[PDF] Stray Reflections eBook

Author : Jawad Mian
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2020-05-10
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When asked "What is the goal of a writer?" author Anne Lamott responded, "To help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds."This is what Jawad Mian achieves with Stray Reflections, an intimate account of his journey through life and lessons learned along the way. He delivers distilled infusions of clarity and inspiration in short chapters for reading in quiet moments at home or at the office.In his own search for meaning, Jawad draws from such sources as Rumi, Emerson, Goethe, Buddha, Confucius, Seneca, and many others. To read Stray Reflections is to be immersed in the timeless wisdom of the great poets, saints, and philosophers. This book is an antidote to the great angst of modern life.

Author : Janmohammed Dawood
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 1978
Category : India-Pakistan Conflict, 1965
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Articles on various topics; Islamic law, foreign policy of Pakistan, Indo-Pakistan conflict of 1965, etc.

Author : Luke Yates
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
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Thoughts Of A Stray Mind is a rare window into the mind of a teenager trying to find their way in the world. This is a must-read for teens who will relate to the author's insightful depictions of both everyday challenges and extraordinary, but often shared, events. This book speaks to teens. It brings meaning to all kinds of experiences. Luke Yates writes candidly, through poetry, about feelings so often diminished by adults and buried deep by high school peers.

Author : Penny Olsen
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0643094938

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Logos of: CSIRO and Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) at foot of title page.

Author : Zakiah Sayeed
Publisher : Createspace Indie Pub Platform
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781468090109

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For author Zakiah Sayeed, baring her soul to the world, releasing these intensely personal thoughts and feelings, is a freeing experience. Within these pages is solace and inspiration, happiness and sorrow, and a warm feeling of connection and shared understanding. Free verse poetry and flash fiction, it relies on stream of consciousness and ethereal connection cascading into awareness rather than preconceived rhythm and rhyme, her words true to the cadences of being, each a pulse—a reflection—that when viewed in their whole portrays a stunning breadth of emotion with resonance and beauty. Combined with prose and artfully crafted letters that provide insight into her life, her children, and her grandchildren, her fearless honesty displays for all to see the truth of her being.

Author : Stephanie Danler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101875976

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From the bestselling author of Sweetbitter, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one woman's attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the landscapes of damage and survival. After selling her first novel--a dream she'd worked long and hard for--Stephanie Danler knew she should be happy. Instead, she found herself driven to face the difficult past she'd left behind a decade ago: a mother disabled by years of alcoholism, further handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm; a father who abandoned the family when she was three, now a meth addict in and out of recovery. After years in New York City she's pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesn't totally understand, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here, she works toward answers, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether it's possible to change the course of her history. Lucid and honest, heart-breaking and full of hope, Stray is an examination of what we inherit and what we don't have to, of what we have to face in ourselves to move forward, and what it's like to let go of one's parents in order to find peace--and a family--of one's own.

Author : Tanya Marquardt
Publisher : Little A
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781503949140

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Brutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself. After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and survival--whatever she is heading toward has to be better than what she is leaving behind. Struggling with her inner demons, Tanya must learn to take care of herself during two chaotic years in the working-class mill town of Port Alberni, followed by the early-nineties underground goth scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. She finds a chosen family in her fellow misfits, and the bond they form is fierce and unflinching. Told with raw honesty and strength, Stray reveals Tanya's fight to embrace the vulnerable, beguiling parts of herself and heal the wounds of her past as she forges her own path to a new life.