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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for...
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Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2019]
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157 pages ; 21 cm
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While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw. The White Book becomes a meditation on the color white, as well as a fictional journey inspired by an older sister who died in her mother's arms, a few hours old. The narrator grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, an event she colors in stark white--breast milk, swaddling bands, the baby's rice cake-colored skin--and,...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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222 pages
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navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world. In this profound and personal book, Setiya shows how the tools of philosophy can help us find our way. Drawing on ancient and modern philosophy as well as fiction, history, memoir, film, comedy, social science, and stories from Setiya’s own experience, Life Is Hard is a book for this moment—a work of solace and compassion.
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
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vii, 237 pages ; 25 cm
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"Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and delightfully bizarre. From ballerinas dancing on broken bones to ultramarathoners shitting their pants mid-race to competitive eaters scarfing down hot peppers, masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo junkies, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers. At its core, masochism is about feeling bad, then better-- a phenomenon that is long overdue for a heartfelt and hilarious...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
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xvi, 216 pages ; 24 cm
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With the compassion of a pastor, the heart of a storyteller, and the joy of one who has seen what God can do, Max Lucado explores the story of Joseph and the truth of Genesis 50:20. What Satan intends for evil, God redeems for good.
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Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xvii, 197 pages ; 19 cm
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In this elegantly concise, beautifully written, and deeply inspiring book, Rabbi Leder guides us through pain's stages of surviving, healing, and growing to help us all find meaning in our suffering. Drawing on his experience as a spiritual leader, the wisdom of ancient traditions, modern science, and stories from his own life and others', he shows us that when we must endure, we can, and that there is a path for each of us that leads from pain to...
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Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
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221 p. ; 22 cm.
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"When hard times strike, we look forward with longing to the day when we will 'get over' the event and have closure. This is a difficult--often impossible--road to travel. There are some things in life that we must learn to live with because they will never truly go away for good. Despite that truth, there is life--rewarding and abundant life--after heartache and pain. John F. Westfall leads readers beyond their hurts and into a life of confidence,...
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"Concise and compassionate, Becoming Resilient takes our most common question when tragedy strikes--Why?--and replaces it with the healthier, more productive question, What next? A professional Christian counselor for 20 years, author Donna Gibbs draws on her experience helping clients get unstuck, sharing secrets for building resilience that will change readers' experience of suffering. She offers practical tools and effective coping strategies to...
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B&H Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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147 pages ; 19 cm
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God's Word doesn't promise us a life free from pain, but someone to walk with us through it. There is hope for the hurting: His name is Jesus.
"Everyone's story comes with unique challenges, difficulties, bumps, and bruises that leave you lost and drowning in their wake. It could be a financial disaster, a health issue, a broken relationship, or the loss of a loved one. Dr. Tony Evans, bestselling author and pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship,...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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[xix, 280] pages ; 25 cm
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"Halifax has identified five psychological territories she calls Edge States-altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement-that epitomize strength of character. Yet each of these states can also be the cause of personal and social suffering. In this way, these five psychological experiences form edges, and it is only when we stand at these edges that we become open to the full range of our human experience and discover who we really are."--Amazon.com....
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""To live in wonder on the other side of suffering and disappointment," reflects Mark Nepo, "is to know how magnificent and fragile it is to be here at all." Inside the Miracle calls us to leap into our lives with tenderness and courage, so we can fully inhabit the miraculous moments that await us."--Amazon.com.
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2022
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2 DVDs (359 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bernard-Henri Levy is one of the world's most influential public intellectuals, and Cohen Media Group is proud to present this two-disc collection of his politically charged documentary filmmaking work, leading off with The Will to See (2022), an unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine. The Oath of Tobruk (2012) tracks six months of Ľvy's behind-the-scenes work in war-torn Libya....
14) Turtles can fly
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antennae for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov who can seemingly predict the future.
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FaithWords
Pub. Date
[2017]
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vi, 352 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
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All of us will go through dark times that we don't understand: a difficulty with a friend, an unfair situation at work, a financial setback, an unexpected illness, a divorce, or the loss of a loved one. Those types of experiences are part of the human journey. But when we find ourselves in such a place, it's important that we keep a positive perspective. Joel Osteen writes that if we stay in faith and keep a good attitude when we go through challenges,...
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" 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? ... [The author] sets out to disentangle this knotty issue. ... [He] offers answers to these crucial questions and shares his hope and wisdom to help heal a world hungering for a true understanding of human nature"--P. [4] of cover.
17) How to fight
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Parallax Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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125 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
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"The Mindfulness Essentials series introduces beginners and reminds seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. This time Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor to the ways we act out in anger, frustration, despair, and delusion. In brief meditations accompanied by whimsical sumi-ink drawings, Thich Nhat Hanh instructs us exactly how to transform our craving and confusion. If we learn to take good care...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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xxxii, 86 pages ; 19 cm
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"In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do to those close to us. He argued that choosing not to send life-saving money to starving people on the other side of the earth is the moral equivalent of neglecting to save...
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2013
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"In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time."--Description from publisher.
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