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Losing a loved one is a shattering experience, and life is never quite the same afterward But God is always be there to help the grieving "pick up the pieces," giving comfort, strength, guidance-even joy. Writing from personal knowledge and the experience of others, author Faye Landrum provides sixty brief devotionals to help those who've suffered loss through this most difficult time of life. With a focus on Jesus Christ, who was Himself "acquainted with grief," this easy-to-read devotional affirms the emotional struggles every grieving person faces, while encouraging progress in the reader's own time..
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In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter.

Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after leaving his fifth-grade classroom in an inexplicable rage. He was hospitalized three times over the next three years until he was finally diagnosed by a psychiatrist as someone exhibiting a clear-cut case of bipolar disorder. This ended a painful period of misdiagnosis and inappropriate drug therapy. Then Raeburn’s younger daughter, Alicia, twelve, was diagnosed as suffering from depression after episodes of self-mutilation and suicidal thoughts. She too was repeatedly admitted to psychiatric hospitals. All during this terrible, painful time, Raeburn’s marriage was disintegrating, and he had to ask what he and his wife might have done, unwittingly, to contribute to their children’s mental illness. And so, literally to save his children’s lives, he used all the resources available to him as a science reporter and writer to educate himself on their diseases and the various drugs and therapies available to help them return from a land of inner torment.

In Paul Raeburn’s skilled hands, this memoir of a family stricken with the pain of depression and mania becomes a cathartic story that any reader can share, even as parents unlucky enough to be in a similar position will find it of immeasurable practical value in their own struggles with the child psychiatry establishment..
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It is the rare individual who has not, at one time or another, been kept awake for hours on end -as the rest of the world, maddeningly, appears to be comfortably lost in the nocturnal world of dreams. Here is a treasury of verse on the rich subject of insomnia -meditations by poets who have sought to describe their own moments of solitude in darkness, when the world´s regular bustle of activity and distraction falls away and they are left to contemplate in silence. brings together Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, Rimbaud and Sappho, Shakespeare and Shelley -the great poets of the Western literary heritage -on a theme with which each one has been acutely familiar. Lisa Russ Spaar has also unearthed ruminations on the sleepless nights of poets the world over: in a fascinatingly diverse anthology, she has harvested verse from Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Inuit, Vietnamese, Tamil, Yiddish, and Romanian poets, who together present an illuminating display of insomnia´s extraordinary and enduring legacy in widely different cultures through the centuries. As these exquisite poems chart a course from solitude, through anxiety, to epiphany, the reader truly learns what it means to be acquainted with the night..
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During a summer on a Maine island, seventeen-year-old Molly and her cousin become good friends as she helps him deal with his father's suicide and his experiences in the Vietnam War. "An appealing, subtly wrought romance deepened by its links to an intriguing historical mystery." -- Kirkus Reviews, pointer ALA Best Book for Young Adults
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These soulful lyrics use allusive imagery and ecumenical diction to consider the pastoral as a life to inhabit, not an artifact or idealized place to visit. Here, the specter of loss makes a world more precious-notions of home and love must be ever-evolving as colts are stillborn and pigeons slaughtered, apple blossoms frozen in spring and dead lambs burned in diesel fire. But, these poems insist, there is beauty in the soil and beauty in birth-and death in birth, and beauty in death, as well.

And Upon the Earth No Wind

Pigeons erupting from a barn.
Twenty-three ewes
stand at once, ice-chunks
clinking in their wool.
I call, soft, call loud
but the mare treads the snow blue.
Am I born to constant
hazard? Wood becomes
more than wood simply
by its burning. Steam
rises up from the land-
I call but do not move.
The moon rising shines even
upon all things and I can't tell
which is mare
and what's weather.
Silence in eaves ever after.

"It is rare to see a poet work so hard in the physical world-serious farm labor-and still catch a fleeting glimpse of the spirit. Kevin Goodan does this convincingly because his language is so precise and his mind knows when to jump and when to stand still. This is a remarkable book."-James Tate

Kevin Goodan received his BA from the University of Montana and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His poems have been -published in Ploughshares and other journals.

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What do fun and energizing activities have to do with learning? A lot! Brain research informs us that we must eliminate threat and provide a secure learning environment. This collection of teambuilders and classbuilders will help you create solidarity and cohesion among classmates. Brain science also teaches us that students' brains need oxygen and glucose. Feed your students' brains with the energizers in this book. This eclectic collection of over 300 brain-friendly activities will help you make your classroom a fun place to be and a great place to learn..
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Yes, it is possible to pick up women at a funeral, and Dr. Nick Shoveen, Ph.D., author of the famous "Female-to-English Dictionary, a Guide to Interpreting & Manipulating the Female Thought Process," and "How to Make a Porno Movie" explains the proper approach to use... and he speaks from experience. If you're not comfortable trying to 'cut one out of the herd' at a funeral, Dr. Shoveen also gives time-proven successful methods to use at: The Market, The Bookstore, The Department Store, The Wedding, and general systems that can work anywhere. In addition to the advice mentioned, this book contains an added bonus: The Romance of an Old Fool, an old book by Roswell Martin Field..
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