Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006184246X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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“A wise, generous and compact primer for life that could well become a touchstone, readers will return to this book, and probably find something new each time they do; deserves to be given often and enthusiastically.” — Publishers Weekly Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Patchett tells her own story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, What now? From student to line cook to teacher to waitress and eventually to award-winning author, Patchett's own life has taken many twists and turns that make her exploration genuine and resonant. As Patchett writes, "'What now?' represents our excitement and our future, the very vitality of life." She highlights the possibilities the unknown offers and reminds us that there is as much joy in the journey as there is in reaching the destination.
Author: Charles Force Deems
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Young women
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: Hans Fallada
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612190642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The return of a “superb” forgotten masterpiece about a young couple living in Weimar Germany during the Nazi’s rise to power (Graham Greene) Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the simple story of a young couple trying to eke out a devent life amidst an economic crisis that’s transforming their country into a place of anger and despair. It was an international bestseller upon its release, and made into a Hollywood movie—by Jewish producers, which prompted the rising Nazis to begin paying ominously close attention to Hans Fallada, even as his novels held out stirring hope for the human spirit. Ultimately, it is the book that led to Hans Fallada’s downfall with the Nazis. It is presented here in its first-ever uncut translation, by Susan Bennett, and with an afterword by Philip Brady that details the calamitous background of the novel, its worldwide reception, and how it turned out to be, for the author, a dangerous book. “Painfully true to life . . . I have read nothing so engaging as Little Man, What Now? for a long time.” —Thomas Mann
Author: Yael Shy
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1941529836
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Buddhist teachings and meditation offer a roadmap to help college students and others in early adulthood incorporate mindfulness into their lives as a means of facing the myriad struggles unique to this stage of life. Early adulthood is filled with intense emotions and insecurity. What if you never fall in love? What if you can't find work you’re passionate about? You miss home. You miss close friends. You’re lost in the noise of how you think you should be living and worried about wasting what everyone says should be the best years of your life. What Now? shares mindfulness practices to help twentysomethings learn to identify and accept these feelings and respond—not react—to painful and powerful stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them. This is not about fixing oneself or being "better." Readers are encouraged to embrace themselves exactly as they are. You are already completely whole, completely loveable, completely worthy. What Now? shares practices that help us to wake up to this fact. This uniquely tumultuous developmental period is a time when many first live away from home and engage in all kinds of experimentation—with ideas, substances, relationships, and who we think we are and want to be in the world. Yael Shy shares her own story and offers basic meditation guides to beginning a practice. She explores the Buddhist framework for what causes suffering and explores ideas about interconnection and social justice as natural outgrowths of meditation practice.
Author: Raey Golden
Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN: 164069224X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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What Now? The former Chief of Investigations of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, CID, Brigadier General Daniel Jorgensen is teaching at the Knoxville College on the west slope of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He is involved in attacks on his life to murder him or his wife and child. The murder investigation is nothing new to him, The lives of Dan Jorgensen and his wife are continually tested by attempts on their lives. Or the kidnapping of them.
Author: David S. Massey
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1594672229
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Author: V. M. Barrios
Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 9781589610682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Born and raised in Michigan, Vince Barrios joined the U.S. Navy shortly after his 17th birthday and had seen much of the world before he turned 21. Having lived in Illinois, Virginia, South Carolina and finally Florida, where he now resides, he has always found adventure wherever he traveled. Or, perhaps we should say misadventure has always found him. Join Vince on his journey. Explore new and obscure occupations. Laugh aloud in wonder at the survivor of one disaster after another. it's graceful humor, good storytelling, well-told sadness an dmystery - it's life! Read it and enjoy.
Author: Kari Lynn M.
Publisher: Kari Lynn M.
ISBN: 1370611781
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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Waking up in a deserted Wisconsin woods surrounded by masked members of a family witch-gang at three a.m. on a school night? Check. Becoming captured by a deeply demented elder alongside the one member of society that you probably despise the most? Yep, check. Emma Lenford's life hasn’t been this heart-stopping since she spotted Jon Bon Jovi’s tour bus at the local 7-Eleven. Written as a series of seriously ill-fated situations, What Now, Emma Lenford? is like a sit-com that takes the death-defying to the level of detrimentally hilarious… no television set required.
Author: Floyd Salas
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611923308
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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"This engrossing page-turner catures the hippy era in California as it charts the flight of three people--a writer, his grilfriend and Sam, a big-time drug dealer--from a San Francisco drug factory where a plain-clothes policeman has been shot in the midst of a narcotics bust."--Amazon
Author: Wayne Baxter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162564776X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Is the church of the twenty-first century supposed to regain its former glory, or is it too late? Are the people of God in exile yet again? Have we lost our cultural footing and are now in desperate need to find a new way for the present millennium? Daniel was born into a nation of God-fearers, where the Scriptures were embraced and biblical values espoused. But that all changed with the Babylonian exile. Daniel's God, his values, and his faith had become irrelevant and even despised in his society. With the erosion of Christendom, Daniel's story has become the church's story! We've Lost. What Now? offers a clear, insightful, and relevant exposition of Daniel in order to empower believers to minister more effectively than ever before from the social and cultural margins the church now inhabits.
