Download or read book Touched With Fire written by Kay Redfield Jamison and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1996-10-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the bestselling psychologist of bipolar disorders who wrote An Unquiet Mind. One of the foremost psychologists in America, “Kay Jamison is plainly among the few who have a profound understanding of the relationship that exists between art and madness” (William Styron). The anguished and volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists, writers, and musicians. Her work, based on her study as a clinical psychologist and researcher in mood disorders, reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs and despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness. Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease and applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of some of the world's greatest artists including Lord Byron, Vincent Van Gogh, and Virginia Woolf.

Download or read book Hearts Touched with Fire written by David Gergen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This instant New York Times bestseller is an “inspiring and useful” (The Washington Post) guide to the art of leadership from David Gergen—former White House adviser to four US presidents, CNN analyst, and founder of the Harvard Center for Public Leadership. As nations careen from one crisis to the next, there is a growing cry for fresh leadership. Those in charge have relatedly fallen short, and trust in institutions have plummeted. So, what does great leadership look like? And how are great leaders made? David Gergen, a leader in the public arena for more than half a century, draws from his experiences as a White House adviser to four presidents, his decades as a trusted voice on national issues, and years of teaching and mentoring young people to offer a stirring playbook for the next generation of change-makers. To uncover the fundamental elements of effective leadership, Gergen traves the journeys of iconic leaders past and present, from pathbreakers like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Lewis, John McCain, and Harvey Milk to historic icons like Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, to contemporary game changers like Greta Thunberg, the Parkland students, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Leadership is a journey that starts from within, Gergen writes. A leader must become self-aware and then achieve self-mastery. You cannot lead others until you can lead yourself. As you start to leap into the world, you begin your outer journey, overcoming setbacks, persuading others, empowering them, and navigating crises—armed with a sense of history, humor, passion, and purpose. By linking lessons of the past with the ever-changing practice of leadership today, Gergen reveals the time-tested secrets of dynamic leadership. A “clarion call for lives dedicated to service and leadership” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize­–winning author of Leadership), Hearts Touched with Fire distills experience and wisdom of the past into an invaluable guide for leaders of our future.

Download or read book Touched by Fire written by Kel Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm hired to stop a demon summoning. The last thing I expect is to end up bonded to one instead.Being a supernatural bounty hunter isn't exactly a popular job. But after the magic wars, there aren't many things a human can do that will put food on the table.Thankfully anything my right hook can't handle, my guns can.Or so I thought.When a demon summoning runs awry, the being that comes into this world changes everything.I'm not sure if he's truly a monster or a god, but one look into his flame filled eyes and I know-Ronan will never let me go.If he can catch me, that is.Game on, motherf*cker.

Download or read book The Touch Of Fire written by Linda Howard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of Cover of Night returns to her Western Ladies series with this passionate and suspenseful romance between a doctor and an outlaw. Annie Parker came to Silver Mesa, Arizona, because it was the only place she’d found where folks thought a woman doctor was better than no doctor at all. Her lonely life became harder still on the winter night Rafe McCay broke into her office with a bullet in his side and a bounty hunter at his back. With a gun aimed at her heart, he led her deep into the Arizona mountains, and into a world of danger and passion, for Annie discovered in Rafe not only a wounded man, but a soul betrayed. Rafe, healed by her skill and the magic in her hands, awakened in Annie a woman’s tender longing and hungry desire. Pursued by dangerous secrets of the past, they are swept into a thrilling odyssey of the heart—a bold, exhilarating journey that rekindles Rafe’s lost hope and transforms Annie’s healing gift into a deep, enduring love.

Download or read book Touch This Fire A Gay M M Romance written by S.E. Loveless and published by S.E. Loveless. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He burst through the smoke, larger than life. The fireman who would be my savior. He hoisted me over his shoulder, and stole me back from the molten jaws of death. Shawn was his name. And when he set me down outside, smoke bellowing out of every window of the building behind him, he took off his mask, and my heart stopped dead. Those eyes… those beautiful eyes pierced me. Looked right through me. Looked right into me. He told me I would be alright, and then stormed back into the building, a tornado of a man. Shawn looked every bit the hero. But when they carried him out of the building, blackened and hurt, and sent him careening away in an ambulance… The heart that he had stopped with those arresting eyes stopped again. I had to find him. I had to tell him thank you. Maybe I could help him. Little did I know that I would fall in love with him… …and that he would fall in love with me.

Download or read book Touch the Fire written by Grania Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Touch of Fire written by Delta James and published by Delta James. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darkness has fallen on London and needs a new host. I use a blowtorch to make sculptures out of twisted iron. I’m an artist, independent, tough and an American. My life plan is to create beautiful art and follow my own destiny. My fated mate is Simon Howard, the newly crowned Alpha of London. Simon’s plan is different as I find out when he kidnaps me from a gala event featuring my art. The Darkness possessed a wolf in the pack and learns many things about shifters. Things only known to shifters. It uses that knowledge to attack and destroy. When the Darkness threatens all they hold dear, will Mariah and Simon be bound together to banish the Darkness? Author note: Touch of Fire is a friends-to-lovers fated mate supernatural romance with steamy heat in and out of the bedroom for mature readers. Includes a creative and resourceful she-wolf and her intense fated mate who will not accept defeat.

Download or read book Touch of Fire written by J.E. Taylor and published by J.E. Taylor. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touch of Fire is a steamy short story collection that includes the following stories: The Seduction of Sir Galahad Sir Galahad comes out of his shell when a fallen angel catches his attention. Miami Heat After leaving an abusive relationship behind, all Lynn wanted was a quiet summer in Miami – but her ex has other thoughts. Office Games An office attraction ignites into one wild and kinky affair. Mile High An exploration into sexual ménage and a helicopter ride she’ll never forget. The Raising What would you do to bring your soul mate back from the dead? Would you give up your soul? Your talents? Your life? Dr. Holly Robbins lost her husband to a stray bullet and now she has another patient on the brink between life and death. A patient whose mother offers a unique opportunity, but only if Holly can save her son. House Rules Layla's gambling addiction brings her face-to-face with the devil’s emissary and now she's playing for her soul. Kaine is one hot, soul-collecting stud. He runs the table in Hell’s den, and the house rules are simple: if the player wins, they are given the choice to walk away with the amount of time in their pot. But if the house wins, the player must pay the loss with pain. When all the player’s chips are lost, they become a permanent resident of hell. Can Layla resist the temptation for more time, or will she end up locked in hell, screaming for all eternity?

Download or read book Hot to the Touch written by Jaci Burton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love burns white-hot in this first scorching romance in an all-new trilogy about a family of firefighters from the New York Times bestselling author of the Play-by-Play novels and the Hope series. Firefighter Jackson Donovan doesn't look back—as a rule. So when his past comes roaring back to life in the form of not-so-damsel-in-distress Becks Benning, the last thing he wants to do is relive old times. No matter how tempting she makes it seem... Now thanks to his two interfering brothers, Becks is living with them while she looks for a new place and tries to pick up the pieces of her tattoo business that went up in flames. Which means a grown up, smokin' hot Becks is in his house, sharing meals, and digging up old wounds. And despite his better judgement, the more time he spends with this smart, artistic, incredible woman the more he wants her in his bed—and his future. Becks always had it bad for Jackson. Unfortunately for her, not much has changed--he's still honorable, hard-working, sexy as sin—and closed off. But there's more than one way to get to a man's heart and if Jackson doesn't want to recall old memories, she'll just have to help him make new ones. Because now that she's found Jackson again, she's not letting him go.

Download or read book A Touch of Fire written by Thomas M. Carr Jr and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundresses or saints, she was a powerhouse during the last decades of the French regime and an accomplished woman of letters. She has been credited with Canada’s first literary narrative, Canada’s first music manual, and the first book by a Canadian woman printed during her own lifetime. In A Touch of Fire, the first biography of Duplessis, Thomas Carr analyzes how she navigated, in peace and war, the unstable, male-dominated colonial world of New France. Through a study of Duplessis's correspondence, her writings, and the rich Hôtel-Dieu archives, Carr details how she channelled the fire of her commitment to the hospital in order to advance its interests, preserve its history, and inspire her sister nuns. Duplessis chronicled New France as she wrote for and about her institution. Her administrative correspondence reveals her managerial successes and failures, and her private letters reshaped her friendship with a childhood Jansenist friend, Marie-Catherine Hecquet. Carr also delves into her relationship with her sister Geneviève Duplessis, who joined her in the cloister and became her managerial and spiritual partner. The addition of Duplessis's last letters provides a dramatic insider's view into the female experience of the siege and capture of Quebec in 1759. A Touch of Fire examines the life and work of an enterprising leader and major woman author of early Canada.

Download or read book To Build a Fire written by Jack London and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.

Download or read book Touch the Fire written by Grania Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire Touched written by Patricia Briggs and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercy Thompson has been hailed as “a heroine who...always remains true to herself” (Library Journal). Now she’s back, and she’ll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it’s the children who suffer... Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae. Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched?

Download or read book Things We Lost in the Fire written by Mariana Enriquez and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “propulsive and mesmerizing” (The New York Times) story collection by the International Booker–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night—now with a new short story. The short stories of Mariana Enriquez are: “The most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro “Violent and cool, told in voices so lucid they feel spoken.”—The Boston Globe (Best Books of the Year) Electric, disturbing, and exhilarating, the stories of Things We Lost in the Fire explore multiple dimensions of life and death in contemporary Argentina. Each haunting tale simmers with the nation's troubled history, but among the abandoned houses, black magic, superstitions, lost loves and regrets, there is also friendship, compassion, and humor. Translated by the National Book Award-winning Megan McDowell, these “slim but phenomenal” (Vanity Fair) stories ask the biggest questions of life and show why Mariana Enriquez has become one of the most celebrated new voices in global literature.

Download or read book Nothing to See Here written by Kevin Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, TIME, The A.V. Club, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar “I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn’t see coming. You’re laughing so hard you don’t even realize that you’ve suddenly caught fire.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman is in Trouble, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it’s the truth. Thinking of her dead-end life at home, the life that has consistently disappointed her, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one humid, demanding summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other—and stay cool—while also staying out of the way of Madison’s buttoned-up politician husband. Surprised by her own ingenuity yet unused to the intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her—urgently and fiercely. Couldn’t this be the start of the amazing life she’d always hoped for? With white-hot wit and a big, tender heart, Kevin Wilson has written his best book yet—a most unusual story of parental love.

Download or read book A Touch of Dragon Fire The Complete Series written by Holly Ryan and published by Holly Ryan. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragon shifters have a horrific habit of kidnapping human children to sacrifice to their goddess. They miscalculated when they took expert thief Yara Parmstone’s little brother, though. Now, Yara is out for revenge—after she finds the final key that will allow her to save him. But the three scorching hot, mysterious men who hold that key have a message for Yara—the dragon goddess has something important in store for her. Too bad it’s not as fun as a forked dragon tongue. Soon, Yara’s racing against time to steal back her brother before his fate—and hers—are sealed. Includes: Forked Tongues Are Fun Bros Come Before Hordes Queens Ride Horny Dragons One-click this COMPLETE SERIES now for some serious heat! If you love authors like T.S. Joyce, Elizabeth Briggs, and Jaymin Eve, this series is for you! KEYWORDS: new adult, mystery, paranormal, supernatural, reverse harem, fantasy, folklore, folktale, folk tale, legend, legends, myth, myths, action adventure, action, adventure, book, books, ebook, quick read, read, short, serial, series, female protagonist, thief, novel, secret, suspense, thriller, alpha male, literature, story, stories, hero, fiction, romance, romance ebook, romance ebooks, romance book, romance books, wealthy, millionaire, women's fiction, racy, legal, romance novel, romance books, urban, contemporary, dragon, dragon shifters, dragon shifter, dragon shifter romance, shifter, shapeshifter, transform, dragons, secret, sensual, death, magic, sorcery, witch, wizard, sorceress, romance books full novel, paranormal romance, dragon shifter romance, books to read and download, paranormal romance books, shifter romance books full novel, ebooks romance, romance books for adults, paranormal romance books full novel, steamy romance books, happily ever after, secrets, guaranteed HEA, sexually romantic books, fantasy romance, romantic fantasy, queens, royalty, box, box set, boxed, boxed set, complete series, series, romance box set, romance boxset, romance series, romance complete series

Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Terry Bisson and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army. Long unavailable in the U.S., published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.