Author: Mary E. Mitchell
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 142991954X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Life is a challenge for 36-year-old Kate Cavanaugh, high school guidance counselor to a motley group of at-risk students. Two years after finding her young husband dead in bed beside her, Kate's storybook life has vanished, and she and her two children are still reeling. Her daughter Charlotte, once a sweet girl, has morphed into an angry, tattooed, tongue-studded teen; and Hunter, Kate's four-year-old, keeps his feelings sealed tight inside and an empty ketchup bottle clasped to his heart. When a tragedy occurs at the Alan B. Shepard High School, it's Kate who finds herself in need of counsel and guidance. What she does next catapults her and her family down an unfamiliar road, on a trajectory into space—toward understanding, forgiveness and healing.
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307414094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was his college professor Morrie Schwartz. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. “The truth is, Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.
Author: Dolly Alderton
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062968807
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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New York Times Bestseller "There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women “Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world. But what makes this memoir more than mere entertainment is the mature and sophisticated evolution that Alderton describes in these pages. It’s a beautifully told journey and a thoughtful, important book. I loved it.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, finding a job, getting drunk, getting dumped, realizing that Ivan from the corner shop might just be the only reliable man in her life, and that absolutely no one can ever compare to her best girlfriends. Everything I Know About Love is about bad dates, good friends and—above all else— realizing that you are enough. Glittering with wit and insight, heart and humor, Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut weaves together personal stories, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes that will strike a chord of recognition with women of every age—making you want to pick up the phone and tell your best friends all about it. Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true, Everything I Know About Love is about the struggles of early adulthood in all its terrifying and hopeful uncertainty.
Author: Erich Fromm
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480402001
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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The landmark bestseller that changed the way we think about love: “Every line is packed with common sense, compassion, and realism” (Fortune). The Art of Loving is a rich and detailed guide to love—an achievement reached through maturity, practice, concentration, and courage. In the decades since the book’s release, its words and lessons continue to resonate. Erich Fromm, a celebrated psychoanalyst and social psychologist, clearly and sincerely encourages the development of our capacity for and understanding of love in all of its facets. He discusses the familiar yet misunderstood romantic love, the all-encompassing brotherly love, spiritual love, and many more. A challenge to traditional Western notions of love, The Art of Loving is a modern classic about taking care of ourselves through relationships with others by the New York Times–bestselling author of To Have or To Be? and Escape from Freedom. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Author: Barbara K. Gold
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118241436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original essays thatoffer new and innovative approaches to specific elegists and the discipline as a whole. Contributors represent a range of established names and younger scholars, all of whom are respected experts in their fields Contains original, never before published essays, which are both accessible to a wide audience and offer a new approach to the love elegists and their work Includes 33 essays on the Roman elegists Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Sulpicia, and Ovid, as well as their Greek and Roman predecessors and later writers who were influenced by their work Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in Roman elegy from scholars who have used a variety of critical approaches to open up new avenues of understanding
Author: Luis A. Martínez
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781462828500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Are you frustrated in your current job? Are you unemployed? Do you believe you can achieve more, but dont know where to start? The process outlined in this book has been used successfully by hundreds of clients. My clients are speech pathologists, chief marketing officers, certified public accountants, nurses, attorneys, plumbers, chief executive officers, music teachers, software engineers, supply chain managers, artists, etc. What do they all have in common? They all have a desire to do something different, to have rewarding, fulfilling work lives. They used this book to help them move from the frustrating situations they were in, towards rewarding, meaningful careers in their chosen field. This is what some of my clients have said: You changed my life! You made me put me first, and no one has ever made me put me first. No one ever asked me And what do YOU want for yourself? RACHELLE EVANS, Payroll Manager, Phoenix, AZ Brilliant! MICHAEL VAN INGEN, Cornell graduate "Getting There" by Luis Martinez offers step-by-step guidance & hints to help job-seekers -- whether youre a recent college grad or are an experienced worker looking for new directions -- achieve their professional goals. Few people have as deep an understanding of corporate hiring as Luis Martinez. As a Human Resources Consultant at Xerox, he has advised a whole spectrum of employees for many years. Now Martinez shares powerful lessons from his long career. Christine Cody, Sales Professional, Brooklyn, NY
Author: Genalin Jimenez
Publisher: Genalin Jimenez
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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A sentence is the largest independent unit of grammar: it begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. The word "sentence" is from the Latin for "to feel." The adjective form of the word is "sentential." The sentence is traditionally (and inadequately) defined as a word or group of words that expresses a complete idea and that includes a subject and a verb. More to learn inside this little volume. Get your copy now.
Author: Gitte Kristiansen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110733978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 597
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Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the rich theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the social factors that underlie the variability of meaning and conceptualization. In the last decade, the field has expanded in various way. The current volume takes stock of current and emerging advances in the field in short academic contributions. The studies collected in this book have a usage-based approach to language variation and change, drawing on the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and are sensitive to social variation, be it cross-linguistic or language-internal. Three types of contributions are collected in this book. First, it contains theoretical overview papers on the domains that have witnessed expansion in recent years. Second, it presents novel research ideas in proof-of-concept contributions, aimed at blue-sky research and out-of-the-box linguistic analyses. Third, it showcases recent empirical studies within the field. By combining these three types of contributions, the book provides an encompassing overview of novel developments in the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics.
Author: Brent A. Peters
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595515444
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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In Darien's world, music is king. Since the age of sixteen, he's filled a spiral notebook full of songs inspired by his own experiences, and he now owns and plays at a thriving nightclub called Strings. Lately, though, his mind has been consumed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend, Candice; if he could only get her out of his head, he might be able to find peace. When he meets Melody, a talented writer for a local up-and-coming magazine, Darien falls instantly and completely in love. He now gets to fulfill his dream of creating songs from his heart. And Darien touches the heart of Melody so skillfully that the two become inseparable. But even the most perfect relationships can crack, and despite all his best intentions, Darien feels Melody begin to slip through his fingers. Through the pain and confusion of his relationship with Melody, Darien continues to write his songs, seeking to understand the barrage of feelings hammering against his heart. Is Melody indeed the love he has been writing about his entire life, or does someone else wait in the wings? Only time will tell, but Darien knows that whatever lays ahead, his music will illuminate the path he takes. A beautiful love story entwined with the magic of music, Love's Song reveals one man's commitment to discovering the song and the woman of his heart.
Author: Irving Singer
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262261162
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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The author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other topics. In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results (finding the chapters he had written “just dreary and unproductive of anything”), he turned to the history of ideas in philosophy and the arts for inspiration. He discovered an immensity of speculation and artistic practice that reached wholly beyond the parameters he had been trained to consider truly philosophical. In his three-volume work The Nature of Love, Singer tried to make sense of this historical progression within a framework that reflected his precise distinction-making and analytical background. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love. It is a “partial” summing-up of a lifework: partial because it expresses the author's still unfolding views, because it is a recapitulation of many published pages, because love—like any subject of that magnitude—resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formulation. Adopting an informal, even conversational, tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the history of romantic love, the Platonic ideal, courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion; the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideas about love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; and love in relation to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the possible future of scientific investigation. Singer's writing on love embodies what he has learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other authors in the field and “trying to get a little further.” This book continues his trailblazing explorations.
