Download or read book The Smell of Rain on Dust written by Martín Prechtel and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written and wise … [Martin Prechtel] offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply."—Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martín Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture--how the inability that many of us have to grieve and weep properly for the dead is deeply linked with the inability to give praise for living. In modern society, grief is something that we usually experience in private, alone, and without the support of a community. Yet, as Prechtel says, "Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses." Prechtel explains that the unexpressed grief prevalent in our society today is the reason for many of the social, cultural, and individual maladies that we are currently experiencing. According to Prechtel, "When you have two centuries of people who have not properly grieved the things that they have lost, the grief shows up as ghosts that inhabit their grandchildren." These "ghosts," he says, can also manifest as disease in the form of tumors, which the Maya refer to as "solidified tears," or in the form of behavioral issues and depression. He goes on to show how this collective, unexpressed energy is the long-held grief of our ancestors manifesting itself, and the work that can be done to liberate this energy so we can heal from the trauma of loss, war, and suffering. At base, this "little book," as the author calls it, can be seen as a companion of encouragement, a little extra light for those deep and noble parts in all of us.

Download or read book Open Ice Hit written by Marina Vivancos and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicki and Tommy aren't just enemies on the ice-they're explosive off it too...in more ways than one. Noah Viklund doesn't play hockey in order to make friends. That's not what the game means to him. And he especially can't stand the Sea Dog's new rookie, Tommy Tremblay. After all, Tommy's the sort of player that gets under Vicki's skin. He's reckless. He's wild. And he won't take anything seriously. But when a chance meeting during the offseason shows Vicki what a good boy Tommy can be for him, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep seeing him as the bad guy. After all, how can he hate the only man who has ever made him feel worthy? Tommy is tired of Vicki's stuck-up, holier-than-thou attitude. He's fought hard to get where he is, and he's not going to let some tightly wound guy make him feel like he doesn't deserve his hard-won success. So, he can't explain why they keep falling into bed together, or why he's starting to fall for the man he's supposed to hate. They both know this shouldn't work, but the more they try to push each other away, the more their souls seem to connect. The question is, will they find a way for their hearts to be vulnerable and let love in? Open Ice Hit is a steamy MM romance set between the fictional NHL teams of the Brooklyn Phantoms and the Queens Sea Dogs. It contains hate that might not quite be hate, team as found family, sick goals from soft hands, some really stinky marine animals, praise kink a mile wide, and an unexpected journey that might just be worth taking.

Download or read book written by Isaac E. Washington and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wake up... you are not in the same world you recognize as yesterday. You know the place you are in, it is definitely familiar, but there is something about this place. You have been here before but yet you do not remember being here at all. Your life has already been written between these thin lines and now they are being read as you live through them. Please meet Derek and Marina... take a magical journey amongst the stars as they live their young lives through time and travel. Two loved ones who have been waiting to meet each other since the beggening of time. A beautiful gift that gave Marina the power to see the future is now haunting her every moment they are together, and she cannot let go. Derek is in harm's way, but destiny will not let these two go on any longer. It is sad, but it is true, that once the stars are set, nothing can deny fate....

Download or read book Be Still My Heart written by Pasqualina C. Buono and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many torments can life bring to a young, beautiful, dark haired, blue eyed girl named Elisabeth who has fallen in love with blinders on with the wrong type of boy while another charismatic, handsome boy vows his never ending love for her. Will his delinquent love for her win her over? Will it be enough for her to stay with him or will she choose the other? Will she make the right decision? Will her family accept whatever decision she makes? What if she makes the wrong decision?

Download or read book Country of the Bad Wolfes written by James Carlos Blake and published by Bedford Square Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning epic about the making of a borderland crime family, Country of the Bad Wolfes will appeal both to aficionados of family sagas and to fans of hard-knuckled crime novels by the likes of Donald Pollack, Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and James Ellroy. Basing the novel partly on his own ancestors, Blake presents the story of the Wolfe family - spanning three generations, centring on two sets of identical twins and the women they love, and ranging from New England to the heart of Mexico before arriving at its powerful climax at the Rio Grande. Begat by an Irish-English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828, the Wolfe family follows its manifest destiny into war-torn Mexico. There, through the connection of a mysterious American named Edward Little, their fortunes intertwine with those of Porfirio Díaz, who will rule the country for more than thirty years before his overthrow by the Revolution of 1910. In the course of those tumultuous chapters in American and Mexican history, as Díaz grows in power, the Wolfes grow rich and forge a violent history of their own, spawning a fearsome legacy that will pursue them to a climactic reckoning at the Río Grande.

Download or read book A PrisoneraEUR tm s Cry written by Johnny Paul Collins B.Th and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The citizens of the world as we know it currently feel more lost, confused, hopeless, helpless, and angry than they have ever felt in remembrance of time past. Many have no idea what is going on with the occurrence of catastrophe after a catastrophe that is plaguing the nations of the earth, from wars, droughts, food shortages, and newly emerging diseases, and most have an expectation that things are only going to get worse from this point moving forward, both in the short-term and long-term. Consequently, an undertone of apprehension, uncertainty, and a healthy fear of what may be coming next upon the earth have all left the populations of our world rightly on edge. In A Prisoner's Cry: Look Up, Your Redemption Draws Near!, Minister Johnny Paul Collins provides us with a biblically sound and evidence-based explanation for the seven sorrows that are currently distressing mankind, and he warns of the additional sufferings for many that are on the way. Through the biblical--time-specific--promise of our Lord, hope is provided for the saved, and forewarning is given for those unbelieving and wicked inhabitants of the earth who continue to resist and oppose God.

Download or read book Play Readings written by Rob Urbinati and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Readings: A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners demystifies the standards and protocols of a play reading, demonstrating how to create effective and evocative readings for those new to or inexperienced with the genre. It examines all of the essential considerations involved in readings, including the use of the venue, pre-reading preparations, playwright/director communication, editing/adapting stage directions, casting, using the limited rehearsal time effectively, simple "staging" suggestions, working with actors, handling complex stage directions, talkbacks, and limiting the use of props, costumes, and music. A variety of readings are covered, including readings of musicals, operas, and period plays, for comprehensive coverage of this increasingly prevalent production form.

Download or read book The Complete Works Including the Suppressed Poems and Supplementary Pieces Selected from His Papers After His Death written by Lord Byron and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Annunciationist written by Kenneth Kuenster and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annunciationist is the story of an American painter, Martin, obsessed with the meaning and significance of paintings of the Annunciation. With this obsession, Martin sets off to view Annunciation paintings in Europe. In the process, he finds models for his own paintings. Eventually, Martin finishes three Annunciation paintings peopled by his models from his travels. They are installed in a beautiful white stone gallery his friend Orlando has built for them in Greece. There, his work looks out over the Aegean Sea, long after his own unexpected demise.

Download or read book Mapping Multimodal Performance Studies written by Maria Grazia Sindoni and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on traditional performing arts (theatre, dance, opera), live (durational performance) and mediated/recorded performances (films, television shows), as well as performative discursive practices on social media by adopting several theories and methodologies all dealing with the notion of multimodality. As a mostly dynamic and also interactive environment for various text types and genres, the context of performance studies provides many opportunities to produce meaning verbally and non-verbally. All chapters in this book develop frameworks for the analysis of performance-related events and activities and explore empirical case studies in a range of different ages and cultures. A further focus lies on the communicative strategies deployed by different communities of practice, taking into account processes of production, distribution, and consumption of such texts in diverse spatial and temporal contexts.

Download or read book Motherless written by Erin Healy and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WHISPERING VOICE at the BACK of MY MIND REMINDS ME that I’VE BEEN THIS WAY for SOME TIME. DEAD, THAT IS. The dead have a very broad view of the living, of actions performed out of sight, of thoughts believed to be private. I would know. Losing both parents is a trial no child should endure, and Marina and Dylan have endured enough. They deserve the one thing I could never give them: a mother’s love. A mother’s love, and the truth. My children have believed a lie about me for years and years. After all this time I can still feel their hurt in my heart. But the tether holding me to them is frayed from years of neglect . . . and I have to find a way to make my confession before it snaps. But when the truth comes out, what other beasts will I unleash? “Why do we lie to the children?” someone asked me once. “To protect them,” I answered. How terrible it is that they need protection from me.

Download or read book New World Metaphysics written by Giles B. Gunn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians have drawn on religious themes and images to express the meaning of their encounter with America. Here, in more than one hundred selections, is the record of their quest for a New World metaphysics -- a spiritual vision or ultimate idea of order expressive of the American experience.

Download or read book Be Quiet Marina written by Kirsten DeBear and published by Star Bright Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina and Moira like playing together, but Marina is noisy and Moira like quiet. How two preschoolers, one with Cerebral Palsy and one with Down syndrome, become best friends is beautifully told in words and photographs.

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Download or read book Big Girls Don t Cry written by Francesca Clementis and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marina has spent most of her adult life on a diet. And although big girls aren't supposed to cry, in Marina's experience, they don't have much fun either. But when scientist David Sandhurst invites her to enrol in a test for a miracle weight-loss drug, Marina thinks her prayers have been answered. Soon enough, Marina discovers that she's losing those excess pounds and gaining confidence. She's waving goodbye to her hips and hello to an exciting social life - and a whole new set of problems . . .

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