Leaving Yourself Behind
Leaving Yourself Behind

Author: Dale Bailey

Publisher: First Books

Published: 2012-05-30

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1592997562

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Overall Purpose: To share very compelling and exciting true stories about people who, regardless of the size of their incomes or their estates, or even their state of health, have found ways to pass on the joy of giving to future generations by simply leaving lasting and measurable legacies of continuing support for their communities. There are also stories in this book that seem to confirm the theory that loving your neighbor as yourself is a principle that is cherished in most religions. However, being inspired by other people¿s actions is only a portion of the purpose of this book. The real intention is to inspire action on the part of the reader. Therefore, this book also contains step-by-step instructions to establish lasting legacies for FAMILIES and for CHARITIES. Use the tested instructions, and you will be Leaving Yourself Behind. One of the great mysteries of life is finding a magic formula to make it truly meaningful for you and me and others. Some of us who have lived a long time are still looking to find ways to make a measurable and lasting difference to the communities where we live and, in some small way, help make the world a better place. With that intention the following chapters are presented to you.

In the Garden of Thoughts
In the Garden of Thoughts

Author: Dodinsky,

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1402275854

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Now a New York Times bestseller! "Dodinsky's gentle wisdom and wit are like a breath of fresh air." —Karen Salmansohn, bestselling author of How to Be Happy, Dammit! Beloved by hundreds of thousands from every walk of life and in every corner of the world, Dodinsky strikes the perfect balance of delightful whimsy and powerful emotion, inspiring you with the power to be your best self. When I reach the place of my dreams, I will thank my failures and tears. They too, kept me going.

Leave the World Behind
Leave the World Behind

Author: Rumaan Alam

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0062667653

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Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?

Leave the Bastards Behind
Leave the Bastards Behind

Author: Richard Maun

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2007-05-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 981448489X

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Have you ever thought of working for yourself? Maybe its something you’ve been dreaming about for years. Is so, Leave the Bastards Behind is for you. For too long, you’ve worked for other people’s companies and been bossed around by terrible bosses. Now is the time to work for the best boss you could have — yourself! Whatever your dream profession, this is a book to help you make the transition from fed-up wage slave to enthusiastic self-employed free-man or free-woman. Written in a breezy, pithy, informative and useful style, the book is an insider’s guide to the realities of setting up your own business and working for yourself. The author, Richard Maun writes candidly about his own real-life experience, including his thoughts, his successes and his failures. Maun reveals the secrets of developing a client base and the skills that will help you through the door to self-employment. This book also contains a useful personal planning kit, designed to help you answer some of those thorny questions that will have to be addressed if you are to be a successful selfer. Working for yourself is one of the richest experiences in life. This practical and inspirational book will put you on the road to success and help you achieve your dream

All Groan Up
All Groan Up

Author: Paul Angone

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2015-04-21

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0310341434

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All Groan Up: Searching for Self, Faith, and A Freaking Job! is the story of the GenY/Millennial generation told through the individual story of author Paul Angone. It’s a story of struggle, hope, failure, and doubts in the twilight zone of growing up and being grown, connecting with his twentysomething post-college audience with raw honesty, humor, and hope.

The Book of Jonah
The Book of Jonah

Author: Joshua Max Feldman

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0805097775

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A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the Book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He's a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He's celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah's life, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook, an intense, breathtakingly intelligent woman who's no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you're chosen?

I Never Left Home
I Never Left Home

Author: Margaret Randall

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-03-13

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1478007613

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In 1969, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the 1968 student movement. Needing to leave the country, she sent her four young children alone to Cuba while she scrambled to find safe passage out of Mexico. In I Never Left Home, Randall recounts her harrowing escape and the other extraordinary stories from her life and career. From living among New York's abstract expressionists in the mid-1950s as a young woman to working in the Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture to instill revolutionary values in the media during the Sandinista movement, the story of Randall's life reads like a Hollywood production. Along the way, she edited a bilingual literary journal in Mexico City, befriended Cuban revolutionaries, raised a family, came out as a lesbian, taught college, and wrote over 150 books. Throughout it all, Randall never wavered from her devotion to social justice. When she returned to the United States in 1984 after living in Latin America for twenty-three years, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered her to be deported for her “subversive writing.” Over the next five years, and with the support of writers, entertainers, and ordinary people across the country, Randall fought to regain her citizenship, which she won in court in 1989. As much as I Never Left Home is Randall's story, it is also the story of the communities of artists, writers, and radicals she belonged to. Randall brings to life scores of creative and courageous people on the front lines of creating a more just world. She also weaves political and social analyses and poetry into the narrative of her life. Moving, captivating, and astonishing, I Never Left Home is a remarkable story of a remarkable woman.

Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage

Author: Richard Allsopp

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 9789766401450

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This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.

Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults
Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults

Author: Brad Sachs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1136484817

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Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail. Renowned clinician Brad Sachs, PhD, provides both a conceptual framework for understanding the reasons behind the increasing number of young adults who are unable to achieve psychological and financial self-reliance and a treatment framework that will enable practitioners to help these young adults and their families to get unstuck and experience age/stage-appropriate growth and development. In Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults, clinicians will gain an in-depth understanding of the complex psychological challenges that parents and young adults face as the latter forges a path towards success and self-reliance. Moreoever, they'll come away from the book having learned an innovative approach to sponsoring family engagement ant the launching stage—one that reduces tension, resolves conflicts, and promotes evolution and differentiation on both generations’ parts.

Night Train to Lisbon
Night Train to Lisbon

Author: Pascal Mercier

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1555849237

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The bestselling novel of love and sacrifice under fascist rule, and “a treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time” (Isabel Allende). Raimund Gregorius, a professor of dead languages at a Swiss secondary school, lives a life governed by routine. Then, an enigmatic Portuguese woman stirs his interest in an obscure, and mind-expanding book of philosophy that opens the possibility of changing Raimund’s existence. That same night, he takes the train to Lisbon to research the book’s phantom author, Amadeu de Prado, a renowned physician whose principles led him to confront Salazar’s dictatorship. Raimund, now obsessed with unlocking the mystery behind the man, is determined to meet all those on whom Prado left an indelible mark. Among them: his eighty-year-old sister, who maintains her brother’s house as if it were a museum; an elderly cleric and torture survivor confined to a nursing home; and Prado’s childhood friend and eventual partner in the Resistance. The closer Raimund comes to the truth of Prado’s life, and eventual fate, an extraordinary tale takes shape amid the labyrinthine memories of Prado’s intimate circle of family and friends, working in utmost secrecy to fight dictatorship, and the betrayals that threaten to expose them. “A meditative, deliberate exploration of loneliness, language and the human condition” (The San Diego Union-Tribune), Night Train to Lisbon “call[s] to mind the magical realism of Jorge Amado or Gabriel Garcia Marquez . . . allusive and thought-provoking, intellectually curious and yet heartbreakingly jaded,” and inexorably propelled by the haunting mystery at its heart (The Providence Journal). Night Train to Lisbon was adapted into Bille August’s award-winning 2013 film starring Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin, Christopher Lee, and Charlotte Rampling.