Download or read book And So It Goes written by Charles J. Shields and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011 The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature. In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this time, to his delight, the answer came back: "O.K." For the next year—a year that ended up being Vonnegut's last—Shields had access to Vonnegut and his letters. And So It Goes is the culmination of five years of research and writing—the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut resonates with readers of all generations from the baby boomers who grew up with him to high-school and college students who are discovering his work for the first time. Vonnegut's concise collection of personal essays, Man Without a Country, published in 2006, spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 300,000 copies to date. The twenty-first century has seen interest in and scholarship about Vonnegut's works grow even stronger, and this is the first book to examine in full the life of one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time.
Download or read book And So It Is written by Angelica Jayne Taggart and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What People are Saying… “Rev. Angelica’s messages are a combination of story-telling, enlightened insight, affirmative prayer, and honest communication around what it means to be spirit having a human experience.” — Danika Dinsmore, author “Rev. Angelica has inspired me for years with her weekly messages and prayers. What a feast to have so much wisdom in one volume!” — Rev. Carrie Hunter, Banff, Alberta, Canada “Open and caring, joyful and sharing are the foundations on which Reverend Angelica builds to inspire us to be the best version of ourselves we can be. I hope you will find as much encouragement and inspiration in this collection of some of her finest messages as I have in reading them over the past ten years.” — Brad McPhee, Financial Consultant “Rev. Angelica’s Messages are an integral part of my spiritual practice. They are always such a great resource, personally inspiring me with many ideas to contemplate and down to earth inspiration that I often quote in my own presentations.” — Rev. Lorraine Trout, Saskatoon, SK, Canada “Rev. Angelica writes with a blend of common sense and spiritual wisdom that is a treasure for beginners and advanced readers alike. She never fails to enlighten, entertain and make me think. I look forward to what she has to say and how she chooses to say it. Her affirmative prayers are pure poetry.” — Rev. Jane Claypool, author This insightful guide is like having my own practical mystic at my fingertips. Rev Angelica finds and shares extraordinary messages from life’s most ordinary events. — Rev. Sandy Shipley, Life Coach & Wedding Officiant “Rev. Angelica is phenomenal in her highly practical way of presenting Science of Mind principles . Through her teachings I have come to know my hearts desires manifest with as much ease as I allow myself.” — Beky Baxter
Download or read book And So to God written by Hubert Van Zeller and published by St Bede's Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final book the spiritual master, Hubert van Zeller explores Worldliness, Spirituality, Work, Suffering, and Gratitude. The chapters prompt reflection and meditation.
Download or read book And So I Roar written by Abi Daré and published by Random House Large Print. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother—terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria—and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades. Back home in Lagos a few days later, Adunni, a plucky fourteen-year-old runaway, is lying awake in Tia’s guest room. Having escaped from her rural village in a desperate bid to seek a better future, she’s finally found refuge with Tia, who has helped her enroll in school. It’s always been Adunni’s dream to get an education, and she’s bursting with excitement. Suddenly, there’s a horrible knocking at the front gate. . . . It’s only the beginning of a harrowing ordeal that will see Tia forced to make a terrible choice between protecting Adunni or finally learning the truth behind the secret her mother has hidden from her. And Adunni will learn that her “louding voice,” as she calls it, is more important than ever, as she must advocate to save not only herself but all the young women of her home village, Ikati. If she succeeds, she may transform Ikati into a place where girls are allowed to claim the bright futures they deserve—and shout their stories to the world.
Download or read book Snoozie Sunny and So So written by Dafna Ben-Zvi and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you're feeling so-so? Do you talk with a friend? What happens if you have no one to talk to?
Download or read book Life Is Short And So Is This Book written by Peter Atkins and published by peter atkins. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is short. You can, if you work hard and are lucky, get more of almost anything, but you can't get more time. Time only goes one way. The average American has a lifespan of less than 30,000 days. So how you choose to live matters. That's the topic of this book. I don't pretend to have all the answers. I'm still learning every day, and many of the good ideas here I've picked up from other people either directly or by reading. But this is what's worked for me. Like life, this book is short. Many books I read could communicate their ideas in fewer pages. So I've tried to be brief in line with the wise person who noted: "If I'd had more time I would have written a shorter letter". I don't think brevity implies lack of content. The concepts here have improved the quality of my life, and I hope they're useful to you as well. Using these concepts, I have created a life I love. My job doesn't feel like work. I love and respect the people with whom I spend time. And I'm also passionate about my life outside work. I've learned how to create a balance that makes me happy between work and other interests, including my family, friends and exercise. Sadly I think that's rare. And yet, while I know I'm lucky, most people can work towards those goals in their own lives. My interest in making the most of my life began when I was just starting college, but when I was in my mid-thirties a boss I admired died of cancer. He was young. He had a great wife; he had three young children; he had a fantastic career -- he had everything in life. He just didn't have enough time. So, while I'd often thought about how to get the most out of life, the death of someone so young and vital increased my sense of urgency to act on it. One of the things I've always wanted to do was to work for myself. As a result, I left an exciting job at Microsoft in 2001 amidst the Internet bust to found the investing firm I now run. It was hard to do, both financially and emotionally. When I left Microsoft, many people - friends, family, and even some of the press - thought I was deluding myself to start a fund focused on Internet-related companies during a market crash. A press quote from the time said: "Call him a little crazy. Call him a little nuts." I'd never seen that type of coverage before. And, in a sense, the press was right; the business wasn't easy to start. Fortunately, from a vantage point of ten years down the road, it's worked out quite well. A key part of my job is reading and thinking about a broad variety of topics. So writing this book was relatively easy. It's even easier to read. But, like many things in life, actually executing each day on these concepts is extremely difficult. With thanks to Thomas Edison, life is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Even so, I hope you have fun perspiring. Peter Atkins Seattle, WA December, 2010
Download or read book The Adventurists written by Richard Butner and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Flawless. . . . Readers of John Crowley, Ray Bradbury, and Sally Rooney alike will find a home."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Remember the girl you once knew, the theater kid? Now she’s become the Queen, and you might need to rescue her. There’s the historic house, where someone once saw a ghost and you almost fell in love. An ornithopter hangs in the lobby of your corporate workplace: your co-worker thinks he might be able to operate it. Once you found a tunnel under your old high school, and couldn’t resist going to see where it led. Sometimes a door will open into a new world, sometimes into the past. Putting on a costume might be the restart you are half hoping for. There are things buried here. You might want to save them. You might want to get out of the way. Butner’s allusive and elusive stories reach into the uncanny corners of life—where there are no job losses, just HCAPs (Head Count Allocation Procedures), where a tree might talk to just one person, where Death’s Fool is not to be ignored.
Download or read book Camp So and So written by Mary McCoy and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters went out in mid-February. Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat for girls nestled high in the Starveling Mountains. Each letter came with a glossy brochure with photographs of young women climbing rocks, performing Shakespearean theatre under the stars, and spiking volleyballs. Each letter was signed in ink by the famed and reclusive businessman and philanthropist, Inge F. Yancey IV. By the end of the month, twenty-five applications had been completed, signed, and mailed to a post office box in an obscure Appalachian town. Had any of these girls tried to follow the directions in the brochure and visit the camp for themselves on that day in February, they would have discovered that there was no such town and no such mountain and that no one within a fifty-mile radius had ever heard of Camp So-and-So. "The DNA of this singular book winds strands of M. C. Escher, Joss Whedon, and Heathers—Mary McCoy has created something wonderful, wild, and weird. Don't miss it."—Martha Brockenbrough, author of The Game of Love and Death
Download or read book And So I Pray written by Julie Bonetti and published by Ei Alliance. This book was released on 2019-02-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “And So, I Pray” is 90 verses, each taking a raw stab into the energy of spirit, transformation, wisdom, anger, compassion, and light-hearted devotion, in the midst of everyday living. Prayers are the original connectors, along with today’s mantras, rap, and historical sagas put to music. Written through a guided stream of consciousness, each verse offers a connection to something more. Julie Bonetti is an author who lives just outside of Boston and writes about energy, does podcasts about energy and explores energy while being present. Follow her on her Amazon Authors page to find what’s next! https://amazon.com/author/juliebonetti Also visit https://fanlink.to/EiAlliance to find collaborations, books, ebooks and podcast shows like these: “Write, Now! with Julie B” (NEW) “Your Presence Is Required” (NEW) “Let’s Talk About Energy, Ours & Yours” “The Kybalion: A Conversation” “Ancient Texts – The Genealogy of Energy” “Oprah! Can You Hear Me? Oprah vs. Donald 2020”
Download or read book And So the Flies written by D. B Tompsett and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of poetry from rural American writer D. B. Tompsett. Robert Frost famously described writing free verse to be ' . . . like playing tennis with the net down.' D. B. Tompsett is playing tennis with his net down on the Idaho plain; he can animate a desert outhouse, give her a paramour and communicate the pathos between them. Working in the agriculture and plant life industry, Dan understands the temperament of the desert first hand. He moves in and out of reveries, a working man's surrealist, while speaking to us directly, in a singular American idiom, creating haunting and direct images of love and death.
Download or read book And So the Rains Must Fall written by David Sickmeier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Katie Milk Solves Crimes and so on written by Annie Caulfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Katie Milk - she's brave, funny, has an active imagination and is about to go off to boarding school for the first time. At first she can't imagine having a worse roommate than Bernadette Kelly but soon Katie has more important things to worry about . . . Are there really mad nuns in the attic and why does Chiquita Morris cry all the time? Is Chiquita's mother really a famous fashion model, as she claims or is she just trying to get attention? When Katie and Bernadette discover some mysterious goings-on in an old farmhouse near their school, Katie is one step closer to finding the answers . . .
Download or read book Will s Purpose The End is Near And So It Begins written by and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Learned How to Travel Solo and so Can You written by Valerie Eubanks and published by Reading Goddess Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solo travel is on fire! Many yearn to take a trip to a beautiful or exotic destination where they can experience true serenity and different cultures, but if you've never traveled solo this can be a daunting endeavor. *How do you get started? *Where do you stay? Are there dedicated accommodations for solo travelers? *How do you travel safely? *How do you manage the people in your life who won't understand your desire to travel solo? Valerie Eubanks was at this very crossroads several years ago. Deciding to tackle her fears head-on, she blazed the path toward creating a vibrant solo life. Progress was sometimes followed by setbacks, but each slice of doubt led to a renewed determination to succeed. Here you will discover her journey, with the hope that it will inspire you to create your own solo path. Filled with tips and tidbits that the author learned along the way, this short, motivational read was designed to help you push through and create your own special sojourn. Your best life is already here--time to buckle up and live it! Enjoy the ride! Also available as an audiobook Search terms: solo travel, single woman traveler, wanderlust, travel tips, travel memoir, world traveler, solo traveler, single travel, explore the world, budget travel.
Download or read book I Healed from My Past and so Can You written by Mick and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mick shares how to let go of your past and to learn to forgive so that you dont live with regrets or resentments. His story has inspired thousands of people to find the answers they are looking for and to lead positive and healthier lives, free from the past. Learning to live in the present moment allows freedom from depression, anxiety, and fears. Inner peace was Micks number one focus; once he achieved that inner peace, he made it his lifes purpose to help others find peace as well. Loving and accepting yourself is the key to happiness. No matter where you are in the world or who you are, you can be touched by this inspiring story of how he has taken all of the challenges in his life and turned them into something that is positive and inspirational. Mick believes in you, and now it is time for you to believe in yourself!
Download or read book I m On My Own and So Are You written by Judy Resnick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a lot of women of my generation, I was raised to be a wife and mother. That worked for me until I realized my husband was a jerk and I divorced him, until my father died and left us only gambling debts, until my mother and sister were killed in a plane crash. So there I was, 40 years old, close to broke, with two children, and no way of making a living. Fortunately, I was a natural as a financial adviser and broker. And as soon as I'd solved my own money problems, I turned my attention to helping other women become financially independent. Invest? Isn't that gambling? Not compared to betting everything you've got on a man! Investing isn't rocket science. Once you've mastered some simple ideas --- spend less, save more, watch your credit card debt --- you're likely to find you actually have money to invest. And that's where this book can be your guide to sane, successful investing.
Download or read book I Am God And so Are You My Friend written by Danny Rongo and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am God (and So Are You, My Friend): A Common Man’s Guide to Oneness is a book that presents itself at an extremely urgent time for our race (the human race). As the walls of separation, hatred, and divisiveness become more apparent with each passing day, it becomes obvious that traditional methods for peace have not worked. Oneness is the state of being completely united with one and all. It is our inherent nature that our society has grown away from due to many things, but mainly our ego. The only way back to living in peace is through the unity that oneness represents. This book explains how our society got to this boiling point of separation through our own collective consciousness (yes, our world is in this shape from our own doing). And the only way to reverse that current collective consciousness is through oneness. This book not only proves how we are connected at our very core but it also gives examples of how understanding oneness changes your life immediately, which in turn effects our world collectively.
