Atmosphere press jan 2025 (10 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I HAVE NEVER FELT ALIVE is a fast-paced, slice-of-life, coming-of-age story about Ryan, who returns to his hometown to visit his ailing mother over a chaotic weekend. While there, he reconnects with old friends and his on-again, off-again girlfriend, falling back into the trappings of alcohol, drugs, and sex and confronting his past, his parents' expectations, and his uncertain future.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Landry shows us that wit is a more potent therapeutic agent than self-pity.He has such a talent for comic elaboration-- long, glittering, serpentine passages that recall S. J. Perelman.'- Emily Fox Gordon, author of Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy, winner of two Pushcart Prizes and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in the humanities---What do mayonnaise, Tab, iced tea, Vicodin, and French banana (or is it French vanilla ) ice cream have in common If you guessed addictive tendencies and over-the-top histrionic narcissism, you win!Welcome to the world of Fred, who is certain an ever-adoring public awaits his next spellbinding performance. Imagine a combination of Willard Scott, Ron Burgundy, and Tolkien's Gollum, but from Louisiana. Just don't look too carefully for the person behind the performer - you might not find the laff-a-minute laff riot the often comic, sometimes melodramatic, and frequently 1950s-radio-announcer-intense masks conceal.Songs of My Father and Other Essays by Gardner Landry assembles relics of his writing from an earlier era that hearken to even earlier times, stretching from childhood into his adult years. The Fred essays recount some of his father's choice exploits, while the second group includes anecdotes and observations from beyond the confines of his family. Additionally, Landry creates a triple-decker club sandwich of a book (with mayonnaise, of course) by including contemporarily written forewords to the first and second sections, along with a present-day afterword to wrap up the collection. It's not a big book, but it packs a punch and entertains from cover to cover. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For nearly seventy years, Dan Willis has kept a promise made at sixteen never to divulge a dark secret he shares with five others. But keeping that promise has weighed heavily on him. Now that the five others have died, Dan decides it is finally time to unburden his conscience.Shoal Bend is Dan's story, set in the bottomlands of the West Fork of the White River in southwestern Indiana during the Great Depression. It was a simpler, more innocent time. Yet, events that begin to unfold in the summer of 1934 due to Dan's friendship with Mac Eller are neither simple nor innocent. Violence seems to breed more violence, and Dan finds himself enveloped in an evil he could never have foreseen.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Poems Please takes readers on a poetic journey through John Pare's reflections on nature, travel, wordplay, and love. The collection begins with Nature's Realm, capturing the beauty of trees, flowers, and countryside scenes. It then moves on to poems inspired by his travels, both across the U.K. and abroad. Word-Play offers a playful take on a variety of subjects through witty and creative language. Finally, The Belovèd delves into the poignant emotions surrounding the end of his forty-four-year first marriage and his unexpected joy in finding friendship, laughter, and love once again with his second wife, Caroline.Within these pages, you will encounter a wide range of themes and styles, from a deep passion for nature to an expressive sense of humour, as well as a heartfelt exploration of the turmoil of lost love and the thrill of new beginnings.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How do you learn the philosophy of the Buddha, grasp its teachings, and apply them practically to your daily life to create lasting happiness, free from suffering This book shows you how-using classical teachings, engaging stories, and contemplative practices.Pathway to Freedom explores the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, Loving-Kindness, Compassion, and the Dissolution of Duality. It describes the highs and lows, pitfalls, challenges, and insights you are likely to encounter on your spiritual journey.'When you read this book, it feels as though you are sitting at the feet of a great master, receiving teachings, practical guidance, wisdom, and the author's own sense of humor. You'll even sense the sparkle in her eye as she shares personal stories that will make you both laugh and cry with their relevance to your life, and to the universal human experience.' - Rabbi Anat Moskowitz---Dr. Lucinda T. Green began meditating at the age of sixteen in 1967 and never stopped. Having lived and studied in India and Sri Lanka, she founded Rocky Mountain Insight, a Buddhist Dharma and Vipassana center in Colorado Springs, CO. She is also the creator of the Enlightenment Deck, a set of cards designed to teach Universal Truths and guide individuals in their spiritual practice, offering inspiration along the way.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Life is full of joy and fear as we learn its toughest lessons. We travel bumpy roads, inherit responsibilities, reap rewards, and incur debts-the razor blades we all slide over while learning.These stories focus on the lessons we learned when we were young. Simple to see, complex in application, they deal with everyday issues of respect, patience, planning, and truth-disciplines that take a lifetime to understand. The book captures our experiences growing up with friends in those wonderful places we knew as kids: schools and playgrounds, woods, brooks, and ponds; all living pieces of our outdoor classrooms of life.We became adults, often unaware that the lessons we learned so long ago influenced our paths and decisions. We survived because of the knowledge shared by those who joined us in our classrooms of life. We all bear the scars of lessons learned. We survived the responsibilities thrust upon us, made lifetime decisions, played our roles, and paid our debts. These memories never die.All while sliding down the razor blades of life.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Samantha has built a life she's fiercely proud of-one that runs on her own terms, with romance nowhere in sight-but everything changes when she's unexpectedly paired with Andrew, a charming DJ whose irresistible smile and infectious energy turn her carefully structured world upside down.Determined to keep him at arm's length, Samantha tries to resist the magnetic connection forming between them, yet Andrew's playful humor and surprising vulnerability slowly chip away at her defenses, making her question the walls she's built around her heart. Just as she dares to let her guard down, betrayal strikes, leaving her reeling and questioning everything she believed about love and trust.This relatable, heartfelt story explores the magic of unexpected connections and the messy journey of letting someone in. Can Samantha embrace the chaos and take a chance on love, or will her fears keep her from discovering something truly lovely.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Late one night in May 2021 during a global pandemic, fourteen-year-old Maya Logan Eileraas ran away to live with their girlfriend in Bel Air. 'Nothing left to lose,' they posted on social media. Searching for their own truths around identity, home, family, world, and belonging, Maya Logan was fiercely determined to author a new life.After six months on the run from DCFS custody, hospital emergency rooms, adolescent psychiatric wards, police cars, strangers' apartments, ambulances, and temporary shelters, Maya Logan was found unconscious in a group home in north Los Angeles.Chasing Spirits honors the audacity and integrity of Maya Logan's chosen path and the creative expressions that sustained them: intricate brushstrokes on canvas, poetic verses echoing their deepest thoughts, melodies strummed in solitude, and the midnight aromas of freshly baked confections. Centering Maya Logan's novel, penned during the isolation of remote learning, as a testament to their profound introspection and boundless imagination, Chasing Spirits brings together investigative journalism, personal reflections, short stories, artwork, social media posts, and secret journals.More than a tribute to an extraordinary teenager's bold journey into the wild, gift for storytelling, and art of self-invention, Chasing Spirits is a stunning meditation on what it means to love, a nuanced exploration of the infinite complexity of the human psyche, and an unflinching look at a rebel heart whose light was extinguished too soon.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The great tradition of Utopia is coming to an end. Researchers confirm not only the exhaustion of writers' taste for it but also the disappearance of the utopian frame of mind. Albeit from the beginning, as if the authors assumed that the transition from misery to perfection was hopelessly unattainable, they placed this coveted world outside human limits. Could it be that the assignment of utopias to a non-existent place was driven by the incompatibility of the vague image of a happy man with his instinctive (if flawed) desires In other words, what if our desires are not as aligned with the world as we think, and what we allegedly wish for might not be what we actually need Now consider an image completely free from negative associations, context, or discourse, and you will inevitably envision a Garden. Its placement at the heart of the Primordial Myth of Creation established its association with purity while it was this inherent purity that assured such a placement. The Garden was the first, and only then came the Garden of Eden.But the garden itself is as much a part of human life as its sorrowful aspects. To find it, one need not delve into the past nor wait for its appearance in the future; much less pull it from a nonexistent place of Utopia. Anyone who overcomes idle timidity and sheds the dishonorable, shallow, and depressing concept of himself can reach the garden.The surroundings, events, and characters in the novel Adam's Garden portray such an attempt.???????--'If you are someone who enjoys a different and sensitive story that will make you think, and possibly grow and change, then Adam's Garden is definitely a book that you should not miss.' - Feathered Quill'Through careful prose and layered symbolism, Kovalev guides readers on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. The garden itself becomes a powerful symbol of the potential within each person, accessible only through genuine self-reflection and growth.' - Readers' Favorite.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - First Shelly imagined a musical legend.Then she brought it to life.Careful what you wish for, Shelly.2006, dawn of social media. Paralegal Shelly Griffin is 43, single, stuck in small-town dead-end Rust Belt, Ohio. When she discovers a song by Decapede about a dying local beer, she inadvertently triggers the first-ever viral clip on the internet and finds herself leading a frenzied search for the long-forgotten band.The Greatest Band that Never Was is a saga of overnight celebrity, lives turned upside-down and recreated, found family, local pride, with one indomitable woman changing lives with her dream. And driving it all, the magic of Rock & Roll. 'A moving, often heart-warming story that brought me to tears a handful of times. Addictive reading.'--David Schloss, Professor of Creative Writing, Miami University (Ohio)'Meshel has written something magical--and epic.'--Ian Boyle, author of What the Dormouse Said.…