Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, women, kindness
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312422849
ISBN-13: 9780312422844
In this sequel to his award-winning Empire of the Sun, young James returns to England at the end of World War II. He stumbles through medical study at Cambridge, trains briefly as an RAF pilot in Canada, and marries. When his wife dies suddenly, Jim is thrust into the violence and sexual promiscuity of the sixties. Penetrating and wise, J. G. Ballard’s biting social commentary and pushing of boundaries make this semi-autobiographical novel a small classic.
Author: Adam Rapp
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: kindness
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 2010-02-03
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0573696802
ISBN-13: 9780573696800
Drama / Characters: 2m, 2f / Interior An ailing mother and her teenaged son flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love among bohemians. Her son isn’t interested, so Mom takes the kindly cabdriver instead, while the boy entertains a visitor from down the hall, an enigmatic, potentially dangerous young woman. Kindness is a play about the possibility for sympathy in a harsh world and the meaning of mercy in the face of devastating circumstances. Premiered at Playwrights Hor
Author: Father Faber
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: kindness
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $19.75
ISBN-10: 1110490542
ISBN-13: 9781110490547
Author: Wendy Lustbader
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: kindness, counting
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1993-12-27
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0029195160
ISBN-13: 9780029195161
Seattle mental health counselor Lustbader here compells attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs. Stories are related by patients themselves. From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at not being able to manage on one’s own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivity.
Author: Dennis L. Siluk
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: novel, kindness, cold
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2005-05-20
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0595350623
ISBN-13: 9780595350629
Mr. Siluk’s book, Cold Kindness, could be considered the sequel to his previous book Perhaps it’s Love, but going in the opposite direction. It is what makes it unique in its own way though. Most of us look for love and when it starts to vanish, try to hold onto it as long as possible; thus, likewise, Carmen tries, and so does her lover, Adam; but do they achieve this? The year is 1959-60, when the story takes place, in a small city called Dieburg, in West Germany. The author has been to all locations mentioned in the story, for example: Dieburg, Augsburg, Darmstadt, Babenha
Author: Miriam Toews
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Keywords: kindness, complicated
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0676978568
ISBN-13: 9780676978568
Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: “the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” East Village is a town with no train and no bar whose job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir or churning butter for tourists at the pioneer village. Ministered with an iron fist by Nomi’s uncle Hans, a.k.a. The Mouth of Darkness, East Village is a town that
Author: Rosally Saltsman
Publisher: Melech Publications/Feldheim
Keywords: kindness, portion
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 9659097204
ISBN-13: 9789659097203
Each Torah portion offers insights into doing chesed, acts of kindness. Acts of kindness are one of the three pillars on which the world stands. Doing kindness is one of the ways in which we emulate God. A Portion of Kindness provides ways to learn from the chesed of the patriarchs, matriarchs, leaders and progenitors of the Jewish Nation.
