Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Conditions of the Soul explores themes of underrepresented and misrepresented mental illnesses, bisexuality, and the romanticization of life through the eyes of an unreliable narrator. This collection is a reflection of an unconventional and dysfunctional life during time in several psychiatric facilities. There is an underlying subject of the fear of intimacy, life mistakes, and out-of-body experiences. This book gets up close, personal, and cozy...
Author
Description
Maine's varied geography invites a variety of weather conditions. But, as former Maine State climatologist Gregory Zielinski proves, there's much more to Maine's weather than that. Jet stream, Gulf Stream, cold Canadian air masses, ocean temperature, and much more contribute to the challenges of predicting the weather here. Find out what makes Maine's weather so changeable - as well as endlessly fascinating.
Author
Description
These stories are about being young, getting old, and life in between. An Australian teenage girl in 1970s country NSW waits in a wet, wintery, small New Zealand town for the arrival of her illicit lover, and the decision that will change her life, 'Mary's Story'. Three children are washed out to sea clinging to an upturned table when floods sweep away the family farmhouse in the historically based 'The Flood'. In 'Conditions Apply', an invalid and...
Author
Description
Conditions of the Heart will help you understand that most promises that we have made are what prevent us from being free and experiencing our God-ordained purpose in this life. This book will help you break free from promises that have you tied to your past and help you walk into your God-ordained destiny.
Author
Description
This antiquarian book contains Wilhelm Stekel's 1923 treatise on nervous anxiety, "Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and their Treatment". A fascinating and informative analysis on the subject, this book will appeal to those with an interest in psychology and psychoanalysis, and constitutes a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include, "The Nature of Repression", "Basic Concepts of Anxiety Neurosis", "Clinical Picture of Anxiety...
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 5
Description
Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
Frank has been in a serious car accident and he’s missing memories—of the people around him, of the history they share, and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specializes in fine print, and as he narrates his story, he applies this expertise in the form of footnotes.*Everyone keeps telling Frank that he was fine before the accident, “just a bit overwhelmed,” but as he begins to reclaim his memories,...
Author
Description
"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you...
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory gets involved in a vast conspiracy of murder and managed health care when he is called to consult on the case of an apparent suicide attempt by fifteen-year-old Merritt Strait, a girl whose infant stepsister is dying of a rare heart disease.
Author
Description
Contains two shorter works set in Lee and Miller's Liaden Universe®. Short story "A Visit to the Galaxy Ballroom," which first appeared on the Baen Books website; original novelette "Ambient Conditions;" and an authors' foreword. "Galaxy Ballroom" explores the rift that has opened in the Scouts subsequent to Korval's removal to the planet Surebleak, and the consequences of loyalty. "Ambient Conditions" details a dark time in Liaden history, and looks...
Author
Description
"The condition of Whiteout Conditions is the North American sublime, a grim, gnomic, hilarious dialect Tariq Shah inherits from Denis Johnson, Don DeLillo, the Coen Brothers, The Jesus Lizard, and Colson Whitehead. -Jess Row, author of Your Face in Mine and White Flights
Ant is back in Chicago for a funeral, and he typically enjoys funerals. Since most of his family has passed away, he finds himself attracted to their endearing qualities: the hyperbolic...
Author
Series
Description
Nervous Conditions (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides:
*Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topics.
Lively and accessible, these guides are perfect...
