Author: Edwin Fuller TorreyPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Examines the policy of deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and what can be done about it.
I Had Nowhere to Go
Author: Jonas MekasPublisher:
ISBN: 9783959051460
Category : Lithuanian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Jonas Mekas has worked together with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and many others. In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema, although he came to film-making relatively late. In 1944 Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee from the Nazis for copying leaflets. They were interned for eight months in a labour camp in Elmshorn. The Soviet occupation prevented him from returning to his native Lithuania after the war and, classed as a ?displaced person?, he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. Towards the end of 1949 he and his brother emigrated to New York. In his autobiography 'I Had Nowhere to Go' he describes his survival in the camps and his arrival in New York. Mekas tells a universal story, that of an émigré who can never go back, whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence.
Nowhere Boy
Author: Katherine MarshPublisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1250307589
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"A resistance novel for our time." - The New York Times "A hopeful story about recovery, empathy, and the bravery of young people." - Booklist "This well-crafted and suspenseful novel touches on the topics of refugees and immigrant integration, terrorism, Islam, Islamophobia, and the Syrian war with sensitivity and grace." - Kirkus, Starred Review Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmed’s struggling to get by on his own, but with no one left to trust and nowhere to go, he’s starting to lose hope. Then he meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy from Washington, D.C. Lonely and homesick, Max is struggling at his new school and just can’t seem to do anything right. But with one startling discovery, Max and Ahmed’s lives collide and a friendship begins to grow. Together, Max and Ahmed will defy the odds, learning from each other what it means to be brave and how hope can change your destiny. Set against the backdrop of the Syrian refugee crisis, award-winning author of Jepp, Who Defied the Stars Katherine Marsh delivers a gripping, heartwarming story of resilience, friendship and everyday heroes. Barbara O'Connor, author of Wish and Wonderland, says "Move Nowhere Boy to the top of your to-be-read pile immediately."
Author: Bill CrawfordCloser to Nowhere
Author: Ellen HopkinsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593108639
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins's poignant middle grade novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging--now in paperback! For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at gymnastics. But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes. Cal tells half-truths and tall tales, pranks Hannah constantly, and seems to be the reason her parents are fighting more and more. Nothing is how it used to be. She knows that Cal went through a lot after his mom died and she is trying to be patient, but most days Hannah just wishes Cal never moved in. For his part, Cal is trying his hardest to fit in, but not everyone is as appreciative of his unique sense of humor and storytelling gifts as he is. Humor and stories might be his defense mechanism, but if Cal doesn't let his walls down soon, he might push away the very people who are trying their best to love him. Told in verse from the alternating perspectives of Hannah and Cal, this is a story of two cousins who are more alike than they realize and the family they both want to save.
Nowhere for Very Long
Author: Brianna MadiaPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063048000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband. Nowhere for Very Long is her deeply felt, immaculately told story of exploration—of the world outside and the spirit within. However, pursuing a life of intention isn’t always what it seems. In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate—when Bertha overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of South Dakota highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and her water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. But Brianna was committed to living a life true to herself, come what may, and that made all the difference. Nowhere for Very Long is the true story of a woman learning and unlearning, from backroads to breakdowns, from married to solo, and finally, from lost to found to lost again . . . this time, on purpose.
Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go
Author: Nhất Hạnh (Thích.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Zen school of Mahayana Buddhism contends that each one of us is already a Buddha -- the enlightenment we seek is always within us, waiting to be realized through mindfulness and concerted spiritual work. This truth pushes us toward practice, in the hopes that we may awaken our potential and live up to what is inside us. This is a notion taught widely by ninth century Zen Master Lin Chi, and in his tradition Thich Nhat Hanh employs the teachings and writings of Mahayana Buddhism to discuss specific topics in Buddhist study and practice. With these teachings, readers have the tools to awaken the Buddha within.
All Blacked Out & Nowhere to Go
Author: Bucky SinisterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780975396469
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bucky Sinister recounts his life through the sound of punk rock in this loud, fast, poetic memior. His love affair with punk comes full circle as he learns to hate it and then learns to love it again. The pieces in this book take us from his Southern ro
A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere
Author: Todd MelbyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781681341880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Go behind the scenes at this classic '90s film from cinematic masters Joel and Ethan Coen. Ya, you betcha, you're gonna discover some fascinating tidbits to celebrate the film's 25th anniversary.
Nowhere to Go
Author: Sigmund A. StolerPublisher: Associated University Presses
ISBN: 9780845348512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"The date on the newspaper in his living room was April 21, 1973. Twenty years ago. The Item Standard. His father swore by it. Whoever had put it down had been reading the sports page. The paper was folded to it. His father always read the sports news first." "It was two-thirty in the morning." "He was only half-awake. Perhaps. But awake or asleep - his father had died three days after that paper had been published!" "Was he slipping mentally?" "Moss Wyman, a single, thirty-eight-year old caring superintendent of an institution for the mentally retarded, is thrust into one crisis after the other." "His forty-one-year-old brother, Grady, suffers from Alzheimer's disease; Moss is Grady's only protector, his only true link to reality." "His girlfriend, Shannon Miller, a beautiful, driven, and restless nurse, feels she is only second with Moss." "Thelma, his brother's companion, feels put upon, fights with Grady, and threatens to leave him - a situation that plunges Moss into further panic." "One promise Moss had made to himself was that Grady would never be put in a nursing home. Yet, he is left to battle alone for his brother. Even his own mother could not - would not - help." "In his despair, he wonders if there are answers. If so, where? he questions. Then one magic day, the real world seemingly disappears, and in its place, through some unknown device, his dead father appears." "Moss is thunderstruck!" "Is it possible?" "But he accepts it. And he learns the unreal can function in the real world. Grady becomes worse. Shannon becomes more independent. Then Grady attacks Thelma, and Moss's job at the institution haunts him as racism rears up." "How Moss deals with his troubles, copes with a ghost, loves and fights with Shannon - but most of all loves his brother Grady - is the basis of Nowhere to Go." "This is a novel that should not be missed. It is about people loving, fighting, making decisions, and simply living." "And in a heartrending climax that is all the more terrifying because of the decisions that come from the heart, Moss finally resolves the complex threads of his life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
