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Inside the Other Side: Soul Contracts, Life Lessons, and How Dead People Help Us, Between Here and Heaven
Par Concetta Bertoldi. 2012
A New York Times–bestselling author and celebrity medium &“guides readers. . . . to get in touch with the other side in this…
life-affirming and personable book&” (Publishers Weekly). World-famous psychic Concetta Bertoldi talks intimately about soul contracts, life lessons, and how dead people help us between here and heaven, as she leads us on an eye-opening tour Inside the Other Side. With the same compassion and wit displayed in her well-received book, Do Dead People Watch You Shower? the self-proclaimed &“average Jersey girl who talks to the dead,&” shares her own experiences with loss, as well as the fascinating and comforting anecdotes of those she&’s read for over the years. You&’ll be inspired by Concetta&’s powerful insights and guidance as she explains how to cope with life&’s most difficult issues by getting in touch with angels on the Other Side. &“With her fun loving and sparkling personality, it is no wonder the spirit world wants to speak to her.&” —James Van Praagh, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Talking to Heaven &“Concetta Bertoldi is definitely not your run-of-the-mill medium.&” —Billy Baldwin, actorHow to Survive Life (and Death): A Guide for Happiness in This World and Beyond
Par Robert Kopecky. 2014
Essential life lessons gained from near-death experiences: &“A simple guide for becoming grateful for one&’s life and fearless about one&’s…
inevitable death&” (Patheos Reviews). Over the years, Emmy-nominated art director Robert Kopecky has had three separate near-death experiences, giving him a unique expertise on the transition we call dying—and on the realities that lie beyond this life. What he brought back from the other side was a book not just about surviving life and death, but about learning how to live. For Robert, it is essential to live every day with radical kindness, radical forgiveness, and radical surrender. One of the most common fears among human beings is the fear of death. In How to Survive Life (and Death), Kopecky shows us the other side of our fears about dying—and living. Heartfelt, candid, and personal, Robert&’s stories and insights urge us to take a chance, learn something new, and go about life with an open heart.With My Hands: Poems About Making Things
Par Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. 2018
&“From birdhouses to shadow puppets, the variety of projects included are delightful . . . An effective medley of concept,…
poetry, and artwork.&”—School Library Journal For young makers and artists, brief, lively poems illustrated by a New York Times bestselling duo celebrate the pleasures of working with your hands. Building, baking, folding, drawing, shaping . . . making something with your own hands is a special, personal experience. Taking an idea from your imagination and turning it into something real is satisfying and makes the maker proud. With My Hands is an inspiring invitation to tap into creativity and enjoy the hands-on energy that comes from making things. &“Poetry sparks an irresistible, primal urge to twist, cut, paint, draw, glue, carve, whittle, daub, tie, hammer, to simply make.&”—Kirkus Reviews &“A cheery reminder of the pride of creating something and the many forms art can take.&”—Publishers Weekly &“Whether invoking cooking, sewing, tying knots, or other undertakings, this provides an enjoyable springboard for aspiring makers.&”—BooklistLearn to increase happiness and deepen your romantic relationship with this guide to practicing gratitude and appreciation for your partner.…
Bestselling author and success mentor M. J. Ryan taught countless individuals how to increase their personal happiness with Attitudes of Gratitude. Now she shows readers how to apply the simple yet profound practice of gratitude to their intimate relationships. In her characteristically down-to-earth style, Ryan helps couples get back in touch with why they fell in love in the first place and deepen the love they share, no matter how long they&’ve been together. When you find ways to be grateful for your loved one, you experience more joy in your relationship. As Ryan writes, &“Gratitude births only positive feelings: love, compassion, joy, and hope. As we focus on what we are thankful for, fear, anger, and bitterness simply melt away, seemingly without effort.&” Attitudes of Gratitude in Love will teach you how to reach this positive place. The book is divided into two sections: Attitudes of gratitude that bring our personal lives more joy, peace, and loveSimple behaviors we can begin to practice to change any relationship for the better, right this moment.Spawn (Literature in Translation Series)
Par Marie-Andrée Gill, Kristen Renee Miller. 2017
Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores…
of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers?The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers' names into every surface imaginable. Encompassing twenty-first-century imperialism, coercive assimilation, and 90s-kid culture, the collection is threaded with the speaker's desires, her searching: for fresh water to "take the edge off," for a "habitable word," for sex. For her "true north"—her voice and her identity.Like the life cycle of the ouananiche that frames this collection, the speaker's journey is cyclical; immersed in teenage moments of confusion and life on the reserve, she retraces her scars to let in what light she can, and perhaps in the end discover what to "make of herself".Praise for Spawn:"Spawn is an epic journey that follows the ouananiche in their steadfast ability to hold: rigid, shimmering, hardened to the frigid waters of winter, in all of its capacities of and for whiteness. Here, poems summon a spawn of wonderworking dreams: 'a woman risen up from all these winter worlds, heaped with ice [and] ready to start again'." —Joshua Whitehead, author of Jonny Appleseed"Spawn is unforgettable poetry of the highest order." —Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf"Gill's poems are like small treasures clutched in buried tree roots, preserving 'the chalky veins' of ancestral memory pulsing just below our modern hustle." —Kiki Petrosino, author of White BloodExuberance: Poems
Par Dolores Hayden. 2019
Take flight with these dazzling persona poems telling the stories of daredevil pilots in the early days of aviation—from the…
author of American Yard. Daredevil pilots Lincoln Beachey, Betty Scott, Harriet Quimby, Ruth Law, Ormer Locklear, Bessie Coleman, and Clyde Pangborn fly at carnival altitudes to thrill millions of spectators who have never seen an airplane. In a lyrical sequence of persona poems, the pilots in Exuberance wonder how the experience of moving through the air will transform life on the ground. They learn to name the clouds, size up the winds, mix an Aviation Cocktail, perform a strange field landing, and make an emergency jump.&“Intoxicated with the history of aviation, Dolores Hayden has written a work of historical imagination that is vocally energetic, psychologically acute, and musically sophisticated. . . . The movement between lyrical speech and historical reflection gives us not only a portrait of the early years of the twentieth century, but a book in which technological advance is given a profoundly human voice.&” —Tom Sleigh, poet, dramatist, essayist, author of House of Fact, House of Ruin &“Exuberance is the word for this expansive and exciting collection, and also the word for the vanished earliest days of aviation it evokes, when flying was entertainment and adventure, not everyday transportation. Hayden brings to life a rollicking cast of birdmen and birdwomen, showmen and stunt pilots, producers and profiteers—and their entranced audiences and riders too. . . . Hayden&’s lush and energetic poems give us earthbound readers, used to shuttling from airport to airport, a sense of what that intoxication must have felt like.&” —Katha Pollitt, poet and columnist, author of The Mind-Body ProblemStart More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas
Par Becky Blades. 2022
Master the art of the start with this new way of thinking, with exercises to help you unleash your ideas…
and create more. In Start More Than You Can Finish, writer, artist, and entrepreneur Becky Blades offers a powerful new mindset for our modern world: acting on more ideas makes us happier – and reveals our highest creativity. She empowers readers to become "stARTists"– initiators with a bias for action and the courage to ignite ideas and introduces the concept of "stARTistry," spotlighting the 4-step starting process: 1. Imagine 2. Think 3. Decide 4. Act Using digestible data, humorous and honest personal experience, interviews with artists and entrepreneurs, and assignments to help you get started, Start More Than You Can Finish challenges the tropes our dads, moms, and third-grade teachers told us about finishing. In today's world, we must, in fact, start more than we can finish. FOR READERS OF: Start, Do Work That Matters, Show Your Work!, Do It For Yourself, and The Creative Curve A BOOK FOR RISING CREATORS: A plucky non-fiction creative muse, Start More Than You Can Finish is a guilt-busting pep talk. It’s Austin Kleon meets Elizabeth Gilbert and Julia Cameron meets Daniel Pink. AN INTRODUCTION TO stARTistry: Get familiar with power of creative initiative and the 4-step process that moves ideas from imagination to action. Reminiscent of NaNoWriMo (No Plot, No Problem) and Listography. ESTABLISHED AUTHOR: Becky Blades speaks and teaches on the topic of creativity and has written articles for Oprah.com, McSweeneys, Live Happy, and others. GIFT + SELF PURCHASE: An encouraging gift for a friend, family member or colleague struggling with their creative confidence, or an empowering gift for yourself – to give you the tools to act on your ideas. Perfect for: • Fans of Austin Kleon, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Julia Cameron, Daniel Pink • Creators struggling to begin a new project • Recent graduates embarking on a career of entrepreneurship or the arts • Artists and entrepreneurs looking to build creative courage • Adults searching for creative inspiration • People with passion projects in mind who might not know how to startGreek Lyric Poetry (Oxford World's Classics Ser.)
Par M. L. West. 1993
The Greek lyric, elegiac, and iambic poets of the two centuries from 650 to 450 BC - Archilochus and Alcman,…
Sappho and Mimnermus, Anacreon, Simonides, and the rest - produced some of the finest poetry of antiquity, perfect in form, spontaneous in expression, reflecting all the joys and anxieties of their personal lives and of the societies in which they lived. This new poetic translation by a leading expert captures the nuances of meaning and the whole spirit of this poetry as never before. It is not merely a selection but covers all the surviving poems and intelligible fragments, apart from the works of Pindar and Bacchylides, and includes a number of pieces not previously translated. The Introduction gives a brief account of the poets, and explanatory Notes on the texts will be found at the end.Home Truths: The Facts and Fictions of Family Life
Par Lucy Blake. 2022
Previously published as No Family is Perfect.'Provides a fresh context for exploring issues that engage us throughout our lives ...…
It will change how we think and write about families' Terri Apter, author of Difficult Mothers and The Sister KnotWhat makes a good parent?How can sibling relationships survive to adulthood?Should familial love really be unconditional?Dr Lucy Blake looks at how the expectations we have affect and hinder our interactions with family members. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of family members – of all backgrounds – she explores the unrealistic ideas many of us have. Exposing the truth of what a family really is, Blake explores how to better understand and appreciate our loved ones, whether we choose to do so from up close or from a distance.Home Truths is a fascinating examination of the messy and beautiful reality of family life.'Blake examines the many aspects of family life and addresses the many ways that family relationships can be strained ... This book will be helpful to anyone interested in learning more about their own families' Dr Joshua Coleman, Council on Contemporary FamiliesBig Bold Beautiful: The soul-seeker's guide to creating an empowered purpose-driven life
Par Kate Taylor. 2023
Big, Bold, Beautiful is the ultimate empowerment guide that takes you on a journey of discovery to connect to your…
authentic self, get your sparkle back and create a life where you can thrive – not just survive.Life design and empowerment coach Kate Taylor uses a unique mix of psychological tools and spiritual practices to form her Practical Magic coaching method. She blends straight-talking strategy with a dash of spiritual sauce to create an alchemy of measured action combined with a connection to something greater than us – where the true magic happens.Divided into seven steps, Kate brings you easy-to-implement practical tools sprinkled with a dash of woo, so that you can create the vibrant, powerful change you've been yearning for. Join Kate as she shows you how to embrace a melting pot of modalities. Try using SMART targets alongside pendulums to set goals; address your inner critic by challenging negative thought patterns and performing an elements release ritual on a Full Moon; or seek self-empowerment through rewiring limiting beliefs using NLP and tapping into the power of crystals.I, Divided: Poems
Par Chelsea Dingman. 2023
An underlying cynicism lies at the heart of the questions asked by Chelsea Dingman’s I, Divided: What is a life…
worth? Today. Now. Why is that? Who gives anyone permission to be? And how is that determined?In poems that use the science behind chaos theory as a lens for examining illness and agency, Dingman explores the divide between determination and accident, whereby the body becomes a site of exploration as well as elegy in cases of disease such as traumatic brain injury, cancer, and addiction. Much like weather patterns, inherited histories of violence and disease are cyclical. They remain at once determined and yet undetermined, becoming ultimately chaotic. The “I” of the title is fractured over several divides, subordinated to illness and to a past that is invariable, though finally morphs as an agent of change.I, Divided operates as if within a swirling hurricane, beginning and ending amid the same human concerns, tracing a life cycle and its repetition.Far from Atlantis: Poems
Par Raymond Luczak. 2023
In Far from Atlantis, Raymond Luczak makes use of traditional poetic forms to tell the stories of two vastly different…
worlds: the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which often looks like an island on the map, and the fabled island of Atlantis. The poems in this collection are rooted in the natural world, with the power of water as a means for escaping the cruelty and tedium of an ableist society. While recounting his troubled childhood as the only deaf person in a large hearing family, Luczak aligns himself with mythological, monstrous, and superhuman beings who, like him, exist on the margins. The narratives invoked and the worlds created in these poems are both autoethnographic and speculative, and include figures lost to history like Lucy Frances Fitzhigh Hooe and Frances Peterson, along with 1970s pop culture icons like the Six Million Dollar Man and Wonder Woman.Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect
Par Jane Clarke. 2023
What does Ireland's nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past,…
our inheritance, the values to which we aspire? What clues lie within its language that connect us to our deeper selves and our place within our communities and environments?As varied as our plants, animals and habitats, Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect presents a portrait of an ever-changing vista. Jane Carkill's captivating original illustrations of Ireland's rich and diverse natural world add to the sense of enchantment and wonder.Each poem pays attention to nature while also reflecting on the loves and losses of our everyday lives. Award-winning poet Jane Clarke's selection includes some of our best-known poets, from Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Michael Longley, Paula Meehan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnail, Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Paul Muldoon.There are poems here to make us laugh and cry, to help us celebrate and grieve; poems to put words on what can seem inexpressible as we connect to the other living beings with which we share this island.Do you find yourself dwelling in unhelpful emotions like fear, anxiety and overwhelm?Endlessly chasing something intangible to help you feel…
'enough'?What if a life of greater ease and joy is available to you?In his new book The Freedom Within, bestselling author and health coach Gerry Hussey gives us a remarkable insight into the truth about human emotions: how they shape every aspect of our lives and how every emotion we hold is either enabling or disabling us, healing or hurting us.From understanding the impact of early childhood experiences, family dynamics and unconscious beliefs, to discovering how to unlock our emotional triggers and establish healthy boundaries, this transformative guide shows us how we can redirect our energy from a place of emotional pain to one of power and begin living with incredible inner peace.Step out of the shadows of your past.Connect to your truest self.Discover your emotional superpower.Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect
Par Jane Clarke. 2023
What does Ireland's nature poetry say about us as a people? How does it speak to us of our past,…
our inheritance, the values to which we aspire? What clues lie within its language that connect us to our deeper selves and our place within our communities and environments?As varied as our plants, animals and habitats, Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect presents a portrait of an ever-changing vista. Jane Carkill's captivating original illustrations of Ireland's rich and diverse natural world add to the sense of enchantment and wonder.Each poem pays attention to nature while also reflecting on the loves and losses of our everyday lives. Award-winning poet Jane Clarke's selection includes some of our best-known poets, from Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Michael Longley, Paula Meehan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnail, Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin and Paul Muldoon.There are poems here to make us laugh and cry, to help us celebrate and grieve; poems to put words on what can seem inexpressible as we connect to the other living beings with which we share this island.Do you find yourself dwelling in unhelpful emotions like fear, anxiety and overwhelm?Endlessly chasing something intangible to help you feel…
'enough'?What if a life of greater ease and joy is available to you?In his new book The Freedom Within, bestselling author and health coach Gerry Hussey gives us a remarkable insight into the truth about human emotions: how they shape every aspect of our lives and how every emotion we hold is either enabling or disabling us, healing or hurting us.From understanding the impact of early childhood experiences, family dynamics and unconscious beliefs, to discovering how to unlock our emotional triggers and establish healthy boundaries, this transformative guide shows us how we can redirect our energy from a place of emotional pain to one of power and begin living with incredible inner peace.Step out of the shadows of your past.Connect to your truest self.Discover your emotional superpower.Edges & Fray: on language, presence, and (invisible) animal architectures (Wesleyan Poetry Ser.)
Par Danielle Vogel. 2020
Poetry, prose, and photographs, explore the edges of languageEdges & Fray is an embodied meditation that cultivates receptivity and deep…
listening to the ways we inhabit language and its ethereal resilience. Combining close observation of birds' nests and the writing process, Danielle Vogel brings the reader into communion with language as a mode of presence. The frayed edges of consciousness are carefully arranged to suggest how writing, and the book, can serve as a site of radical transformation. Experimental and deeply grounded, this work is lyrical and patient. The text creates overlapping ecological fields, wherein each field is a system always in a state of becoming. Finding its strength in fragility, Edges & Fray is personal without feeling private, experimental without feeling programmatic. Its construction is intuitive and masterful, its many threads interwoven and intrinsically linked. This is a beautiful and inspiring book at the intersection of poetry, somatics, ecology, and divination.Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers
Par Adriana Trigiani. 2010
This New York Times–bestselling memoir “combines family and American history, reflections on lives well-lived, and sound advice to excellent effect”…
(Publishers Weekly).New York Times–bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers: time-tested, common sense advice on the most important aspects of a woman’s life, from childhood to the golden years. Seamlessly blending anecdote with life lesson, Don’t Sing at the Table tells the two vibrant women’s real-life stories—how they fell in love, nurtured their marriages, balanced raising children with being savvy businesswomen, and reinvented themselves with each new decade. For readers of Big Stone Gap, Very Valentine, Lucia, Lucia, and Rococo, this loving memoir is the Trigiani family recipe for chicken soup for the soul.“Readers will find her strength and optimism helpful, and her legions of loyal fans will enjoy learning more about the women who influenced, inspired, and, according to Trigiani, made possible some of her best-selling fiction.” —Booklist“Delightful, energetic. . . . Trigiani is a seemingly effortless storyteller.” —Boston Globe“Well crafted work with sometime lyrical, sometimes flat-out-funny writing.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram“Dazzling.” —USA TodayThe $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
Par Chris Guillebeau. 2012
Lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose—and earn a good living. &“Thoughtful, funny, and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary…
people can build solid livings, with independence and purpose, on their own terms.&”—Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project Still in his early thirties, Chris Guillebeau completed a tour of every country on earth and yet he&’s never held a &“real job&” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and focused on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment. Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who&’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It&’s all about finding the intersection between your &“expertise&”—even if you don&’t consider it such—and what other people will pay for. You don&’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees. All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid. Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick. Among Chris&’s key principles: If you&’re good at one thing, you&’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish—sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins. In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold. Today, we know that it&’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part is, if we change our own life, we can help others change theirs. This remarkable book will start you on your way.The Happy Dog Owner: Finding Health and Happiness with the Help of Your Dog
Par Carri Westgarth. 2021
'Carri Westgarth's unique combination of scholarship and practical experience with dogs will make this the go-to book for every enquiring…
dog owner' – Dr John Bradshaw, bestselling author of In Defence of DogsWhat if your dog could teach you a few new tricks for living a happier, healthier life?Drawing on her many years of research on human-animal interaction, Dr Carri Westgarth will help you to gain a new understanding of your dog's needs and how to be the best owner you can be. Learn to harness the power of your special bond with your pet and train your dog to be a canine alarm clock, cuddle on command and get you out and about more than ever before.Improve your pet's wellbeing with a wealth of science-led techniques and easy-to-learn tips – because a contented, well-behaved dog leads to a relaxed, healthy owner.You really can train your dog to train YOU to live a better life.