Download or read book Closet Tears written by Greg Maxton and published by Library and Archives Canada. This book was released on 2020-04-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crying is so naturally human. Wanting to feel safe is too. But what if you knew that who you are meant to be in this world is not always welcomed or accepted? Or that, until you have shared this important piece of yourself, you would not feel seen, in your own skin? This is the reality for Gordi Mech, a 13-year old boy on the verge of coming out. Waking up on the day of his Grade 8 Graduation, he feels this call inside him, begging for him to finally live on the outside how he has felt on the inside, for years. But for this to happen, he must revisit all of the events and circumstances and even internal narratives he has about himself, waging these memories against his will to finally tell those he loves that he's gay. And determining whether or not it's enough. Closet Tears, originally published under the title Defying Gay Gravity, by author, teacher, and meditator Greg Maxton, brings Gordi's intrinsic story back to life, as he seeks to evolve the deeper truths within the character's heart. This juvenile fiction novel is a second iteration of a timeless story of coming out, and the importance of balancing self-preservation with acts of courageous vulnerability, in the ultimate pursuit of self-knowledge, self-love, and limitless self-compassion." This novel might be what every kid needs in order to know that they are not alone, and that the person they are becoming is exactly who they should be." - Heather Beveridge, book reviewer for ETFO VOICE (Elementary Teacher's Federation of Ontario") "The gift of acceptance is the one I'd wanted for myself today - Gordi's words, but Greg's spirit. When he finally reads the last page, Greg closes the book and lays it in his lap. The students exhale, almost as a group, and then begin to clap and cheer. 'You have to be patient with the people in your life, ' he explains, 'especially when they haven't learned what they need to learn yet to understand you.'" - Jennifer Drope, Editor of ETFO Voice.

Download or read book Walking Through the Valley of Tears written by Buddy McElhannon and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence is like a burglar alarm that wont turn off. Grief must like silence; the mere whisper of a cry or hint of a tear and Grief makes its presence known. Silence is a megaphone for Grief. A constant that is a deafening reminder of what I am missing. Yet, I find at times it also promotes a quietness with my Lord. Somehow I need to find a way to cherish the solitude in a positive way. Proving once again that Gods light is brightest when our hour is darkest, Walking through the Valley of Tears is one mans surprising discovery of unending grace at his time of greatest grief. This is a must read for anyone experiencing loss or needing affirmation of Gods limitless love. Rosemary Clair, author of Heir of Earth When your body is exhausted and your soul is parched, you can find unexpected comfort, nurture, rest, and renewal in the darkness of the valley. Buddy McElhannon reminds us that resources are abundant in the valley as the living water pours forth through tears and grief gives way to the riches only heartache can cultivate. Heartwarming, honest, and hopeful, Buddy gently invites us all to journey together with Christ through the depths of the valley and introduces us to good soil, calm water, and the protected canopy that God provides so we can once again shout with joy from the mountaintop. I promise that Buddy will be a helpful guide as you find strength in weakness, hope in despair, and joy in journey while Walking through the Valley of Tears. Reverend Catherine Boothe, United Methodist minister and former hospital chaplain

Download or read book Cue Tears written by DANIEL. SACK and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively essays on the meanings and methods of tears in performance

Download or read book Tears of Love written by James Preston Hardison and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears Of Love, profoundly, portrays the love, respect, devotion, and loyalty that two sisters have for each other even though each of them are in love with the same man. Josh Lambert is a very handsome man that is devoted to his employer, which happens to be the father of these sisters. To Josh, it was love at first sight when he saw one of the sisters at a Christmas party. In order to meet the woman that had captured his heart he would have to face her bully boyfriend. An action packed love story filled with suspense, action, drama and mystery. This fictional novel will soften your heart and grip your emotions as it takes the reader on a journey of shattered dreams, and broken hearts. Tears Of Love is a fantastic book to read as it reflects the unyielding love between a man and a woman. This novel will surely make you laugh, cry, and perhaps reflect back on some of your own life experiences. The setting is in rural America, 2009.

Download or read book When Tears Fall Short written by Halina Ross and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-05-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When Tears Fall Short” is the true story of the life of a young woman ravaged by war and loss, who feels compelled to record her account of World War II. She sees life through the eyes of a human being struggling to stay alive and at the same time blossoming into womanhood. The resilient nature of the human spirit under the worst of circumstances illustrates itself vividly in this book. The reader is blissfully lost in love one moment and feels the writer's despair the next moment; this book toils with your emotions as untold history unfolds. One example of history that the world is not aware of, is the De-Nazification status that the German government gave to Nazis for the equivalent of a $500 charge. After the war, Nazis could legally declare by a government decree that they were not Nazis during the war. The only requirement for this service was to pay a fee. This memoir begins in 1939, in the small Polish village of Nowy Dwor, on the outskirts of Warsaw. It explores the hopes and dreams of a young girl coming of age into an expanding world of abundant possibilities. The events that come into her life alter her entire destiny as she grows up overnight into a world that is unbearable to endure. As the war ends, the author finds herself in the most complex of life’s predicaments. Although, as Jews they have lost their entire families to war, the author, her husband and child are placed as refugees, into the home of a nazi family. The ironies of life are explored in the most unusual and unlikely situation that is, amazingly, at the core of human depth. The book ends ten years later at the eve of the birth of a new Israel and the eve of a new life for the next generation. This eloquent, masterful and unusual memoir is written with simplicity and intelligence that will haunt and provoke the reader’s mind. The journey through history, through the perspective of a little girl and now, a woman of wisdom, will take you to the other side of war. This is the place where future generations can learn from their common lineage of war. This memoir encourages the reader to bear the inheritance of bigotry for the purpose of never having to relive it. As you read the pages in this book, you will see the unwritten message as a warning for what could happen again and a hope for the fruitful destiny of humanity. UPDATE: On September 11, 2001 Halina watched the news of the attack on America all day and all evening. She said "it ́s another Holocaust". She went to sleep and had a fatal stroke. We are interested in filming her life story. Please use www.xlibris.com to obtain contact information if you can assist in any manner. Thank you.

Download or read book Cry Tears of Blood written by Cpt. Jose 'Pepi' Granado and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cry Tears of Blood is a testament of Cpt. Jose ‘Pepi’ Granado’s (Ret) passion and service within the law enforcement community and a cleansing of his spirit. It was meant to purge the inner demons he encountered while investigating one of his most horrific cases as a young investigator. This book will transport the readers to a crime scene so gruesome that even seasoned veterans were shocked. Cpt. Granado was haunted by this investigation for many years, unable to speak of the disturbing act. His account will guide the reader throughout the course of the investigation, trial and bring them face-to-face with evil and the heartbreak of a mother. After so many years, this book was his way of beginning the healing process.

Download or read book Sacred Tears written by Fanitra Brantley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Tears is a captivating story of my life as a Pastor's Wife, and how I was able to overcome numerous obstacles and adverse situations to discover my God-given purpose and destiny. Sacred Tears will take you on a journey of joy, love, sorrow, broken heartedness, strength, perseverance, humility, determination, sacrifice and forgiveness. This book is a living testimony of how God can transform a person's mess into a message and troubles into triumphs.

Download or read book Swallowed Tears written by Dr. Freya Anderson Rivers and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swallowed Tears is a story of an African American family's courage and perseverance. This story is about one family but there were thousands of unknown individuals and families who daily put their lives on the line to end segregation. Dr. Dupuy H. Anderson was one of these individuals who persisted in spite of numerous threats to his life to change the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was one of the many in Baton Rouge who fought for change. When the moment began in Baton Rouge, no one knew that the impact of the 1953 bus boycott would create universal hope for the rights of equality, justice and freedom. The leaders did not know that Martin Luther King, Jr. would use their model as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Yet, challenging oppression in the struggle for truth, justice and righteousness, Dr. Dupuy H. Anderson, one man, made a difference.

Download or read book River of Dreams 1994 written by Caroline Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tears Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages written by Norbert Lennartz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Charlotte Brontë, John Keats, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, this book spans approximately 300 years and unpacks how bodily liquidity, porosity and petrification recur as a pattern and underlie the chequered history of the body and genders in literature. Lennartz examines the precarious relationship between porosity and its opposite – closure, containment and stoniness – and explores literary history as a meandering narrative in which 'female' porosity and 'manly' stoniness clash, showing how different societies and epochs respond to and engage with bodily porosity. This book considers the ways that this relationship is constantly renegotiated and where effusive and 'feminine' genres, such as 'sloppy' letters and streams of consciousness, are pitted against stony and astringent forms of masculinity, like epitaphs, sonnets and the Bildungsroman.

Download or read book Golden Memories and Silver Tears written by Willard Dolman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an inspirational nonfiction narrative of life during the great depression as viewed through the absorbing eyes and inquisitive mind of a child and his dog. It is a vibrant word portrait of the non-martyr life of a coal miner's son, his extended family, and the people of the anthracite coal region when the economy of our nation was at low ebb. It portrays, contrasts, and harmonizes the values, principles, life styles, and the multicultural ethnic customs and mores, of the Polish, Irish, Welch, English, and Jewish nationalities living in the northeastern region of Pennsylvania during the 1930s. It presents a society that was less complex than the one we currently live in; it exhibits personal support that was given warmly and with less formality and expense than we experience today. It is an interesting mixture of tragedy, joy, and humor emerged in a secure way of life.

Download or read book Thinking About Tears written by Marco Menin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crucial period for the birth of the modern subject, France's 'long eighteenth century' (approximately 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. Precisely because tears are not a simple biological fact but rather hang suspended between natural immediacy, on one side, and cultural artifice, on the other, the analysis of crying came to represent an exemplary testing ground for investigations into the enigmatic relations binding the realm of physiology to that of psychology. Thinking About Tears explores how the link between tears and sensibility in France's long eighteenth century helps shed light on the process through which the European emotional lexicon has been built: from viewing tears as governed by the sphere of 'passions' and 'feelings', thinkers began to view crying as first a matter of sensibility and then of sensiblerie (a pathological excess of sensibility), thereby presupposing an intimate connection with the category of 'sentiments'. For this reason, this volume examines not only or even primarily the actual emotion of crying, but also the attempt to think about and explain this feeling. Drawing on a wide range of early modern philosophical, medical, religious, and literary texts-including moral treatises on the passions, medical textbooks, letters, life-writings, novels, and stage-plays-Thinking About Tears reveals another side to a period that has too often been saddled with the cursory label of 'the age of reason'.

Download or read book Between Tears written by Pamela Ridley and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two murders intertwine. Andrea is bereaved by one, accused of the other. In the meantime, she's engaged to the man with motive for both. Benjamin's a likely suspect in her sister's murder, but Andrea's heart says no. She searches for her sister's killer and at the same time, she falls in love with Benjamin. On top of this, her ex-boyfriend decides he made a mistake in letting her go and has the sex tape to prove it. He comes up murdered. Will Andrea's faith be strong enough to allow her to face the truth and find happiness between tears?

Download or read book Razorblade Tears written by S. A. Cosby and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2021 • Washington Post’s Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 • New York Public Library’s Best Books of the Year • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee • Book of the Month’s Book of the Year Finalist “Provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too.” —Washington Post “Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times.” —Michael Connelly “A tour de force – poignant, action-packed, and profound.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed of his father's criminal record. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy. Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys. Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change - and maybe even redemption. “A visceral full-body experience, a sharp jolt to the heart, and a treat for the senses...Cosby's moody southern thriller marries the skillful action and plotting of Lee Child with the atmosphere and insight of Attica Locke.” —NPR

Download or read book Tears of Dragons Gone By written by Mary Jane Wijtyk and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tek, you hunted in Mr. Andrew's woods!" He could be so exasperating. If he did not listen to her, he would surely be discovered. Her bedroom was not safe! Samantha hated being deceitful, but she was at a loss as to what to do. After all, who knows how to keep a dragon? In the days of cell phones and social networks, Samantha lives in a world that she feels she understands. But when a large, mysterious animal starts roaming the woods and eating large game, she and everyone living nearby are frightened. When neither the universities nor the Pennsylvania Game Commission can identify it, things get interesting. In the story Tears of Dragons Gone By, young Samantha finds herself in a tough spot-- knowing the truth, but not being able to tell anyone.

Download or read book Truth Seekers written by Sid Roth and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will be inspired by these ten amazing stories-seekers who walked different paths in life, yet shared one common passion-LOVE FOR THE TRUTH. They all desired lasting answers. They all knew that religion alone could never satisfy their spiritual thirst. They longed for supernatural revelation-transformation-ultimate reality. Co-authors Sid Roth and Mike Shreve were both extreme seekers. Sid practiced psychic mind control. Mike ran a Kundalini Yoga ashram. Then they both had amazing encounters with God that changed everything. Their spiritual journeys are featured in this book, along with eight others: Robin Harfouche - a rising star in Hollywood who experienced the dark side of the psychic realm, then received a miracle healing from God Stanley Petrowski- a student of the world's mystery religions who met God on a trek through the Himalayan Mountains Michael Graham - a prominent follower of Swami Muktananda and teacher of the Avatar© Course who finally experienced true enlightenment Laurette Willis - a Hatha Yoga teacher who was quite startled when God asked her a 'dangerous question' Rafi Cohen - an advanced disciple of Sai Baba who received an astonishing revelation Vail Carruth - a teacher of Transcendental Meditation who learned the power of the Name of the Lord Jean LaCour - a political activist who turned to yoga and Rosicrucianism before finding "the Way" John Alper - a follower of Yogananda who discovered the fountain of infinite life Not only did they seek the truth - THEY FOUND IT!

Download or read book Admiration of Love written by Alan Hines and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The admiration of love, to honor, to worship, to display love crafted in the form of written poems.