Whether over weight, a normal weight, alarmingly thin, bulimic, or a compulsive exerciser, you have spent most of your life battling your weight, yet you cannot control your eating. Your obsession with food tortures you. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is for those who wonder if they might be food addicts as well as those who have never thought of addiction in relationship to eating. The book describes the illness of food addiction and highlights the personal stories of 30 FA members and the journey of long-term recovery offered by Food Addicts in Recovery (FA).
Sudden Spirit traces the presence of holy moments in everyday life, giving voice to the small awakenings that are often overlooked in the hurried course of a day. Through lyric poetry and prose, the authors explore diverse paths to the sacred, finding the Divine in both traditional and surprising places. Their teachers on the journey range from spiders and cats to moonrises and babies; their pieces cull sumptuous images from the natural world, as well as the inner worlds of memory and prayer. This is a book of connections to self, to others, to the earth, to ancestors and traditions, to life itself and to the Source of all life. In celebration of these connections, and of the luminescent moments that open us to the sacred, Sudden Spirit offers a kaleidoscope of beauty. Slow down to the speed of life, and savor a taste of holy moments within these pages.
Ten years ago Cosmo Bari vanished, and with him, his legendary masterpiece, Virgin in Pastel. Since that day no one in the seaside art colony of Steeple Hill has heard from the eccentric painter. Surrounded by an extended family of Cosmo’s colorful compatriots, mystery writer Kyle Bari believes he has come to terms with being abandoned by his famous father, until the day Adam MacKinnon arrives with his new lover, the beautiful but poisonous, Brett. Brett has an unerring instinct for other people’s weak spots; soon the quiet colony is seething with hostility and suspicion as Brett hints he knows something about the missing artist. Kyle doesn’t take Brett seriously until the long lost Virgin in Pastel is discovered hidden in an antique dresser. A few days later the painting has vanished again—and Brett is dead. Murdered...
Sorrow is “not a state but a process” that needs “not a map but a history. . . . There is something new to be chronicled every day,” writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, right before Thanksgiving in 2002, he took the only road toward recovery that made sense to him: he started writing letters to her, producing a unique history of grief, solace, and love. His vivid and thoughtful letters will resonate with everyone whose loss confronts them with emotional, psychological, and philosophical questions for which there are no easy answers.During his first year without Kate, Carl writes himself into the life that comes after the life he loved. From days of grief in the darkness of a midwestern winter, to springtime, with a return to life in the garden and a memorial service for Kate on a sunny afternoon, to fall, with a pilgrimage to their favorite vacation spot in Hawaii, Carl documents his year-long experience of remembering, meditating, and evolving a new life. Individually his letters provide the insights of a master diarist; collectively, they have the arc of a master essayist. Recording the full range of mourning from intense shock to moments of exceptional affirmation, Klaus's stories and reflections on loss bear witness to universal truths about the first and most significant year of mourning.
Escaping a claustrophobic marriage by supporting young artists, a wealthy and elegant woman of the 1920s is almost socially ruined when she is depicted in a nude portrait.
In her quest to be normal, Josie discovers something much better: how to be exceptional Josie Goodman just wants to be normal—but how can she be when her family is comprised of a Hare Krishna, an antitobacco crusader, and a famous pop psychologist/syndicated columnist? Determined to be different from her outlandish relatives, Josie dedicates her life to fitting in with the mainstream. But her fatuous marriage to a misguided student radical quickly fails, and the next man in her life, an underwear manufacturer, is contemptuous of her lack of skills in a kosher kitchen. Eventually, motherhood introduces Josie to unexpected challenges, and as she attends to an exceptional child with special needs, she begins to reconcile her relationship with the rest of her family.
Can a time travel be realistic and funny? Find out what happens to a female Connecticut Yankee when she settles in the Middle Ages with a man she met in a history book! One Spring evening in 1330, Simon Peter Fortescue and his bright young son, Ethelred stole away to visit a Gypsy. She saw a tall, oddly dressed woman fall from the sky into Ethelred's life when he grew up. A playful tale!
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Compiled from actual work, for the use of schools, colleges, teachers, civil service examinations, students, stenographers and court reporters. This book covers 190 different types of business, and contains 90,000 words.
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