Download or read book Arturo s Dream written by Elizabeth Seraphin and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started out like any ordinary Monday. Elizabeth Seraphin and her twenty-five-year-old daughter Amanda routinely had dinner together: chicken, salad, and cornbread. Amanda was unusually late. Her mother received the phone call that would plunge her into darkness! Her daughter had just been hospitalized. Her condition was worsening and family and friends went to her bedside.

Download or read book The Book of Unknown Americans written by Cristina Henríquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.

Download or read book Arturo s Island A Novel written by Elsa Morante and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elsa Morante’s novels are “astonishing for the quality of the writing, . . . the complexity of the invented world, the wide-ranging view of the human condition” (Elena Ferrante). Once considered the greatest writer of Italy’s postwar generation—and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen—Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein’s translation of Arturo’s Island, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted looking glass, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where—his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion—he roams the countryside and the beaches or reads in his family’s lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering existence is upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen-year-old bride, Nunziatella. A novel of longing and thwarted desires, filled with Morante’s “brutal directness and familial torment” (James Wood), Arturo’s Island reemerges in this splendid translation to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.

Download or read book Playing the Music of Life written by Ron Hogewoning and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended only to be a stepping-stone for a more serious pursuit to one's own life journey. I believe it holds a key to a barrier that has kept many searching souls held hostage. I also believe it contains the necessary spiritual understanding needed to find the higher concepts that contribute to the building of a better civilization; one that says, "Love one another and live in harmony with all living things. I have come to know that true happiness comes through living a balanced life, physically, mentally and spiritually. Most of us have a good understanding of the first two, but still do not realize true happiness because we lack spiritual growth. Spiritual growth will lead you from the bondage of fear to the liberty of love. Originally this manuscript was written with the sole purpose of sharing what I have come to firmly believe with my grown children and grandchildren. It was only through their encouragement and insistence that this book be shared with others and not kept for them alone.

Download or read book Beyond the Margin written by Paolo Giordano and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors' goal in this book is to give a critical overview of where Italian/American literary and cultural studies are today. To this end, Beyond the Margin includes three types of essays: the characteristics of Italian/American literature and culture in a general sense; specific writers; and film.

Download or read book Priestess Dreaming written by Yasmine Galenorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. Menolly is a vampire married to a gorgeous werepuma. And me? I’m Camille, a Moon witch married to three hunky husbands, and I’m about to journey through the veils to search for a long lost legend… With the war in Otherworld raging, the Queen of Shadow and Night summons me to her court. Aeval orders me on a quest through the mists to find an ancient ally of hers. I am to seek out The Merlin and wake him from his long sleep. Surrounded by danger on all sides, with Morgaine and Bran along for the journey, I must pray they are allies rather than enemies, as we undertake a perilous search through the labyrinth of time…

Download or read book The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora written by Pablo Cartaya and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL? For Arturo, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few shifts as junior lunchtime dishwasher at Abuela’s restaurant. Maybe. But this summer also includes Carmen, a poetry enthusiast who moves into Arturo’s apartment complex and turns his stomach into a deep fryer. He almost doesn’t notice the smarmy land developer who rolls into town and threatens to change it. Arturo refuses to let his family and community go down without a fight, and as he schemes with Carmen, Arturo discovers the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí. Funny and poignant, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora is the vibrant story of a family, a striking portrait of a town, and one boy's quest to save both, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia.

Download or read book Dreams written by Maggie May Miller and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams is a modern fairy tale that tells the story about a friendship between three children – Jude, Jane and Jake. Over the decades, their relationship deepens, their friendship expands and they grow closer, much closer than most family ties are and soon it evolves into love. Their love goes much deeper into the soul – an unconditional love, so deep and primal that it expands from this life out and into the universe. The setting is a most beautiful one – the Pacific coast of California, where the sun shines almost every day and you’ll always find beautiful, laughing people, but – like life shows us again and again – nothing is as it seems: life is like the powerful Pacific Ocean – there is always an undercurrent. If you look behind the facade, you’ll find the counterpart: the brightest sun brings out the darkest shades, the most beautiful sunset brings out the darkest night but the darkness itself is dawn not yet born. This fairy tale is a spiritual journey which tells the story of terrifying childhoods, children growing up to be haunted by traumas and memories only to evolve into human beings who learn to understand that the power of love – unconditional love – will heal them, make them whole again and see the beauty in life once more. That is the miracle of love.

Download or read book Vishwasutras Universal Principles for Living written by Vishwas Chavan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprised! We often hear about Kama Sutras, but never about Vishwa Sutras! What is Vishwa Sutra? Successful living in todays world requires following certain principles (sutras), which are universal and can be adapted by anyone. VishwaSutras is a collection of principles for successful living. These sutras were experienced by a now a science diplomat, who was born as a slum boy. In the beginning, he happened to stumble upon these sutras unknowingly, which transformed his life. Later, he took conscious decision to adopt them, which are helping him to climb the ladder of success. In our quest for successful life, positive aspirations and experiences can be self-enriching. Even a mere realization of who we are and our purpose in life can bring enormous sense of freedom and unbeatable energy and enthusiasm to achieve it. Vishwa Sutras will unfold ways of achieving your dreams. Vishwa Sutras aims to give you support, inspiration, and strategies to make your life a reflection of the authentic you. To help you define success on your own terms. To make sure youre moving forward, manifesting the big dreams and loving every minute of it. To celebrate life authentically and inspire others who dream success and happy living.

Download or read book Resistance Heroism Loss written by Thomas Cragin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In no other country in Europe has national identity been so closely bound to memories of the war. Italy’s Republic was born of World War II, its constitution defined by anti-Fascism, its parties self-identified with national Resistance. Because of their importance to the nation’s identity, the nature and meaning of the war have been the focus of great contention, from 1943 to the present day. In recent years Italy has taken on a national evaluation of the more troubling and contested aspects of its role in the war, including its support of Fascism and collaboration after 1943, its treatment of Jews and other minorities, deep national divisions that created a civil war between 1943 and 1945, and the centrality of war myth to lingering postwar problems. Scholars of Italian history, literature, and cinema play a fundamental role in this appraisal, and this volume of essays attests to the importance of film and literature to the ways in which changing political, social and cultural imperatives have altered the war’s memory. These articles expand our understanding of the shifting phases in national memory by highlighting significant features of each era’s portrayal of the war. Contributions come from eight scholars who capture the full variety of disciplinary and sub-disciplinary approaches that are current today, including film genre studies, cultural history, gender studies, Holocaust studies, and the very new fields of emotion studies, shame theory, and environmental studies. Their innovative application of questions and methods that speak to important new subfields in Italian Studies make this volume an invaluable tool for scholars and their students.

Download or read book Soul Making written by Francesco Donfrancesco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines artistic experience with the eye of an analyst and analytic experience with the eye of an artist. His writing is understood and practised as an operation, a process which seeks to merge the individual and the general, subjective and objective, the psychological and the spiritual.

Download or read book Body Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis written by Riccardo Lombardi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict and dissociation between the Body and the Mind have determinant implications in the context of our current clinical practice, and are an important source of internal and relational disturbances. Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis proposes the concept as a new hypothesis, different from traumatic dissociation or states of splitting. This approach opens the door to a clinical confrontation with extreme forms of mental disturbance, such as psychosis or borderline disorders, and strengthens the relational power of the analytic encounter, through a focus on the internal sensory/emotional axis in both analyst and analysand. The book details this importance of the analyst’s intrasubjective relationship with the analysand in constructing new developmental horizons, starting from the body-mind exchange of the two participants. Body-Mind Dissociation in Psychoanalysis will be of use to students, beginners in psychotherapy, mental health practitioners and seasoned psychoanalysts.

Download or read book Twentieth century Italian Literature in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.

Download or read book The North You Promised Me written by Ismael Moreno and published by Jota Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesmerized by an elusive dream, Carmen plunges into a treacherous journey only to fall for a slippery con man. Will she reach the promised land alive? A naïve young woman from a remote mountain village in Honduras, Carmen heads to the United States seeking a better life, undeterred by the warnings of her parish priest. He has lived a life marked by war, repression, injustice, poverty, and corruption—all the things that drive so many people out of Honduras—yet he is convinced that emigrating is not the answer. Carmen's journey sets off a cycle of violence and tragedy that threatens the entire village. Can the power of love truly heal all wounds?

Download or read book Voicing Gender written by Naomi André and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the changes in approaches to gender in opera in the early 19th century.

Download or read book How wide is the wind written by Robert Roy Yarbrough and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two people caught up into mystery. Makes their home in Central America and struggle with self and spiritual awakening.

Download or read book Blade of Tyshalle written by Matthew Woodring Stover and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven years ago, they said Hari Michaelson didn't have a chance. He was just a loser, a street criminal from a disgraced family. He'd never make anything of himself. They were wrong. He made himself into Caine: Killer. Superstar. Hero . . . THE BLADE OF TYSHALLE Six years ago, Ma'elkoth--a god of Overworld--held Pallas Ril in his merciless grip. Earth's ruling elite wanted her dead. Caine swore he would save her. They said he didn't have a chance. They were wrong. He sacrificed his career as Caine to crush Pallas Ril's enemies and bring her home. Now Hari Michaelson is the only man who stands between the soulless corporate masters of Earth and the green hills of Overworld. Caine's victory over Ma'elKoth opened a door between the worlds, and the faceless masses of Earth are killing everything he loves. Enemies old and new array themselves against him. And Hari's not even Caine anymore. He's just one man--alone, half-crippled, powerless. They say he doesn't have a chance. They are wrong . . .