The Gift Of Memoir
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The Gift Of Memoir
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Author : Diane Taylor
language : en
Publisher: BPS Books
Release Date : 2015-01-06
The Gift Of Memoir written by Diane Taylor and has been published by BPS Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Gift of Memoir is a wonderful guide for Memoir Writing. I especially appreciate how Taylor examines the memoirs of historic, well-known or highly-controversial people for examples of good craft and content, and to illustrate the many quirks and magnificence of the human journey.” –Pegi Eyers, author of Ancient Spirit Rising “Every writer can benefit from reading Diane Taylor’s wonderfully clear, down-to-earth, practical, and inspiring book. But for the memoirist, in particular, Taylor’s expertise is invaluable.” –Philip Marchand, National Post columnist and author of Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America The Gift of Memoir is Diane Taylor's gift to writers of every kind, but especially those with a personal or family story to tell. In words that are themselves a stellar example of literary craftsmanship, Taylor shows writers how to show up, open up, and write. She shares moving stories from her own adventurous life. Her short chapters, full of practical advice and inspiring examples, cover such topics as: Establishing a writing ritual Why write memoir? Joining a writing community for diversity and connection Telling the truth when you aren’t sure Journaling to unlock the soul How to approach traumatic events Four strategies to retrieve memories The ingredients of a good anecdote The several senses, not just five, for vivid writing How to choose a form that fits your writing The revision process
Every Day Is A Gift
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Author : Tammy Duckworth
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-03-30
Every Day Is A Gift written by Tammy Duckworth and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who she is today. In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing—and amazingly true—stories from her incomparable life. In November of 2004, an Iraqi RPG blew through the cockpit of Tammy Duckworth's U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The explosion, which destroyed her legs and mangled her right arm, was a turning point in her life. But as Duckworth shows in Every Day Is a Gift, that moment was just one in a lifetime of extraordinary turns. The biracial daughter of an American father and a Thai-Chinese mother, Duckworth faced discrimination, poverty, and the horrors of war—all before the age of 16. As a child, she dodged bullets as her family fled war-torn Phnom Penh. As a teenager, she sold roses by the side of the road to save her family from hunger and homelessness in Hawaii. Through these experiences, she developed a fierce resilience that would prove invaluable in the years to come. Duckworth joined the Army, becoming one of a handful of female helicopter pilots at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She served eight months in Iraq before an insurgent's RPG shot down her helicopter, an attack that took her legs—and nearly took her life. She then spent thirteen months recovering at Walter Reed, learning to walk again on prosthetic legs and planning her return to the cockpit. But Duckworth found a new mission after meeting her state's senators, Barack Obama and Dick Durbin. After winning two terms as a U.S. Representative, she won election to the U.S. Senate in 2016. And she and her husband Bryan fulfilled another dream when she gave birth to two daughters, becoming the first sitting senator to give birth. From childhood to motherhood and beyond, Every Day Is a Gift is the remarkable story of one of America's most dedicated public servants.
The Gift Of An Ordinary Day
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Author : Katrina Kenison
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2009-09-07
The Gift Of An Ordinary Day written by Katrina Kenison and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-07 with Family & Relationships categories.
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.
The Gift Best Given
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Author : Edward Di Gangi
language : en
Publisher: Beddington Court Press
Release Date : 2020-05
The Gift Best Given written by Edward Di Gangi and has been published by Beddington Court Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Like a jigsaw puzzle, every story is made up of pieces; big ones, smaller ones, pieces not easily found, tiny and hiding, essential to complete the picture." At almost seventy years old, Edward Di Gangi had never given much thought to the fact he was adopted. However, a cemetery visit and a book about a favorite author's search for lost family suddenly compel him to embark on a genealogical quest to discover his origins. As he digs deeper, he begins to piece together the life story of an extraordinary woman--his birth mother. Far from being the ordinary woman that Di Gangi had envisioned, Genevieve Knorowski was an aspiring "artista" who left home at the age of seventeen in the midst of World War II to join an ice-skating company in Vancouver. Journeying alone by train across the continent from New York, Genevieve would go on to achieve fame as an ice show performer, skating in the United States, Central and South America, and across Europe. However, it is a decision Genevieve makes on Easter Sunday in a church on New York City's Upper West Side that will forever connect the life of a young woman pursuing her dreams with the life of a seventy-year-old man searching for answers to the lifelong questions of who we are, where we come from, and what family means.
The Gift Of An Ordinary Day
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Author : Katrina Kenison
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-09-07
The Gift Of An Ordinary Day written by Katrina Kenison and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-07 with Family & Relationships categories.
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.
The Gift Of Disappointment
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Author : Leilah I. Sampson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-11-19
The Gift Of Disappointment written by Leilah I. Sampson 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 2016-11-19 with categories.
The Gift of Disappointment is a roller coaster ride of tragedy, disappointment, victory, and spiritual growth everyone can relate to. When a young woman is diagnosed with a serious kidney disease out of nowhere while in college, she is faced with two options: fight or die. Follow Leilah on her journey to finding life's true purpose through the worst eight years of her life. While in the fire, like most, she didn't know God had something much greater ahead. Hindsight is 20/20. With open eyes, an open mind, and a pure heart; she reflects on how everything she went through was all a part of His perfect plan for her life.
The Gift By H D
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Author : H.D.
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2021-10-05
The Gift By H D written by H.D. and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
"It is a special joy to have the complete text of The Gift, a stunning work in the H.D. canon, a work of import for studies in autobiography and the essay, for understanding the spiritual crisis of modernism, and as a climactic work in the career of an extraordinary 20th-century woman writer."--Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University "All students and teachers of American literature will value this book for the light it throws on the poet who is, I believe, the most important female poet in America since Emily Dickinson, and indeed the most important female poet writing in the English language during the 20th century."--Louis L. Martz, Yale University In this complete, unabridged edition of H.D.'s visionary memoir, The Gift, Jane Augustine makes available for the first time the text as H.D. wrote it and intended it to be read, including H.D.’s coda to the book, her "Notes," never before published in its entirety. Written in London during the blitz of World War II, The Gift re-creates the peaceful childhood of Hilda Doolittle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she was born in 1886. As an antidote to war’s destructiveness, H.D. invokes the mystical Moravian heritage of her mother's family to convey an ideal world peace and salvation that would come through the spiritual power of women--a power that also endowed her with "the gift" of her own art. Although H.D.’s androgynous signature first associated her with early 20th-century Imagist poetics, The Gift exemplifies her continuing innovations in prose. She uses the child-voice, flashback, and stream-of-consciousness techniques reminiscent of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Dorothy Richardson, but expands the genre of memoir through free-associative meditations on myth and her lengthy essayistic "Notes" on Moravian history, emphasizing the pioneer missionaries' rapport with Native Americans.. The Gift is key to intertextual studies of H.D.’s wartime oeuvre and to an understanding of the religious and gender concerns pervading her later work, especially the women-centered poems Trilogy and Helen in Egypt. Augustine’s introduction and annotations, based on extensive research in Moravian archives, provide a biographical and historical context to make this the definitive edition of The Gift, essential to students and scholars of H.D., modernism, and feminist literature.
The Gift Of A Broken Heart
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Author : Avery Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-24
The Gift Of A Broken Heart written by Avery Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-24 with categories.
What is it they say? Life is what happens while we are making other plans? Avery is certainly not planning on the unexpected turn her life takes as it suddenly veers off the predictable path and swerves out of control. Facing devastating losses, she battles to keep hope and faith alive in the midst of the insanity that has become her life. From the actual pages of her journal, Avery shares personal details of this extraordinary journey with God and her astonishing discoveries. Inside a heart broken seemingly beyond repair, she receives an incredible gift. True Love. Perhaps the only way to learn the meaning of true love deep down in your soul is to desperately need it. This is not your typical love story, but it is a love story. A story about Love that never gives up.
The Gift Of Goodbye
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Author : Rebecca Whitehead Munn
language : en
Publisher: She Writes Press
Release Date : 2017-07-18
The Gift Of Goodbye written by Rebecca Whitehead Munn and has been published by She Writes Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Have you loved and lost before, yet struggled with how to recover and move forward? Are you looking for inspiration to give you strength to persevere? Have you faced the inevitable eternal rest of a parent, struggled with how to say good-bye? Have you questioned your faith and let fear take over in times of loss? In The Gift of Goodbye, Rebecca Whitehead Munn relates how she drew strength from her faith and optimism as everything she knew to be constant in her life was changing. She inspires readers through her natural writing style to believe that they too can persevere and build resilience through the seasons of loss in life. Rebecca opens her heart on each page as she walks us through her story of living through two major life transitions within a three-year span, and the resulting shift she made in the process—due to the lasting gift of love from her now-deceased mother, her courage, and the choice she made to expand into more of who she was at her core.
Cancer Was Not A Gift And It Didn T Make Me A Better Person
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Author : Nancy Stordahl
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-12-09
Cancer Was Not A Gift And It Didn T Make Me A Better Person written by Nancy Stordahl 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 2015-12-09 with Breast categories.
Are you weary of stories portraying cancer as merely a bump in the road, an experience to be grateful for or a chance for personal enlightenment? Nancy Stordahl shares about her breast cancer experience while intertwining memories about what it was like to be a caregiver for her mother who died from metastatic breast cancer. Originating from personal, unrestrained journal entries, this strikingly frank memoir gives readers a glimpse into cancer's messy realities including the multitude of emotions that arise when a family is catapulted into the world of cancer chaos. This is truth-telling from a not-so-pretty-in-pink perspective, resulting in an honest, realistic portrait of family, cancer and loss that will encourage others facing similar trials to ditch the societal expectations and instead do things their own way. You don't have to smile your way through cancer.