Download or read book Grace Notes written by Bernard MacLaverty and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna-a young composer-remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with itself. She remembers a more innocent time, when the Loyalists Lambeg drums sounded mysterious and exciting; she remembers her shattered relationship with the drunken, violent Dave, she remembers the child she had with him, waiting back in Glasgow. This is a novel, about coming to terms with the past and the healing power of music, GRACE NOTES is a master story-teller`s triumphant return to the long form: a powerful lyrical novel of great distinction.
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects 366 daily readings from the author's writings in which he discusses his understanding of the world, faith, and God.
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Katey Sagal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sagal takes you through the highs and lows of her life, from the tragic deaths of her parents to her long years in the Los Angeles rock scene, from being diagnosed with cancer at the age of twenty-eight to getting her big break on the fledgling FOX network as the wise-cracking Peggy Bundy on the beloved sitcom Married with Children. Sparse and poetic, Grace Notes is an emotionally riveting tale of struggle and success, both professional and personal: Sagal's path to sobriety; the stillbirth of her first daughter, Ruby; motherhood; the experience of having her third daughter at age fifty-two with the help of a surrogate; and her lifelong passion for music."--Book jacket..
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Alexandra Stoddard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her life, Alexandra Stoddard has sought inspiration from writers, poets, and people she has met. In Grace Notes, she shares this wisdom and her own learnings, beautifully captured in brief, motivating observations, in 365 daily meditations of warmth, affirmation, encouragement, and optimism. Season by season, day by day, you'll explore different themes: joy, love, loss, risk, courage, wholeness, growth, play, and success. In addition to offering inspirational quotes from many cultures and two "grace notes," each page provides space to write down your own sacred inspirations. With courage and confidence, Grace Notes takes you on a spiritual journey every day of your life—and whenever you feel the need to be transported to serenity and grace.
Download or read book Grace Notes for a Year written by Norman Gilliland and published by NEMO Productions. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This irresistible collection of stories is perfect for anyone interested in a fresh perspective on what it means to be a human being who creates art. Grace Notes for a Year sheds light on the fragile and perilous process of inspiration, composition, and performance required to create classical music, whether the final product is a masterpiece or a mess. Each page of the book corresponds to a different day of the year and features a true story about a famous figure in musical history. These delightful anecdotes—inspirational, informative, and often hilarious—disprove the myth of the artist as untouchable. Instead, Norman Gilliland exposes in them human vulnerability we can all relate to. From Beethoven to Wagner, these artists suffered from poverty, spent lazy days in bed, had scandalous love affairs, and often failed in their creative endeavors as often as they succeeded.
Download or read book About Grief written by Ron Marasco and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Grief is a refreshingly down-to-earth book about an issue that blindsides many people. Written in a warm and conversational way that is, at times, deeply moving, at times, surprisingly amusing, and always practical, it covers a wide range of issues facing people in grief. Originally developed as a wildly popular class, Marasco and Shuff have done the footwork for readers who wish to know more about this complex subject. Using a variety of sources, including books, films, music and many hours spent walking and talking with people in grief, the authors distill their candid insights into a series of short, single-topic-essays that can be easily digested in one sitting—a format they found grieving people preferred. This is not a book written by clinicians, so there's no cold jargon. It's not a memoir of one individual's grief, so it has something for everyone. And it's not a soft-peddling inspirational book with dew-sprinkled leaves on the cover. It's a wise, plainspoken, comforting book about an intimidating topic. As one reader recently said of About Grief: Reading this book is like having a smart, entertaining friend around—at a time when you really need one.
Download or read book Gracenotes 365 Daily Devotionals written by Jim Stephens and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I invite you to join me on a year-long journey through God's Book. Let's walk together through the days of our lives and the stories of God's heroes, near heroes, and ordinary people just like us.I know of nothing that has greater potential to deepen your faith and help you align your life with God's purpose. God will be more real to you as you realize how close He is to you each day. Let's Read together. Each devotional is based on a reading shown at the top of the page for that day. Let's Apply together. Read the scripture passage for the day and think about how it can apply to your life. Let's Pray together. I invite you to pray a prayer with me asking God to use his word to work in our lives each day. Let's Learn, grow, and change together.Jim Stephens is a Bible teacher, pastor, and missionary. Jim has planted and led churches in the US and served as a missionary pastor. For nearly two decades, Jim and his wife Jean served as missionaries in Jamaica and the UK, training leaders and establishing Bible Training Centers.They have both ministered extensively in East, Central, and southern Africa where their Foundation for Christian Service course is in wide use for lay leadership training. More recently, Jim and Jean served as District Administrators for churches in Oregon and Idaho and as staff pastors of Westside Church in Bend, Oregon.Jim and Jean have two daughters; Stephanie married to Philip Smith, and Melissa married to Colin Blackett, and three delightful grandsons. Jim is happy in his current season of life, which involves less travel and more grandparenting! Jim lives with his wife Jean and his dog Buddy in Central Oregon.
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Rita Dove and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems deal with fantasy, childhood, family life, school, friendship, dreams, mortality, and memories
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Brian Doyle and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Versions of these articles were published previously..."--T.p. verso.
Download or read book Alias Grace written by Margaret Atwood and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.
Download or read book Grace Notes A Novel written by Bernard MacLaverty and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-11-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph…moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own special music." Grace Notes is a compact and altogether masterful portrait of a woman composer and the complex interplay between her life and her art. With superb artistry and startling intimacy, it brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna—estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated world. It is a book that the Virginia Woolf of A Room of One's Own would instantly understand.
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Tami Briggs and published by Musical Reflections Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Notes is a book about Tami Briggs' most profound and deeply spiritual experiences playing the harp at the hospital and hospice bedside work. Having facilitated and witnessed hundreds of harp therapy "treatments," Tami's anecdotal stories illustrate many dramatic accounts of using harp music a a complementary care modality. An inspiration journey into the world of comfort care, the book piognantly tells of the harps healing properties. As the population ages and health care changes, Ms. Briggs offers creative ideas on how the harp and therapeutic music can change the medical environment, specifically how we experience illness and death. She weaves her personal experiences and clinical training together to: * Define harp therapy. * Explaining the harp's unique healing qualities. * Discuss research on the effectiveness of music and its benefits. * Suggest how musical applications to optimize your well-being. * Describe how the harp can be used to create sacred space, facilitatinga healing experience. * Detail how the harp can bring intimacy, depth, and tenderness to the sacred experience of dying.
Download or read book The Grace of Silence written by Michele Norris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star. A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered. While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama’s election, Michele Norris discovered that there were painful secrets within her own family that had been willfully withheld. These revelations—from her father’s shooting by a Birmingham police officer to her maternal grandmother’s job as an itinerant Aunt Jemima in the Midwest—inspired a bracing journey into her family’s past, from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South. The result is a rich and extraordinary family memoir—filled with stories that elegantly explore the power of silence and secrets—that boldly examines racial legacy and what it means to be an American.
Download or read book Without Grace written by Carol Hoenig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Searching, soulful Without Grace is a heartfelt exploration of that small town in all of us, our bittersweet Place of Angels." -Arthur Kent, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Warlord Reborn "Like Scout Finch and Mattie Ross and Ellen Foster before her, Vicky Finley has grit and will and insight, a wry eye for the world around her, and a deeply engaging way of finding there a place of her own." -Michael Malone, author of Handling Sin After the death of her grandmother, Vicky Finley is left to create a place for herself in a houseful of men and becomes consumed by the notion of finding Grace, the mother who abandoned the family when Vicky was just a baby. Vicky's devoted and protective older brother Kevin does his best to look after her while fighting to keep their land and spare their farming community from a ruthless developer who threatens to forever change the world they know. The Finleys learn firsthand how memories can betray us, how secrets of the past can burden the present, and how tragedy can test our resolve. And as Vicky ambitiously pursues her passion for cooking, honors a promise to her brother, and manages to bring a struggling community together, she discovers what really makes a family. Without Grace is a heartening portrait of small-town life and a tender and triumphant coming-of-age tale about the complexities and comforts of family and the healing that comes with letting go of the past.
Download or read book Grace Notes written by Philip Yancey and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Notes collects 366 powerful daily readings from Philip Yancey's writings, including some never before published. These most popular and enduring works communicate Yancey's understanding of God, the world, and faith. The readings especially touch doubters, sufferers, the disillusioned, and out-of-the-mold believers.
Download or read book The Art of Grace On Moving Well Through Life written by Sarah L. Kaufman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sarah Kaufman offers an old-fashioned cure for a modern-day ailment. The remedy for our culture of coarseness is grace…This is an elegant, compelling, and, yes, graceful book." —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive In this joyful exploration of grace’s many forms, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Sarah L. Kaufman celebrates a too-often-forgotten philosophy of living that promotes human connection and fulfillment. Drawing on the arts, sports, the humanities, and everyday life—as well as the latest findings in neuroscience and health research—Kaufman illuminates how our bodies and our brains are designed for grace. She promotes a holistic appreciation and practice of grace, as the joining of body, mind, and spirit, and as a way to nurture ourselves and others.
Download or read book Grace Unplugged written by Melody Carlson and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Trey is an eighteen-year-old singer as passionate about her Christian faith as she is her phenomenal, God-given musical talent. Both traits come from her father, one-hit wonder Johnny Tray who found Jesus after losing his chart success two decades ago. When Grace encounters her own music break of a lifetime, the sudden dive into the "real world" puts her deeper beliefs to the test. Pop superstardom is just within reach but appears to require some spiritual compromise. Will Grace reject her faith, or will she own it? Grace Unplugged is based on the motion picture of the same name starring AJ Michalka (Super 8) and Kevin Pollak (A Few Good Men).
