As We Are

Bestselling author “May Sarton has never been better than she is in this beautiful, harrowing novel about being old, unwanted, yet refusing to give up” (The Boston Globe). After seventy-six-year-old Caro Spencer suffers a heart attack, her family sends her to a private retirement home to wait out the rest of her days. Her memory growing fuzzy, Caro decides to keep a journal to document the daily goings-on—her feelings of confinement and boredom; her distrust of the home’s owner, Harriet Hatfield, and her daughter, Rose; her pity for the more incapacitated residents; her resentment of her brother, John, for leaving her alone. The journal entries describe not only her frustrations, but also small moments of beauty—found in a welcome visit from her minister, or in watching a bird in the garden. But as she writes, Caro grows increasingly sensitive to the casual atrocities of retirement-home life. Even as she acknowledges her mind is beginning to fail, she is determined to fight back against the injustices foisted upon the home’s occupants. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.

"A charming book, ringing with the joy of existence." --Richard Dawkins The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, For Small Creatures Such as We is part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, a luminous celebration of Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed. Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. When Sagan herself became a mother, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions--from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and more--growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience without relying on a religious framework. As Sagan shares these rituals, For Small Creatures Such as We becomes a moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughter, a marriage, and the natural world--a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.

Fine As We Are is a beautifully illustrated tale of sibling rivalry. Little Frog lives happily by the pond with his mum - just the two of them. But he is in for a big surprise when some new little brothers and sisters arrive - lots of them! How will Little Frog learn to cope?

"Published originally by Alyson Publications, Boston, Mass., 1988."

Brothers Ed and Allard form a tight bond with Sarah, whose life they save, that lasts through the years, but when tragedy strikes the group in Wyoming, that friendship is tested.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.

From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool, it underlined our amazing and apparently novel powers to alter nature. But as biologist Beth Shapiro argues in Life as We Made It, this phenomenon isn’t new. Humans have been reshaping the world around us for ages, from early dogs to modern bacteria modified to pump out insulin. Indeed, she claims, reshaping nature—resetting the course of evolution, ours and others’—is the essence of what our species does. In exploring our evolutionary and cultural history, Shapiro finds a course for the future. If we have always been changing nature to help us survive and thrive, then we need to avoid naive arguments about how we might destroy it with our meddling, and instead ask how we can meddle better. Brilliant and insightful, Life as We Made It is an essential book for the decades to come.

Can the rebels with a cause change their ways, or will they miss their chance? Wild, rebellious, and rakish, Cade's been a bad boy since the day he was born. Don't get him wrong—he's as aware of his faults as he is his virtues, and he thinks he'd be better off without a mate of his own. He'd be a hell of a handful to keep up with. Then a chance encounter brings Cade into Dennis' path. Blind since birth, Dennis prides himself on being plainspoken and knowing how to have a good time. He isn't looking for a soulmate either, but after meeting Cade he's tempted to change his mind. Can the rebels with a cause change their ways, or will they miss their chance?

""On Earth as We Are in Heaven"" is for all who hunger for the manifestation of God's will and kingdom in and through their life. It calls us as believers out of the place of defeat, powerlessness and lack of fruitfulness, and into the place of power and victory in Christ, so helping us to become overcomers. It sheds light on the purpose of our earthly life from heaven's perspective and enables us to discover what it means to have become a new creation and how to live as such. It highlights some of the most important biblical truths which will renew our mind and enable us to receive what Christ has made available to us as the heirs of salvation. It discusses the gift of righteousness, abiding with Christ in heavenly places, living by the Spirit, becoming like Christ, the need for empowerment and revelation, prayer, overcoming faith and more. Apostolic teaching, personal testimony, visions from heaven and prophetic insight are all interwoven in this book.

Discover a fresh and accessible interpretation of the century-old work of James Allen, one of the founders of the self-help movement. As We Think, So We Are, the fifth book in the Library of Hidden Knowledge, invites you to explore the pioneering teachings of James Allen and apply them to your own life. Dr. Ruth Miller offers modern interpretations of three of Allen’s most insightful essays: As We Think, Light on Life’s Difficulties, and Above Life’s Turmoil. Using clear, concise language paired with practical applications, Miller creates an accessible way to delve into and explore the fundamental processes that determine how we interact with—and understand—the world. Allen’s seminal theories in metaphysics introduced millions in the last century to the Law of Attraction, one of the most transformative paths to fulfillment in the modern age. In As We Think, So We Are, we find Allen’s writing to be as important and life changing today as it was a hundred years ago.