Sleeping Late on Judgment Day
Sleeping Late on Judgment Day

Author: Jane Mayhall

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2009-03-12

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0307546659

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“My heart is bursting with homage as I / head off to a hostile eternity,” writes Jane Mayhall, now eighty-five, who wrote most of these poems in an urgent outpouring over the last few years. From the decades-outdated subway token in the bottom of her shoulder bag, which calls forth earlier days in New York City, to the violin her father practiced among the pantry’s jam jars in her Kentucky childhood, Mayhall plucks small treasures that bespeak her fierce devotion to life, with its clutter of memories and imperfections. In her tightly knotted, beautifully turned short poems, she elegizes a world not quite gone, and brings us into contact with some of her contemporaries, from Lincoln Kirstein to Theodore Roethke. Chief among her cherished memories is her long bohemian marriage, which she recalls in a series of ravishing love poems to her late husband. In lines saturated with feeling she describes how she accommodates her grief at losing him and, as throughout this exquisite volume, how we must continue to greet life, in all its gorgeous strangeness.

The Dragonbone Chair
The Dragonbone Chair

Author: Tad Williams

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 0756402697

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Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, finds his world torn apart by a civil war fueled by immortal enemies and the dark powers of sorcery.

The Art of Lying Down
The Art of Lying Down

Author: Bernd Brunner

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2013-12-03

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1612193102

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“A strange and dreamy voice . . . , like an Italo Calvino short story, curiously translated from some lost, obscure language.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love An utterly charming study of the history of lying down—which is more complicated than you might think We spend a good third of our lives lying down: sleeping, dreaming, making love, thinking, reading, and getting well. Bernd Brunner’s ode to lying down is a rich exploration of cultural history and an entertaining collection of tales, ranging from the history of the mattress to the “slow living movement” to Stone Age repose—when people did not sleep lying down—and beyond. He approaches the horizontal state from a number of directions, but never loses his keen sense for the odd or unusual detail. Far from being a pose of passivity or laziness, lying down can be a protest, a chance to gather thoughts or change your point of view—the other side to our upright, productive lives. Brunner makes an eloquent case for the importance of lying down in a world that values ever-greater levels of activity, arguing that time spent horizontally offers rewards that we’d do well not to ignore.

The Art of Losing
The Art of Losing

Author: Kevin Young

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-05-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1620404842

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“Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets.” -Billy Collins The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss. Among the poets included: Elizabeth Alexander, W. H. Auden, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and James Wright.

Love in the Second Act
Love in the Second Act

Author: Alison Leslie Gold

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-01-19

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1101215941

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Inspiring stories of individuals—aged 46 to 97—who experienced a resurgence of passion in their lives when they least expected it. F. Scott Fitzgerald believed there are no second acts in American lives. Yet at least as far as love is concerned, the statistics indicate otherwise. These days, more and more people are falling in love and embarking on deep and fulfilling romantic relationships in the later part of their lives. At a time when the specter of spending one's final years alone can seem only slightly less intimidating than Internet dating, the subjects profiled in this book tossed their hearts up in the air with the hope that love just might spring eternal. And just how different is the game at age seventy-five than it was at age twenty-five? This book forms an engaging meditation on the ways that love itself alters and matures as we grow older. Organized around the distinct and often surprising themes that emerged from Gold's conversations with lovers from all walks of life—love suddenly appearing out of the shadows following a determination to find it at whatever cost; second-act relationships that represent 180-degree turns for the parties involved; a sense of finally coming home to the one you were meant to be with in the final stages of life—Love in the Second Act will remind anyone, young or old, that the quest for love is never-ending.

Bring Judgment Day
Bring Judgment Day

Author: Sheila Curran Bernard

Publisher:

Published: 2024-04-24

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1009117467

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Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But, as this deeply researched book shows, these stories were shaped by the white folklorists who 'discovered' Lead Belly and, along with reporters, recording executives, and radio and film producers, introduced him to audiences beyond the South. Through a revelatory examination of arrest, trial, and prison records; sharecropping reports; oral histories; newspaper articles; and more, author Sheila Curran Bernard replaces myth with fact, offering a stunning indictment of systemic racism in the Jim Crow era of the United States and the power of narrative to erase and distort the past.

Follow 4 Ws to Wellness: Including Stretching, Sleep, Sunlight, and Fresh Air!
Follow 4 Ws to Wellness: Including Stretching, Sleep, Sunlight, and Fresh Air!

Author: Jim Carpentier, C.S.C.S

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Discover the science-based wellness-enhancing powers of water, wholesome foods and beverages, walking, weight training, stretching, sleep, sunlight, and fresh air remarkably optimizing mental and physical health and performance! Written during the COVID-19 pandemic amidst a fast-paced and medically advanced 21st Century world touting costly prescription and over-the-counter pills and dietary supplements (with potentially risky side effects), Follow 4 Ws to Wellness Including Stretching, Sleep, Sunlight and Fresh Air! guides readers toward a slower tempo, safer, refreshingly simplified, and natural wellness path. Filled with healthful-inspiring nostalgic songs, popular lyricists and singers, motivational quotes from medical and fitness professionals, celebrities, historic figures, Biblical and Italian proverbs, and longevity-producing lifestyles of residents in imaginary places, this down-to-earth book profoundly impacts individuals of all ages, athletes, and non-athletes alike. About the Author Rutgers University graduate and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist Jim Carpentier, C.S.C.S., served thirty plus years in health and fitness as a YMCA Associate Health and Wellness Director, personal trainer and massage therapist, high school strength and conditioning coach, athletic conditioning specialist for Montclair State University’s Sports Medicine Department and Football Team (Montclair, N.J.), and has written five hundred plus published wellness/sports conditioning articles for STACK.com, Better Nutrition, Coach and Athletic Director, Men’s Exercise, Men’s Workout, Natural Bodybuilding, and American Fitness magazines and other publications. He and his cherished wife, Rosemarie, reside in New Jersey and are devoted walkers practicing a healthy lifestyle.

Human Biology
Human Biology

Author: Chiras

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 711

ISBN-13: 128412861X

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Dan Chiras once again offers a refreshing and student-friendly introduction to the structure, function, health, and homeostasis of the human body in a modernized ninth edition of Human Biology. This acclaimed text explores life from a variety of levels and perspectives, including cellular/molecular, by body system, through disease, and within the environment.

Sleeping In Satan's Den
Sleeping In Satan's Den

Author: Kim Kozee

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2023-12-05

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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Sleeping in Satan's Den is more than a collection of folktales and stories of the Appalachian region. Through an official "ghost writer" named Lurlene Joy McCoy, the reader is delighted with scary tales and stories to spark the imagination, followed by the perspective of a member of a highly secretive group known as Alpha Domini--First Father. Lurlene Joy McCoy interprets the theme of each story--some based on real people, places, and events--through the use of scripture, psychology, science, religion, and modern secular explanations, using verifiable sources to allow the reader to decide for themself what is real and what is make-believe. Satan's Den exists. We have all been there. How you have survived its secrets is part of who you are today and where you will go tomorrow.