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One Ordinary Day at a Time

Author : Sarah J. Harris

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 11,29 MB

Release : 2022-01-20

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780008377373

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'A beautiful book about unexpected friendships and daring to dream' Ruth Hogan 'About a Boy meets Educating Rita... warm and big-hearted' Sarah Vaughan Behind every ordinary day, behind every ordinary story, there's an extraordinary one just waiting to happen... Two people. Simon Sparks hides in plain sight - his astonishing gifts locked deep inside himself, as he dreams of lost potential and extraordinary tomorrows. Jodie Brook hides behind what you think of her - a single mum who can barely make ends meet. But her dreams are filled with the education she always wanted and discovering a better life for her and her son. One life. When Simon and Jodie's lonely worlds collide, it upends everything. But as it becomes clear they have so much to learn from each other - Jodie can show Simon how to rejoin the world, and Simon can help Jodie prepare for her greatest challenge yet - they begin to realise that life could be so much more. One ordinary day at a time... 'A gorgeously quirky, charming and inspiring read' Beth Morrey, author of Saving Missy 'A perfect blend of light and dark with warm characterization and a lot of heart' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange 'It's the best book I've read in ages. If you like Gail Honeyman, you'll ADORE this' Anstey Harris, author of The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton



One Day

Author : Gene Weingarten

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 386 pages

File Size : 23,85 MB

Release : 2020-09-08

Category : History

ISBN : 0399185836

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“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as “ordinary” when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human.



One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts

Author : Shirley Jackson

Publisher : Creative Education

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 39,97 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9780886823528

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Present's Shirley Jackson's classic short story about an altruistic man and his mean-spirited wife.



Shirley Jackson

Author : Bernice M. Murphy

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 32,29 MB

Release : 2005-10-05

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0786423129

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Shirley Jackson was one of America's most prominent female writers of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1965 she published six novels, one best-selling story collection, two popular volumes of her family chronicles and many stories, which ranged from fairly conventional tales for the women's magazine market to the ambiguous, allusive, delicately sinister and more obviously literary stories that were closest to Jackson's heart and destined to end up in the more highbrow end of the market. Most critical discussions of Jackson tend to focus on "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House. An author of such accomplishment--and one so fully engaged with the pressures and preoccupations of postwar America--merits fuller discussion. To that end, this collection of essays widens the scope of Jackson scholarship with new writing on such works as The Road through the Wall and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and topics ranging from Jackson's domestic fiction to ethics, cosmology, and eschatology. The book also makes newly available some of the most significant Jackson scholarship published in the last two decades.



The Challenge of Creation

Author : Natan Slifkin

Publisher : Zoo Torah

Page : 367 pages

File Size : 24,97 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1933143150

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The Challenge of Creation is a completely revised and vastly expanded edition of The Science Of Torah. That work was widely hailed as the best book of its kind for its honesty and thoroughness of approach. The Challenge of Creation builds upon its approach, covering more issues and in greater depth. Carefully, methodically, and eschewing sensationalistic or dogmatic claims in favor of reasoned analysis, it shows how some of the greatest Jewish thinkers explained Judaism and Genesis in a way that complements modern science rather than conflicts with it. The Challenge of Creation is an invaluable resource for anyone grappling with conflicts between science and religion. It is a profound work that is sure to become a classic



Harlan Ellison

Author : Ellen Weil

Publisher : Ohio State University Press

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 47,53 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Science fiction, American

ISBN : 9780814208922

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Prayers For People Who Say They Can't Pray

Author : Donna Schaper

Publisher : Abingdon Press

Page : 117 pages

File Size : 49,88 MB

Release : 2014-11-04

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1426796048

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Almost everyone prays: believers, unbelievers, wanna-be believers and might-have-been believers. It assures us all in our many parts and many moods that everything is going to be okay, despite any evidence to the contrary. When people say “I don’t know how to pray,” what they often mean is “I don’t believe.” Or perhaps they are struggling with disappointment or anger with God and have taken a break from their prayer life. This book is written to remove these obstacles to prayer and to show how honest prayer doesn’t require belief or trust nor does it need constant satisfaction. This book introduces new ways of prayer and thinking about what prayer is--to offer the reader a new experience because sometimes our heart has a wisdom that our head does not. Whether you are someone who believes, hopes to believe, almost believes or simply trusts that offering a prayer means something, this book is for you.



Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences

Author : Melanie R. Anderson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 254 pages

File Size : 26,72 MB

Release : 2016-05-20

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317055268

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The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tended to obscure the extent of Shirley Jackson's literary output, which includes six novels, a prodigious number of short stories, and two volumes of domestic sketches. Organized around the themes of influence and intertextuality, this collection places Jackson firmly within the literary cohort of the 1950s. The contributors investigate the work that informed her own fiction and discuss how Jackson inspired writers of literature and film. The collection begins with essays that tease out what Jackson's writing owes to the weird tale, detective fiction, the supernatural tradition, and folklore, among other influences. The focus then shifts to Jackson's place in American literature and the impact of her work on women's writing, campus literature, and the graphic novelist Alison Bechdel. The final two essays examine adaptations of The Haunting of Hill House and Jackson's influence on contemporary American horror cinema. Taken together, the essays offer convincing evidence that half a century following her death, readers and writers alike are still finding value in Jackson’s words.



Henri Lefebvre

Author : Andrew Merrifield

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 33,84 MB

Release : 2013-10-18

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1135435030

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Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century. This accessible and innovative introduction to the work of Lefebvre combines biography and theory in a critical assessment of the dynamics of Lefebvre's character, thought, and times. Exploring key Lefebvrian concepts, Andy Merrifield demonstrates the evolution of Lefebvre's philosophy, while stressing the way his long and adventurous life of ideas and political engagement live on as an enduring and inspiring interrelated whole.



Honeymoon Series: Boxed Set Books 1-3

Author : Chris Keniston

Publisher : Indie House Publishing

Page : 435 pages

File Size : 32,37 MB

Release : 2022-12-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Ready for an adventure on the high seas from USA Today Bestselling author Chris Keniston? This collection includes books 1-3 of the series: Honeymoon For One: To escape local gossip, jilted bride Michelle Bradford embarks on her honeymoon cruise —alone. Coaxed by a thrill seeking hunk she never expects to see again, she slowly sheds her good girl persona to have some well deserved fun. But unlike Vegas, what happens on the high seas doesn't always stay there. Honeymoon For Three: Pam is finalizing plans for her destination wedding aboard a cruise ship surrounded by friends and family. Gil is busy wrapping up last-minute details before he marries his boss's daughter at a high society affair. One problem... They're still married to each other. What happens when they have to meet again for a quickie divorce? Honeymoon For Four: On a mission to save her mother from an internet relationship gone too far, Angela Cannon secretly takes a last minute honeymoon cruise alone. What she needs now is a plan, and Devon Miller seems to be the perfect answer. Except, what’s a girl to do when an unexpected connection takes complicated to a whole new level?