LIBROS DEL AUTOR: heather tosteson

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  • SOURCE NOTES
    Heather Tosteson
    The intimate and also highly generalizable poems in Source Notes: Seventh Decade revolve around two core questions: 'If everything we said to define ourselves/was preceded by Just like everyone or/ Like most of us, what would shift/in the life-long construction project/we call our self?' and 'Who says age can’t be luxurious,/astonishing, sui generis?' The poems in the collectio...
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    22,19 €

  • Sharing the Burden of Repair
    Charles D. Brockett / Heather Tosteson
             Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration describes a six-year listening project on reentry that took place at the crest of an unusual wave of bipartisan criminal justice reform in Georgia, one of our most punishing states. Its primary intended audience is common citizens, like us, concerned about the reality of mass incarceration but unsure how to...
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    27,52 €

  • THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF MARIA VAN LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONI'S DOCHTER (1668-1696)
    Heather Tosteson
    THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF MARIA VAN LEEUWENHOEK, ANTONI'S DOCHTER (1668-1696): Including accounts of novel discoveries made in Delft that bear upon the oft vexing mysteries of sexual generation, particularly as they apply to the fate and purpose of womenIn the 1670s in a small town in Holland, in a world constantly racked by fevers, plagues, wars, and an amazing rat...
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    19,62 €

  • God Speaks My Language, Can You?
    Heather Tosteson
    Based on over one hundred interviews with people across all faith traditions, this is, first of all, a book of stories, each fascinating and unique. We are invited to read these stories with the express intention of feeling what we have in common with the people whose life stories we find here, whether they are conservative Christian housewives or liberal young Muslim immigrant...
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    19,90 €

  • Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English
    Heather Tosteson
    “Cada língua concebe outra eu,/every language conceives another I,/ igualmente essencial, new,” Heather Tosteson writes in Breathing in Portuguese, Living in English. Exploring through a new language and life in another hemisphere what it means to be in the third stage, terceira idade, of a well-lived life, the poet realizes that she has “come here to live into the reality of ...
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    16,10 €

  • Germs of Truth
    Heather Tosteson
    GERMS OF TRUTH A book about life, death, families of all ages, stages, and orientation-and sperm banks. In this engaging and thoughtful collection of short stories, we find people of all ages trying to make sense-poignant, often funny, sometimes wise-of the many, changing ways they intersect as parents, children, and families from conception to death. In the first section, W...
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    20,07 €

  • The Sanctity of the Moment
    Heather Tosteson
    This powerful collection of poems spans the major stages of a woman's life-adolescence, early marriage and divorce, single motherhood, family life and its dissolution, late love, encroaching mortality, and the mysterious, obsessive, and ultimately healing returns of early trauma-and does so with an equally tenacious sense of the sanctity of this moment, and this one alone, in a...
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    20,07 €

  • Hearts as Big as Fists & Other Stories
    Heather Tosteson
    A mother tries to make sense of the horrifying reality that all three of her sons may die of AIDS. A young woman whose manic depressive mother has died and whose father has remarried welcomes her own unborn child and recognizes the complicated source of her own maternity. A young woman faces the loss of her husband to kidney disease after he has donated a kidney to her own bro...
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    18,19 €

  • Visible Signs
    Heather Tosteson
    Visible Signs, set in Antigua, Guatemala, tells the story of Mikela, a fierce ten-year old indigenous girl determined to save her pregnant severely traumatized twelve-year old sister, Natividad, and the child she carries. Mikela draws together an unlikely assortment of American women to help her. What will happen to Mikela, Natividad and the baby becomes the central question of...
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    21,25 €