Download or read book My Heart Goes Swimming written by Jenny Bornholdt and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in My Heart Goes Swimming attest to the enduring nature of love and reflect the many ways in which it is written about. This collection is a celebration of love, but also of life, language and place. From delicate narratives to ecstatic lyrics, from Katherine Mansfield to Dinah Hawken, from R. A. K. Mason's 'Our love was a grim citadel' to Sam Hunt's 'Singing for you now', the poems bring to life a variety of emotions and situations. They also span the traditional and the modern in the forms they use and the attitudes they contain, making up a lively, companionable book, one fitting to its subject - pleasing to both mind and ear, and capable of reaching the heart. Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien live in Wellington and have published their own poetry widely.
Download or read book Swimming Lessons written by Lili Reinhart and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times Bestseller The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. Fingers lingering on me so you don’t lose your place. Swimming Lessons explores the euphoric beginnings of young love, battling anxiety and depression in the face of fame, and the inevitable heartbreak that stems from passion. Relatable yet deeply intimate, provocative yet comforting, bite-sized yet profound, Lili's poems reflect her trademark honesty and unique perspective. Accompanied by striking and evocative illustrations, Swimming Lessons reveals the depths of female experience, and is the work of a storyteller who is coming into her own.
Download or read book You Know Where My Heart Is written by Angela Vail and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Stevenson and Kayty Oakley met at the tender age of seven. They quickly became best friends and loyal confidants. They experienced many endeavors together in their childhood, in the 1970's. As they rolled into their teenage years amid the 1980's, even more ventures fell into their lives; some of which included everyday common occurrences that were surrounded by goodness and excitement. Some of their adventures contained trauma and struggle. the love between Kayty's and Matthew's hearts was destined to be interlaced throughout the infinity of time, so they tied the knot. Their strongest emotions are tested by the trauma that threatens to sever their heartstrings. Will this pending threat take one of them out of the equation of life? Will their love be strong enough to make them hold on?
Download or read book Small Bodies of Water written by Nina Mingya Powles and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane 'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot 'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo – where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through her life there have been others that have meant different things, but have still been, in their own way, home: from the wild coastline of New Zealand to a pond in northwest London. In lyrical, powerful prose, Small Bodies of Water weaves together memories, dreams and nature writing. Exploring everything from migration, food, family, earthquakes and the ancient lunisolar calendar, Nina reflects on a girlhood spent growing up between two cultures, and what it means to belong.
Download or read book Your Heart is your purpose written by Kai Pfrommer and published by tredition. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not always easy to find the right path of life in order to avoid some of the obstacles. Often we blindly and unconsciously steer through the difficult-to-digest everyday life - with both its good and bad moments. Forget the compass, however, and listen to your heart! This book not only tells the story from the stimulating point of view of the aspiring author in childhood and adulthood, but also puts the deep bond with his stepson on the stage of life. A strong bond that has had to grow and will continue to grow. The emotional facets of the hidden happiness are yet to be found. Join in this quest and become aware of how beautifully life can "sing".
Download or read book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass written by Domingo Martinez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fiancé Stephanie plummeting off the side of an overpass in Seattle, after having a seizure while driving. He now chronicles this painful episode in his life, with flashbacks to their tenuous romantic relationship, and how her accident and subsequent coma ultimately causes him to unravel emotionally. This pivotal moment, which began with an alarming call in the middle of the night, parallels another gut-wrenching experience from the past when his youngest brother’s life hangs in the balance. Martinez once again brilliantly examines the complicated connections between family, friends, and loved ones. Feeling estranged from his family in Texas over the years, isolated and alone in Seattle, he turns to writing as a therapeutic tool. The underlying themes of addiction and recovery and their powerful impact on family dynamics also emerge within the narrative, as he struggles with his inner demons. These two traumatic life events actually bring Martinez closer to the family that he has in many ways spend years trying to deny, strengthening their bonds and healing old wounds. When Martinez falls apart completely, he finds his family, his redemption, and a new beginning with the love of his life, who encourages him to write his way out of the pain in order to save his own life.
Download or read book Swimming in the Sink written by Lynne Cox and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning memoir of life after loss, the open-water swimming legend and bestselling author tells of facing the one challenge that no amount of training could prepare her for. A celebrated athlete who set swimming records around the world, Lynne Cox achieved astonishing feats of strength and endurance. She was the first to swim the frigid waters of the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, and the coast of Antarctica, and she was the fastest to swim the English Channel. But it is a different kind of struggle that pushes her to the brink. In a short period of time, Lynne loses her father, and then her mother, and then Cody, her beloved Labrador retriever. Soon after, Lynne herself is diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition that leaves her unable to swim and barely able to walk. But against all odds, and with the support of her friends and family, Lynne begins the slow pull toward recovery, reaching always for the open waters that give her the freedom and mastery that mean everything to her. What follows is a beautifully poignant meditation on loss and an exhilarating celebration of life as, to Lynne’s surprise, she begins to find, within the unfamiliar space of vulnerability, the greatest treasures—like falling in love.
Download or read book The Heart Remembers Home written by Marilyn Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The HEART REMEMBERS HOME is an autobiography of Marilyn (Marisue) Niebauer-Smith. With stories spanning seventy-plus years of living, it includes raising eight children, and several years of teaching and Newspaper work. The story began with her birth in Cortez, Colorado during the depression. It continues with her family's move to Farmington, New Mexico and then to San Francisco, California during World War II. The book includes moves to Corry, Pennsylvania and Ripley, New York with final retirement and a new life in Lakeland, Florida.
Download or read book The Art of Swimming written by Charles Weightman and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Cross My Heart written by Breena Clarke and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. River, Cross My Heart, which marks the debut of a wonderfully gifted new storyteller, weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, ten-year-old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions stirred by her sister's death as she struggles to decide what kind of woman she will become. This highly accomplished first novel resonates with ideas, impassioned lyricism, and poignant historical detail as it captures an essential part of the African-American experience in our century.
Download or read book Where the Heart Is written by Jo Knowles and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If home is where the heart is, what would happen if you lost it? Compassion and humor infuse the story of a family caught in financial crisis and a girl struggling to form her own identity. It’s the first day of summer and Rachel's thirteenth birthday. She can't wait to head to the lake with her best friend, Micah. But as summer unfolds, every day seems to get more complicated. Her “fun” new job taking care of the neighbors’ farm animals quickly becomes a challenge, whether she’s being pecked by chickens or having to dodge a charging pig at feeding time. At home, her parents are more worried about money than usual, and their arguments over bills intensify. Fortunately, Rachel can count on Micah to help her cope with all the stress. But Micah seems to want their relationship to go beyond friendship, and though Rachel almost wishes for that, too, she can’t force herself to feel “that way” about him. In fact, she isn’t sure she can feel that way about any boy — or what that means. With all the heart of her award-winning novel See You At Harry's, Jo Knowles brings us the story of a girl who must discover where her heart is and what that means for her future.
Download or read book I wish I d said Vol iv written by Johann de Lange and published by Digital on Demand. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six specially commisioned poems in each official language (66 poems with English translations). To round out the collection, those 99 poems are completed by 4 comtemporary Khoikhoi poems.
Download or read book I Found My Heart in Richland written by N.L. Fowler and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie, at age forty-two unexpectedly loses her husband to a heart attack and instantly becomes a single mom to her two teenage daughters. After six months she is still unable to grieve for him and feels that their marriage had been so full of regret, and wonders if she really ever loved him at all. Keeping her thoughts and feelings to herself she continues to give support to her daughter's in the loss of their father while secretly struggling to find her own peace. Will is a landscape designer
Download or read book Mind Leap Intimate Changes and Communication Between Worlds written by David W. Letts and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised with Reader's Guide, Self-Exploration Questions, chapter reviews and expanded Moita material. Reading Mind Leap was one of the most delightful experiences of my summer. First, I found it an absolutely intriguing story of personal challenge and human relationships. But second, and most important, I found it highly inspiring. There are many times in my own spiritual journey that I wonder whether it is all worth the effort whether there really is a greater reality. This book is a powerful incentive to keep going, an inspiration and a source of hope! Joyce E. Ansell, literary editor How can we learn to live wholly, with deep intuition, in this world? Where can it lead, for each of us, in this transformative era? We hear follow a path with heart ... listen to your dreams ... open to spirit ... But rare is the book that actually takes us far into that experience. Mind Leap does so by telling a challenging, liberating, true story from the consciousness revolution, and inviting readers to participate by reviewing their own life events and perceptions. A novelist couldn't create spiritual explorers more opposite than Kelly and David: growing up the psychic daughter of an abusive alcoholic and mystic son of an activist minister. But as young adults with other partners, dreams and intuitions pointed each other out, hinting of the natural bridge they would form together. As they were then tested in a crucible of intersecting lives, Moita began to speak through Kelly, initiating an experiment in communication between worlds . Her over 200 interactive sessions, shared with hundreds of participants, have been compared to the Seth material. Mind Leap reveals the hidden workings of spirit that connect us to people and situations we need to grow in strength, freedom and love. The narrative unfolds on many levels, giving a unique inside view of the channeling phenomenon even as the prophetic messages turn from individuals to the crisis/transformation of our Earth. We see you all the time, are near you, yet very rarely can touch, for you do not see us. For you, we are merely a whisper in the trees... We have watched for a great many years, and now there is a drawing together of worlds, a time when the two worlds may touch and not be destroyed by each other, when they may integrate and understand. The coming together of our worlds will not change just yours, but mine. Life will never be the same again. Moita
Download or read book You Belong to My Heart written by Nan Ryan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Civil War–era Tennessee, a southern belle battles a cold-hearted, hot-blooded Union soldier in this romance from a USA Today–bestselling author. She was a pampered blue blood from a powerful southern family. He was the son of a seamstress from the mud flats south of Memphis. They were born to be enemies, but Mary Ellen Preble fell in love with Clayton Knight. On her sixteenth birthday, they consummated their passion in a night neither would ever forget. But their romantic idyll was short lived. Torn from each other by a man’s vicious lies, Clay left Tennessee and Mary Ellen married a man she didn’t love. Now, as the Civil War rages, the suddenly single Tennessee belle is about to be reunited with the man she once adored because Longwood, Mary Ellen’s beloved ancestral mansion, has just been seized and turned into Union headquarters. And the man leading the attack is Captain Clayton Knight, who wants her back in his bed . . . but never in his heart. Forbidden desire reaches dazzling new heights in this poignant and passionate tale of deception, war, and star-crossed love.
Download or read book The Diving and Swimming Book written by George Hebden Corsan and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Golden Thread written by David Clare and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women’s playwriting with forty-two essays written by leading and emerging Irish theatre scholars and practitioners. Covering three hundred years of Irish theatre history from 1716 to 2016, it is the most comprehensive study of plays written by Irish women to date. These short essays provide both a valuable introduction and innovative analysis of key playtexts, bringing renewed attention to scripts and writers that continue to be under-represented in theatre criticism and performance. Volume Two contains chapters focused on plays by sixteen Irish women playwrights produced between 1992 and 2016, highlighting the explosion of new work by contemporary writers. The plays in this volume explore women’s experiences at the intersections of class, sexuality, disability, and ethnicity, pushing at the boundaries of how we define not only Irish theatre, but Irish identity more broadly. CONTRIBUTORS: Nelson Barre, Mary Burke, David Clare, Shonagh Hill, Mária Kurdi, José Lanters, Fiona McDonagh, Dorothy Morrissey, Justine Nakase, Brian Ó Conchubhair, Brenda O'Connell, Shane O'Neill, Graham Price, Siobhán Purcell, Carole Quigley, Sarah Jane Scaife, Melissa Sihra, Clare Wallace
