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Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon – and writing . . . As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life...

Bloomsbury presents Gratitude by Delphine de Vigan, read by Oseloka Obi, Gabrielle Glaister and Aysha Kala. 'Extraordinary … The beating heart of this novel is the exquisite empathy it demonstrates … There is a gentle magnificence at work in its pages' Irish Times 'Tender, poignant and...

In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché. Being a writer, she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this) and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged 15, by the author Doris Lessing and the subsequent 50 years of their complex relationship.

Marie y Jérôme los une su relación con Michka Seld, una anciana cuyos últimos meses de vida nos relatan estas dos voces cruzadas. Marie es su vecina: cuando era niña y su madre se ausentaba, Michka cuidaba de ella. Jérôme es el logopeda que intenta que la anciana, que acaba de ser ingresada en un geriátrico, recupere aunque sea parcialmente el habla, que va perdiendo por culpa de una afasia. Y ambos personajes se involucrarán en el último deseo de Michka.

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn into a murky world of financial concealment.

The Gratitude Express tells the story of Daniel, a young journalist traveling to see his ailing grandfather. With a notebook in hand and a heavy heart, he struggles to write a eulogy for the man who meant so much to him. But when a mysterious steam train—unlisted and seemingly from another era—arrives at the station, Daniel steps aboard and embarks on a surreal, transformative journey.

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings...

"Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé combien de fois dans votre vie vous aviez réellement dit merci ? Un vrai merci. L'expression de votre gratitude, de votre reconnaissance, de votre dette. À qui ? On croit toujours qu'on a le temps de dire les choses, et puis soudain c'est trop tard." Après "Les Loyautés", Delphine de Vigan poursuit dans "Les Gratitudes" son exploration des lois intimes qui nous gouvernent. Une lecture dialoguée réalisée par quatre comédiens, qui donne toute leur épaisseur et leur sensibilité aux personnages.

Six months ago, Janine Grimson learned her best friend had an affair with her husband of twenty years—at the engagement party of their oldest daughter, Maggie. In the wake of that horrific event, Janine rekindled her relationship with her mother, Nancy, moved full-time to Martha's Vineyard, and found herself stronger, better, and brighter than ever before. Now, news from Manhattan shakes her to the core. Something tragic has happened to her ex-husband, Jack Potter—the only man she's ever truly loved—just two weeks before Thanksgiving.

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes...

A soul-sustaining collection of inspirational words you can turn to during moments when strength and clarity is needed, from bestselling author and editor James Crews. Slow down, awaken to your surroundings, and draw strength from the divine in the smallest details of your life: that is what...

The Global Gratitude Show After graduating from American University in Washington, DC, with BA’s in Political Science and International Studies, Tania Anderson was hired as an international flight attendant by the iconic Pan American World Airways which set her on a course to explore the world’s continents. After Pan Am’s bankruptcy, Tania’s airline career expanded even more, to fly VIP charters, the White House press corps, convicts, film crews, refugees, military personnel, religious pilgrims, and medical transplant teams…..”everything” Tania admits, “Except rendition flights...

The weaker sex? There's no such thing! Another jewel from the Gems of Sisterhood series, Gems of Gratitude is full of short stories about strong female characters who have something to be grateful for. In Unpunished, meet Cara Solino, a young woman who followed in her father's footsteps and joined the police force. Can she solve the crime that haunted him to the end of his days? Listen about Ms. Webb, a mother faced with the worst possible decision, and find out how she keeps Chloe's Dream alive!

Ce livre audio fait évoluer : du piège de la Victimisation et la Culpabilisation à la Joie de la Gratitude ; en passant par la découverte de diverses réalités sur la Vie, les Lois Universelles, notre Nature profonde, nos Cultures, nos Croyances, nos Pensées, nos Paroles, nos Actes, nos Relations, nos Émotions, nos Blessures et notre Foi.

In this audio postcard, I thank Kimmerer for sharing her gifts with us in her book Braiding Sweetgrass. Students in a Gender and Nature class share some of their takeaways and I discuss the book with a dear old friend.

Imagine a tool so potent that it transforms the very fabric of your reality. ‘Gratitude: The Silver Bullet’ isn’t just another book; it’s an exploration into the essence of gratitude. This isn’t about fleeting moments of happiness; it’s about creating a lasting legacy of triumphs. Instead of seeing gratitude as just an emotion, this book elevates it to the secret sauce for happiness and unparalleled success. And here’s the game-changer: Learn the secret all successful people in history have always utilized. By honing in on gratitude, you’re not only embracing a sense of purpose...

Songs from Fern’s Pond is a collage of poetry, letters, and prose that captures the universal resilience of the human spirit through the humor and courage of a woman who fearlessly pursued the life she dreamed of. A duet of text between mother and daughter, it’s a transcendent vision of the rough, wild, and beautiful landscape of the heart—and a reminder that every chapter is worth living to its fullest.

How often have you seen a teenage girl pretend to be perturbed, but secretly smile, when she is told that she acts or looks just like her mother? Fathers, brothers, and friends sometimes shake their heads in wonder as girls "turn into their mothers". This new collection from Chicken Soup represents the best stories from Chicken Soup's library on the special bond between mothers and daughters, and the magical, mysterious similarities between them.

There is a special bond between mothers and their sons, and it never goes away. This book contains some of the best stories and poems from Chicken Soup's library honoring that lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring.

Escaping from a constricted life and an unhappy marriage, Neris slips into the woods whenever she can on the pretext of gathering herbs. These stolen moments are her sole comfort until the day she finds a wounded orc in the woods. Unable to stand by and watch another suffer, Neris tends him, bringing him food and medicine, protecting him until he can tend himself. The orc allows the attention because he knows Neris better than she knows herself- he can scent her, knows that she smells ripe and wanton, that his presence fires her lust.