Lenny in the Garden
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File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 2011
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ISBN : 9788901113807
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Author : Deborah L. Kelley
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1452535914
When a deceased southern Appalachian grandmother delivers a mysterious message to her adult granddaughter in a waking dream, she sparks a mystical adventure that helps the young woman turn her life around. The Garden of a Desert Rose, a spiritual novel, is a modern-day, Jungian takeoff on A Christmas Carol, in which Scrooge is a sweet-natured, Southern single mother (in red snakeskin heels, no less) who spouts Bible verses and basic Jungian concepts with equal enthusiasm. Feeling defeated by her life choices, thirty-two-year-old, twice-divorced Lenny has little energy for launching a journey of self-discovery. Raising two children and holding down a job as a secretary for the coaching staff of the University of Tennessee football team keeps her days busy. But Lennys nights open a portal to a series of vivid, lucid dreams overflowing with rich archetypal images. Buoyed by the support of friends and her unflagging sense of humor, Lenny sees her inner desert transform into a blossoming oasis with one final Christmas Eve dream. This is a work of real-fiction that tries to capture the reality behind the known world. The tools in author Deborah L. Kelleys hand are her colorful imagination and a lifetime of personal happenings, visions, and spirit communications. Inspired by C. G. Jungs writings encouraging people to discover their personal myths, Kelley imagined her own myth to the surface. She named her hero Lenny and, with many additional archetypes dancing in her head, revisited Christmas of 1982. It was a time in her own life in which profound mental transformations took place. The Garden of a Desert Rose is a novel that seeks to ignite in your own imagination a deeper awareness of the myth youve been living.
Author : Joel Herscovitch
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465317503
For Jesse, time had stood still for thirty years. But now, forced off the hippie commune by the mysterious death of his lover, Annie, he finds himself catapulted into the surreal terrain of post-Sixties America. He struggles to adapt, but overshoots the mark, nearly losing his soul to yuppiedom. Meanwhile, evidence mounts pointing to Jesse as the murderer of his beloved. Could he have done the unthinkable while in a drug-induced fugue state? His carefully crafted new life teetering out of control, he loses his way - until the lovely and soulful Clare helps guide him back to the garden.
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Page : 750 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Gardening
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Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307744493
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, The Globe and Mail Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called “as ambitious as [Norman] Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth, and as stinging as Bob Dylan” (Los Angeles Times), returns with an epic yet intimate family saga. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her equally passionate and willful daughter, Miriam, flees Rose’s influence for the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. Despite their differences, they share a power to enchant the men in their lives: Rose’s aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her feckless chess hustler cousin, Lenny; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam’s (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinger husband, Tommy Gogan; and their bewildered son, Sergius. Through Lethem’s vivid storytelling we come to understand that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal.
Author : Curtis Gibson
Publisher : Curtis Gibson
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2007-09
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ISBN : 1424198259
Daddyas Tavern is a neighborhood mystery novel, an unconditional love story, and a powerful family drama, all brought together for a memorable and emotional roller coaster ride. Daddyas Tavern is at the center of a decaying neighborhoodaa brutal world of cruelty, murder, and a mysterious man with a camera who is killing the neighborhood children, and heas refining his aart.a Daddyas Tavern has been the neighborhoodas meeting place since it was first built after the Great Chicago Fire. Local businessmen often held court to resolve local problems, a tradition that tragically continues with the new owner.
Author : Susan Straub
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1402278179
It's never too early—or too late—to start sharing books with your baby! Reading is one of the first activities you can enjoy with your child, and Reading with Babies, Toddlers, and Twos gets you started. Instill a love for reading early by answering questions such as: Which books will a newborn baby enjoy? ?What do you buy after you've read Goodnight Moon? ?Are eBooks and apps appropriate for young children? Can I make up a story to tell my child? What are the best collections of fairy tales, fables, and other classic stories? A parenting resource to help with early learning and literacy, Straub, Dell'Antonia, and Payne use their decades of experience as parents, book reviewers, and children's librarians to bring you the very best in children's books, so you'll never run out of ideas for reading with your baby. "An accessible and enjoyable guide...this book is a 'go-to' resource."—Traci Lester, executive director, Reach Out and Read of Greater New York
Author : Rolin Jones
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822221837
I found [Singer's] honesty and raw emotion very refreshing. His treatment of friendship is very well thought out and the relationships among the boys are marked by essential checks and balances...[a] real roller-coaster ride of emotion and elation. Along t If you cringe at the ads for White Christmas on Broadway or roll your eyes at the plaintive pleas of Tiny Tim, then have I got a jolly good time for you. THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTA, a giddy, pleasingly sloppy downtown satire...is a holiday show for people sick
Author : Kerryn Mayne
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 125034011X
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns. And Lenny Marks is very, very good at not remembering what happened the day her mother and stepfather disappeared when she was still a child. The day a voice in the back of her mind started whispering, You did this. Until a letter from the parole board arrives in the mail--and when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel. As long-buried memories come to the surface, Lenny’s careful routines fall apart. For the first time, she finds herself forced to connect with the community around her, and unexpected new relationships begin to bloom. Lenny Marks may finally get a life–but what if her past catches up to her first? Equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming, Kerryn Mayne’s stunning debut is an irresistible novel about truth, secrets, vengeance, and family lost and found, with a heroine who's simply unforgettable.
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Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Gardening
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