Lise Funderburg
Lise Funderburg is a writer and editor and a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Funderburg’s collection of oral histories, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity, has become a core text in the study of American multiracial identity in college courses around the world. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Geographic, Salon, and The Nation.
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Apple, Tree
- By: Lise Funderburg
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us–in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and... Read more
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Peace Is a Practice
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When you breathe in all the grace available to you and release everything that is outside of your control, you’ll discover peace that surpasses your circumstances. All it takes is practice.
If you feel overwhelmed with anxiety about the future, you’re far from alone. For many of us, when we’re not worrying about what is to come, we find ourselves wrestling with things ...
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Barbarians at the Gate
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book Review
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, ...
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Hear’s the Thing
Includes an audiobook exclusive interview of Cody Alan with Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles!
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We live in a world of noise where everyone is so quick to speak. When we slow down and give someone our full attention, we offer them a safe place to be fully heard and accepted.
Hear’s the Thing is a story about what is possible when someone is brave enough to listen to ...
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Schopenhauer’s Porcupines
The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers likeDeborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer’s Porcupines, she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who ...
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Skeletons in God’s Closet
Is God a sadistic torturer? Coldhearted judge? Genocidal maniac? Unfortunately, our popular caricatures often make him out to be.God has some skeletons in the closet. At least, that’s what many of us fear. “How can a loving God send people to hell?” “Isn’t it arrogant to believe Jesus is the only way to God?” “What is up with holy war in the Old Testament?” These are difficult ...
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Stella Diaz Leaps to the Future
From award-winning author Angela Dominguez, the fifth and final novel about Stella Diaz, a Mexican-American girl who is now ready to be at top of her school-fifth grade!Stella is getting ready for her next big step.This year, she’s a fifth grader, which means she’s not only one of the big kids in her elementary school, but she’ll also have to start thinking about middle school. ...
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The Silver Chair
‘The Silver Chair’ by CS Lewis is a children’s novel in the Narnia series. Eustace and Jill escape from the school bullies through a magical door in the wall. In Narnia, Aslan the Lion has a job for them; to find and bring back The Lost Prince to Narnia. He also gives them detailed instructions, and they pursue the quest with vigour, through deep recesses and dark caverns, in order to ...
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. First published in 1910, Orczy’s female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn. As well as being one of the first novels to feature a female detective as the main character, Orczy’s outstandingly successful and brilliant ...
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Only Work, No Play
After two years of taking care of her heartbroken father, Evie needs a new start. Leaving the States and following her sister to Australia to work as the personal assistant of rugby star Xavier “The Beast” Stevens seems like the right kind of distraction.Tall, muscled, and devilishly handsome, Xavier is the love ’em and leave ’em kind of guy. He never forgets a girl’s name because he ...
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Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic
From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence-especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws ...
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