Author: Danielle Badra
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610757513
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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Winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak, winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. In her elegiac and formally inventive debut, Badra carries on talking with the sister and father she has lost, often setting her words alongside theirs and others’ in polyphonic poems that can be read in multiple directions. Badra invites the reader to engage in this communal space where she investigates inheritance, witnessing, intimacy, and survival. “This is a deeply spiritual book, all the more so because of its clarity and humility. Yet, we cannot walk away from the addictive command that so many of these poems ask us to follow: to read them along plural paths whose order changes while their immeasurable spirit remains unbound. Each poem is a singular vessel—of narratives, embodiments that correspond with memories, memories that recollect passion. . . . Like We Still Speak is a sanctum. Inside it, we are enthralled by beauty, consoled by light, sustained by making.” —Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara, from the Preface
Author: Danielle Badra
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 168226176X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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"Winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak addresses notions of inheritance, witnessing, and intimacy in a world on fire"--
Author: Martin Bulmer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429768613
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The main objective of this edited collection is to provide an insight into key facets of contemporary research and scholarship on race and ethnicity. The various chapters were presented at a conference to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the international journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. Given this context, contributors reflect on the evolution of scholarship over the past five decades, and look forward to the range of issues that we shall need to research and understand more fully in the future. In doing so they both provide an overview of the shifting boundaries of the field of ethnic and racial studies and display an engagement with emerging fields of scholarship and research. The volume brings together leading scholars who have experience of researching race and ethnicity in various parts of the globe, and combines conceptual reflection with empirically focused analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Author: Caleb Wilde
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
ISBN: 1506471625
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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What if our dead remain with us? What if closure is not the goal? No matter what you believe about the afterlife, what if the hereafter intersects with the here and now? Caleb Wilde, author of the acclaimed memoir Confessions of a Funeral Director, was a skeptic. The baffling stories people told him--deathbed visions of long-dead parents, visits from the other side--must be hallucinations or wishful thinking, he thought. But the more stories he heard, and the more he learned about non-Western understandings of body and spirit, the less sure he was. All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes readers on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him--and us--what they experience in the thin places between life and death. Entwining these stories with his own as a sixth-generation funeral director, and with the findings of neuroscience and the solace of faith, Wilde creates a searching, reverent inquiry into all the ways our dead remain with us. In the process, he takes on prevailing dogmas about death: from a narrow Christian view of heaven and hell, to secular assumptions that death is the end, to pop-psychology maxims that say we all need "closure" after our loved ones die. The dead don't have to be buried twice, once in the ground and again in our hearts. In the pages of this unforgettable book, learn how love and memory and mystery fuse this world to the next.
Author: Samuel Richardson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257955861
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Biography of Glen Orrin Richardson, son of Justin V. and Hortense Earl Richardson, compiled by Hope R. Barrowes. Cover design and book layout by Samuel Richardson, owner of Silver Storm Imaging and Printing. Contains Glen's journal entries, letters he's written and his achievements. Also contains writing to or about him by his family and friends. Included is a scrapbook of his life.
Author: Somnath Bhattacharjee
Publisher: Somnath Bhattacharjee
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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When online friendship turns into a long distance relationship between painter Alex and bookworm Scarlet, late night conversations becomes a daily matter and blaming time every times becomes a habit the God thinks for give a little twist to the relationship of London’s Alex and Berlin’s Scarlet. Scarlet’s dad had to shift in London because of his business with his whole family and Scarlet was over the moon about. Scarlet rushed to tell it to Alex but, before that Scarlet thinks for knowing Alex’s house’s location and innocent Alex shares his house’s location while thinking that, Scarlet is just asking for fun. Scarlet was astonished with surprise and shock that Chris’s house will be Scarlet’s neighbour house in London! Scarlet decides to give Alex a surprise and not to tell anything about it to Alex yet and Scarlet stays silent about it, till one day Scarlet gets in London. Alex was living his daily normal London life till the day when Alex heard truck’s sounds from the neighbourhood and Alex wonders that which new neighbours are coming and how they will be. Scarlet surprised Alex by her sudden appearance and they share a perfect hug and their first kiss in the eve of New Year to be their first Love Year. Days pass by and Alex and Scarlet gets more close to each other and both souls became more attached to each other. One day when Scarlet was reading her favourite books from the 1900s and 1800s era, she finds out about a mystery which was pretty triggering to her. Scarlet notices a same pattern in the romantic books of some authors who belonged from a same village and the authors used the same line to compare their written love story with the ‘Holy Love of Mary and Austin’ Now who are Mary and Austin? Thoughts started to come in Scarlet’s mind and she started to researched about it in the internet and there she found out about a tomb made in 1600s to 1700s for remembering the love sacrifice of Marry and Austin. Scarlet gets to know that there’s a village where the tomb is and the village exists in real and the distance is only 20 minutes in car from Scarlet’s house and Scarlet decided to see the tomb of Love and Sacrifice. Scarlet tells it to Alex and Alex also agrees but, Scarlet’s mom comes in middle and destroys their plan by telling that Scarlet and Alex’s family both are going to Paris next week together for vacation! In Paris, Alex and Scarlet gets a surprise by seeing the beauty of Eifel Tower and other Parisian places. There when Alex was resting on his bed with the excitement to go to the castle museum in the evening, Scarlet comes in and started to have fun with Alex. Soon their having fun turns into a beautiful romance with kisses and cuddling and Alex in main time thinks about taking the romance in next level by taking clothes off. Alex takes off his t shirt while Scarlet is sitting on Alex and they are having their best moments in their life and Alex tells Scarlet to undress too but, Scarlet smiles and says nothing and then both started to kissing but- “Room...Service...” The room service lady muttered and being witnessed of instance hotel romance in front of her eyes. Alex and Scarlet both gets red with embarrassment while trying to figure out what to do next. Days passes and Scarlet and Alex both comes back in London but the burning desire of finding the mystery about the love story of Mary and Austin stays the same. When Scarlet and Alex studies more about the love story they find out about so many things more but suddenly- The electricity goes off and the whole room gets filled into darkness and Scarlet gets fear of darkness and right at this time for making Scarlet more sacred Alex says loudly, “Look there is a cockroach near your leg!!! And they are climbing up!!!” Scarlet Jumps on Alex while screaming with fear and suddenly trouble in paradise! Alex’s mom came inside the room for give candles to Alex and Scarlet and again Alex forgot to lock the door and became red with embarrassment while trying to find a word how to describe the current situation while Scarlet is hanging by Alex because of the fear of cockroaches. Days pass more and more cute and embarrassing moments like it happens with our lovers and one day they found out a diary which was written in 1700s by a Austrian traveller who came to Great Britain’s love place and got to know about the Love of Mary and Austin. Alex and Scarlet decides to go in the place and read the diary near the tomb of Mary and Austin. The next day Alex and Scarlet goes there and sat on a bench together and starts to read the diary and they got to know about Mary and Austin’s love story, the love story of 1500s-1600s Great Britain which was sacrificed due to different religions and more hardships. Tears comes out of Scarlet’s eyes while reading about the condition of Austin and Mary but, suddenly in middle of everything Alex notices a beautiful lady wearing white dress is standing near Austin’s tomb and white pigeons are around her and the moon has started to rise. “Who are you?” Alex and Scarlet goes closer to the lady and asked her. “Do you want to know?” The lady asked them back. “Yes” Alex and Scarlet says in unison while being confused. The lady gives her hands towards Alex and Scarlet and Alex and Scarlet touches the lady’s hand and suddenly they both lost their consciousness. Scarlet and Alex started to see everything by their eyes this time, which they were reading in the diary. The Great Britain of 1500s and 1600s, the people, Mary and Austin, Knight David, King and Queen everything! Scarlet and Alex were astonished with seeing that this is all happening in front of their eyes as they are watching a forbidden love story in front of their eyes, which was forbidden because of the social norms of that era and the religious rules. The historical love story was touching Scarlet and Alex’s heart as they were knowing more about it and more but suddenly Alex recognised that Mary is the same lady who told Scarlet and Alex to hold her hands and so is that means? Scarlet and Alex met with Mary’s spirit who wanted to show them how the societal norms has forbidden their relationship? ‘Love in Second Language’ is not only a single love story but a mix of two love stories, first one is today’s modern love story and another one is historical forbidden love story of Mary and Austin. Drive into a world while witnessing the hot and cold and how they were connected to each other in the conspiracy of time and life. Want to know what will happen next? Don’t waste your time, looking for other books with shirtless male heroes in the cover! Read, ‘Love in Second Language’ by Somnath Bhattacharjee and gets into an exciting world, made with unexpected surprises, cute romantic moments, and historical love.
Author: C.J. Cronin
Publisher: B.E.S.T. Communications
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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To kill a President you need only two things: access and determination. Who better to kill a President than another national leader?
Author: Larry Kreider
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441268405
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Jesus said, "My sheep hear My voice," but many Christians do not know how to hear from God. In this practical, story-rich guidebook, international teacher Larry Kreider shows believers how to develop a listening relationship with the Lord. Speak Lord, I'm Listening explores the multiple ways Christians can hear the voice of God in today's world. It offers real-life examples of how God teaches His followers to listen. Contains tips in each chapter for distinguishing His voice from the noise of Satan's interference. Christians across the denominational spectrum will develop a closer and deeper relationship with God as they learn fifty unique ways to listen to Him. You will realize that God was speaking to you all along but, like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, you didn't know it was Him!
Author: Brit Barron
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593594347
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Renowned motivational speaker, teacher, and storyteller Brit Barron offers a path to holding on to our deepest convictions without losing relationships with the people we love. “This book is so needed in a time when we are fresh off cancel culture and ready for a new way to process and interact with those with whom we don’t agree—whether virtually or in real life.”—Joy Cho, author and founder of Oh Joy! Brit Barron gets it. Those people who hurt us with their bigotry and ignorance . . . they’re often the people we love: They’re our friends, our parents, our grandparents, and even our religious leaders. And what we want is for them to grow, not to be canceled by an online mob. So what can it look like to strive for justice without causing new harm or giving up on the people we love? Barron shows that the way forward is to create a gracious and risky space for people to learn and evolve. We need to form the sorts of relationships where we can tell difficult truths, set boundaries, forgive, and share stories of our own failings. And this starts with examining ourselves. In Do You Still Talk to Grandma?, Barron draws readers into this tension between relationship and accountability, sharing painful experiences from her own life, such as her parents’ divorce and belonging to a faith community that sided with the forces that dehumanize BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks. Barron illuminates the challenges and hope for these relationships, showing that the best research points toward humility, self-awareness, an openness to learning, and remembering that others can learn too. Barron envisions a redemptive way of being that allows progressives to love people who say or believe problematic things without sacrificing themselves, their values, or their beliefs. Provocative, charming, and vulnerable, Do You Still Talk to Grandma? is an essential read for anyone struggling to live compassionately without giving up on conviction.
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 030780206X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me. Thus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M.F.K. Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”
