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Book Out of Sweet Solitude

Download or read book Out of Sweet Solitude written by Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Out of Sweet Solitude

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eleanor C. Donnelly
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-10-03
  • ISBN : 3385201845
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Out of Sweet Solitude written by Eleanor C. Donnelly and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book Out of Sweet Solitude

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  • Author : Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 9781290874908
  • Pages : 122 pages

Download or read book Out of Sweet Solitude written by Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Sweet Solitude

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  • Author : Sav R Miller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Sweet Solitude written by Sav R Miller and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kieran I've spent my life cultivating a certain perception. Evil incarnate. Homicidal hermit. Vicious. Fear equals power, and power equals safety. Keeps people at bay. Except one, who dives in without knowing the depths of my waters. She consumes me, an ocean of light I want to drown in. Now I'm not sure how to let her go. Juliet I've spent most of my life cultivating a certain persona. Town tart. Unhinged party girl. Lonely. Sex equals power, and power equals safety. Keeps people from getting too close. Except one, whose darkness ebbs around me, seeks to steal my soul. He devours me, a monster I can't seem to escape. Now I'm not sure I even want to. ♥♥♥ Sweet Solitude is a dark, enemies-to-lovers, steamy small town romance with mafia elements and lots of angst. If you are not a reader of this genre, this book may not be suitable for you, as it is not recommended for those who might have certain triggers. Reader discretion advised. Book Two in the King's Trace Antiheroes series and a complete standalone.

Book Out of Sweet Solitude

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  • Author : Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2015-11-17
  • ISBN : 9781346665481
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Out of Sweet Solitude written by Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book OUT OF SWEET SOLITUDE

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  • Author : Eleanor Cecilia 1838-1917 Donnelly
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-28
  • ISBN : 9781372348105
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book OUT OF SWEET SOLITUDE written by Eleanor Cecilia 1838-1917 Donnelly and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Out of Solitude

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  • Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Publisher : Ave Maria Press
  • Release : 2004-04-16
  • ISBN : 1594713197
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Out of Solitude written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on three moments in the life of Jesus, Henri Nouwen invites us to reflect on the tension between our desire for solitude and the demands of contemporary life. He reminds us that it was in solitude that Jesus found the courage to follow God's will. And he shows us that fruitful love and service must spring from a living relationship with God. Beautifully written, elegantly simple, Out of Solitude is as fresh today as it was thirty years ago.

Book Sweet Sacrifice

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  • Author : Ellie McLove
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-02-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Sweet Sacrifice written by Ellie McLove and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona I learned long ago that not all heroes wear capes. Some don masks and armor to hide their battle scars. Others are irreparably broken. Princes without kingdoms. Kings without crowns. I tried to fix the hero of my story. But I'm afraid I've only made things worse. Boyd I learned long ago that all people bleed evil. Some don harsh wit and beauty to hide their truths. Others are inescapably lost. Princesses without castles. Queens without subjects. I tried to slay the evil in my story. But I'm afraid some demons are permanent. ★★★ Sweet Sacrifice is a dark age gap, brother's best friend romance. It is not recommended for people with certain triggers. Reader discretion is advised. Book 3 in the King's Trace Antiheroes series - Sweet Sacrifice can be read as a complete standalone, however reading the first two books in the series is highly recommended.

Book Kinder Than Solitude

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  • Author : Yiyun Li
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2014-02-25
  • ISBN : 081299602X
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Kinder Than Solitude written by Yiyun Li and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, “one of America’s best young novelists” (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in the 1990s, Kinder Than Solitude is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed. As one of the three observes, “Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.” When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious incident in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by what really happened in their youth, and by doubt about themselves. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for her family and home, avoiding entanglements, as she has done all her life. In Wisconsin, Moran visits her ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into solitude. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an inability to love, and with the outcome of what happened among the three friends twenty years before. Brilliantly written, a breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and life. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story, even as she explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person’s present and future. Praise for Kinder Than Solitude “This is an exceptional novel, and Yiyun Li has grown into one of our major novelists.”—Salman Rushdie “Yiyun Li infuses the traditional form with a fresh, rigorous beauty and a sense of permanence and increasing value.”—Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood “[A] sleek, powerful novel about the weight of memory, the brunt of loss and the myriad ways the past can crimp the soul . . . Li gives us gifts of gorgeous prose. . . . Rarely are ordinary humans given such eloquent witness.”—The Washington Post “What makes [Kinder Than Solitude] so vivid is its humanity. . . . It is an inquiry into how the past scars us, shaping present and future, and some deeds, once committed, can never be undone.”—Los Angeles Times “[Li’s] true gift . . . is old-fashioned storytelling [and] a sense that a life, a whole life, can be captured on pages.”—The Boston Globe “A stunning, dark, and beautiful book . . . Yiyun Li writes with characteristic genius.”—Paul Harding, author of Tinkers and Enon

Book The Art of the Wasted Day

Download or read book The Art of the Wasted Day written by Patricia Hampl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue of leisure written from a lifelong enchantment with solitude. Patricia Hampl visits the homes of historic exemplars of ease who made repose a goal, even an art form. She begins with two celebrated eighteenth-century Irish ladies who ran off to live a life of "retirement" in rural Wales. Her search then leads to Moravia to consider the monk-geneticist, Gregor Mendel, and finally to Bordeaux for Michel Montaigne--the hero of this book--who retreated from court life to sit in his chateau tower and write about whatever passed through his mind, thus inventing the personal essay. Hampl's own life winds through these pilgrimages, from childhood days lazing under a neighbor's beechnut tree, to a fascination with monastic life, and then to love--and the loss of that love which forms this book's silver thread of inquiry. Finally, a remembered journey down the Mississippi near home in an old cabin cruiser with her husband turns out, after all her international quests, to be the great adventure of her life. The real job of being human, Hampl finds, is getting lost in thought, something only leisure can provide. The Art of the Wasted Day is a compelling celebration of the purpose and appeal of letting go.

Book How to Be Alone

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  • Author : Sara Maitland
  • Publisher : Picador
  • Release : 2014-09-02
  • ISBN : 1250059038
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book How to Be Alone written by Sara Maitland and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS AGE OF CONSTANT CONNECTIVITY, LEARN HOW TO ENJOY SOLITUDE AND FIND HAPPINESS WITHOUT OTHERS. Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom, and individualism are more highly prized than ever before? In How to Be Alone, Sara Maitland answers this question by exploring changing attitudes throughout history. Offering experiments and strategies for overturning our fear of solitude, she helps us practice it without anxiety and encourages us to see the benefits of spending time by ourselves. By indulging in the experience of being alone, we can be inspired to find our own rewards and ultimately lead more enriched, fuller lives.

Book Sweet Solitude

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  • Author : Sav R. Miller
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-02-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Sweet Solitude written by Sav R. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From international bestselling author Sav R. Miller comes a steamy and twisted love story between two humans haunted by their pasts. In the wake of her father's death, lonely Juliet Harrison struggles with the guilt over her loss. She deals with it the way she deals with everything: by burying her feelings beneath impulsive decisions and desecrating the local graveyard. But Juliet isn't as invisible as she believes. Hiding out from the ghosts of his past, Kieran Ivers is known in King's Trace as a homicidal hermit. But the rumors don't stop him from visiting the cemetery to taunt his late brother's remains. It's there he first spots a woman engaging in lascivious acts on her father's grave, and becomes enraptured by the darkness surrounding her. When she leaves behind a necklace, Kieran finds and keeps it until he can score a meeting with the mysterious siren. He doesn't know she's the sister-in-law of his rival, or that she is drowning in her sadness. Nor does he care. Once he's decided what he wants, he'll stop at nothing to get her. *Sweet Solitude is the second interconnected standalone in the King's Trace Antiheroes series, a dark romance trilogy revolving around a corrupt small town in Maine. Reader discretion is advised. For all content warnings, please see the author's website.*

Book Reclaiming Conversation

Download or read book Reclaiming Conversation written by Sherry Turkle and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging look at how technology is undermining our creativity and relationships and how face-to-face conversation can help us get it back.

Book A Philosophy of Loneliness

Download or read book A Philosophy of Loneliness written by Lars Svendsen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of us it is the ultimate fear: to die alone. Loneliness is a difficult subject to address because it has such negative connotations in our intensely social world. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness. You can be lonely sitting in the quiet of your home, in the still of an afternoon park, or even when surrounded by throngs of people on a busy street. One need only turn on the radio to hear a crooner telling us just how lonesome we can be. In this groundbreaking book, philosopher Lars Svendsen confronts loneliness head on, investigating both the negative and positive sides of this most human of emotions. Drawing on the latest research in philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, A Philosophy of Loneliness explores the different kinds of loneliness and examines the psychological and social characteristics that dispose people to them. Svendsen looks at the importance of friendship and love, and he examines how loneliness can impact our quality of life and affect our physical and mental health. In a provocative move, he also argues that the main problem in our modern society is not that we have too much loneliness but rather too little solitude, and he looks to those moments when our loneliness can actually tell us profound things about ourselves and our place in the world. The result is a fascinating book about a complex and deeply meaningful part of our very being.

Book Alone Time

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  • Author : Stephanie Rosenbloom
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-06-04
  • ISBN : 039956232X
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Alone Time written by Stephanie Rosenbloom and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our hectic, hyperconnected lives, many people are uncomfortable with the prospect of solitude. Yet a little time to ourselves can be an opportunity to slow down, savor, and try new things, especially when traveling. Through on-the-ground reporting, insights from social science, and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how traveling alone deepens appreciation for everyday beauty, bringing into sharp relief the sights, sounds, and smells that one isn't necessarily attuned to in the presence of company. Walking through four cities--Paris, Florence, Istanbul, and New York--and four seasons, Alone Time gives us permission to pause, to relish the sensual details of the world rather than hurtling through museums and uploading photos to Instagram. In chapters about dining out, visiting museums, and pursuing knowledge, we begin to see how the moments we have to ourselves--on the road or at home--can be used to enrich our lives. Rosenbloom's engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend--and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures.

Book Going Solo

Download or read book Going Solo written by Eric Klinenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience. Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Drawing on more than three hundred in-depth interviews, Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom and offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change.

Book Hiking Alone

Download or read book Hiking Alone written by and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir recounts the author's travels to Arizona, Nebraska, Colorado's Weminuche Wilderness, the Sea of Cortez, Zuni Pueblo, Brazil, and a vision quest along New Mexico's Mimbres River; while describing her lobbying for wilderness in the midst of the troubled relationship between government and environmental sanctuaries, and tracing her own development as a poet and person.