The Crack in the Teacup

The Crack in the Teacup

Author: Joan Bodger

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781771362085

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In The Crack in the Teacup, Joan Bodger has done more than write a fascinating autobiography that reveals the power of stories. With courage, unblinking honesty, the eye of a storyteller, and the pen of a poet, she has shown how a life-and a century-can be shaped and given meaning by personal mythology.


The Crack In The Teacup

The Crack In The Teacup

Author: Michael Gilbert

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2012-09-30

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0755146581

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Barhaven, on the south coast, is a fairly sleepy place and it seems incredulous that it could be where local councillors manage to line their own pockets. Enter a young lawyer, who finds himself at the centre of a major campaign against racketeering. The public and the press become involved and it ends with a twist that is totally unexpected.


As I Walked Out One Evening

As I Walked Out One Evening

Author: W. H. Auden

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1995-08-08

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0679761705

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W. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.


Sex, Time, and Power

Sex, Time, and Power

Author: Leonard Shlain

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-08-03

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780142004678

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As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain’s provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female’s pelvis and the increasing size of infants’ heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human female to this environmental stress by reconfiguring her hormonal cycles, entraining them with the periodicity of the moon. The results, however, did much more than ensure our existence; they imbued women with the concept of time, and gave them control over sex—a power that males sought to reclaim. And the possibility of achieving immortality through heirs drove men to construct patriarchal cultures that went on to dominate so much of human history. From the nature of courtship to the evolution of language, Shlain’s brilliant and wide-ranging exploration stimulates new thinking about very old matters.


Disney's Beauty and the Beast Teacup Mix-up

Disney's Beauty and the Beast Teacup Mix-up

Author: Zoe Lewis

Publisher: Random House Disney

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9780786830138

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Challenges the reader's visual perception through matching colors, finding specific shapes, and distinguishing sizes and other differences in similar pictures.


The Way of Abundance

The Way of Abundance

Author: Ann Voskamp

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0310351294

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What do you do when you wake up and feel like you're not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart? As Ann Voskamp writes, “great grief isn't meant to fit inside your body. It's why your heart breaks.” And each of us holds enough brokenness to overflow—to be given as the greatest story of our lives. In sixty vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness. Drawing from the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller The Broken Way and Ann's online essays, this devotional dares us to embrace brokenness as a gift that moves us to givenness as a way to draw closer to the heart of God. Christ Himself broke like bread, giving Himself to us so we might have a lifelong communion with Him. Could it be that our brokenness is also a gift to the world? This gentle but exquisitely profound book does nothing less than take you on an intimate journey of the soul. As Ann writes, "The wound in His side proves that Jesus is always on the side of the suffering, the wounded, the busted, the broken." Discover how surrendering in unexpected ways is the first step toward receiving what you long for. Discover the good news that your beauty is not in your strength but in your fragility. Discover why your healing shines radiant through your wounds—and how only in brokenness will you ever be whole—and find the way to the abundance you were meant for.


The Strangeness of the Good, Including Quarantine Notebook

The Strangeness of the Good, Including Quarantine Notebook

Author: James Matthew Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-12

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781621386322

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James Matthew Wilson makes the everyday lyrically urgent and memorable. Few poets writing today do so with such unfailing elegance, close attention to the human world, and generosity of spirit.


The Cracked Cup

The Cracked Cup

Author: Mike Mazzalongo

Publisher: BibleTalk Books

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 10

ISBN-13: 069263438X

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This mini book outlines some of the attitudes Christians need to cultivate in order to promote unity and peace within the church. Based on Ephesians 4:31-5:2.