Thicker Than Sorrow

Author : Khadija Heeger
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781991240347

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Thicker Than Sorrow by Khadija Heeger Pdf

In Thicker than Sorrow, Khadija focuses on appreciating and honouring her roots and unearthing her history. Rummaging through the drawers and closets of her blood family and the family she has chosen, she discovers inspiration and beauty in the most ordinary places: a bowl of rice, a kitchen, a daisy chain, a sunflower garden, a galvanised bath. The poems reveal a poet who is, "falling in love with my roots and me, life. And it's just the beginning. I am a multitude of voyages." A powerful meditation on identity and belonging. Stylistically fluid, the work ranges from visceral lyrical explorations of personal and collective memory, to political protest to exuberant praise poetry. Heeger celebrates her mixed ancestry and her rootedness in African soil through the interplay of standard English and Afrikaans, as well as dialect and indigenous languages. By turns melancholy, angry and joyful, the collection is an emotional whirlwind that carries the reader from the Overberg and the Cape Peninsula all the way up the African continent and back into the intimate world of the poet - Annel Pieterse, University of Stellenbosch Heeger's words are a rallying cry, a praise poem and a soothing ballad. Rooted firml) inside her bloodline, her culture, and her land, she writes for us. The most powerful kind of Love: one chosen over and over again, through trauma, and inter-generational pain, through ancestral erasure and the continued silencing and impoverishment of an entire community, by today's political, social & economic realities. Her voice is that of the griot, and the sage. And through it all, the soft caress of a Cape wind blows, saying: and still we are here, and still we love. - Toni Stuart, poet

Author : Khadija Tracey Heeger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-21
Category : Afrikaans poetry
ISBN : 1928433073

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Thicker Than Sorrow by Khadija Tracey Heeger Pdf

In Thicker than Sorrow, Khadija focuses on appreciating and honouring her roots and unearthing her history. Rummaging through the drawers and closets of her blood family and the family she has chosen, she discovers inspiration and beauty in the most ordinary places: a bowl of rice, a kitchen, a daisy chain, a sunflower garden, a galvanised bath. The poems reveal a poet who is, "falling in love with my roots and me, life. And it's just the beginning. I am a multitude of voyages." A powerful meditation on identity and belonging. Stylistically fluid, the work ranges from visceral lyrical explorations of personal and collective memory, to political protest to exuberant praise poetry. Heeger celebrates her mixed ancestry and her rootedness in African soil through the interplay of standard English and Afrikaans, as well as dialect and indigenous languages. By turns melancholy, angry and joyful, the collection is an emotional whirlwind that carries the reader from the Overberg and the Cape Peninsula all the way up the African continent and back into the intimate world of the poet - Annel Pieterse, University of Stellenbosch Heeger's words are a rallying cry, a praise poem and a soothing ballad. Rooted firml) inside her bloodline, her culture, and her land, she writes for us. The most powerful kind of Love: one chosen over and over again, through trauma, and inter-generational pain, through ancestral erasure and the continued silencing and impoverishment of an entire community, by today's political, social & economic realities. Her voice is that of the griot, and the sage. And through it all, the soft caress of a Cape wind blows, saying: and still we are here, and still we love. - Toni Stuart, poet

Author : Vicki Delany
Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press Inc
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781615953974

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More Than Sorrow by Vicki Delany Pdf

Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent. Today, she’s a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to read, unable to concentrate, full of pain, lost and confused, haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to her sister’s small-scale vegetable farm in Prince Edward County, Ontario to recover. As summer settles on the farm, she finds comfort in the soft rolling hills and neat fields as well as friendship in the company of Hila Popalzai, an Afghan woman also traumatized by war. Unable to read the printed word, Hannah retreats into the attic and boxes of moldy letters that have accumulated for more than two centuries. As she learns about the original settlers of this land, Loyalist refugees fleeing the United States in 1784, she is increasingly drawn to the space beneath the old house. More than carrots and potatoes, soups and jams, are down in the dark damp root cellar. Hannah experiences visions of a woman, emerging from the icy cold mist. Is the woman real? Or the product of a severely damaged brain? Which would be worse? Then Hila disappears. When Hannah cannot account for her time, not even to herself, old enemies begin to circle. In this modern Gothic novel of heart-wrenching suspense, past and present merge into a terrifying threat to the only thing Hannah still holds dear – her ten-year-old niece, Lily.

Author : Brigid Kemmerer
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758294425

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Thicker Than Water by Brigid Kemmerer Pdf

A teenager is accused of his own mother's murder in the New York Times bestselling author's YA paranormal thriller: “an engrossing page-turner” (Kirkus). Thomas Bellweather hasn't been in town for long. Just long enough for his newlywed mother to be murdered, and for his new stepdad's cop colleagues to decide Thomas is the primary suspect. Not that there's any evidence. But before Thomas got to the small town of Garrett Mills, there had just been one other murder in twenty years. The only person who believes him is Charlotte Rooker, little sister to three cops and, with her soft hands and sweet curves, straight-up dangerous to Thomas. Her friend was the other murder victim. And she's ready to stop at nothing to find out what happened. But the the answers she's after could get them both killed—and reveal a truth Thomas would die to keep hidden. Praise for Brigid Kemmerer and The Elemental Series “Magic, suspense, and enough twists to keep you reading until sunrise!” —Award winning author Erica O'Rourke “A refreshingly human paranormal romance . . . Read fast and keep that heart rate up.” —Kirkus Reviewson Storm

Author : Judy Voss
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9781600341151

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More Joy Than Sorrow by Judy Voss Pdf

Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545578004

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Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow Pdf

Winner of the 2014 Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, from the author of Plain Kate. At the very edge of the world live the Shadowed People. And with them live the dead.There, in the village of Westmost, Otter is born to power. She is the proud daughter of Willow, the greatest binder of the dead in generations. It will be Otter's job someday to tie the knots of the ward, the only thing that keeps the living safe.Kestrel is training to be a ranger, one of the brave women who venture into the forest to gather whatever the Shadowed People can't live without and to fight off whatever dark threat might slip through the ward's defenses.And Cricket wants to be a storyteller -- already he shows the knack, the ear -- and already he knows dangerous secrets. But something is very wrong at the edge of the world. Willow's power seems to be turning inside out. The ward is in danger of falling. And lurking in the shadows, hungry, is a White Hand, the most dangerous of the dead, whose very touch means madness, and worse.Suspenseful, eerie, and beautifully imagined.

Author : Henry Martyn Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Southern States
ISBN : UOM:39015027781726

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Blood is Thicker Than Water by Henry Martyn Field Pdf

Author : James Payn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN36LI

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Thicker Than Water by James Payn Pdf

Author : James Payn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385340695

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Thicker than Water by James Payn Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Michael McClung
Publisher : Michael McClung
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Thief who Knocked on Sorrow's Gate by Michael McClung Pdf

After surviving Thagoth and returning rich to Lucernis, Amra and Holgren have settled down to a very comfortable, if decidedly unexciting life -- until the night Amra receives an old enemy's head in a box. A longstanding debt calls her back home to Bellarius, the scene of many childhood horrors she would much rather forget about. But as bad as memories of the past might be, present-day Bellarius is rapidly becoming worse, for the Eightfold Goddess has not forgotten about Amra, and another of Her Blades, the Knife that Parts the Night, has been discovered and threatens to tear the very fabric of reality apart. All that stands in the way of utter destruction is one small, scarred thief and her mage companion...

Author : Khadija Heeger
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781920590710

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Beyond the Delivery Room by Khadija Heeger Pdf

A debut collection of poems from popular performance poet, Khadija Heeger. The collection is the first in a trilogy of poems that Heeger has worked on over many years. This collection is a combination of story-telling, resistance, re-naming, remembering. The language of the book is personal to the poet and reflects the wider community and society she is part of. She mixes languages, English and Afrikaans, and the language of the Cape called Kaaps.

Author : Francis Weller
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781583949764

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The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller Pdf

The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.

Author : Keri Arthur
Publisher : KA Publishing PTY LTD
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648768760

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Sorrow's Song by Keri Arthur Pdf

They say breaking up is hard to do. They’re wrong. Living with the consequences is so much harder, especially when sorrow is a powerful draw to evil … Lizzie Grace is trying to get on with her life now that she and Aiden have gone their separate ways, but it’s a difficult thing to do when just about everything reminds her of the damn man. The situation is made worse when a body is found, and her job as Deputy Reservation Witch means she has no choice but to interact with him. At first, the death seems to be nothing more than an accidental drowning in a remote location, but it’s soon evident a supernatural entity is involved. As they race to uncover what is going on, it becomes clear that this evil is not only targeting werewolves, but one particular pack—the O’Connor’s. And the reason might well be the song of sorrow. A song that Lizzie’s grief might have given birth to…

Author : Peter Englund,Peter Graves
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307739285

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The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund,Peter Graves Pdf

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

Author : A. Unger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483634241

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THICKER THAN WATER by A. Unger Pdf

He bent down and picked up the envelope. It hadn't benn there before. Had the wind blown it there from the shelf of documents? He glanced over his shoulder. The curtain was still. There wasn't even a breeze. The envelope was completely white. There was no sender or addressee written on it. No stamp. Nothing. Shaya wasn't used to people shoving envelopes under his door. And for some reason, it didn't enter his mind to flinch - even for a second. he sat down on the couch and deftly opened the envelope. A lone white paper fell out. STOP SEARCHING FOR NAFTALI AND ROCHEL BLEICH What made Naftali and Rochel Bleich, a regular, young Israeli couple, parents of a small child, Shloime, disappear? Who didn't want them found? And why? Nearly two decades later Shloime is engaged to be married. But the dark secret of a family's unresolved past has a way of asserting itself, and Shloime's uncle, Shaya Bleich, embarks upon a journey to uncover the truth that takes him to three continents. Determined to discover the fate of his missing family members, he is thrust into bewildering circumstances that threaten to topple his world. THICKER THAN WATER is a compelling novel of intrigue where nearly nothing is as it appears to be, and when the pieces of this puzzl finally do fall into place, be prepared for an unexpected and shocking revelation.