Coming Home

 

hat is a health visitor and what did they do in the late 20th century?

A hard-working but frustrated woman determined to have a fulfilling career: in late autumn 1979 Sarah Reynolds is out of love with her work as a health visitor. She could enjoy the fruits of a successful marriage to a local business man, and stay at home with her young son. Yet she yearns to make a difference by supporting individuals and families through key events in their lives. The golden handcuffs of regular hours and a nursery place for her son hold her in the community rather than the hospital. Sarah’s drive and enthusiasm to find new ways of working puts her at odds with her frosty line manager.

Blurring fiction with fact, Cath Cole blends humour, sadness and sorrow to explore the role of health visitors in the late 1979s early 1980s.

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Vivo

 

What does it mean to be more than human?

London, 2035. People are controlled by identification chips and curfews. Trees have been removed from public spaces and contained behind walls. And behind the door of a small flat a woman is evolving, growing leaves and fur and feathers. Four strangers are drawn together and changed by their interactions with this being society sees as a monster.

Vivo challenges boundaries and asks questions on many levels: social, literary, and emotional.

Endorsement for Vivo:

Vivo sets the reader on a path to a way of life-death beyond work and the achievement society, beyond even humanity and language. A profound meditation on the love required to abandon ourselves to the world and the tender yet unyielding resistance engendered when we do so.

–Matthew Calarco, Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton

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I Want You to Be Free

 

is is the story of Renata Skotnicka-Zajdman, an orphan of war who matured into a rescuer of Memory.

I Want You to Be Free is a message for future generations, and a wish for the world. It is also the remarkable story of an extraordinary woman.

Written by her beloved and trusted daughter, this intimate memoir celebrates the life of a great lady who survived genocide and rose from the ruins of war to become a trailblazer in Holocaust activism and education.

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Children of Light

 

Children of Light is a collection of 29 short stories that celebrate the quiet and private, often unnoticed vicissitudes of life, a little treasure trove of suburban America in lush, thoughtful, beautiful prose featuring characters who face life-changing challenges, heartbreaks, and uneasy love.

 

This collection of short stories examines close up and with stark reality the challenges we all face in our complicated modern lives. From the opening story “A Matter of Trust” where a woman meets an itinerate preacher who just might be the devil to “Miracles”, about a devoted parish priest whose heroism costs him everything, and from an American archeologist in Greece who perhaps stumbles onto an ancient spirit in “Blue Monkey Oracle” to an elderly couple facing their mortality in “Orange Juice and Seat Warmers: A Love Story” and a teenage boy traumatized by his mother’s death in “Garrett’s Ghost”, this carefully crafted snatch of tightly-packed stories deals with racism, death, first love, homelessness, gender identity, coming of age, and more issues that contemporary people must face.

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Downward Dog

 

Many expressions in yoga and tai chi are associated with animals, but what if those animals started making those movements

Downward Dog was prompted when at an outdoor yoga class in Brooklyn, the yoga instructor's dog began doing the downward dog right next to her. Seemed like a great idea for a children's book. 

You can see yoga-  performing animals in Ed Meek's' delightful Downward Dog.

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