Author: Miranda Dube
Publisher: Library Juice Press
ISBN: 9781634001083
Category : Information science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Provides a collection of both personal narratives and critical analyses of mental illness in the LIS field, exploring intersections with labor, culture, stigma, race, ability, identity, and gender"--
LIS Interrupted
Author: Miranda Dube
Publisher: Library Juice Press
ISBN: 9781634001083
Category : Information science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Provides a collection of both personal narratives and critical analyses of mental illness in the LIS field, exploring intersections with labor, culture, stigma, race, ability, identity, and gender"--
Publisher: Library Juice Press
ISBN: 9781634001083
Category : Information science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"Provides a collection of both personal narratives and critical analyses of mental illness in the LIS field, exploring intersections with labor, culture, stigma, race, ability, identity, and gender"--
Lis
Author: Carol Mazur
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525592378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Who would buy a seven acre peach farm in Niagara at the age of sixty-two? To the surprise of his friends, in 1958 Richard Lis did just that, and then spent the next seventeen years of his life farming and living alone in a drafty shack by the lake. After his death, there is an estate auction sale held on the farm. Attending are three members of the Ziemba family, friends who over the years had worked for Lis in the summers. Scenes from the auction reoccur throughout the narrative. Little details—a whiff of cigarette smoke, an empty tractor seat, walnuts lying on the ground—trigger the adult daughter’s memories of working on the farm and the extended conversations between Lis and her mother during their social visits. In the interweaving of present and past, the author presents an exquisite and observant slice of life, capturing the complex and unforgettable character of the elderly farmer with all his friendliness, hospitality, generosity, but sensitivity to others, but also his sometimes inexplicable outbursts of anger and frustration. The stories within stories that make up this book are told in voices that are genuine and engaging. The setting of rural Niagara in the mid-twentieth century is reminiscent of a simpler era when farmers could make a living on small acreages and friends would visit and talk for hours. It was a time that was on the cusp of a changing world, a time that some will look back on with nostalgia, while others might wish could return.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525592378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Who would buy a seven acre peach farm in Niagara at the age of sixty-two? To the surprise of his friends, in 1958 Richard Lis did just that, and then spent the next seventeen years of his life farming and living alone in a drafty shack by the lake. After his death, there is an estate auction sale held on the farm. Attending are three members of the Ziemba family, friends who over the years had worked for Lis in the summers. Scenes from the auction reoccur throughout the narrative. Little details—a whiff of cigarette smoke, an empty tractor seat, walnuts lying on the ground—trigger the adult daughter’s memories of working on the farm and the extended conversations between Lis and her mother during their social visits. In the interweaving of present and past, the author presents an exquisite and observant slice of life, capturing the complex and unforgettable character of the elderly farmer with all his friendliness, hospitality, generosity, but sensitivity to others, but also his sometimes inexplicable outbursts of anger and frustration. The stories within stories that make up this book are told in voices that are genuine and engaging. The setting of rural Niagara in the mid-twentieth century is reminiscent of a simpler era when farmers could make a living on small acreages and friends would visit and talk for hours. It was a time that was on the cusp of a changing world, a time that some will look back on with nostalgia, while others might wish could return.
The Secret
Author: Ellis Delmonte
Publisher: Hawkwood Books
ISBN: 1908577010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
When Dippy, Matty and Pippa discover a body by their derelict hilltop home in Cornwall a remarkable adventure begins. Their strange father Daddo is arrested for murder and the children flee the country in search of their lost mother Celeste. Remembering little of her past, Celeste lives a mysterious life with little Zara who helps her make contact with the dead to comfort the living. Seeking this comfort is an elderly woman and her granddaughter whose lives link three generations of a broken family and who hold the key to revealing a long forgotten secret and restoring a fortune. The Secret is a beautiful, intriguing and challenging story in the classic tradition for children aged 10 and over.
Publisher: Hawkwood Books
ISBN: 1908577010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
When Dippy, Matty and Pippa discover a body by their derelict hilltop home in Cornwall a remarkable adventure begins. Their strange father Daddo is arrested for murder and the children flee the country in search of their lost mother Celeste. Remembering little of her past, Celeste lives a mysterious life with little Zara who helps her make contact with the dead to comfort the living. Seeking this comfort is an elderly woman and her granddaughter whose lives link three generations of a broken family and who hold the key to revealing a long forgotten secret and restoring a fortune. The Secret is a beautiful, intriguing and challenging story in the classic tradition for children aged 10 and over.
The Price of Lis Doris
Author: Maarten Maartens
Publisher: Copp, Clark Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: Copp, Clark Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Novelist's Library
Author: Alain René Le Sage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Girl, Interrupted
Author: Susanna Kaysen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804151113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804151113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (The New York Times Book Review). WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
The Price of Lis Doris
Author: Maarten Maartens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Ballantyne's Novelist's Library
Author: James Ballantyne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Life Interrupted
Author: Priscilla Shirer
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433673266
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
From telemarketers to traffic jams to twenty-item shoppers in the ten-item line, our lives are full of interruptions. They're often aggravating, sometimes infuriating, and can make us want to tell people what we really think about them. But they also tell us something quite important about ourselves. The prophet Jonah's life was interrupted by a clear call of God that made him mad enough and scared enough to run in the completely opposite direction. Yet it wasn't really an interruption. It was an opportunity for Jonah to be involved in something the likes of which the Old Testament world had never seen: national revival in a Gentile country. What if Jonah had seen God's interruption for what it truly was—a divine intervention that held more adventure and possibility than any other thing he could have been doing at the time? What could have felt any better than being directly in the center of God's will? Yet we play it that same way—always running from major pains and minor problems that just don't seem to suit us at the time. Who knows what we're missing by being so interruption avoidant? In this very personal account of opportunities lost and lessons learned, popular conference speaker and author Priscilla Shirer shows how to embrace the amazing freedom and fulfillment that comes from going with God, even when He's going against your grain. .
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1433673266
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
From telemarketers to traffic jams to twenty-item shoppers in the ten-item line, our lives are full of interruptions. They're often aggravating, sometimes infuriating, and can make us want to tell people what we really think about them. But they also tell us something quite important about ourselves. The prophet Jonah's life was interrupted by a clear call of God that made him mad enough and scared enough to run in the completely opposite direction. Yet it wasn't really an interruption. It was an opportunity for Jonah to be involved in something the likes of which the Old Testament world had never seen: national revival in a Gentile country. What if Jonah had seen God's interruption for what it truly was—a divine intervention that held more adventure and possibility than any other thing he could have been doing at the time? What could have felt any better than being directly in the center of God's will? Yet we play it that same way—always running from major pains and minor problems that just don't seem to suit us at the time. Who knows what we're missing by being so interruption avoidant? In this very personal account of opportunities lost and lessons learned, popular conference speaker and author Priscilla Shirer shows how to embrace the amazing freedom and fulfillment that comes from going with God, even when He's going against your grain. .
The Hidden Princess
Author: Georgina Makalani
Publisher: Georgina Makalani
ISBN: 0648337278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the Empire of Rei-Een, tradition is everything and magic means death. Lis has spent her life hidden away from the magic hunters of the Empire. Her father was instrumental in removing magic from the Empire and knows just how dangerous the world is for her. But when the crown prince dies, Lis’s magic is at risk of discovery With his brother’s murder, the new crown prince is concerned with far more than the woman to be hidden away as his bride. Magic has found its way back and he is determined to stamp it out before anyone else dies. When Lis is summoned for the Choosing of the Hidden Princess, she soon discovers not all magics are the same. Some seek revenge for a war that ended a lifetime ago, amidst whispers and visions of a different future for Rei-Een. But who can she trust? The Empire’s greatest hunter is never far from her side, and what will he do if he discovers the truth? Everyone thinks Lis can help them in some way, but all she wants is to return to her little island home. If she remains in the heart of the Empire of Rei-Een, there is far more at risk than her life. The Hidden Princess is the first in a sword and sorcery fantasy series, set amongst the palaces and high stone walls of the Empire of Rei-Een.
Publisher: Georgina Makalani
ISBN: 0648337278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the Empire of Rei-Een, tradition is everything and magic means death. Lis has spent her life hidden away from the magic hunters of the Empire. Her father was instrumental in removing magic from the Empire and knows just how dangerous the world is for her. But when the crown prince dies, Lis’s magic is at risk of discovery With his brother’s murder, the new crown prince is concerned with far more than the woman to be hidden away as his bride. Magic has found its way back and he is determined to stamp it out before anyone else dies. When Lis is summoned for the Choosing of the Hidden Princess, she soon discovers not all magics are the same. Some seek revenge for a war that ended a lifetime ago, amidst whispers and visions of a different future for Rei-Een. But who can she trust? The Empire’s greatest hunter is never far from her side, and what will he do if he discovers the truth? Everyone thinks Lis can help them in some way, but all she wants is to return to her little island home. If she remains in the heart of the Empire of Rei-Een, there is far more at risk than her life. The Hidden Princess is the first in a sword and sorcery fantasy series, set amongst the palaces and high stone walls of the Empire of Rei-Een.