Memoirs Of A Middle Aged Hummingbird

Author : Suellen Zima
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780595838585

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Memoirs of a Middle-Aged Hummingbird by Suellen Zima Pdf

On this long, unique, extraordinary journey, we join an American middle-aged teacher as she wanders the world. Emigrating to Israel in 1983, she takes us to a boarding school where she cares for newly arrived Ethiopian teenage immigrants. We follow her next to a small Israeli Arab town. In 1988, she takes us back to China as it can never be seen again, and through her students' lives, watches its tumultuous changes from then until 2005. Taiwan, Macau, Bali, and Korea also become "home," while New Zealand, Fiji, Turkey, Vietnam, Russia, and Iceland, among others, beckon briefly, but she always returns to China. Through the enthralling details of the everyday life of ordinary people, the reader virtually lives their struggles, fears, achievements, joys and dreams. Curiosity, intensity, and the journals she keeps along the way are her constant traveling companions. This independent budget traveler keenly experiences cultures, like a hummingbird with feet planted firmly in mid-air, hovering, drinking deeply, and then flitting away to return another day. Interwoven throughout are her personal, emotional, and spiritual journeys. This is a true life odyssey any seasoned or armchair traveler will want to explore.

Author : Suellen Zima
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780595394609

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Memoirs of a Middle-aged Hummingbird by Suellen Zima Pdf

On this long, unique, extraordinary journey, we join an American middle-aged teacher as she wanders the world. Emigrating to Israel in 1983, she takes us to a boarding school where she cares for newly arrived Ethiopian teenage immigrants. We follow her next to a small Israeli Arab town. In 1988, she takes us back to China as it can never be seen again, and through her students' lives, watches its tumultuous changes from then until 2005. Taiwan, Macau, Bali, and Korea also become "home," while New Zealand, Fiji, Turkey, Vietnam, Russia, and Iceland, among others, beckon briefly, but she always returns to China. Through the enthralling details of the everyday life of ordinary people, the reader virtually lives their struggles, fears, achievements, joys and dreams. Curiosity, intensity, and the journals she keeps along the way are her constant traveling companions. This independent budget traveler keenly experiences cultures, like a hummingbird with feet planted firmly in mid-air, hovering, drinking deeply, and then flitting away to return another day. Interwoven throughout are her personal, emotional, and spiritual journeys. This is a true life odyssey any seasoned or armchair traveler will want to explore.

Author : Deborah Tobola
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631525063

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Hummingbird in Underworld by Deborah Tobola Pdf

At the age of forty-five, Deborah Tobola returns to her birthplace, San Luis Obispo, to work in the very prison her father worked in when he was a student at Cal Poly. But she’s not wearing a uniform as he did; she’s there to teach creative writing and manage the prison’s arts program—a dream job. As she creates a theatre program for prisoners, Tobola finds plenty of drama off the stage as well. Inside the razor wire she finds a world frozen in the ’50s, with no contact with the outside except by telephone; officers who think prisoners don’t deserve programs; bureaucrats who want to cut arts funding; and inmates who steal, or worse. But she loves engaging prisoners in the arts and helping them discover their voices: men like Opie, the gentleman robber; Razor, the roughneck who subscribes to The New Yorker; charismatic Green Eyes, who really has blue eyes; Doo Wop, a singer known for the desserts he creates from prison fare. Alternating between tales of creating drama in prison and Tobola’s own story, Hummingbird in Underworld takes readers on an unforgettable literary journey—one that is frank, funny, and fascinating.

Author : Meik Wiking
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780735238541

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The Art of Making Memories by Meik Wiking Pdf

A practical guide to creating memorable moments from Meik Wiking, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge. Every year, we are given a fixed number of days. Some days pass us by without leaving a trace--and some days we remember forever. Do you remember your first kiss? Or how the first rays of the spring sun feel? Or how about the best meal you ever had? These memorable experiences are characterized by intensity of perception, depth of feeling, or sense of profound significance causing them to stand out in our mind and involve a heightened sense of wonder and awe. But what ingredients produce these happy memories? Why is it that a piece of music, a smell or a taste can take us back to something we had forgotten? And can we learn to create happy memories and be better at holding on to them? Combining research on happiness and mnemonics (learning techniques that aid memory retention or retrieval), Meik Wiking explores how peak experiences are made, stored, and remembered. Using data and diaries, interviews, global surveys and studies, and conducting real-life behavioural science and happiness experiments, The Art of Making Memories will answer how we can create perfect moments. Moments that will go down in history. This book will help you create more peak experiences, help you retrieve happy memories of the past, and store them for the future.

Author : Jaime Acosta Allen
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781915036032

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Memories of a Lost Age by Jaime Acosta Allen Pdf

'A long era of chaos, disease and death is approaching. The hairy men who have arrived in our world bear the seeds of many ills that will afflict our nations.' The prophetic words of the Supreme Shaman. At the turn of the 16th century, a young Tairona sets out on a long journey to the hallowed place called Rapa in the high mountains of the Andes, to become a Shaman and 'The Messenger of the Future.' His training begins along the way in a canoe on the mighty River Yuma with the enigmatic Jawi. However, the invaders also possess a skill that will be exceedingly valuable and it is one of the enemy who holds the key... A moving, unforgettable story of endeavour, survival and love set in a sacred land; first published with great success in Spanish.

Author : David C. Whyte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:62968687

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The Hummingbird from Resolute by David C. Whyte Pdf

Author : Travis Dandro
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466463

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Hummingbird Heart by Travis Dandro Pdf

Still reeling from the death by suicide of his drug-addicted father, Travis moves in with his grandmother to become her caretaker as she battles cancer. Meanwhile, he tries to live a typical teen life of pulling pranks, occasional shoplifting, dating, and endless drives through the twisting backroads of Central Massachusetts with Nirvana’s Nevermind as the soundtrack. When the police intervene after a prank backfires, the boys realize that their time as children is rapidly disappearing and they may never fully understand each other as they move apart. After his Lynd Ward Prize-winning graphic novel, King of King Court, explored the power that parents hold over their children’s emotional lives, Travis Dandro employs his signature dream imagery and crass humor to tell the story of teenage independence and resilience as he prepares to head off to art school. Hummingbird Heart is a detailed and stylish account of a time of great uncertainty. Dandro’s densely crafted pages create a deeply emotional experience as his story swings from character confrontation to finely wrought domestic detail—a slapstick cafeteria-destroying brawl gives way to the beautifully rendered flight of the impossible hummingbird.

Author : Leah Myers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324036715

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Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity by Leah Myers Pdf

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore and the search for identity in a fierce debut work of personal history. Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family’s totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. Throughout, she tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her “culture is being bleached out,” offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naive childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager. Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman’s identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong.

Author : Christopher Benfey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440629532

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A Summer of Hummingbirds by Christopher Benfey Pdf

The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade intersected in an intricate map of friendship, family, and romance that marked a milestone in the development of American art and literature. Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protégé to the painter Heade-confesses her love for Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, and the players suddenly find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of decorum, restraint, and judgment and a new, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all.

Author : Beth Ann Fennelly
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393609486

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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly Pdf

“Consistently entertaining… always poised, eloquent, and full of moments of tenderness.” —Electric Literature The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Alternatingly wistful and wry, ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to shape a life from unexpectedly illuminating moments.

Author : Michelle Kadarusman
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772780277

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The Theory of Hummingbirds by Michelle Kadarusman Pdf

"Hummingbirds and angels don’t need two good feet. They have wings." That's what Alba's mother always says. Of course, Alba doesn't have wings or two good feet: she has Cleo. Cleo is the name Alba has given to her left foot, which was born twisted in the wrong direction. When she points this out, though, her mother just smiles like the world has some surprise in store Alba doesn't know about yet. Well, Alba has her own surprise planned. After one final surgery and one final cast, Cleo is almost ready to meet the world straight on--just in time to run in the sixth grade cross-country race. Unfortunately, Alba's best friend Levi thinks there's no way she can pull it off. And she thinks there's no way he's right about the school librarian hiding a wormhole in her office. Tempers flare. Sharp words fly faster than hummingbirds. And soon it looks like both friends will be stuck proving their theories on their own.

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : MCD
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374719029

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Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer Pdf

Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2021 From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. Is the only way to safety to follow in Silvina’s footsteps? Is it too late to stop? As she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her, time is running out—for her and possibly for the world. Hummingbird Salamander is Jeff VanderMeer at his brilliant, cinematic best, wrapping profound questions about climate change, identity, and the world we live in into a tightly plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy.

Author : Arnette Heidcamp
Publisher : Crown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780517577295

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A Hummingbird in My House by Arnette Heidcamp Pdf

An account of Squeak, a young ruby-throated hummingbird, chronicles the bird's rescue, its daily activities and behavior, its growth to maturity in the author's indoor garden, and its eventual release back into the wild.

Author : Jude Angelini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1945572590

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Hummingbird by Jude Angelini Pdf

Honorable Mention for theForeword INDIES Award for Best Autobiography and Memoir Dark, deviant, and deliriously funny, Jude Angelini writes in the colloquial vein of Charles Bukowski, using his unique, natural voice to tell stories from his life. He writes about his sexual encounters--both strange and intimate--alongside stories from his childhood and his tell-all experiences with "science drugs." Throughout it all, Jude is critical of himself and his actions, proving himself to be vulnerable, lonely, and extremely relatable. A stellar follow-up toHyena.

Author : Erik Hanson
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780811741804

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World of Hummingbirds by Erik Hanson Pdf

Engaging natural history information for a general audience on one of the most beloved groups of birds, including tips on attracting and watching hummingbirds. Stunning photographs of common North American and exotic world species. Explains the details of the tiny hummingbird's amazing twice-yearly migration.