Soul Search First Edition Design eBook Publishing

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What happens when we die? Does everything we are just stop? Is consciousness lost forever? Or does some vital spark inside us, a spirit or a soul, live on? We find it almost impossible to think about not having a mind, of our awareness being snuffed out like a candle. Yet the stark fact is that within a century or so, everyone alive today - all six billion of us - will be dead. Humans are the only creatures on earth that know they are going to die. But that foreknowledge has come fairly recently and it flies in the face of four billion years of evolution. Those eons have genetically conditioned us to do all we can to preserve ourselves and our kin. The result is that we are caught in a dilemma. We are programmed to survive by our genes yet made painfully aware of our mortality by our forward-looking brain. If we admit that death is inevitable, then our will to survive may be fatally weakened. On the other hand, if we deny death, we have to turn a blind eye to a patent fact of the real world. Only one avenue of escape is possible - belief in an afterlife. With this we can face the nightmare that death poses to the rational mind. We distance ourselves from death by institutionalizing it. Whereas in earlier times most people spent their last days at home in the bosom of family and friends, today four-fifths of us are removed to hospitals or nursing homes. We are hidden from the gaze of the young and healthy and tended to by strangers. As the end approaches, we are discreetly moved to wards for the terminally ill and plugged into life-support machines. Technology takes over. And when we do eventually die, it is often the inadequacy of the equipment or the shortcomings of the treatment that are blamed. Instead of accepting death as a natural and inevitable fact of life, we are in danger of convincing ourselves that, given further medical advances, we shall be able to stave it off for as long as we like. "Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants," said Woody Allen. "I want to achieve it through not dying." Now, for the first time, science seems to be holding out the slender hope of cheating death. Already, some of our vital parts can be replaced with natural or synthetic substitutes. In time, it seems, the transplant surgeon will be able to do for a human being what any competent mechanic in a well-equipped garage can do for a car. Key words - Death, Reincarnation, Consciousness, Cosmos, Science, Soul, Afterlife, Universe Author Bio - David Darling is the author of more than 40 titles including narrative science titles: Megacatastrophes!, We Are Not Alone, Gravity's Arc, Equations of Eternity, a New York Times Notable Book, and Deep Time. He is also the author of the bestseller-The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes. Darling's other titles include The Universal Book of Astronomy, and The Complete Book of Spaceflight, as well as more than 30 children's books. His articles and reviews have appeared in Astronomy, Omni, Penthouse, New Scientist, the New York Times, and the Guardian, among others. David Darling was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, on July 29, 1953, and grew up in the beautiful Peak District, close to Kinder Scout for those who know the area. He went to New Mills Grammar School and then on to Sheffield University, where he earned his B.Sc. in physics in 1974, and Manchester University, for my Ph.D. in astronomy in 1977. David Darling's interests, apart from his work and family, include singing, song-writing, and playing guitar.

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Thunder Dog Thomas Nelson Publishers

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Faith. Trust. Triumph. "I'm sorry," the doctor said. "He is permanently and totally blind. There is nothing we can do for him." George and Sarah Hingson looked at each other, devastated. Their six-month-old son, Michael was a happy, strawberry blond baby boy, healthy and normal in every way except one. When the Hingsons switched on a light or made silly faces, Michael did not react. Ever. "My best suggestion is that you send him to a home for the blind," the doctor continued. "He will never be able to do anything for himself." Forty-seven years later, a yellow Labrador retriever puppy was born in the whelping unit of Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California. The puppy's name was Roselle. On September 11, 2001, she saved Michael's life. This is Roselle's story too. -From the Introduction Every moment in Michael Hingson's and Roselle's lives seemed to lead up to this day. When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center's north tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a district sales manager for a data protection and network security systems company, was sitting down for a meeting. His guide dog, Roselle, was at his feet.Paired for twenty-one months, man and dog spent that time forging a bond of trust, much like police partners who trust their lives to each other. Michael couldn't see a thing, but he could hear the sounds of shattering glass, falling debris, and terrified people flooding around him and Roselle. However, Roselle sat calmly beside him. In that moment, Michael chose to trust Roselle's judgment and not to panic. They were a team. Thunder Dog is a story that will forever change your spirit and your perspective. It illuminates Hingson's lifelong determination to achieve parity in a sighted world and how the rare trust between a man and his guide dog can inspire an unshakable faith in each one of us.

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His House Volume 3 Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.

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"I thought these glowing days would continue to warm my heart forever...I was so naive." Gangyoo spends his days in bliss. Can life get any better? He has a great job and great friends. He lives in a comfortable home. Most important o

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Half a World Away Hodder & Stoughton

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'His most accomplished and moving novel yet' Lisa Jewell'Emotionally high-voltage' MetroFrom the author of The Man I Think I Know***Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn't always that way...Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot forget her past.Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a young child, Noah never looks back. When Kerry contacts Noah, the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change both of their lives forever.By turns funny and moving, Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its final page. ***Readers love Half a World Away!'These are people who matter, situations one can believe. Most readers will find themselves caring very much.A life-affirming read.' Vine'It isn't easy, it is heart-wrenching, but, oh, is it worth reading. I can't recommend this book highly enough.' Vine 'How have I not read a Mike Gayle book before? I want to give this book all of the starts in the universe. I cried my eyes out at the end.It is touching, heart-wrenching and thought-provoking.' Netgalley'This story is raw and beautiful and sad. It puts lots of things into perspective and makes you think about what is important in life. Beautifully written, easy to read and will certainly bring tears to your eyes.A must read.' Netgalley 'This is a beautiful, beautiful book. It's about family, about class, about love, about choices and sacrifice. It's about letting go and learning to hold on.It's optimistic and heartbreaking and funny and emotional. It's the kind of book that will stay with you, long after you finish it. Buy it, read it, love it - and hang on to those tissues, you'll need them.' NetgalleyAuthors love Half a World Away!'Mike Gayle has such a talent for delving into hearts, minds and contemporary issues.Half a World Away is supremely poignant, uplifting and heartwarming in equal measure - as well as being a real page-turner.' Sophie Kinsella, author of Surprise Me'Mike has a prodigious talent for writing completely relatable characters who draw you into their world and tug at your heart strings. Half a World Away is an absolute triumph and a joy to read. Once again Mike tackles complex and thorny issues with a confident and compassionate hand.' Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things 'Half a World Away is heartbreaking and beautiful, full of poignant moments and characters you fall for from page one.I couldn't put it down.' Libby Page, author of The Lido

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Orphan Island Harper Collins Publishers

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A National Book Award Longlist title!"A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." -Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon"This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." -Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island.On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them-and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again.Today's Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny's best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now-to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they've always been.But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back-and take her away forever from the only home she's known?"A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).

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Still Life HarperCollins Publishers

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD 'Sheer joy' Graham Norton 'Utterly beautiful ... filled with hope' Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie 'A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits' Daily Mirror From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us. 1944, Italy.As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of war and relive memories of her youth when her heart was stolen by an Italian maid in a particular room with a view.Ulysses' chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life - and all those who love him back home in London - forever. Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship. 'THE most beautiful book ...it will stay with me a long time' Sara Cox, BBC Two's Between the Covers 'Extraordinary . . .my book of the year' Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties 'Moving, wise, poetic and funny' Daily Mail 'Winman's pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life' Sunday Times Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021

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ETTA JAMES - Live At Montreux 1993 - Blu-ray EAGLE VISION

LISTA KATEGORII > Filmy Blu-ray > muzyczny

Wydanie: 1 bluray Tytuł oryginalny: Live At Montreux 1993 Etta James - amerykańska piosenkarka, przedstawicielka wokalnego bluesa i wczesnego rhythm and bluesa i soulu. Etta należała do grona pionierów tych gatunków. Wielokrotnie występowała na festiwalu w Montreux począwszy od pierwszego występu w 1975, a skończywszy na ostatnim występie w 2008 roku. Na płycie znalazł się zapis z występu na festiwalu w 1993 roku kiedy to artystka znajdowała się u szczytu swojej wspaniałej kariery. Podczs występu Etta wykonała swoje najlepsze kawałki. W dodatkach natomiast znajdziemy blisko 90 minut materiału wybranego z wielokrotnych występoów w Montreux. Czas trwania: 160 min. Spis utworów: Funky Good Time Hold On, I'm Coming I Just Wanna Make Love To You I'd Rather Go Blind How Strong Is A Woman? A Lover Is Forever Beware Hard To Handle Just One More Day Come To Mama Why I Sing The Blues Live At Montreux 1975: Respect Yourself Drown In My Own Tears W.O.M.A.N. I'd Rather Go Blind Live At Montreux 1977: Medley: At Last Trust In Me A Sunday Kind Of Love Live At Montreux 1978: Take It To The Limit Live At Montreux 1989: Tell Mama Something's Got A Hold On Me Breaking Up Somebody's Home I Got The Will Sugar On The Floor Live At Montreux 1990: Your Good Thing Is About To End Data premiery: 27.08.2012 Dźwięk: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, PCM Stereo

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ERIC CLAPTON CD I FEEL FREE BADGE COCAINE LET IT RAIN WYDAWCA

Muzyka > Płyty kompaktowe > Blues, Rhythm'n'Blues

ERIC CLAPTON CD I FEEL FREE BADGE COCAINE LET IT RAIN  CD 1 1. I Feel Free - Eric Clapton 2. Sunshine Of Your Love - Eric Clapton 3. White Room - Eric Clapton 4. Crossroads - Eric Clapton 5. Badge - Eric Clapton 6. Prescence Of The Lord - Eric Clapton 7. After Midnight - Eric Clapton 8. Let It Rain - Eric Clapton 9. Bell Bottom Blues - Eric Clapton 10. Layla - Eric Clapton 11. Let It Grow - Eric Clapton 12. I Shot The Sheriff - Eric Clapton 13. Knockin' On Heavens Door - Eric Clapton 14. Hello Old Friend - Eric Clapton 15. Cocaine - Eric Clapton 16. Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton 17. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton 18. Promises - Eric Clapton 19. I Cant Stand It - Eric Clapton CD 2 1. I've Got A Rock'n'Roll Heart - Eric Clapton 2. She's Waiting - Eric Clapton 3. Forever Man - Eric Clapton 4. It's In The Way That You Use IT - Eric Clapton 5. Miss You - Eric Clapton 6. Pretending - Eric Clapton 7. Bad Love - Eric Clapton 8. Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton 9. Layla - Eric Clapton (Unplugged) 10. Running On Faith - Eric Clapton (Unplugged) 11. Motherless Child - Eric Clapton 12. Change The World - Eric Clapton 13. My Father's Eyes - Eric Clapton 14. Riding With The King - Eric Clapton, With B. B. King 15. Sweet Home Chicago - Eric Clapton 16. If I Had Possesion Over Judgement Day - Eric Clapton 17. Ride The River - Eric Clapton, J. J. Cale

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Emily's Quest Little, Brown Book Group

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There are two things in life Emily Starr is certain of - that she will be a great writer and that she and Teddy Kent were destined to be together. School is over and one by one her friends leave to follow their dreams, including Teddy, who goes to art school in Montreal. Emily chooses to stay at New Moon, and though she misses her friends, she knows the path of a writer is a solitary one. With each visit home Emily's friends seem more distant, especially Teddy. Desolate, but determined to hide her feelings, she throws herself into finishing her novel. When it is rejected, though, her confidence is shattered. To banish all thoughts of Teddy, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love and give up on her dreams forever. But can she really have been so wrong about everything?

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Harry Styles HarperCollins Publishers

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Stationery Shop of Tehran Simon & Schuster

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*** If you read The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and enjoyed The Beekeeper of Aleppo, you will love The Stationery Shop of Tehran *** 1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri.The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. And when Mr. Fakhri introduces her to his other favorite customer -- handsome Bahman, with his burning passion for justice and a shared love for Rumi's poetry -- Roya loses her heart at once.But around them, life in Tehran is changing. On the eve of their marriage, Roya heads to the town square to meet with Bahman. Suddenly, shockingly, violence erupts: a coup d'etat that forever changes their country's future.Bahman never arrives. Roya must piece her life back together. Her parents, wanting her to be safe, enroll her in college in California, where she meets and marries another man.But, nearly sixty years later, an accident of fate finally brings her the answer she has always wanted to know - Why did you leave? Where did you go? How is it that you were able to forget me?Marjan Kamali's beautiful novel, set in a country poised for democracy but destroyed by political upheaval, explores issues that have never been more timely, of immigration and cultural assimilation, of the quirks of fate. And its ending will break readers' hearts. `Kamali paints an evocative portrait of 1950s Iran and its political upheaval, and she cleverly writes the heartbreak of Roya and Bahman's romance to mirror the tragic recent history of their country.Simultaneously briskly paced and deeply moving, this will appeal to fans of Khaled Hosseini and should find a wide audience'BOOKLIST `Evocative, devastating, and hauntingly beautiful ... explores love's power to transcend time and distance, and the ways fate can tear people apart and bring them back together. This book broke my heart again and again'Whitney Scharer, author of THE AGE OF LIGHT `What a pleasure - a novel that is all at once masterfully plotted, beautifully written, and populated by characters who are arresting, lovable and so real'Elinor Lipman, author of TURPENTINE LANE `A beautiful and sensitive novel that I loved from the first page'Alyson Richman, international bestselling author of THE LOST WIFE `A beautifully immersive tale ...brings to life a lost and complex world and the captivating characters who once called it home'Jasmin Darznik, New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD DAUGHTER and SONG OF A CAPTIVE BIRD `A sweeping romantic tale of thwarted love'KIRKUS REVIEWS `The unfurling stories ... will stun readers as the aromas of Persian cooking wafting throughout convince us that love can last a lifetime. For those who enjoy getting caught up in romance while discovering unfamiliar history of another country'LIBRARY JOURNAL `Grab your tissues...Set among the political upheaval of 1950s Tehran, The Stationery Shop follows teenager Roya as she discovers the power of love, loss, and then, decades later, fate. BOSTON MAGAZINE `A tender story of enduring love.'MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE `I! Am! Obsessed! With! This! Book!'COSMOPOLITAN.COM

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