Farewell to Alexandria

Roberts, Suzanne

Curley Large Print

Farewell to Alexandria (Curley Large Print Books)

Literature & Fiction

Chivers North Amer

Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike.
John Muir had written of the Sierra Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and this was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry—confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange men—is as much about finding a woman’s way into outdoor experience as it is about the natural world she so eloquently describes. Candid and funny and, finally, wise, Almost Somewhere is not just the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also the reflection of a distinctly feminine view of nature. 
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Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Outdoor Lives)

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Bison Books

Coping in New Territory is a must read for adult children of aging parents. Suzanne Roberts shows great depth of experience with her practical, real-life suggestions on how to handle living arrangements, health care and difficult emotional issues between parents and their adult children. Readers will quickly gain insightful knowledge and understanding on how to embrace the responsibilities and challengers of elder care. This guide helps fill a major gap in understanding aging care and family relationships. Her book is like having a wise supportive personal coach at your side. This book was written and designed for the overwhelmed caregiver. The information is clear, concise, practical and life altering. It is a book the reader will return to time and time again as new challenges present themselves. This is a book you will buy for yourself, then order 4 more copies for your brothers and sisters!

Coping in New Territory: A Guide for Adult Children of Aging Parents, First Edition

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Cheltenham Press

2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner&nbsp; 2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist&nbsp; 2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association&nbsp; 2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIES Both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own desires and adventures, Suzanne Roberts encounters lightning and landslides, sharks and piranha-infested waters, a nightclub drugging, burning bodies, and brief affairs as she searches for the love of her life and finally herself. Throughout her travels Roberts tries hard not to be a bad tourist, but owing to her cultural blind spots, things don't always go as planned. Fearlessly confessional, shamelessly funny, and wholly unapologetic, Roberts offers a refreshingly honest account of the joys and absurdities of confronting new landscapes and cultures, as well as new versions of herself. Raw, bawdy, and self-effacing, Bad Tourist is a journey packed with delights and surprises--both of the greater world and of the mysterious workings of the heart.

Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

University Of Nebraska Press

How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame—our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as the Salamanca's cobbled streets, the Mekong River's floating markets, Fire Island's windswept beaches, Nashville's honky-tonks, and the Sierra Nevada's snowy slopes, Roberts interrogates her memory and tries to make sense of her own private losses (deaths of people and relationships), as well as more public losses, including a mass shooting in her hometown, environmental devastation in the Amazon rainforest, and wildfire evacuations.\nWith lyricism, insight, honesty, and dark humor, these essays illuminate the sometimes terrible beauty of what it means to be human, deepening the conversation on death and grief, sexuality, and the shame that comes from surviving the world in a female body with all of its complexities.

Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature\nIt was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of that hike.\nJohn Muir wrote of the Sierra Nevada as a “vast range of light,” and that was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered that she needed a new frame of reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry—confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange men—is as much about finding a woman’s way into outdoor experience as it is about the natural world Roberts so eloquently describes. Candid and funny, and finally, wise, Almost Somewhere not only tells the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also reflects a distinctly feminine view of nature.\nThis new edition includes an afterword by the author looking back on the ways both she and the John Muir Trail have changed over the past thirty years, as well as book club and classroom discussion questions and photographs from the trip.

When you think about it, if God is all- powerful and He is in you, you really can live a "power-full" life. It all begins with what you believe about God. Do you believe that He is who He says He is and He will do what He says He will do? And even more importantly, do you believe that you are who He says you are, and you can do what He says you can do. A lot of people believe that God can but when it comes to believing that they can, their power switch is turned off. "It's Time to Power UP!" is a cheerful, hopeful opportunity to plug back in to the Father who adores you, the Jesus that is actively involved in every detail of your life, and the Holy Spirit who is ready willing and able to re-connect you and re-charge your life. Are you ready? Are you willing? Well Come ON! There's no need for you to stay where you are when you can join Them in heavenly places. Don't you think it really is time to "POWER UP"?

It's Time To Power UP!

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Xulon Press

Suzanne Roberts was raised in Southern California and studied at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of another poetry collection, "Shameless" (Cherry Grove Collections). She teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe, California.

Nothing to You

Poetry

Pecan Grove Pr

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