Životopis Harryho Trumana, který působil ve funkci prezidenta. Autor, bývalý britský ministr financí a vnitra, svoji pozornost zaměřuje především na prezidentské období, ale neopomíjí ani mládí či "tichý konec" Rooseveltova nástupce.
Dominick Birdsey, un peintre en bâtiment de quarante ans vivant à Three Rivers, Connecticut, voit sa vie tranquille bouleversée lorsque son frère jumeau identique, Thomas, un schizophrène paranoïaque, commet un acte choquant d'automutilation. Dominick est contraint de s'occuper de son frère tout en affrontant des secrets sombres et des douleurs enfouies en lui-même. Ce voyage de l'âme le conduit au-delà de sa ville ouvrière du New England jusqu'au mont Etna en Sicile, lieu de naissance de son grand-père et homonyme. En cherchant à accepter sa vie et son héritage, Dominick lutte pour trouver le pardon et se reconstruire au-delà de l'ombre hantée de son jumeau troublé. Ce récit magistral explore l'aliénation et la connexion, le pouvoir et l'abus, la dévastation et le renouveau, offrant une œuvre inoubliable.
A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.
With breathtaking command of her shocking material and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into a conceivable future of our own world, an outlandish yet wholly believable place left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the book is closed
A novel in seven stories, Continent is an exploration of the cultures, communities and natural life of an entirely imaginary realm