"I need to imagine some end to life that transcends my tiny allotment of time and space," says the author of this wide-ranging, heartfelt, and intelligent book. "But I find it difficult to dream in a world filled with nightmarish violence. And yet I can't let go. I try to find my footing in an absurd world and search for signs of meaning and direction in the twisted turns of history that my generation has witnessed. I need to know how to dream in a world of diminishing expectations."
A rule is broken-and Mercy finds she is alone. Has everyone left, or has she left them? Struggling through her confusion she finds answers by letting go of distorted truths, awakening to a glimpse of who she is.
How a boy from Rochester, New York, found success and happiness by staying true to the values he grew up with.
Thrust into the Syrian desert by the Ottoman Turks, young Elise and her mother survived the 1915 Armenian death march. Twenty years later, her new life in America is more than she could ever have dreamed possible. The dream ends when her husband Leon dies and she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She has spent her entire adult life filling the woman's role she was taught to in Syria-cooked, cleaned, prayed, and looked after her three children. But she never leraned how to drive a car or manage a bank account. Leon saved enough for her to get by after his death. But he didn't think their lawyer son would turn his eye to those meagre savings. Elise's advancing dementia dimmed her awareness of the family strife swirling around her that would mark the last five years of her life. Elise's daughter offers a close-up view here of helping a dependent mother from a thousand miles away.
A Jewish woman in a 19th-century shtetl nearly loses her mind when her six-year-old son is torn from her arms, bound for a twenty-five-year enlistment in the Russian army. She spoils her second son rotten, a foolish, headstrong young man eventually married off to avoid the army but forced to flee to America when he gets a young relative of his in-laws, who is working in their home, pregnant. In New York during the draft riots of 1863, he gets an Irish girl who loves him pregnant too, but he refuses to marry her, conniving instead to win the heart of the homely only child of a wealthy, social climbing WASP mother and Catholic father. This plain girl follows the rogue. He abandons her as well when he discovers her parents have disowned her. In a twist of fate, the spurned Irishwoman and the homely girl meet and grow close. In the end, each fashions a wholly new life from the rubble of her past against a grand backdrop of the Civil War. How that happens is the secret of this richly human saga-and it drives the reader forward with one plot revelation after another until it reaches a profoundly unexpected series of climaxes.
Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe's Jewish population. She also witnessed firsthand the dysfunctions that plagued many of those who had made it out alive. InPrisoners of Memory, Haahr realizes her lifelong ambition to uncover the stories behind the statistics in the Nazi records and learn as much as possible about thepre-war lives, deportations, and deathsof her grandparents and other close family members. Devoting herself fully to this project after retiring from her academic career, Haahr delves into troves of family letters, takes part in numerous conversations with those directly and indirectly affected by World War II, and gathers information from contacts in Germany,archives,and other historical research. In doing so, she seeks to understand the enduring legacy of tragedy as well as of perseverance and hope in the generations that followed the Holocaust.
LINDA PRINCIPE IS AN OLD-FASHIONED POET in one profound way: Uncommonly, she resists the temptation to write anything unless she has something to say-and this latest collection demonstrates what can be achieved by that standard.Here are poems to live with. They resonate with insights gained and lessons learned in honest encounters with the truer sides of this fleeting existence of ours-with love, friendship, and death in all their varied appearance.They are poems that glow with the smooth glow of sea-glass. For readers who have come to know Ms. Principe's work, this volume will be a treasure.And if you have never read her, the uncanny feel she has for the poetry in the very ordinary moments all of us share with her will offer you solace and joy, the lilt of humor and the plain unvarnished truth. They will ease your burdens and bathe you in reviving light.
"The lights were dim," writes the author of this compact, deeply heartwarming tale, "and I could only see shadows, but I felt a sense of warmth and peace around me. I was an infant in a bassinet. I do not remember the words my parents spoke, only the fact that I had such a wondrous feeling of love and security. I have managed, somehow or other, to preserve that feeling to this day." It''s a very powerful feeling to have somehow held onto that lies at the heart of her story. Most of us fail to manage it. Nancy Sabatino''s voice throughout is honest, clear-eyed, and utterly free of pretension. She''s a Brooklyn girl through and through. She knows, blissfully and invariably, who she is, speaking with a vivid sense of openness and confidence. Francis Loyola was right when he said that, if you gave him a child until the age of four, you could have her back for life; and the author''s character reveals itself on every page of Love of Life. She''s industrious, irrepressible, and utterly devoted to her parents, her husband, and her three boys through thick and thin. Hers is a story worth reading more than once, because it reminds us in unmistakable terms what truly matters in life-and how to find wonder and joy in all our waking moments.
Thirty-year-old Johnny Romano wants to be taken seriously, but the choices he makes-a one-man production of Waiting for Godot, a monumental sneeze in a cold syrup commercial, and a thirty-thousand-dollar gambling debt to Salvatore "Sally Toast" Tosterelli-have sabotaged his acting career. His bad decisions have, more importantly, put his four-and-a-half-year relationship with a woman he truly loves-soap opera star Laura Winters-on the edge of a cliff. Through a botched car theft, Johnny meets Virgil Shepherd, street person and sometime porter for a bar on Hudson Street in Greenwich Village. Scribbling his poems on napkins from Dunkin Donuts, Virgil is convinced that he is the Roman poet who guided Dante through Hell. Johnny is convinced that he is crazy. But as their lives converge, Johnny begins to suspect that the mysterious Virgil may actually have an agenda of his own. Set ten days before Christmas in 1997, Two Nickels follows this very unlikely pair through Manhattan (and a few choice spots on Staten Island) as they head toward the answer to a question that Johnny has done his best to avoid: What does it take for us to forgive ourselves and begin to heal?
Chief Inspector Maurice Clavel of the Paris criminal brigade has planned a relaxing Sunday when he's called to investigate a bizarre crime in the upscale Sixth arrondissement, where a young American has been viciously assaulted for no apparent reason. Ably assisted by Claire Simon, his very bright and alluring junior officer, by an American investigative reporter she becomes romantically involved with who is a close friend of the victim, and by a string of obscure clues-including shreds of pipe tobacco and photographs of twentieth-century Fauve paintings-Clavel methodically uncovers a very dark reality lurking beneath the gleaming surfaces of the city's genteel society. That includes its legendary art establishment, where even the work of artists one has never heard of can sell for astronomical sums, where the line between homage and forgery gets blurred, and clever people have constructed hidden scams that are notoriously difficult to reveal.
This is my closureThe result of years spent writing instead of healing,This is my soul finally having a resting placeMy lungs being free of the words that kept me from breathingAnd my heart once again pumping blood instead of ink.This book is who I used to be.Take these poems as they are and on their own terms, travel the roads the young woman who set them down has traveled, and you will be altered by being with them.Liat Silver is a twenty-year-old Communications student. Though she has been writing since the age of ten, this is her first published work. Writing poetry helped her find her voice and overcome the challenges of her teenage years. When not writing, she enjoys reading, typing out her thoughts on her vintage typewriter, and spending time with friends and family.
Say hello to Jesse, a teenage boy with curly brown hair, living in Hawaii with his adoptive mother, Nanney. He''s very close to Lani, a lovely girl who shares similar interests, and Dolphino, a star dolphin who has escaped from the Ocean World Theme Park. But who are Jesse''s real parents, and what''s happened to them? Are they still alive? Does he have any brothers or sisters? And if he does, what part will they play in his future?How would you like to win a Three-Year, All-Expense-Paid Vacation Anywhere on Planet Earth? That''s exactly what happened to Jesse''s parents, who are living on the Planet Plethoria, far beyond our galaxy. A long time ago, they won the grand prize in a dangerous space-race competition and chose Hawaii as their destination. How did they get there? How did they return to Plethoria-and why was Jesse left behind on Earth? Will they ever see him again?Adventurous boys, great friends, a very talented dolphin, loving parents, intergalactic travels-and all kinds of villains-are intricately connected in this science-fiction story that''s out of this world!
This book, by a widely experienced clinical psychologist, is a gentle invitation for readers to move through the many shades of absorbing a loved one's death, and provides those who are grieving, or anticipating loss, with a compassionate companion on one of the most difficult journeys of a lifetime. Organized into fifty-two sections, one for each week of the first year of loss, it offers meaningful reflections, meditations, and journal prompts to guide the reader along his or her path-including finding acceptance, inner healing, personal rituals, and much more. While supporting and comforting the reader through the acute and disorienting path of grief, Dr. Schmidt makes clear that it may take time to enter this difficult process after a loss and is not likely to end after marking the first anniversary. The book continues as a powerful resource for guidance and solace for as long as the reader needs it.
When the author of Searching for Grace realized she needed to face her fears about the Covid-19 pandemic, she decided to create a scroll fifteen inches by thirty feet exploring the Hebrew alphabet, and she dedicated this work as a prayer in action for those who needed prayers during this time. This book offers one aspect of that scroll-the Zohar story of God deciding which of the twenty-two letters will be chosen to initiate the creation of the world. The story appears in Psalm 119, which lists eight verses for every letter of the Hebrew alphabet, as well as some of the energetic qualities that each letter expresses. The author hopes to remind us that the world remains beautiful even in such troubling times.
The premise of Goal-Oriented Medical Care is that, prior to consideration of strategies, the health care team must understand the patient''s personal health goals and priorities. While intuitively obvious, addition of the goal-clarification step changes the focus from problem-solving to goal attainment, forcing a reconsideration of the meaning of health and the purpose of health care. It elevates the role of patients in decision-making, broadens the range of strategies, encourages individualization and prioritization, and creates a conceptual framework for true person-centered care. And while the idea is deceptively simple, it provides a blueprint for the transformation of health care systems trying to adapt to changing health concerns, scientific and technological advances, health and health care inequities, and rising costs. This book was written primarily to introduce goal-oriented medical care to physicians and other health care professionals, but it should be of interest to health care administrators and policy-makers as well.
The story of a young immigrant's struggle to find his real place in the world.
Meet Cristina—a little girl who lives in Perugia, a medieval city in central Italy. She leads a magical life there, where her imagination is free to roam the old stone streets lined with shops and churches.That world is suddenly shattered when her parents tell her that the family needs to move an ocean away—to America.Follow Cristina across the Atlantic Ocean to a new adventure in a new world. She turns her sadness into curiosity as she discovers the majesty of the ocean and finds new friends and family in New York City.
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