Author: Troy Brusven
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434935493
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Troy Brusven began writing poetry in second grade. Words on paper made no sense to him, but words within the words went together as poetry. Troy started small. As he progressed in school, he started writing essays in poetry. He would receive extra credit for them. At nineteen, Troy had his first poems published after quitting drinking for a while. The book was sold for the poor and needy. Troy¿s best writing came from his heart after his mother died. He was not going to write again after the poem he wrote for her funeral. Five years later he began again on July 27, 2012. This was one day after the anniversary of his mother¿s death. He picked up the plaque with her mother¿s poem on it, read it, and tried to donate it to the funeral home in his hometown. They said that poems are a family thing. Troy wanted his mom¿s poem seen and attributed to her. Maybe it could relate to someone else with loss. This book is a tribute to Troy¿s mom.
When You Don't See the Light
Author: Troy Brusven
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434935493
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Troy Brusven began writing poetry in second grade. Words on paper made no sense to him, but words within the words went together as poetry. Troy started small. As he progressed in school, he started writing essays in poetry. He would receive extra credit for them. At nineteen, Troy had his first poems published after quitting drinking for a while. The book was sold for the poor and needy. Troy¿s best writing came from his heart after his mother died. He was not going to write again after the poem he wrote for her funeral. Five years later he began again on July 27, 2012. This was one day after the anniversary of his mother¿s death. He picked up the plaque with her mother¿s poem on it, read it, and tried to donate it to the funeral home in his hometown. They said that poems are a family thing. Troy wanted his mom¿s poem seen and attributed to her. Maybe it could relate to someone else with loss. This book is a tribute to Troy¿s mom.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434935493
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Troy Brusven began writing poetry in second grade. Words on paper made no sense to him, but words within the words went together as poetry. Troy started small. As he progressed in school, he started writing essays in poetry. He would receive extra credit for them. At nineteen, Troy had his first poems published after quitting drinking for a while. The book was sold for the poor and needy. Troy¿s best writing came from his heart after his mother died. He was not going to write again after the poem he wrote for her funeral. Five years later he began again on July 27, 2012. This was one day after the anniversary of his mother¿s death. He picked up the plaque with her mother¿s poem on it, read it, and tried to donate it to the funeral home in his hometown. They said that poems are a family thing. Troy wanted his mom¿s poem seen and attributed to her. Maybe it could relate to someone else with loss. This book is a tribute to Troy¿s mom.
All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476746605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).
Memory Wall
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143918285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143918285X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.
Light from Light
Author: Robert Barron
Publisher: Word on Fire Academic
ISBN: 9781943243846
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Invites skeptics and seekers to discover the intellectual richness of the Catholic faith, opening readers to the theological and philosophical depths of Christianity: the nature of belief, the mystery of God, the story of Christ, the work of the Spirit, the life of the church, and the resurrection of the dead. --Book jacket.
Publisher: Word on Fire Academic
ISBN: 9781943243846
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Invites skeptics and seekers to discover the intellectual richness of the Catholic faith, opening readers to the theological and philosophical depths of Christianity: the nature of belief, the mystery of God, the story of Christ, the work of the Spirit, the life of the church, and the resurrection of the dead. --Book jacket.
The Shell Collector
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439190054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439190054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power. Some of his characters contend with tremendous hardship; some discover unique gifts; all are united by their ultimate deference to the mysteries of their respective landscapes.
You Can See the Light
Author: Dianne Morrissey
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523057
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This guide elaborates on seven keys that allow readers to gain a glimpse of "the light" and return with reassurance that there is life after death. The author experienced her own near-death after being electrocuted, and has since taught the technique of experiencing the next world to more than 25,000 people.
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806523057
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This guide elaborates on seven keys that allow readers to gain a glimpse of "the light" and return with reassurance that there is life after death. The author experienced her own near-death after being electrocuted, and has since taught the technique of experiencing the next world to more than 25,000 people.
The Light We Cannot See
Author: Chris Manion
Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781649493668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"Not everything is as it first appears." When a toy store turns out its lights and closes for the day, something special happens inside. Angels open all the toys, then guide children from heaven to play through the night in a light adults cannot see.
Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing Incorporated
ISBN: 9781649493668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"Not everything is as it first appears." When a toy store turns out its lights and closes for the day, something special happens inside. Angels open all the toys, then guide children from heaven to play through the night in a light adults cannot see.
The Practice Co - Volume Three
Author: Liz Milani
Publisher: New Luminary Media
ISBN: 9780645287721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In 2012 I began writing (and designing) short devotional pieces. We posted them on Instagram thinking that our friends and family would politely like them. But to our absolute shock, complete strangers liked them, too. A few years on, and here we are. I never dreamed that Pocket Fuel would turn into this practice and lead me to you. I'm forever grateful for it, no matter how rudimentary and humble our beginnings were.Not too long into our Instagram experiment, we found ourselves asking deeper questions around our faith. Everything we thought we knew; thought we had a handle on; thought was secure and for always; was challenged, questioned, and stripped bare. We experienced tragedy at home, and at work. We quit our jobs as Pastors, and started from scratch (faith and vocation) in our mid thirties. But through what felt like the death of all we thought we knew and would be, we found beauty and community. Our faith has a vibrancy that it was once devoid of. And our questions and doubts? I no-longer feel guilty for having them. They are an active part of my faith.
Publisher: New Luminary Media
ISBN: 9780645287721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In 2012 I began writing (and designing) short devotional pieces. We posted them on Instagram thinking that our friends and family would politely like them. But to our absolute shock, complete strangers liked them, too. A few years on, and here we are. I never dreamed that Pocket Fuel would turn into this practice and lead me to you. I'm forever grateful for it, no matter how rudimentary and humble our beginnings were.Not too long into our Instagram experiment, we found ourselves asking deeper questions around our faith. Everything we thought we knew; thought we had a handle on; thought was secure and for always; was challenged, questioned, and stripped bare. We experienced tragedy at home, and at work. We quit our jobs as Pastors, and started from scratch (faith and vocation) in our mid thirties. But through what felt like the death of all we thought we knew and would be, we found beauty and community. Our faith has a vibrancy that it was once devoid of. And our questions and doubts? I no-longer feel guilty for having them. They are an active part of my faith.
When You Can See the Light Within
Author: Henry B. Naiken
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1553698010
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book will change your life. I know, for what you are about to read has changed mine to a certain degree. However, I would like to properly articulate the overwhelming emotions and warmth from my heart for the man that I have known for more than 23 years. His presence remains so influential in my life and so familiar to my family and me. Indeed, Dr. Naiken is such a good friend, a spiritual brother, that most of the time we have come to function at the same level of mind - we perceive the same thoughts, intuitions and feelings about events to happen - un-strange as this may seem. Since his early years Dr. Naiken made his search for inner fulfillment the mark of planting seeds of what would eventually blossom into his dedication towards helping people reach their unlimited inner resources. The account of personal power presented in this book actually happened to us. In many cases, the changes took place in the same amount of time it will take you to read about them. These transformations, which include the methods design to get you free from worldly problems, are the result of initiation with the Guru, Arvind Shrimali - the son of Guru Dev (Dr. Narayan Dutt Shrimali) of Jodhpur, India. You the counselor, consultant, coaches, managers, engineers, athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, and parents - all kinds of people interested in personal and professional freedom, this book is for you. It didn't start here. We set out on the 14 th of April 2002, with little more than our sincere desire that deliberate initiation was possible. Dr. Naiken has spent 30 years searching across the fields of psychology, metaphysics, brain-management and spiritualism for ways to implement change that works. He measured the success of his knowledge by the results it could generate. For 3 decades he searched for the keys to real and lasting change before deciding to go all the way. His motive was personal as well as professional. He wanted to assist his clients and anyone with an interest towards personal development with the necessary tools for overcoming difficulties and self-imposed limitations. As a mediator of change he wanted skills that could enhance those who were already accomplishing and increasing what was already outstanding. For his own satisfaction, he wanted to be able to move beyond fixing problems to awakening the giant within. He's always believed that he could do, be, have, and become more...and that you can too. Now, more than ever in the time of human history, approaches of diverse kinds have been pointing towards improving human potentials and increasing possibilities. Some of them are well known, with titles like positive thinking, positive mental attitude, visualisation, affirmations, inner child work, goal setting and personal power. You may even have tried your mind at some of them. If your experience was like ours, sometimes they worked and the results were truly marvelous. Many times though, they didn't. And when they didn't, no matter how much we wanted or needed them to work, they wouldn't. It was these erratic results that kept him searching even further for the real roots of change. He knew he was already part of the way there. He wanted to produce results consistently. He wanted to know the difference that made the difference between an occasional or temporary relief and a deep, lasting change. Before I pen off, I would like you to note two major points: 1. If the secrets of this book is a unique gift from Godorn to this world than the deep knowledge and wisdom searched by Dr. Naiken and presented here is indeed a gift to the whole of mankind. 2. If some of the ideas in this book seem strange to you at first that is good. Why? Be cause it means you are sighting entirely new guide posts, which will lead you up the right paths. Have no dismay if you do not understand these teachings at first. They are easy to grasp. Other people
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1553698010
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book will change your life. I know, for what you are about to read has changed mine to a certain degree. However, I would like to properly articulate the overwhelming emotions and warmth from my heart for the man that I have known for more than 23 years. His presence remains so influential in my life and so familiar to my family and me. Indeed, Dr. Naiken is such a good friend, a spiritual brother, that most of the time we have come to function at the same level of mind - we perceive the same thoughts, intuitions and feelings about events to happen - un-strange as this may seem. Since his early years Dr. Naiken made his search for inner fulfillment the mark of planting seeds of what would eventually blossom into his dedication towards helping people reach their unlimited inner resources. The account of personal power presented in this book actually happened to us. In many cases, the changes took place in the same amount of time it will take you to read about them. These transformations, which include the methods design to get you free from worldly problems, are the result of initiation with the Guru, Arvind Shrimali - the son of Guru Dev (Dr. Narayan Dutt Shrimali) of Jodhpur, India. You the counselor, consultant, coaches, managers, engineers, athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, and parents - all kinds of people interested in personal and professional freedom, this book is for you. It didn't start here. We set out on the 14 th of April 2002, with little more than our sincere desire that deliberate initiation was possible. Dr. Naiken has spent 30 years searching across the fields of psychology, metaphysics, brain-management and spiritualism for ways to implement change that works. He measured the success of his knowledge by the results it could generate. For 3 decades he searched for the keys to real and lasting change before deciding to go all the way. His motive was personal as well as professional. He wanted to assist his clients and anyone with an interest towards personal development with the necessary tools for overcoming difficulties and self-imposed limitations. As a mediator of change he wanted skills that could enhance those who were already accomplishing and increasing what was already outstanding. For his own satisfaction, he wanted to be able to move beyond fixing problems to awakening the giant within. He's always believed that he could do, be, have, and become more...and that you can too. Now, more than ever in the time of human history, approaches of diverse kinds have been pointing towards improving human potentials and increasing possibilities. Some of them are well known, with titles like positive thinking, positive mental attitude, visualisation, affirmations, inner child work, goal setting and personal power. You may even have tried your mind at some of them. If your experience was like ours, sometimes they worked and the results were truly marvelous. Many times though, they didn't. And when they didn't, no matter how much we wanted or needed them to work, they wouldn't. It was these erratic results that kept him searching even further for the real roots of change. He knew he was already part of the way there. He wanted to produce results consistently. He wanted to know the difference that made the difference between an occasional or temporary relief and a deep, lasting change. Before I pen off, I would like you to note two major points: 1. If the secrets of this book is a unique gift from Godorn to this world than the deep knowledge and wisdom searched by Dr. Naiken and presented here is indeed a gift to the whole of mankind. 2. If some of the ideas in this book seem strange to you at first that is good. Why? Be cause it means you are sighting entirely new guide posts, which will lead you up the right paths. Have no dismay if you do not understand these teachings at first. They are easy to grasp. Other people
See the Light
Author: Patti K. Owens
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098089995
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This is a collection of letters of encouragement written to friends and strangers. All are inspired by the Holy Spirit. These letters try to see the light that can be elusive in people's lives. They were written to remind people of who they are or to help them through a difficult time. They span the emotions of love, hope, compassion, joy, gratitude, faith, and peace. They always speak to the recipient's hearts. There are life's moments that need to be acknowledged or validated, and these letters respond to those moments. Jesus said, "Let there be light," and this book describes how to find it in a very ordinary way. The letters are always optimistic. It is so important to see the light in the darkness. It is important to look around and see the goodness in others and, most importantly, in ourselves. Life is worth living and living to the fullest. The responses from the recipients of the letters are so often "These are the exact words that I needed to hear."
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098089995
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This is a collection of letters of encouragement written to friends and strangers. All are inspired by the Holy Spirit. These letters try to see the light that can be elusive in people's lives. They were written to remind people of who they are or to help them through a difficult time. They span the emotions of love, hope, compassion, joy, gratitude, faith, and peace. They always speak to the recipient's hearts. There are life's moments that need to be acknowledged or validated, and these letters respond to those moments. Jesus said, "Let there be light," and this book describes how to find it in a very ordinary way. The letters are always optimistic. It is so important to see the light in the darkness. It is important to look around and see the goodness in others and, most importantly, in ourselves. Life is worth living and living to the fullest. The responses from the recipients of the letters are so often "These are the exact words that I needed to hear."