Download or read book A Rare Thing written by Rudy Apodaca and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rare Thing is a story of redemption and forgiveness. In the small New Mexico town of San Carlos in the 1950s and 60s, a motherless Chicano youngster Javier Jimenz, finds himself forced into an early manhood. The boy's father, Nicols, a Korean War veteran, drinks himself into the depths of alcoholism, struggling through life wallowing in self-pity. Javier tries his best to cope not only with his own loneliness but the day-to-day hardships of living with an alcoholic father. Into this setting enters Deborah Perkins. She moves into Javiers neighborhood. Javier and Deborah eventually fall in love, much to the chagrin of Deborahs mother, who doesnt share her husbands fascination for Southwestern culture and believes her daughter can do much better than what Javier has to offer. Tragedy strikes, and Javier moves to California to live with an aunt and uncle. Deborah and he struggle to continue their relationship despite the distance and Deborahs mothers prejudices. Confused and unsure of his future, Javier leaves college to join the Army and ends up in Vietnam, where he sees his fellow soldiers dying every day. Reminiscing about his father, he must face his own mortality, as he grapples with his own identity. Nicolss spirit appears at a critical moment with words to give Javier strength. Contemplating the real possibility of his death, he reconciles with himself, gaining strength from visions of his father as a good man who had his share of bad luck. Javier comes to grips with whether he has forgiven him for his frailties and failure as a parent.
Download or read book Amazing Rare Things written by David Attenborough and published by Kales Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filmmaker Attenborough provides an introductory survey of the artistic representation of plants and animals through human history, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and continuing on through the mid-1700s.
Download or read book The Nature of Rare Things written by Derek Wilson and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When paranormal investigator and Cambridge lecturer Dr. Nathaniel Gye is commissioned at a séance to find a dead man's killer, he dismisses the incident as a clumsy fraud by a fake medium. But when Nathaniel's own wife disappears in Italy, an eventuality foretold by the same unquiet spirit, he is forced to look for connections between her predicament and the violent death of a man she never knew. In this dark and fast-paced mystery, the urgent search for answers takes Nathaniel far from his quiet university existence and into a labyrinth of hazardous twists and turns involving a stolen Renaissance painting and the love life of poets Robert and Elizabeth Browning.
Download or read book Supernormal Stimuli How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose written by Deirdre Barrett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard psychologist explains how our once-helpful instincts get hijacked in our garish modern world. Our instincts—for food, sex, or territorial protection— evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today’s world of densely populated cities, technological innovations, and pollution. We now have access to a glut of larger-than-life objects, from candy to pornography to atomic weapons—that gratify these gut instincts with often-dangerous results. Animal biologists coined the term “supernormal stimuli” to describe imitations that appeal to primitive instincts and exert a stronger pull than real things, such as soccer balls that geese prefer over eggs. Evolutionary psychologist Deirdre Barrett applies this concept to the alarming disconnect between human instinct and our created environment, demonstrating how supernormal stimuli are a major cause of today’s most pressing problems, including obesity and war. However, Barrett does more than show how unfettered instincts fuel dangerous excesses. She also reminds us that by exercising self-control we can rein them in, potentially saving ourselves and civilization.
Download or read book A Rare and Precious Thing written by John Kain and published by Harmony/Bell Tower. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth exploration of how to evaluate spiritual teachers, what to expect from them, and what to be wary of as well as whether it is necessary to study and practice with a guru or possible to achieve the same thing on one's own.
Download or read book Hanging Onto a Thread to Believe in Rare Things written by Paula Rae Gibson and published by Indigo Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part novella. Paula Rae Gibson's final take on losing her husband film director Brian Gibson (Blue Remembered Hills, Poltergeist II, Tina What s Love Got To Do With It) and shows her moving on and back into loving.
Download or read book Things Remembered and Things Forgotten written by Kyoko Nakajima and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture. The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past.
Download or read book Flora Ulysses written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. By the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Tale of Despereaux.
Download or read book It s a London Thing written by Caspar Melville and published by Music and Society. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of the London black music culture that emerged in post-colonial London at the end of the twentieth century; the people who made it, the racial and spatial politics of its development and change, and the part it played in founding London's precious, embattled multiculture. It conceives of the linked scenes around black music in London, from ska, reggae and soul in the 1970s, to rare groove and rave in the 1980s and jungle and its offshoots in the 1990s, to dubstep and grime of the 2000s, as demonstrating enough common features to be thought of as one musical culture, an Afro-diasporic continuum. Core to this idea is that this dance culture has been ignored in history and cultural theory and that it should be thought of as a powerful and internationally significant form of popular art.
Download or read book Works written by James Hamilton (Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Regent Square, London.) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Rare Thing written by Rudy Apodaca and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "tells the tale of a young man dealing with the death of a mother at an early age, an alcoholic father, poverty, a sexually abusive priest, adolescence. And what does it take to ride the roller-coaster of love with a young woman whose mother has trouble accepting Hispanics?" "In the small New Mexico town of San Carlos in the 1950's and 60's, a motherless Chicano youngster, Javier Jiménez, finds himself forced into early manhood by circumstances not of his own choosing. The boy's father, Nicolás, drinks himself into the depths of alcoholism, struggling through life wallowing in self-pity. Javier tries his best to cope with the day-to-day hardships of living with an alcoholic father. Into this setting enters Deborah Perkins. Javier and Deborah fall in love, much to the chagrin of Deborah's mother, who believes der daughter can do much better than what Javier has to offer. Javier, confused and unsure of his future, leaves college to join the Army and ends up in Vietnam, where he sees his fellow soldiers dying every day. In that war, he grapples with his own identity. Contemplating the real possibility of his death, he reconciles with himself, gaining strength from visions of his father as a good man. One question haunts him--has he forgiven his father for his frailties and failure as a parent?"--
Download or read book Rare Objects written by Kathleen Tessaro and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector.
Download or read book Rare Wondrous Things written by Alyse Bensel and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic biography of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), Rare Wondrous Things investigates the history of this German artist and naturalist who made groundbreaking discoveries in entomology. While Merian led an exceptional life--even traveling to Suriname at fifty-two years old in the pursuit of knowledge--her name has largely remained in obscurity, and her personal life is still shrouded in mystery. These poems recover her legacy by exploring the tensions between science and religion, professional aspirations and motherhood, wifehood and independence, and biographer and subject.
Download or read book Things New and Old Relative to Life Being Sermons on Different Subjects written by Thomas Hughes (of Market Rasen.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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