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Serious Face

Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525509941
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Serious Face written by Jon Mooallem and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the discovery of the author’s face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from “one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today” (Elizabeth Gilbert). ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Lit Hub Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion—a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California’s deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims is the center of the world, shadows a man through his first day of freedom after twenty-one years in prison, and more—all with a deep conviction that it’s our vulnerability, not our victories, that connect us. Mooallem’s powers of perception have established him as one of the most distinctive, empathic, and clear-sighted narrative journalists working today. The Wall Street Journal has called his writing “as much art as it is journalism,” and Jia Tolentino has praised his “grace and command.” In Serious Face, Mooallem brings to life the desperate hopes and urgent fears of the people he meets, telling their stories with empathy, humor, insight, and kindness. These elegant, moving essays form an idiosyncratic tapestry of human experience: our audacity and fallibility, our bumbling and goodwill. In moments of calamity and within the extreme absurdity of everyday life, can we learn to love the people we really are, behind the serious faces we show the world?

Serious Face

Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525509968
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Straight Face

Author : Nigel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340769430
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Straight Face written by Nigel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Success in relationships was late arriving too. It was only when Nigel met production manager Trevor Bentham in 1978 that he finally found the happiness and stability he longed for, and to which he attributes the rest of his phenemonal career." "Completed only a few days before he died, Nigel Hawthorne's honest and witty autobiography is a moving testament to this most courageous, brilliant and self-effacing of actors."--BOOK JACKET.

Serious Face

Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0525509941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Serious Face written by Jon Mooallem and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the discovery of the author’s face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from “one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today” (Elizabeth Gilbert). ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Lit Hub Beneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion—a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California’s deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims is the center of the world, shadows a man through his first day of freedom after twenty-one years in prison, and more—all with a deep conviction that it’s our vulnerability, not our victories, that connect us. Mooallem’s powers of perception have established him as one of the most distinctive, empathic, and clear-sighted narrative journalists working today. The Wall Street Journal has called his writing “as much art as it is journalism,” and Jia Tolentino has praised his “grace and command.” In Serious Face, Mooallem brings to life the desperate hopes and urgent fears of the people he meets, telling their stories with empathy, humor, insight, and kindness. These elegant, moving essays form an idiosyncratic tapestry of human experience: our audacity and fallibility, our bumbling and goodwill. In moments of calamity and within the extreme absurdity of everyday life, can we learn to love the people we really are, behind the serious faces we show the world?

Can You Keep a Straight Face?

Author : Elisa Gehin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500650918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Can You Keep a Straight Face? written by Elisa Gehin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pop-up book with flaps to lift, tabs to pull and plenty of surprises Can you keep a straight face? Straight eyebrows? Straight lips? A straight... nose? These pages are packed with interactive tabs that allow children to pull funny faces with impunity.

Straight-Face

Author : Brandon Wallace
Publisher : Brandon Wallace
ISBN 13 : 9781087925219
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Straight-Face written by Brandon Wallace and published by Brandon Wallace. This book was released on 2022-01-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandon Wallace, raised in the delta of Arkansas, spent his entire life trying to hide behind a mask. Growing up, he knew only two things about himself: he was called to ministry and he was attracted to the same sex. Afraid that coming out would destroy his reputation, livelihood, and ministry, he hid his sexual identity in hopes of finding love and acceptance. However, God would take him on a journey he never expected. Straight-Face is the memoir of that long and profound journey from hiding behind a mask to living an authentic life; from running from himself to accepting his orientation and ultimately his faith. It is a story about life, about love, and about reconciling the unique beauty of both in a world that is slowly but surely learning to do the same.

Lies with a Straight Face

Author : Wayne R. Besen
Publisher : Truth Wins Out
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lies with a Straight Face written by Wayne R. Besen and published by Truth Wins Out. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lies with a Straight Face tells the fascinating story of the precipitous rise and fall of the “ex-gay” conversion industry in a manner that is both enlightening and entertaining. This fast-moving, fact-based book is perfect or those who enjoy the marriage of politics, history and current events. The book features the riveting story of the 1998 Truth in Love ad campaign, where the Religious Right’s most prominent organizations joined forces to prove that LGBTQ people could be converted to heterosexuality through prayer and therapy. Their provocative national ad campaign created saturation media coverage, turned “ex-gay” into a household term and sparked innumerable water cooler conversations. In this book, you’ll find out the shocking results of the Truth in Love campaign and learn about what happened to their outspoken “ex-gay” poster boys and girls. Lies with a Straight Face also discusses the contemporary con artists in the “ex-gay” industry and offers tangible ways for today’s leaders to fight back. Lies with a Straight Face is a sequel published on the twenty-year anniversary of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth. Nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, Besen’s original book documents the history of conversion “cure” programs from the early 20th Century to 2002. His new book discusses what happened from 2003 up to the present day. “To prevail in our present-day battles, we must learn from our past,” said Besen. “Ex-gay conversion programs are a farce that wreck families and destroy lives.”

10 Lies Insurances Agents Will Tell You With A Straight Face

Author :
Publisher : Insurance Agent Lies
ISBN 13 : 1434821552
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book 10 Lies Insurances Agents Will Tell You With A Straight Face written by and published by Insurance Agent Lies. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why I Write

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724263
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen

Author : Tom Douglas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062039482
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen written by Tom Douglas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen by Tom Douglas has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309439124
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.

This Is Chance!

Author : Jon Mooallem
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0525509925
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book This Is Chance! written by Jon Mooallem and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together “A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal “A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year) In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis—the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped, night fell and Anchorage went dark. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. Slowly, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a familiar woman’s voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. Genie Chance was a part-time radio reporter and working mother who would play an unlikely role in the wake of the disaster, helping to put her fractured community back together. Her tireless broadcasts over the next three days would transform her into a legendary figure in Alaska and bring her fame worldwide—but only briefly. That Easter weekend in Anchorage, Genie and a cast of endearingly eccentric characters—from a mountaineering psychologist to the local community theater group staging Our Town—were thrown into a jumbled world they could not recognize. Together, they would make a home in it again. Drawing on thousands of pages of unpublished documents, interviews with survivors, and original broadcast recordings, This Is Chance! is the hopeful, gorgeously told story of a single catastrophic weekend and proof of our collective strength in a turbulent world. There are moments when reality instantly changes—when the life we assume is stable gets upended by pure chance. This Is Chance! is an electrifying and lavishly empathetic portrayal of one community rising above the randomness, a real-life fable of human connection withstanding chaos.

Lippincott's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Lippincott's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lourdes

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lourdes written by Émile Zola and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel.

Ave Maria

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ave Maria written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sunset

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: