Author : Marlon Evans
Publisher : Crying Blue Tears
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2022-01-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781637511220
This book is about the struggles of a young black man trying to survive in South Central Los Angeles with the odds stacked against him. He finds himself crossed up in a quadruple homicide he didn't commit.
Author : Irena Docheva
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466947810
"After years of wandering around the world of love, I found the truth about it. I met face-to-face with that wonderful fairy Love, and she shared with me that despite the pain that was tearing her apart, she is very happy and didn't want to part with it. In my fantasy, that fairy was standing smiling among the deserted sands and was holding a heart in love. There was blood dripping from her hands, but she looked hard and firm. She split the heart in two and threw the two halves away from her. They fell with ominous strength on the glowing sand, started burning, and burned away. The fairy told me that that had been my heart, and that this evil destiny awaited it. She opened her scarlet lips and said that love hurts and it was like a cloud, which carried many tears to my eyes in love. Nevertheless, I decided to follow my heart, and it was saying: "When Love looks you in the eyes, you will know, I will tell you, and then you take it right away, hold it tight, hide it here with me, to be happy.'"
Author : Heather Christle
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1948226456
This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Author : Fran Pintadera
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1525305034
This thoughtful, poetic book uses metaphors and beautiful imagery to explore the reasons for our tears. In a soft voice, Mario asks, “Mother, why do we cry?” And his mother begins to tell him about the many reasons for our tears. We cry because our sadness is so huge it must escape from our bodies. We cry because we don’t understand the world, and our tears go in search of an answer. Most important, she tells him, we cry because we feel like crying. And, as she shows him then, sometimes we feel like crying for joy. This warm, reassuring hug of a book makes clear that everyone is allowed to cry, and that everyone does.
Author : Ninie Hammon
Publisher : Sterling & Stone LLC
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the next impossible to put down entry in her thrilling Through The Canvas series. Bailey Donahue's past just caught up with her ... After two long years in the Witness Protection Program, hiding from the man who murdered her husband, Bailey spots him in the background of a photo. From her own birthday. In the tiny town of Shadow Rock. There's no doubt about it, it's definitely him: Sergie Mikhailov. Will Bailey finally get to testify against him and put him away forever? Can she return to her old life and her daughter at last? Before Bailey even gets the chance to try, she paints another psychic portrait, this one showing the image of her younger sister, Maria, lost to a wall of flames. Another loved one, dead. Then Mikhailov kidnaps Maria, Bailey knows she has to save her. Along with T.J., Dobbs, and Brice, Bailey races against time to find Maria before the portrait -- and Bailey's worst nightmare -- comes true. ★★★★★ "Ninie Hammon has made my quarantine less painful with this fantastic book. The plot grabs you from the beginning and never lets go. The characters are real, members of your family, including the wondrous dog." -- Jacqueline M. Jones ★★★★★ "The thrills are non-stop, the drama completely engaging and the characters are like people I have known for years. Ninie Hammon is an absolutely brilliant storyteller, one I always look forward to reading. Her books drew me into the life of the story and held me there until the very last word. This book, this series and every book written by this author - not to be missed!!" -- Sharon B ★★★★★ "Ninie, not once in all my years have I had to get out of bed in the wee hours--since I couldn't stop reading Blue Tears even at 1:00 a.m.--and take a blasted Xanex!! Once we were close to the Beast I realized I was actually having an anxiety attack, a huge anxiety attack." -- Kate Hickey ★★★★★ "This book is the best of the series. Of course I always think that about this authors books. It was hard to put down but I didn't want to finish it because then it would be over. I've read all her books and loved each one." -- Vikki ★★★★★ "I have enjoyed Ninie Hammon's books for several years now, but I think this one out did them all! It contains all the characteristics of her previous books, but steps everything up a notch or two." -- SML Grandma Blue Tears is the fourth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Through the Canvas: A riveting psychological thriller series about an ordinary woman ripped from her life, and drawn into the darkest of tales by mysterious forces she can't explain. Start reading Through The Canvas today, and fall in love with another Ninie Hammon story that you'll never want to end.
Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393321036
This provocative and indispensable book provides a natural and cultural history of our most mysterious and complex human function: our ability to shed tears. All humans, and only humans, weep. Tears are sometimes considered pleasurable, sometimes dangerous, mysterious, deceptive, or profound. Tears of happiness, tears of joy, the proud tears of a parent, tears of mourning, tears of laughter, tears of defeat --what do they have in common? Why is it that at times of victory, success, love, reunion, and celebration the outward signs of our emotions are identical to those of our most profound experiences of loss? Why We Cry looks at the many different ways people have understood weeping, from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. through the latest neurophysiological research. Despite our most common romantic assumptions, what this brilliant book tells us is that tears are never pure, they are never simple.
Author : Spirea Geogea
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1645695166
Life is bleak and days are insufferable under the dictatorship of the communist regime, as they condition the minds of their subjects by any means necessary. Within Romania's borders, where you are born is where your fate is decided behind its blackout curtains. However, devoted father and husband, David Savin, is not one to be easily beaten into submission. Craving the American dream and new beginnings, David finds allies in unlikely places as well as among old friends. With his beloved brother and late father waiting for him on American soil, he has nothing to lose and much to gain. David will put everything at risk to ensure that all loose ends are tied before daring the unspeakable. Still, there's much room for error in the cramped quarters of an attic in a bustling railcar. The Blue Tears "" Chains and Love is a harrowing novel based on a true story set in the 1980s, during the cruel reign of Nicolae Ceaușescu. In endeavoring to fight for his freedom, David also learns that love is a fine fight to be won as his heart is tormented by his affections for Katie, the girl who cries sapphire tears. Full of wrenching suspense and thrills, as well as brutal interrogations, heart-stopping betrayal, fierce love, and even greater sacrifice, you'll never know what's to come next or who to trust.
Author : Lurlene McDaniel
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307433897
Readers will be touched and inspired by this latest novel from bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel: Beth's world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when she moves in with her aunt and her spoiled cousin, Terri. But with the love and support of her aunt and some unexpected friends, Beth struggles to overcome the despair that threatens to consume her. Will she be able to move past the painful memories without feeling guilty for being a survivor?
Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135950121
Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins tells the story of paintings that have made people cry. Drawing upon anecdotes related to individual works of art, he provides a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past, and a meditation on the curious tearlessness with which most people approach art in the present. Deeply personal, Pictures and Tears is a history of emotion and vulnerability, and an inquiry into the nature of art. This book is a rare and invaluable treasure for people who love art. Also includes an 8-page color insert.
Author : Corey Ann Haydu
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062689843
Kirkus Best Books of 2019 * Kids’ Indie Next Pick List * Bookpage Best Books of 2019: Middle Grade “Beautiful, mysterious and deeply satisfying.” —Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me and Goodbye Stranger The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it’s impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee’s mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to try. Everyone takes the scenic way to school or work—past rows of rosebushes and unexpected waterfalls. On blueberry-picking field trips, every berry is perfectly ripe. Sure, there are a few odd rules, and the houses all look exactly alike, but it’s easy enough to explain—until Elodee realizes that there are only three ice cream flavors in Eventown. Ever. And they play only one song in music class. Everything may be “even” in Eventown, but is there a price to pay for perfection—and pretending? “Engrossing.” —New York Times Book Review “Enchanting, heart-rending, and bittersweet.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An emotionally complex and wonderfully told story.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Thought-provoking.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
