It Runs In The Family

Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307776646
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running in the Family written by Michael Ondaatje and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

Author : Frida Berrigan
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1939293669
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Runs in the Family written by Frida Berrigan and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding on the stories in her popular column for the website Waging Nonviolence, Berrigan has crafted a welcome antidote to the various parenting fads currently on offer from French moms and tiger moms and mean moms. She offers a unique perspective on parenting that derives from hard work, deep reflection, and lots of trial and error.

Author : Richard Manning
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250031362
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Runs in the Family written by Richard Manning and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Runs in the Family is a memoir of faith and willful ignorance, truths and secrets, rural and urban labor, and fire: fire as both knowledge and destructive force. Richard Manning was raised on a piece of farmland in Michigan, in a working- class family of Christian fundamentalists. Manning's father was a jack of many trades: farmer, carpenter, builder, power lineman, factory worker, small businessman. His mother concealed her own troubled childhood beneath a religious faith that explained away uncertainty, illness, and tragedy. Manning grew up learning how to work and what to believe---but came to understand his family's seemingly-normal facade as a mask for troubling secrets. It Runs in the Family is the story of Manning's journey away from his family, one that ranges from their Michigan farm to the fire-ravaged wilderness of Montana, and finally to a remote village in Panama, where he comes to pursue a past he had vowed to leave behind. Linking his own life with the larger story of his family, the land they inhabited, and the right-wing fundamentalist politics gaining ground in America, Richard Manning offers a singular memoir.

Author : Ray Cooney
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573691591
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Runs in the Family written by Ray Cooney and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan C. Barth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113506380X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Runs In My Family written by Joan C. Barth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers therapists effective, practical strategies for helping patients overcome the psychological impact of a history of serious illness in the family. Using illustrative case material, the author discusses the feelings of powerlessness that family illness can produce in an individual, and describes techniques for fostering a healthier, more empowered attitude. She shows how various assessment exercises and validation techniques can help the person distinguish between reality and the myths that evolved as a result of the family illness.

Author : Anne George
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061849685
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Runs in the Family written by Anne George and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Alice has spared nothing for her only daughter's wedding -- from seventy-five yards of bridal train to gourmet food for over three hundred guests and enough glittering elegance to make Mary Alice think about finding herself a fourth rich husband to pay for it all. Practical Patricia Anne has put away her aunt-of-the-bride blue chiffon and settled back into domesticity when fun-loving Mary Alice calls to say they have a post-wedding date with a genealogist from the groom's side of the family. Lunch is a fascinating lesson on the hazards of finding dirty linens in ancestral boudoirs that ends abruptly when their guest scurries off with the local judge, leaving the sisters with their mouths open -- and finishing their luncheon companion's cheesecake -- when the police arrive. Their mysterious guest has taken a plunge from the ninth floor of the courthouse building -- an apparent suicide. But given the scandals a nosy genealogist might have uncovered, the sisters are betting that some proud Southern family is making sure their shameful secrets stay buried. . .along with anyone who tries to dig them up.

Author : Mark Waid
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 1779513712
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flash/Impulse: Runs in the Family written by Mark Waid and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impulse, the Flash’s hyperactive descendant from the 30th century, has landed in the present and is ready to make a superhero name for himself! Due to his hyper-accelerated metabolism, Bart Allen was aging fast-like, really fast-and was raised in a 30th-century virtual reality simulation. So when he winds up in our era, he sees the world as one big video game-and he’s got a lot to learn. Luckily, Bart has a mentor named Max Mercury, and if anyone’s up to the task, it’s the zen master of the Speed Force. In this collection, Bart adjusts to life in the 20th century, keeping the town of Manchester, Alabama, safe from threats like White Lightning and Gridlock. Also in this title, Savitar’s machinations in the Speed Force cause Impulse, the Flash, and other super-speedsters to lose their speed! This volume collects Impulse #1-12 and The Flash #108-111.

Author : Jeramey Kraatz
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062095498
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cloak Society written by Jeramey Kraatz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a thrilling, action-packed middle grade trilogy, which School Library Journal declared "will likely find the same wide appeal as Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books. The Cloak Society: An elite organization of supervillains graced with extraordinary powers. Ten years ago the Cloak Society was defeated by Sterling City's superheroes, the Rangers of Justice, and vanished without a trace. But the villains have been waiting for the perfect moment to resurface. . . . Twelve-year-old Alex Knight is a dedicated junior member of Cloak who has spent years mastering his telekinetic superpowers and preparing for the day when Cloak will rise to power again. Cloak is everything he believes in. But during his debut mission, Alex does the unthinkable: He saves the life of a Junior Ranger of Justice. Even worse . . . she becomes his friend. And the more time he spends with her, the more Alex wonders what, exactly, he's been fighting for.

Author : Lisa Wells
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374716587
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Believers written by Lisa Wells and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An essential document of our time." —Charles D’Ambrosio, author of Loitering In search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change We find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we live? Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes, but she could not find practical answers. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts. Believers tracks through the lives of these people who are dedicated to repairing the earth and seemingly undaunted by the task ahead. Wells meets an itinerant gardener and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists in rewilding the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing “watershed discipleship” in New Mexico and another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming—guns into ploughshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach others how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that acknowledge the fires will come again. Through empathic, critical portraits, Wells shows that these trailblazers are not so far beyond the rest of us. They have had the same realization, have accepted that we are living through a global catastrophe, but are trying to answer the next question: How do you make a life at the end of the world? Through this miraculous commingling of acceptance and activism, this focus on seeing clearly and moving forward, Wells is able to take the devastating news facing us all, every day, and inject a possibility of real hope. Believers demands transformation. It will change how you think about your own actions, about how you can still make an impact, and about how we might yet reckon with our inheritance.

Author : Fox Butterfield
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525521631
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In My Father's House written by Fox Butterfield and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness. The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Examining the long history of the Bogles, a white family, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime and, in doing so, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family's transgressions and tribulations, and an entirely new way to understand crime in America.