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Author: Marlon Evans
Publisher: Crying Blue Tears
Published: 2022-01-28
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781637511220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the struggles of a young black man trying to survive in South Central Los Angeles with the odds stacked against him. He finds himself crossed up in a quadruple homicide he didn't commit.
Author: Irena Docheva
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1466947810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"After years of wandering around the world of love, I found the truth about it. I met face-to-face with that wonderful fairy Love, and she shared with me that despite the pain that was tearing her apart, she is very happy and didn't want to part with it. In my fantasy, that fairy was standing smiling among the deserted sands and was holding a heart in love. There was blood dripping from her hands, but she looked hard and firm. She split the heart in two and threw the two halves away from her. They fell with ominous strength on the glowing sand, started burning, and burned away. The fairy told me that that had been my heart, and that this evil destiny awaited it. She opened her scarlet lips and said that love hurts and it was like a cloud, which carried many tears to my eyes in love. Nevertheless, I decided to follow my heart, and it was saying: "When Love looks you in the eyes, you will know, I will tell you, and then you take it right away, hold it tight, hide it here with me, to be happy.'"
Author: Heather Christle
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2019-11-05
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1948226456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0062399470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.
Author: Ninie Hammon
Publisher: Sterling & Stone LLC
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the next impossible to put down entry in her thrilling Through The Canvas series. Bailey Donahue's past just caught up with her ... After two long years in the Witness Protection Program, hiding from the man who murdered her husband, Bailey spots him in the background of a photo. From her own birthday. In the tiny town of Shadow Rock. There's no doubt about it, it's definitely him: Sergie Mikhailov. Will Bailey finally get to testify against him and put him away forever? Can she return to her old life and her daughter at last? Before Bailey even gets the chance to try, she paints another psychic portrait, this one showing the image of her younger sister, Maria, lost to a wall of flames. Another loved one, dead. Then Mikhailov kidnaps Maria, Bailey knows she has to save her. Along with T.J., Dobbs, and Brice, Bailey races against time to find Maria before the portrait -- and Bailey's worst nightmare -- comes true. ★★★★★ "Ninie Hammon has made my quarantine less painful with this fantastic book. The plot grabs you from the beginning and never lets go. The characters are real, members of your family, including the wondrous dog." -- Jacqueline M. Jones ★★★★★ "The thrills are non-stop, the drama completely engaging and the characters are like people I have known for years. Ninie Hammon is an absolutely brilliant storyteller, one I always look forward to reading. Her books drew me into the life of the story and held me there until the very last word. This book, this series and every book written by this author - not to be missed!!" -- Sharon B ★★★★★ "Ninie, not once in all my years have I had to get out of bed in the wee hours--since I couldn't stop reading Blue Tears even at 1:00 a.m.--and take a blasted Xanex!! Once we were close to the Beast I realized I was actually having an anxiety attack, a huge anxiety attack." -- Kate Hickey ★★★★★ "This book is the best of the series. Of course I always think that about this authors books. It was hard to put down but I didn't want to finish it because then it would be over. I've read all her books and loved each one." -- Vikki ★★★★★ "I have enjoyed Ninie Hammon's books for several years now, but I think this one out did them all! It contains all the characteristics of her previous books, but steps everything up a notch or two." -- SML Grandma Blue Tears is the fourth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Through the Canvas: A riveting psychological thriller series about an ordinary woman ripped from her life, and drawn into the darkest of tales by mysterious forces she can't explain. Start reading Through The Canvas today, and fall in love with another Ninie Hammon story that you'll never want to end.
Author: Fran Pintadera
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1525305034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thoughtful, poetic book uses metaphors and beautiful imagery to explore the reasons for our tears. In a soft voice, Mario asks, “Mother, why do we cry?” And his mother begins to tell him about the many reasons for our tears. We cry because our sadness is so huge it must escape from our bodies. We cry because we don’t understand the world, and our tears go in search of an answer. Most important, she tells him, we cry because we feel like crying. And, as she shows him then, sometimes we feel like crying for joy. This warm, reassuring hug of a book makes clear that everyone is allowed to cry, and that everyone does.
Author: Molly Potter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 147297719X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today? comes a picture book that sensitively deals with developing emotional intelligence in young children. Young children can find it really frustrating when they are unable to explain what they are feeling and express their emotions. Cue: this book! Written with boys in mind because they are often encouraged to suppress their feelings, Molly Potter covers a whole range of emotions from those that are uncomfortable to happy feelings where you care about yourself and other people. Perfect for starting those all-important conversations, It's OK to Cry includes colourful illustrations, child-friendly strategies and vocabulary for managing feelings, and helpful notes for parents, carers and practitioners. Let's Talk books help you start meaningful conversations with your child. Written by an expert and covering topics like feelings, relationships, diversity and mental health, these comforting picture books support healthy discussion right from the start.
Author: Tom Lutz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780393321036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis provocative and indispensable book provides a natural and cultural history of our most mysterious and complex human function: our ability to shed tears. All humans, and only humans, weep. Tears are sometimes considered pleasurable, sometimes dangerous, mysterious, deceptive, or profound. Tears of happiness, tears of joy, the proud tears of a parent, tears of mourning, tears of laughter, tears of defeat --what do they have in common? Why is it that at times of victory, success, love, reunion, and celebration the outward signs of our emotions are identical to those of our most profound experiences of loss? Why We Cry looks at the many different ways people have understood weeping, from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. through the latest neurophysiological research. Despite our most common romantic assumptions, what this brilliant book tells us is that tears are never pure, they are never simple.
Author: Spirea Geogea
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-03-12
Total Pages: 591
ISBN-13: 1645695166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife is bleak and days are insufferable under the dictatorship of the communist regime, as they condition the minds of their subjects by any means necessary. Within Romania's borders, where you are born is where your fate is decided behind its blackout curtains. However, devoted father and husband, David Savin, is not one to be easily beaten into submission. Craving the American dream and new beginnings, David finds allies in unlikely places as well as among old friends. With his beloved brother and late father waiting for him on American soil, he has nothing to lose and much to gain. David will put everything at risk to ensure that all loose ends are tied before daring the unspeakable. Still, there's much room for error in the cramped quarters of an attic in a bustling railcar. The Blue Tears "" Chains and Love is a harrowing novel based on a true story set in the 1980s, during the cruel reign of Nicolae Ceaușescu. In endeavoring to fight for his freedom, David also learns that love is a fine fight to be won as his heart is tormented by his affections for Katie, the girl who cries sapphire tears. Full of wrenching suspense and thrills, as well as brutal interrogations, heart-stopping betrayal, fierce love, and even greater sacrifice, you'll never know what's to come next or who to trust.
Author: Michele Byers
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2010-04-16
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1443821950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea for this book began with David Lavery’s 2007 column for flowtv.org. “The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears” asked us to consider that “age-old mystery”: tears. The respondents to David’s initial survey—Michele Byers among them—didn’t agree on anything ... Some cried more over film, some television, some books; some felt their tears to be a release, others to be a manipulation. They did agree, however, as did the readers who responded to the column, that crying over stories, and even “things,” is something that is a shared and familiar cultural practice. This book was born from that moment of recognition. On the Verge of Tears is not the first book to think about crying. Tom Lutz’s Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears, Judith Kay Nelson’s Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment, Peter Schwenger’s The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects, and Henry Jenkins’ The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture also offer forays into this familiar, if not always entirely comfortable, emotional space. This book differs markedly from each of these others, however. As a collection of essay by diverse hands, its point of view is multi-vocal. It is not a history of tears (as is Lutz’s superb book); nor is its approach psychological/sociological (as is Nelson’s). It does not limit itself to very contemporary popular culture (as does Jenkins’ book) or material culture (as does Schwenger’s study). What On the Verge of Tears offers are personal, cultural, and political ruminations on the tears we shed in our daily engagements with the world and its artifacts. The essays found within are often deeply personal, but also have broad implications for everyday life. The authors included here contemplate how and why art, music, film, literature, theatre, theory, and material artifacts make us weep. They consider the risks of tears in public and private spaces; the way tears implicate us in tragedy, comedy, and horror. On the Verge of Tears does not offer a unified theory of crying, but, instead, invites us to imagine tears as a multi-vocal language we can all, in some manner, understand.
