My name is Sharon Schwartz. I am a homemaker and student. I reside in Chatsworth, Georgia with my husband, Patrick/and children, Camrie 22, Joseph 13, and Tori 10. I am a member of Grove Level Baptist Church. I enjoy reading, taking walks, writing poetry, admiring the stars and creation. I love to spend time with my family, watch my son play baseball and watch my little one dance. I enjoy good conversation and laughter with my oldest daughter. I have had many jobs over the years prior to h...

This book is a group of poems I have compiled on my journey of healing God has brought to my life. When I asked God to forgive me for the life I had lived and to come into my life He did. However, just because I had invited Him into my life and given my heart to Him didn’t mean my life was perfect. I had so much emotional baggage from the way I had chosen to deal with life. God made us to have emotions. He made us to feel, hurt, laugh, cry, and be angry. He wants us to use these emotions b...

"A more-than-welcome return to a classic idea of the novel . . . A wonder to read" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).The field is all around us. It's our needs and our wants. This is what George tells Lydia. A disturbance, however, is something that keeps us from grasping and attaining the things we need. Usually, we can adapt to these disturbances and move forward. But, what happens if a disturbance becomes too great to move past? In this entrancing tale o...

Everyone has a face that they show to the outside world—but our thoughts, fears, and perversions lie just beneath"Referred pain" describes the sensation of pain, not at the actual point of injury, but somewhere else in the body. This disorientation of the senses is felt, in one way or another, by many of the characters in this collection from Lynne Sharon Schwartz, one of America's foremost chroniclers of contemporary life.In the title novella, a son of Holo...

A dynamic collection of stories that portrays different generations and explores various genres with compassion and dry witIn The Melting Pot, nothing is ever what it seems. In these short stories from critically acclaimed author Lynne Sharon Schwartz, characters grapple with the desires and needs of daily life, no matter how absurd or mundane. In the title story, a woman finally reveals her tangled family history to her widowed lover. In another tale, an ...

Autore di capolavori come Austerlitz, Gli anelli di Saturno e Vertigini, W.G. Sebald non ha mai indietreggiato dalla responsabilità di sentirsi parte di un popolo – quello tedesco – che egli riteneva avesse l'obbligo di farsi carico della memoria delle atrocità compiute. In questo testo Sebald racconta a chi sono ispirati i personaggi dei suoi libri, e ricorda l'infanzia trascorsa in Germania e la scelta di emigrare in Inghilterra. Attraverso una delicata raccolta di interviste e saggi, Ly...

The emotionally realistic and elegant portrait of mourning in the days and months following 9/11As Renata, a linguist for the New York City Public Library, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge on her way to work one morning, she looks up to see a flash of orange and blue. Two planes have hit the World Trade Center, and with that, her world changes entirely.Renata's connection to the tragedy grows deeper as her boyfriend, an overzealous social worker, begins to take c...

A rich and diverse collection of stories detailing life in all its daily battles and yearningsLynne Sharon Schwartz is a master of tone, deft at creating realistic settings and characters. In Acquainted with the Night, she unleashes sixteen wickedly smart, wholly believable short stories. In the title story, for instance, a man's nocturnal battle against a floating globule in his eye forces him to question his very state of being. In "Mrs. Saunders Writes t...

Retirement doesn't spell the end after all, in this rousing journey through loss and rebirthMax has lived a long and fulfilling life. He and his wife were star trapeze artists and acrobats in the Brandon Brothers circus. But with her passing, he's left alone in New York, and suffers a heart attack after a terrifying mugging. Without family to fall back on, Max is forced to leave his beloved Manhattan for a rest home in Westchester. He fears it will be the end of him...

An essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how we go about finding them and estimating their effects. A key goal of epidemiologic research is to uncover the causes of diseases and other health-related outcomes. But exactly what we mean by a "cause" and what types of phenomena qualify as causes, differ across historical periods, and is a contentious topic. The causal status of...

The arithmetic of marriage is never easy to understand—as time passes, the variables constantly changeCaroline is set adrift in 1950s Rome when she meets Ivan. Though things start slowly, Ivan wins her over after a strong pursuit, and the two marry, agreeing never to inflict any "irreparable wounds." But though Ivan proves to be a fine father, he is a distant husband, and Caroline finds herself daydreaming of other men. So as the years pass, the couple finds ways to...

"A grab bag of realist and experimental stories, each one a treasure . . . Wise, wry, and witty—theses stories in all their stylistic variations are perfect." — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA man generously lends his car to his ex-wife, and is bewildered when she not only neglects to return it but makes increasingly implausible excuses for her actions. A neat and orderly clothing store owner is taken in and manipulated by an ailing elder...