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Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours. In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize–winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson. The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart..
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Risking Her Heart (Nascar Library Collection)
As manager of her family's champion team, Rachel Garrison learned the woes of mixing business with pleasure the hard way. And no way is she going to get involved with NASCAR sponsor Parker Huntington, the guy who almost ruined her brother's career! But that doesn't mean she can deny her instant and unwanted attraction to his considerable charms.… Parker is used to getting exactly what he wants—and when Rachel needs his help finding out who's embezzling from her family, their sleuthing soon leads to stolen kisses. However, neither knows how to trust in love…or whether they even want to take that risk. And Parker isn't about to let down his guard until he sweet-talks Rachel into surrendering her heart!.
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Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story
Heather Ingram was one of the most respected teachers at a British Columbia secondary school. Trapped at age 30 in an unhappy relationship, Ingram found herself increasingly drawn to 17-year-old Troy, a rebellious student. Here, in unstinting detail, she describes their passionate relationship of several years duration that had the full support of Troy's family. She reveals the pain of going public, the loss of her job and status in the community, her trial and conviction, and the ten months she spent under house arrest. This frank, moving story offers an intimate look at why a teacher would risk everything and what it means to live as a convicted criminal for engaging in a consensual, if unconventional, relationship. .
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Risking the Forbidden Game: Maude Cary (Trailblazer Books #38)
Is Becoming a Christian Worth Losing His Family? For Jamal and Hameem, The Game starts out as a fun and daring contest between the two young boys to see who could collect more items belonging to the "enemy"—the French soldiers who are keeping Morocco from gaining its independence. For a Muslim to be seen with anything belonging to the infidels is among the most punishable of sins, but the excitement of The Game calls to the adventurous boys, who even risk swiping belongings right off of the French soldiers. The Game becomes more risky when Jamal begins collecting pictures from the Christian missionary Maude Cary, whom he meets in the marketplace. Surely a whole set of the pictures must be worth enough points to win The Game! Then Jamal realizes that each picture tells a story about Jesus, and he’s torn between believing the missionary’s stories and believing the Muslim way. When a French traitor comes to Jamal for help, will he lead Jamal to the Truth?.
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Work in Progress: Risking Failure, Surviving Success
In 1964, NBC clerk Michael Eisner made $65 a week. Though he only took one business course in his life--accounting--he did have a head for business: as CEO of Disney, he earned over half a billion bucks in 1997. Though he had no foundation in finance, he averted the bloody dismemberment of Disney by takeover sharks when he took over in 1984, and by May 1998 he earned over $80 billion for Disney stockholders. Not bad for a guy who, on his first day in Walt's old office, met a manager of the film division BVD (Buena Vista Distribution) and innocently asked whether "Disney made underwear."In his memoir, Eisner doesn't air quite as much dirty laundry as we could hope he'd be dopey enough to do. Still, it is revealing, and since it's unheard-of for Hollywood potentates to spill any beans at all, this book is required reading for anyone interested in America's major export, popular culture.We learn a fair bit of personal stuff: the crucial impact of Eisner's sternly withholding father, who drove Michael to succeed and made him less than effusive himself in praising underlings; his favorite book in youth (The Catcher in the Rye); his encounters with more madcap Hollywood types; his brush with death from heart disease; the day he got the idea for Beverly Hills Cop by getting physically roughed up by a Beverly Hills cop; his plan to add the naughtier cartoon character Mortimer Mouse to Mickey's family.Eisner gives us his negotiating secret (be willing to walk), his view of prerelease audience testing of shows ("it's almost worthless"),his management strategy (incite raucous debate within strict institutional checks and balances, then make gut decisions), the key to success in movies and TV (strong two-man partnerships: Lew Wasserman and Sid Sheinberg at Universal, Bob Daly and Terry Semel at Warner Bros., and preeminently Eisner and Frank Wells at Disney). Eisner gives a provocative analysis ofwhy Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Ovitz proved disastrous partners for him at Disney, and even confesses to a few screwups of his own (losing his temper and helping to blow the Disney America historical park development). --Tim Appelo.
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Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature
Susan Suleiman sets forth in this work an exchange with contemporary writers and artists. Simone de Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Elie Wiesel, Mary Gordon, Max Ernst, Angela Carter, and others enter through Sulieman's reading into a dialogue with each other - and with us as readers. Suleiman thus includes us in her voyage of self-discovery as she confronts the conflicts between writing and motherhood, the paradoxes of postmodernism, the place of beauty in contemporary art, and the problematic and crucial relations between individual life-story and collective history..
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The Trout King: Trouble Lurks Beneath for Two Rival Fishermen Who Clash on and Off the Water, Risking What the Value Most
More than a fisherman's tale, THE TROUT KING is a story of the many meanings fishing holds for those who love it, as a summer competition to determine the champion trout fisherman turns deadly serious when a rough-hewn local who has not been bested is challenged by a fly fishing purist who hates to lose. "There's much more to fishing than catching fish.".
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Risking Intimacy: Overcoming Fear, Finding Rest
God designed us with a longing to be loved. Why then are we so afraid of rejection? Why do we hide our hearts and settle for mediocre relationships rather than pursue the passionate loving and living for which we were created? Nancy Groom tackles these questions and more in Risking Intimacy. Melding personal experiences with biblical lessons drawn from the Israelites journey into the Promised Land and Jesus relationship with people in his life, Groom invites readers on their own journeyone of inner transformation. Genuine intimacy requires openness, knowing and being known, writes the author. But openness can be terrifying compared to the relative security of hiding our true selves. Yet if we come to the One who offers life and inner rest, we can move beyond our dread of others rejection and embrace a renewed passion for glorifying God and loving others. This book will offer insight to anyone who struggles with intimacymen and women alike, in all relationships but especially in marriage..
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