Her Candle Burns At Both Ends
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Her Candle Burns At Both Ends
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Author : Ann Costello
language : en
Publisher: Depopress
Release Date : 2011-10
Her Candle Burns At Both Ends written by Ann Costello and has been published by Depopress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Author's Preface I was always confident that my children would remain reasonably healthy. They would never succumb to any life-threatening illness-after all, I believed, I could never survive anything like that, so therefore it would not happen. For many years, I had worked as an ICU nurse, caring for people who were critically ill. Always mindful and empathetic about their mental and physical well-being, I had a healthy objectivity that was necessary to deliver essential supports for healing. In April of 2008, my twenty-five-year-old daughter, Deirdre, had been teaching in Japan for a year. When she called me one night to say that she had been diagnosed with acute leukemia, a life-threatening disease, I went into total denial. After spending almost twenty-four hours a day in Deirdre's hospital room, I came to know firsthand the emotional, spiritual, and physical turmoil that patients and families go through. As she and I went to battle together to fight the disease. Deirdre took up arms of hope, strength, and resolve; I took up arms of hope and faith. I was eventually faced with a vital decision and a responsibility concerning Deirdre's treatment. My previous "meant to be" and "going with my intuition" philosophies were put to the ultimate test. On the following year, in the summer of 2009, as I pondered through ideas about a memorial for her, Deirdre slowly persuaded and inspired me to write a book about our experiences throughout her leukemia treatment: the chemotherapy, the invasive investigations, our joyful and sorrowful moments, and our hope that never wavered. Our story starts when Deirdre is living in Japan and the diagnosis is suddenly made. It continues with her time in the hospital in Halifax and the challenges of adjusting to life when she is discharged home for a while. We want to share the story of how we coped with terrifying events and how our love, hope, and faith transcended doubt and despair. Deirdre displays her incredible insight, courage, and strength as she deals with the adversities that assail her during the illness. Throughout it all her quirky sense of humour remains intact. As the story ends, Deirdre conveys her message of everlasting love from a place so close, yet seen and felt by few.
A Few Figs From Thistles
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Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1928-01-01
A Few Figs From Thistles written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1928-01-01 with Fiction categories.
First Fig And Other Poems
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Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-08-28
First Fig And Other Poems written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-28 with Poetry categories.
Vincent Millay. Excellent anthology comprises Second April (1921) and A Few Figs from Thistles (1922), featuring such well-known poems as "First Fig," "Recuerdo," "The Philosopher," more.
Here Burns My Candle
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Author : Liz Curtis Higgs
language : en
Publisher: WaterBrook
Release Date : 2010-03-16
Here Burns My Candle written by Liz Curtis Higgs and has been published by WaterBrook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-16 with Fiction categories.
A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past. Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her. Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips. His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Though her two abiding passions are maintaining her place in society and coddling her grown sons, Marjory’s many regrets, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, continue to plague her. One by one the Kerr family secrets begin to surface, even as bonny Prince Charlie and his rebel army ride into Edinburgh in September 1745, intent on capturing the crown. A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, Here Burns My Candle illumines the dark side of human nature, even as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home.
Chicken Soup To Inspire The Body And Soul
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Author : Jack Canfield
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-09-04
Chicken Soup To Inspire The Body And Soul written by Jack Canfield and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-04 with Self-Help categories.
This book is not a replacement for yoga or The Zone; it is a companion – a reminder that hard work and determination really do pay off, and that our bodies are gifts to be cared for and treasured through exercise and healthy living.
Candles Burning
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Author : Tabitha King
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-05-01
Candles Burning written by Tabitha King and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with Fiction categories.
“A mix of magic realism and Southern gothic, this stunning collaboration between King and McDowell…moves at a hypnotic pace, like an Alabama water moccasin slipping through black water.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Calliope “Calley” Dakin is no normal little girl. She hears things that maybe a little girl shouldn’t hear—and knows things a little girl should never know. Just seven when her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no discernable motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There—in a house that’s a dead ringer for Calley’s late great-grandmother’s house—another woman awaits their presence. A woman who understands what Calley is, but can’t begin to imagine just how strong her bond is with her father—even after death... Known for his chilling Blackwater series, author Michael McDowell left behind the unfinished manuscript for Candles Burning on his death in 1999. In the spirit of the ghost stories that Michael loved, Tabitha King has taken up where he left off.
The Cambridge Introduction To Twentieth Century American Poetry
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Author : Christopher Beach
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-10-23
The Cambridge Introduction To Twentieth Century American Poetry written by Christopher Beach and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.
Savage Beauty
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Author : Nancy Milford
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001-11-27
Savage Beauty written by Nancy Milford and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother—and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.
Haunted By Parents
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Author : Leonard Shengold
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Haunted By Parents written by Leonard Shengold and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Psychology categories.
In this book the eminent psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold looks at why some people are resistant to change, even when it seems to promise a change for the better. Drawing on a lifetime of clinical experience as well as wide readings of world literature, Shengold shows how early childhood relationships with parents can lead to a powerful conviction that change means loss. Dr. Shengold, who is well known for his work on the lasting effects of childhood trauma and child abuse in such seminal books as Soul Murder and Soul Murder Revisited, continues his exploration into the consequences of early psychological injury and loss. In the examples of his patients and in the lives and work of such figures as Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Wordsworth, and Henrik Ibsen, Shengold looks at the different ways in which unconscious impressions connected with early experiences and fantasies about parents are integrated into individual lives. He shows the difficulties he’s encountered with his patients in raising these memories to the conscious level where they can be known and owned; and he also shows, in his survey of literary figures, how these memories can become part of the creative process. Haunted by Parents offers a deeply humane reflection on the values and limitations of therapy, on memory and the lingering effects of the past, and on the possibility of recognizing the promise of the future.
Manager As Muse
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Author : Kathleen Dixon Donnelly
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-11-09
Manager As Muse written by Kathleen Dixon Donnelly and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-09 with Book editors categories.
"My goodness, Miss Donnelly, Maxwell Perkins was one of the worst businessmen who ever lived." Interview with Charles Scribner, Jr., Chairman of Scribner's, 1980. One of the many legends surrounding Scribner's editor, Maxwell Perkins (1884-1947) is that he was a terrible businessman. If so, how did he manage to get such classic work out of such volatile creative personalities as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, among others? And, how did so many of his authors contribute to Scribner's financial success over the decades? Starting with the excellent biography, Max Perkins, Editor of Genius, by A. Scott Berg, Dr. Kathleen Dixon Donnelly combined information from numerous sources, including several collections of letters, to determine what management skills Perkins used to motivate these three larger than life characters. Based on her thesis for her MBA at Duquesne University in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this version of Manager as Muse focuses on developing guidelines which today's managers of creative people can use in working with writers, artists, performers-any of those in the creative industries. The principles of management remain the same. What did Perkins do to keep these novelists writing? How much did he push? How much did he keep hands off? Through a detailed analysis of the relationships between Perkins and his three most well-known authors, Manager as Muse gives you insights in to how best to work with the creative people you manage to motivate them to achieve success.