Uncle Dysfunctional

Author: AA Gill
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1786891840
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire's resident advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to the largest and smallest issues of our time. Whether you're struggling to satisfy your other half, having a crisis over your baldness, don't like your daughter's boyfriend, or need the definitive rules on shorts, leather jackets and man-bags, AA Gill has all the answers - but you'd better brace yourself first.

A Wounded Daughter’s Survival

Author: Deborah Leigh Alexander
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462033040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 525

Book Description
For many years, author Deborah Leigh Alexander lived in denial. It was hard for her to understand how the emotional abuse she suffered during her childhood affected her adult life. In this memoir, Alexander takes a step back and relives her childhood in order to break free of the emotional bondage and to forgive, heal, and grow. A Wounded Daughter’s Survival recounts her personal and family history and comes to terms with the dysfunction that permeated her relationship with her parents. Alexander narrates how she lived through many damaging and sometimes violent encounters in her formative years, including overwhelming feelings of rejection by her parents. Using personal anecdotes to illustrate how God has worked in her life, she shares her experiences with her faith and how she found comfort and guidance in the Bible and through prayer. This true and personal account sheds light on how emotional abuse truly damages lives. By sharing her experiences of survival, discovery, and healing, Alexander provides hope that a functional future is indeed possible.

Facing The Overshadow

Author: Tapiwa Chitembure
Publisher: Tapiwa Chitembure
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Get ready to reclaim your power over your mind and emotions by facing psychic pain. Psychic pain is like a stop sign. It can stop us from embracing our goals if we experience devastating failures. It can discourage us from loving when we experience heartbreak or loss. And worst of all, it can prevent us from being ourselves and from enjoying life. When you know how to heal, you can reclaim your autonomy over pain and free yourself to enjoy your life. Facing The Overshadow is a memoir about healing and self-discovery by Tapiwa Chitembure. This book is about overcoming abuse and betrayal. It’s about defying the odds when people take you for granted. But most importantly, it’s about how to get rid of the psychic remnants of unpleasant experiences that ruin your inner peace. When your past is the reason why you cannot enjoy the present or why you can’t create the future that you deserve, healing is the solution. With an anecdotal approach that draws the parallels in our lives, Facing The Overshadow is a heartfelt, uplifting, and empowering book to read for self-healing and practical self-empowerment!

Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Author: Berthold Schoene
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748630287
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432

Book Description
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature's capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality,

The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920

Author: Karen E. Laird
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317044495
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Laird’s juxtaposition between stage and screen brings to life the dynamic culture of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long nineteenth-century. Focusing on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, Laird demonstrates how adaptations performed the valuable cultural work of expanding the original novel’s readership across class and gender divides, exporting the English novel to America, and commemorating the novelists through adaptations that functioned as virtual literary tourism. Bridging the divide between literary criticism, film studies, and theatre history, Laird’s book reveals how the Victorian adapters set the stage for our contemporary film adaptation industry.

My Walk Through Life with Childhood Trauma

Author: A. Tanders, Ed.D.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
My Walk Through Life with Childhood Trauma By: A. Tanders, Ed.D. My Walk Through Life with Childhood Trauma comprises of Dr. Tanders’ life from a young child until adulthood. This book is the life’s work of many trials and tribulations as a young child, obstacles, childhood trauma, anxiety, losses, abandonment issues, and how God played an amazing role in continuous healing from all that was endured. Dr. Tanders’ story is intended to uplift, show resiliency, transparency, and her faith in God. This book should encourage others to seek self-love, self-healing, and personal growth. Forgiveness is a powerful tool for the person that need forgiveness and for those of you who may need to be forgiven.

Run Through It

Author: George B. Prude
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449085253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
Run Through It! is a Christian approach to life's roadblocks and obstacles using a physical analysis. We all may not be runners in the physcial realm but we all are runners in the race of life. The question is how well will we run the race of life? Run Through It! provides a Christian approach to running life's race and being victorious at the finish. "Do you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it"(1 Corinthians 9:24). Paul has admonished us to run the race of life well. Read Run Through It! and be encouraged to run life well and finish strong as Paul and others who have finished before us. See you at the finish line!

Running into the Arms of Love

Author: Amber Shields
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477289917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
This is a true story of a woman who grew up trying to buy love, and to be accepted. She ran from her troubles. She ran from men. She ran from the Lord. The more she ran the more trouble she got into, until she fell into a pit, which was her death bed. However, the Lord delivered her. She is no longer running because she ran into the right hands, the Lords. This story will touch your heart. This story will show you what God can do. He can turn a tragedy into a triumph. He can turn your life completely around, like the fairy tales of Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast. Only, this is the real life of a woman who once was blind, but now she sees.

Hamster Davies - A Life of Continual Dysfunction

Author: Dwight J. Sernoskie
Publisher: Waterloo Regional Pictures Entertainment
ISBN: 1988633036
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 173

Book Description
Out for a seemingly normal day at the theater with his family, Hamster Davies’s life is inexplicably turned upside down, as one mishap leads to another in a madcap adventure of epic proportions. Meanwhile, a ticket mix up soon introduces him to the woman that would change his life, but soon, he and his new friend are targeted by kidnappers and forced to rely on wrestling skills to find their way out of the most unbelievable predicament. A bitter boss, a kidnapping, and a match in the wrestling ring are the keys to returning life to normal; nonetheless, after all that Hamster and his family and friends have endured, will life ever be the same again? Find out what happens when a seemingly ordinary person meets the most extraordinary characters all in pursuit of rising above mediocrity. For more information about the project characters reboot, their own famous quotes, or where to buy the softcover book, please visit the Waterloo Regional Pictures Entertainment website (www.wrp-ent.com) - The Bookshelf link on March 1st, 2017.

More with Cal and Uncle Bill

Author: W. Jack Savage
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453527710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
But for bad luck, Cal Daniels might have gone somewhere in life. Instead he wound up a forty-year-old overnight grocery stocker and ex-con living in his Uncle Bills back apartment in Temple City. Over a beer one morning after work, Cal meets a woman and brings her home and nothing in life will be the same. From the daily journal he began in prison, Cal recounts the events that began that day as it seems every step away from that morning somehow brings him two steps back toward it and before it ends, his infamous background will give way to a different kind of fame that will leave him well traveled and nearly dead three times.