The Magic Of Ordinary Days

Author : Ann Howard Creel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101126965
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Ordinary Days written by Ann Howard Creel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-06-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. An exhilarating flirtation reshapes her life, though, and she finds herself banished to a rural Colorado outpost, married to a man she hardly knows. Overwhelmed by loneliness, Olivia tentatively tries to establish a new life, finding much-needed friendship and solace in two Japanese American sisters who are living at a nearby internment camp. When Olivia unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a crime and is faced with betrayal, she finally confronts her own desires. Beautifully written and filled with memorable characters, Creel's novel is a powerful exploration of the nature of trust and love.

Author : Ann S. Masten
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462523714
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Magic written by Ann S. Masten and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a pioneering researcher, this book synthesizes the best current knowledge on resilience in children and adolescents. Ann S. Masten explores what allows certain individuals to thrive and adapt despite adverse circumstances, such as poverty, chronic family problems, or exposure to trauma. Coverage encompasses the neurobiology of resilience as well as the role of major contexts of development: families, schools, and culture. Identifying key protective factors in early childhood and beyond, Masten provides a cogent framework for designing programs to promote resilience. Complex concepts are carefully defined and illustrated with real-world examples.

Author : LILLI Jolgren Day
Publisher : LILLI J.Day
ISBN 13 : 9780615480398
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wonder of Ordinary Magic written by LILLI Jolgren Day and published by LILLI J.Day. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby Weaver is a brother, an uncle, a husband, and a successful young writer who just happens to be in a coma. As he continues to work on his own unfinished novel, a murder mystery set along The Appalachian Trail, he shares his thoughts about his current situation, his family, and life in general. Interwoven throughout the book with Bobby's irreverent voice are the viewpoints of six other characters as we move through one day in their busy lives. From a spirited four-year-old, to a grieving seventy-three year old, we are introduced to the people in this young writer's life and a spare, bittersweet story unfolds with an unexpected and poignant ending. THE WONDER OF ORDINARY MAGIC is a novel that explores the subtle ways our lives are interconnected and it takes the reader on a journey that gently reminds us that even in the darkest of days, there are moments of wonder and ordinary magic waiting to be discovered and embraced.

Author : Fleur Jaeggy
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811229041
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Days of Discipline written by Fleur Jaeggy and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

Author : Katrina Kenison
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446558095
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift of an Ordinary Day written by Katrina Kenison and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition, with boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, and an attempt to find a deeper sense of place—and a slower pace—in a small New England town. This is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in the search for home and a new sense of purpose, and the bittersweet intensity of life with teenagers—holding on, letting go. Poised on the threshold between family life as she's always known it and her older son's departure for college, Kenison is surprised to find that the times she treasures most are the ordinary, unremarkable moments of everyday life, the very moments that she once took for granted, or rushed right through without noticing at all. The relationships, hopes, and dreams that Kenison illuminates will touch women's hearts, and her words will inspire mothers everywhere as they try to make peace with the inevitable changes in store.

Author : Peggy Waide
Publisher : Montlake Romance
ISBN 13 : 9781477842355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duchess for a Day written by Peggy Waide and published by Montlake Romance. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a plot to regain her usurped fortune, young Jocelyn marries the Duke of Wilcott, England's premier bachelor, without his knowledge. She intends to get an annulment, but after one breathless kiss, Jocelyn knows she'll be duchess for a lifetime.

Author : Laura Pashby
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787137120
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Stories of Your Life written by Laura Pashby and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace the power of storytelling with Little Stories of Your Life. Start telling your own story, find your creative self and be more mindful. Combining the wellbeing benefits of mindfulness, creativity and daily photography, this book shows you how to use words and photographs to capture precious little moments and how to share these in order to connect with others. Each chapter explores the different ways you can tell your own stories, considers why you might choose to tell them and helps you to create a patchwork of tiny tales about your life, however small they might be. Throughout the book, Laura shares her own personal stories and research that shows you how to tune out of the bigger picture and focus on the everyday. There are exercises to gently guide you through how to journal and harness your inner creativity, as well as tips on improving your photography, photo challenges and writing prompts to get you started. It’s easy to feel that our own lives are not enough, but real lives are not defined by bright, exciting events: we don’t need a grand narrative arc. It’s the stretches of time in between that matter, the tiny moments and the daily choices that make us who we are.

Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375867953
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Crazy Day with Cobras written by Mary Pope Osborne and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Merlin’s beloved penguin, Penny, has been put under a spell! To save her, Jack and Annie must find a rare and precious emerald. When the magic tree house whisks them back to India over four hundred years ago to search for the jewel, they discover an amazing and exotic world filled with great danger. Formerly numbered as Magic Tree House #45, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #17: A Crazy Day with Cobras. Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures

Author : Bernadette Mayer
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214063
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midwinter Day written by Bernadette Mayer and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps Bernadette Mayer's greatest work, Midwinter Day was written on December 22, 1978, at 100 Main Street, in Lenox, Massachusetts. "Midwinter Day", as Alice Notley notes, "is an epic poem about a daily routine". In six parts, Midwinter Day takes us from awakening and emerging from dreams through the whole day -- morning, afternoon, evening, night -- to dreams again: "a plain introduction to modes of love and reason, / Then to end I guess with love, a method to this winter season / Now I've said this love it's all I can remember / Of Midwinter Day the twenty-second of December".

Author : Pearl Cleage
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061807176
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day written by Pearl Cleage and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild—her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community whose ordinariness once drove her away; and she cannot turn her back on friends and family who sorely need her in the face of impending trouble and tragedy. Besides which, that one unthinkable, unmistakable thing is now happening to her: Ava Johnson is falling in love. Acclaimed playwright, essayist, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist Pearl Cleage has created a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding, in a remarkable novel that sizzles with sensuality, hums with gritty truth, and sings and crackles with life-affirming energy.