Author: Alisha G
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
What secrets await Pavitra in her life’s journey? Fighting the odds in her childhood, taking with her a lot of questions, leaving her dream behind, risking everything, and struggling to find her path without any support, Pavitra lives a life that has not been easy. When she finally accepts her fate and starts juggling two lives - one to make her dream come true and the other to sustain herself, One stroke of fate changes her life, challenges her to the core, and makes her question her very existence. Will her questions get answered? Will she be able to pursue her dreams?
Life Happens Despite…
Author: Alisha G
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
What secrets await Pavitra in her life’s journey? Fighting the odds in her childhood, taking with her a lot of questions, leaving her dream behind, risking everything, and struggling to find her path without any support, Pavitra lives a life that has not been easy. When she finally accepts her fate and starts juggling two lives - one to make her dream come true and the other to sustain herself, One stroke of fate changes her life, challenges her to the core, and makes her question her very existence. Will her questions get answered? Will she be able to pursue her dreams?
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
What secrets await Pavitra in her life’s journey? Fighting the odds in her childhood, taking with her a lot of questions, leaving her dream behind, risking everything, and struggling to find her path without any support, Pavitra lives a life that has not been easy. When she finally accepts her fate and starts juggling two lives - one to make her dream come true and the other to sustain herself, One stroke of fate changes her life, challenges her to the core, and makes her question her very existence. Will her questions get answered? Will she be able to pursue her dreams?
And Then Life Happens
Author: Auma Obama
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250010594
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama. While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father. Barack and Auma met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a lasting relationship which lead to travels together in Kenya, research into their family history and finally Auma's support for her brother's political career and eventual bid for the U.S. presidency. Auma spent sixteen years studying and living in Germany, moved to England for love, and gave birth to a daughter there. The tension between her original and chosen worlds and cultures was a constant challenge, and eventually Auma returned to Africa and worked to support young men and women in shaping their futures. In And Then Life Happens, her candid and emotional memoir, Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and experiences with her famous brother, who says about their first encounter: "I hugged her, we looked at each other, and laughed. I knew right then that I loved her."
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250010594
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A moving account by Auma Obama about her life in Africa and Europe, and her relationship with her brother, Barack Obama. While her younger brother Barack grew up in the U.S. and Indonesia, Auma Obama's childhood played out at the other end of the world in a remote village in Kenya, the birthplace of the siblings' shared father. Barack and Auma met for the first time in the 1980s, and they built a lasting relationship which lead to travels together in Kenya, research into their family history and finally Auma's support for her brother's political career and eventual bid for the U.S. presidency. Auma spent sixteen years studying and living in Germany, moved to England for love, and gave birth to a daughter there. The tension between her original and chosen worlds and cultures was a constant challenge, and eventually Auma returned to Africa and worked to support young men and women in shaping their futures. In And Then Life Happens, her candid and emotional memoir, Auma shares her own story as well as recollections of and experiences with her famous brother, who says about their first encounter: "I hugged her, we looked at each other, and laughed. I knew right then that I loved her."
Life Happens, and Death Too
Author: Latika Mangrulkar
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1612049397
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Life Happens, and Death Too is the second collection of stories and poems by Latika Mangrulkar that focus on issues of trans-national identity.----The men and women who inhabit these thematically connected stories and poems belong to different generations. As they try to maintain their balance in the new world, universal dilemmas of control, desire, integration and displacement preoccupy them.A number of these contemporary tales ripple with undercurrents of Indian mythology. Every section of the book links verse and prose, moving the reader across varied urban, suburban, local, and trans-national landscapes. The stories happen on multiple levels, blending Western realities with echoes of Indian sensibilities, creating a distinctive rhythm.----Life Happens in strange ways, but we see that death does too, as these characters experience tragic, comic, at times even surreal moments.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1612049397
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Life Happens, and Death Too is the second collection of stories and poems by Latika Mangrulkar that focus on issues of trans-national identity.----The men and women who inhabit these thematically connected stories and poems belong to different generations. As they try to maintain their balance in the new world, universal dilemmas of control, desire, integration and displacement preoccupy them.A number of these contemporary tales ripple with undercurrents of Indian mythology. Every section of the book links verse and prose, moving the reader across varied urban, suburban, local, and trans-national landscapes. The stories happen on multiple levels, blending Western realities with echoes of Indian sensibilities, creating a distinctive rhythm.----Life Happens in strange ways, but we see that death does too, as these characters experience tragic, comic, at times even surreal moments.
Life Happens Next
Author: Terry Trueman
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062028081
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Stuck in Neutral, a Printz Honor Book, introduced the world to Shawn McDaniel, a fourteen-year-old kid with cerebral palsy. But what happens next? Shawn's got a new perspective on life. But no one has a clue. That's because they can see only his wheelchair, his limp body, his drool. What they don't see? His brain, with perfect auditory memory. And his heart, which is in love with a girl. And his fierce belief that someday someone will realize there's way more to him than his appearance. How do you connect with others when you can't talk, walk, or even wave hello? In the sequel to Stuck in Neutral, which ALA Booklist called "an intense reading experience," Shawn McDaniel discovers a new definition of "normal" and finds that life happens next for everyone.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062028081
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Stuck in Neutral, a Printz Honor Book, introduced the world to Shawn McDaniel, a fourteen-year-old kid with cerebral palsy. But what happens next? Shawn's got a new perspective on life. But no one has a clue. That's because they can see only his wheelchair, his limp body, his drool. What they don't see? His brain, with perfect auditory memory. And his heart, which is in love with a girl. And his fierce belief that someday someone will realize there's way more to him than his appearance. How do you connect with others when you can't talk, walk, or even wave hello? In the sequel to Stuck in Neutral, which ALA Booklist called "an intense reading experience," Shawn McDaniel discovers a new definition of "normal" and finds that life happens next for everyone.
Breakthrough
Author: Charles Thomas Jr.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 151278351X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Breakthrough: Stories of Resilience, Tragedy, and Triumph captures the lived experiences and collective wisdom of individuals from varied walks of life. The trials, tribulations, and battle scars that we all don are not meant to be hidden. They should be embraced and shared with the world. Life is but a fleeting moment. Regardless of how long we live, it will not be long enough. As such, it is advisable to smile, have fun, live, learn, enjoy the life journey as much as possible, and break through whatever is holding us back from being the best version of ourselves. Throughout Breakthrough, you will have the blessed fortune to learn about and incorporate the wisdom of some remarkable human beings who have experienced a variety of breakthroughs in their lives, are enjoying their journeys, and are successful, based on their own definitions. You will receive advice that will dramatically amend your perspectives on success, achievement, philosophies of life, love, and leadership, and many of the principles necessary for the full engagement and active participation in your life journey. You will learn the elemental importance of not allowing who you are to stop you from becoming who you want to be. The stories and themes of hard work, failure, resilience, learning from others, asking for help, leading from where you are, etc., are most inspirational. I am confident that the insights provided within these pages will offer you value and help you as you prepare or continue to offer useful service as a servant to many.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 151278351X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Breakthrough: Stories of Resilience, Tragedy, and Triumph captures the lived experiences and collective wisdom of individuals from varied walks of life. The trials, tribulations, and battle scars that we all don are not meant to be hidden. They should be embraced and shared with the world. Life is but a fleeting moment. Regardless of how long we live, it will not be long enough. As such, it is advisable to smile, have fun, live, learn, enjoy the life journey as much as possible, and break through whatever is holding us back from being the best version of ourselves. Throughout Breakthrough, you will have the blessed fortune to learn about and incorporate the wisdom of some remarkable human beings who have experienced a variety of breakthroughs in their lives, are enjoying their journeys, and are successful, based on their own definitions. You will receive advice that will dramatically amend your perspectives on success, achievement, philosophies of life, love, and leadership, and many of the principles necessary for the full engagement and active participation in your life journey. You will learn the elemental importance of not allowing who you are to stop you from becoming who you want to be. The stories and themes of hard work, failure, resilience, learning from others, asking for help, leading from where you are, etc., are most inspirational. I am confident that the insights provided within these pages will offer you value and help you as you prepare or continue to offer useful service as a servant to many.
Between Two Kingdoms
Author: Suleika Jaouad
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0399588590
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist • “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0399588590
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist • “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.
Fairytales to Forgiveness
Author: Becca Gunyon MCC
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Fairytales are full of love, beauty, and adventure. Yet, fairytales are not real, for God writes stories far more incredible. As I flip back through chapters of our life, seasons of our story feel like a life-time ago. Yet, scars remind me that these years are a reality. It’s truly a beautiful mystery how God transforms a scar into a message of hope. By sharing our realness, may you feel courage to look in the mirror and take an honest evaluation of your marriage, your relationship with your children, and the way you feel about yourself. We hope our message encourages couples to take each other by the hand and step toward healing. Every step, every moment, every choice to love is worth it.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Fairytales are full of love, beauty, and adventure. Yet, fairytales are not real, for God writes stories far more incredible. As I flip back through chapters of our life, seasons of our story feel like a life-time ago. Yet, scars remind me that these years are a reality. It’s truly a beautiful mystery how God transforms a scar into a message of hope. By sharing our realness, may you feel courage to look in the mirror and take an honest evaluation of your marriage, your relationship with your children, and the way you feel about yourself. We hope our message encourages couples to take each other by the hand and step toward healing. Every step, every moment, every choice to love is worth it.
The Suffering Stranger
Author: Donna M. Orange
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135184127
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Winner of the 2012 Gradiva Award! Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison. Orange turns her critical (and clinical) eye toward five major psychoanalytic thinkers – Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, and Bernard Brandchaft – investigating the hermeneutic approach of each and engaging these innovative thinkers precisely as interpreters, as those who have seen the face and heard the voice of the other in an ethical manner. In doing so, she provides the practicing clinician with insight into the methodology of interpretation that underpins the day-to-day activity of analysis, and broadens the scope of possibility for philosophical extensions of psychoanalytic theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135184127
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Winner of the 2012 Gradiva Award! Utilizing the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas, The Suffering Stranger invigorates the conversation between psychoanalysis and philosophy, demonstrating how each is informed by the other and how both are strengthened in unison. Orange turns her critical (and clinical) eye toward five major psychoanalytic thinkers – Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, and Bernard Brandchaft – investigating the hermeneutic approach of each and engaging these innovative thinkers precisely as interpreters, as those who have seen the face and heard the voice of the other in an ethical manner. In doing so, she provides the practicing clinician with insight into the methodology of interpretation that underpins the day-to-day activity of analysis, and broadens the scope of possibility for philosophical extensions of psychoanalytic theory.
Diary of a Father
Author: Trevor Murray
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458219011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Connor thought hed marry his longtime girlfriend, but life sometimes throws you a curveball. After a bewildering breakup, he meets Scarlett, and the two fall in love and get engaged, teaching him a valuable lesson: Sometimes the things that dont happen lead to the opportunities that define your life. When the couple finds out they are pregnant with a baby girl, they are thrilled, but Connor is overwhelmed with the feelings that go along with being an expectant father. In this diary, he reveals his hopes and fears. As much as Connor loves Scarlett, when their baby Makayla is born, he discovers a love he never felt before: the love a father feels for his daughter. With a child of his own on the way--a baby boy--the author knows all about the ups and downs involved with being an expectant parent. Celebrate a whirlwind of emotions with Diary of a Father.
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458219011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Connor thought hed marry his longtime girlfriend, but life sometimes throws you a curveball. After a bewildering breakup, he meets Scarlett, and the two fall in love and get engaged, teaching him a valuable lesson: Sometimes the things that dont happen lead to the opportunities that define your life. When the couple finds out they are pregnant with a baby girl, they are thrilled, but Connor is overwhelmed with the feelings that go along with being an expectant father. In this diary, he reveals his hopes and fears. As much as Connor loves Scarlett, when their baby Makayla is born, he discovers a love he never felt before: the love a father feels for his daughter. With a child of his own on the way--a baby boy--the author knows all about the ups and downs involved with being an expectant parent. Celebrate a whirlwind of emotions with Diary of a Father.
Ethics and the Life of Faith
Author: Göran Möller
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042906990
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
How can someone, committed to a Christian view of life, reason concerning ethical issues ? That is the main question of this book, which seeks to contribute to an understanding of morality as a human phenomenon. A central question in this respect is how it is possible to understand human beings as persons having free will and moral responsibility. It emerges from the analysis that Christian faith contributes to ethics in three different ways: first, it provides a perspective on human life and its setting, second, it offers an understanding of human beings as personal subjects, while, third, the Christian tradition supplies us with edifying narratives containing patterns of good human life. In the final chapter, one particular case of applied ethics is analysed: How should the acceptable level of accidental death within a given context be established ?
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042906990
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
How can someone, committed to a Christian view of life, reason concerning ethical issues ? That is the main question of this book, which seeks to contribute to an understanding of morality as a human phenomenon. A central question in this respect is how it is possible to understand human beings as persons having free will and moral responsibility. It emerges from the analysis that Christian faith contributes to ethics in three different ways: first, it provides a perspective on human life and its setting, second, it offers an understanding of human beings as personal subjects, while, third, the Christian tradition supplies us with edifying narratives containing patterns of good human life. In the final chapter, one particular case of applied ethics is analysed: How should the acceptable level of accidental death within a given context be established ?