Read online books and download pdfs for free!!!
Author : Catherine Carson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9781326451899
Pages : 145 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (189 downloads)
Download Footbridge of Solace in PDF Full Online Free by Catherine Carson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : jessica Penot
Publisher : Lachesis Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2011-11-15
ISBN 10 : 9781897562895
Pages : 209 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (289 downloads)
Download Circe in PDF Full Online Free by jessica Penot and published by Lachesis Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maxine Hall
Publisher : Max Hall
Release Date : 2021-12-16
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Finding Solace in PDF Full Online Free by Maxine Hall and published by Max Hall. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When will the pain from grief end? Rachel thought she'd never get over losing the love of her life. Each day was a struggle against the grief and depression that threatened to overwhelm her. Helping out her gay brother and his boyfriend was the one thing that still made life worth living. Feeling needed by her closest family kept her going through the daytime but the nights were long and lonely and desperate. Little solace lingered in the bottom of the bottle. Rachel's emotions are stirred by a bohemian lesbian artist who enters the world at just the right time. The touch of a good woman changes everything. Finding Solace is a romance novella which will warm you, make you cry, and bring a smile with a happy ending. All the feelings you want wrapped up in a novella for a quick read. The book includes the following: *A hint of magical realism * Grief * Dark depression and suicidal thoughts * A fake boyfriend-girlfriend relationship * A story of two women falling in love *A happy ever after 23,000 words
Author : Bonnie J. Clark
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2020-12-07
ISBN 10 : 9781646420933
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (93 downloads)
Download Finding Solace in the Soil in PDF Full Online Free by Bonnie J. Clark and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Solace in the Soil tells the largely unknown story of the gardens of Amache, the War Relocation Authority incarceration camp in Colorado. Combining physical evidence with oral histories and archival data and enriched by the personal photographs and memories of former Amache incarcerees, the book describes how gardeners cultivated community in confinement. Before incarceration, many at Amache had been farmers, gardeners, or nursery workers. Between 1942 and 1945, they applied their horticultural expertise to the difficult high plains landscape of southeastern Colorado. At Amache they worked to form microclimates, reduce blowing sand, grow better food, and achieve stability and preserve community at a time of dehumanizing dispossession. In this book archaeologist Bonnie J. Clark examines botanical data like seeds, garden-related artifacts, and other material evidence found at Amache, as well as oral histories from survivors and archival data including personal letters and government records, to recount how the prisoners of Amache transformed the harsh military setting of the camp into something resembling a town. She discusses the varieties of gardens found at the site, their place within Japanese and Japanese American horticultural traditions, and innovations brought about by the creative use of limited camp resources. The gardens were regarded by the incarcerees as a gift to themselves and to each other. And they were also, it turns out, a gift to the future as repositories of generational knowledge where a philosophical stance toward nature was made manifest through innovation and horticultural skill. Framing the gardens and gardeners of Amache within the larger context of the incarceration of Japanese Americans and of recent scholarship on displacement and confinement, Finding Solace in the Soil will be of interest to gardeners, historical archaeologists, landscape archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, and scholars of Japanese American history and horticultural history.
Author : Melanie Choukas-Bradley
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2020-08-28
ISBN 10 : 9781789044690
Pages : 266 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (469 downloads)
Download Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island in PDF Full Online Free by Melanie Choukas-Bradley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington D.C. naturalist Melanie Choukas-Bradley dives into the natural history and beauty of Theodore Roosevelt Island, an island wilderness less than two miles from the White House and a memorial to the United States' foremost conservationist president. In 2016, as the presidential election dealt a body-blow to progressive thinkers in the US, Melanie sought the solace of Theodore Roosevelt Island. In this book she reflects on the inspiring environmental legacy of Roosevelt, and how immersing oneself in nature can help to heal, restore and encourage a person, even in the midst of the strange new reality of a divisive occupant in the White House. Melanie leads the reader along walks and kayak trips around the island, as together with other Washingtonian nature lovers, birders, conservationists, and even descendants of Roosevelt, they find solace in the island's natural wonders, and ponder their nation’s future. Includes a foreword by Tom Lovejoy, Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation.
Author : Nilima Pradhan
Publisher : Nilima Pradhan
Release Date : 2020-04-22
ISBN 10 :
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Finding Solace through Travel in PDF Full Online Free by Nilima Pradhan and published by Nilima Pradhan. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel is not a luxury, it is a necessity. Most people do not understand this hard fact of life. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations”- Oliver Goldsmith If I don’t travel I feel I’m missing an important part of my life. I need to travel to release stress, to get back to my senses. The kind of stressful life we have now-a-days, we are hardly living in true sense. I sometimes wonder, do we even know our self in totality? Have you ever questioned who you are and what you really like doing? Have you ever questioned is life just waking up in the morning, going to office and getting back home? Is that what you are born to do in this earth? When was the last time you slept peacefully like a baby? I am sure most of you won’t be happy to answer these questions. You don’t have to let me know, please answer it to yourself. If the answer of any of these questions is not satisfying to you, then I suggest you pack your bags and travel. Travel can do wonders! There is a quote by Saint Augustine, which goes “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page”. I have tried to narrate about few of the places where I’ve been which has helped my personal growth and healed my soul.
Author : Amarjit Singh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-08
ISBN 10 : 9789462093027
Pages : 436 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (32 downloads)
Download Rural Transformation and Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora in PDF Full Online Free by Amarjit Singh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is endorsed by Dr. Clar Doyle in his preface to this book. Dr. Doyle is very well known locally. This book is about the contemporary life of grandparents in Newfoundland and Labrador – a geographically isolated and culturally unique rural region of Canada. The book can be used for courses in the areas of critical social work, family studies, gerontology, nursing, rural development, critical pedagogy, and diaspora studies. Clar Doyle, Professor of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and member of the Founding Scholars Advisory Board, The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. “This book offers a platform not only to look in on the lives of vital grandparents but paints, in broad strokes, a mural of coming, changing, as well as challenging cultural and social settings.... In what the astute editors ....call “small nuanced studies” we find telling narratives of generational connections in the face of changing and challenging odds....This book does a great service to the concept of diaspora, as well as to the changing nature of that concept... This book elevates the status of grandparents by positioning them as vital members of a complex and challenging society where their skills, gifts, and sheer presence are most formative.... As is strongly advocated in this book, it is essential that educators, curriculum developers, and teachers appreciate the place of grandparents in their students’ lives.”
Author : Melissa Landers
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-02-03
ISBN 10 : 9781423187004
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (7 downloads)
Download Invaded in PDF Full Online Free by Melissa Landers and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic sequel to Alienated takes long-distance relationships to a new level as Cara and Aelyx long for each other from opposite ends of the universe...until a terrifying threat to both their worlds reunites them. Cara always knew life on planet L'eihr would be an adjustment. With Aelyx, her L'eihr boyfriend, back on Earth, working to mend the broken alliance between their two planets, Cara is left to fend for herself at a new school, surrounded by hostile alien clones. Even the weird dorm pet hates her. Things look up when Cara is appointed as human representative to a panel preparing for a human colony on L'eihr. A society melding their two cultures is a place where Cara and Aelyx could one day make a life together. But with L'eihr leaders balking at granting even the most basic freedoms, Cara begins to wonder if she could ever be happy on this planet, even with Aelyx by her side. Meanwhile, on Earth, Aelyx, finds himself thrown into a full-scale PR campaign to improve human-L'eihr relations. Humans don't know that their very survival depends on this alliance: only Aelyx's people have the technology to fix the deadly contamination in the global water supply that human governments are hiding. Yet despite their upper hand, the leaders of his world suddenly seem desperate to get humans on their side, and hardly bat an eye at extremists' multiple attempts on Aelyx's life. The Way clearly needs humans' help? But with what? And what will they ask for in return?
Author : M. A. Sherif
Publisher : Searching for Solace
Release Date : 1994
ISBN 10 : 9839154001
Pages : 332 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (915 downloads)
Download Searching for Solace in PDF Full Online Free by M. A. Sherif and published by Searching for Solace. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed account of the life and ideas of 'Abdullah Yusuf 'Ali, whose The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is the most widely used English translation of the Qur'an. This is a candid and sympathetic study that draw on Yusuf 'Ali's writings and private papers, as well as unpublished sources.
Author : William Mitchell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-04-20
ISBN 10 : 9781312121454
Pages : 314 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (145 downloads)
Download Benedictions in PDF Full Online Free by William Mitchell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in one volume are the collected poems of William Mitchell, along with explanatory notes, covering the years 1950 to 2013. Dr. William Mitchell is a poet, educator, academic administrator, ordained Baptist minister, and preacher.
Author : K.L.Lyons
Publisher : WestBow Press
Release Date : 2015-10-15
ISBN 10 : 9781490892160
Pages : 178 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (216 downloads)
Download She Thinks! in PDF Full Online Free by K.L.Lyons and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to skip through the rest of your life with smiles and sunshine? Or trudge through with gloomy sadness? Easy choice? That choice is really yours! Regardless of what you are going through right now, you CAN have peace and joy. Author K. L. Lyons takes you on a journey through the seasons of her life and events, very much the same as each of yours. • In Spring, she journeys through illness to the rebirth of good health; and tells how to reach each victory. • In Summer, she examines the beauty of full human relationships and describes how to find them. • In Autumn, she ponders the recent tragic events in America and suggests how to make a difference. • In Winter, she thinks about death and the celebration it can be for each: a life well-lived from this day forward. She Thinks! describes how to put rose-colored glasses on every day and how to walk through each day, wearing these glasses. When life is wearing us down; we can change the path and reach that destiny we’ve dreamed of and want!
Author : Jack Canfield
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
ISBN 10 : 9781407080321
Pages : 338 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (32 downloads)
Download The Power Of Focus in PDF Full Online Free by Jack Canfield and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The No 1 reason that stops people from getting what they want is lack of focus. People who focus on what they want, prosper. Those who don't, struggle. In The Power of Focus you'll discover the specific focusing strategies used by the world's most successful men and women. Find out how to: -Focus on your strengths and eliminate everything that is holding you back. -Change bad habits into habits that will make you debt-free and wealthy. -Create an excellent balance between work and family life - without guilt! Your ability to focus will determine your future - start now!
Author : Rosemary Arrojo
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-14
ISBN 10 : 9781317574576
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (457 downloads)
Download Fictional Translators in PDF Full Online Free by Rosemary Arrojo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clichés associated with translations. Rosemary Arrojo shines a light on the transformative character of the translator’s role and the relationships that can be established between originals and their reproductions, building her arguments on the basis of texts such as the following: Cortázar’s "Letter to a Young Lady in Paris" Walsh’s "Footnote" Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Poe’s "The Oval Portrait" Borges’s "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," "Funes, His Memory," and "Death and the Compass" Kafka’s "The Burrow" and Kosztolányi’s Kornél Esti Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon and Babel’s "Guy de Maupassant" Scliar’s "Footnotes" and Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Cervantes’s Don Quixote Fictional Translators provides stimulating material for reflection not only on the processes associated with translation as an activity that inevitably transforms meaning, but, also, on the common prejudices that have underestimated its productive role in the shaping of identities. This book is key reading for students and researchers of literary translation, comparative literature and translation theory.
Author : JJ Pengilly
Publisher : BookRix
Release Date : 2015-04-23
ISBN 10 : 9783736823396
Pages : 433 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (339 downloads)
Download Blinkered in PDF Full Online Free by JJ Pengilly and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horse racing is the Sport of Kings, but also the historical workplace of the underclass. Jockeys may inhabit both worlds and can rise, if talented and lucky, from pauper to feted royalty. Duncan Pengilly is at the peak of his powers and anointed at the top of his profession - a prince in silks. Following a fall Duncan now finds his murky past inhabiting the safe and confident place of his present. He fears for his safety - his sanity and his future - after he suffers a series of visions or hallucinations that render sitting atop a thoroughbred at full speed even more fraught with danger than it otherwise might be. At the same time his personal relationships also face the same prospects of imminent fracture. Risk and reflex are stock in trade for any successful jockey and Duncan responds to the threat by undertaking a reckless quest to find the source; to find a cure. In doing so he will be forced to confront his past in kaleidoscopic episodes and painful detail. Memories and dreams, imagination and truth. Blinkered offers a journey of discovery through the quagmire of the stable yard and glory of the racetrack, with observations and insight seen through both binoculars and Through the Looking-Glass. "Thomas Mann sat on a sumptuous black leather armchair on the business side of the desk. The only device or aid atop his desk was a cream telephone. Duncan sat uncomfortably on a chair of more humble expectations; a rigid frame perched upon a rigid frame. Duncan's eyes darted about the room. It was sparsely decorated; a certificate of accreditation framed and set conspicuously on the wall behind the desk; a framed photograph of Mr Mann shaking hands with an unsmiling ex-Prime Minister (most widely remembered not for policy but for the manner in which he was to gain power) hung at an angle on the wall to the right. Duncan had expected a better show, piles of slow burnt ash and ample displays of flash-trash, objet d'tective: a gun, warm, though not still smoking, courtesy of Messers Smith and Wesson; knuckledusters, spotted with blood and tarnished with wear and abuse; handcuffs on the desk to be jingled and jangled at flat spots in the conversation; and there would be mug shots of criminals most vile, poor haircuts, bent and broken noses and distinguishing tattoos; a coffee crusted mug and food scraps, potato chips and various fluorescent colours of pizza toppings would brighten the desktop and floor; and where were the pornographic photographs, open files and fingerprint kits, the magnifying glass, the fucking detective stuff!? Duncan sat disillusioned and disappointed. A waste of time, he thought, preparing some excuse to leave before further embarrassing himself."
Author : Emily Auerbach
Publisher :
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015059557374
Pages : 344 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Searching for Jane Austen in PDF Full Online Free by Emily Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Jane Austen demolishes with wit and vivacity the often-held view of "Jane," a decorous maiden aunt writing her small drawing-room stories of teas and balls. Emily Auerbach presents a different Jane Austen—a brilliant writer who, despite the obstacles facing women of her time, worked seriously on improving her craft and became one of the world’s greatest novelists, a master of wit, irony, and character development. In this beautifully illustrated and lively work, Auerbach surveys two centuries of editing, censoring, and distorting Austen’s life and writings. Auerbach samples Austen’s flamboyant, risqué adolescent works featuring heroines who get drunk, lie, steal, raise armies, and throw rivals out of windows. She demonstrates that Austen constantly tested and improved her skills by setting herself a new challenge in each of her six novels. In addition, Auerbach considers Austen’s final irreverent writings, discusses her tragic death at the age of forty-one, and ferrets out ridiculous modern adaptations and illustrations, including ads, cartoons, book jackets, newspaper articles, plays, and films from our own time. An appendix reprints a ground-breaking article that introduced Mark Twain’s "Jane Austen," an unfinished and unforgettable essay in which Twain and Austen enter into mortal combat.
Author : Jon Jensen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2003-01-23
ISBN 10 : 9781403386090
Pages : 269 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (69 downloads)
Download What If Armageddon in PDF Full Online Free by Jon Jensen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-01-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the U.S. Congress considered legalizing drugs? A prominent surgeon, DR. TONY RYAN, finds himself at the helm of the country's first experimental drug distribution program, which has been set up in Santa Barbara. Two months into its uneventful operation, Ryan returns from a brief holiday to find not only the program suddenly on the brink of disaster, but himself perilously pitched into a high-stakes life-threatening attack. On one hand, Substance of Abuse is a "Crichtonesque beach-reader" novel -- an intriguing adventure from Santa Barbara to Rome. And, on the other hand, it has an original high-concept premise whose highly charged controversial nature will surely leave the reader much to think about long after the last page is turned.
Author : Pippa Virdee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9781108606349
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (634 downloads)
Download From the Ashes of 1947 in PDF Full Online Free by Pippa Virdee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it explores the partition of the very idea of Punjabiyat. It was Punjab (along with Bengal) that was divided to create the new nations of India and Pakistan. In subsequent years, religious and linguistic sub-divisions followed - arguably, no other region of the sub-continent has had its linguistic and ethnic history submerged within respective national and religious identity(s). None paid the price of partition like the pluralistic, pre-partition Punjab. This work analyses the dissonance, distortion and dilution witnessed by Punjab and presents a detailed narrative of its past.
