A Troubled Guest

A Troubled Guest
Author: Nancy Mairs
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807062494

Presents a series of personal essays concerning the author's life and her experiences with death, including the sudden death of her father, her mother's lingering illness and death, and her own suicide attempt.

A Troubled Guest

A Troubled Guest
Author: Nancy Mairs
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Presents a series of personal essays concerning the author's life and her experiences with death, including the sudden death of her father, her mother's lingering illness and death, and her own suicide attempt.

Just Folks

Just Folks
Author: Edgar A. Guest
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

This is an incredible book full of delightful poetry about everyday things. Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American poet who became known as the People's Poet because his poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.

The Essential Rumi

The Essential Rumi
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999
Genre: Persian poetry
ISBN: 9780140195798

Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.

Troubled Minds

Troubled Minds
Author: Amy Simpson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-04-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830843043

Reflecting on the confusion, shame and grief brought on by her mother's schizophrenia, Amy Simpson provides a bracing look at the social and physical realities of mental illness. Reminding us that people with mental illness are our neighbors and our brothers and sisters in Christ, she explores new possibilities for the church to minister to this stigmatized group.

Call Us What We Carry

Call Us What We Carry
Author: Amanda Gorman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0593465075

The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.