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Author: Marie Hall
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-10-05
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781492722632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRyan Cosgrove and Liliana Delgado are on a collision course with destiny. They don't know it yet, but before the night is over their lives will be forever changed.
Author: Mathias Nilges
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2021-03-15
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0810143445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn How to Read a Moment, Mathias Nilges shows that time is inseparable from the stories we tell about it, demonstrating that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our present. “Time is a thing that grows scarcer every day,” observes one of Don DeLillo’s characters. “The future is gone,” The Baffler argues. “Where’s my hoverboard!?” a meme demands. Contemporary capitalism, a system that insists that everything happen at once, creates problems for social thought and narrative alike. After all, how does one tell the time of instantaneity? In this moment of on-demand service and instant trading, it has become difficult to imagine the future. The novel emerged as the art form of a rapidly changing modern world, a way of telling time in its progress. Nilges argues that this historical mission is renewed today through works that understand contemporaneity as a form of time shaping that props up our material world and cultural imagination. But the contemporary American novel does not simply associate our present with a crisis of futurity. Through analyses of works by authors such as DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead, Nilges illustrates that the novel presents ways to make sense of the temporality that controls our purportedly fully contemporary world. In so doing, the novel recovers a sense of possibility and hope, forwarding a dazzling argument for its own importance today.
Author: John Sayles
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2011-10-18
Total Pages: 1293
ISBN-13: 1936365707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.
Author: Catherine Polan Orzech
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2021-01-02
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1684035201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you could do one thing for yourself today, why not do a quick mindfulness ritual? In our busy, high-stress lives, sometimes we all need to slow down, breathe, and just be. But, as easy as that sounds, many of us are intimidated by the practice of meditation. Fortunately, you don’t have to experience a divine awakening or reach profound enlightenment to take advantage of this ancient practice. The simple rituals in this take-anywhere guide can help you get started—right now! In A Moment for Me, you’ll learn to create a personal and well-rounded mindfulness practice to last you all year long. Featuring 52 satisfying and easy rituals, you’ll find quick inspiration to help you make mindfulness a regular part of your routine. The best part? You can use this book as a weekly dose of spiritual insight, or use each chapter as a standalone ritual. Whatever feels comfortable and meaningful to you! So, why not get started today? Mindfulness meditation has never been so simple.
Author: Jennifer Bradbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1416978763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the partition of India nears in 1947, bringing violence even to Jalandhar, Tariq, a Muslim, finds himself caught between his forbidden interest in Anupreet, a Sikh girl, and Margaret, a British girl whose affection for him might help with his dream of studying at Oxford.
Author: Caroline Finnerty
Publisher:
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781842235300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdam and Emma are a couple being torn apart by their past. Their relationship is only held together by a thread. As their marriage disintegrates around them, Adam tries desperately to salvage it, while Emma avoids him. But what brought them to this point?
Author: Ronne Randall
Publisher: Igloo Books
Published: 2017-02-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781786703118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome memories are too precious to forget. Whether it's cuddling, snuggling, giggling, tickling, or tucking in at bedtime, this heart-warming story is full of beautiful moments that express the love between parents and their children.
Author: Brahma Kumaris
Publisher:
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781886872004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julie Sze
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0520971981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.”—Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does this moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packed with cautiously hopeful stories for the future.
Author: T. Troy Salazar
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2010-08-20
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1609575695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarc's life was a disaster. His father passed away when he was young. His mother had remarried a man that he now hated. They had moved away from his grandparents, one of the only places where he felt safe. Now he is in high school and was struggling to get through. Unable make friends and succeed in anything he tried to do, he had reached a point where he hated being alive. Then he met Cherrie. She was different and didn't treat him like all the other students at school. He enjoyed being around her and even attended church activities with her. He had finally felt like maybe things would get better. Terry and Clay are partners on an ambulance. Clay is a new EMT and has a lot of questions. Terry is very willing to answer them and assist Clay in any way possible, whether that be EMS or life in general. What neither of them anticipate is the way both of their lives are about to change, forever. "Fantastic. This book incorporates past memories and current reality well. I was unable to put it down once I started." Bill L. - College Professor Troy lives in Colorado with his wife, two sons, and one foster son. He has been involved in youth ministry since 1985 and been a paramedic since 2000. He currently teaches EMS full-time as well as works part-time as a paramedic with both a ground and a flight transporting agencies. Troy's heart is always open to the people he comes in contact with, whether that is in an emergency situation, students, friends or co-workers in need of spiritual help; or a fellow church member that is looking for guidance. It is his desire to spread the truth about Christianity to all who are seeking.
