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Author | : Amy McVay Abbott |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2011-07-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 144971949X |
In her debut book, Indiana writer Amy McVay Abbott offers thirty insightful and humorous essays about life transitions. In 2009, Abbott lost her job shortly after her only child left for college. Her mother was diagnosed with multi-infarct dementia, and what seemed logical for Abbott was to start writing it all down. Through humor, Abbott weaves together past and present with future hopes and dreams after turning fifty. Mothers, daughters, aunts,and nieces will enjoy this spiritual and comedic journey. Abbott also writes a bi-weekly newspaper column The Raven Lunatic for several Indiana newspapers. Visit her online at http://poetryfan.blogspot.com or contact her at [email protected].
Author | : Heather O'Neill |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374711224 |
Inventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling author The fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors. She described the smallest of things—a stray cat or a second-hand coat—with an intensity that made them otherworldly. In Daydreams of Angels, O'Neill's first collection of short stories, she gives free reign to her imaginative gifts. In "The Ugly Ducklings," generations of Nureyev clones live out their lives in a grand Soviet experiment. In "Dear Piglet," a teenaged cult follower writes a letter to explain the motivation behind her crime. And in another tale, a grandmother reveals where babies come from: the beach, where young mothers-to-be hunt for infants in the surf. Each of these beguiling stories twists the beloved narratives of childhood—fairy tales, storybooks, Bible stories—to uncover the deepest truths of family life.
Author | : Mark Tatulli |
Publisher | : Roaring Brook Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1626729565 |
A young boy named Henry embarks on a normal, average day at school, but his daily activities are hopelessly disrupted by his overactive imagination. Breakfast turns into a fantastical adventure through his cereal box, and his classroom becomes a whirlwind of flying books. Along the way, an off-screen voice scolds him to "Stop daydreaming!" In a fun and unexpected twist, it turns out that Henry and his adventures were part of a young girl's imagination all along. Exuberant and innovative, this debut picture book by comic strip creator Mark Tatulli is a celebration of imagination and the power of daydreaming.
Author | : Boris Vian |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Astrid Desbordes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781592700936 |
Relates in comic strip style the adventures of the often selfish and self-absorbed Hamster and his affectionate friends Mole, Hedgehog, Snail, Squirrel and Rabbit as they ponder aspects of life and prepare to celebrate Hamster's birthday.
Author | : Jerome L. Singer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1317697170 |
Daydreaming, our ability to give ‘to airy nothing a local habitation and a name’, remains one of the least understood aspects of human behaviour. As children we explore beyond the boundaries of our experience by projecting ourselves into the mysterious worlds outside our reach. As adolescents and adults we transcend frustration by dreams of achievement or escape, and use daydreaming as a way out of intolerable situations and to help survive boredom, drudgery or routine. In old age we turn back to happier memories as a relief from loneliness or frailty, or wistfully daydream about what we would do if we had our time over again. Why is it that we have the ability to alternate between fantasy and reality? Is it possible to have ambition or the ability to experiment, create or invent without the catalyst of fantasy? Are sexual fantasies an inherent part of human behaviour? Are they universal, healthy, destructive? Is daydreaming itself destructive? Or is it a force which facilitates change and which can even be harnessed to positive advantage? In this provocative book, originally published in 1975, the product of the previous twenty-five years of research, the author debates the nature and function of daydreaming in the light of his own experiments. As well as investigating what is a normal ‘fantasy-life’ and outlining patterns and types of daydreaming, he describes the role of daydreaming in schizophrenia and paranoia, examines the fantasies and hallucinations induced by drugs and also the nature of altered states of consciousness in Zen and Transcendental Meditation. Among the many topics covered, he explains how it is possible to help children enlarge their capacity for fantasy, how adults can make positive use of daydreaming and how people on the verge of disturbed behaviour are often unconscious of their own fantasies. Advances in scientific methods and new experimental techniques had made it possible at this time to monitor both conscious daydreaming and sub-conscious fantasies in a way not possible before. Professor Singer is one of the few scientists who have conducted substantial research in this area and it is his belief that the study of daydreaming and fantasy is of great importance if we are to understand the workings of the human mind.
Author | : Laura Dower |
Publisher | : Cartwheel Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2001-04-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780439282468 |
Now doodlers can open their minds, because here's a spot where their imaginations can go wild! This is the perfect place for young daydreamers and doodlers to make their mark! It's packed full of colourful photo frames, fill-ins, postcards and more to let readers' imaginations ? and their urge to doodle ? go wild. Whether it's a sketch of their best friend, a birthday party planner, a design for their dream room, lists of their favourite songs or last night's puzzling dream, this book is the perfect place to start thinking . . . and doodling. Calling all doodlers ? sharpen your pencils and take off!
Author | : Dmr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
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Adult coloring books never looked any better than this! If coloring was something you loved as a child, then you will have been excited when adult coloring books broke into the mainstream market in recent years. Packed with great drawing, designs and pictures, they are perfect for helping you to unwind and relax after a long and stressful day, are a brilliant way to improve concentration and perfect for anyone who has some time to kill. Now, this trend is moving on to more adult themes than ever before, with this high quality book that is full of women in a variety of poses that occasionally leave little to the imagination and will satisfy every fantasy you ever had. Definitely not a book for children, this is adult coloring at its best, packed with enticing and alluring images of women that range from the everyday to the erotic and beyond. You will definitely not be disappointed!
Author | : Charles Jencks |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Mindy Kaling |
Publisher | : Crown Archetype |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 080413815X |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life. “This is Kaling at the height of her power.”—USA Today In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares insightful, deeply personal stories about falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, and believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you’re constantly reminded that no one looks like you. In “How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet’s Confessions,” Kaling gives her tongue-in-cheek secrets for surefire on-camera beauty, (“Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn’t the land of appropriate–this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blonde.”) “Player” tells the story of Kaling being seduced and dumped by a female friend in L.A. (“I had been replaced by a younger model. And now they had matching bangs.”) In “Unlikely Leading Lady,” she muses on America’s fixation with the weight of actresses, (“Most women we see onscreen are either so thin that they’re walking clavicles or so huge that their only scenes involve them breaking furniture.”) And in “Soup Snakes,” Kaling spills some secrets on her relationship with her ex-boyfriend and close friend, B.J. Novak (“I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J. Novak is weird as hell.”) Mindy turns the anxieties, the glamour, and the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays that anyone who’s ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to. And those who’ve never been at a turning point can skip to the parts where she talks about meeting Bradley Cooper.