Love and Obstacles
Love and Obstacles

Author: Aleksandar Hemon

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-05-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1101032847

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From the celebrated author of the bestselling Lazarus Project "a dazzling collection of stories ... further cementing [Hemon's] position among the finest fiction writers working in English" (GQ). The stories of Aleksandar Hemon's Love and Obstacles are united by their narrator, a young man coming of age in Communist-but-cosmopolitan Sarajevo who will leave for the United States just as his city is torn asunder. In Hemon's hands, seemingly mundane childhood experiences become daring, dramatic adventures, while unique and wrenching circumstances become a common ground that involves us all. As cohesive and impressive as any novel, the short story collection Love and Obstacles stands with the National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project as the best work of this MacArthur Genius Award winner's career. From the author of The Book of My Lives.

Dangerous Love
Dangerous Love

Author: Chad Ford

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1523089784

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“Chad Ford reminds us that humanity lies within all of us, and although conflict is everywhere in today's world, we have the tools we need to overcome obstacles and to thrive. This is a fantastic, timely book that I highly recommend." —Steve Kerr, Head Coach, Golden State Warriors Knowing how to transform conflict is critical in both our personal and professional lives. Yet, by and large, we are terrible at it. The reason, says longtime mediator Chad Ford, is fear. When conflict comes, our instincts are to run or fight. To transform conflict, Ford says we need to turn toward the people we are in conflict with, put down our physical and emotional weapons, and really love them with the kind of love that leads us to treat others as fellow human beings, not as objects in our way. We have to open ourselves up with no guarantee that anyone on the other side will do the same. While this can feel even more dangerous than conflict itself, it allows us to see the humanity of others so clearly that their needs and desires matter to us as much as our own. Ford shows dangerous love in action through examples ranging from his work in the Middle East to a deeply moving story about reconciling with his father. He explains why we disconnect from people at the very time we need to be most connected and the predictable patterns of justification and escalation that ensue. Most importantly, he gives us a path to practice dangerous love in the conflicts that matter most to us.

Being in Love
Being in Love

Author: Judith Pickering

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1317724399

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Finding true love is a journey of transformation obstructed by numerous psychological obstacles. Being in Love expands the traditional field of psychoanalytic couple therapy, and explores therapeutic methods of working through the obstacles leading to true love. Becoming who we are is an inherently relational journey: we uncover our truest nature and become most authentically real through the difficult and fearful, yet transformative intersubjective crucibles of our intimate relationships. In this book, Judith Pickering draws comparisons between Bion's concept of becoming in O, and being in love. She searches for pathways that lead away from relational confusion towards the discovery of genuine transformational relationships, and works towards finding better ways of relating to one another. This is achieved by encouraging couples to enjoy the actual presence, humanity, otherness and particularity of each other rather than expecting a partner to conform to our own expectations, projections, desires and presuppositions. Pickering draws on clinical material, contemporary psychoanalysis, cultural themes from the worlds of mythology and literature, and a wealth of therapeutic techniques in this fresh approach to couple therapy. Being in Love will therefore interest students and practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychology, and couple therapy, as well as all of those seeking to be more authentic in their relationships.

Love in the Last Days
Love in the Last Days

Author: D. Nurkse

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0451494814

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A contemporary requiem--an earthy yet elegant reconsideration of the Tristan and Iseult story, from the former poet laureate of Brooklyn. In D. Nurkse's wood of Morois, the Forest of Love, there's a fine line between the real and the imaginary, the archaic and the actual, poetry and news. The poems feature the voices of the lovers and all parties around them, including the servant Brangien; Tristan's horse, Beau Joueur; even the living spring that flows through the tale ("in my breathing shadow / the lovers hear their voices / confused with mine / promising a slate roof, / a gate, a child . . . "). Nurkse brings us an Iseult who has more power than she wants over Tristan's imagination, and a Tristan who understands his fate early on: "That charm was so strong, no luck could free us." For these lovers, time closes like a book, but it remains open for us as we hear both new tones and familiar voices, eerily like our own, in this age-old story made new again.

The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project

Author: Aleksandar Hemon

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2009-08-07

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0330478788

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‘Prose this powerful could wake the dead’ – Observer Crossing a century of Eastern European history, The Lazarus Project is a profound exploration of alienation and the immigrant experience from Aleksandar Hemon, author of The World and All That It Holds. On 2 March 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the city’s Chief of Police. He was shot dead. After the shooting, it was claimed he was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who wanted to bring the United States to its knees. His sister, Olga, was left alone and bereft in a city seething with tension. A century later, two friends become obsessed with the truth about Lazarus and decide to travel to his birthplace. As the stories intertwine, a world emerges in which everything – and nothing – has changed . . . ‘This is easily Hemon’s best work to date, an intricately tessellated portrait of flight, emigration, and the meaning of home’ – Evening Standard

A Taxonomy of Love
A Taxonomy of Love

Author: Rachael Allen

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1683351649

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A YA romance—with a sparkling commercial voice and a dash of science—that explores a relationship over six years The moment Spencer meets Hope the summer before seventh grade, it’s something at first sight. The pair become fast friends, climbing trees and planning world travels. After years of being outshone by his older brother and teased because of his Tourette syndrome, Spencer finally feels like he belongs. But as Hope and Spencer get older and life gets messier, the clear label of “friend” gets messier, too. Through sibling feuds and family tragedies, new relationships and broken hearts, the two grow together and apart, and Spencer, an aspiring scientist, tries to map it all out using his trusty system of taxonomy. He wants to identify and classify their relationship, but in the end, he finds that life doesn’t always fit into easy-to-manage boxes, and it’s this messy complexity that makes life so rich and beautiful.

Uncommon Marriage
Uncommon Marriage

Author: Tony Dungy

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1414390645

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What does it take to build a marriage that will last? Tony and Lauren Dungy have together known the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. They fell in love, built a family, and made sports history when Tony became the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl. Yet they’ve also gone through difficult, relationship-testing setbacks, including job loss and devastating personal tragedy. In a culture where it seems harder and harder to make marriage last, what has kept the Dungys strong through it all? In Uncommon Marriage, Tony and Lauren share the secrets that hold them together, revealing what they’ve learned so far about being a good husband or wife; getting through times of loss, grief, or change; staying connected despite busy schedules; supporting each other’s dreams and goals; and helping each other grow spiritually. They offer encouragement and practical advice to equip your marriage to survive tough issues and flourish with joy, purpose, and partnership—in other words, to be a marriage that is truly uncommon.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition)
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition)

Author: Ayana Mathis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0385350295

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The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage and the journey of a nation. Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie is wondrous from first to last—glorious, harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life. An emotionally transfixing page-turner, a searing portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of the American dream.

The Capital Sins
The Capital Sins

Author: Gerard P. Weber

Publisher: Franciscan Media

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780867162608

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Pride, envy, anger, greed, gluttony, sloth and lust are the stumbling blocks, the detours, and the dead ends along the path of life. "The Capital Sins" helps readers do three things: name how these obstacles are operating in our lives; claim our responsibility for the attitudes and actions which flow from them; and tame the way these destructive tendencies affect us.

Live Love Dream
Live Love Dream

Author: Ionut Iulian Ungureanu

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781912551095

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Do you feel like you are going around in circles, forever facing the same challenges? Are you struggling, feeling stuck or constantly on a search for true happiness? Do you want to learn how to tap into that inner power you have deep inside and actually change your circumstances? Transformational Coach, Ungureanu Ionut Iulian's Live Love Dream is a comprehensive roadmap designed to guide you through your own innate ability to tap into your own power and step into your greatness. Through sharing his own personal story and experience as an orphan in Romania, Iulian opens up a river of limiting belief systems that were responsible for holding him back in adulthood and shows us how we too can powerfully deal with our own limiting belief systems. Pitted against the indescribable poverty and rejection in his childhood, Iulian shows us how he traversed that landscape of trauma and, from his own experience, teaches us how to realign ourselves with the powerful motivating forces of intent, desire and determination. Live Love Dream is a gem of a book full of practical and actionable tips, reflections and exercises designed to help you discover your life's purpose, passion and desire to dream big. Written with remarkable candour, it's free from hype and jargon, and is written with clarity and deep compassion using examples of the author's own struggles and triumphs. Through reading, you will learn how to adopt the right mindset, overcome distress, anxiety and inaction, gain victory over obstacles and appreciate life's journey.