Author: LJ Roberts
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496987977
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The book is a poetic description of a life destroyed emotionally mentally & physically by drugs. I feel I am qualified because it was my life. This may bring light to just one, This may be an answer to some, This may be a warning for what you are about to become. I am about to take you on a roller coaster of emotions that has been my life & all its fears, 21 years of drug abuse has brought with it its fair share of loneliness depression addiction happiness hope but most of all painful empty shed tears, If your mind is a virgin to the demon game what I am about to write will make you think I am insane, If your mind is not a virgin to the demon game then what you are about to read will sound oh to familiar just basic everyday plain. For what I am about to write does not come from the world of fairy-tales or fiction, What you are about to read is very true & it comes from the painful world of drug addiction.
Samba Dreamers
Author: Kathleen de Azevedo
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Rosea spoke, her voice steady. “I was in jail a long time, you know. I’m paying for my sins. Now I live in a dingy apartment. I get to watch my neighbors’ kids play and have a normal life that I’ll never have. I smell their barbecues. I’m already in hell, believe me.” Joe turned to go back to the car. “You don’t know what hell is. You have no idea.” When José Francisco Verguerio Silva arrives at LAX, fleeing the brutal dictatorship in his native Brazil, he is determined to become Americanized at all costs. He lands a job driving a Hollywood tour bus and posing as Ricky Ricardo. He marries a blonde waitress and becomes the father of twins. Yet happiness remains elusive for Joe as he is haunted by flashbacks of prison torture. And soon a torrid affair with Rosea Socorro Katz, the crazed daughter of Hollywood’s Brazilian star Carmen Socorro, proves to be even more dangerous than the life he has fled. Rosea spent her childhood watching her mother unravel as the celebrity system toyed with and eventually destroyed her career. Carmen had always claimed to be descended from Amazons, the woman warriors of legend, but she was tamed by Hollywood. Not Rosea. She has just finished serving jail time for setting fire to the home of her ex-husband—in an attempt to destroy his collection of Brazilian artifacts—and sets out to salvage her life. Along the way, she manages to tear down the lives of everyone she meets. The Brazil of the imagination is shattered in this novel of two tortured souls wrestling with the myths of movies, politics, and the American Dream. Laced with fantastic tales of bird-boys and cannibal rituals, it spins a compelling story of desperation as it reminds us that American freedom and the myth of unbridled opportunity can also consume and destroy.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816549060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Rosea spoke, her voice steady. “I was in jail a long time, you know. I’m paying for my sins. Now I live in a dingy apartment. I get to watch my neighbors’ kids play and have a normal life that I’ll never have. I smell their barbecues. I’m already in hell, believe me.” Joe turned to go back to the car. “You don’t know what hell is. You have no idea.” When José Francisco Verguerio Silva arrives at LAX, fleeing the brutal dictatorship in his native Brazil, he is determined to become Americanized at all costs. He lands a job driving a Hollywood tour bus and posing as Ricky Ricardo. He marries a blonde waitress and becomes the father of twins. Yet happiness remains elusive for Joe as he is haunted by flashbacks of prison torture. And soon a torrid affair with Rosea Socorro Katz, the crazed daughter of Hollywood’s Brazilian star Carmen Socorro, proves to be even more dangerous than the life he has fled. Rosea spent her childhood watching her mother unravel as the celebrity system toyed with and eventually destroyed her career. Carmen had always claimed to be descended from Amazons, the woman warriors of legend, but she was tamed by Hollywood. Not Rosea. She has just finished serving jail time for setting fire to the home of her ex-husband—in an attempt to destroy his collection of Brazilian artifacts—and sets out to salvage her life. Along the way, she manages to tear down the lives of everyone she meets. The Brazil of the imagination is shattered in this novel of two tortured souls wrestling with the myths of movies, politics, and the American Dream. Laced with fantastic tales of bird-boys and cannibal rituals, it spins a compelling story of desperation as it reminds us that American freedom and the myth of unbridled opportunity can also consume and destroy.
Dreamers
Author: Yuyi Morales
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823441253
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed. From the author-illustrator of Bright Star, Dreamers is a celebration of making your home with the things you always carry: your resilience, your dreams, your hopes and history. It's the story of finding your way in a new place, of navigating an unfamiliar world and finding the best parts of it. In dark times, it's a promise that you can make better tomorrows. This lovingly-illustrated picture book memoir looks at the myriad gifts migrantes bring with them when they leave their homes. It's a story about family. And it's a story to remind us that we are all dreamers, bringing our own strengths wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain, this is a story that is both topical and timeless. The lyrical text is complemented by sumptuously detailed illustrations, rich in symbolism. Also included are a brief autobiographical essay about Yuyi's own experience, a list of books that inspired her (and still do), and a description of the beautiful images, textures, and mementos she used to create this book. A parallel Spanish-language edition, Soñadores, is also available. Winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award! A New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book A New York Times Bestseller Recipient of the Flora Stieglitz Strauss Award A 2019 Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Recipient An Anna Dewdney Read Together Honor Book Named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, Salon.com-- and many more! A Junior Library Guild selection A Eureka! Nonfiction Honoree A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon title A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823441253
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed. From the author-illustrator of Bright Star, Dreamers is a celebration of making your home with the things you always carry: your resilience, your dreams, your hopes and history. It's the story of finding your way in a new place, of navigating an unfamiliar world and finding the best parts of it. In dark times, it's a promise that you can make better tomorrows. This lovingly-illustrated picture book memoir looks at the myriad gifts migrantes bring with them when they leave their homes. It's a story about family. And it's a story to remind us that we are all dreamers, bringing our own strengths wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain, this is a story that is both topical and timeless. The lyrical text is complemented by sumptuously detailed illustrations, rich in symbolism. Also included are a brief autobiographical essay about Yuyi's own experience, a list of books that inspired her (and still do), and a description of the beautiful images, textures, and mementos she used to create this book. A parallel Spanish-language edition, Soñadores, is also available. Winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award! A New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book A New York Times Bestseller Recipient of the Flora Stieglitz Strauss Award A 2019 Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Recipient An Anna Dewdney Read Together Honor Book Named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, Salon.com-- and many more! A Junior Library Guild selection A Eureka! Nonfiction Honoree A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon title A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase
The Dreamers
Author: Karen Thompson Walker
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. “Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Praise for The Dreamers “Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[Walker’s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.”—People (Book of the Week) “Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”—The New York Times Book Review “2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”—Jezebel “This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker’s sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting—of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”—Entertainment Weekly
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. “Stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven • “A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster. Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams—but of what? Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life—if only we are awakened to them. Praise for The Dreamers “Walker’s roving fictive eye by turns probes characters’ innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[Walker’s] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.”—People (Book of the Week) “Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.”—The New York Times Book Review “2019’s first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . The Dreamers is overflowing with humanity.”—Jezebel “This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker’s sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting—of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.”—Entertainment Weekly
Heart-Dreamer
Author: Cheryl Melody Baskin
Publisher: Cheryl Melody Baskin, LLC
ISBN: 9781733368179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
***Heart-Dreamer is now a 2021 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction - Motivational genre!*** Nurture your body, mind and spirit and gain insight about your unlimited potential. Dr. Bernie Siegel, New York Times bestselling author, says: "Cheryl Melody Baskin knows the secret to a life of wellness - living in your heart. I highly recommend this gem of a book from the heart and to the heart." User-friendly and inspirational, it is designed for anyone who has always been a dreamer, forgot their dreams along the way, or never knew how to dream. It is also dedicated to readers who want to heal and grow from inside-out and live life with more lightness, balance and joy. By sharing my struggles and vulnerabilities, you will see that you're not alone with your own doubts, fears and insecurities ... and the abundance of self-healing and self-discovery activities sprinkled throughout each chapter will serve to guide and transform your personal journey. Heart-Dreamer also contains the voices of wisdom from people all over the world who share their life lessons with you in one inspiring community of love. Heart-Dreamer is also here to help you get in touch with your imaginative and playful inner child. It will ignite a spark of wonder, leading you to know that you can always choose to begin again with new visions of hope, no matter what. My strongest desire is to support you in getting out of your own way ... offering experiential activities that will encourage you to take positive paths in all areas of your life. Every page of Heart-Dreamer overflows with unconditional love and wisdom, encouraging you to live your one life with determination, patience, joy, persistence, strength, courage, faith, creative flow, and most of all, love.
Publisher: Cheryl Melody Baskin, LLC
ISBN: 9781733368179
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
***Heart-Dreamer is now a 2021 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction - Motivational genre!*** Nurture your body, mind and spirit and gain insight about your unlimited potential. Dr. Bernie Siegel, New York Times bestselling author, says: "Cheryl Melody Baskin knows the secret to a life of wellness - living in your heart. I highly recommend this gem of a book from the heart and to the heart." User-friendly and inspirational, it is designed for anyone who has always been a dreamer, forgot their dreams along the way, or never knew how to dream. It is also dedicated to readers who want to heal and grow from inside-out and live life with more lightness, balance and joy. By sharing my struggles and vulnerabilities, you will see that you're not alone with your own doubts, fears and insecurities ... and the abundance of self-healing and self-discovery activities sprinkled throughout each chapter will serve to guide and transform your personal journey. Heart-Dreamer also contains the voices of wisdom from people all over the world who share their life lessons with you in one inspiring community of love. Heart-Dreamer is also here to help you get in touch with your imaginative and playful inner child. It will ignite a spark of wonder, leading you to know that you can always choose to begin again with new visions of hope, no matter what. My strongest desire is to support you in getting out of your own way ... offering experiential activities that will encourage you to take positive paths in all areas of your life. Every page of Heart-Dreamer overflows with unconditional love and wisdom, encouraging you to live your one life with determination, patience, joy, persistence, strength, courage, faith, creative flow, and most of all, love.
The Heart, Destiny & Legacy of a Dreamer
Author: Rachel-Anna Lewis
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257866834
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Through God's indescribable Nature, He has impregnated His sons and daughters with dreams that are more than capable of destroying and burying "unbeatable" principalities, powers and strongholds. Within each dreamer dwells the ability and influence to deliver, revolutionize and strengthen this generation and the ones to come when it's done God's Way. The impregnation of dreams and visions within the Body of Christ is birthed according to God's timing, and though the wait has been long for the Remnant, it's now time to manifest! Come as we birth, "The Heart, Destiny & Legacy of a Dreamer."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257866834
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Through God's indescribable Nature, He has impregnated His sons and daughters with dreams that are more than capable of destroying and burying "unbeatable" principalities, powers and strongholds. Within each dreamer dwells the ability and influence to deliver, revolutionize and strengthen this generation and the ones to come when it's done God's Way. The impregnation of dreams and visions within the Body of Christ is birthed according to God's timing, and though the wait has been long for the Remnant, it's now time to manifest! Come as we birth, "The Heart, Destiny & Legacy of a Dreamer."
From the Heart of a Dreamer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988609204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988609204
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dark Dreamers
Author: Stanley Wiater
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction THE DREAMSPINNERS WHO WEAVE NIGHTMARES They lead us through wondrous doors to the dark side of imagination—exposing our most carefully hidden fantasies … and our deepest fears. Now twenty-six of the world's premier Maestros of the Macabre share their secrets, their goals, their creative terrors … and reveal the voices that called them into a shadowworld of demons and devils. Contains interviews with the following: Clive Barker Robert Bloch Gary Brandner Ramsey Campbell Les Daniels Dennis Etchison John Farris Charles L. Grant James Herbert Stephen King Dean R. Koontz Joe R. Lansdale Richard Laymon Graham Masterton Richard Matheson Robert R. McCammon David Morrell Anne Rice John Saul John Skipp Craig Spector Peter Straub Whitley Strieber Chet Williamson J. N. Williamson Gahan Wilson
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction THE DREAMSPINNERS WHO WEAVE NIGHTMARES They lead us through wondrous doors to the dark side of imagination—exposing our most carefully hidden fantasies … and our deepest fears. Now twenty-six of the world's premier Maestros of the Macabre share their secrets, their goals, their creative terrors … and reveal the voices that called them into a shadowworld of demons and devils. Contains interviews with the following: Clive Barker Robert Bloch Gary Brandner Ramsey Campbell Les Daniels Dennis Etchison John Farris Charles L. Grant James Herbert Stephen King Dean R. Koontz Joe R. Lansdale Richard Laymon Graham Masterton Richard Matheson Robert R. McCammon David Morrell Anne Rice John Saul John Skipp Craig Spector Peter Straub Whitley Strieber Chet Williamson J. N. Williamson Gahan Wilson
The Dreamers
Author: Theodosia Pickering Garrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Demon Game
Author: LJRoberts
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496987969
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The book is a poetic description of a life destroyed emotionally mentally & physically by drugs. I feel I am qualified because it was my life. This may bring light to just one, This may be an answer to some, This may be a warning for what you are about to become. I am about to take you on a roller coaster of emotions that has been my life & all its fears, 21 years of drug abuse has brought with it its fair share of loneliness depression addiction happiness hope but most of all painful empty shed tears, If your mind is a virgin to the demon game what I am about to write will make you think I am insane, If your mind is not a virgin to the demon game then what you are about to read will sound oh to familiar just basic everyday plain. For what I am about to write does not come from the world of fairy-tales or fiction, What you are about to read is very true & it comes from the painful world of drug addiction.
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496987969
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
The book is a poetic description of a life destroyed emotionally mentally & physically by drugs. I feel I am qualified because it was my life. This may bring light to just one, This may be an answer to some, This may be a warning for what you are about to become. I am about to take you on a roller coaster of emotions that has been my life & all its fears, 21 years of drug abuse has brought with it its fair share of loneliness depression addiction happiness hope but most of all painful empty shed tears, If your mind is a virgin to the demon game what I am about to write will make you think I am insane, If your mind is not a virgin to the demon game then what you are about to read will sound oh to familiar just basic everyday plain. For what I am about to write does not come from the world of fairy-tales or fiction, What you are about to read is very true & it comes from the painful world of drug addiction.
Day Dreamers
Author: Emily Winfield Martin
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385376707
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wonderful Things You Will Be comes this companion to Dream Animals -- a celebration of the imagination of children dreaming both day and night! Emily Winfield Martin shows readers that letting their imaginations run free will lead them into fantastical day dreams. Whether cloud-gazing or wandering through a museum, reading a book or playing in a tide-pool, the children in this picture book find themselves in places inhabited by magical creatures such as dragons, unicorns, griffins, and jackalopes. A whimsical rhyme accompanies the dream-worthy illustrations.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385376707
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wonderful Things You Will Be comes this companion to Dream Animals -- a celebration of the imagination of children dreaming both day and night! Emily Winfield Martin shows readers that letting their imaginations run free will lead them into fantastical day dreams. Whether cloud-gazing or wandering through a museum, reading a book or playing in a tide-pool, the children in this picture book find themselves in places inhabited by magical creatures such as dragons, unicorns, griffins, and jackalopes. A whimsical rhyme accompanies the dream-worthy illustrations.