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Author | : Bridget Kinsella |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
When a friend who taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison asked Bridget Kinsella to read the work of one of his best students, she readily agreed. As a publishing professional, Kinsella was used to getting manuscripts from all sorts of sources. She had no idea that her correspondence with a convicted murderer serving life without parole would lead to a relationship that would change her life forever. In this brutally honest memoir, Kinsella shares how she stumbled into a relationship with a lifer and became part of a sorority she never thought she'd join. Over the course of three years, she spends time with and ultimately befriends the wives, girlfriends, and mothers of some inmates at Pelican Bay. On this unexpected journey, she learns of the hurdles, heartbreaks, and hopes they have for their relationships as she experiences a connection with someone who helps heal her own wounds.--From publisher description.
Author | : Jessica Francis Kane |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2020-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525559248 |
“An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship, family, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven The national bestseller and an Indie Next List pick Name a Best Book of the Year by O Magazine • Good Housekeeping • Real Simple • Vulture • Chicago Tribune Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Today Show • Good Morning America • Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Southern Living Shortlisted for the 2020 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Long-listed for the 2020 Tournament of Books Dry, witty, and unapologetic, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends. Smart, funny, and full of compassion, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own. With simplicity and honesty, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book, with its beautiful contemplation of travel, trees, family, and friendship, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times.
Author | : Allan Kellehear |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2020-07-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780231182140 |
This book is about how, when, and why our dead visit us. Allan Kellehear--a medical sociologist and expert on death, dying, and palliative care--has gathered data and conducted studies on deathbed visions across cultures.
Author | : Bridget A. Walsh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1000300862 |
Research on home visiting shows that Early Head Start (EHS) home-based programs benefit from additional training and resources that streamline philosophy and content. In this essential guide, Walsh and Mortensen propose that alignment with Family Life Education’s (FLE) strengths-based methodology results in greater consistency through a model of prevention, education, and collaboration with families. This text is the first to outline linkages between FLE and EHS home visiting. It explores a qualitative study of FLE integrated in a current EHS home-based program and application of FLE methodology to home visiting topics. This approach will influence professional practice and provide a foundation for developing evidence-based home visiting practices. Online content accompanies the text, with videos demonstrating the FLE approach in action and discussion questions to encourage engagement with and understanding of the core material. Transforming Early Head Start Home Visiting: A Family Life Education Approach is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and masters students in family studies and early childhood education, as well as practitioners working with children and families.
Author | : Doug Simpson |
Publisher | : Next Chapter |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2024-05-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
After an unusual accident, Duke meets Duchess. She has suffered a concussion and since she's just arrived to the city, she has no relatives or friends to stay with during her recovery. Duke feels responsible for her condition and insists to be be her caregiver for a week. Soon, they begin to develop feelings for each other. Months later, Duke surprises Duchess when he asks if she believes in the reincarnation of our souls. Duchess had never thought of the subject but she's interested in learning more. After listening to the recordings where he discovered some interesting past lifetimes, Duchess is so intrigued by the information recorded on Duke’s four CDs that she is eager to discover more about her own past lives. What unfolds will change both of their lives.
Author | : Sheila Coghill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Anthology of work by eighty poets explores the life and influence of Emily Dickinson. Poems written in traditional and experimental forms. Includes the following poets: Archibald MacLeish, John Berry man, Yvor Winters, Adrienne Rich, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, Amy Clampitt, William Stafford, and Galway Kinnell.
Author | : Joy Williams |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101874902 |
The definitive story collection “by one of the most celebrated American short-story writers…. Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over” (Vanity Fair). Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. At long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar. Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and each one of them is available here.
Author | : Jeanette M. Jabour |
Publisher | : Twenty-Third Publications |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781585956319 |
In this lovely and inviting book, Sr. Jeanette shares her experiences of visiting the elderly. Her advice is warm and welcoming, and she is an experienced guide. It is her fond hope that those who read it will embrace the ministry of visiting the elderly--and sometimes forgotten--members of the parish, to share stories, to pray together, and to grow spiritually together. She believes that this ministry is lifegiving, affirming for the elders, and an essential aspect of parish life.
Author | : Mary Ann Kelty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1853 |
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Author | : Jeanne E. Arnold |
Publisher | : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1938770900 |
Winner of the 2014 John Collier Jr. Award Winner of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century cross-cuts the ranks of important books on social history, consumerism, contemporary culture, the meaning of material culture, domestic architecture, and household ethnoarchaeology. It is a distant cousin of Material World and Hungry Planet in content and style, but represents a blend of rigorous science and photography that these books can claim. Using archaeological approaches to human material culture, this volume offers unprecedented access to the middle-class American home through the kaleidoscopic lens of no-limits photography and many kinds of never-before acquired data about how people actually live their lives at home. Based on a rigorous, nine-year project at UCLA, this book has appeal not only to scientists but also to all people who share intense curiosity about what goes on at home in their neighborhoods. Many who read the book will see their own lives mirrored in these pages and can reflect on how other people cope with their mountains of possessions and other daily challenges. Readers abroad will be equally fascinated by the contrasts between their own kinds of materialism and the typical American experience. The book will interest a range of designers, builders, and architects as well as scholars and students who research various facets of U.S. and global consumerism, cultural history, and economic history.