The Icon in My Pocket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Icon in My Pocket write by Owe Wikström. This book was released on 2008. The Icon in My Pocket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Practically everybody loves to travel; to discover something new. We want to escape, to be free, to feel the sun on our faces. So we venture forth to far away places. But whether we are package tourists, culture vultures or backpackers the questions can still arise: Is this really all there is? Is there nothing beyond what we can see - something MORE? Can we find space and time on our journey to find new realities? The outward journey can be the start of an inner journey. This book, superbly translated from the original Swedish, reflects on our modern obsession with travel whilst discussing existential questions. During his visits to Rome, Paris, Venice and the Canary Islands, the author depicts an inner journey. On the way we meet such diverse figures as the philosopher Seneca, the author Proust, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and the 'Man in the corner', whose radical doubts question all kinds of pretentious talk. We click on computer icons - the world opens up. But the pocket icon is of a different sort. It speaks of another journey. At a time when many people feel confused and embarrassed by talk about spirituality, this book puts forward powerful ideas in an eminently readable style - but perhaps it poses more questions than it answers . 'A barely discernable, but serious and calm look stares at me from the cheap plastic Russian icon. The icon's reverse perspective means that the observer is always observed wherever he is. Or rather - the observer is drawn into the icon's world. The diminutive pictures' faded colours: dark red, gold and pale blue light up my study. The icon watches over me whilst I sleep on train journeys or at dreary airports. It is placed next to my bed when I come home. At this moment it is standing on the railing of a balcony several miles off the coast of Africa. But mostly it rests in my pocket. Holiness doubly concealed.' Owe Wikström is the author of fifteen books and is professor of the Psychology of Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. A Lutheran minister and psychotherapist, he has written several books on psychology, philosophy, literature, music and culture. He is a popular speaker and a frequent contributor to radio and television programmes. His bestseller Långsamhetens lov (In Praise of Slowness) has already been translated into six languages. He was awarded the Swedish C. S. Lewis Prize for 2007.
Cuba in My Pocket
Cuba in My Pocket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cuba in My Pocket write by Adrianna Cuevas. This book was released on 2021-09-21. Cuba in My Pocket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the author of 2021 Pura Belpré Honor Book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, a sweeping, emotional middle grade historical novel about a twelve-year-old boy who leaves his family in Cuba to immigrate to the U.S. by himself, based on the author's family history. “I don’t remember. Tell me everything, Pepito. Tell me about Cuba.” When the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 solidifies Castro’s power in Cuba, twelve-year-old Cumba’s family makes the difficult decision to send him to Florida alone. Faced with the prospect of living in another country by himself, Cumba tries to remember the sound of his father’s clarinet, the smell of his mother’s lavender perfume. Life in the United States presents a whole new set of challenges. Lost in a sea of English speakers, Cumba has to navigate a new city, a new school, and new freedom all on his own. With each day, Cumba feels more confident in his new surroundings, but he continues to wonder: Will his family ever be whole again? Or will they remain just out of reach, ninety miles across the sea? A Kirkus Best Children's Book of the Year "...Cuevas’ latest is a triumph of the heart...A compassionate, emotionally astute portrait of a young Cuban in exile." —Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW "Cuevas’ intense and immersive account of a Cuban boy’s experience after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion brings a specific point in history alive." —Booklist, STARRED REVIEW "Cuevas packs this sophomore novel with palpable emotions and themes of friendship, love, longing, and trauma, attentively conveying tumultuous historical events from the lens of one young refugee." — Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Salvation in My Pocket
Salvation in My Pocket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salvation in My Pocket write by Benjamin Myers. This book was released on 2013-11-13. Salvation in My Pocket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The short pieces assembled in Salvation in My Pocket are miniature experiments in Christian joy. They are attempts at describing the difference God makes to ordinary experience, and to discover glimpses of God's light in everyday life. If there is any thread that holds these haphazard reflections together, it is just the conviction that beneath the surface of things there lurks an invitation, gentle and alluring; that even in sadness and misfortune there is always rising up, as if from hidden wells, the promise of peace; and that the final word spoken over this world, and over each human life, will be a word of joy.
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muddy Waters write by Rickie Blair. This book was released on 2017. Muddy Waters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Leafy Hollow Mysteries, Vols. 4-6
The Leafy Hollow Mysteries, Vols. 4-6 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Leafy Hollow Mysteries, Vols. 4-6 write by Rickie Blair. This book was released on 2020. The Leafy Hollow Mysteries, Vols. 4-6 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In Leafy Hollow, murder is a perennial problem…
If you like lovably quirky characters, deceptively idyllic Canadian villages, and twists you won’t see coming, then you’ll love these cozy mysteries.
Book 4, Muddy Waters
Between dealing with a rogue agent, a meddling ex-boyfriend, and an underground Botox clinic, accidental landscaper Verity Hawkes finds that nothing is as it seems. To dig up a conspiracy that threatens a beloved citizen, she may just have to get her hands dirty…
Book 5, Snowed Under
When a shady, million-dollar crossword competition seems to connect with a scruffy dog walker and a missing investment advisor, Verity has her hands full. With time running out, can she discover a killer before the culprit makes it two down?
Book 6, The Grave Truth
When Verity’s long-estranged father shows up with a plea for help, her first instinct is to throw the cad out. Until he reveals scandalous new details that threaten to tarnish the memory of her beloved mother. Verity must solve her most baffling mystery yet—one from her own past.
If you like spunky heroines, laugh-out-loud humor, and charming small towns with big city crime rates, then you’ll love Rickie Blair’s Leafy Hollow Mysteries. Buy the boxed set to read the next three books in the series today!
