The Love Catcher

Author : GPF BX
Publisher : GPF BX
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Love Catcher by GPF BX Pdf

Let your heart be the love catcher you always carry with you. Keep the bad love far away. Hold on to the love you caught. Captivated by the glow of a sunrise in your clasped hands. The warmth covers your whole body from a mix of love, lust, and comfort. This is a clean and love poems only release. Keywords: true unconditional love, love romance poetry, poems poetry about love, inspirational love poetry, american love poems poetry, romantic poetry poems, happy love poems poetry, poetry for lovers, poetry for women, motivational inspirational poetry, beautiful love poetry, soul mates poems, poetry for soulmates, lovers couples poetry, relationship poetry, girlfriend poetry, boyfriend poetry, prose about love, prose on love, poems on love, poems poetry on love, falling in love poetry, heartfelt revealing honest love poems poetry prose, aspirational beautiful intimate positive poetry, a lot of love poetry, all consuming love, larger than life love,

Author : Kathy Eldon,Amy Eldon,Kathleen M. Eldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0811849155

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Love Catcher Journal--Reissue by Kathy Eldon,Amy Eldon,Kathleen M. Eldon Pdf

Author : E. Ethelbert Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781947951594

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How I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask by E. Ethelbert Miller Pdf

One can watch many baseball games before seeing a triple play. With this book E. Ethelbert Miller completes his baseball trilogy. How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask is a collection of poems that celebrates baseball by putting a spin on how the game brings meaning to one’s life. Well known Washington, D.C. poet, former Howard University professor, and literary activist, Ethelbert Miller is personal and political when writing from the batter’s box or pitching mound. Here are poems that tip their caps to Joe DiMaggio, Ken Griffey Sr., and Emmett Ashford. Miller's book does not duck from examining the Black Sox Scandal, the career of Glenn Burke or the tragedy of Carl Mays. Miller’s own life at times is a playing field for sadness and what Ellington called “mood indigo.” But his love for baseball is a complete game and continues to reflect the hard heat of pleasure. After If God Invented Baseball and When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and other Baseball Stories, this book, like a triple play, is a thing of beauty. “Baseball should create a new position, poet laureate, and give it to E. Ethelbert Miller. In his third collection of baseball poems (‘a double turning into a trilogy,’ as he writes), Miller weaves knuckleballs and pickoff throws with universal themes of family, race, relationships—and the issues of our time, like rioting and voting rights. With allusions to Monbouquette and Giacometti, Henderson and Danticat, How I Found Love Behind the Catcher’s Mask will make you laugh, think and feel a whole new way about baseball and the world around it.”—Tyler Kepner, national baseball columnist for the New York Times and author of the best-selling K: A History of Baseball In Ten Pitches "Ethelbert Miller is one of the most significant and influential poets of our time." --Gwendolyn Brooks

Author : J.D. Salinger
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316450863

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Pdf

Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices--but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Author : GPF BX
Publisher : GPF BX
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Manifessing by GPF BX Pdf

There is profound beauty distilling words down to its essence. This instapoetry collection touches on the complicated and raw emotions that swirl in us all like heartbreak, disappointment, anger, frustration, sadness, lust, happiness, and, of course, love. This book contains some explicit language. Keywords: raw emotion complicated mixed feelings, poetry about life, personal poetry, united states american poetry poems, Modern contemporary poetry poems, contemporary american poetry, mental health poetry, modern adult poetry, love and loss, letting go, poetry poems about loss, passionate poetry, african american poetry, latino hispanic american poetry, 21st century poetry poems, new adult poetry, provocative poetry, provocative poems,

Author : A. J. Swoboda
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441222428

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A Glorious Dark by A. J. Swoboda Pdf

On Thursday as they ate the Passover meal with Jesus, the disciples believed that the kingdom was coming and they were on the front end of a revolution. Then came the tragedy of Friday and, somehow even worse, the silence of Saturday. They ran. They doubted. They despaired. Yet, within the grave, God's power was still flowing like a mighty river beneath the ice of winter. And then there was Sunday morning. Real, raw, and achingly honest, A Glorious Dark meets readers in the ambiguity, doubt, and uncertainty we feel when our beliefs about the world don't match up to reality. Tackling tough questions like Why is faith so hard? Why do I doubt? Why does God allow me to suffer? and Is God really with me in the midst of my pain? A. J. Swoboda puts into sharp focus a faith that is greater than our personal comfort or fulfilment. He invites readers to develop a faith that embraces the tension between what we believe and what we experience, showing that the very tension we seek to eliminate is where God meets us.

Author : Donald C. Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216063322

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Coming of Age in Popular Culture by Donald C. Miller Pdf

Documenting the evolution of teens and media from the 1950s through 2010, this book examines the films, books, television shows, and musical artists that impacted American culture and shaped the "coming of age" experience for each generation. The teenage years are fraught with drama and emotional ups and downs, coinciding with bewildering new social situations and sexual tension. For these reasons, pop culture and media have repeatedly created entertainment that depicts, celebrates, or lampoons coming of age experiences, through sitcoms like The Wonder Years to the brat pack films of the 1980s to the teen-centered television series of today. Coming of Age in Popular Culture: Teenagers, Adolescence, and the Art of Growing Up covers a breadth of media presentations of the transition from childhood to adulthood from the 1950s to the year 2010. It explores the ways that adolescence is characterized in pop culture by drawing on these representations, shows how powerful media and entertainment are in establishing societal norms, and considers how American society views and values adolescence. Topics addressed include race relations, gender roles, religion, and sexual identity. Young adult readers will come away with a heightened sense of media literacy through the examination of a topic that inherently interests them.

Author : Jennifer Ann Ho
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611175899

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Understanding Gish Jen by Jennifer Ann Ho Pdf

Jennifer Ann Ho introduces readers to a “typical American” writer, Gish Jen, the author of four novels, Typical American, Mona in the Promised Land, The Love Wife, and World and Town; a collection of short stories, Who’s Irish?; and a collection of lectures, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Jen writes with an engaging, sardonic, and imaginative voice illuminating themes common to the American experience: immigration, assimilation, individualism, the freedom to choose one’s path in life, and the complicated relationships that we have with our families and our communities. A second-generation Chinese American, Jen is widely recognized as an important American literary voice, at once accessible, philosophical, and thought-provoking. In addition to her novels, she has published widely in periodicals such as the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and Yale Review. Ho traces the evolution of Jen’s career, her themes, and the development of her narrative voice. In the process she shows why Jen’s observations about life in the United States, though revealed through the perspectives of her Asian American and Asian immigrant characters, resonate with a variety of audiences who find themselves reflected in Jen’s accounts of love, grief, desire, disappointment, and the general domestic experiences that shape all our lives. Following a brief biographical sketch, Ho examines each of Jen’s major works, showing how she traces the transformation of immigrant dreams into mundane life, explores the limits of self-identification, and characterizes problems of cross-national communication alongside the universal problems of aging and generational conflict. Looking beyond Jen’s fiction work, a final chapter examines her essays and her concerns and stature as a public intellectual, and detailed primary and secondary bibliographies provide a valuable point of departure for both teaching and future scholarship.

Author : Tim Brown
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538726570

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The Tao of the Backup Catcher by Tim Brown Pdf

"This isn’t just a story about baseball. It’s about life and the beauty of knowing and accepting who you are.” —Jeff Passan, ESPN baseball columnist This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.​ In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role players and specialists and journeymen and then there are the backup catchers. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is about them, the backup catchers, who exist near the bottom of the roster and the end of the bench and between the numbers in a sport–and a society–increasingly driven by cold, hard analytics. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is a story of grown men who once dreamed of stardom and generational wealth. Instead, they were handed a broom and a deeper understanding of who wins and why, who stands tall and who folds, and who will invest their own lives in catching bullpens and the back ends of doubleheaders. Backup catchers survive in part because every team needs one. They are necessary, once or twice a week. They prosper because the game, like the world around the game, still needs good souls, honest efforts, open eyes and ears, closed mouths, compassion for the sad parts, a laugh for the silly parts, and a heart that knows the difference. Backup catchers are sports’ big brothers, psychologists, priests, witch doctors, player coaches, father figures and drinking buddies, all wrapped in a suit of today’s polycarbonate armor and yesterday’s dirt. They come with a singular goal–to win baseball games. They play for the greater good. After that, they play for themselves. A reverie on loving the grind and the little things baseball can teach us, The Tao of the Backup Catcher profiles Erik Kratz, Josh Paul, AJ Ellis, Bobby Wilson, Drew Butera, Matt Treanor, and John Flaherty to name a few. “This isn’t just a story about baseball. It’s about life and the beauty of knowing and accepting who you are.” ―Jeff Passan

Author : Ilima Todd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481458108

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Resist by Ilima Todd Pdf

Having been rescued, remade, and returned to Freedom, Theron chooses to be a healer and falls in love with a captured rebel.

Author : Paullina Simons
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007441662

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The Tiger Catcher (End of Forever) by Paullina Simons Pdf

The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new saga from Paullina Simons, the international bestselling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman.

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521377986

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New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye by Jack Salzman Pdf

Five essays focus on various aspects of the novel from its ideology within the context of the Cold War and portrait of a particular American subculture to its account of patterns of adolescent crisis and rich and complex narrative structure.

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588365286

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Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Pdf

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews | A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | Winner of the ALA Alex Award | Finalist for the Costa Novel Award From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green “[David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like.”—The Boston Globe “[David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.”—Time

Author : Charles F. Faber,Richard B. Faber
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786423477

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Spitballers by Charles F. Faber,Richard B. Faber Pdf

On September 10, 1934, grizzled reliever Burleigh Grimes helped the Pittsburgh Pirates to an inconsequential 9-7 win over the New York Giants in the Polo Grounds. For Grimes, the September contest marked his 270th and final win. For baseball, it marked the last time a legal spitballer would win a major league contest. Though the pitch had been banned in 1920, the American and National leagues both agreed to grant two exemptions per team to spitballers who were already in the majors. In 1921, both leagues agreed to extend grandfather provisions to cover the veteran spitball pitchers for the remainder of their careers. Under the extended rule, 17 pitchers were granted exemptions for their careers. This work looks at the lives and careers of these 17: Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Jack Quinn, Urban Shocker, Stan Coveleskie, Bill Doak, Ray Caldwell, Clarence Mitchell, Dutch Leonard, Ray Fisher, Dick Rudolph, Allen Sothoron, Phil Douglas, Allan Russell, Doc Ayers, Dana Fillingim and Marvin Goodwin.

Author : Z. Vance Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475827774

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Each Day by Z. Vance Wilson Pdf

In vibrant prose, Z. Vance Wilson offers insight to anyone, whether parent or teacher, responsible for guiding children on the joyous, difficult, and ever-unpredictable path to becoming their best selves intellectually, socially, morally, and spiritually. With judiciousness, good will, and humor (all sharpened as head of a leading boys' school in Washington, D.C.), Wilson puts forth a clear set of principles, both practical and idealistic, for adults directing children toward wisdom and joy. An award-winning novelist, Wilson draws on colorful tales from his childhood in the American south, rousing episodes in history, and a remarkable assortment of poems, novels, and biblical readings, to illustrate the challenges children face and to illuminate the ways adults may best reach and teach them.