Author: Tijn Touber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789492883612
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages :
Book Description
Time Bender beschrijft de ontdekkingstocht van een jongeman die wordt meegesleept in een Galactische strijd die zijn weerga niet kent. De mensheid - zo ontdekt hij - bevindt zich in een sleutelpositie om de Kosmische conflicten voor eens en voor altijd op te lossen. De vraag is alleen: worden wij op tijd wakker? 'Ik heb je boek met open mond gelezen. Dit is echt next level.' Karen van Holst-Pellekaan 'Geen woorden die mijn geluksgevoel kunnen beschrijven. Mijn hart bubbelt. Eindelijk antwoorden!' Wilma Grobben 'Wat een ongelofelijk inspirerend verhaal. Mijn hoofd was de hele tijd ja aan het knikken.' Irene Verdoorn 'Op dit boek heb ik gewacht, het geeft op een begrijpelijke en boeiende manier inzicht in waar we vandaan komen.' Jenny Groot 'Ik heb rode ogen van concentratie door het lezen van je boek. Het is zo mooi beschreven. Telkens nieuwe ontdekkingen die mijn hoofd doen duizelen. Het zet alles in een nieuw licht. Zeer bemoedigend.' Adrie van Diepen 'Ik heb Time Bender in één ruk uitgelezen. De herkenning en bevestiging en de moed van jou om dit te delen, zijn van onschatbare waarde.' Angeli Que Pasa 'Dit boek is onbetaalbaar.' Annemarie Burger 'Wow! Het boek sleurde me meteen mee. Wat een onthullingen!' Eline van de Kam 'Ik heb het ademloos en in één ruk uitgelezen. Ontzettend bedankt voor deze informatie!' Marcelle Sla 'Niemand die alles met elkaar kan combineren. Ik dank je van met heel mijn hart.' Henriët Heskamp 'Wat een geweldig boek met prachtige versterkende inzichten die ik juist nu zo hard nodig heb.' Herma Wijnhoud 'Zorgvuldig verzamelde informatie, journalistiek geloofwaardig, meeslepend met een boodschap. Deed me denken aan De Celestijnse Belofte en een vleugje Dan Brown. Een ware hit.' Bert Ruitenbeek 'Eindelijk een boek dat alle esoterische literatuur combineert tot één coherent verhaal. Ik ben er zo blij mee.' Karen Jonkers Tijn Touber is muzikant, schrijver, leraar. Hij is oprichter van Lois Lane, schreef de titelsong voor de film Amsterdamned en verkocht meer dan 100.000 platen. Tijn publiceerde zes boeken over verlichting, waarvan Spoedcursus Verlichting de bekendste is. Hij is initiatiefnemer van Stadsverlichting, Schoolverlichting en geeft meditatie-concerten en stilte-retraites. www.tijntouber.com Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Time Bender
Author: Tijn Touber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789492883612
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages :
Book Description
Time Bender beschrijft de ontdekkingstocht van een jongeman die wordt meegesleept in een Galactische strijd die zijn weerga niet kent. De mensheid - zo ontdekt hij - bevindt zich in een sleutelpositie om de Kosmische conflicten voor eens en voor altijd op te lossen. De vraag is alleen: worden wij op tijd wakker? 'Ik heb je boek met open mond gelezen. Dit is echt next level.' Karen van Holst-Pellekaan 'Geen woorden die mijn geluksgevoel kunnen beschrijven. Mijn hart bubbelt. Eindelijk antwoorden!' Wilma Grobben 'Wat een ongelofelijk inspirerend verhaal. Mijn hoofd was de hele tijd ja aan het knikken.' Irene Verdoorn 'Op dit boek heb ik gewacht, het geeft op een begrijpelijke en boeiende manier inzicht in waar we vandaan komen.' Jenny Groot 'Ik heb rode ogen van concentratie door het lezen van je boek. Het is zo mooi beschreven. Telkens nieuwe ontdekkingen die mijn hoofd doen duizelen. Het zet alles in een nieuw licht. Zeer bemoedigend.' Adrie van Diepen 'Ik heb Time Bender in één ruk uitgelezen. De herkenning en bevestiging en de moed van jou om dit te delen, zijn van onschatbare waarde.' Angeli Que Pasa 'Dit boek is onbetaalbaar.' Annemarie Burger 'Wow! Het boek sleurde me meteen mee. Wat een onthullingen!' Eline van de Kam 'Ik heb het ademloos en in één ruk uitgelezen. Ontzettend bedankt voor deze informatie!' Marcelle Sla 'Niemand die alles met elkaar kan combineren. Ik dank je van met heel mijn hart.' Henriët Heskamp 'Wat een geweldig boek met prachtige versterkende inzichten die ik juist nu zo hard nodig heb.' Herma Wijnhoud 'Zorgvuldig verzamelde informatie, journalistiek geloofwaardig, meeslepend met een boodschap. Deed me denken aan De Celestijnse Belofte en een vleugje Dan Brown. Een ware hit.' Bert Ruitenbeek 'Eindelijk een boek dat alle esoterische literatuur combineert tot één coherent verhaal. Ik ben er zo blij mee.' Karen Jonkers Tijn Touber is muzikant, schrijver, leraar. Hij is oprichter van Lois Lane, schreef de titelsong voor de film Amsterdamned en verkocht meer dan 100.000 platen. Tijn publiceerde zes boeken over verlichting, waarvan Spoedcursus Verlichting de bekendste is. Hij is initiatiefnemer van Stadsverlichting, Schoolverlichting en geeft meditatie-concerten en stilte-retraites. www.tijntouber.com Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789492883612
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages :
Book Description
Time Bender beschrijft de ontdekkingstocht van een jongeman die wordt meegesleept in een Galactische strijd die zijn weerga niet kent. De mensheid - zo ontdekt hij - bevindt zich in een sleutelpositie om de Kosmische conflicten voor eens en voor altijd op te lossen. De vraag is alleen: worden wij op tijd wakker? 'Ik heb je boek met open mond gelezen. Dit is echt next level.' Karen van Holst-Pellekaan 'Geen woorden die mijn geluksgevoel kunnen beschrijven. Mijn hart bubbelt. Eindelijk antwoorden!' Wilma Grobben 'Wat een ongelofelijk inspirerend verhaal. Mijn hoofd was de hele tijd ja aan het knikken.' Irene Verdoorn 'Op dit boek heb ik gewacht, het geeft op een begrijpelijke en boeiende manier inzicht in waar we vandaan komen.' Jenny Groot 'Ik heb rode ogen van concentratie door het lezen van je boek. Het is zo mooi beschreven. Telkens nieuwe ontdekkingen die mijn hoofd doen duizelen. Het zet alles in een nieuw licht. Zeer bemoedigend.' Adrie van Diepen 'Ik heb Time Bender in één ruk uitgelezen. De herkenning en bevestiging en de moed van jou om dit te delen, zijn van onschatbare waarde.' Angeli Que Pasa 'Dit boek is onbetaalbaar.' Annemarie Burger 'Wow! Het boek sleurde me meteen mee. Wat een onthullingen!' Eline van de Kam 'Ik heb het ademloos en in één ruk uitgelezen. Ontzettend bedankt voor deze informatie!' Marcelle Sla 'Niemand die alles met elkaar kan combineren. Ik dank je van met heel mijn hart.' Henriët Heskamp 'Wat een geweldig boek met prachtige versterkende inzichten die ik juist nu zo hard nodig heb.' Herma Wijnhoud 'Zorgvuldig verzamelde informatie, journalistiek geloofwaardig, meeslepend met een boodschap. Deed me denken aan De Celestijnse Belofte en een vleugje Dan Brown. Een ware hit.' Bert Ruitenbeek 'Eindelijk een boek dat alle esoterische literatuur combineert tot één coherent verhaal. Ik ben er zo blij mee.' Karen Jonkers Tijn Touber is muzikant, schrijver, leraar. Hij is oprichter van Lois Lane, schreef de titelsong voor de film Amsterdamned en verkocht meer dan 100.000 platen. Tijn publiceerde zes boeken over verlichting, waarvan Spoedcursus Verlichting de bekendste is. Hij is initiatiefnemer van Stadsverlichting, Schoolverlichting en geeft meditatie-concerten en stilte-retraites. www.tijntouber.com Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.
The Time Bender
Author: Keith Laumer
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473215528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Draftsmen can't fight dragons. Then again, that's usually no problem - they generally don't have to. But Lafayette O'Leary does. When an accidental overdose of self-hypnosis wrenches him out of the dull (but safe) Mrs. MacGlint's Clean Rooms and Board and deposits him in the feudal, bedragoned world of Artesia, it takes him a little while to catch on, even with the attentions of the beautiful Princess Adoranne. Then he decides that he likes this new life of his - except for the part where he's supposed to get killed...
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473215528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Draftsmen can't fight dragons. Then again, that's usually no problem - they generally don't have to. But Lafayette O'Leary does. When an accidental overdose of self-hypnosis wrenches him out of the dull (but safe) Mrs. MacGlint's Clean Rooms and Board and deposits him in the feudal, bedragoned world of Artesia, it takes him a little while to catch on, even with the attentions of the beautiful Princess Adoranne. Then he decides that he likes this new life of his - except for the part where he's supposed to get killed...
Futurama: The Time Bender Trilogy
Author: Matt Groening
Publisher: Harper Design
ISBN: 9780061118074
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The four-part trilogy returns in an all new trade paperback collection. Fry, Leela, Bender, and Professor Farnsworth's clone/ward Cubert take an intergalactic trip, and when they return to Earth, they find the planet uninhabited. First, our merry band of messengers must fight off alien invaders bent on claiming the planet as their own. Then they must go in search of their missing colleagues as well as billions of citizens from Planet Earth. But "where are they?" soon turns into "when are they?" and "how" and "why" also make a little appearance. And before long the intrepid crew quite literally goes to hell and back again. Will the world ever get back to normal, or is everyone totally boned? Yes, there will be time travel—so bring a change of clothes!
Publisher: Harper Design
ISBN: 9780061118074
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The four-part trilogy returns in an all new trade paperback collection. Fry, Leela, Bender, and Professor Farnsworth's clone/ward Cubert take an intergalactic trip, and when they return to Earth, they find the planet uninhabited. First, our merry band of messengers must fight off alien invaders bent on claiming the planet as their own. Then they must go in search of their missing colleagues as well as billions of citizens from Planet Earth. But "where are they?" soon turns into "when are they?" and "how" and "why" also make a little appearance. And before long the intrepid crew quite literally goes to hell and back again. Will the world ever get back to normal, or is everyone totally boned? Yes, there will be time travel—so bring a change of clothes!
Late!
Author: Grace G Pacie
Publisher: Punchline Publications
ISBN: 9781838070519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Do you try not to be late, but it just keeps happening? You are not alone - one in five people struggle to be on time, and would love to change their lateness habit. In this trailblazing book Grace Pacie, a lifelong self-confessed 'Timebender', reveals the surprising truth about why we are late and what we can do to fix it.
Publisher: Punchline Publications
ISBN: 9781838070519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Do you try not to be late, but it just keeps happening? You are not alone - one in five people struggle to be on time, and would love to change their lateness habit. In this trailblazing book Grace Pacie, a lifelong self-confessed 'Timebender', reveals the surprising truth about why we are late and what we can do to fix it.
The Color Master
Author: Aimee Bender
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full of provocative ideas” (The Boston Globe). In her deft hands, “relationships and mundane activities take on mythic qualities” (The Wall Street Journal). In this collection, Bender’s unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching for connection through love, sex, and family—while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds. In these deeply resonant stories—evocative, funny, beautiful, and sad—we see ourselves reflected as if in a funhouse mirror. Aimee Bender has once again proven herself to be among the most imaginative, exciting, and intelligent writers of our time.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full of provocative ideas” (The Boston Globe). In her deft hands, “relationships and mundane activities take on mythic qualities” (The Wall Street Journal). In this collection, Bender’s unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching for connection through love, sex, and family—while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds. In these deeply resonant stories—evocative, funny, beautiful, and sad—we see ourselves reflected as if in a funhouse mirror. Aimee Bender has once again proven herself to be among the most imaginative, exciting, and intelligent writers of our time.
Chronotypes
Author: John B. Bender
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804719124
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Time belongs to a handful of categories (like form, symbol, cause) that are genuinely transdisciplinary. Time touches every dimension of our being, every object of our attention -- including attention itself. It therefore can belong to no single field of study. Of course, this universalist view of time is not itself universal but rather is a product of the modern age, an age that conceived of itself as the "new" time. Time has thus gained new importance as a theme of general research with the "post-modern turn" now manifest in many areas of intellectual endeavor, especially in the humanities and social sciences. "Chronotypes" are models or patterns through which time assumes practical or conceptual significance. Time is not given but (as the subtitle indicates) fabricated in an ongoing process. Chronotypes are themselves temporal and plural, constantly being made and remade at multiple individual, social, and cultural levels. They interact, they change over time, and they have histories, whose construal is itself an act of temporal construction. This book -- an interdisciplinary collaboration of philosophers, historians, literary critics, and anthropologists -- examines the ways individuals, societies, and cultures make sense of time by constructing it in diverse patterns.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804719124
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Time belongs to a handful of categories (like form, symbol, cause) that are genuinely transdisciplinary. Time touches every dimension of our being, every object of our attention -- including attention itself. It therefore can belong to no single field of study. Of course, this universalist view of time is not itself universal but rather is a product of the modern age, an age that conceived of itself as the "new" time. Time has thus gained new importance as a theme of general research with the "post-modern turn" now manifest in many areas of intellectual endeavor, especially in the humanities and social sciences. "Chronotypes" are models or patterns through which time assumes practical or conceptual significance. Time is not given but (as the subtitle indicates) fabricated in an ongoing process. Chronotypes are themselves temporal and plural, constantly being made and remade at multiple individual, social, and cultural levels. They interact, they change over time, and they have histories, whose construal is itself an act of temporal construction. This book -- an interdisciplinary collaboration of philosophers, historians, literary critics, and anthropologists -- examines the ways individuals, societies, and cultures make sense of time by constructing it in diverse patterns.
NEW YORK INTELLECT
Author: Thomas Bender
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307831523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.
The Butterfly Lampshade
Author: Aimee Bender
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.
LEGO
Author: Jonathan Bender
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 047090903X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An adult LEGO fan's dual quest: to build with bricks and build a family There are 62 LEGO bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender realized that he didn't have a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a master model builder for The LEGO Group, he discovers the men and women who are skewing the averages with collections of hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks. What is it about the ubiquitous, brightly colored toys that makes them so hard for everyone to put down? In search of answers and adventure, Jonathan Bender sets out to explore the quirky world of adult fans of LEGO (AFOLs) while becoming a builder himself. As he participates in challenges at fan conventions, searches for the largest private collection in the United States, and visits LEGO headquarters (where he was allowed into the top secret set vault), he finds his LEGO journey twinned with a second creative endeavor—to have a child. His two worlds intertwine as he awaits the outcome: Will he win a build competition or bring a new fan of LEGO into the world? Like every really good love story, this one has surprises—and a happy ending. Explores the world of adult fans of LEGO, from rediscovering the childhood joys of building with LEGO to evaluating LEGO's place in culture and art Takes an inside look at LEGO conventions, community taboos, and build challenges and goes behind-the-scenes at LEGO headquarters and LEGOLAND Tells a warm and personal story about the attempt to build with LEGO and build a family Whether you're an avid LEGO freak or a onetime fan who now shares LEGO bricks with your children, this book will appeal to the inner builder in you and reignite a love for all things LEGO.
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 047090903X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
An adult LEGO fan's dual quest: to build with bricks and build a family There are 62 LEGO bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender realized that he didn't have a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a master model builder for The LEGO Group, he discovers the men and women who are skewing the averages with collections of hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks. What is it about the ubiquitous, brightly colored toys that makes them so hard for everyone to put down? In search of answers and adventure, Jonathan Bender sets out to explore the quirky world of adult fans of LEGO (AFOLs) while becoming a builder himself. As he participates in challenges at fan conventions, searches for the largest private collection in the United States, and visits LEGO headquarters (where he was allowed into the top secret set vault), he finds his LEGO journey twinned with a second creative endeavor—to have a child. His two worlds intertwine as he awaits the outcome: Will he win a build competition or bring a new fan of LEGO into the world? Like every really good love story, this one has surprises—and a happy ending. Explores the world of adult fans of LEGO, from rediscovering the childhood joys of building with LEGO to evaluating LEGO's place in culture and art Takes an inside look at LEGO conventions, community taboos, and build challenges and goes behind-the-scenes at LEGO headquarters and LEGOLAND Tells a warm and personal story about the attempt to build with LEGO and build a family Whether you're an avid LEGO freak or a onetime fan who now shares LEGO bricks with your children, this book will appeal to the inner builder in you and reignite a love for all things LEGO.
A New Theology
Author: Sheila Bender
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935437048
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Poet and essayist Sheila Bender tells the story of her family and the family of her son's fiancee coming together, understanding that 25-year-old Seth Bender would be taken off life support. She writes about the months they faced together before the upcoming day that would have been his wedding day, and she tells the story of using poetry to write her way out of grief and find a way of carrying her son's life in her own, a way of understanding mortality and immortality. A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief is accessible, absorbing, and a bringer of peace to those who mourn."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935437048
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Poet and essayist Sheila Bender tells the story of her family and the family of her son's fiancee coming together, understanding that 25-year-old Seth Bender would be taken off life support. She writes about the months they faced together before the upcoming day that would have been his wedding day, and she tells the story of using poetry to write her way out of grief and find a way of carrying her son's life in her own, a way of understanding mortality and immortality. A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief is accessible, absorbing, and a bringer of peace to those who mourn."