A Walk Between the Clouds
A Walk Between the Clouds

Author: Patricia A. Leffingwell

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1450280978

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Patricia Leffingwell, a high school reading teacher in Florida, received an ominous message from a prominent psychic medium. This message threw her life off track, and Leffingwell soon found herself propelled into an incredible, self-revealing spiritual and paranormal odyssey. Through difficult trials leading up to and following her spiritual awakening, Leffingwell became aware of her own psychic abilities. We are all born with them, but these abilities are often blamed on overactive childhood imaginations. We thwart our own connection to the other world, but this avoidance can easily become acceptance in adulthood if we open ourselves up to illumination. A Walk between the Clouds: Messages from the Other Side is an adventurous and enlightening memoir, in which Leffingwell shares her own other-worldly encounters and teaches you how to keep your own psychic journal. Once you realize there are no coincidences, you will be open to seeing the psychic phenomenon in your own life and in doing so, you will feel fulfilled, informed, and divinely peaceful.

To Reach the Clouds
To Reach the Clouds

Author: Philippe Petit

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0865476519

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In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. 140 illustrations.

A Walk in the Clouds
A Walk in the Clouds

Author: Kev Reynolds

Publisher: Beaufort Books

Published: 2014-06-22

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0825306655

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A Walk in the Clouds: 50 Years Among the Mountains is a heartwarming, inspirational, and evocative collection of memories and short stories from Kev Reynolds, a prolific and celebrated guidebook author who has been roaming the mountains for a half-century. These recollections trail Reyonlds' journeys through some of his favorite and most memorable lessons learned on the mountains. The people met, experiences shared, and cultures bridged throughout Reynolds' travels make for an engaging read for hikers and non-hikers alike. Shadowing Reynolds across the Moroccan Atlas, the Pyrenees trails, the European Alps, and even the Himalayas gives the reader the feeling not only of hiking the trails, but also of forming the relationships and connections throughout the world that Reynolds was able to create. This book motivates the common reader to undertake something they have never done before because, as the reader learns from Reynolds, that is where some of the best experiences come from.

Walking the Clouds
Walking the Clouds

Author: Grace L. Dillon

Publisher: Sun Tracks

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780816529827

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In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction Grace Dillon collects some of the finest examples of the craft with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors. The collection includes seminal authors such as Gerald Vizenor, historically important contributions often categorized as "magical realism" by authors like Leslie Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie, and authors more recognizable to science fiction fans like William Sanders and Stephen Graham Jones. Dillon's engaging introduction situates the pieces in the larger context of science fiction and its conventions. Organized by sub-genre, the book starts with Native slipstream, stories infused with time travel, alternate realities and alternative history like Vizenor's "Custer on the Slipstream." Next up are stories about contact with other beings featuring, among others, an excerpt from Gerry William's The Black Ship. Dillon includes stories that highlight Indigenous science like a piece from Archie Weller's Land of the Golden Clouds, asserting that one of the roles of Native science fiction is to disentangle that science from notions of "primitive" knowledge and myth. The fourth section calls out stories of apocalypse like William Sanders' "When This World Is All on Fire" and a piece from Zainab Amadahy's The Moons of Palmares. The anthology closes with examples of biskaabiiyang, or "returning to ourselves," bringing together stories like Eden Robinson's "Terminal Avenue" and a piece from Robert Sullivan's Star Waka. An essential book for readers and students of both Native literature and science fiction, Walking the Clouds is an invaluable collection. It brings together not only great examples of Native science fiction from an internationally-known cast of authors, but Dillon's insightful scholarship sheds new light on the traditions of imagining an Indigenous future.

Learning to Walk in the Dark
Learning to Walk in the Dark

Author: Barbara Brown Taylor

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1848256175

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In this long awaited follow-up to the best-selling An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor explores ‘the treasures of darkness’ that the Bible speaks about. What can we learn about the ways of God when we cannot see the way ahead, are lost, alone, frightened, not in control or when the world around us seems to have descended into darkness?

City in the Sky
City in the Sky

Author: James Glanz

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-11-12

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0805074287

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Like David McCullough's "The Great Bridge, City in the Sky" is a riveting story of New York City itself, of architectural daring, human frailty, and a lost American icon.