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Georges and Pauline Vanier were the parents of Jean Vanier, the
co-founder of the L'Arche communities. They lived an intensely
spiritual life, influenced mainly by the Carmelite tradition. Mercy
Within Mercy is the warmly-told story of their life together
through World War Two and the second half of the 20th Century,
drawing on many letters and journals by Georges and Pauline
themselves and those closest to them. An incredible thirst for God
can be seen in the lives of this couple, who were always striving
in spite of (and through) human imperfection. The excerpts from
letters and journals in this volume show a rare example of the
contemplative life and struggles in prayer of an active and
prominent married couple. The Vanier story is unique in that it
forms a direct link back to the spiritual teaching that includes
St. Therese and the Carmelite tradition in its emphasis on
simplicity, trust in God's love, and self-abandonment to the mercy
of God. After Pauline's death in 1991, an investigation began into
the possible introduction of their cause for beatification as a
married couple.
Willy Muller is an embittered writer of celebrity bios and an
equal-opportunity misanthropist. At the age of fifty, he has
survived imprisonment for murdering his wife, years of venomous
hate mail from the British public and, most recently, the suicide
of his daughter Sadie. Willy needs a rest, but he's not going to
get it. While recuperating from a heart attack in a Mexican resort
with his magnificently silly girlfriend Penny and his
vodka-drenched friend Harry, Willy finds himself drawn into a
troubling confrontation with his past. He should be working on the
screen adaptation of his infamous hack memoir, To Have and to Hold,
but instead he becomes engrossed in Sadie's tragic diaries.
Reluctantly, he considers his chaotic family history and the notion
that "only when you die do you run out of chances to be good."
Set in Mexico, Los Angeles and London, Everything You Know is a
story of love and loathing, sex and death, and filial relations
gone horribly awry. Acidly funny and deeply affecting, it marks the
debut of a brilliant and immensely stylish young writer.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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Alice in Bed (Paperback)
Cathleen Schine; Edited by Frances Coady
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Stricken by a mysterious malady, college sophomore Alice Brody has
suddenly lost the use of her legs. How does a bright, beautiful,
and now immobile young woman proceed with her passions? As she
convalesces in a Manhattan hospital, Alice finds herself attended
by a motley group of visitors: indifferent nurses, doctors both
good and bad, divorcing parents, and eccentric relatives. But Alice
is a creature of many charms, whose wit can enchant those bearing
even the worst bedside manner. With a captivating heroine of great
comic depth, "Alice in Bed" is balm for whatever ails you.
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Poser (Paperback)
Claire Dederer; Edited by Frances Coady
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National Bestseller
Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding
her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman
behind the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner,
she signed up for her first class. She fell madly in love.
Over the next decade, she would tackle triangle, wheel, and the
dreaded crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing
long-standing feuds with others. At the same time, she found
herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation.
Daughters of women who ran away to find themselves and made a few
messes along the way, Dederer and her peers grew up determined to
be good, good, good--even if this meant feeling hemmed in by the
smugness of their organic-buying, attachment-parenting, anxiously
conscientious little world. Yoga seemed to fit right into this
virtuous program, but to her surprise, Dederer found that the
deeper she went into the poses, the more they tested her most basic
ideas of what makes a good mother, daughter, friend, wife--and the
more they made her want something a little less tidy, a little more
improvisational. Less goodness, more joy.
"Poser "is unlike any other book about yoga you will read--because
it is actually a book about life. Witty and heartfelt, sharp and
irreverent, "Poser "is for anyone who has ever tried to stand on
their head while keeping both feet on the ground.
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