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Author: Jennifer Quist
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781927535158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a novel for everyone who has ever been happily married -- and for everyone who would like to be. Reminiscent of the work of David Bergen and Barbara Gowdy, Love Letters of the Angels of Death heralds the arrival of a formidable literary voice.
Author: Jennifer Quist
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781927535165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Parallax Press
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1937006387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world-renowned Zen monk argues for a more mindful, spiritual approach to environmental protection and activism—one that recognizes people and planet as one and the same While many experts point to the enormous complexity in addressing issues ranging from the destruction of ecosystems to the loss of millions of species, Thich Nhat Hanh identifies one key issue as having the potential to create a tipping point. He believes that we need to move beyond the concept of the “environment,” as it leads people to experience themselves and Earth as two separate entities and to see the planet only in terms of what it can do for them. Thich Nhat Hanh points to the lack of meaning and connection in peoples’ lives as being the cause of our addiction to consumerism. He deems it vital that we recognize and respond to the stress we are putting on the Earth if civilization is to survive. Rejecting the conventional economic approach, Nhat Hanh shows that mindfulness and a spiritual revolution are needed to protect nature and limit climate change. Love Letter to the Earth is a hopeful book that gives us a path to follow by showing that change is possible only with the recognition that people and the planet are ultimately one and the same.
Author: Sukey Forbes
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0143127578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After losing her daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, life for Sukey Forbes is completely shattered. As devastated as she is, Forbes searches for ways to deal with her grief. She wants desperately to recover a full, meaningful life on the private island of Naushon where she and her family live. Forbes begins exploring her family's rich history of spiritual seekers, including her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who similarly lost a young child.
Author: Ava Dellaira
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-04
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0374346674
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.
Author: Norman J. Fried
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sitting at the bedsides of children with life-threatening cancer, Fried has been sadly fortunate to hear their messages of hope and love, which have taught him how to help those they were leaving behind. This is his extraordinary book based on his experiences.
Author: Niall Williams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1632863197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Niall Williams's internationally bestselling “delicate and graceful love story . . . a magical work of fiction” (NYTBR), now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne. Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She's a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play. Years later, Isabel will continue to somehow blame herself, casting off her own chances for happiness. And then, the day after Isabel's wedding to man she doesn't love, Nicholas arrives on her western isle, seeking his father's last surviving painting. Suddenly the winds of fortune begin to shift, sweeping both these souls up with them. Nicholas and Isabel, it seems, were always meant to meet. But it will take a series of chance events-and perhaps, a proper miracle-to convince both to follow their hearts to where they're meant to be.
Author: Hal Schroeder
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2013-04-04
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781481285575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Love Letters from an Angel helps us remember how to access the joy within. Read one of Angel Hal's letters each day and be enlightened to the divinity within each of us. Awaken to the actuality that we are unlimited, and are a vital piece of the very fabric of Heaven. Read about spiritual ways to deal with every affliction known to man, including depression. Learn about the reality of possessions and what keeps us from Heaven itself by our insisting on holding onto nothingness.
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Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780452275942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The late John Cheever once insisted that saving a letter is like trying to preserve a kiss. Luckily for us, the loved ones of great writers ranging from Sappho to Anne Sexton, from Anton Chekhov to Mr. Cheever himself have ignored that clever dictum. In more than one hundred of the most powerful, witty, wicked and whimsical letters ever written, we chronicle passion's erratic progress. Why should Marcus Aurelius's amorous words sit side by side with John Steinbeck's letter to the woman who inspired much of his late work? Distinguished scholar Cathy Davidson argues that the love letter is a form of literature all its own, a genre whose language may have changed from ancient Rome to twentieth-century America but whose basic form and content remain the same. For if all literature is a kind of seduction, then the love letter becomes the perfect vehicle for writers to hone their seductive skills. With novelistic flair, Ms. Davidson has arranged these letters as though they were all part of one romance - a romance in which any of us may have played a part. From the joy of Falling in Love to the pain of Unrequited Love, we chart the evolution of that most hard-to-define emotion. These pages are filled with glorious examples of writers being just like the rest of humanity, to wit: willing to stake so much on what at times seems like nothing more than a promise and an act of faith. How delightful to discover the master of light verse Ogden Nash writing tenderly to a woman he first saw across a crowded room nine months earlier: This is a particularly gifted and intelligent pen. Look what it's writing now: I love you. That's a phrase I can't get out of my head - but I don't want to. I'vewanted to try it out for a long time; I like the look of it and the sound of it and the meaning of it. Of course what writers do better than anyone else is to write about love. Through Ms. Davidson's deft touch, The Book of Love becomes a treasure trove of literary discovery. She
