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I Die, but My Memory Lives On

Author : Henning Mankell

Publisher : New Press/ORIM

Page : 79 pages

File Size : 32,77 MB

Release : 2005-12-01

Category : History

ISBN : 159558577X

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“A deeply moving account of Henning Mankell’s personal responses to AIDS and its victims, both parents and children left behind far too soon.” —Archbishop Desmond Tutu The internationally famous creator of the bestselling Kurt Wallander mysteries tells the true story of a heartrending tradition spawned by a major health crisis: the invaluable Memory Book Project, which gives those dying of AIDS an opportunity to record their lives in words and pictures for the children they leave behind. In Uganda, Mankell finds village after village populated only by children and the elderly—those left behind after AIDS swept away an entire generation. These slim, intensely personal volumes can contain words, pictures, a pressed butterfly, or even grains of sand as ways to represent the lives lost to this devastating plague. Excerpts from Ugandan memory books appear throughout I Die, but My Memory Lives On and, together with Mankell’s narrative, they tell the stories of individual lives while sounding a powerful warning about the threat of AIDS. Featuring a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the book includes an appendix listing AIDS organizations and resources. A portion of the book’s proceeds will be donated to AIDS charities in Africa.



A Memory to Die For

Author : Debra M. Crowe

Publisher : Debra M Crowe

Page : 187 pages

File Size : 31,8 MB

Release : 2008-06

Category : Coma

ISBN : 1604749741

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The story centers on a recently divorced criminal attorney named Debra Holster. Debra relocated back to the city of New Orleans after she discovered her husband, Desmond, was having an affair with a co-worker. Debra decided to leave Desmond and moved in with her best friend, Rocky, just until the couple could dissolve the marriage, and Debra would be allowed to move back in to their home. Shortly after Debra moved in with her friend someone broke into their lakefront home and brutally attacked Rocky in her upstairs bedroom. Debra tried to rescue her friend after hearing her scream out in pain. She found her friend bleeding to death from stab wounds. Debra also became a victim of the intrusion that night at Rocky’s home, but unlike Rocky, Debra survived. She lived only by the grace of God and was left in a deep coma for six months. Debra lost her memory of what happened on that horrible night. She blocked from her mind the entire night. She finally awoke from a coma, remembering nothing. But the killer thought Debra did remember. Who could have committed such a horrible crime?



Passed and Present

Author : Allison Gilbert

Publisher : Seal Press

Page : 189 pages

File Size : 46,45 MB

Release : 2016-04-12

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 158005613X

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Passed and Present is a one-of-a-kind guide for discovering creative and meaningful ways to keep the memory of loved ones alive. Inspiring and imaginative, this bona fide "how-to” manual teaches us how to remember those we miss most, no matter how long they’ve been gone. Passed and Present is not about sadness and grieving. It is about happiness and remembering. It is possible to look forward, to live a rich and joyful life, while keeping the memory of loved ones alive. This much-needed, easy-to-use roadmap shares 85 imaginative ways to celebrate and honor family and friends we never want to forget. Chapter topics include: Repurpose With Purpose: Ideas for transforming objects and heirlooms. Discover ways to reimagine photographs, jewelry, clothing, letters, recipes, and virtually any inherited item or memento. Use Technology: Strategies for your daily, digital life. Opportunities for using computers, scanners, printers, apps, mobile devices, and websites. Not Just Holidays: Tips for remembrance any time of year, day or night, whenever you feel that pull, be it a loved one’s birthday, an anniversary, or just a moment when a memory catches you by surprise. Monthly Guide: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and other special times of year present unique challenges and opportunities. This chapter provides exciting ideas for making the most of them while keeping your loved one’s memory alive. Places to Go: Destinations around the world where reflecting and honoring loved ones is a communal activity. This concept is called Commemorative Travel. Also included are suggestions for incorporating aspects of these foreign traditions into your practices at home. Being proactive about remembering loved ones has a powerful and unexpected benefit: it can make you happier. The more we incorporate memories into our year-round lives as opposed to sectioning them off to a particular time of year, the more we can embrace the people who have passed, and all that’s good and fulfilling in our present. With beautiful illustrations throughout by artist Jennifer Orkin Lewis,Passed and Present also includes an introduction by Hope Edelman, bestselling author of Motherless Daughters.



When Memory Dies

Author : A. Sivanandan

Publisher : Arcadia Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 26,60 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781905147595

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This novel is a powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars. The character Saha looks for order in a return to traditional values; Rajan is on a quest for modernity that takes him to the mother country; and Vijay is in a fight for socialism that ends in terror. Through the travail of their lives emerges the possibility of another future.



Memories to Die for

Author : John V. Kriesfeld

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 19,44 MB

Release : 2012-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1469773228

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When James Chandler keys in his security code and enters his front door one morning, he thinks it is just another day. As he watches his wife and daughter scream in terror, James has no idea that he died five days earlier and that he now appears to be someone else and have that man's memories, too. As the police send him off in an ambulance to seek mental assistance, no one knows whether he is James Chandler or someone else or how he got into this situation in the first place, for that matter. When psychologist Laura Monroe is handed his strange case, she is unwittingly thrust into the dangerous world of political subterfuge and intrigue. As Laura and her boyfriend, Jordan, begin to uncover the extraordinary facts behind the case, they find themselves battling against a formidable opponent and an unscrupulous government enemies that will stop at nothing to silence her. With the prize of eternal life and complete political mastery at stake, Laura's life is in jeopardy. In this gripping thriller, Laura's only chance of survival is to track down enough hard evidence to expose a deceitful plot. But there's only one problem. Who does she confide in when she cannot trust her own government?



Love Never Stops

Author : Emilio Parga

Publisher : The Solace Tree

Page : 33 pages

File Size : 15,22 MB

Release : 2007-06-30

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 9781561232017

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"This activity book is for children who have had someone significant die in [their] life. Children today are faced with uncertainty and have many thoughts and feelings about their loss. ... This book is intended to give grieving children an opportunity to express themselves directly through drawing and writing of how they are feeling. We must listen to children and give them an opportunity to regress and be depressed. This book is a gift with activities that may help children understand their loss."--Page 4.



Map of Memory Lane

Author : Francesca Arnoldy

Publisher :

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 14,83 MB

Release : 2021-09-06

Category :

ISBN : 9781732780613

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Children are naturally curious. Sometimes they have BIG questions. MAP OF MEMORY LANE is a heartwarming story that gently introduces the topic of loss while celebrating the simple moments we share with those we love.



Nothing Ever Dies

Author : Viet Thanh Nguyen

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 37,26 MB

Release : 2016-04-11

Category : Art

ISBN : 067466034X

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Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War—a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations. “[A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War—and which Vietnamese call the American War...As a writer, [Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift—wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity—to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls ‘a just memory’ of this war.” —Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times “In Nothing Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war, self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply into memories of the Vietnamese war...[An] important book, which hits hard at self-serving myths.” —Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review “Ultimately, Nguyen’s lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry, in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)



A Memory of Light

Author : Robert Jordan

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 1042 pages

File Size : 20,8 MB

Release : 2013-04-09

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1429997176

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The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! With Robert Jordan’s untimely passing in 2007, Brandon Sanderson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn novels and the Stormlight Archive, was chosen by Jordan’s editor—his wife, Harriet McDougal—to complete the final volume in The Wheel of Time®, later expanded to three books. In A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and concluding novel in Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, the armies of Light gather to fight in Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, to save the Westland nations from the shadow forces of the Dark One. Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, is ready to fulfill his destiny. To defeat the enemy that threatens them all, he must convince his reluctant allies that his plan—as foolhardy and dangerous as it appears—is their only chance to stop the Dark One’s ascension and secure a lasting peace. But if Rand’s course of action fails, the world will be engulfed in shadow. Across the land, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene engage in battle with Shadowspawn, Trollocs, Darkfriends, and other creatures of the Blight. Sacrifices are made, lives are lost, but victory is unassured. For when Rand confronts the Dark One in Shayol Ghul, he is bombarded with conflicting visions of the future that reveal there is more at stake for humanity than winning the war. Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. The Wheel of Time® New Spring: The Novel #1 The Eye of the World #2 The Great Hunt #3 The Dragon Reborn #4 The Shadow Rising #5 The Fires of Heaven #6 Lord of Chaos #7 A Crown of Swords #8 The Path of Daggers #9 Winter's Heart #10 Crossroads of Twilight #11 Knife of Dreams By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson #12 The Gathering Storm #13 Towers of Midnight #14 A Memory of Light By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons The Wheel of Time Companion By Robert Jordan and Amy Romanczuk Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Die With Memories, Not Dreams

Author : Tom Parker

Publisher :

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 20,74 MB

Release : 2020-12-02

Category :

ISBN :

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When a painful change enters your life without warning, it throws your entire world into chaos. You're going through life thinking you've got it all figured out, but then something happens that knocks you off course. All of a sudden, you're heading in a direction that you don't want to be going. You reach a critical point in your life where you can continue down this path of suffering and misery and still not change the events of the past, or choose to accept what has happened, stop the pain and make the decision to save yourself. When contemplating this myself, I had a sudden realisation. If I continued down the path of suffering, I would be guaranteed a life of misery. But if I decided to change something, I would at least have a chance of making a better life for myself. It was a hugely liberating feeling because I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. I decided to make a change. I had no idea how so I wrote a list of 100 things I wanted to do in a year. My thinking was that if I could achieve half of what was on my list, I'd be in a much different place by the end of the year. And I was right; I had the best year of my life. I completed my first triathlon, went scuba diving for the first time, started a business, and read over 50 self-development books to name a few things. I went to some fantastic places, and I made some great memories but more than all of that I learnt a lot of valuable life lessons along the way. This book includes all those lessons that have helped me turn my life around. We are all in pursuit of something. Some call it success, others happiness or fulfilment. Whatever you are looking for from life is unique to you, and your actions are ultimately an attempt to find this feeling and make it last. Whatever this feeling means to you, the core theme of this book is helping you get there. The book offers a mix of philosophy, science, mindset hacks and practical tools for daily use. Each lesson starts with a quote followed by my attempt to tell a story, provide context, ask a question, or put forward an exercise so you may find a deeper understanding of whatever it is you are looking for. I hope that by the end of the book, you have learnt how to take complete control over your path in life and how to become a stronger, happier, and more confident person in every area of your life that is important to you. The lessons have helped me turn my life around, and I know it can do the same for you.