Longing for Darkness

Author: China Galland
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0140195661
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Read China Galland's posts on the Penguin Blog With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen Norris have only increased readers’ fascination. Now with a new introduction by the author, Longing for Darkness explores Galland’s spellbinding and deeply personal journey from New Mexico through Nepal, India, Switzerland, France, the former Yugoslavia, and Poland—places where such figures as Tara, the female Buddha of the Tibetan tradition, and the Black Madonna are venerated today.

Longing For Darkness

Author: Peter Beard
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811821056
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Isak Dinesen and the land and people she loved are nowhere so real and compelling as in Longing for Darkness, written by Dinesen's majordomo, Kamante, and now boasting a smart new cover. Readers familiar with Out of Africa may recognize many of the enchanting stories. These celebrated tales and others are retold here from Kamante's perspective and are enhanced with his own drawings and letters, Dinesen's words and snapshots, and photographs by Peter Beard. Writes Beard, "Over a period of 12 years, as if divesting himself of his possessions, Kamante put down the extra dimensions of truth which are at the heart of Out of Africa."

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476783004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Detective Dirk Gently investigates after a passenger at Heathrow airport erupts into a mysterious ball of flames. Mystery, hilarity, and the fantastical are combined in this title from the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. -- HPL Readers Advisor.

Longing for Darkness

Author: Kamante
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Kamante, hero of Isak Dineson's Out of Africa, relates autobiographical tales and his rendering of European fables. Illustrated in bandw by his water colors and photographs by Dineson and Peter Beard, who collected and translated the tales (from Swahili) and had Kamante's son hand write them for the book. 8x12". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Long, Dark Shadow

Author: Allyn Walker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520973690
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Challenging widespread assumptions that persons who are preferentially attracted to minors—often referred to as "pedophiles"—are necessarily also predators and sex offenders, this book takes readers into the lives of non-offending minor-attracted persons (MAPs). There is little research into non-offending MAPs, a group whose experiences offer valuable insights into the prevention of child abuse. Navigating guilt, shame, and fear, this universally maligned group demonstrates remarkable resilience and commitment to living without offending and to supporting and educating others. Using data from interview-based research, A Long, Dark Shadow offers a crucial account of the lived experiences of this hidden population.

Whistle in the Dark

Author: Susan Hill Long
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823430073
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Clem wants a dog for his thirteenth birthday, but what he gets is a miner's cap. It is the 1920s in Leadanna, Missouri, and Clem must become a man, leaving school and joining Pap in the lead mines--money is tight in the Harding household. Meanwhile, Lindy, whose face bears a scar from an accident that left her motherless, is forced to help her abusive father sell moonshine. As Clem searches for another way to support his family, the two become friends. Then disaster strikes: a death, a mining accident, and then a tornado. In the aftermath, Lindy takes advantage of her chance to flee Leadanna, and Clem is torn between following her and staying behind to help his family. This beautifully written coming-of-age novel shines with true characters, a vivid setting, and heart-felt relationships.

The Long Shadow of Darkness: A Season of Remembering and Healing

Author: Vicki Dalia
Publisher: Credo House Publishers
ISBN: 9781625861344
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Moderately functional, 39-year-old Vicki, mother of 8, finally enters therapy for a single incident of molestation she remembered from age 11. Slowly, the spell of traumatic amnesia breaks and she begins to relive her childhood while doing memory work: first, the complicated shame of incest, then the horrific rituals and orgies of Satanism, and finally the utter degradation of a child brothel at ages 9 and 10. Retrieving these forgotten childhood memories upsets and stretches the family in unimaginable ways. Healing begins with equally surprising consequences.Vicki's memories reveal an engaging and endearing child, spunky and determined to fight the brutal brainwashing process designed to break her will and spirit. Her father-generous, charismatic, and successful-is a fascinating and complicated character study in true crime. Her mother, from an educated, upper-middle class, and well-respected home, is just as enigmatic as she seemingly closes her eyes to what is happening to her daughter. This book is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind journey through the nether world of memory into the darkest crevices of the human heart.

Long Grows the Dark

Author: Catherine LaBadie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780359014460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
BEFORE Glenna, court sorceress in service to Princess Jael, struggles to hide her feelings for her best friendÕs betrothed. Yet even as the realm approaches its golden age, an unforeseen enemy rises to corrupt the princess and take the land for himself. Fate may lead them down a path too painful to contemplate, but are GlennaÕs choices enough to dispel the inevitable darkness set to veil their future? NOW Gwendoline Hallewell, a Starford University student in a world where magic is commonplace, has always been unusual. When her casting book summons a man from the past to interfere with her dangerous new present, she has no choice but to trust him. As she and her friends Colt and Everleigh reconcile what happened before with what must happen in the present. Gwendoline must decide what it means to make her own choices, suffer her own consequences, and if free will is really within her grasp.

The Bond Between Women

Author: China Galland
Publisher: Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
ISBN: 9781573227391
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Part travel memoir, part spiritual pilgrimage, and part call to action, this book offers an inspiring look at the bond between women and the surprising strength of its power to change the world.

Dark Tower

Author:
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
ISBN: 9780785135715
Category : Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Gunslinger Roland Deschain is pursued, along with Cuthbert and Alain, by the Big Coffin Hunters, and they are forced into the desert while Roland is in a coma with his consciousness held captive by Maerlyn's mystical sphere.