Author: Leda Mitrofanis
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Through the state of our changing world and her own identity crisis and search for answers and truth Leda has delved into examining what our human identity is comprised of and where the missing piece lies as humanity continues to struggle personally and collectively. This book addresses in a simple and straightforward manner the loss of self-identity facing our society today and the myriad of traumas, disconnection, and separation it causes. It explores how we got here and how we missed a vital mark in our human trinity - mind, body, spirit. It makes the case for our spiritual identity beyond religion as our foundational truth and governing body and teaches us how to re-connect to this internal part of ourselves that is omni-present and a source of wisdom and guidance. Through the guided explanations the book sets the stage to brings us back home to our authentic selves. As the first book in the series, The Human Case of Mistaken Identity, Me, Myself, and I, sets up the theme for the coming in-depth books to follow.
Me, Myself, and I the Human Case of Mistaken Identity Series
Author: Leda Mitrofanis
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Through the state of our changing world and her own identity crisis and search for answers and truth Leda has delved into examining what our human identity is comprised of and where the missing piece lies as humanity continues to struggle personally and collectively. This book addresses in a simple and straightforward manner the loss of self-identity facing our society today and the myriad of traumas, disconnection, and separation it causes. It explores how we got here and how we missed a vital mark in our human trinity - mind, body, spirit. It makes the case for our spiritual identity beyond religion as our foundational truth and governing body and teaches us how to re-connect to this internal part of ourselves that is omni-present and a source of wisdom and guidance. Through the guided explanations the book sets the stage to brings us back home to our authentic selves. As the first book in the series, The Human Case of Mistaken Identity, Me, Myself, and I, sets up the theme for the coming in-depth books to follow.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Through the state of our changing world and her own identity crisis and search for answers and truth Leda has delved into examining what our human identity is comprised of and where the missing piece lies as humanity continues to struggle personally and collectively. This book addresses in a simple and straightforward manner the loss of self-identity facing our society today and the myriad of traumas, disconnection, and separation it causes. It explores how we got here and how we missed a vital mark in our human trinity - mind, body, spirit. It makes the case for our spiritual identity beyond religion as our foundational truth and governing body and teaches us how to re-connect to this internal part of ourselves that is omni-present and a source of wisdom and guidance. Through the guided explanations the book sets the stage to brings us back home to our authentic selves. As the first book in the series, The Human Case of Mistaken Identity, Me, Myself, and I, sets up the theme for the coming in-depth books to follow.
Me, Myself, and I the Human Case of Mistaken Identity Series
Author: Leda Mitrofanis
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through the state of our changing world and her own identity crisis and search for answers and truth Leda has delved into examining what our human identity is comprised of and where the missing piece lies as humanity continues to struggle personally and collectively. This book addresses in a simple and straightforward manner the loss of self-identity facing our society today and the myriad of traumas, disconnection, and separation it causes. It explores how we got here and how we missed a vital mark in our human trinity - mind, body, spirit. It makes the case for our spiritual identity beyond religion as our foundational truth and governing body and teaches us how to re-connect to this internal part of ourselves that is omni-present and a source of wisdom and guidance. Through the guided explanations the book sets the stage to brings us back home to our authentic selves. As the first book in the series, The Human Case of Mistaken Identity, Me, Myself, and I, sets up the theme for the coming in-depth books to follow.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Through the state of our changing world and her own identity crisis and search for answers and truth Leda has delved into examining what our human identity is comprised of and where the missing piece lies as humanity continues to struggle personally and collectively. This book addresses in a simple and straightforward manner the loss of self-identity facing our society today and the myriad of traumas, disconnection, and separation it causes. It explores how we got here and how we missed a vital mark in our human trinity - mind, body, spirit. It makes the case for our spiritual identity beyond religion as our foundational truth and governing body and teaches us how to re-connect to this internal part of ourselves that is omni-present and a source of wisdom and guidance. Through the guided explanations the book sets the stage to brings us back home to our authentic selves. As the first book in the series, The Human Case of Mistaken Identity, Me, Myself, and I, sets up the theme for the coming in-depth books to follow.
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416997695
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
National treasures, criminal masterminds, and…secret agent librarians? Steve Brixton wants to be a crime-busting detective—just like his favorite crime-busting detectives, the Bailey Brothers. Turns out, though, that real life is nothing like the stories. When Steve borrows the wrong book from the library, he finds himself involved in a treasonous plot that pits him against helicopter-rappelling librarians, has him outwitting a gaggle of police, and sees him standing off against the mysterious Mr. E. And all his Bailey Brothers know-how isn’t helping at all! Worst of all, his social studies report is due Monday, and Ms. Gilfeather will not give him an extension!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416997695
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
National treasures, criminal masterminds, and…secret agent librarians? Steve Brixton wants to be a crime-busting detective—just like his favorite crime-busting detectives, the Bailey Brothers. Turns out, though, that real life is nothing like the stories. When Steve borrows the wrong book from the library, he finds himself involved in a treasonous plot that pits him against helicopter-rappelling librarians, has him outwitting a gaggle of police, and sees him standing off against the mysterious Mr. E. And all his Bailey Brothers know-how isn’t helping at all! Worst of all, his social studies report is due Monday, and Ms. Gilfeather will not give him an extension!
I Know This Much Is True
Author: Wally Lamb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780060391621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780060391621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Lucky?
Author: Richard Craig
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595302149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Three violent, seemingly unrelated deaths. A terrified amnesiac. A diabolical terrorist plot to decimate downtown Los Angeles. Aided by a top-secret scientific breakthrough that enables police to extract information from the subconscious mind, detectives frantically attempt to solve the mystery that ties it all together. But the clock is ticking as the lives of thousands of innocent people hang in the balance. A Los Angeles man running his first marathon, desperately trying to escape his past, holds the key that unlocks the puzzle, but will they find the answers in time to save the city? Not for the faint of heart, Lucky? is a kaleidoscopic nightmare where nothing is what it appears to be. An unforgiving examination of the human condition, a primal scream of defiance, Lucky? is a death-defying rollercoaster ride guaranteed to leave the reader breathless.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595302149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Three violent, seemingly unrelated deaths. A terrified amnesiac. A diabolical terrorist plot to decimate downtown Los Angeles. Aided by a top-secret scientific breakthrough that enables police to extract information from the subconscious mind, detectives frantically attempt to solve the mystery that ties it all together. But the clock is ticking as the lives of thousands of innocent people hang in the balance. A Los Angeles man running his first marathon, desperately trying to escape his past, holds the key that unlocks the puzzle, but will they find the answers in time to save the city? Not for the faint of heart, Lucky? is a kaleidoscopic nightmare where nothing is what it appears to be. An unforgiving examination of the human condition, a primal scream of defiance, Lucky? is a death-defying rollercoaster ride guaranteed to leave the reader breathless.
RABACOON A PART OF THE BRIARPATCH SERIES
Author: SL JEAN
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329195752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Adam thought that when he and Lilly were adopted by Rachel they would never have to worry about being separated again. Now Rachel is missing and Adam finds he must go to the ends of another world to rescue her and keep whats left of his family.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329195752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Adam thought that when he and Lilly were adopted by Rachel they would never have to worry about being separated again. Now Rachel is missing and Adam finds he must go to the ends of another world to rescue her and keep whats left of his family.
Mistaken Identity
Author: Donna Jay
Publisher: Donna Jay
ISBN: 1793029148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
How long does it take for a life to change irrevocably? An evening, an hour, a split second? On the way to her girlfriend's house party, Kelly has no idea that an impulsive decision is about to upend her life and put her relationship on the line.
Publisher: Donna Jay
ISBN: 1793029148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
How long does it take for a life to change irrevocably? An evening, an hour, a split second? On the way to her girlfriend's house party, Kelly has no idea that an impulsive decision is about to upend her life and put her relationship on the line.
Cycling
Author: Greg Garrett
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9780758205315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Brad Cannon, a restless and indifferent author with a penchant for bikeriding, women, and Texas cooking, finds his carefully constructed life unraveling when he becomes involved with three different women.
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9780758205315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Brad Cannon, a restless and indifferent author with a penchant for bikeriding, women, and Texas cooking, finds his carefully constructed life unraveling when he becomes involved with three different women.
Dream, Death, and the Self
Author: J. J. Valberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691190186
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
"Might this be a dream?" In this book, distinguished philosopher J. J. Valberg approaches the familiar question about dream and reality by seeking to identify its subject matter: what is it that would be the dream if "this" were a dream? It turns out to be a subject matter that contains the whole of the world, space, and time but which, like consciousness for Sartre, is nothing "in itself." This subject matter, the "personal horizon," lies at the heart of the main topics--the first person, the self, and the self in time--explored at length in the book. The personal horizon is, Valberg contends, the subject matter whose center each of us occupies, and which for each of us ceases with death. This ceasing to be presents itself solipsistically not just as the end of everything "for me" but as the end of everything absolutely. Yet since it is the same for everyone, this cannot be. Death thus confronts us with an impossible fact: something that cannot be but will be. The puzzle about death is one of several extraphilosophical puzzles about the self that Valberg discusses, puzzles that can trouble everyday consciousness without any contribution from philosophy. Nor can philosophy resolve the puzzles. Its task is to get to the bottom of them, and in this respect to understand ourselves--a task philosophy has always set itself.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691190186
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
"Might this be a dream?" In this book, distinguished philosopher J. J. Valberg approaches the familiar question about dream and reality by seeking to identify its subject matter: what is it that would be the dream if "this" were a dream? It turns out to be a subject matter that contains the whole of the world, space, and time but which, like consciousness for Sartre, is nothing "in itself." This subject matter, the "personal horizon," lies at the heart of the main topics--the first person, the self, and the self in time--explored at length in the book. The personal horizon is, Valberg contends, the subject matter whose center each of us occupies, and which for each of us ceases with death. This ceasing to be presents itself solipsistically not just as the end of everything "for me" but as the end of everything absolutely. Yet since it is the same for everyone, this cannot be. Death thus confronts us with an impossible fact: something that cannot be but will be. The puzzle about death is one of several extraphilosophical puzzles about the self that Valberg discusses, puzzles that can trouble everyday consciousness without any contribution from philosophy. Nor can philosophy resolve the puzzles. Its task is to get to the bottom of them, and in this respect to understand ourselves--a task philosophy has always set itself.
The Aleister Crowley Collection
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359905722
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Aleister Crowley Collection includes Crowley's seminal works The Book of the Law and The Book of Lies, as well as his esoteric, entertaining drug memoir, Diary of a Drug Fiend.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359905722
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Aleister Crowley Collection includes Crowley's seminal works The Book of the Law and The Book of Lies, as well as his esoteric, entertaining drug memoir, Diary of a Drug Fiend.