A Feather On The Breath Of God

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Picador
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429944946

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A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312422733

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A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

A ballet dancer reflects on her family. The daughter of immigrant parents, her father was a taciturn Chinese-Panamanian, while her mother was a voluble German filled with nostalgia. The tale includes a romance between the ballet dancer and a Russian immigrant.

Author : St. Hildegard of Bingen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813231297

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The Book of Divine Works by St. Hildegard of Bingen Pdf

Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works (Liber Divinorum Operum) is the culmination of the Visionary’s Doctor’s theological project, offered here for the first time in a complete and scholarly English translation. The first part explores the intricate physical and spiritual relationships between the cosmos and the human person, with the famous image of the universal Man standing astride the cosmic spheres. The second part examines the rewards for virtue and the punishments for vice, mapped onto a geography of purgatory, hellmouth, and the road to the heavenly city. At the end of each Hildegard writes extensive commentaries on the Prologue to John’s Gospel (Part 1) and the first chapter of Genesis (Part 2)—the only premodern woman to have done so. Finally, the third part tells the history of salvation, imagined as the City of God standing next to the mountain of God’s foreknowledge, with Divine Love reigning over all.

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0349014256

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A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love. 'A pleasure from the first page to the last' JONATHAN FRANZEN ***With an introduction by Susan Choi*** A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in postwar Germany and settle in New York City. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet-these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality. 'A forceful novel by a writer of uncommon talent' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Author : Hildegard of Bingen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501711879

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Symphonia by Hildegard of Bingen Pdf

For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography and discography, and made other minor changes. Also included is an essay by Marianne Richert Pfau which delineates the connection between music and text in the Symphonia. Famous throughout Europe during her lifetime, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a composer and a poet, a writer on theological, scientific, and medical subjects, an abbess, and a visionary prophet. One of the very few female composers of the Middle Ages whose work has survived, Hildegard was neglected for centuries until her liturgical song cycle was rediscovered. Songs from it are now being performed regularly by early music groups, and more than twenty compact discs have been recorded.

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593191439

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What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR, PEOPLE, AND O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF 2020 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “As good as The Friend, if not better.” —The New York Times “Impossible to put down . . . leavened with wit and tenderness.” —People “I was dazed by the novel’s grace.” —The New Yorker The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.

Author : Deborah Smith Douglas
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819225610

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The Praying Life by Deborah Smith Douglas Pdf

An invitation to a more participatory relationship with God through the power of prayer. Nothing is more remarkable—or more beautiful—than an ordinary life, quietly transformed by prayer. This is the life that Deborah Smith Douglas chronicles—and invites readers into—in her lovely collection of essays and poems. Drawing from events as simple as breakfast with her five-year-old daughter or waiting in line at the post office, Douglas shows how a loving relationship with God can be nurtured in small ways every day. “Without my ever really intending it,” she writes, “my own life—as a wife and mother, daughter and friend—has taught me to see God hidden in the ordinary, to watch for God under the surface of things as a fisherman watches for fish.” Woven into each of these pieces, along with reflections on the author’s experiences, are guidelines for readers watching for God in their own unique—and ordinary—lives. Divided into four sections—Ways of Praying, Healing, Spiritual Companionship, and Fruitfulness—The Praying Life will help Christians move from awareness of God’s presence in their lives to a deep participation in God’s love.

Author : Naomi Kenyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798630993106

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Like a Feather by Naomi Kenyon Pdf

Maybe the secret she's kept her whole life was meant to be discovered. Penelope Rosewood has always wanted to be normal. Born with the ability to fly, it's kind of hard to be anything but different. Penny's mother has warned her that letting her secret out could be dangerous. But this summer Penny is starting to believe that she's not the only one keeping secrets. Is something darker going on in Mount Robert? Sam Caleb has always wanted to be different. When his family moves from New York City to the countryside, it's a great opportunity to make a new reputation for himself. Sam is instantly drawn to the girl next door--the one with fear in her dark blue eyes. After discovering Penelope in flight, he can't turn away from the strange reality he's stumbled into. He realizes there's a lot more hidden behind her pretty face then he thought. While Penelope and Sam's friendship blossoms, more secrets surface. A man who seems to be stalking Penny, and a mysterious woman in a photo that her parents refuse to talk about --it's all just the beginning. As they uncover the horrifying truths, they realize how important it is to find peace in the unknown, and the strength it takes to find it. DISCLAIMER: Although mentioned briefly, this book includes subjects like teen pregnancy, drug abuse, and suicide. Some subjects may not be suitable for younger readers.

Author : Megan Hoyt
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1612613586

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Hildegard's Gift by Megan Hoyt Pdf

When Hildegard was young, everywhere she went she saw colors and swirls, pictures, and designs. Music filled her soul and she was flooded with ideas--so many that she thought her mind would explode. Then one day it all stopped. In this beautiful book children will join Hildegard on her journey toward devotion to God, service to others, and toward a blessed and solitary life filled with artistic expression.

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735219465

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The Friend by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." —Wall Street Journal "A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." —NPR "Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New York Times A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101443392

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Salvation City by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

“A NOVEL FOR LIFE AFTER THE PANDEMIC…Scratches a particular imaginative itch that we are all experiencing at the precipice of a new era." -- The New Yorker From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend comes a moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a pandemic virus as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny. His family's sole survivor after a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of people worldwide, Cole Vining is lucky to have found refuge with the evangelical Pastor Wyatt and his wife in a small town in southern Indiana. As the world outside has grown increasingly anarchic, Salvation City has been spared much of the devastation, and its residents have renewed their preparations for the Rapture. Grateful for the shelter and love of his foster family (and relieved to have been saved from the horrid, overrun orphanages that have sprung up around the country), Cole begins to form relationships within the larger community. But despite his affection for this place, he struggles with memories of the very different world in which he was reared. Is there room to love both Wyatt and his parents? Are they still his parents if they are no longer there? As others around him grow increasingly fixated on the hope of salvation and the new life to come through the imminent Rapture, Cole begins to conceive of a different future for himself, one in which his own dreams of heroism seem within reach. Written in Sigrid Nunez's deceptively simple style, Salvation City is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness, weaving the deeply affecting story of a young boy's transformation with a profound meditation on the meaning of belief and heroism.

Author : Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142411981

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Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson Pdf

When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.

Author : Malcolm Guite
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848255418

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The Singing Bowl by Malcolm Guite Pdf

Malcolm Guite’s eagerly awaited second poetry collection 'The Singing Bowl' takes is name from the breathtakingly beautiful opening poem, a sonnet which connects poetry and prayer. It includes poems that seek beauty and transfiguration in contemporary life; sonnets inspired by Francis and other outstanding saints; poems centred on love (which might be used at weddings), others on parting and mortality (which might be used at funerals). A further group, ‘Jamming your Machine’, searches for the life of the spirit in the midst of the modern era and includes an ode to an iphone.

Author : Irene Zahava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429720796

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Feminism 3 by Irene Zahava Pdf

This book is a collection of short stories by third generation feminists, covering major issues in a young woman's life: awakening sexuality, biological and psychological landmarks, family rejection and rebellion, child abduction and abuse, gender identification, and sexual harassment.

Author : Jennifer Green and Michael Green
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0412364107

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Dealing with Death by Jennifer Green and Michael Green Pdf