Gathering Noise from My Life

Gathering Noise from My Life
Author: Donald Anderson
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609382242

The noise gathered from a lifetime of engaging with war, race, religion, memory, illness, and family echoes through the vignettes, quotations, graffiti, and poetry that Donald Anderson musters here, fragments of the humor and horror of life, the absurdities that mock reason and the despair that yields laughter. Gathering Noise from My Life offers sonic shards of a tune at once jaunty and pessimistic, hopeful and hopeless, and a model for how we can make sense of the scraps of our lives. “We are where we’ve been and what we’ve read,” the author says, and gives us his youth in Montana, the family tradition of boxing, careers in writing and fighting, the words of Mike Tyson, Frederick the Great, Fran Lebowitz, and Shakespeare. In his camouflaged memoir, the award-winning short-story writer cobbles together the sources of the vision of life he has accrued as a consequence of his six decades of living and reading.

Rediscovering Silence

Rediscovering Silence
Author: Will Gray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734639704

In an increasingly noisy, distracting world, the idea of enjoying silence-healthy silence-has become for many people just a mirage. We talk about ""a little peace and quiet"" not because we experience it regularly, but because it's a joke we tell ourselves when we're overwhelmed. Silence is on the endangered experiences list. Today, if you're lik.

Gathering the Threads

Gathering the Threads
Author: Cindy Woodsmall
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1601427042

Finally back in the Old Order Amish world she loves, Will Ariana’s new perspectives draw her family closer together— or completely rip them apart? After months away in the Englisch world, Ariana Brenneman is overjoyed to be in the Old Order Amish home where she was raised. Yet her excitement is mixed with an unexpected apprehension as she reconciles all she’s learned from her biological parents with the uncompromising teachings of her Plain community. Although her childhood friend, ex-Amish Quill Schlabach, hopes to help her navigate her new role amongst her people, Ariana’s Daed doesn’t understand why his sweet daughter is suddenly questioning his authority. What will happen if she sows seeds of unrest and rebellion in the entire family? Meanwhile, Skylar Nash has finally found her place among the large Brenneman family, but Ariana’s arrival threatens to unravel Skylar’s new identity—and her sobriety. Both Ariana and Skylar must discover the true cords that bind a family and community together and grasp tight the One who holds their authentic identities close to His heart. Gathering the Threads is the third and final novel in The Amish of Summer Grove series.

We Are Gathered Here

We Are Gathered Here
Author: Micah Perks
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1997-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312152949

Two heroines challenge the constraints against women in 1880s New York State. One is Regina, whose epilepsy makes her an outcast in society, the other is Olive, a miner's wife hired to look after her. The pair share adventures that take them into alternative societies of Adirondack women: gypsy camps, a madhouse, and a commune of renegade Shaker women. A first novel.