The Summons Of Love

Author : Mari Ruti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780231527989

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We are conditioned to think that love heals wounds, makes us happy, and gives our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs and love causes fracturing, disenchantment, and existential turmoil, we suffer deeply, especially if we feel that love has failed us or that we have failed to experience what others seem so effortlessly to enjoy. In this eloquently argued, psychologically informed book, Mari Ruti portrays love as a much more complex, multifaceted phenomenon than we tend to appreciate—an experience that helps us encounter the depths of human existence. Love's ruptures are as important as its triumphs, and sometimes love succeeds because it fails. At the heart of Ruti's argument is a meditation on interpersonal ethics that acknowledges the inherent opacity of human interiority and the difficulty of taking responsibility for what we cannot fully understand. Yet the fact that humans are often irrational in love does not absolve us of ethical accountability. In Ruti's view, we must work harder to map the unconscious patterns motivating our romantic behavior. As opposed to popular spiritual approaches urging us to live fully in the now, Ruti treats the past as a living component of the present. Only when we catch ourselves at those moments when the past speaks in the present can we keep ourselves from hurting the ones we love. Equally important, Ruti emphasizes transcending our individual histories of pain, an act that allows us to face the unconscious demons that dictate our relational choices. Written with substance and compassion, The Summons of Love restores the enlivening and transformative possibilities of romance.

Author : Mari Ruti
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780231158169

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We are conditioned to think love's purpose is to heal wounds, make us happy, and give our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs, and love causes us to feel fractured, disenchanted, and full of existential turmoil, our suffering is compounded by the sense that love has failed us, or that we've failed to experience what so many others effortlessly enjoy.In this eloquently argued, psychologically-informed book, Mari Ruti portrays love as a much more complex, multifaceted phenomenon prompting us to access the depths of human existence. Love's ruptures are as important as its triumph.

Author : Sasha L. Miller
Publisher : Less Than Three Press, LLC
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620047279

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How Not to Summon Your True Love by Sasha L. Miller Pdf

Though it doesn't really come as a surprise, Cy is still crushed when he's dumped. His relationship with Alex had lasted longer than all previous attempts, and started promising when Alex had proclaimed he was perfectly okay with Cy being asexual. On impulse, convinced no one will ever really see him as worthy relationship material, Cy turns to a book that belonged to his late mother, a grimoire of magic spells that obviously won't work. It's a stupid idea, and even if magic was real there's no way a true love summoning spell would work for him...

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345531988

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The Summons by John Grisham Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep. The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

Author : Genki Ferguson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771049880

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Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson Pdf

A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of the Month, a Toronto Life and Nikkei Voice summer read recommendation, one of Daily Hive's 10 Essential Reads to Celebrate Asian Canadian Writers, and one of Quill & Quire booksellers' Books of the Year. On the eve of the new millennium, in a city in southern Japan that progress has forgotten, sixteen-year-old Anna Obata looks to the stars for solace. An outcast at school, and left to fend for herself and care for her increasingly senile grandfather at home, Anna copes with her loneliness by searching the night sky for answers. But everything changes the evening the Low Earth Orbit satellite (LEO for short) returns her gaze and sees her as no one else has before. After Leo is called down to Earth, he embarks on an extraordinary journey to understand his own humanity as well as the fragile mind of the young woman who called him into being. As Anna withdraws further into her own mysterious plans, he will be forced to question the limits of his devotion and the lengths he will go to protect her. Full of surprising imaginative leaps and yet grounded by a profound understanding of the human heart, Satellite Love is a brilliant and deeply moving meditation on loneliness, faith, and the yearning for meaning and connection. It is an unforgettable story about the indomitable power of the imagination and the mind's ability to heal itself, no matter the cost, no matter the odds.

Author : Mari Ruti
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781402250811

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The Case for Falling in Love by Mari Ruti Pdf

Praise for The Case for Falling in Love "Why play 'hard to get' when you can just get what you want? Mari Ruti's lively research, from Plato to Freud to Gossip Girl to her own bedroom, finally puts an end to playing games, and provides a resource for lovers and the love-scorned alike. A must-read for anyone who has ever fallen in love, wants to, or wants to know what went wrong." -Arianne Cohen, creator of TheSexDiariesProject.com "At last, a relationship advice book that will actually work. If you're intelligent, interested in love, and like a book you can't put down, this is it. John Gray, move over. The brilliant Mari Ruti has arrived." -Juliet Schor, professor of sociology, Boston College, and author of Born to Buy and Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth "Groundbreaking...Ruti opens the eyes of her readers so that they can love better...A must-read." -Nancy Redd, New York Times bestselling author of Body Drama "Finally, a book that takes love seriously. Written with passion and verve...I wish I had read this book years ago!" -Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Are you tired of reading book after book and playing game after game, trying to avoid heartbreak? It seems impossible, and maybe that's because you can't lock up your heart like that-not if you want the real thing. And maybe that's one of the best things about love. We've been thinking about it all wrong. Our culture's insistence that women need to learn how to catch and keep a man is actually doing much more harm than good. The more we try to manipulate our relationships, the less we are truly able to experience love's benefits and wonders. Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control and manage it robs us of its delicious unpredictability. Sure, letting go of the reins a bit might mean a broken heart, but heartbreak, in fact, offers a wealth of possibilities-creativity, wisdom, and growth-that we need in order to make the most of our lives. Liberating for women who are frustrated by the idea that they just need to learn the right "formula," The Case for Falling in Love shows that there isn't a method to mastering the madness of love. But that might be exactly what's so wonderful about it.

Author : Daisy Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0515034525

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Summons to Love by Daisy Thomson Pdf

Author : Charlie N. Holmberg
Publisher : 47north
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1503905438

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Smoke and Summons by Charlie N. Holmberg Pdf

A captivating world of monsters and magic from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper Magician Series. As a human vessel for an ancient spirit, Sandis lives no ordinary life. At the command of her master, she can be transformed against her will into his weapon--a raging monster summoned to do his bidding. Unlike other vessels, Sandis can host extremely powerful spirits, but hosting such creatures can be fatal. To stay alive, she must run. And in a city fueled by smoke and corruption, she finds a surprising ally. A cunning thief for hire, Rone owns a rare device that grants him immortality for one minute every day--a unique advantage that will come in handy in Sandis's fight for freedom. But Sandis's master knows how powerful she is. He's determined to get her back, and he has the manpower to find her, wherever she runs. Now, to outwit her pursuers, Sandis must put all her trust in Rone and his immortal device. For her master has summoned more than mere men to hunt her down...

Author : Kevin Lambert
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771963534

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You Will Love What You Have Killed by Kevin Lambert Pdf

Faldistoire’s grandfather thinks he’s a ghost. Sylvie’s mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witch’s justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sébastien’s father hides dark designs. It’s Croustine’s grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but it’s his father, the cannily-named Kevin Lambert, who always seems to be nearby when tragedy strikes, and in the cemetery, under the baleful eyes of toads, small graves are dug one after the other: Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a dangerous place for children. But these young victims of rape, arbitrary violence, and senseless murder keep coming back from the dead. They return to school, explore their sexualities, keep tabs on grown-up sins—and plot their apocalyptic retribution. Surreal and darkly comic, this debut novel by Kevin Lambert, one of the most celebrated and controversial writers to come out of Quebec in recent memory, takes the adult world to task—and then takes revenge.

Author : Daisy Hicks Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 070911947X

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Author : Lynda Chater
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
ISBN : 0671018027

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That Devil Called Love by Lynda Chater Pdf

In her mid-fifties, feeling lonely, unattractive and unloveable, Harriet loses the only security she has left... the job she's held at the public library for years. Hitting rock bottom, Harriet gets very drunk at a party, and gets talking to a young man who calls himself the devil. The next day she assumes the bizarre pact she made with him - agreeing to sell her soul in return for youth, beauty, and a second chance - was a drunken dream. But it wasn't... The very next day Harriet wakes up in California, in the body of an American girl in her 20s who's just been killed in a crash. Picking up the life of 'Cindy' - as stunningly unintelligent as she is stunningly beautiful - at first seems all she could hope for, and she revels in her new life of glamour and excitement... especially when she appears to meet the man of her dreams. But there's an awful lot more to come with the physical perfection that she hadn't bargained for, and before long, 'Cindy' is longing to be plain 'Harriet' again.

Author : Rosy Thornton
Publisher : Headline
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755375813

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The Tapestry Of Love by Rosy Thornton Pdf

A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life. A rural idyll: that's what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you're no longer just here on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbours, including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that's before the arrival of Catherine's sister, Bryony...

Author : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742551792

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Happiness and the Christian Moral Life by Paul J. Wadell Pdf

"A Sheed & Ward book." Includes bibliographical references and index. Finding a path for life : the quest for goodness and happiness -- Not going it alone : friendship and community in the Christian moral life -- Facing shipwreck and bandits : virtues and the quest for happiness -- Every person's truth : made in the image of God, called to do the work of God -- Freedom : exploring a dangerous topic -- False steps on the path to happiness : losing our way and finding it back -- Finding a story worth handing on : narrative and the moral life -- Doing what the good requires : conscience and prudence in the moral life -- The gift that makes all gifts possible : learning the language of love -- Reimagining the world : why the happiness of one demands justice for all.

Author : Peter Lovesey
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405519854

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The Summons by Peter Lovesey Pdf

The third detective story in the award-winning Peter Diamond series, from Peter Lovesey. The summons comes at night. Two policemen collect Peter Diamond from his West London flat and drive him to Bath. Once head of the murder squad there, he is now out of touch in his retirement, unaware of an audacious escape from Albany Prison. Four years previously, Diamond headed the investigation of the bizarre murder of a Swedish woman journalist, her mouth stuffed with red roses. Now the convicted murderer is at large and has already kidnapped the daughter of the Assistant Chief Constable. He is demanding that the case be re-examined and he will deal only with Diamond. Winner of the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger and shortlisted for the Edgar Award.

Author : Brendan A. Mancilla
Publisher : Brendan Mancilla
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780985001605

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Someone to Remember Me by Brendan A. Mancilla Pdf

“In our future is our past…” A young man named Seven awakens on a deserted street, stricken by an amnesia that he can’t explain. When he discovers other survivors that share his affliction, among them a woman who stirs his dormant memories, they embark on a deadly journey across a ruined landscape. Haunted by the mystery of their city’s apocalyptic demise and hunted by a malevolent beast, Seven and his companions discover the dark truth of their past. What awaits the survivors at the crux of myth and legacy is a story of love, loss, and triumph that defies even death itself.