The Promise Of A Normal Life

Author : Rebecca Kaiser Gibson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781956763614

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The Promise of a Normal Life by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson Pdf

For readers of Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Katie Kitamura, the indelible journey of a quiet young woman—the “silent person” in the Seder—finding her way. Hailed as “radiant and transporting” (Margot Livesey), The Promise of a Normal Life is a poet’s debut novel, so evocative of life as lived that it transports you to a time and place you can practically see, touch, and feel. The unnamed narrator is a fiercely observant, introverted Jewish-American girl who seems to exist in a private and separate realm. She's the child of a first-generation doctor and lawyer—whose own stories have the loud grandeur of family legend—in an America where Jews are excluded from the country club across the street. Her expectations for adulthood are often contradictory. In the changing landscape of the 1960s, she attempts to find her way through the rituals of life, her geography expanding across the country, across the ocean, and into multiple nations. Along the way, she meets a glamorous hairdresser on a cruise ship to Israel, loopy tarot-card-reading passengers, and Alice-in-Wonderland lawyers in Haifa. There’s a blue-eyed all-American college boyfriend, a mystified tourist agent in the Lofoten Islands, a handsome eligible rabbi in LA, a righteous and self-absorbed MIT professor, and a clandestine, calculating lover in Boston. Eventually, she finds her own compass, but only after being swept to several distant shores by many winds.

Author : Jessica Sorensen
Publisher : Fallen Star Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1939045118

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The Promise by Jessica Sorensen Pdf

My name is Gemma Lucas and my life's a mess. Alex is gone, my dad's trapped in his own mind, and my mom's working for the dark side. Not to mention Nicholas refuses to quit haunting me. The world has also entered apocalyptic mode. Everyday more vampires, witches, and fey run the streets. Innocent people are dying. The Mark of Malefiscus is showing up everywhere. And I'm the only one who can stop it. The only problem is I have to die in order to do so. And I have to let Alex die. Something I'm not sure I can do.

Author : Sara Ahmed
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822392781

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The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed Pdf

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way. Ahmed draws on the intellectual history of happiness, from classical accounts of ethics as the good life, through seventeenth-century writings on affect and the passions, eighteenth-century debates on virtue and education, and nineteenth-century utilitarianism. She engages with feminist, antiracist, and queer critics who have shown how happiness is used to justify social oppression, and how challenging oppression causes unhappiness. Reading novels and films including Mrs. Dalloway, The Well of Loneliness, Bend It Like Beckham, and Children of Men, Ahmed considers the plight of the figures who challenge and are challenged by the attribution of happiness to particular objects or social ideals: the feminist killjoy, the unhappy queer, the angry black woman, and the melancholic migrant. Through her readings she raises critical questions about the moral order imposed by the injunction to be happy.

Author : Jessica Sorensen
Publisher : Jessica Sorensen
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen Pdf

For eighteen year-old Gemma, life has never been normal. Up until recently, she has been incapable of feeling emotion. And when she’s around Alex, the gorgeous new guy at school, she can feel electricity that makes her skin buzz. Not to mention the monsters that haunt her nightmares have crossed over into real-life. But with Alex seeming to hate her and secrets popping up everywhere, Gemma’s life is turning into a chaotic mess. Things that shouldn’t be real suddenly seem to exist. And as her world falls apart, figuring out the secrets of her past becomes a matter of life and death.

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Dell
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440170792

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The Promise by Danielle Steel Pdf

Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then, minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Michael and Nancy -- perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life -- Nancy in California, Michael in New York. But eventually nothing -- and no one -- can keep them apart as they keep their vow never to say good-bye.

Author : Mark Whitwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781451626315

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The Promise of Love, Sex, and Intimacy by Mark Whitwell Pdf

From a world-renowned teacher, a guide to finding deeper intimacy and more meaningful, fulfilling sex using a revolutionary breathing practice. Whitwell teaches readers how to carve a space in their lives that allows for greater intimacy with others.

Author : Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739185957

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Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War by Dalia Gavriely-Nuri Pdf

While many scholars have tried to explain why Israel was caught unawares despite its sophisticated military intelligence services, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri looks beyond the military, intelligence, and political explanations to a cultural explanation. Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War reveals that the culture that evolved in Israel between the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War played a large role in the surprise. Gavriely-Nuri's analysis provides new and innovative insights into the relationship between culture and socio-political phenomena and security.

Author : Dean Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Christian fiction, American
ISBN : 1590385896

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As Long As I Have You by Dean Hughes Pdf

Author : Chaiwat Satha-Anand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351476010

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The Promise of Reconciliation? by Chaiwat Satha-Anand Pdf

The Promise of Reconciliation? explores the relationship between violence, nonviolence, and reconciliation in societal conflicts with questions such as: In what ways does violence impact the reconciliation process that necessarily follows a cessation of deadly conflict? Would an understanding of how conflict has been engaged, with violence or nonviolence, be conducive to how it could be prevented from sliding further into violence?The contributors examine international influences on the peace/reconciliation process in Indonesia's Aceh conflict, as well as the role of Muslim religious scholars in promoting peace. They also examine the effect of violence in southern Thailand, where insurgent violence has provided "leverage" during the fighting, but negatively affects post-conflict objectives. The chapter on Sri Lanka shows that "successful" violence does not necessarily end conflict?Sri Lankan society today is more polarized than it was before its civil war. The Vietnam chapter argues that the rise of nonviolent protest in Vietnam reflects a profound loss of state legitimacy, which cannot be resolved with force, while another chapter on Thailand examines "Red Sunday," a Thai political movement engaged in nonviolent protest in the face of violent government suppression. The book ends with a look at Indonesian cities, sites of ethnic conflicts, as potential abodes of peace if violence can be curtailed.

Author : James M. Wallace
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Educators
ISBN : 0820471429

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The Promise of Progressivism by James M. Wallace Pdf

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Author : Kartik Srivastava
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781482836363

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The Promise of Love by Kartik Srivastava Pdf

Is loving with all your heart and soul enough? How far would you go to keep the promise of love alive? Love stories never die. Love lives forever. Some love stories have a very beautiful end. Some remains incomplete, yet they stay forever young and beautiful. The Promise of Love: Kept Alive is one of those stories that are beautiful but could not find a perfect end. It is an immature, young, and sensitive love story of two teenagers, Kavya and Mishti. They both found each other in a coaching institute and fell in love. They both were bound by the destiny to fall in love, but it lead them to a road where they had take sturdy decisions and had to act mature than their ages. It is a breathtaking tale that teaches us the various aspects of lovebeing loving, being caring, being gentle, and being kind towards each other. But sometimes, all this is not enough. Sometimes love is beyond these facets and is bound by certain promises. Is that all? Is this the same story of love? They didnt know what fate had planned for them. Unaware of the fact, they can run from the cruelty of fate, but cannot escape from it. This heartwrenching story of the two lovers is the tale of The Promise of Love: Kept Alive.

Author : Daisy Pemberton
Publisher : WestBowPress
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490829203

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The Promise in Apt. 2A by Daisy Pemberton Pdf

The Promise in Apartment 2A is the personal testimony of Daisy Pemberton, detailing her journey from unbeliever to believer through God’s grace and mercy. It chronicles how she stayed in abusive relationships and how years of rejection, bitterness, pornography, sexual immorality, betrayal, adultery, domestic violence, mental abuse, unforgiveness, and anger made a mess of her life. She describes how anger was extremely prevalent in her life and how parent alienation, manipulation, and vindictive behavior can tear a family apart. Years of secrets, lies, deceit, and the final decision to give it all up and muster the courage to decide that enough was enough was the beginning of healing in her life. Her journey to hope and healing, filled with biblical Scriptures and prayer, helped her overcome the trials and tribulations she faced. She reveals that the promise was always in apartment 2A, how this promise truly impacted her life, and how it took her to a place of healing.

Author : Jonathan Alter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1439154082

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The Promise by Jonathan Alter Pdf

Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of "Change We Can Believe In" was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama’s historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery. In The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Jonathan Alter, one of the country’s most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama’s difficult debut. What happened in 2009 inside the Oval Office? What worked and what failed? What is the president really like on the job and off-hours, using what his best friend called "a Rubik’s Cube in his brain"? These questions are answered here for the first time. We see how a surprisingly cunning Obama took effective charge in Washington several weeks before his election, made trillion-dollar decisions on the stimulus and budget before he was inaugurated, engineered colossally unpopular bailouts of the banking and auto sectors, and escalated a treacherous war not long after settling into office. The Promise is a fast-paced and incisive narrative of a young risk-taking president carving his own path amid sky-high expectations and surging joblessness. Alter reveals that it was Obama alone—"feeling lucky"—who insisted on pushing major health care reform over the objections of his vice president and top advisors, including his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who admitted that "I begged him not to do this." Alter takes the reader inside the room as Obama prevents a fistfight involving a congressman, coldly reprimands the military brass for insubordination, crashes the key meeting at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, and realizes that a Senate candidate’s gaffe about baseball in a Massachusetts special election will dash the big dream of his first year. In Alter’s telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader. He adapted to the presidency with ease and put more "points on the board" than he is given credit for, but neglected to use his leverage over the banks and failed to connect well with an angry public. We see the famously calm president cursing leaks, playfully trash-talking his advisors, and joking about even the most taboo subjects, still intent on redeeming more of his promise as the problems mount. This brilliant blend of journalism and history offers the freshest reporting and most acute perspective on the biggest story of our time. It will shape impressions of the Obama presidency and of the man himself for years to come.

Author : Tom Wootton
Publisher : Bipolar Advantage Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780977442324

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The Depression Advantage by Tom Wootton Pdf

Drawing from historical and literary examples ranging from the lives of the saints to Buddhist parables to pop-culture heroes like the X-Men, "The Depression Advantage" demonstrates that spiritual and emotional pain can actually be a catalyst for personal growth and transcendent understanding.

Author : Lori Foster,Erin McCarthy,Sylvia Day,Kate Douglas,Kathy Love
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101529027

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The Promise of Love by Lori Foster,Erin McCarthy,Sylvia Day,Kate Douglas,Kathy Love Pdf

Edited by New York Times bestselling author Lori Foster—a deeply moving romance anthology from six award-winning and bestselling authors... Everyone has secrets—some go deeper than others. They remain buried until the moment is right, the moment your heart is laid bare and embraced by a man who knows how to respect and protect. These stories feature women who are survivors of stormy pasts, and the good men who have become stronger for understanding them. Together they can overcome anything, with a love born of compassion... Features novellas from Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy, Sylvia Day, Jamie Denton, Kate Douglas, and Kathy Love—these six stories are a bounty of riches for those who enjoy reading about love and the potential it has to change our lives.