Download or read book A Year Without a Name written by Cyrus Dunham and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "stunning" (Hanif Abdurraqib), "unputdownable" (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire. How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do you know whether to believe yourself? Cyrus Dunham’s life always felt like a series of imitations—lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman. But in a culture of relentless self-branding, and in a family subject to the intrusions and objectifications that attend fame, dissociation can come to feel normal. A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Dunham’s fearless, searching debut brings us inside the chrysalis of a transition inflected as much by whiteness and proximity to wealth as by gender, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about identity. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely his, A Year Without a Name is a potent, thrillingly unresolved meditation on queerness, family, and selfhood. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the season by: Time NYLON Vogue ELLE Buzzfeed Bustle O Magazine Harper's Bazaar

Download or read book Strange Grace written by Tessa Gratton and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gloriously dark and romantic.” —Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen “An alluring and seductive fairy tale.” —Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation “Horrifying, heartbreaking, and heartwarming, a lush fairy tale rooted in a moral quandary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An eerie, consuming tale of sacrifice and faith. Haunting and unique.” —Booklist “Evocative.” —BCCB Once, a witch made a pact with a devil. The legend says they loved each other, but can the story be trusted at all? Find out in this lush, atmospheric fantasy novel that entwines love, lies, and sacrifice. Long ago, a village made a bargain with the devil: to ensure their prosperity, when the Slaughter Moon rises, the village must sacrifice a young man into the depths of the Devil’s Forest. Only this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early. Bound by duty, secrets, and the love they share for one another, Mairwen, a spirited witch; Rhun, the expected saint; and Arthur, a restless outcast, will each have a role to play as the devil demands a body to fill the bargain. But the devil these friends find is not the one they expect, and the lies they uncover will turn their town—and their hearts—inside out.

Download or read book A Stranger in the House of God written by John Koessler and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith

Download or read book From Grief to Grace written by Jeannie Ewing and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief touches all of our lives, but it does not have to paralyze us with fear or inaction. God allows suffering because He knows how powerful it can be to our spiritual lives and to helping us fully embrace His love and mercy. In this insightful and practical book, you’ll learn how to live a life of redemptive suffering that will draw you through grief into a state of tenacity, meaning, holiness, and joy. Author Jeannie Ewing is no stranger to suffering. Her family has long struggled with bipolar disorder and depression, and her baby daughter was born with a rare genetic disorder that caused her bones to prematurely fuse together. Despite the many layers of sadness, loss, confusion, and anger, Jeannie responded to God’s calling and transformed her life into one with profound purpose and joy. Combining her training in psychology and counseling with real-life examples, Jeannie will show you that there is much life to be lived in the midst of loss, and that all things – even the most painful life experiences – are working together for a greater good. You’ll also learn: The all-too-often misunderstood difference between grief and depression.The spiritual benefits to uniting your crosses with Jesus’s Passion and Death.The counterintuitive notion that grief and joy can coexist.The spiritual danger of internalizing our pain and hiding it from othersHow great saints like St. John of the Cross and St. Therese of Liseux struggled to make sense out of suffering.The six spiritual principles that will assist you on the journey of navigating grief.How to know when you should seek professional help.Ways in which God is calling you to bring hope and joy to those dwelling in darkness.How to confidently confront the nothingness and emptiness you feel in your interior life.And Meditations on the Stations of the Cross, the Sorrowful Mysteries, and the Seven Sorrows of Mary that will help you reflect on how redemptive suffering can help you embrace God’s love and mercy.

Download or read book The 2000s Made Me Gay written by Grace Perry and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman "Honest, funny, smart, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen, co-head writer of SNL "If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book.” —Sarah Pappalardo, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress Today’s gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan’s fall from grace, Gossip Girl, Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” country-era Taylor Swift, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart. And, for better or worse, these touch points shaped her adult identity. She came out on the other side like many millennials did: in her words, gay as hell. Throw on your Von Dutch hats and join Grace on a journey back through the pop culture moments of the aughts, before the cataclysmic shift in LGBTQ representation and acceptance—a time not so long ago, which many seem to forget.

Download or read book The Company written by J.M. Varese and published by Baskerville. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[A] stunning Gothic chiller' Irish Times 'Diabolically good . . . J.M. Varese's gothic tale is sinuously elegant and claustrophobic as deadly Victorian wallpaper' Kate Griffin, author of Fyneshade London, 1870. Lucy Braithwhite lives a privileged existence as heir to the fortune of Braithwhite & Company - the most successful purveyor of English luxury wallpapers the world over. The company's formulas have been respected for nearly a century, but have always remained cloaked in mystery. No one has been able to explain the originality of design, or the brilliance of their colours, leaving many to wonder if the mysterious spell-like effect of their wallpapers is due simply to artistry, or something more sinister. When Mr Luckhurst, the company's manager, and the man who has acted as surrogate father to Lucy and her invalid brother John since they were children, suddenly dies, Lucy is shocked to discover that there is no succession plan in place. Who will ensure that the company and her family continue to thrive? The answer soon arrives in the form of the young and alluring Julian Rivers, who, unbeknownst to Lucy and John, has been essential to the company's operations for some time. At first, he seems like the answer to their prayers, but as Lucy begins piecing together Julian's true intentions, and John begins seeing spectral visions in the house's wallpaper, it becomes clear to Lucy that she must do everything within her power to oppose the diabolic forces that have risen up to destroy her family. Set against the backdrop of the real-life arsenic wallpaper controversy of the late 19th century, The Company is a dark and haunting slice of gothic Victoriana, following one woman's fight to preserve all that she holds dear. 'Taking inspiration from an historical event, The Company ... is a compelling and fascinating read from cover to cover' Midwest Book Review 'A chilling gothic thriller . . . entrancing, entwining, and entrapping' Hollis Seamon, author of Corporeality 'Varese brings to life the true grittiness of 19th-century London' Amanda Foreman, author of The Duchess 'Every page of The Company is full of atmosphere . . . While it is hard to say whether a book will become a classic, I believe this one is destined for it' The Gothic Wanderer blog

Download or read book Book of Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Stranger to Tears written by William G. Cahan and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1992 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here are the stories of a world-class surgeon who has been on the frontlines of medicine for over fifty years. In a candid, moving, and often funny memoir from behind the surgeon's mask, he recounts episodes in a life that stretches from his roots on the Lower East Side of New York City to the glittering international worlds of science and the arts." "A family tragedy touched off the young Cahan's desire to be a doctor. He studied at Harvard, expanded his experience in the Air Corps during World War II, and ultimately joined the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. While his training introduced him to medicine's underworld of anti-Semitism, he emerged from it with a strong will to succeed and with an obsession to conquer cancer, which he calls the "ancient, guile-ridden, unsentimental" disease. In addition to developing innovations in surgical techniques, he detected a connection between exposure to radiation and cancer that led him to become a lifelong sleuth in the mysterious realm of carcinogens - and the tobacco industry's fiercest enemy." "Always, however, at the heart of his work are his patients. He movingly describes the intense and delicate doctor-patient relationship, which, although often too full of heartbreaks, frustrations, and failed dreams, is also marked by triumphs that testify to the curative power of sustained optimism and hope." "Dr. Cahan writes engagingly of the people in his life. Married first to the daughter of the legendary stage star Gertrude Lawrence, and now to Grace Mirabella, publication director of the magazine that bears her name, Dr. Cahan has counted among his friends and/or patients such well-known personalities as Alan Jay Lerner, Leonard Bernstein, Anthony Eden, Mario Lanza, Yul Brynner, Babe Paley, Melvyn Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, and Babe Ruth." "This book is also the story of Dr. Cahan's two sons: Chris, who chose a different career as a television producer, and Anthony, who followed in his father's footsteps but created an identity all his own." "The education of more than one surgeon is told here, drawing the reader into the operating room, the lab, the thinking, the politics, and especially the heart of medicine."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book See No Stranger written by Valarie Kaur and published by One World. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent manifesto and a dramatic memoir of awakening, this is the story of revolutionary love. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • “In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change: It is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a nation. Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey—as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world; as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11; as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantánamo Bay; as an activist working with communities recovering from xenophobic attacks; and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with police violence and sexual assault. Drawing from the wisdom of sages, scientists, and activists, Kaur reclaims love as an active, public, and revolutionary force that creates new possibilities for ourselves, our communities, and our world. See No Stranger helps us imagine new ways of being with each other—and with ourselves—so that together we can begin to build the world we want to see.

Download or read book No Stranger to Grace written by Troy Shafer and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A childless couple searches out God's will for their lives. Abused children continue to pray to God for loving parents, and God is working to bring them together to heal the brokenness that they all have suffered. Laugh, cry, and cheer them on as they come together to build a family under God's amazing grace. Many I Have Blessed and Some I Called We have waited for so very long, Only to hear something is wrong. The child we longed for, we are unable to birth. It is a wound to our own self-worth. Almighty Father, have you heard my prayer? Almighty Father, Do you really care? My world is becoming broken and shattered. Is there something I can do that still matters? My child, my child, I love you and I care. My child, my child, I have heard your prayer. Many I have blessed, this is true, But I have not forgotten you. Many children cry out in prayer, Asking God for parents who really care. To them, you know, I love them all. Many I have blessed, but some I called to stand up and answer My children's prayers ...

Download or read book The Statutes at Large written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Statutes at Large written by and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Palm Beach Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1906, Palm Beach Life has been the premier showcase of island living at its finest — fashion, interiors, landscapes, personality profiles, society news and much more.

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Download or read book Report written by Großbritannien Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Haunting of the Owens Family written by Patricia A. Perry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-10-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haunting of the Owens Family follows the Owenses for approximately 1 year, from 1974 to 1975. From most outside appearances, the Owenses are a normal, middle-class family who live in a big house in a nice neighborhood. Both the parents and the children have their crosses to bear, some ordinary and of this world, and some not. In spite of this, they each seem able to get up in the morning and face, if not accept, what lies ahead. But, walking a rope such as this can be done for only so long. What is truly going on in that house would cause the strongest of spirits to turn away. This novel follows a family as it tries to survive domestic abuse. It depicts the effects of screaming and throwing and yelling and the use of words meant to kill. It shows what happens when there is an ongoing war in your home. The Owenses story illustrates that what you do in front of your children, you do to your children. And the consequences are much more deleterious than those not realizing, not meaning to harm, expect. Amidst the ugliness, however, there are also dreams, magic, and hope. And the presence of ghostly activity in the Owenses house causes the reader to question the true catalyst of what has found this family. Theres Meggie, the wife and mother, who has lived most of her life the way she has been expected to, not questioning, not rising up, just following her duty, knowing somewhere inside that she has a penance to pay. There are the children: Elizabeth, whose anger is making a slow burn through her skin, who is most likely the only one in this family who actually sees what is going on. Grace, whose visions and clear eyes lend a certain magic to an otherwise oftentimes hopeless world. Danny, the only boy, whose dedication to making things right, trying to place order back into a chaotic world, almost ruins him. And Annabelle, whose tiny body and youngest mind help her to hide, but also cause her never to be seen -- not when it counts. And, finally, theres Dan, the husband and father -- a kind, funny man at times -- he finds himself in a place he never intended, where rage and a sense of injustice start the quakes in his house, in his children. This novel is intended for adults and is not appropriate for children.