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Valerie Bernowski: broken-home princess, obsessive-compulsive perfectionist, and... Catholic school survivor?Valerie Bernowski hates her school, her plaid uniform skirt, and her flat feathered hair. She also hates being teased and called "polock" so much, she tells everyone she's Swedish.
When Valerie finds out her parents are getting divorced her world turns upside down. She begins to rebel against the Catholic faith and the ones who push it on her; her mother, Sister Mary Angelina, and even Father "Fingers."
Valerie's story begins in the mid-'80s, when new wave was big and the hairstyles were even bigger. Her tales unfold through intertwining chapters of flashbacks and present day reflections. Her bumpy road to self-discovery is paved with a cynical sense of humor, a longing for love, and a struggle to find faith.
Will Valerie realize that in order to move forward, she needs to let go of the pain of the past and the fear of her future?
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Go from manuscript to finished book in ninety days?or less! Get Published Today! explores a new publishing trend that is taking the literary world by storm. Let this step-by-step guide help you go from manuscript to book, lightening fast!
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Illustrated. Formatted for the Kindle. Linked Table of Contents.
Excerpt from the editor's Preface:
"Nobody really wrote most of the stories. People told them in all parts of the world long before Egyptian hieroglyphics or Cretan signs or Cyprian syllabaries, or alphabets were invented. They are older than reading and writing, and arose like wild flowers before men had any education to quarrel over. The grannies told them to the grandchildren, and when the grandchildren became grannies they repeated the same old tales to the new generation. Homer knew the stories and made up the 'Odyssey' out of half a dozen of them. All the history of Greece till about 800 B.C. is a string of the fairy tales, all about Theseus and Heracles and Oedipus and Minos and Perseus is a Cabinet des Fées, a collection of fairy tales. Shakespeare took them and put bits of them into 'King Lear' and other plays; he could not have made them up himself, great as he was. Let ladies and gentlemen think of this when they sit down to write fairy tales, and have them nicely typed, and send them to Messrs. Longman & Co. to be published. They think that to write a new fairy tale is easy work. They are mistaken: the thing is impossible. Nobody can write a new fairy tale; you can only mix up and dress up the old, old stories, and put the characters into new dresses, as Miss Thackeray did so well in 'Five Old Friends.' If any big girl of fourteen reads this preface, let her insist on being presented with 'Five Old Friends. ..."
CONTENTS:
The Shifty Lad,
The False Prince and the True,
The Jogi's Punishment,
The Heart of a Monkey,
The Fairy Nurse,
A Lost Paradise,
How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves,
The King of the Waterfalls,
A French Puck,
The Three Crowns,
The Story of a Very Bad Boy,
The Brown Bear of Norway,
Little Lasse,
'Moti',
The Enchanted Deer,
A Fish Story,
The Wonderful Tune,
The Rich Brother and the Poor Brother,
The One-Handed Girl,
The Bones of Djulung,
The Sea King's Gift,
The Raspberry Worm,
The Stones of Plouhinec,
The Castle of Kerglas,
The Battle of the Birds,
The Lady of the Fountain,
The Four Gifts,
The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok,
The Escape of the Mouse,
The Believing Husbands,
The Hoodie-Crow,
The Brownie of the Lake,
The Winning of Olwen
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Kenny and Kathy Bear and their Busytown friends introduce new and familiar names for objects grouped by subject, theme, and setting, in the city and on the farm, at the dentist and at the grocer's, in the kitchen and at the circus and all the places they frequent.
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This acclaimed spiritual masterpiece is widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings ever written. A manual for life and death and a magnificent source of sacred inspiration from the heart of the Tibetan tradition, The Tibetan Book Of Living and Dying provides a lucid and inspiring introduction to the practice of meditation, to the nature of mind, to karma and rebirth, to compassionate love and care for the dying, and to the trials and rewards of the spiritual path.
In 1927, Walter Evans-Wentz published his translation of an obscure Tibetan Nyingma text and called it the
Tibetan Book of the Dead. Popular Tibetan teacher Sogyal Rinpoche has transformed that ancient text, conveying a perennial philosophy that is at once religious, scientific, and practical. Through extraordinary anecdotes and stories from religious traditions East and West, Rinpoche introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, moving gradually to the topics of death and dying. Death turns out to be less of a crisis and more of an opportunity. Concepts such as reincarnation, karma, and bardo and practices such as meditation, tonglen, and phowa teach us how to face death constructively. As a result, life becomes much richer. Like Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Sogyal Rinpoche opens the door to a full experience of death. It is up to the reader to walk through.
--Brian Bruya
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