The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances - 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 Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances write by Ellen Cooney. This book was released on 2014-08-05. The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Love is a great teacher and we are all a little unadoptable. Readers of Garth Stein and Carolyn Parkhurst will adore this” (Library Journal). A People Best New Book of the Week The Sanctuary is a refuge for strays and rescued dogs. Evie has joined a training program there despite knowing almost nothing about animals. Like the greyhound who won’t move, the Rottweiler with attitude problems, or the hound who might be a candidate for search-and-rescue, Evie has a troubled past. But as they all learn, no one should stay prisoner to a life they didn’t choose. Heartfelt and hilarious in turn, this is a deeply moving novel of the countless ways in which humans and canines help each other find new lives, new selves, and new hope.
One Night Two Souls Went Walking
One Night Two Souls Went Walking - 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 One Night Two Souls Went Walking write by Ellen Cooney. This book was released on 2020-11-10. One Night Two Souls Went Walking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients—young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives—their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns to Coffee House Press with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.
Down from the Mountaintop
Down from the Mountaintop - 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 Down from the Mountaintop write by Joshua Dolezal. This book was released on 2014-03-01. Down from the Mountaintop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the Mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raised in northwestern Montana by Pentecostal homesteaders whose twenty-year experiment in subsistence living was closely tied to their faith, Joshua Doležal experienced a childhood marked equally by his parents’ quest for spiritual transcendence and the surrounding Rocky Mountain landscape. Unable to fully embrace the fundamentalism of his parents, he began to search for religious experience elsewhere: in baseball, books, and weightlifting, then later in migrations to Tennessee, Nebraska, and Uruguay. Yet even as he sought to understand his place in the world, he continued to yearn for his mountain home. For more than a decade, Doležal taught in the Midwest throughout the school year but returned to Montana and Idaho in the summers to work as a firefighter and wilderness ranger. He reveled in the life of the body and the purifying effects of isolation and nature, believing he had found transcendence. Yet his summers tied him even more to the mountain landscape, fueling his sense of exile on the plains. It took falling in love, marrying, and starting a family in Iowa to allow Doležal to fully examine his desire for a spiritual mountaintop from which to view the world. In doing so, he undergoes a fundamental redefinition of the nature of home and belonging. He learns to accept the plains on their own terms, moving from condemnation to acceptance and from isolation to community. Coming down from the mountaintop means opening himself to relationships, grounding himself as a husband, father, and gardener who learns that where things grow, the grower also takes root.
One Night Two Souls Went Walking
One Night Two Souls Went Walking - 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 One Night Two Souls Went Walking write by Ellen Cooney. This book was released on 2020. One Night Two Souls Went Walking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One eventful night shift, a young hospital chaplain offers light to those experiencing dark nights of the soul--both her patients, and it turns out, herself.
A Dog Year
A Dog Year - 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 A Dog Year write by Jon Katz. This book was released on 2002-02-19. A Dog Year available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Change loves me, defines and stalks me like a laser-guided smart bomb. It comes at me in all forms, suddenly and with enormous impact, from making shifts in work to having and raising a kid to buying a cabin on a distant mountaintop. Sometimes, change comes on four legs.” In his popular and widely praised Running to the Mountain, Jon Katz wrote of the strength and support he found in the massive forms of his two yellow Labrador retrievers, Julius and Stanley. When the Labs were six and seven, a breeder who’d read his book contacted Katz to say she had a dog that was meant for him—a two-year-old border collie named Devon, well bred but high-strung and homeless. Katz already had a full canine complement, but instinct overruled reason, and soon thereafter he brought Devon home. A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me is the story of how Devon and Jon—and Julius and Stanley—came to terms with each other. It shows how a man discovered a lot about himself through one dog (and then another) whose temperament seemed as different from his own as day is from night. It is a story of trust and understanding, of life and death, of continuity and change. It is by turns insightful, hilarious, and deeply moving. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jon Katz's Going Home.
