The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2024-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1668034654

Reowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is pitted against Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protegee, as they disagree on the analysis of a crime they began working together.

The Goblin and the Empty Chair

The Goblin and the Empty Chair
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2009-09-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416985859

A goblin who for many years has been hiding himself so that he does not frighten anyone finally finds a family.

The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
Author: Bruce Wagner
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101630744

Composed of two companion novellas, The Empty Chair is a profound, heart-wrenching piece of spiritual storytelling from Bruce Wagner, the internationally acclaimed author of such novels as Dead Stars, I’m Losing You and Force Majeure. In First Guru, a fictional Wagner narrates the tale of a Buddhist living in Big Sur, who achieves enlightenment in the horrific aftermath of his child’s suicide. In Second Guru, Queenie, an aging wild child, returns to India to complete the spiritual journey of her youth. Told in ravaged, sensuous detail to the author-narrator by two strangers on opposite sides of the country, years apart from each other, both stories illuminate the random, chaotic nature of human suffering and the miraculous strength of the human spirit. A deeply affecting and meditative reading experience, The Empty Chair is an exquisitely rendered, thought-provoking, and humbling new work.

The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
Author: Susan J. R.N. Zonnebelt-Smeenge, Ed.D
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2001-09-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1585582026

Losing a loved one--whether a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend--leaves people feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. Holidays and other special occasions seem to intensify the pain. Whether the occasion is Christmas or Easter, a birthday or anniversary, these celebrations force the bereaved to again face the reality of a loved one's absence. Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge and Robert C. De Vries know firsthand the sorrow of bereavement: Both lost a spouse. Yet as they faced their pain and gleaned insights from their professions--Susan is a psychologist, Robert, a minister--they found renewed richness on special days that once brought heartache. In The Empty Chair, the authors share a comforting blend of emotional support, spiritual guidance, and personal experience to help readers honor their loved one on important days. Those who support the bereaved--mental-health professionals, pastors, funeral home staff, and others--will also appreciate this book for its reflective yet practical approach.

The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
Author: Raymond I. Keffer
Publisher: CSS Publishing
Total Pages: 15
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0788018337

Written for a Thanksgiving service, this program in readers' theater format is set in a restaurant where a pastor has taken four young people out to dinner. Although there are only five in the party, the pastor asks for a table for six. The story unfolds as the pastor explains why he has requested an extra place setting and chair.

The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
Author: Vikram Kolmannskog
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429840551

Through eight compelling stories we get to know the Gestalt therapist Vikram Kolmannskog and some of his clients. These include the businessman Carl who is suffering from chronic burnout, the overwhelmed Marianne who believes she may have been the victim of sexual assualt, the trans woman Annette who breaks with dominant gender norms, the prisoner Jonny who is now encircled by his own self-made wall of isolation, and the beautiful Ask, who falls in love and others fall in love with - including the therapist Vikram. Through these tales of psychotherapy we see how both suffering and healing can occur. With increased awareness and through dialogue we can experience more of ourselves, the other and our world. We become more whole - and that is a good definition of health.

No Empty Chairs

No Empty Chairs
Author: Ian Mackersey
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0297859951

The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. 'This moving book uses letters and diaries to evoke the terrible cost of such warfare...Sleepless nights, separated lovers and grieving parents are recalled with painful immediacy in this meticulously researched tribute to those who died or were lucky enough to survive' DAILY MAIL The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of their commander-in-chief was the missing aviators were to be immediately replaced. Before the new faces could arrive, the departed men's vacant seats at the squadron dinner table were sometimes poignantly occupied by their caps and boots, placed there in a sad ritual by their surviving colleagues as they drank to their memory. Life for most of the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps was appallingly short. If they graduated alive and unmaimed from the flying training that killed more than half of them before they reached the front line, only a few would for very long survive the daily battles they fought over the ravaged moonscape of no-man's-land. Their average life expectancy at the height of the war was measured only in weeks. Parachutes that began to save their German enemies were denied them. Fear of incarceration, and the daily spectacle of watching close colleagues die in burning aircraft, took a devastating toll on the nerves of the world's first fighter pilots. Many became mentally ill. As they waited for death, or with luck the survivable wound that would send them back to 'Blighty', they poured their emotions into their diaries and streams of letters to their loved ones at home. Drawing on these remarkable testimonies and pilots' memoirs, Ian Mackersey has brilliantly reconstructed the First Great Air War through the lives of its participants. As they waited to die, the men shared their loneliness, their fears, triumphs - and squadron gossip - with the families who lived in daily dread of the knock on the door that would bring the War Office telegram in its fateful green envelope.

The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
Author: Mike Boxhall
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Self-actualization (Psychology)
ISBN: 9781846247064

Teacher and therapist Mike Boxhall draws on years of experience with thousands of students to offer a path to spiritual freedom. From a starting point of stillness, he leads readers on a challenging but ultimately rewarding path of discovery.

Living with an Empty Chair

Living with an Empty Chair
Author: Roberta Temes
Publisher: New Horizon Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1992
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780882821108

Identifies the stages of grief, looks at how children face death, and discusses suicide, bereavement, counseling, symptoms of grief, insomnia, letters of condolence, and widowhood

The Empty Chair

The Empty Chair
Author: Naḥman (of Bratslav)
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1879045672

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) is best known for stories that possess profound depth and speak to the very soul. To others, his teachings shed light on some of the deepest mysteries. Here, is timeless wisdom, adapted by disciplines living in Jerusalem today, reaches out to us all: Never lose hope. Find joy and cause for happiness in everything that happens to you.