brazil; and how the citizens of Kerala, India have demonstrated that quality of life doesn't depend on overconsumption of resources. This edition features a new introduction that revisits these places and explores how they've changed over the years.

Author: Catharine Elizabeth Warren
Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Lee Gutkind
Publisher: Underland Press
ISBN: 1937163261
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Every year, one in four American adults suffers from a diagnosable mental health disorder. In these true stories, writers and their loved ones struggle as their worlds are upended. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herself—or when you yourself hear such voices? Addressing bipolar disorder, OCD, trichillomania, self-harm, PTSD, and other diagnoses, these stories vividly depict the difficulties and sorrows—and sometimes, too, the unexpected and surprising rewards—of living with mental illness.

Author: Aditya Sethi
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1482839466
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Celebrating lifemagical, wondrous, captivating, ironic! It inspires, provokes comment on events, incidents, social issues, lifes facets in todays world. We are an uncompromising, integral part of lifes journey, its philosophy, cynicism, and positivity. Their poignancy touches a chord, causing you to feel the poems and appreciate them as they mirror life. Readers will easily identify with and relate to many poems, where you may just see your life reflected in them. Their poems, transcending three generations, take you into a world of varied writing styles, themes, which encapsulates their vision, opinions on what life holds for them. They are philosophical, showcasing life in all its color, splendor, and magnitude. Sometimes cynical, they turn positive while covering lifes differing aspects. The poems speaking mostly about lifes events, daily happenings, social matters, also question our very existence. Terrorism, the regular grind, lifes facades are projected in their inimitable poetic styles. Vibrant, energetic-the poems are filled with thoughts on why things are what they are. They provoke you to ask yourself questions that may or may not provide you with acceptable answers. Poems that are expressive, if sometimes abstract, reflect a true account of life today.

Author: Sergio Troncoso
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081653215X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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"She asked me if I liked them. And what could I say? They were wonderful." From the very beginning of Sergio Troncoso's celebrated story "Angie Luna," we know we are in the hands of a gifted storyteller. Born of Mexican immigrants, raised in El Paso, and now living in New York City, Troncoso has a rare knack for celebrating life. Writing in a straightforward, light-handed style reminiscent of Grace Paley and Raymond Carver, he spins charming tales that reflect his experiences in two worlds. Troncoso's El Paso is a normal town where common people who happen to be Mexican eat, sleep, fall in love, and undergo epiphanies just like everyone else. His tales are coming-of-age stories from the Mexican-American border, stories of the working class, stories of those coping with the trials of growing old in a rapidly changing society. He also explores New York with vignettes of life in the big city, capturing its loneliness and danger. Beginning with Troncoso's widely acclaimed story "Angie Luna," the tale of a feverish love affair in which a young man rediscovers his Mexican heritage and learns how much love can hurt, these stories delve into the many dimensions of the human condition. We watch boys playing a game that begins innocently but takes a dangerous turn. We see an old Anglo woman befriending her Mexican gardener because both are lonely. We witness a man terrorized in his New York apartment, taking solace in memories of lost love. Two new stories will be welcomed by Troncoso's readers. "My Life in the City" relates a transplanted Texan's yearning for companionship in New York, while "The Last Tortilla" returns to the Southwest to explore family strains after a mother's death—and the secret behind that death. Each reflects an insight about the human heart that has already established the author's work in literary circles. Troncoso sets aside the polemics about social discomfort sometimes found in contemporary Chicano writing and focuses instead on the moral and intellectual lives of his characters. The twelve stories gathered here form a richly textured tapestry that adds to our understanding of what it is to be human.