| Author | : Marlon Evans |
| Publisher | : Crying Blue Tears |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2022-01-28 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781637511220 |
This book is about the struggles of a young black man trying to survive in South Central Los Angeles with the odds stacked against him. He finds himself crossed up in a quadruple homicide he didn't commit.
| Author | : Heather Christle |
| Publisher | : Catapult |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1948226456 |
This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
| Author | : Irena Docheva |
| Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2012-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1466947810 |
"After years of wandering around the world of love, I found the truth about it. I met face-to-face with that wonderful fairy Love, and she shared with me that despite the pain that was tearing her apart, she is very happy and didn't want to part with it. In my fantasy, that fairy was standing smiling among the deserted sands and was holding a heart in love. There was blood dripping from her hands, but she looked hard and firm. She split the heart in two and threw the two halves away from her. They fell with ominous strength on the glowing sand, started burning, and burned away. The fairy told me that that had been my heart, and that this evil destiny awaited it. She opened her scarlet lips and said that love hurts and it was like a cloud, which carried many tears to my eyes in love. Nevertheless, I decided to follow my heart, and it was saying: "When Love looks you in the eyes, you will know, I will tell you, and then you take it right away, hold it tight, hide it here with me, to be happy.'"
| Author | : Fran Pintadera |
| Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 2020-04-07 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1525305034 |
This thoughtful, poetic book uses metaphors and beautiful imagery to explore the reasons for our tears. In a soft voice, Mario asks, “Mother, why do we cry?” And his mother begins to tell him about the many reasons for our tears. We cry because our sadness is so huge it must escape from our bodies. We cry because we don’t understand the world, and our tears go in search of an answer. Most important, she tells him, we cry because we feel like crying. And, as she shows him then, sometimes we feel like crying for joy. This warm, reassuring hug of a book makes clear that everyone is allowed to cry, and that everyone does.
| Author | : Ninie Hammon |
| Publisher | : Sterling & Stone LLC |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2020-04-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the next impossible to put down entry in her thrilling Through The Canvas series. Bailey Donahue's past just caught up with her ... After two long years in the Witness Protection Program, hiding from the man who murdered her husband, Bailey spots him in the background of a photo. From her own birthday. In the tiny town of Shadow Rock. There's no doubt about it, it's definitely him: Sergie Mikhailov. Will Bailey finally get to testify against him and put him away forever? Can she return to her old life and her daughter at last? Before Bailey even gets the chance to try, she paints another psychic portrait, this one showing the image of her younger sister, Maria, lost to a wall of flames. Another loved one, dead. Then Mikhailov kidnaps Maria, Bailey knows she has to save her. Along with T.J., Dobbs, and Brice, Bailey races against time to find Maria before the portrait -- and Bailey's worst nightmare -- comes true. ★★★★★ "Ninie Hammon has made my quarantine less painful with this fantastic book. The plot grabs you from the beginning and never lets go. The characters are real, members of your family, including the wondrous dog." -- Jacqueline M. Jones ★★★★★ "The thrills are non-stop, the drama completely engaging and the characters are like people I have known for years. Ninie Hammon is an absolutely brilliant storyteller, one I always look forward to reading. Her books drew me into the life of the story and held me there until the very last word. This book, this series and every book written by this author - not to be missed!!" -- Sharon B ★★★★★ "Ninie, not once in all my years have I had to get out of bed in the wee hours--since I couldn't stop reading Blue Tears even at 1:00 a.m.--and take a blasted Xanex!! Once we were close to the Beast I realized I was actually having an anxiety attack, a huge anxiety attack." -- Kate Hickey ★★★★★ "This book is the best of the series. Of course I always think that about this authors books. It was hard to put down but I didn't want to finish it because then it would be over. I've read all her books and loved each one." -- Vikki ★★★★★ "I have enjoyed Ninie Hammon's books for several years now, but I think this one out did them all! It contains all the characteristics of her previous books, but steps everything up a notch or two." -- SML Grandma Blue Tears is the fourth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Through the Canvas: A riveting psychological thriller series about an ordinary woman ripped from her life, and drawn into the darkest of tales by mysterious forces she can't explain. Start reading Through The Canvas today, and fall in love with another Ninie Hammon story that you'll never want to end.
| Author | : Molly Potter |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2020-06-11 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 147297719X |
From the best-selling author of How Are You Feeling Today? comes a picture book that sensitively deals with developing emotional intelligence in young children. Young children can find it really frustrating when they are unable to explain what they are feeling and express their emotions. Cue: this book! Written with boys in mind because they are often encouraged to suppress their feelings, Molly Potter covers a whole range of emotions from those that are uncomfortable to happy feelings where you care about yourself and other people. Perfect for starting those all-important conversations, It's OK to Cry includes colourful illustrations, child-friendly strategies and vocabulary for managing feelings, and helpful notes for parents, carers and practitioners. Let's Talk books help you start meaningful conversations with your child. Written by an expert and covering topics like feelings, relationships, diversity and mental health, these comforting picture books support healthy discussion right from the start.
| Author | : Nikki Giovanni |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2017-10-24 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0062399470 |
The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a courageous activist who has spoken out on the sensitive issues that touch our national consciousness, including race and gender, social justice, protest, violence in the home and in the streets, and why black lives matter. One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her. As energetic and relevant as ever, Nikki now offers us an intimate, affecting, and illuminating look at her personal history and the mysteries of her own heart. In A Good Cry, she takes us into her confidence, describing the joy and peril of aging and recalling the violence that permeated her parents’ marriage and her early life. She pays homage to the people who have given her life meaning and joy: her grandparents, who took her in and saved her life; the poets and thinkers who have influenced her; and the students who have surrounded her. Nikki also celebrates her good friend, Maya Angelou, and the many years of friendship, poetry, and kitchen-table laughter they shared before Angelou’s death in 2014.
| Author | : Tom Lutz |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780393321036 |
This provocative and indispensable book provides a natural and cultural history of our most mysterious and complex human function: our ability to shed tears. All humans, and only humans, weep. Tears are sometimes considered pleasurable, sometimes dangerous, mysterious, deceptive, or profound. Tears of happiness, tears of joy, the proud tears of a parent, tears of mourning, tears of laughter, tears of defeat --what do they have in common? Why is it that at times of victory, success, love, reunion, and celebration the outward signs of our emotions are identical to those of our most profound experiences of loss? Why We Cry looks at the many different ways people have understood weeping, from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. through the latest neurophysiological research. Despite our most common romantic assumptions, what this brilliant book tells us is that tears are never pure, they are never simple.
