A victim of tubercular meningitis recounts her experiences as she progressed from suicidal tendencies to the realization that she alone was responsible for her own recovery

Notes on an Emergency

Biographies & Memoirs

Simpson, Elizabeth

Community & Culture

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

As the world faces the conundrum of simultaneous hunger and food waste, pandemics, climate change, depletion of natural resources, species extinction, water, soil, and air pollution, and chronic illnesses, we see that individuals can make an enormous difference by the way they live, eat, and treat the world around them. Eating local and seasonally-produced food is probably the most important step because it is a step all of us can take.\nLaunched at Transition Lopez Island's recent virtual conference, "Continuing the Journey," the book is available in print at the Lopez Bookshop, Sunnyfield Farmstand, the Lopez Library, and Blossom Grocery. In Eastsound, it can be found at Darvill's Bookstore and the Orcas Food Co-op, in Friday Harbor at Griffin Bay Books, and in Bellingham at Village Books in Fairhaven. It can also be ordered online at transi8onlopezisland.org. Out of their commitment to a sustainable future, the authors are offering free downloadable copies (also found on the website).\nAccompanying instructional videos based on recipes from the book are available on YouTube. Visit transitionlopezisland.org for a list of local retailers or to order the book directly online. Out of their commitment to a sustainable future, the authors are also offering free downloadable copies on the same website. Accompanying instructional videos based on recipes from the book are available on YouTube.

Eating Locally & Seasonally: A Community Food Book for Lopez Island (and All Those Who Want to Eat Well)

Sehmsdorf, Henning K.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

S&s Homestead Press

This challenging, probing work about a woman's recovery from tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely personal exploration of the unconscious, the mental state of nothingness, identity, existentialism, medicine, religion, and most especially, love.

Notes on an Emergency: A Journal of Recovery

iUniverse

Spoils of War

An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War II.

History

Simpson, E.

Americas

Harry N. Abrams

Earthlight, Wordfire: The Work of Ivan Doig (Northwest Folklife)

University of Idaho Press

Business & Money

Industries

Univ of Idaho Pr

Nominated for the BC Book Prize The Perfection of Hope is only incidentally about disease; its theme is the soul's transformation brought about by an encounter with critical illness and a return to health. Its subject is not only the dreadful challenge of cancer, but the triumph of optimism and the moral need to live life to the fullest. From the Hardcover edition.

The Perfection of Hope: A Soul Transformed by Critical Illness

Religion & Spirituality

MacFarlane, Walter & Ross

Nominated for the VanCity Book Prize 2001 I have always been loved by men. Even now, in the middle of middle age, I have found love again. It's the again of love that defines my life, the practice of serial monogamy. And yet the very phrase hints of murder – murder of the heart. So begins Elizabeth Simpson's intimate memoir of her relationships with four men – her father and three husbands – over five decades. Each relationship coloured her life with distinct joys, sorrows, and lessons, and each was influenced by the expectations and sexual politics of the times. For those who travelled the same path, especially women in their forties and fifties, this poignant, often gently humorous work resonates with familiarity and truth. In the fifties Simpson came of age on the prairies within the secure embrace of a close-knit family, a world in which the mutual dedication of her parents and all the messages of home-economics classes led her to expect the same future: a devoted husband and many children. In the sixties she worked to put her first husband – strong, silent, and traditional – through university, then failed to become pregnant when his career was finally launched. In the seventies and eighties she was swept away by a man who was flamboyantly eager to have children with her but equally eager to indulge in sexual infatuations outside the marriage. In the nineties she abandoned the dream and expectation of motherhood and instead confronted a life-threatening illness. Unexpectedly she found her deepest joy in a third marriage and in the satisfaction of a late-blooming career and sanity-saving friendships. One Man at a Time captures the often extraordinary events of an "ordinary" woman's life – indeed many women's lives – with insight and perception: a girl's-eye view of a father's infatuation with his wife; the attempt to get pregnant with the best science available thirty years ago; what to wear when confronting a husband's mistress. Just as Bonnie Burnard conjured a compelling tale from common experience in A Good House, Elizabeth Simpson illuminates the lives of a generation of women in this non-fiction narrative filled with wisdom, forgiveness, and honesty.

One Man at a Time: Secrets of a Serial Monogamist

Nominated for the VanCity Book Prize 2001 I have always been loved by men. Even now, in the middle of middle age, I have found love again. It's the again of love that defines my life, the practice of serial monogamy. And yet the very phrase hints of murder &#8211; murder of the heart. So begins Elizabeth Simpson's intimate memoir of her relationships with four men &#8211; her father and three husbands &#8211; over five decades. Each relationship coloured her life with distinct joys, sorrows, and lessons, and each was influenced by the expectations and sexual politics of the times. For those who travelled the same path, especially women in their forties and fifties, this poignant, often gently humorous work resonates with familiarity and truth. In the fifties Simpson came of age on the prairies within the secure embrace of a close-knit family, a world in which the mutual dedication of her parents and all the messages of home-economics classes led her to expect the same future: a devoted husband and many children. In the sixties she worked to put her first husband &#8211; strong, silent, and traditional &#8211; through university, then failed to become pregnant when his career was finally launched. In the seventies and eighties she was swept away by a man who was flamboyantly eager to have children with her but equally eager to indulge in sexual infatuations outside the marriage. In the nineties she abandoned the dream and expectation of motherhood and instead confronted a life-threatening illness. Unexpectedly she found her deepest joy in a third marriage and in the satisfaction of a late-blooming career and sanity-saving friendships. One Man at a Timecaptures the often extraordinary events of an "ordinary" woman's life &#8211; indeed many women's lives &#8211; with insight and perception: a girl's-eye view of a father's infatuation with his wife; the attempt to get pregnant with the best science available thirty years ago; what to wear when confronting a husband's mistress. Just as Bonnie Burnard conjured a compelling tale from common experience inA Good House, Elizabeth Simpson illuminates the lives of a generation of women in this non-fiction narrative filled with wisdom, forgiveness, and honesty. From the Hardcover edition.

One Man at a Time

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