Download or read book Made to Explode Poems written by Sandra Beasley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With lacerating honesty, technical mastery, and abiding compassion, Made to Explode offers volatile poems for our volatile times. In her fourth collection, acclaimed poet Sandra Beasley interrogates the landscapes of her life in decisive, fearless, and precise poems that fuse intimacy and intensity. She probes memories of growing up in Virginia, in Thomas Jefferson’s shadow, where liberal affluence obscured and perpetuated racist aggressions, but where the poet was simultaneously steeped in the cultural traditions of the American South. Her home in Washington, DC, inspires prose poems documenting and critiquing our capital’s institutions and monuments. In these poems, Ruth Bader Ginsberg shows up at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s show of Kiss Me Kate; Albert Einstein is memorialized on Constitution Avenue, yet was denied clearance for the Manhattan Project; as temperatures cool, a rain of spiders drops from the dome of the Jefferson Memorial. A stirring suite explores Beasley’s affiliation with the disability community and her frustration with the ways society codes disability as inferiority. Quintessentially American and painfully timely, these poems examine legacies of racism and whiteness, the shadow of monuments to a world we are unmaking, and the privileges the poet is working to untangle. Made to Explode boldly reckons with Beasley’s roots and seeks out resonance in society writ large.

Download or read book Have You Seen Marie written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman’s search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother’s death. The word “orphan” might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old woman. Yet this is exactly how Sandra feels as she finds herself motherless, alone like “a glove left behind at the bus station.” What just might save her is her search for someone else gone missing: Marie, the black-and-white cat of her friend, Roz, who ran off the day they arrived from Tacoma. As Sandra and Roz scour the streets of San Antonio, posting flyers and asking everywhere, “Have you seen Marie?” the pursuit of this one small creature takes on unexpected urgency and meaning. With full-color illustrations that bring this transformative quest to vivid life, Have You Seen Marie? showcases a beloved author’s storytelling magic, in a tale that reminds us how love, even when it goes astray, does not stay lost forever.

Download or read book Patrick Henry Lake Liquors written by Larry Ketron and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1977 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The setting is the local liquor store in Patrick Henry Lake, Tennessee, a sleepy mountain town suddenly jarred awake by the return of Leif, an ex-Marine whose father was once the most powerful man in the area. He was also killed by light

Download or read book Secrets of a Shoe Addict written by Beth Harbison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of three women who must save themselves from financial destitution, emotional blackmail, marital ruin, and really, really awful blind dates

Download or read book Russell Plays 1 written by Willy Russell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breezeblock Park is set on a northern council estate and takes a look at the suffocating effect of possessions and possessiveness: "Trenchantly observed...hilarious, upsetting and somewhat seditious." (Variety); Our Day Out is about a school coach trip, an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up - "a Dickensian fairytale...I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness."(The Times); Stags and Hens "takes place in the gents and Ladies loos of a tacky Liverpool club, where Dave and Linda have decided, unbeknownst to each other to hold their stag and hen parties...a bleakly funny and perceptive study of working-class misogyny, puritanism and waste" (Guardian); Educating Rita: "one way of describing Educating Rita would be to say that it was about the meaning of education...another would be to say that it was about the meaning of life. A third, that it is a cross between Pygmalion and Lucky Jim. A fourth, that it is simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious: a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale with a quizzical, half-happy ending." (Sunday Times)

Download or read book The Neurology of Business written by Martin Pfiffner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the neurology of a business as a new dimension of organization and as a basis for success in a complex world. Comparing organizations with living organisms, it places an organization’s neurology (control and communication) as a third dimension beside its anatomy (structure) and physiology (process). Overlooked by classical organizational theory, this third dimension offsets its typical drawbacks. The Neurology of Business introduces Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) and shows how this helps managers to diagnose, discover, and unleash the potential and performance lying dormant in today’s enterprises. The book is based on numerous consulting projects and management seminars conducted in Europe, America, and Asia. It guides the reader through the diagnosis and design process and illustrates application issues with practical examples. In this way, the book provides managers with the language needed to have meaningful conversations about how their organizations are functioning. As such, it will benefit managers in business and nonbusiness organizations, as well as readers interested in general management.

Download or read book The Psychosocial Interior of the Family written by Gerald Handel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon findings from many disciplines including sociology, communication, family studies, human development, psychology and anthropology-this book provides the first composite study of the whole family and of the complex interplay between self and collectivity in family life. It departs sharply from the traditional two-person, cause-effect models used in conventional studies, and attempts to delineate a social psychology of the family. This book undertakes to define and understand the nature of families, to point out ways of discerning different family characters, and to comprehend the processes by which these characters are established and maintained; by so doing, it introduces a new dimension into the study of family behavior and provides a framework within which meaningful investigations and practical applications can be pursued. This long-awaited fourth edition continues the goal of preceding editions: to understand families in terms of the kinds of interaction through which family life is constructed. Contributors drawn from a wide variety of disciplines sociology; communication; family studies; human development; psychology; anthropology; and social work - provide a range of authoritative and up-to-date sources on the family and interpersonal relations, including newly emergent forms of family organization. In providing a new framework for fruitful investigation and practical application, this volume contains the best available interdisciplinary work on the social psychology of the family.

Download or read book It Was Always You written by L.E. Perez and published by Palmas Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the one you hate is the one you love, things can get a little complicated. Love and Hate are often opposite sides of the same coin and sometimes, it can be hard to find your way to love. We all have a tendency to ignore our feelings until someone walks into our lives and makes us crazy. What happens when the person you think you don’t want anything to do with, is the very person you want to spend the rest of your life with? Each story in this anthology will remind you: things are never what they seem and love can be found in the darnedest places. Thrill of the Heart is a series of stories set in an anthology playing with different romance tropes in the vein of Hallmark Romance. So, if you love a Happily Ever After, this story is for you.

Download or read book An Ordinary Woman written by Donna Hill and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author, Donna Hill comes an evocative, unforgettable novel about love, friendship, marriage, adultery. . . "You'll find out soon enough. So I may as well say it now. I slept with my best friend's husband. There is no explanation. Not a real one, anyway, not one that people will accept, especially people who know me. . .But I want to tell my side. . .Just hear me out. . ." Asha and Lisa have been best friends since grade school and they have always shared everything. A beautiful and accomplished photographer, Asha never seems to lack excitement or a man to share it with. Yet, for a woman who appears to have it all there is always "that something" she needs to make her feel whole. . .worthy. Lisa, "the good girl," has always dreamed of the perfect marriage to the perfect husband. Now she has both with Ross Davis and she has their future planned to the last, perfect detail. Ross didn't want to believe that he and Lisa had married too soon. He didn't want to believe that each day the man he thought himself to be was being stripped away by the woman he loved--leaving him feeling like a kept man instead of the man of the house. And then--betrayal. No one knows how it happened, how they could have done this to each other. But now, they each want to tell their side of the story. As Asha, Lisa and Ross travel down the road to discovery, you will root for them, hurt for them, hate them and love them. But you will never forget them. An Ordinary Woman is about the betrayal of the most sacred of trusts. It is about the that one moment when a single choice will change lives forever. It is a cautionary tale that dares to look deep inside the hearts and minds of the characters involved. Most importantly, An Ordinary Woman attempts to answer the question: How?

Download or read book Flashcards of My Life written by Charise Mericle Harper and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emily receives a pack of note cards labeled "Flashcards of My Life" as an unexpected birthday present, she uses them as inspiration to journal and to untangle her knotted life. Includes illustrations by the author.

Download or read book The If I Run Series written by Terri Blackstock and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The If I Run series is now available in a one-volume collection, providing easy access to all three suspense-filled novels from USA TODAY bestselling author Terri Blackstock. If I Run (Book 1) Casey knows the truth. But it won’t set her free. Casey Cox’s DNA is all over the crime scene and she has no choice but to flee. The truth doesn’t matter anymore. But what is the truth? That’s the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the veteran hired to find Casey. Even though PTSD has marked him damaged goods, bringing Casey back can redeem him. But details of the murder aren’t adding up. Dylan is faced with two choices: the girl who occupies his every thought is a psychopathic killer . . . or a selfless hero. If I'm Found (Book 2) Evil lurks . . . but light still shines through the darkness. Casey Cox is still on the run, fleeing prosecution for a murder she didn’t commit. Dylan Roberts—her most relentless pursuer—is still on her trail, but claims he knows the truth. As Casey works to expose the real murderers, she stumbles upon another unbearable injustice. Should she risk her own life to right this wrong? If I Live (Book 3) The hunt has turned deadly. In the thrilling conclusion to the If I Run Series, Casey and Dylan must expose the real killer before they both end up dead. Casey is still on the run for a murder she didn’t commit, and she’s running out of places to hide. It’s only a matter of time. Dylan Roberts, the investigator who once sought her arrest, is now her only hope. As they work together will one life have to be sacrificed to protect the other? Join Terri Blackstock on one more heart-stopping chase in the sensational conclusion to the If I Run series. Plus, look for additional inspirational fiction series from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock: Cape Refuge Newpointe 911 The Sun Coast Chronicles The Restoration Series

Download or read book Making a Life on Mean Welfare written by Emma Mitchell and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are often told that mean welfare is what the public wants. Whether or not that's true, this book encourages us to at least be honest about what that entails. It explores how diverse welfare users navigate the personal and practical hurdles of Australia's so-called social security system, where benefits are deliberately meagre and come with strings attached. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a region of Sydney known for ethnic diversity and socio-economic disadvantage, Emma Mitchell brings her own experience of belonging to a poor family long reliant on welfare to her research. This book shows the different cultural resources that people bring to welfare encounters with a sensitivity and subtlety that are often missing in both sympathetic and cynical accounts of life on welfare.

Download or read book The Northern Clemency written by Philip Hensher and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in, the Glover household across the street is in upheaval: convinced that his wife is having an affair, Malcolm Glover has suddenly disappeared. The reverberations of this rupture will echo through the years to come as the connection between the families deepens. But it will be the particular crises of ten-year-old Tim Glover—set off by two seemingly inconsequential but ultimately indelible acts of cruelty—that will erupt, full-blown, two decades later in a shocking conclusion. Expansive and deeply felt, The Northern Clemency shows Philip Hensher to be one of our most masterly chroniclers of modern life, and a storyteller of virtuosic gifts.

Download or read book The Obscure Night written by Raymond Radner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had Bruce Quenton ever dabbled in the realm of mystical theology, he might have some idea about where he is and where he is being led in the Obscure Night. He might be able to sense the difference between life and death, and understand why he is compelled to fight so hard to be recognized as the person he had always been. The onus falls on Julie Redics to decide if Bruce is the man that he claims to be before she is obliged to prosecute him to the death chamber as a serial murderer. After all, it was Bruce who saved her from a knife-wielding rapist, and is the only man she ever loved. Most of us assume that, if we prepare, we will be safely guided through the Obscure Night. But how are we to know if it’s too late and we are already there?

Download or read book No Time to Lie written by Lexi Blake and published by DLZ Entertainment LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grandmaster of lies and deception Drake Radcliffe has spent half his life in the shadows. Recruited by the CIA when he was barely out of high school, Drake doesn’t know how to have a normal life. While most people his age were playing sports or video games, he was playing spy games with the world’s most dangerous adversaries. It has been a life filled with thrills and adrenaline, but it’s also been lonely. All that might change when a mistake from Drake’s past rears its ugly head and he’s forced to face the only woman he ever loved—the one he’d vowed to stay away from. A beacon of love and compassion Taylor Cline committed the cardinal sin in her world—she fell for another operative. Drake was everything she wanted in a man, until he broke her heart. She had one unforgettable night with him and then he never looked back. Her future threatened and family in ruins, she shut down and moved on, hoping to never see him again. Just as she is beginning to put it all behind her, a critical assignment puts her under his authority and right back in his arms. A deadly mission that brings them together From the wilds of Wyoming to the glittering cities of Europe, Drake and Taylor must race against time to uncover the truth and expose an evil organization. The stakes couldn’t be higher. If they fail, the world could crumble. If they succeed, they could finally have everything their hearts desire.

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Download or read book Upon a Winter s Night written by Karen Harper and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cold night's silent majesty hides a BITTER secret… Though she is deeply loved by her parents, the fact that Lydia Brand is adopted has always made her different from her close-knit Amish community. But as Christmas approaches and she begins to search for answers about her biological parents, more questions surface. Soon it seems that the deaths of two women in her small town may not be coincidences, after all. And her pursuit of the truth has left her only with hints of a dark secret—and threats from an unseen adversary. While she does her best to stave off advances from her parents' preferred suitor, Lydia discovers that her heart truly belongs to the man who's been there all along: her friend Josh Yoder. It's only with his help that Lydia can ensure that the stillness of a winter's night means peace…and not danger.