Download or read book Dear Silja written by Birte Viermann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silja is a joyful person and has her own special ways of making life magical. She has wonderful friends, a successful career and diverse interests and hobbies. She falls ill with ME/CFS* and bit by bit has to give up on all of of the above. In the end, she decides that the only wholesome step she can take next is to end her life. This is the story of how her sister Birte and her family and friends deal with Silja's last weeks and her death. It is a story of care-taking, grief and pain, but also one of community, deep connection and - in the end - love for life. *Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is a severe multisystemic disease that is quite common, but poorly understood. Keywords: ME/CFS, LongCovid, PostCovid, caregiving, assisted suicide, death with dignity, grief, death, mourning, personal development, relationships

Download or read book The British Drama written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

Download or read book One for Joy An introvert s guide to the secret world of solitude written by Tom Albrighton and published by ABC Business Communications Ltd. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you love spending time alone, One for Joy is for you. Solitude is more than the absence of other people. It’s an experience just like any other, and it can be as joyful, valuable and inspiring as any other aspect of our lives. It’s time we rediscovered the lost art of being alone. One for Joy is a treasure trove of ideas, stories and reflections that looks at every side of solitude: - Why solitude is so important for introverts, and why our need to be alone is sometimes hard for others to understand - How we experience solitude, and how solitude and company relate to each other - The many ways to be alone, from brief daydreams to solo journeys, everywhere from wide-open spaces to cosy nooks - The benefits of solitude, from resting and recharging to focused work, self-care and deep reflection - Ideas and reflections on solitude from Byron and Charlotte Brontë to Bo Burnham and Kate Bush, and fictional characters from Pippi Longstocking to Darth Vader - How digital technology and social media have changed our experience of solitude. Wide-ranging and insightful, with a light and readable style, One for Joy is a fun and fascinating read for anyone who’s happy on their own.

Download or read book Dear Institute written by Himanshu Agrawal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of commentaries by 40 psychoanalysts-in-training spanning across 29 different countries, shedding light on the state of contemporary psychoanalysis – its training, practice and relevance. The perception and landscape of typical psychoanalysis, the typical psychoanalyst and the typical psychoanalytic trainee have witnessed a tectonic shift since Dr. Sigmund Freud first introduced this technique over a hundred years ago. This book challenges and inspires us to think, at all levels, about reimagining how psychoanalysis should be taught in the 21st century. Inspired by Fred Busch’s Dear Candidate (Routledge, 2021), chapters are written in the style of personal letters from candidates to their faculty and institutes. Each contributor shares a piece of their mind – and their heart – about the trials and tribulations of the process of psychoanalytic training – what they cherished, what they loathed, why they spoke up and why they dropped out. This book is an important read for both prospective candidates as well as veteran psychoanalysts and institutional leaders.

Download or read book Dear Denise written by Lisa McNair and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement. Written in a genuine, accessible, familiar, and easy-to-read voice, Lisa’s letters apprise her late sister of all that has come to pass in the years since her death. Lisa considers her own challenges and accomplishments as a student in remarkably different—and very racially complex—schools; the birth of their baby sister, Kim; their father’s election to the Alabama legislature; her evolving sense of faith and place, and sometimes lack thereof, within the Black church; her college experiences; and her own sense of self as she’s matured into adulthood. She reveals some of the family’s difficulties and health challenges, and shares some of their joys and celebrations. The letters are accompanied by 29 black-and-white photographs, most of them from the McNair family collection, many of them taken by her father, a professional photographer who documented the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama both before and after Denise’s murder. An unswervingly candid, gentle, and nuanced book, Dear Denise is a testament to one singular life lived bravely and truthfully (if sometimes confusedly or awkwardly), during decades of bewildering social change and in the shadow of one life never fully lived.

Download or read book Dear Bill Bryson written by Ben Aitken and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED THE GRAN TOUR AND THE MARMALADE DIARIES An irreverent homage to the '95 travel classic. 'It would be wrong to view this book as just a highly accomplished homage to a personal hero. Aitken's politics, as much as his humour, are firmly in the spotlight, and Dear Bill Bryson achieves more than its title (possibly even its author) intended.' Manchester Review In 2013, travel writer Ben Aitken decided to follow in the footsteps of his hero - literally - and started a journey around the UK, tracing the trip taken by Bill Bryson in his classic tribute to the British Isles, Notes from a Small Island. Staying at the same hotels, ordering the same food, and even spending the same amount of time in the bath, Aitken's homage - updated and with a new preface for 2022 - is filled with wit, insight and humour.

Download or read book Dear Uncles written by Rick Barram and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Uncles is one young man's story from the beginning of the American Civil War. Taken from letters sent home to family and friends, including correspondence written for his uncles' local newspaper, this book gives an intimate portrait of Arthur McKinstry's journey from a small town in upstate New York to confront Confederate forces in Virginia. Articulate, confident, and observant, McKinstry's letters are written with a journalist's eye and poet's heart, giving us a vivid, humorous, and ultimately heartbreaking view into his experiences of going to war. Whether slogging through rain and mud, waiting for care packages from home, or watching cannonballs land in camp, these dispatches place readers in a young soldier's boots and help them to imagine how family and friends experienced this crisis in American history. Dear Uncles also offers new insights into regimental organization, training, and the often-overlooked attempt of Confederates to blockade Washington, DC's Potomac River supply route. Dear Uncles will fascinate and entertain readers with an interest in American Civil War history.

Download or read book My Dear Holmes written by Gavin Brend and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, My Dear Holmes is a biography of Sherlock Holmes, which originated from the author’s re-reading of the Sherlock Holmes stories to his daughter, supplies answers to mysteries such as when was Holmes born? Which was his university? How many times was Watson married and in what years? Why did he leave Baker Street without a word of explanation in 1896? Why did the two Moriarty brothers have the same Christian name? Why were there apparently different cases all known as "the Second Stain"? The author takes the sixty cases narrated by Watson, many of which are undated, deduces the year in each case, and weaves the whole into a single continuous story, with the intention of filling the gaps in our knowledge of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. To those who are partial to the London of gaslight, hansom cabs, feather boas and income tax at one shilling and twopence in the pound, this book can be recommended.

Download or read book Dear Regina written by Monica Carol Miller and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Regina offers a remarkable window into the early years of one of America’s best-known literary figures. While at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop from 1945 to 1948, Flannery O’Connor wrote to her mother Regina Cline O’Connor (who she addressed by her first name) nearly every day and sometimes more than once a day. The complete correspondence of more than six hundred letters is housed at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. From that number, Miller selects 486 letters to show us a young adult learning to adjust to life on her own for the first time. In these letters, O’Connor shares details about living in a boardinghouse and subsisting on canned food and hot-plate dinners, and she asks for advice about a wide range of topics, including how to assuage her relatives’ concerns about her well-being and how to buy whiskey to use for cough medicine. These letters, which are being published for the first time with the unprecedented permission of the Mary Flannery O’Connor Charitable Trust, also off er readers important insights into O’Connor’s intellectually formative years, when her ideas about writing, race, class, and interpersonal relationships were developing and changing. Her preoccupation with money, employment, and other practical matters reveals a side of O’Connor that we do not often see in her previously published letters. Most importantly, the letters show us her relationship with her mother in a much more intimate, positive light than we have seen before. The importance of this aspect of the letters cannot be overstated, given that so much literary analysis conflates her and Regina with the “sour, deformed daughters and self-righteous mothers” that critic Louise Westling sees so often in O’Connor’s work.

Download or read book Dear Diary written by Niko Michelle and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something’s always been off with Eva Moss, but in the African-American community, everything is prayed away, including “crazy.” What happens when the answer to prayer is therapy and medication? According to Eva’s mother, that’s taboo. All it takes is a little more Jesus, and Eva will be normal. Normal never lasts long. After Eva’s brother, Michael, is killed in a car accident, she is finally admitted to the psych ward for help. Stabilization seems within reach, until a quick trip to the pharmacy brings her face to face with Myles, the man responsible for taking her brother away from her. When Myles turns up dead, Eva has to prove her innocence. According to her, she didn’t kill Myles, her deceased brother did. Can she stand trial? Should she stand trial? The question remains: was Myles’ murder really a result of her mental health disorder or premeditated murder?

Download or read book Dear Soldier written by Charles Glenn Estes and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short story replying to a Christmas letter that I received from a young girl walking through a chow line on Christmas Day 1967 at Con Thien, Vietnam, 850 meters from the border with North Viet Nam.

Download or read book Dear Father I Am Yours written by LaTarica Riley and published by LaTarica Riley. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey with me through my life as I talk to God about my past, present, and future. You will see how beautiful life can be when God takes the lead. He's constantly communicating with us, but it's our job to listen, follow, and take action. In this letter, you will see Him speaking to me through scriptures and casual conversations. I had to give up everything: my career in the entertainment industry, my clothing business, and my entire livelihood to see that my Father was and is all I needed. And even though this is the tale of my life, God's not done with me yet because the best is yet to come.

Download or read book Dear Loser written by Kristin MacQueen and published by Kristin MacQueen. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nolan’s been my best friend for as long as I can remember. I’ve been in love with him for just as long, except he doesn’t know that. No one knows that and I don’t plan on anyone finding out. We have to stay just friends. Nothing more. My plan’s going great, until something unexpected happens. I need help and the only person I can turn to is Nolan. I know he’ll be there for me. He’s the one person I can always count on, but I don’t want to be a burden to him. I don’t want him to feel obligated to save me. Demi’s my idea of perfection. I don’t date because no one will ever measure up to her. We have a love hate relationship. An outsider would think we’re enemies if they witnessed how we interact, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. She’s my world. Every night I wait for her messages where she spills her guts to me. It all started with Dear Loser… Tropes: romcom, friends to lovers, fake relationship, roommate, unexpected pregnancy, shared past, swoony MMC, strong willed FMC

Download or read book Dear Senthuran written by Akwaeke Emezi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER “A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture “One of our greatest living writers.” – Shondaland A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire) In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal. Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes Emezi's fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.

Download or read book Dear Inmate written by Lisa Boyle and published by Lisa Boyle Writes, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their silent disgust failed to affect me anymore. But this was not silent. This was loud and forceful and violent. I could not ignore it. Massachusetts, 1854. The anti-foreigner American Party, better known as the “Know-Nothings,” take power throughout the state. The city of Lowell elects Leonard Ward, a member of the party, as its mayor. Suddenly the “Know-Nothings” are everywhere. And they’re going after the Irish. Rosaleen is ready to fight back. Emboldened by strange conspiracies about the Catholic Church, violent mobs and corrupt government officials are making life nearly unbearable for her people. Lowell’s newly formed police department is committed to ridding the streets of “Irish filth,” beating and arresting anyone who crosses them. When Rosaleen uncovers a horrific truth, it will test her in ways she could never have imagined. Targeted by dangerous opposition, she needs help. But are her friends as loyal as she believes?

Download or read book Dear High School Senior Prepare for Life After High School written by Nicole Herbert Dean and published by Thinkologie. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach real-life skills to your high school senior who is preparing to go to college, trade school or a job! This book has everything a graduating senior would need, whether they are heading to college, trade school or a job. This guide will help prepare them for the real world of adulting. There are pages for preparing for dorm life, roommate agreements, savings trackers, bill tracker, finals schedules, birthday reminders, and much more. This also makes a perfect graduation gift as it comes with a designed cover. Check out our other life skills products at Thinkologie.

Download or read book Dear Little Corpses written by Nicola Upson and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a village to bury a child... September 1st, 1939. As the mass evacuation takes place across Britain, thousands of children leave London for the countryside, but when a little girl vanishes without a trace, the reality of separation becomes more urgent and more deadly for those who love her. In the chaos and uncertainty of war, Josephine struggles with the prospect of change. As a cloud of suspicion falls across the small Suffolk village she has come to love, the conflict becomes personal, and events take a dark and sinister turn. Blending a Golden Age mystery with the timeless fears of a child’s abduction, Dear Little Corpses is an atmospheric snapshot of England in the early days of war.