Author: Barbara Taylor Sissel
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460325311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A woman uncovers shocking revelations about her family in Barbara Taylor Sissel’s unnerving thriller Evidence of Life. A mother’s love. A wife’s obsession. And the invisible fractures that can shatter a family. As her husband Nick and daughter Lindsey embark on a weekend camping trip to the Texas Hill Country, Abby looks forward to having some time to herself. She kisses them goodbye, and thinks to herself that she has it all—a perfect marriage, a perfect life. Until a devastating storm rips through the region, and her family vanishes without a trace. Though Nick and Lindsey are presumed dead, Abby refuses to give up hope. Consumed by grief and convinced her family is still alive, she sets out to find them. But as disturbing clues surface, Abby realizes that the truth may be more sinister than she imagined. Soon she finds herself caught in a current of lies that challenges everything she once believed about her marriage and family. “If you love Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve, read Barbara Taylor Sissel.” —New York Times–bestselling author Joni Rodgers
The Last Ordinary Hour
Author: Kathy Izard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997778434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Whether your world has been shattered by an untimely death, unfair diagnosis or unexpected disaster, this inspirational true story will help you live wholeheartedly even after life breaks your heart. On February 22, 2013, Kathy Izard's world was shattered when her healthy husband, Charlie, suffered a catastrophic heart attack. Although he was miraculously still alive, there could be no return to normal living after doctors diagnosed the cause to be an incurable disease: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD). Living with an exceedingly rare condition and facing the unfathomable prospect of life as a young widow, Kathy had to learn to accept the radical uncertainty that life often brings completely without warning. Through heart-pounding and heart-warming storytelling, Kathy recounts how she and Charlie navigated numerous cardiac crises using wisdom gained from both science and faith. Combining practical medical advice and inspiring spiritual enlightenment with her endearing vulnerability and perceptive insight, Kathy shows you how to find, cling to, and even strengthen your faith in the midst of a crisis that has left you reeling. The Last Ordinary Hour is not a book about dying. This is a story about living. What's Inside - Inspirational memoir of living with rare disease - Practical Medical and Spiritual Advice compiled from more than 35 doctors and authors - Bonus Materials: Reader's Discussion Guide for Book Clubs and Study Groups Interview with the Author and Frequently Asked Questions Spiritual Direction Guide written by the Reverend Louise Green SCAD Resource Guide for Patients and Families living with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997778434
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Whether your world has been shattered by an untimely death, unfair diagnosis or unexpected disaster, this inspirational true story will help you live wholeheartedly even after life breaks your heart. On February 22, 2013, Kathy Izard's world was shattered when her healthy husband, Charlie, suffered a catastrophic heart attack. Although he was miraculously still alive, there could be no return to normal living after doctors diagnosed the cause to be an incurable disease: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD). Living with an exceedingly rare condition and facing the unfathomable prospect of life as a young widow, Kathy had to learn to accept the radical uncertainty that life often brings completely without warning. Through heart-pounding and heart-warming storytelling, Kathy recounts how she and Charlie navigated numerous cardiac crises using wisdom gained from both science and faith. Combining practical medical advice and inspiring spiritual enlightenment with her endearing vulnerability and perceptive insight, Kathy shows you how to find, cling to, and even strengthen your faith in the midst of a crisis that has left you reeling. The Last Ordinary Hour is not a book about dying. This is a story about living. What's Inside - Inspirational memoir of living with rare disease - Practical Medical and Spiritual Advice compiled from more than 35 doctors and authors - Bonus Materials: Reader's Discussion Guide for Book Clubs and Study Groups Interview with the Author and Frequently Asked Questions Spiritual Direction Guide written by the Reverend Louise Green SCAD Resource Guide for Patients and Families living with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
One Day
Author: Gene Weingarten
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399185836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399185836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.
Evidence of Life
Author: Barbara Taylor Sissel
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460325311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A woman uncovers shocking revelations about her family in Barbara Taylor Sissel’s unnerving thriller Evidence of Life. A mother’s love. A wife’s obsession. And the invisible fractures that can shatter a family. As her husband Nick and daughter Lindsey embark on a weekend camping trip to the Texas Hill Country, Abby looks forward to having some time to herself. She kisses them goodbye, and thinks to herself that she has it all—a perfect marriage, a perfect life. Until a devastating storm rips through the region, and her family vanishes without a trace. Though Nick and Lindsey are presumed dead, Abby refuses to give up hope. Consumed by grief and convinced her family is still alive, she sets out to find them. But as disturbing clues surface, Abby realizes that the truth may be more sinister than she imagined. Soon she finds herself caught in a current of lies that challenges everything she once believed about her marriage and family. “If you love Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve, read Barbara Taylor Sissel.” —New York Times–bestselling author Joni Rodgers
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460325311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A woman uncovers shocking revelations about her family in Barbara Taylor Sissel’s unnerving thriller Evidence of Life. A mother’s love. A wife’s obsession. And the invisible fractures that can shatter a family. As her husband Nick and daughter Lindsey embark on a weekend camping trip to the Texas Hill Country, Abby looks forward to having some time to herself. She kisses them goodbye, and thinks to herself that she has it all—a perfect marriage, a perfect life. Until a devastating storm rips through the region, and her family vanishes without a trace. Though Nick and Lindsey are presumed dead, Abby refuses to give up hope. Consumed by grief and convinced her family is still alive, she sets out to find them. But as disturbing clues surface, Abby realizes that the truth may be more sinister than she imagined. Soon she finds herself caught in a current of lies that challenges everything she once believed about her marriage and family. “If you love Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve, read Barbara Taylor Sissel.” —New York Times–bestselling author Joni Rodgers
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Author: Thom Hartmann
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1863252134
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A call to consciousness that combines spirituality and ecology and offers hope for the future. As the world's population explodes, cultures and species are wiped out, and we have now reached the halfway point of our supplies of oil, humans the world over are confronting difficult choices about how to create a future which works. Thom Hartmann proposes that the ony lasting solution to the crises we face is to re-learn the lessons our ancient ancestors knew - lessons that allowed them to live sustainably for hundreds of thousands of years - but which we've forgotten. Hartmann shows how to find this new and yet ancient way of seeing the world and the life on and in it, allowing us to touch that place where the survival of humanity may be found.
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1863252134
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A call to consciousness that combines spirituality and ecology and offers hope for the future. As the world's population explodes, cultures and species are wiped out, and we have now reached the halfway point of our supplies of oil, humans the world over are confronting difficult choices about how to create a future which works. Thom Hartmann proposes that the ony lasting solution to the crises we face is to re-learn the lessons our ancient ancestors knew - lessons that allowed them to live sustainably for hundreds of thousands of years - but which we've forgotten. Hartmann shows how to find this new and yet ancient way of seeing the world and the life on and in it, allowing us to touch that place where the survival of humanity may be found.
The Hundred Story Home
Author: Kathy Izard
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0785220011
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
What if you just trusted the whisper of calling placed on your heart? Kathy Izard was volunteering at Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with a homeless man changed the course of her life. She realized that serving at the soup kitchen was feeding her soul, but not actually solving the needs of the homeless population. Rather than brush it off and avoid what she now felt called to take on, she quit her job and took on what seemed like an insurmountable task—building housing for Charlotte’s homeless. Woven together with this uplifting story of social action is Kathy’s personal struggle with faith, forgiveness and fulfillment. In telling her story, Kathy invites you to consider rewriting your own. What’s calling you? As crazy at it seems, it may be crazier not to try. This book will push you to do so much more than you ever thought possible.
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0785220011
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
What if you just trusted the whisper of calling placed on your heart? Kathy Izard was volunteering at Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center when an unlikely meeting with a homeless man changed the course of her life. She realized that serving at the soup kitchen was feeding her soul, but not actually solving the needs of the homeless population. Rather than brush it off and avoid what she now felt called to take on, she quit her job and took on what seemed like an insurmountable task—building housing for Charlotte’s homeless. Woven together with this uplifting story of social action is Kathy’s personal struggle with faith, forgiveness and fulfillment. In telling her story, Kathy invites you to consider rewriting your own. What’s calling you? As crazy at it seems, it may be crazier not to try. This book will push you to do so much more than you ever thought possible.
Miles from Ordinary
Author: Carol Lynch Williams
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429966580
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what [Williams] has done for early teen readers..." --Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Close to Baby Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control.... "No one can get inside the head and heart of a 13-year-old girl better than Carol Lynch Williams, and I mean no one," said James S. Jacobs, Professor of Children's Literature at Brigham Young University, of her breakout novel, The Chosen One. Now this award-winning YA author brings us an equally gripping story of a girl who loves her mother, but must face the truth of what life with that mother means for both of them.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429966580
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what [Williams] has done for early teen readers..." --Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Close to Baby Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother's ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control.... "No one can get inside the head and heart of a 13-year-old girl better than Carol Lynch Williams, and I mean no one," said James S. Jacobs, Professor of Children's Literature at Brigham Young University, of her breakout novel, The Chosen One. Now this award-winning YA author brings us an equally gripping story of a girl who loves her mother, but must face the truth of what life with that mother means for both of them.
The Hours / Mrs. Dalloway
Author: Michael Cunningham
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250852684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Michael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. The two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with Mrs. Dalloway at fifteen—as he writes, “I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.” With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250852684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Michael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. The two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with Mrs. Dalloway at fifteen—as he writes, “I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.” With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.
Hours of Work
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9221153649
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This survey examines the content and application of ILO Conventions relating to minimum standards of working hours (particularly Convention no. 1 and no. 30 covering maximum hours of work for industrial workers, and those in offices and commercial sectors respectively) as a basis for reviewing the existing system of international regulation of work time arrangements. Topics covered include: methods of application, including legislation, collective agreements and arbitration awards; normal and actual hours of work; variable distribution of working hours; Convention ratification and enforcement; national policies and practice; and consultation arrangements.
Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9221153649
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This survey examines the content and application of ILO Conventions relating to minimum standards of working hours (particularly Convention no. 1 and no. 30 covering maximum hours of work for industrial workers, and those in offices and commercial sectors respectively) as a basis for reviewing the existing system of international regulation of work time arrangements. Topics covered include: methods of application, including legislation, collective agreements and arbitration awards; normal and actual hours of work; variable distribution of working hours; Convention ratification and enforcement; national policies and practice; and consultation arrangements.
The Capital (Complete 3 Volumes)
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
Karl Marx's magnum opus, 'The Capital', is a monumental work that delves into the complexities of capitalist society and economic systems. Comprised of three volumes, this influential text not only analyzes the economic structure of capitalism but also critiques the exploitation of labor and the resulting class struggle. Marx's writing style is scholarly and rigorous, drawing on a wide range of economic, political, and philosophical theories to support his arguments. Within the context of 19th-century Europe, 'The Capital' stands as a cornerstone of Marxist thought and remains a pivotal text in the study of political economy and social theory. It is a thorough exploration of capitalism's inherent contradictions and the potential for revolutionary change. Recommended for readers interested in delving into the intricacies of economic systems and the critique of capitalism.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1644
Book Description
Karl Marx's magnum opus, 'The Capital', is a monumental work that delves into the complexities of capitalist society and economic systems. Comprised of three volumes, this influential text not only analyzes the economic structure of capitalism but also critiques the exploitation of labor and the resulting class struggle. Marx's writing style is scholarly and rigorous, drawing on a wide range of economic, political, and philosophical theories to support his arguments. Within the context of 19th-century Europe, 'The Capital' stands as a cornerstone of Marxist thought and remains a pivotal text in the study of political economy and social theory. It is a thorough exploration of capitalism's inherent contradictions and the potential for revolutionary change. Recommended for readers interested in delving into the intricacies of economic systems and the critique of capitalism.
The Process of Capitalist Production
Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 802724496X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 802724496X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This book is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the contradictions of the capitalist mode of production, how it was the precursor of the socialist mode of production and of the class struggle rooted in the capitalist social relations of production. Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a famous German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist.