Author: Doris Moreland Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835808156
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
And Not One Bird Stopped Singing guides us through grieving all the events that take meaning from our lives so we can learn to live again. Doris Moreland Jones draws from her clinical pastoral background and own personal experience with grief.
And Not One Bird Stopped Singing
Author: Doris Moreland Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835808156
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
And Not One Bird Stopped Singing guides us through grieving all the events that take meaning from our lives so we can learn to live again. Doris Moreland Jones draws from her clinical pastoral background and own personal experience with grief.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835808156
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
And Not One Bird Stopped Singing guides us through grieving all the events that take meaning from our lives so we can learn to live again. Doris Moreland Jones draws from her clinical pastoral background and own personal experience with grief.
Why Have the Birds Stopped Singing?
Author: Zoa Sherburne
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440988793
Category : Epilepsy
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
During an epileptic seizure while visiting her ancestral home, sixteen-year-old Katie is transported back in time and mistaken for her great-great-great grandmother who also had epilepsy at a time when the disease was greatly misunderstood.
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440988793
Category : Epilepsy
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
During an epileptic seizure while visiting her ancestral home, sixteen-year-old Katie is transported back in time and mistaken for her great-great-great grandmother who also had epilepsy at a time when the disease was greatly misunderstood.
When the Birds Stopped Singing
Author: Raja Shehadeh
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 158642212X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened childred, ages four and six. This is an account of what it is like to be under seige: the terror, the frustrations, the humiliations, and the rage. How do you pass your time when you are imprisoned in your own home? What do you do when you cannot cross the neighborhood to help your sick mother? Shehadeh's recent memoir, Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine, was the first book by a Palestinian writer to chronicle a life of displacement on the West Bank from 1967 to the present. It received international acclaim and was a finalist for the 2002 Lionel Gelber Prize. When the Birds Stopped Singing is a book of the moment, a chronicle of life today as lived by ordinary Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza in the grip of the most stringent Israeli security measures in years. And yet it is also an enduring document, at once literary and of great political import, that should serve as a cautionary tale for today's and future generations.
Publisher: Steerforth
ISBN: 158642212X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened childred, ages four and six. This is an account of what it is like to be under seige: the terror, the frustrations, the humiliations, and the rage. How do you pass your time when you are imprisoned in your own home? What do you do when you cannot cross the neighborhood to help your sick mother? Shehadeh's recent memoir, Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine, was the first book by a Palestinian writer to chronicle a life of displacement on the West Bank from 1967 to the present. It received international acclaim and was a finalist for the 2002 Lionel Gelber Prize. When the Birds Stopped Singing is a book of the moment, a chronicle of life today as lived by ordinary Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza in the grip of the most stringent Israeli security measures in years. And yet it is also an enduring document, at once literary and of great political import, that should serve as a cautionary tale for today's and future generations.
Singing Bird
Author: Roisin McAuley
Publisher: Crux Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1909979171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Twenty-seven years after she adopted her baby in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she wants merely to tie up loose ends in her old age, but Lena becomes frightened that something more threatening lies behind the call, and she sets off on a journey to Ireland, with her best friend, to find her daughter's birth parents.
Publisher: Crux Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1909979171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Twenty-seven years after she adopted her baby in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she wants merely to tie up loose ends in her old age, but Lena becomes frightened that something more threatening lies behind the call, and she sets off on a journey to Ireland, with her best friend, to find her daughter's birth parents.
All the Birds, Singing
Author: Evie Wyld
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307907775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307907775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Mocking Birdies
Author: Annette Simon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894965293
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A blue mockingbird chides a red mockingbird for singing the same song, but they find when they sing together, they make beautiful music
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894965293
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A blue mockingbird chides a red mockingbird for singing the same song, but they find when they sing together, they make beautiful music
The Living Church
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Hospice
Author: Rebecca Malcolm Schubert
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666782467
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book is a selection of a chaplain’s experiences of how hospice can serve the families and patients who enter this special journey. It contains patient stories told from the chaplain’s view. When Chaplain Beck is with patients, she often shares one of her stories to help ease their fears. It is her hope that sharing these stories in this book will prepare readers and lessen their anxiety when hearing the word “hospice” in relation to themselves or a loved one. Experiencing these holy moments may even help on one’s own spiritual journey. Hospice does not mean death is imminent, but rather it is a transition of care that focuses on the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs as they approach the end of life, which may be days or months away. From Schubert’s first visit made as a chaplain resident to her last day thirty years later as a hospice chaplain, she has been honored to serve the dying and their loved ones. She hopes that readers will hear the love and grace and see that through hospice, the end can be as beautiful as the beginning.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666782467
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
This book is a selection of a chaplain’s experiences of how hospice can serve the families and patients who enter this special journey. It contains patient stories told from the chaplain’s view. When Chaplain Beck is with patients, she often shares one of her stories to help ease their fears. It is her hope that sharing these stories in this book will prepare readers and lessen their anxiety when hearing the word “hospice” in relation to themselves or a loved one. Experiencing these holy moments may even help on one’s own spiritual journey. Hospice does not mean death is imminent, but rather it is a transition of care that focuses on the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs as they approach the end of life, which may be days or months away. From Schubert’s first visit made as a chaplain resident to her last day thirty years later as a hospice chaplain, she has been honored to serve the dying and their loved ones. She hopes that readers will hear the love and grace and see that through hospice, the end can be as beautiful as the beginning.
Outrageous Grace
Author: Grace L. Fabian
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475986580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
That morning, a beautiful day on the tropical island of Papua New Guinea, Grace Fabian brimmed in excitement over the idea that she and her husband, Edmund, were close to finishing their missionary project, the translation of the Nabak New Testament. But, while in the midst of translating the love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, someone murdered Edmund. In this memoir, Grace narrates the couples' life story of their separate journeys before they met, to their shared life as missionaries. She tells the story of how she and her four children wrestled with grief and disorientation after Edmund's murder. She speaks of the family's quest for answers and of the difficulty of meshing two different worlds the culture of the Nabak people in Papua New Guinea and of her Christian heritage from the United States. Grace shares how she faced the challenges of forgiving the murderer, having rocks thrown at their home, receiving eviction notices, and navigating a court case in a foreign country. Outrageous Grace shows how Grace and her children discovered that God orchestrated an amazing story of redemption and forgiveness.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475986580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
That morning, a beautiful day on the tropical island of Papua New Guinea, Grace Fabian brimmed in excitement over the idea that she and her husband, Edmund, were close to finishing their missionary project, the translation of the Nabak New Testament. But, while in the midst of translating the love chapter, 1 Corinthians 13, someone murdered Edmund. In this memoir, Grace narrates the couples' life story of their separate journeys before they met, to their shared life as missionaries. She tells the story of how she and her four children wrestled with grief and disorientation after Edmund's murder. She speaks of the family's quest for answers and of the difficulty of meshing two different worlds the culture of the Nabak people in Papua New Guinea and of her Christian heritage from the United States. Grace shares how she faced the challenges of forgiving the murderer, having rocks thrown at their home, receiving eviction notices, and navigating a court case in a foreign country. Outrageous Grace shows how Grace and her children discovered that God orchestrated an amazing story of redemption and forgiveness.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 030747772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 030747772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.