A Memoir of Living and Dying

• Author: Nina Riggs
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• ISBN: 150116936X
• Category: Biography & Autobiography
• Page: 320
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* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” —Nora Krug, The Washington Post “Beautiful and haunting.” —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY “Deeply affecting…simultaneously heartbreaking and funny.” —People (Book of the Week) “Vivid, immediate.” —Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe Starred reviews from * Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * Best Books of 2017 Selection by * The Washington Post * Most Anticipated Summer Reading Selection by * The Washington Post * Entertainment Weekly * Glamour * The Seattle Times * Vulture * InStyle * Bookpage * Bookriot * Real Simple * The Atlanta Journal-Constitution * The New York Times bestseller by poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, is “a stunning…heart-rending meditation on life…It is this year’s When Breath Becomes Air” (The Washington Post). We are breathless but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other. Poet and essayist Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, she received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does a dying person learn to live each day “unattached to outcome”? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? How does a young mother and wife prepare her two young children and adored husband for a loss that will shape the rest of their lives? How do we want to be remembered? Exploring motherhood, marriage, friendship, and memory, Nina asks: What makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? “Profound and poignant” (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Bright Hour is about how to make the most of all the days, even the painful ones. It’s about the way literature, especially Nina’s direct ancestor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and her other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer. Brilliantly written and exceptionally moving, it’s a “deeply affecting memoir, a simultaneously heartbreaking and funny account of living with loss and the specter of death. As Riggs lyrically, unflinchingly details her reality, she finds beauty and truth that comfort even amid the crushing sadness” (People, Book of the Week). Tender and heartwarming, The Bright Hour “is a gentle reminder to cherish each day” (Entertainment Weekly, Best New Books) and offers us this important perspective: “You can read a multitude books about how to die, but Riggs, a dying woman, will show you how to live” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice).

• Author: Robert N. Fisher
• Publisher: Rodopi
• ISBN: 9789042011731
• Category: Philosophy
• Page: 210
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This book explores many of the issues that arise when we consider persons who are in pain, who are suffering, and who are nearing the end of life. Suffering provokes us into a journey toward discovering who we are and forces us to rethink many of the views we hold about ourselves.

• Author: Heavenly thoughts
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
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Canadian Accounts of Eerie Experiences

• Author: John Robert Colombo
• Publisher: Dundurn
• ISBN: 1459720490
• Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
• Page: 232
• View: 580

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The Midnight Hour is amazing, amusing, and frightening. It will make you pause to wonder - about ghosts and spirits, fate and destiny, strange beasts and even stranger human beings. The accounts within describe encounters in Canada with monsters and mysteries from 1784 to the present. Editor and anthologist John Robert Colombo derived these true tales from nineteenth-century newspapers, personal correspondence, e-mails, interviews, and more. The collection is certain to entertain you ... especially during "the midnight hour"!

• Author: Mrs. Hemans,Reginald Heber
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category:
• Page: 470
• View: 926

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• Publisher: N.A
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• Author: N.A
• Publisher: N.A
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• Category: Churches of Christ
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A Selection of Lessons in Prose and Verse, from the Most Esteemed English and American Writers : Intended for the Use of the Higher Classes in Public and Private Seminaries

• Author: Francis William Pitt Greenwood,George Barrell Emerson
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Readers
• Page: 408
• View: 5896

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• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
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• Author: Isaac Watts
• Publisher: N.A
• ISBN: N.A
• Category: Bible
• Page: 288
• View: 928

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