Loved Ones

Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316216488
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loved One written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide. Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.

Author : Robert J Meyers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1592857752
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Your Loved One Sober written by Robert J Meyers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first general consumer book ever on the powerful, award-winning, scientifically proven new system of intervention that is turning the recovery field on its head. Historically there have been few options available for individuals seeking help for treatment-resistant loved ones suffering from substance abuse. Co-author Dr. Robert Meyers spent ten years developing a treatment program that helps concerned significant others bth improve the quality of their lives and learn how to make treatment an attractive option for their partners who are substance abusers. Get Your Loved One Sober describes this multi-faceted program that uses supportive, non-confrontational methods to engage substance abusers into treatment. Called Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), the program uses scientifically validated behavioral principles to reduce the loved one's substance use and to encourage him or her to seek treatment. Equally important, CRAFT also helps loved ones reduce personal stress and introduce meaningful, new sources of satisfaction into their life. Key Features: --CRAFT is more effective than other types of interventions.This breakthrough new system is sweeping the recovery field. This is its first introduction to the general public. --Contains simple exercises readers can practice at their own pace, with no costly or heart-breaking interventions. --Proven successful for numerous addictions, not just alcoholism.

Author : Abigail DeWitt
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062834738
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book News of Our Loved Ones written by Abigail DeWitt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family, whose lives are all touched by the tragic events surrounding the D-Day bombings in Normandy. What if your family’s fate could be traced back to one indelible summer? Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Maman, Oncle Henri, Yvonne, and Françoise silently watched as their Jewish neighbors were arrested or wordlessly disappeared. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true—and if they will survive to see their country liberated. For sixteen-year-old Yvonne, thoughts of the war recede when she sees the red-haired boy bicycle past her window each afternoon. Murmuring to herself I love you, I love you, I love you, she wills herself to hear the whisper of his bicycle tires over the screech of Allied bombs falling from the sky. Yvonne’s sister, Geneviève, is in Paris to audition for the National Conservatory. Pausing to consider the shadow of a passing cloud as she raises her bow, she does not know that her family’s home in Normandy lies in the path of British and American bombers. While Geneviève plays, her brother Simon and Tante Chouchotte, anxiously await news from their loved ones in Normandy. Decades later, Geneviève, the wife of an American musician, lives in the United States. Each summer she returns to her homeland with her children, so that they may know their French family. Geneviève’s youngest daughter, Polly, becomes obsessed with the stories she hears about the war, believing they are the key to understanding her mother and the conflicting cultures shaping her life. Moving back and forth in time, told from varying points of view, News of Our Loved Ones explores the way family histories are shared and illuminates the power of storytelling to understand the past and who we are.

Author : Wil Langford
Publisher : Your Loved Ones, Your Self
ISBN 13 : 9780741439550
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Loved Ones, Yourself, Finding and Raising the Family Within written by Wil Langford and published by Your Loved Ones, Your Self. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Earl A. Grollman
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807027196
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living When a Loved One Has Died written by Earl A. Grollman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, "there is no way to predict how you will feel. The reactions of grief are not like recipes, with given ingredients, and certain results. . . . Grief is universal. At the same time it is extremely personal. Heal in your own way." If someone you know is grieving, Living When a Loved One Has Died can help. Earl Grollman explains what emotions to expect when mourning, what pitfalls to avoid, and how to work through feelings of loss. Suitable for pocket or bedside, this gentle book guides the lonely and suffering as they move through the many facets of grief, begin to heal, and slowly build new lives.

Author : Sonya Chung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984764846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loved Ones written by Sonya Chung and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterful novel of inheritance and loss, Sonya Chung (Long for This World) proves herself a worthy heir to Marguerite Duras, Hwang Sun-won, and James Salter. Spanning generations and divergent cultures, The Loved Ones maps the intimate politics of unlikely attractions, illicit love, and costly reconciliations. Charles Lee, the young African American patriarch of a biracial family, seeks to remedy his fatherless childhood in Washington, DC, by making an honorable choice when his chance arrives. Years later in the mid-1980s, uneasy and stymied in his marriage to Alice, he finds a connection with Hannah Lee, the teenage Korean American caregiver whose parents' transgressive flight from tradition and war has left them shrouded in a cloud of secrets and muted passion. A shocking and senseless death will test every familial bond and force all who are touched by the tragedy to reexamine who their loved ones truly are--the very meaning of the words. Haunting, elliptical, and powerful, The Loved Ones deconstructs the world we think we know and shows us the one we inhabit.

Author : James Tate
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819511911
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distance from Loved Ones written by James Tate and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-19 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear and insightful poetry on our relationship to the given world.

Author : Raymond Moody
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0804112355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reunions written by Raymond Moody and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1994-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the experiences of men and women who have communicated with the dead using the easy-to-learn techniques developed by Dr. Raymond Moody. As proof of life after death, these stunning testimonials promise to launch even more research and give comfort to people around the world.

Author : Joy A. Glenner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801898668
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Your Loved One Has Dementia written by Joy A. Glenner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result is a guide that integrates the practicalities of caregiving with the human emotions that accompany it.

Author : Alia Mamdouh
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619372
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loved Ones written by Alia Mamdouh and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ferocious, visceral descriptions . . . give a powerful sense not only of Suhaila’s world but also of the way we make and understand memories.”—Booklist “Often intense and lyrical.”—Kirkus Reviews This winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Prize for Literature mingles memories of the past with the shifting voices of the present when the estranged son of an Iraqi exile flies from his home in Toronto to visit her in Paris. As his ailing mother, the once-vibrant Suhaila, lies in a hospital bed, he acquaints himself with her constellation of close friends. Immediately, he becomes immersed in the complex relationships he has fought so hard to avoid: with his mother and his war-torn homeland. Alia Mamdouh weaves a magical tale of the human condition in this stunning and beautifully written novel of faith, family, and hope.