Isabelle McAvoy, private art consultant in New York City. The first half of the book focuses on her past, having three daughters with three different men and following her through each of those relationships. When the narrative switches back to present-day, Isabelle learns that she's losing her sight and hires an assistant. She bonds with each of her daughters, one in India, one in New York, and one in Tuscany, and falls in love again.

A young individual named Dylan was robbed of his youth losing everything every average young man should obtain. He was brought up having nothing having to earn everything on his own. At sixteen he was forced to live on his own holding no work experience. His only talent was music. He was introduced to the drug dealing lifestyle becoming successful. As he grew so did his money, clientele, and eventually enemies. He outsmarts the police and accumulates every young mans dream, money, women, and respect. He ends up in the worst situation of his life receiving a lengthy prison sentence. Now knowing only the criminal lifestyle, how will he evolve? This action packed story involves deep struggles, violence, sex, and illegal distribution resulting in remedy. Suitable for teens and adults.

She Had Told Him She Was Headed for Blessing. Why Would He Not Take Her There? The Bjorklund family has received word that Augusta Bjorklund is on her way from Norway to join them in North Dakota. When the train arrives in the town of Blessing with no Augusta aboard, the worried family hopes she will be on the train in the morning. But only her trunk arrives, so Bridget Bjorklund insists that Hjelmer, Augusta's brother, go find her. Augusta, after discovering her intended bridegroom had married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America helping her mother run her boardinghouse. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried confusion, she boards the wrong train. When she arrives at the end of the line, she is met by a handsome young rancher, Kane Moyer, waiting for his Norwegian mail-order bride....

Dr. Rommer explores the four types of frightening near-death experiences (NDEs) but shows that even the most horrifying NDEs eventually have a positive spiritual outcome.

Alec Guinness shares his memoirs and describes the people who have shaped his life.

Today's greatest luminaries generously share personal stories about their most challenging experience-and provide the healing wisdom that helped them emerge fortified with inner-peace, strengthened faith, and a deeper understanding of life. Features pieces by: Dean Ornish Rachel Naomi Remen Bernie Siegel Joan Borysenko Harriet Lerner Belleruth Naparstek Stephen Levine Martha Beck Dharma Singh Khalsa Daphne Rose Kingma David Whyte Anne Wilson Schaef And Others

It is the task of art, he contends, to make the most of these conventions, to use the very disguises of civilization to counter the barbarism they mask. Tracing this idea through seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, Starobinski charts the historical and intellectual limits of criticism itself.".

"There is a sense, in which the demolition that is taking place through the war has not yet gone far enough." This astonishing statement was made in the thick of the Second World War (1942) by the influential American social and cultural critic Lewis Mumford. In most of the cities hit hardest by the air-raids, something akin to planning euphoria did in fact break out at that time. In all the countries of Europe, the devastation of the cities was acclaimed as a liberating factor. In this volume, historians and architects from various cultures analyse the ideas and convictions on which post-war urban planning was modelled. To illustrate the points, a number of towns and cities in different countries are discussed with reference to the planning schemes proposed for them and other documents.

Before this, I always wondered why God made me walk on those difficult roads as every challenge almost tore my life and my family apart. I thought I was unlucky. As time went by, I was glad that I was given a valuable opportunity to taste all of those bittersweet experiences because they made me emotionally and spiritually strong and wiser. I believe that one of the main reasons why God made me experience all of those thorny paths is because perhaps God wants me to share those life lessons with others in order to help them not to give up when life challenges them to the maximum. I hope this book will motivate the readers and give them enough light and hope to believe that every obstacle is indeed a blessing in disguise if we are willing to kneel and and learn because life itself is a novel in which you are its best writer.

Breakups are terrible, even if they're handled with compassion. They can shake you to your very foundations, causing you to question your confidence and your faith in love itself. If you've been broken up with, you're grappling with the very real pain of rejection on top of mourning a lost love. and Healing from such a traumatic experience is hard and messy.I can assure you that I have felt and learned how to deal with every emotion you are feeling right now.The pain you feel after a breakup can be caused by a multitude of things. This book will help you sort out why you are feeling so bad and give you some insight into what you can do to heal your broken heart.It is my small effort to make you feel happy and assure you that we all are go through this and it's fine.you are loved and matter to this world.and sometimes breakup is nothing but blessing in a disguise if we see through positively.This short book contains 18 strong points that will help you realize and assure you that your breakup is a blessing in disguise!..Life is short and and life don't go as we planned sometimes and it's ok..We become hopeless and sad over traumatic breakup experience after all its life changing experience and I relate.with this short self help book i tried my best to make you realize everything happens for a reason and your breakup is also one of them..Trust the universe and let it go.this book will make sure that after reading you won't beat yourself up for inevitable event and will sooth your soul and will help you to move on to better future and be happy again.It's all about starting with grieving and ending with acceptance and being happy and excited for future. Point 1=Grief Grief is so subjective and the issues we leave a relationship with are so varied.when relationship ends it can feel like end of the world.the grief we experience after breakup has a lot in common with the grief that follows death of a loved one.No matter the circumstances of your split, your feelings are valid and processing them is a journey in itself. Point 2=acceptanceDon't bargain, don't wish it had played out differently. Keep from rehashing the "if only's" and the "should haves" "could haves"and let yourself begin to accept the enormity of what happened. Practice these affirmations "Things are different now. I am willing to accept this. Remember you deserve to be happy!