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Author : Katerine Paterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Christmas stories
ISBN : 0812470079
Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0380511444
Four stories about Christmas, from the author's 1979 collection, Angels and other strangers.
Author : Joe Keohane
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781984855787
A “meticulously researched and buoyantly written” (Esquire) look at what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the rise and fall of nations in the tradition of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens “This lively, searching work makes the case that welcoming ‘others’ isn’t just the bedrock of civilization, it’s the surest path to the best of what life has to offer.”—Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Homeland Elegies In our cities, we stand in silence at the pharmacy and in check-out lines at the grocery store, distracted by our phones, barely acknowledging one another, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we retreat into ideological silos reinforced by algorithms designed to serve us only familiar ideas and like-minded users. In our politics, we are increasingly consumed by a fear of people we’ve never met. But what if strangers—so often blamed for our most pressing political, social, and personal problems—are actually the solution? In The Power of Strangers, Joe Keohane sets out on a journey to discover what happens when we bridge the distance between us and people we don’t know. He learns that while we’re wired to sometimes fear, distrust, and even hate strangers, people and societies that have learned to connect with strangers benefit immensely. Digging into a growing body of cutting-edge research on the surprising social and psychological benefits that come from talking to strangers, Keohane finds that even passing interactions can enhance empathy, happiness, and cognitive development, ease loneliness and isolation, and root us in the world, deepening our sense of belonging. And all the while, Keohane gathers practical tips from experts on how to talk to strangers, and tries them out himself in the wild, to awkward, entertaining, and frequently poignant effect. Warm, witty, erudite, and profound, equal parts sweeping history and self-help journey, this deeply researched book will inspire readers to see everything—from major geopolitical shifts to trips to the corner store—in an entirely new light, showing them that talking to strangers isn’t just a way to live; it’s a way to survive.
Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : OCLC:1342350546
Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0613946103
Nine short stories by the award-winning author impart new meaning to the true spirit of Christmas and illuminate the familiar problems of modern-day life--fear, loneliness, personal loss, alienation
Author : Alec Forman,Jan Forman
Publisher : Matador
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : 1783063629
Strangers Like Angels chronicles the journeys of Alec and Jan Forman to far and distant lands as they embrace their pioneering spirit. Following adventures in Canada, Antarctica and the Sultanate of Oman they set off on the original gap year in the seventies. Travelling in their Land Rover, they use only a map and compass to navigate through the Sahara Desert and tropical rainforests in Africa, back to Europe and out to Asia via the Hindu Kush, and on to the Himalayas. They grapple with the realities of poverty and yet experience surprising hospitality and welcome from unlikely sources. In the confined space of their vehicle, Alec and Jan learn what it takes to support and sustain themselves and their relationship on an exciting and often harrowing journey. Exchange of news through airmail letters to and from England keeps them in touch with family matters. Beautiful photographs and illustrations with maps complement the text, taking the reader along on the journey with Alec and Jan. A light, entertaining read of a true story of adventures, travel and divine encounter, blended with winsome tales to delight the heart, Strangers Like Angels will appeal to fans of memoirs and travel books.
Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611643237
A Stubborn Sweetness and Other Stories for the Christmas Season is a collection of modern-day short stories by Katherine Paterson, award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia and The Great Gilly Hopkinsboth loved by children and adults for over twenty years. This compilation includes stories of real-life people such as a shopping mall's night watchman, a lonely widower, a pregnant teenage runaway, a political prisoner in China, a grieving mother, and a privileged American, who have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas because of loss, pain, greed, or circumstances. Through unexpected and uplifting ways, each is reminded of the first Christmas story and the vision of hope and peace it offers the world. They realize that even in the darkness, the light and song of Christmas can be seen and heard. This heart-warming gift book, filled with stories of realistic people finding hope, courage, and faith amidst life's circumstances, radiates the spirit of the season and reminds each of us what Christmas truly means. Originally written to be read during her church's Christmas Eve service, this collection of holiday stories is perfect for individuals, families, and churches to read and share during the season.
Author : Paterson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1979-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0690039921
Nine short stories by the award-winning author impart new meaning to the true spirit of Christmas and illuminate the familiar problems of modern-day life--fear, loneliness, personal loss, alienation
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520270008
Originally published: Berkeley, Calif; London: University of California Press, 1969.
Author : William D. Crump
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476687902
From the manger of Jesus Christ to the 21st century, this encyclopedia explores more than 2,000 years of Christmas past and present through 966 entries packed with a wide variety of historical and pop-culture subjects. Entries detail customs and traditions from around the world as well as classic Christmas movies, TV series/specials and animated cartoons. Arranged alphabetically by entry name, the book includes the historical background of popular sacred and secular songs as well as accounts of beloved literary works with Christmas themes from such noted authors as Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Pearl Buck, Henry Van Dyke and others. All things Christmas are available here in one comprehensive volume.
Author : Laura Schroff,Alex Tresniowski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501158773
"From the #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors of An Invisible Thread comes a heartwarming and inspiring book about the incredible impact that acts of kindness from strangers can have on the world around us. One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's for lunch. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth birthday party, Maurice Mazyck gave a toast, thanking Laura for her act of kindness, which ended up changing the course of his life. In that toast, Maurice said that when Laura stopped on that busy street corner all those years ago, God had sent him an angel. Laura's invisible thread journey has deepened her belief that angels--divine and otherwise--are all around us. After An Invisible Thread was published in 2011, readers from around the country and world began sharing with Laura their own stories about how chance encounters with strangers have changed their lives.From a woman who saved a life simply by buying someone a book, to a financier who gave a stranger the greatest gift of all, to a teacher who chose a hug over discipline and changed a lost boy's future--Angels on Earth will introduce a series of remarkable people whose invisible thread stories will move, surprise, and inspire readers. Angels on Earth sheds light on how each of us can live happier, more purposeful lives through sharing acts of kindness"--
Author : Marvin Dozier
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781479795208
Marvin Dozier has an innate creative ability. He is quick to point out that "the male/female relationship is like a wheel in constant motion; always moving, but sometimes going nowhere". He has created personalized poems for the individual or couple; which truly reads as though they themselves have written it. He has a keen insight into the feelings within the many people for whom he created a poem. This experience, in combination with his two practiced Masters; one in Social Work; the other in Human Services; has provided him with a well-rounded understanding of people he engages. His book is a compilation of selected pieces of original work; spanning over four decades. He examines the Male/Female relationship through a series of poems, prose, and essays. He presents a unique understanding of the various stages and phases within the female/male relationship; writing from both perspectives of the correlation; exposes the ups, downs, love, joy, anger, hopes, dreams, fantasies, truth, lies, deceit, honesty, drama, stability; changes, bitter and sweet, failures and successes. It is experiential and imagination. His feelings are spilled upon the pages, for the most part, from an experiential nature. He carefully portrays the relationships, which - at times - make you look for the tear-stains upon the paper; or causing you to look to the sky for the rainbows he writes about; or the roses in the garden or vase. He takes you into yourself and allows you to clearly identify with that of which he writes . . .
Author : Alexander Villarasa M.D.
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644587461
I titled this book Random Thoughts overtly tongue-in-cheek because, as I have argued in the introduction and preface, I do not believe in anything random about why and how we exist in a nonrandom universe. I strongly believe in creationism, one that does not deny the factuality of evolution in that creative process. The way I see it, the universe and our existence was schemed, designed, and finely-tuned by a transcendent supremely sentient impulse""God""who is not into acts of futility. The essay titled "It's All about God" specifically argues the idea that God's creation of sentient beings""us""was His act of utmost utility because if we are not here to perceive, experience, and witness the universe in all its glory, it would just be cold, dead space out here, there, and everywhere with neither usefulness nor timeliness.
Author : Stefinee Pinnegar,Ramona Maile Cutri
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9782832548318
Author : Alexander Villarasa M.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781543469271
This engrossing anthology, ranging from unrequited love to the big bang and quantum mechanics, promises something to get lost in and remember. Alex still continues to find fulfillment with family and life, devoted to children patients, traveling, playing golf, singing, dancing, and doing civic projects in his hometown, Palm Springs, California, which has voted him one of its one hundred top doctors for seven years now. As to writing, the muse will always be with him.