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Do You Remember Being Born?: A Novel
by Sean MichaelsScotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels&’s moving, innovative and deeply felt novel about an aging poet who agrees to collaborate with a Big Tech company&’s poetry AI, named CharlotteMarian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making—but only now, at 75 years old, is she beginning to believe in the security of her successes. Unfortunately, a poet&’s accomplishments don&’t necessarily translate to capital, and as her adult son struggles to buy his first home, her confidence in her choices begins to fray. Marian&’s pristine life of mind—for which she&’s sacrificed nearly all personal relationships, from romance to friendship to motherhood—has come at a cost. Then comes a cryptic invitation from the Tech Company. Come to California, the invitation beckons, and write with a machine. The Company&’s lucrative offer—for Marian to co-author a poem in a &‘historic partnership&’ with their cutting-edge poetry bot, named Charlotte—chafes at everything she believes about artmaking as an individual pursuit . . . yet, it&’s a second chance she can&’t resist. And so to California she goes, a sell-out and a skeptic, for an encounter that will unsettle her life, her work and even her understanding of kinship. Both a love letter to and interrogation of the nature of language, art, labor, capital, family, and community, Do You Remember Being Born? is Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels&’s empathetic response to some of the most disquieting questions of our time—a defiant and joyful recognition that if we&’re to survive meaningfully at all, creative legacy is to be reimagined and belonging to one&’s art must mean, above all else, belonging to the world.
Do You Remember Being Born?: A Novel
by Sean MichaelsScotiabank Giller Prize-winner Sean Michaels' luminous new novel takes readers on a lyrical joy ride—seven, epic days in Silicon Valley with a tall, formidable poet (inspired by the real-life Marianne Moore) and her unusual new collaborator, a digital mind just one month old. It's both a love letter to and an aching examination of art-making, family, identity and belonging.Dear Marian, the letter from the Company begins. You are one of the great writers of this century.At 75, Marian Ffarmer is almost as famous for her signature tricorn hat and cape as for her verse. She has lived for decades in the one-bedroom New York apartment she once shared with her mother, miles away from any other family, dedicating herself to her art. Yet recently her certainty about her choices has started to fray, especially when she thinks about her only son, now approaching middle age with no steady income. Into that breach comes the letter: an invitation to the Silicon Valley headquarters of one of the world's most powerful companies in order to make history by writing a poem.Marian has never collaborated with anyone, let alone a machine, but the offer is too lucrative to resist, and she boards a plane to San Francisco with dreams of helping her son. In the Company's serene and golden Mind Studio, she encounters Charlotte, their state-of-the-art poetry bot, and is startled to find that it has written 230,442 poems in the last week, though it claims to only like two of them.Over the conversations to follow, the poet is by turns intrigued, confused, moved and frightened by Charlotte's vision of the world, by what it knows and doesn't know ("Do you remember being born?" it asks her. Of course Marian doesn't, but Charlotte does.) This is a relationship, a friendship, unlike anything Marian has known, and as it evolves—and as Marian meets strangers at swimming pools, tortoises at the zoo, a clutch of younger poets, a late-night TV host and his synthetic foam set—she is forced to confront the secrets of her past and the direction of her future. Who knew that a disembodied mind could help bend Marian's life towards human connection, that friendship and family are not just time-eating obligations but soul-expanding joys. Or that belonging to one&’s art means, above all else, belonging to the world.
Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self
by Judith LevineIn her award-winning Harmful to Minors, Judith Levine radically disturbed our fixed ideas about childhood. Now, the poignantly personal Do You Remember Me? tackles the other end of life. The book is both the memoir of a daughter coming to terms with a difficult father who is sinking into dementia and an insightful exploration of the ways we think about disability, aging, and the self as it resides in the body and the world. In prose that is unsentimental yet moving, serious yet darkly funny, complex in emotion and ideas yet spare in diction, Levine reassembles her father's personal and professional history even as he is losing track of it. She unpeels the layers of his complicated personality and uncovers information that surprises even her mother, to whom her father has been married for more than sixty years. As her father deteriorates, the family consensus about who he was and is and how best to care for him constantly threatens to collapse. Levine recounts the painful discussions, mad outbursts, and gingerly negotiations, and dissects the shifting alliances among family, friends, and a changing guard of hired caretakers. Spending more and more time with her father, she confronts a relationship that has long felt bereft of love. By caring for his needs, she learns to care about and, slowly, to love him. While Levine chronicles these developments, she looks outside her family for the sources of their perceptions and expectations, deftly weaving politics, science, history, and philosophy into their personal story. A memoir opens up to become a critique of our culture's attitudes toward the old and demented. A claustrophobic account of Alzheimer's is transformed into a complex lesson about love, duty, and community. What creates a self and keeps it whole? Levine insists that only the collaboration of others can safeguard her father's self against the riddling of his brain. Embracing interdependence and vulnerability, not autonomy and productivity, as the seminal elements of our humanity, Levine challenges herself and her readers to find new meaning, even hope, in one man's mortality and our own.
Do You Remember?
by Sydney SmithFrom the creator of Small in the City and the illustrator of Town Is by the Sea and Sidewalk Flowers, comes a moving look at how memories are made. Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it’s just the two of them, and the house where all of those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favourite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined. Do You Remember? is another unforgettable book from award-winning author and illustrator Sydney Smith. Key Text Features illustrations dialogue panels Correlates to the Common Core States Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Do You Still Talk to Grandma? Workbook: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love
by Brit BarronWith this incredible workbook, renowned motivational speaker, teacher, and storyteller Brit Barron will guide you in the emotional work of holding on to your deepest convictions without giving up on the people you love.The Do You Still Talk to Grandma? Workbook is a practical and deeply researched guide to understanding the psychological and emotional dynamics that lead us away from constructive disagreement and into binary moral judgments of heroes and villains—and to the steps we must take if we are to transcend groupthink and transform our relationships.In this companion to Brit Barron&’s Do You Still Talk to Grandma?, you will learn to recognize behavioral patterns online and in yourself that cause social justice efforts to become toxic. You&’ll practice new emotional and thought habits that will help you to be responsive instead of reactive. Through insightful and provocative writing prompts, you&’ll discover how to • identify cognitive splitting• notice when group belonging competes with individual values• make sense of &“internet brain&”• navigate the difference between consequences and punishmentFor anyone who wants to move beyond the conflict between moral conviction and close relationships with people whose views are problematic, the Do You Still Talk to Grandma? Workbook is an essential guide for the concrete actions we can take toward transformative justice in our everyday lives.
Do You Still Talk to Grandma?: When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love
by Brit BarronRenowned motivational speaker, teacher, and storyteller Brit Barron offers a path to holding on to our deepest convictions without losing relationships with the people we love.&“This book is so needed in a time when we are fresh off cancel culture and ready for a new way to process and interact with those with whom we don&’t agree—whether virtually or in real life.&”—Joy Cho, author and founder of Oh Joy!Brit Barron gets it. Those people who hurt us with their bigotry and ignorance . . . they&’re often the people we love: They&’re our friends, our parents, our grandparents, and even our religious leaders. And what we want is for them to grow, not to be canceled by an online mob. So what can it look like to strive for justice without causing new harm or giving up on the people we love? Barron shows that the way forward is to create a gracious and risky space for people to learn and evolve. We need to form the sorts of relationships where we can tell difficult truths, set boundaries, forgive, and share stories of our own failings. And this starts with examining ourselves.In Do You Still Talk to Grandma?, Barron draws readers into this tension between relationship and accountability, sharing painful experiences from her own life, such as her parents&’ divorce and belonging to a faith community that sided with the forces that dehumanize BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folks. Barron illuminates the challenges and hope for these relationships, showing that the best research points toward humility, self-awareness, an openness to learning, and remembering that others can learn too.Barron envisions a redemptive way of being that allows progressives to love people who say or believe problematic things without sacrificing themselves, their values, or their beliefs. Provocative, charming, and vulnerable, Do You Still Talk to Grandma? is an essential read for anyone struggling to live compassionately without giving up on conviction.
Do You Take This Maverick?: Do You Take This Maverick? The Boss, The Bride And The Baby A Reunion And A Ring (Montana Mavericks: What Happened at the Wedding? #2)
by Marie Ferrarella"I DO...I DON'T. . . I DO?" RUST CREEK RAMBLINGS The fallout from last month's wedding-to-end-all-weddings continues. Did you hear that Claire Strickland and her oh-so-handsome husband, Levi Wyatt, have called it quits? Everyone thought these two were the perfect couple with the most perfect baby. One minute they were together, the next there was a poker game and then... What could have possibly steered these two young lovebirds off course? Even though they are on the outs, rumor has it that Claire and Levi have both taken up domicile at Strickland's Boarding House. We find this behavior highly suspect-and everyone in town is weighing in, too! So don't pack your suitcases yet, dear readers-we have a feeling this love story is far from over!
Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Little Golden Book)
by Golden BooksSing along to the beloved Disney Frozen song &“Do You Want to Build a Snowman?&” with this beautifully illustrated Little Golden Book starring Elsa and Anna!Join Princess Anna as she rides her bike around the castle, talks to paintings on the wall, and asks her sister again and again, &“Do you want to build a snowman?&”. This adorable Little Golden Book features the lyrics of the super catchy Disney Frozen song &“Do You Want to Build a Snowman?&” as well as beautiful images showing the sisters&’ journey throughout the film. It is sure to be a must-have for fans ages 2 to 5 and Little Golden Book collectors of all ages!
Do Your Kids a Favor...Love Your Spouse
by Kendra SmileyBuilding a healthy marriage can give your kids a great head start in life. Kendra and John Smiley learned this through the ups and downs of raising three sons, all now grown. With her trademark humor, honesty, and the wisdom that she has shared on Focus on the Family and Family Life Today, Kendra offers practical, day-in, day-out insights on kids, marriage, and much more. She shares her wisdom on such topics as setting priorities and coming to grips with family backgrounds, showing how when we make the right choice for our marriage, we're making the right choice for our children. \u0022Resident Dad\u0022 John pitches in with his perspective. Learn how to \u0022parent like a pro\u0022!
Do Your Kids a Favor...Love Your Spouse
by Kendra SmileyBuilding a healthy marriage can give your kids a great head start in life. Kendra and John Smiley learned this through the ups and downs of raising three sons, all now grown. With her trademark humor, honesty, and the wisdom that she has shared on Focus on the Family and Family Life Today, Kendra offers practical, day-in, day-out insights on kids, marriage, and much more. She shares her wisdom on such topics as setting priorities and coming to grips with family backgrounds, showing how when we make the right choice for our marriage, we're making the right choice for our children. \u0022Resident Dad\u0022 John pitches in with his perspective. Learn how to \u0022parent like a pro\u0022!
Do the Math #2: The Writing on the Wall
by Wendy LichtmanEighth grade, like algebra, has become pretty complicated for Tess. For one thing, there are the patterns she's noticing everywhere--like how charming-on-the-outside Richard keeps playing scary pranks on her, and how annoying copycat Lynn always has to follow what everyone else is doing. Then there's the pattern of graffiti that keeps appearing on the wall by her school--could those numbers be a code meant for Tess? Is it up to her to find out what they mean? And most importantly, if Damien keeps up with his pattern of waiting for her after school, does it mean he likes her? Or is that just a coincidental system? Tess looks for formulas to help her figure it all out, but she's afraid there may be none. Sometimes you have to make up your own solutions. Sometimes, you just have to risk it.
Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
by Wendy LichtmanIn the eighth grade, 1 math whiz 1 stolen test (x), 3 cheaters (y), and 2 best friends (z) who can't keep a secret. Oh, and she can't forget the winter dance (d)! Then there's the suspicious guy Tess's parents know, but that's a whole different problem. Can Tess find the solutions?
Do-Over
by Christine Hurley DerisoImagine having the power to turn back time. Not 100 years—just 10 seconds. Enough to take back those embarrassing missteps and wrong answers. Elsa’s mom died suddenly one year ago, but she appears one night to grant Elsa do-over power. Elsa thinks she dreamt it until she utters the words the next morning and watches her whole world rewind 10 seconds. Elsa needs the do-over power to become cool at her new school. It’s fun taking people’s answers and being a star student one day, and gossip queen t...
Do-Over
by Rachel VailVail's most lauded book to date, "Do-Over" is the story of 13-year-old Whitman, who has to deal with the anger he feels towards his father when his parents separate, his own interest in several girls, and the heady feeling of acting in his first play.
Do-Wrong Ron
by Steven HerrickThis whimsical free-verse novel features an accident-prone boy, a guinea pig, and lonely girl.
Dobryd
by Ann CharneyBy the time I was five years old I had spent half my life hidden away in a barn loft. I had vague memories of the world outside and I listened to stories people around me told of that world, but it was hard for me to believe in its existence. Was there really anything beyond the wails of this barn? I knew that there were people out there, people other than my mother, my aunt, my cousin and another family who shared our hide-out, but it was hard for me to imagine them. At certain times, when a German patrol passed nearby and I was forced to remain still, I would try very hard to see beyond the walls of our shelter. Curiosity, doubt and fear coloured my images. Within their spectrum, I recreated the world from which I was banished. Half invented and half remembered, it grew in my mind and satisfied the longings that sometimes came over me.
Doc's Codicil: And the Christmas Pageant That Went Awry
by Gary JonesWhen Wisconsin veterinarian Doc dies, his family learns that to inherit his fortune, they must decipher the cryptic codicil he added to his will---"Take Doofus squirrel-fishing"---and they can only do that by talking to Doc's friends, reading the memoir Doc wrote of a Christmas season decades earlier, searching through Doc's correspondence, and discovering clues around them. Humor abounds as this mismatched lot tries to find time in their hectic lives to work together to solve the puzzle. In the end, will they realize that fortune comes in many guises? "Doc's Codicil" is a mystery told with abundant humor. It tells the story of a veterinarian who teaches his heirs a lesson from the grave.
Docherty (Canons #53)
by William McIlvanneyWhitbread Award Winner: A Scottish miner fights for a better life for his son in this “intense, witty and beautifully wrought novel” (Daily Telegraph).At the dawn of the twentieth century, newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labor in the pits of his small town on the coast of Scotland. But the world is changing, and, lying next to him, Conn's father, Tam, has decided that his son’s life will be different from his own… Gritty, dark and tender, Docherty is a modern classic, “a serious, considered and achingly sympathetic engagement with the people whose only trace in historical record is birth and dead notices” (Scotsman).“McIlvanney depicts the west of Scotland with a canny and ruthless insight.”—Scotsman “As a stylist Mr. McIlvanney leaves most of the competition far behind.”—The New York Times Book Review
Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl
by Hyeseung SongFor readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a searing coming-of-age memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.A daughter of Korean immigrants, Hyeseung Song spends her earliest years in the cane fields of Texas where her loyalties are divided between a restless father in search of Big Money, and a beautiful yet domineering mother whose resentments about her own life compromises her relationship with her daughter. With her parents at constant odds, Song learns more words in Korean for hatred than for love. When the family&’s fake Gucci business lands them in bankruptcy, Song moves to a new elementary school. On her first day, a girl asks the teacher: &“Can she speak English?&” Neither rich nor white, Song does what is necessary to be visible: she internalizes the model minority myth as well as her beloved mother&’s dreams to see her on a secure path. Song meets these expectations by attending the best Ivy League universities in the country. But when she wavers, in search of an artistic life on her own terms, her mother warns, &“Happiness is what unexceptional people tell themselves when they don&’t have the talent and drive to go after real success.&” Years of self-erasure take a toll and Song experiences recurring episodes of depression and mania. A thought repeats: I want to die. I want to die. Song enters a psychiatric hospital where she meets patients with similar struggles. So begins her sweeping journey to heal herself by losing everything. Unflinching and lyrical, Docile is one woman&’s story of subverting the model minority myth, contending with mental illness, and finding her self-worth by looking within.
Dockside (The Lakeshore Chronicles #3)
by Susan WiggsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan WiggsRevisit the tranquil shores of Willow Lake in this irresistible tale of a woman’s emotional journey from the heartache of the past to hope for the future.With her daughter off to college, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. Motherhood, after all, has left little time for dating, travel and chasing dreams. She decides to become the general manager of the charming Inn at Willow Lake, a place where she as fond childhood memories. But just as she begins to dream of owning the inn one day, she learns that it’s been purchased by Greg Bellamy, a man with whom she has a complicated history. Greg lost his first marriage to a demanding career. Now he’s determined to make a new start, and to put family first, before it’s too late. Between juggling work, raising his young son and helping his nearly grown daughter face life’s ultimate challenge, he has no time to fall in love. Still, with Nina Romano, this might be a chance for a new beginning.Previously published.Read the Lakeshore Chronicles Series by Susan Wiggs:Book One: Summer at Willow LakeBook Two: The Winter LodgeBook Three: DocksideBook Four: Snowfall at Willow LakeBook Five: FiresideBook Six: Lakeshore ChristmasBook Seven: The Summer HideawayBook Eight: Marrying Daisy BellamyBook Nine: Return to Willow LakeBook Ten: Candlelight ChristmasBook Eleven: Starlight on Willow Lake
Doctor Right
by Janet TronstadTreasure Creek, Alaska, has only one pediatrician: the very handsome, very eligible Dr. Alex Haven. But the former big-city doc is counting the weeks till his contract with the tiny town is up. All so he can return to Los Angeles to start a clinic in his brother's honor. Nurse Maryann Jenner is determined to keep Alex in Alaska by finding him a bride and giving him a new reason to stay. But when a little boy's life-and Maryann's hope-is jeopardized, Alex may find his own reason to stay forever.
Doctor Ryder and Son: A Touching Medical Romance (Medical Romances #8)
by Gill SandersonAnother delightful medical romance by best-selling author Gill Sanderson!Readers love Gill's gripping medical romances!'Stories are brilliant and find it difficult to put down' 5* reader review'Yet another living heartfelt story. I could read these books forever....' 5* reader review'A brilliant book of such quality !!' 5* reader reviewSean and Luke both needed Kate...Still reeling from his divorce, and unable to cope with their son Sean's severe leukaemia, Dr Luke Ryder had held women at bay. But when he saw Sister Kate Storm with her small patients he knew that she could give his mother support and help in caring for nine-year-old Sean. In need of a break, and as Sean was in remission, Kate felt that looking after the boy would be more like a holiday than work. She knew that Luke was the one for her, and Luke clearly found her equally attractive - but how could she convince him to trust again?Don't miss Gill Sanderson's entertaining medical romances, including the Good, Bad and Ugly and the A Lakeland Practice series.
Doctor in the Andes
by Dana JamesWhen Dr Kara Noreno's husband dies, she is left on her own to run the clinic they have established in the foothills of the Andes. But pressure from her late husband's family and antagonism from local trouble-makers are undermining her efforts. Assistance arrives in the form of Dr Ross Hallam, who soon proves indispensible, both to the clinic and to Kara's lonely heart. But how can she tell him she loves him when she knows that Ross, like everyone else, will leave?
Doctor of the High Fells: A Gritty Saga About One Woman's Determination to Make a Difference
by Elizabeth GillWill she forever be an outsider?The perfect fireside read for wintry nights, for fans of THE WINTER BABY by Sheila Newberry and THE MISTLETOE SELLER by Dilly Court.Determined to practise as a doctor, Prue escapes a loveless marriage to journey far from home and join a surgery in Tow Law. But she soon finds that long hours and limited resources are only the beginning - gaining the townspeople's trust will be her greatest challenge of all.Elizabeth Gill's next northern saga THE QUARRYMAN'S WIFE is available to preorder now! Just search 9781786482662 Praise for Elizabeth Gil's latest book, SNOW ANGELS, from real readers: 'This is a real love story with twists of family saga' Debra, Amazon reviewer 'Snow angels is a most enchanting book. It keeps you captivated in an exciting world with plenty of twists and turns' Sally, Amazon reviewer 'The story is full of fantastic descriptions of the North Country, where Elizabeth Gill herself has always lived, and which she clearly loves with all her heart.' Amazon reviewerAlso by Elizabeth Gill:Snow AngelsThe Guardian AngelNobody's ChildMiss Appleby's AcademyThe Singing WindsFar From My Father's HouseAnd available to pre-order now: The Quarryman's Wife
Doctor of the High Fells: A Gritty Saga About One Woman's Determination to Make a Difference
by Elizabeth GillFrom the bestselling author of Miss Appleby's Academy, comes a gritty saga perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Nadine Dorries.Prue's heart beat hard - she had heard of the low seams of the mines of northwest Durham and she had always had a fear of being enclosed. This was her job, she told herself, this was what she had wanted. She must do it. So she picked up her bag and followed them to the cage which carried the miners below ground, praying that the man did not die, that she need not produce some miracle . . . Determined to practise as a doctor, Prue escapes a loveless marriage to journey far from home and join a surgery in Tow Law. But she soon finds that long hours and limited resources are only the beginning - gaining the townspeople's trust will be her greatest challenge of all. From the bestselling author of Miss Appleby's Academy comes the story of Prue Stanhope, young woman doctor to the miners of Tow Law, County Durham.(P)2015 WF Howes Ltd