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My Father's Tears

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307272028
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book My Father's Tears written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”

Sobriety and Beyond

Author : Father John Doe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1616490829
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Sobriety and Beyond written by Father John Doe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Ralph Pfau, known originally as Father "John Doe" traces the spiritual roots of Alcoholics Anonymous and explains the fundamental and enduring truths contained in the Twelve Steps. This is a wonderful resource for discovering the spiritual contentment, mental peace and everyday joys to be found in the Twelve Steps.

Sobriety Without End

Author : Father John Doe
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781616494742
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Sobriety Without End written by Father John Doe and published by Hazelden Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this popular successor to Sobriety and Beyond, the author freely discusses the everyday problems that beset the paths of the unwary.Serenity is the key to long-term sobriety, and Father Doe explains how to get it, nurture it and keep it for a lifetime. Father Doe believes that by continually growing both mentally and spiritually we strengthen our sobriety and prepare ourselves to deal with all the challenges life has in store for us.

My Living Will

Author : John Trautwein
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490859748
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book My Living Will written by John Trautwein and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Living Will is the story of former major league pitcher John Trautwein, and the unbelievable tragedy which befell him and his family when his fifteen-year-old son, Will, took his own life. There had been no warnings, no obvious signs of anxiety, depression, or unhappiness; nothing. A family and a community were left stunned as they pondered how a young man like Will Trautwein, a healthy, happy, popular, athletic, and musical teenager, who came from such a loving home, could lose the will to live. “John Trautwein writes straight from the heart. And his words will save lives. The story Trautwein shares in these pages––a remarkable journey of passion and purpose––will literally save lives.” • Jeffrey Marx, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Season of Life “John Trautwein’s story inspires hope. It empowers people, and it gives its readers the ‘hope for life.’ The triumph that this story imparts arouses the goodness in everyone as it drives people toward action.” • Joe Girardi, Manager, The New York Yankees “In my twenty-two years of broadcasting, I have told many stories of triumph over tragedy, but the story of Will Trautwein and his family has stayed with me. The loss of such a vibrant young man and the strength of his family to use their heartache to help has had an impact on how I parent my daughter, and how I report stories of teenage depression and suicide. This is a must-read if you have a teenager in your life.” • Stephany Fisher, Anchor, CBS News, Atlanta “Ever wonder if a young person in your own home might be at risk? Read this book. In “My Living Will,” John Trautwein takes the emotions of loss and turns them into a message of awareness and hope. A must read for parents and teenagers alike!” • Dan Shaughnessy, The Boston Globe

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Author : John Matteson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393077578
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father written by John Matteson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.

Father Ralph Pfau and the Golden Books

Author : Glenn F. Chesnut
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532008961
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Father Ralph Pfau and the Golden Books written by Glenn F. Chesnut and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Ralph Pfau was one of AAs four most-published and most-formative authors (along with Bill Wilson, Richmond Walker, and Ed Webster) during the new movements earliest thirty years, during which it grew from only 100 members to almost 300,000. In the first ten years Pfau spent working to spread AA, he said I have traveled nearly 750,000 miles .... I have spoken before nearly two hundred thousand members of AA at retreats, meetings and conventions, and personally discussed problems with more than ten thousand alcoholics. He produced fourteen extremely popular books, called the Golden Books, under the pen name Father John Doe, along with other books and recordings. When he joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1943, he became the first Roman Catholic priest to get sober in the newly formed movement. An alcoholic and drug addict, he had spent the previous ten years being removed from parish after parish, as his drinking and addiction to downers got out of control over and over again. He taught the spirituality of imperfection, drawing from St. Thrse of Lisieuxs Little Way and St. Augustines teaching of God as Truth Itself the forgiving God who touches us in our fallenness, in acts of sudden psychological insight in which our whole perspective on life undergoes sweeping positive quantum changes. Over and over he calmed peoples fear of God by reminding them that perfection was a myth, and that no human being could do it all. He was one of the most creative and interesting American Catholic theologians of his era.

Shadow of My Father

Author : John A. Gotti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692395882
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Shadow of My Father written by John A. Gotti and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John A. Gotti who survived four trials and a parole violation hearing without a guilty verdict, in four years, now takes up his pen to tell the story of his father's unwavering dedication to the street, and how as his son he entered that life and then with his father's permission left the life of crime and put the "Family" behind him to live a legitimate life with his real family. It is a saga of betrayal and redemption, and an insider's view of how at times those who are tasked with upholding the law readily broke it to further their careers."--cover.

Father John's Story

Author : Sara Shea
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615611923
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Father John's Story written by Sara Shea and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the biography of the Czech priest John Prachar, a Nazi labor camp survivor who was later forced to flee from his homeland because the communist party didn't agree with what he preached. Welcomed into the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, Father John made a new home and served as priest and patriot for forty years. For more information and other purchasing options please visit FatherJohnsStory.wordpress.com.

A Persistent Peace

Author : John Dear
Publisher : Loyola Press
ISBN 13 : 0829430520
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book A Persistent Peace written by John Dear and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dear, SJ, believes that social activism and faith are inseparable. Acting in the name of the nonviolent Jesus, Dear has been arrested more than seventy-five times, has spent more than a year of his life in jail, and has been mocked by armed U.S. soldiers standing outside the doors to his New Mexico parish. A Persistent Peace, John Dear's autobiography, invites readers to follow the decades-long journey of social activism and spiritual growth of this nationally known peace activist and to witness his bold, decisive, often unpopular actions on behalf of peace. From his conversion to Christianity, to his calling to become a Jesuit, to the extreme dangers and delights of a life dedicated to truly living out the radical, forgiving love of Jesus, John's incredible story of social activism will touch anyone who believes in the power of peace.

The Radio and Other Stories

Author : Gil Ndi-Shang
Publisher : Spears Media Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Radio and Other Stories written by Gil Ndi-Shang and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On moving into a new apartment abroad in his Bavarian hometown, the narrator realises that some of his possessions and elements of his new neighbourhood open a window into a flurry of memories, serving as allegorical threads to his childhood, self-consciousness and discovery of the world. What begins as a personal narrative quickly cedes to a social archaeology, inviting the reader/listener on a homegoing journey in the backdrop of Cameroon’s tottering democratic trajectory. Modulated with poetry and music, The Radio tunes in to diaspora, home, nation, education, existence, religion as well as Mbum popular culture, showcasing creative re-appropriation and re-mixing of global trends and icons in specific communities.

Father to the Man

Author : Adrian Plass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Father to the Man written by Adrian Plass and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plass uses the stories in this collection to explore aspects of life as a Christian which many find difficult in a secular world. Plass is the best-selling Christian author in the UK.

The Other Side of Suffering

Author : John Ramsey
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0892965592
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of Suffering written by John Ramsey and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how John Ramsey survived unspeakable tragedy and learned to hope again. Like the biblical Job, John Ramsey had it all-wealthy, social position, a loving family. And like Job, Ramsey was destined for great affliction, as many of the most precious things in his life were cruelly taken from him. First came the death of his eldest daughter in a car accident in 1992. Then, four years later, his beloved six-year-old, JonBenét, was murdered; Ramsey was the one who discovered her body, concealed in the basement of his family's home. The case drew international media attention, and-compounding Ramsey's woe-suspicion unfairly focused on Ramsey and his wife, Patsy. Although they were ultimately cleared of any connection with the crime, Ramsey's sorrows did not end. In 2006, Patsy died, at 49, of ovarian cancer. In this remarkable book, Ramsey reveals how he was sustained by faith during the long period of spiritual darkness, and he offers hope and encouragement to others who suffer tragedy and injustice.

Half a Day and Other Stories

Author :
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966254320
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Half a Day and Other Stories written by and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daddy Long Legs

Author : John Price
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 083482891X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Daddy Long Legs written by John Price and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Price appears to have thrown in the towel. He has spent the last year struggling to support his family, neglecting to spend time with his wife and children, and becoming increasingly cynical about the degraded state of the natural world around him. After a heart-attack scare, however, his wife demands that he start appreciating all the "good things" in his life: their mouse-infested old house, their hopelessly overgrown yard, and most of all, the joys and humiliations of parenthood. In his quest to become a better father, Price faces many unexpected challenges—like understanding his grandmother’s decision to die, and supporting his nature-loving sons’ decision to make their home a "no-kill zone" for all living creatures. Still he finds the second chance he was looking for—to save himself and, perhaps, his small corner of an imperfect yet still beautiful world.

One Last Lunch

Author : Erica Heller
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683358910
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book One Last Lunch written by Erica Heller and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwarming essay collection, dozens of authors, actors, artists and others imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished. A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn’t love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings? In One Last Lunch, Heller has asked friends and family of authors, artists, musicians, comedians, actors, and others, to recount one such fantastic repast. Muffie Meyer and her documentary subject Little Edie Beale go to a deli in Montreal. Kirk Douglas asks his father what he thought of him becoming an actor. Sara Moulton dines with her friend Julia Child. The Anglican priest George Pitcher has lunch with Jesus. And Heller herself connects with her father, the renowned author Joseph Heller. These richly imagined stories are endlessly revealing, about the subject, the writer, the passage of time, regret, gratitude, and the power of enduring love.

The Reading Promise

Author : Alice Ozma
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1455504505
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book The Reading Promise written by Alice Ozma and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college. Alice approaches her book as a series of vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he read to her. Books included in the Streak were: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and Shakespeare's plays.

Among Friends

Author : Jim Sichko
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497638895
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Among Friends written by Jim Sichko and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priest’s inspiring story of bringing people together and bringing them closer to God—with some help from Dolly Parton, Martin Short, and others. This book is my Midrash. With these words, Father Jim Sichko draws us into a life story full of laughter, tears, and service, filled with insightful lessons gained during his many travels as a clergyman and motivational speaker. Whether recounting his sobering flying experiences, the time he met the pope, or his encounter with the “Weed Man,” Father Jim instructs through powerful storytelling. As he takes us along on his journey, from getting kicked out of seminary to hosting celebrities—including Dolly Parton, Harry Connick Jr., Martin Short, and former first lady Laura Bush—at his small Kentucky parish, Father Jim shines a light into the corners of the human heart to expose our need for God and the love He alone can give. With humor and striking honesty, Father Jim reveals what it means to worship God, have compassion for others, and live life among friends.