Download or read book Nowhere for Very Long written by Brianna Madia and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband. Nowhere for Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately told story of exploration—of the world outside and the spirit within. However, pursuing a life of intention isn’t always what it seems. In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate—when Bertha overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of South Dakota highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and her water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. But Brianna was committed to living a life true to herself, come what may, and that made all the difference. Nowhere for Very Long is the true story of a woman learning and unlearning, from backroads to breakdowns, from married to solo, and finally, from lost to found to lost again . . . this time, on purpose.

Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Happiness written by Fred Feldman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to an ancient and still popular view — sometimes known as 'eudaimonism' — a person's well-being, or quality of life, is ultimately determined by his or her level of happiness. According to this view, the happier a person is, the better off he is. The doctrine is controversial in part because the nature of happiness is controversial. In What Is This Thing Called Happiness? Fred Feldman presents a study of the nature and value of happiness. Part One contains critical discussions of the main philosophical and psychological theories of happiness. Feldman presents arguments designed to show that each of these theories is problematic. Part Two contains his presentation and defense of his own theory of happiness, which is a form of attitudinal hedonism. On this view, a person's level of happiness may be identified with the extent to which he or she takes pleasure in things. Feldman shows that if we understand happiness as he proposes, it becomes reasonable to suppose that a person's well-being is determined by his or her level of happiness. This view has important implications not only for moral philosophy, but also for the emerging field of hedonic psychology. Part Three contains discussions of some interactions between the proposed theory of happiness and empirical research into happiness.

Download or read book Worthy is the Child written by Richard A. Polzin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories presented to teach virtues.

Download or read book Hopes and Fears Or Scenes from the Life of a Spinster written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hopes and Fears or scenes from the life of a spinster written by Charlotte M. Yonge and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster" by Charlotte M. Yonge. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book One Woman s Century written by Kay Parley and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-04-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable, one-of-a-kind collection. Filled with insight, anecdotes, and fascinating snapshots from the past, ONE WOMAN'S CENTURY is a celebration of the life and work of iconic Saskatchewan author Kay Parley, covering the full scope of her work from 1938 all the way to 2024. That’s 86 years of her writing! At the age of 101, Kay is still going strong, with a regular column in Folklore Magazine and the Wolseley Bulletin. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Inside the Mental: Silence, Stigma, Psychiatry, and LSD about her time at the Weyburn Mental Institute in the 1950s, first as a patient, and then as a psychiatric nurse, and of the magical novel The Grass People about a world tucked out of sight beneath the leafy plants and tall grass we walk by every day, as well as the dark mystery The Monkey Vault. In 2019, Kay Parley was the subject of an award winning documentary, A Mind of Her Own, by filmmaker Judith Silverthorne. A talented painter, educator, and author, Kay worked with Lorne Greene at CBC Radio and taught sociology for many years at the Kelsey Institute in Saskatoon. ONE WOMAN’S CENTURY is the first comprehensive collection of her work, spanning the Dust Bowl of the Great Depression to the climate change of today. Timely, heart-felt and endlessly fascinating.

Download or read book Hopes and Fears Or Scenes from the Life of a Spinster written by Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hopes Fears written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bertha s Journal During a Visit to Her Uncle in England written by Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Above or Below written by Myrtle Jean Sharp and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle age couple sells their home in a large city to move to the mountains of Colorado and live mostly in exile while studying the nature of God's extraordinary beauty and unbelievable sculpture of the Master's hands. They had a contract with a large publishing company to write a book. Unfortunately they experienced a transformation of being in an unfamiliar atmosphere of human life. After returning to their own earthly home, they had no recollection of the unusual experience. While living in the mountains, the couple were plagued with aliens. The actual sight of them only happened twice, however they saw space ships and UFO's often. The angry, unwelcome aliens rigged the couples cabin to try and scare them out of their territory and make them leave. This couple had included in their book, the strange and threatening acts that was imposed upon them by the aliens, which made their enemies angry. After enduring these fearful threats for many months, the couple's fished manuscript was stolen out of their camper the night before thet were to deliver it to the publishers. They were broke and had nothing left to live on. An old hermit-type friend whom the couple had met w mountain cabin, died and left them his millions of dollars. Old Jim, who lived in a tent with a dug-out under it, just a short distance from the couples cabin, turned out to be the young man's long lost uncle who was a US spy working for the aliens. The young man gets kidnapped after he received the inheritance, but managed to escape with the help of an old gold prospector. The couple gets to build their million dollar "dream home" in the Cuchara Valley resort. They were never bothered with aliens again.

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Download or read book Bertha Size Your Life written by Jane Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertha-Size Your Life! Is a book of personal transformation that reads like a series of entertaining and humorous stories. Bertha, a zany redhead, mysteriously appears in the narrator's life during a walk in the park. Quicker than a man can hand off a baby with a dirty diaper, she has moved into the narrator's empty nest and the fun begins. You never know what Bertha will think up next from flying a hot air balloon to singing to her begonia, she's always up to something. Bertha delights in standing on her soapbox while dispensing down-home wisdom and perky advice, explaining The Law of Attraction in a refreshing, humor-filled, practical way that has the reader going aha! instead of humph! Throw in a conniving nemesis, an antagonistic cat, lime green spandex and high-heels and you've got a book that's sure to tickle your funny bone and leave you wearing your thinking cap as you read and reread each vignette.

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Download or read book Cats Prowl at Night written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with debtors turns deadly for a prickly PI in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Bats Fly at Dusk. A hot-headed widow and a glass-jawed ex-lawyer, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam seem like an unlikely duo of private detectives. Even so, they’ve managed to solve the most difficult of mysteries—when they’re together. With Donald now on a European vacation, Bertha is hesitant to accept any new business—but money is money, and this new case seems routine enough . . . Bertha is hired to get sales engineer Everett Belder out of a $20,000 problem. Unfortunately, his troubles soon multiply. His wife is receiving poisoned-pen letters accusing him of infidelity. Then she disappears. And there’s also the matter of the body in his cellar. With everything spiraling out of control, Bertha must determine who is behind this deadly game of cat and mouse before another murder comes into play. “No one has ever matched Gardner for swift, sure exposition.” —Kirkus Reviews “The best American writer, of course, is Erle Stanley Gardner.” —Evelyn Waugh