Dance, Laugh, Eat Cake

Dance, Laugh, Eat Cake
Author: Jacqueline Landeen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780966393019

Author Jacqueline Landeen who it has been said is the M.F.K. Fisher of the 21st Century -- with an edge, has once again combined her talents as chef, choreographer, and author to give readers a truly delightful and insightful combination of food essays and recipes. Known for her innovative cooking style and combinations of foods in recipes, Jacqueline has written a fun and provocative look at Americans' obsession with food and how we can use food to enhance and balance how we live. Jacqueline says it best in her book -- Smell it. Taste it. Move. Catch a story groove. Slice, dice, cook up life. Savor your own kicking bite. Dance, Laugh, Eat Cake. Now you're ready to uncomplicate.

Hurt, Healing, Healed

Hurt, Healing, Healed
Author: Emma Mumford
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1786786788

A uniquely powerful take on emotional healing that combines super-charged manifestation skills and the Law of Attraction with deep healing work, by award-winning spiritual coach and mentor Emma Mumford. This is the only book on the Law of Attraction vou need. Take your manifestation powers to the next level and change your life forever. This is Spiritual Queen Emma Mumford's practical guide to identifying and releasing the limiting beliefs, fears and blocks that stop you from manifesting your desires. Using the Law of Attraction and other spiritual methods, Hurt Healing Healed offers a programme of inner healing techniques to help you to find freedom from the past and heal your emotional pain and trauma. Emma's simple and accessible techniques include: Working through sources of pain in your past Exploring and raising your inner vibration and energy Reconnecting to your true self with unconditional love Exploring your personal history and rewriting limiting beliefs Overcoming your blockages and resistance to reignite your manifesting powers "Emma Mumford presents an essential guide for those ready to embark upon the path to high vibes and healing." – KYLE GRAY, bestselling author of Raise Your Vibration "Emma Mumford's tools really work and will get you the manifestation results you want." – MEL ROBBINS, author of the New York Times bestseller The High 5 Habit

The Hidden Masterpiece Collection

The Hidden Masterpiece Collection
Author: Kristy Cambron
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0718042689

Kristy Cambron's Hidden Masterpiece novels are now available as an e-collection! The Butterfly and the Violin A mysterious painting breathes hope and beauty into the darkest corners of Auschwitz—and the loneliest hearts of Manhattan. A Sparrow in Terezin Bound together across time, two women will discover a powerful connection through one survivor’s story of hope in the darkest days of a war-torn world.

The Butterfly and the Violin

The Butterfly and the Violin
Author: Kristy Cambron
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1401690602

Based on the real orchestra composed of prisoners at Auschwitz, The Butterfly and the Violin shows how beauty and hope can penetrate even the darkest corners. Present day: Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her heart is still fragile. Her desire for distraction reignites a passion for a mysterious portrait she first saw as a young girl—a painting of a young violinist with piercing blue eyes. In her search for the painting, Sera crosses paths with William Hanover—the grandson of a wealthy California real estate mogul—who may be the key to uncovering the hidden masterpiece. Together Sera and William slowly unravel the story behind the painting’s subject: Austrian violinist Adele Von Bron. 1942: A darling of the Austrian aristocracy, talented violinist, and daughter to a high-ranking member of the Third Reich, Adele Von Bron risks everything when she begins smuggling Jews out of Vienna. In a heartbeat, her life of prosperity and privilege dissolves into a world of starvation and barbed wire. As Sera untangles the secrets behind the painting, she finds beauty in the most unlikely places: the grim concentration camps of Auschwitz and the inner recesses of her own troubled heart. “Cambron expertly weaves together multiple plotlines, timelines, and perspectives to produce a poignant tale of the power of love and faith in difficult circumstances. Those interested in stories of survival and the Holocaust, such as Eli Wiesel’s Night, will want to read.” —Library Journal, starred review Stand-alone World War II historical fiction Full-length novel, approximately 115,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also available from Kristy Cambron: The Italian Ballerina, The Paris Dressmaker, The Lost Castle, The Ringmaster’s Wife, and The Illusionist’s Apprentice

In The End, It Was All About Love

In The End, It Was All About Love
Author: Musa Okwonga
Publisher: Rough Trade Books
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2021-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1912722976

The narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only to discover that the problems which have long haunted him have arrived there too, and are more present than ever. As he approaches his fortieth birthday, nearing the age where his father was killed in a brutal revolution, he drifts through this endlessly addictive and sometimes mystical city, through its slow days and bottomless nights, wondering whether he will ever escape the damage left by his father's death. With the world as a whole more uncertain, as both the far-right and global temperatures rise at frightening speed, he finds himself fighting a fierce inner battle against his turbulent past, for a future free of his fear of failure, of persecution, and of intimacy. In The End, It Was All About Love is a journey of loss and self-acceptance that takes its nameless narrator all the way through bustling Berlin to his roots, a quiet village on the Uganda-Sudan border. It is a bracingly honest story of love, sexuality and spirituality, of racism, dating, and alienation; of fleeing the greatest possible pain, and of the hopeful road home.

Little Marie Grows Up

Little Marie Grows Up
Author: LM Phillips
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1489730389

In this Tale Marie remembers the past when she was “Little Marie”, a time when her life was affected by abuse. But something magical happens leading to her real fairytale that brings healing to many. She finds herself telling the tale like never before in a new adventure that brings her closer to her “happily ever after”.

Destination Fabulous

Destination Fabulous
Author: Anna Murphy
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2023-03-02
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1784728527

'Full of uplifting advice, practical wisdom and kind intelligence: I certainly felt more fabulous after reading it.' Elizabeth Day 'Brilliant - absolutely brilliant!' Lorraine Kelly 'A witty, warm, wise and illuminating guide to how to be your best self, inside and out. Deliciously upbeat and brimful of positivity, it's a perfect roadmap for the years ahead. I loved it.' Mariella Frostrup 'Finally a book that challenges our tedious fixation with youth and turns the old rules about ageing upside down and inside out. With practical advice and spiritual insights, Destination Fabulous offers the kind of life-affirming guidance for womanhood I only wish I had known when I was 20.' Chioma Nnadi, vogue.com 'Anna Murphy joyfully reframes the gift of growing up, and older.' Kenya Hunt 'A joyous celebration of the pleasures of growing older, and an empowering manifesto for changing our attitudes to age.' Justine Picardie 'Perhaps the most important thing I have learned when it comes to appearance is that looking your best self is, more than anything, about what is going on inside. The more fully realised you are, the more you find your purpose, the more that will shine out of you and the better you will look.' Anna Murphy From the Fashion Director of The Times comes a wise, inspiring and invigorating guide to making the most of life as a grown-up woman - from the practical (how to dress your best) to the existential (how to feel your best). At 50, Anna Murphy feels more visible than at any point in her life to date. Her new book, Destination Fabulous, is the toolkit you need to embrace your age and celebrate the wisdom and inner beauty that comes with it. It's not about impossible goals. It's not about running a marathon (unless you want it to be). It's not about denying the ageing process, nor attempting to erase its signs. It's not about letting everything go, either. It's about balance. It's about the possible and the present. And it's about the future you want. How do you lift and smooth your face naturally? Should you go grey, and, if so, how? How do you deal with menopause? Anna combines her knowledge from years of writing about fashion and beauty with her openness to the alternative ways of thinking found in disciplines such as yoga and Chinese medicine. For her natural is always best. As for fashion, Anna knows better than anyone that this can be the ultimate route into surfacing the true you. She shares all her tricks for finding your way to a wardrobe that will transform not just the way you look but the way you feel. And she shares the highlights of her conversations over the years with super-stylish agers such as Iris Apfel and Miuccia Prada. How have they got it right? Drawing on the wisdom of writers as diverse as Pema Chödrön and Eckhart Tolle, Dorothy Rowe and Osho, Nora Ephron and Mary Oliver, she writes about saying goodbye to what doesn't serve you and welcoming what does; about forging relationships that work for you as well as others; and about finding your purpose, whether in your personal or professional life. Discover how the bumps on her road have helped her find her way to her true path. Her hope is that this book will help you to find yours, too.

Skye Falling

Skye Falling
Author: Mia McKenzie
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984801627

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A woman who’s used to going solo discovers that there’s one relationship she can’t run away from in this “hilarious, electric” (The New York Times) novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER• ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, Autostraddle, Shondaland • “A new kind of love story, the best kind.”—Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody’s Daughter When she was twenty-six and broke, Skye didn’t think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye still moves through life entirely—and unrepentantly—on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Maybe her junior high classmates weren’t wrong when they voted her “Most Likely to Be Single” instead of “Most Ride-or-Die Homie,” but at least she’s always been free to do as she pleases. Then a twelve-year-old girl tracks Skye down during one of her brief visits to her hometown of Philadelphia and informs Skye that she’s “her egg.” Skye’s life is thrown into sharp relief and she decides that it might be time to actually try to have a meaningful relationship with another human being. Spoiler alert: It’s not easy. Things get even more complicated when Skye realizes that the woman she tried and failed to pick up the other day is the girl’s aunt, and now it’s awkward. All the while, her brother is trying to get in touch, her mother is being bewilderingly kind, and the West Philly pool halls and hoagie shops of her youth have been replaced by hipster cafés. With its endearingly prickly narrator and a cast of characters willing to both challenge her and catch her when she falls, this novel is a clever, moving portrait of a woman and the relationships she thought she could live without.

The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction

The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction
Author: Heather Levy
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2010
Genre: Household employees in literature
ISBN: 9781433109409

The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction proposes an insight into the ways in which Virginia Woolf engaged with the questions of how class influences working women's occupation of private and public space and how material privilege or economic distress inhibits or encourages their likelihood of obtaining their intellectual, spiritual, and physical desires. This groundbreaking book uses class as the determining factor to assess how servants and working class women occupy private and public space and articulate or fail to realize their desires. Drawing upon published and unpublished holograph and typescript drafts of the shorter fiction in The Monks House Papers as well as the Berg Collection, this book examines Woolf's oscillating patterns of elision, idealization, and contempt for the voices and desires of female servants, lesbians, gypsies, and other disenfranchised women. The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction also assesses how the portrayal of working class women in the shorter fiction becomes a vital template for the representation of working class women in Woolf's novels and essays. This study of the cumulative portrayal of the working class woman in all of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction will also be compelling for anyone interested in social justice, especially for advocates of equality in gender/race/class/sexuality conflicts.

The Thorn and the Sinking Stone

The Thorn and the Sinking Stone
Author: CJ Dushinski
Publisher: Entangled: Teen
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1633751724

Warring families. Forbidden love. And danger they can't escape... Daggers. Roses. Cowboys. Boat Men. Survivors of Earth's Last War, four "families" vie to rule the dreary streets of Rain City through violence and blood. Valencia Hara, Princess of the wealthy Black Roses, is raised in warrior ways with sharpened steel. But she is no ordinary Rose. She is Cursed—tainted with the ability to see seconds into the future... To avenge his father's death, Sebastian Leold, of the rival gang Two Daggers, must face off against the Black Princess, he with his dagger, she with her katana sword. Yet a secret from a shared past leaves him unable to kill beautiful Valencia; nor can she kill him. For they once knew each other beyond their blood feud...and they have more secrets in common than they know. But in a world filled with vengeance and violence, there can be no room for love...