Download or read book I ll Close My Eyes but I Won t be Asleep written by Elisa Adler and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delusion, dementia or discourse? A daughter insists on the latter, and with the threads of her mother's narratives weaves for them a raft of words. These conversations, unlike anything I'd shared with her before, shocked me. I was glad they happened only when we were alone together. I'd never even thought these things I heard us say, didn't know where they came from. But since they seemed to make sense to her, I kept inviting her to speak. She'd say something, I'd listen, say something back;we were together in words. As if what we said to each other arose, not from our own learning or experience, but some underlying chord that included our voices but was bigger, spoke through them, as if the sound of the ocean were encoded in the sounds of the rain. I'll Close My Eyes(But I Won't Be Asleep)sounds an intimate, heartbreaking, and sometimes humorous, end-of-life chord in a mother and daughter relationship.A compelling memoir, I'll Close My Eyes(But I Won't Be Asleep)is an honest account of what, for most of us, remains hidden and unheard. It will be useful for anyone torn by conflicting desires and demands, battered by memory, grief and rage, and struggling to give care. Elisa Adler studied at the University of California, Berkeley, Mills College and, in Bogota, Colombia, at Centro de Estudios Colombo-Americanos. She has worked as a newspaper reporter, translator, interpreter, laborer and domestic, teaches English and Spanish at colleges in California and Nevada, and farms with her daughter and husband in the northern Sierra.
Download or read book I ll Close My Eyes but I Won t be Asleep written by Elisa Adler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Go the F k to Sleep written by Adam Mansbach and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR). “Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.” Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.
Download or read book Crystal Umbrella written by Joseph F.Ruggiero and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Philadelphia in the year 2001, the story centers around a young man struggling with his homosexuality, the bigotry towards the gay community and the serial murderer who targets gays.The Crystal Umbrella is a novel that is a suspenseful as it is shocking, a talle of psychological intrigue with frightening authentic characters,
Download or read book Close Your Eyes Sleep written by Grace Smith and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number one cause of insomnia is fear of insomnia. You toss and turn at night, trying to quiet your thoughts enough to fall asleep. Or you wake up hours before your alarm and stare at the ceiling, hoping that this time you'll manage just a little bit more rest before sunrise. Either way, it's actually your fear of not getting enough sleep that's keeping you awake. The only way to finally get a good night's sleep is to retrain your subconscious mind and eliminate that fear. Grace Smith, world-renowned hypnotherapist and author of Close Your Eyes, Get Free, has helped hundreds of people do exactly that. Using the phenomenally successful power of hypnosis, Close Your Eyes, Sleep teaches you to access your subconscious and get your long-needed rest. The first step is learning the tools to block out your anxieties to fall asleep quickly and easily at any time of night. But hypnotherapy can take you farther than that: you'll discover how to proactively attack the causes of sleepless nights, ridding yourself of restlessness altogether and achieving the deep, restorative sleep you deserve.
Download or read book Close Your Eyes written by Kate Banks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little tiger takes an imaginative journey The little tiger lay on his back in the tall grass. "Close your eyes, little tiger," said his mother, "and go to sleep." But the little tiger is worried about what sleep might bring. His mother reassures him that once he closes his eyes, he will dream of magical places. And when he awakens, she will be right there, waiting for him. Alternating between real-life scenes with the baby tiger and his mother and enchanted dream scenes of sleep's possibilities, Kate Banks's simple, comforting text and Georg Hallensleben's bright, colorful illustrations make this a charming bedtime story for small children. Close Your Eyes is a 2002 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year and a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book Dement s Sleep Dreams written by Rafael Pelayo and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook for a college level science class on sleep and sleep disorders.
Download or read book Metallica Back to the Front written by Matt Taylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the creation of the Master of puppets album and the subsequent tour.
Download or read book Wheeler s Journey written by Mary Leah and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheeler’s Journey By: Mary Leah Wheeler’s Journey begins in Missouri. A group travel west, settling the land by living on it for five years. Follow along their journey and witness the encounters that face them along the way.
Download or read book Teenage Rebels written by Kaiwen Leong and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You think the teenagers of today have it good? That their struggles are merely First World pains? Or only kids from broken families go bad? Think again. Negative influences are lurking at every corner and money can buy anything. For everything else, there is the Internet. Want friends? Join an online cult. Want drugs? Click and DIY. Want to forge? Learn how with web videos. Want porn? Upload your own. When such disturbing influences combine with an oppressive pressure to fit in, some teens stick to the straight path society has laid out, while others stray into dark alleys, only to be trapped, committing crimes or developing psychological problems that ruin them, leaving their futures in shambles. Through interviews, experience, and research, the authors expose stories of seemingly normal teens from average Singaporean families. Hear their voices and understand their mindsets. After all, beneath the rosy-cheeked exterior of that sweet child across the road lurks a possible future social psychopath Author Dr Kaiwen Leong is an economist, entrepreneur, lecturer and academic researcher. A graduate of Princeton University, he is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University. He is also an Associate Faculty Member at the Singapore Institute of Management, and consults for many private sector organisations, including Singapore Business Federation and Oxford Economics. His autobiography Singapore’s Lost Son: How I Made It From Dropout to Princeton PhD was published in 2012.
Download or read book The Burn Journals written by Brent Runyon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Running with Scissors, and Girl, Interrupted will be entranced by this remarkable true story of teenage despair and recovery. “[The Burn Journals] describes a particular kind of youthful male desolation better than it has ever been described before, by anyone.” —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities. During that year of physical recovery, Runyon began to question what he’d done, undertaking the complicated journey from near-death back to high school, and from suicide back to the emotional mainstream of life.
Download or read book Capture the Wind for Me written by Brandilyn Collins and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant and powerful conclusion to the Bradleyville series finds 15-year-old Jackie Delham running the household and playing mommy to her two younger siblings. A year and a half after her mother's funeral, the possibility arises for new love to enter the life of Jackie . . . and that of her father. As love whirls through two generations, the Delham family is buffeted by loss, hope, elation, and tears.
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Download or read book Letting Go written by Madelyn Heller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people struggle with change at some point. Sometimes, the change is easy to make; at other times, it is extremely difficult. Letting Go tells the story of two ordinary, but very different, people, each with a difficulty that must be surmounted before they can move on with their lives. What happens as they work through their individual dilemmas has an impact on each of them, and also influences the lives of those who are closest to them.
Download or read book Still Alive written by Annie Ortiz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will and Clair Christian can't remember a life without violence. Ever since they can remember, their mother has ignored them and their father has abused them. Will does everything he can to keep his father focused on him instead of his sister. This seems to be working out fairly well until, suddenly, the beatings stop and Clair begins acting very strange. As he begins provoking his father in any way he can, he also begins to notice how his father ignores him or stops advancing on him when Clair enters the room. It isn't until Will learns of a horrible transaction his father made that he realizes what he must do. He has to tell someone of what his father is doing or watch the both of them die.
