Notes My Father Left Me

Author : Ray Iallonardo
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781480827400

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Notes My Father Left Me by Ray Iallonardo Pdf

Notes My Father Left Me creates a detailed sketch of a widowed father who papered his own house with notes written to himself and to anyone else who might be around. When he died, his son, Ray Iallonardo, found the notes. He then decided to combine them with his own reminiscences and comments, creating an unusual portraiture of a man who held strong opinions and who found no details too small to merit his attention. In the end, the fathers notes enabled him posthumously to become the straight man for his sons lovingly humorous and slightly sentimental musings. If you find joy in seeing the deep reserves of mirth that can flow from the tiny and mundane details of life and if you enjoy seeing someones likeness emerge from a mosaic of many small tiles, then you will enjoy reading the words and viewing the images in Notes My Father Left Me. When you are finished, you may find yourself tempted to post a note on the cover of this book: Keep this and read it again when I need to laugh.

Author : Michael Brendan Dougherty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525538653

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My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Dougherty Pdf

The perfect gift for parents this Father’s Day: a beautiful, gut-wrenching memoir of Irish identity, fatherhood, and what we owe to the past. “A heartbreaking and redemptive book, written with courage and grace.” –J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy “…a lovely little book.” –Ross Douthat, The New York Times The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up before he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty grew up with an acute sense of absence. He was raised in New Jersey by his hard-working single mother, who gave him a passion for Ireland, the land of her roots and the home of Michael's father. She put him to bed using little phrases in the Irish language, sang traditional songs, and filled their home with a romantic vision of a homeland over the horizon. Every few years, his father returned from Dublin for a visit, but those encounters were never long enough. Devastated by his father's departures, Michael eventually consoled himself by believing that fatherhood was best understood as a check in the mail. Wearied by the Irish kitsch of the 1990s, he began to reject his mother's Irish nationalism as a romantic myth. Years later, when Michael found out that he would soon be a father himself, he could no longer afford to be jaded; he would need to tell his daughter who she is and where she comes from. He immediately re-immersed himself in the biographies of firebrands like Patrick Pearse and studied the Irish language. And he decided to reconnect with the man who had left him behind, and the nation just over the horizon. He began writing letters to his father about what he remembered, missed, and longed for. Those letters would become this book. Along the way, Michael realized that his longings were shared by many Americans of every ethnicity and background. So many of us these days lack a clear sense of our cultural origins or even a vocabulary for expressing this lack--so we avoid talking about our roots altogether. As a result, the traditional sense of pride has started to feel foreign and dangerous; we've become great consumers of cultural kitsch, but useless conservators of our true history. In these deeply felt and fascinating letters, Dougherty goes beyond his family's story to share a fascinating meditation on the meaning of identity in America.

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039001565

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Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah, a profound reckoning with loss, written in the wake of her father’s death. During the brutal summer of 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father, a celebrated professor at the University of Nigeria and an irreplaceable figure in a close-knit family, succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Notes on Grief is Adichie’s tribute to him, and a moving meditation on loss. Here Adichie offers a candid snapshot of the shock, loneliness, and disillusionment that followed the news of her father’s death. Her family, unable to be together except for on video calls, struggles to go through the rites of mourning amid a global crisis of unimaginable scale. As Adichie wrestles with his passing, she recalls with vivid, poignant detail who her father was: a remarkable survivor of the Biafran war, a man of kindness and charm, and a fierce supporter of his youngest daughter. Here is a uniquely personal, profound work of remembrance and hope by one of today’s luminaries—a book to bring us together in a time when we need it most.

Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416591818

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Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron Pdf

"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.

Author : Erin Lee Carr
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399178986

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All That You Leave Behind by Erin Lee Carr Pdf

“A documentary filmmaker and daughter of the late, great New York Times columnist David Carr celebrates and wrestles with her father’s legacy in a raw, redemptive memoir.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “A breathtaking read . . . a testimony equal parts love and candor. David would have had it no other way.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates, bestselling author of Between the World and Me NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR AND MARIE CLAIRE Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness to let the world show you things that you play back as you grow as an artist. Talent is cheap. Me: OK I will ponder these things. I am a Carr. Dad: That should matter quite a bit, actually not the name but the guts of what that name means. A celebrated journalist, bestselling author (The Night of the Gun), and recovering addict, David Carr was in the prime of his career when he suffered a fatal collapse in the newsroom of The New York Times in 2015. Shattered by his death, his daughter Erin Lee Carr, at age twenty-seven an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker, began combing through the entirety of their shared correspondence—1,936 items in total—in search of comfort and support. What started as an exercise in grief quickly grew into an active investigation: Did her father’s writings contain the answers to the question of how to move forward in life and work without her biggest champion by her side? How could she fill the space left behind by a man who had come to embody journalistic integrity, rigor, and hard reporting, whose mentorship meant everything not just to her but to the many who served alongside him? All That You Leave Behind is a poignant coming-of-age story that offers a raw and honest glimpse into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and a father. Through this lens, Erin comes to understand her own workplace missteps, existential crises, and relationship fails. While daughter and father bond over their mutual addictions and challenges with sobriety, it is their powerful sense of work and family that comes to ultimately define them. This unique combination of Erin Lee Carr’s earnest prose and her father’s meaningful words offers a compelling read that shows us what it means to be vulnerable and lost, supported and found. It is a window into love, with all of its fierceness and frustrations. “Thank you, Erin, for this beautiful book. Now I am going to steal all of your father’s remarkable advice and tell my kids I thought of it.”—Judd Apatow

Author : Ovid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1664
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021393174

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Ovids Metamorphosis Englished. By G. Sandys. The Fourth Edition. MS. Notes by J. Mitford by Ovid Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1784
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600045109

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Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Janna Malamud Smith
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781619021013

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My Father is a Book by Janna Malamud Smith Pdf

Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 All–Time Novels" by Time Magazine—to mention only two of the more than a dozen published books—he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. In her signature memoir, Smith explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy. Malamud was among the most brilliant novelists of his era, and counted among his friends Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Theodore Roethke, and Shirley Jackson. Yet Malamud was also very private. Only his family has had full access to his personal papers, including letters and journals that offer unique insight into the man and his work. In her candid, evocative, and loving memoir, his daughter brings Malamud to vivid life.

Author : Merissa Nathan Gerson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9798887620091

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Forget Prayers, Bring Cake by Merissa Nathan Gerson Pdf

Though at times it may seem impossible, we can heal with help from our friends and community– if we know how to ask. This heartrending, relatable account of one woman’s reckoning with loss is a guide to the world of self-recovery, self-love, and the skills necessary to meeting one's own needs in these times of pain– especially when that pain is suffered alone. Grief is all around us. In the world of today it has become common and layered, no longer only an occasional weight. A book needed now more than ever, Forget Prayers, Bring Cake is for people of all ages and orientations dealing with grief of any sort—professional, personal, romantic, familial, or even the sadness of the modern day. This book provides actions to boost self-care and self-worth; it shows when and how to ask for love and attention, and how to provide it for others. It shows that it is okay to define your needs and ask others to share theirs. In a moment in which community, affection, and generosity are needed more than ever, this book is an indispensable road map. This book will be a guiding light to a healthier mental state amid these troubled times.

Author : Yma Orné Campbell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781449024451

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The Grandparents Club by Yma Orné Campbell Pdf

The grandparents in every family speak in a language that only their family can comprehend yet they are educated and professionals too. Grandparents are usually the only people that are capable of picking up the pieces and putting them back together when all hope is lost in any family. They never throw anything away and they have been into recycling long before it became an issue. They have their share of pain, trials and tribulations. They have issues within their own family that causes them to sometimes separate for a season. They disagree and agree to disagree. It is a battle when a family of different personalities and opinions gather together in one room. The issues of respect, morals and values surface too. No matter what comes up and out the mouths of these bonded individuals their love and strength keeps them tied together as a family.

Author : David Kessler
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781501192739

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Finding Meaning by David Kessler Pdf

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning. In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying. Decades later, she and David Kessler wrote the classic On Grief and Grieving, introducing the stages of grief with the same transformative pragmatism and compassion. Now, based on hard-earned personal experiences, as well as knowledge and wisdom earned through decades of work with the grieving, Kessler introduces a critical sixth stage. Many people look for “closure” after a loss. Kessler argues that it’s finding meaning beyond the stages of grief most of us are familiar with—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—that can transform grief into a more peaceful and hopeful experience. In this book, Kessler gives readers a roadmap to remembering those who have died with more love than pain; he shows us how to move forward in a way that honors our loved ones. Kessler’s insight is both professional and intensely personal. His journey with grief began when, as a child, he witnessed a mass shooting at the same time his mother was dying. For most of his life, Kessler taught physicians, nurses, counselors, police, and first responders about end of life, trauma, and grief, as well as leading talks and retreats for those experiencing grief. Despite his knowledge, his life was upended by the sudden death of his twenty-one-year-old son. How does the grief expert handle such a tragic loss? He knew he had to find a way through this unexpected, devastating loss, a way that would honor his son. That, ultimately, was the sixth state of grief—meaning. In Finding Meaning, Kessler shares the insights, collective wisdom, and powerful tools that will help those experiencing loss. Finding Meaning is a necessary addition to grief literature and a vital guide to healing from tremendous loss. This is an inspiring, deeply intelligent must-read for anyone looking to journey away from suffering, through loss, and towards meaning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : International Sunday School Lessons
ISBN : UCAL:$B53231

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Peloubet's Select Notes on the International Bible Lessons for Christian Living by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bible
ISBN : NYPL:33433089976405

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Select Notes by Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet Pdf

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : PONS
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 312561547X

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Das Gehirn meines Vaters by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

2-sprachiger Lektüreband mit einer Erzählung von Jonathan Frantzen und einer Audio-CD mit dem englischen Text; für Lernende mit guten Vorkenntnissen.

Author : Frederic Charles Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:B2903471

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The Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version (A.D. 1611) by Frederic Charles Cook Pdf