Book Description
Presents a collection of poems focusing on the border between the United States and Mexico.
Author : Benjamin Alire Senz
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556592973
Presents a collection of poems focusing on the border between the United States and Mexico.
Author : Carole Radziwill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074327718X
The author traces her life and marriage to Anthony Radziwill, President Kennedy's nephew, in an account that describes her work as a journalist, her friendship with JFK, Jr., and his wife, and her husband's struggle with terminal cancer.
Author : Tracy Kidder
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812977610
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle •Chicago Tribune • The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers Weekly In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. Kidder breaks new ground in telling this unforgettable story as he travels with Deo back over a turbulent life and shows us what it means to be fully human. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Named one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the year by Time • Named one of the year’s “10 Terrific Reads” by O: The Oprah Magazine “Extraordinarily stirring . . . a miracle of human courage.”—The Washington Post “Absorbing . . . a story about survival, about perseverance and sometimes uncanny luck in the face of hell on earth. . . . It is just as notably about profound human kindness.”—The New York Times “Important and beautiful . . . This book is one you won’t forget.”—Portland Oregonian
Author : Steve Leder
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0593187555
The national bestseller From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an inspiring book about loss based on his most popular sermon. As the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone but also the beauty of what remains. This inspiring and comforting book takes us on a journey through the experience of loss that is fundamental to everyone. Yet even after having sat beside thousands of deathbeds, Steve Leder the rabbi was not fully prepared for the loss of his own father. It was only then that Steve Leder the son truly learned how loss makes life beautiful by giving it meaning and touching us with love that we had not felt before. Enriched by Rabbi Leder's irreverence, vulnerability, and wicked sense of humor, this heartfelt narrative is filled with laughter and tears, the wisdom of millennia and modernity, and, most of all, an unfolding of the profound and simple truth that in loss we gain more than we ever imagined.
Author : Sarah E. Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0674988345
Nearly 1,600 Americans who took part in the Vietnam War are still missing and presumed dead. Sarah Wagner tells the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. Today's forensic science can identify remains from mere traces, raising expectations for repatriation and forcing a new reckoning with the toll of America's most fraught war.
Author : Sally Mann
Publisher : Bulfinch
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780821228432
Internationally acclaimed photographer Sally Mann offers a five-part meditation on mortality.
Author : Helene Dunbar
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0738744743
After a terrible accident, Cal Ryan loses his promising baseball career and Lizzie, one of his best friends. Everyone expects him to pick up the pieces and move on, but all that remains for Cal is an overwhelming sense that her death was his fault. Cal thought he could overcome any obstacle. But grief might be the one exception.
Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 1995-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226904954
What Remains collects Christa Wolf's short fiction, from early work in the sixties to the widely debated title story, first published in Germany in 1990. Addressing a wide range of topics, from sexual politics to the nature of memory, these powerful and often very personal stories offer a fascinating introduction to Wolf's work. What Remains and Other Stories . . . is clear and farsighted. The eight heartfelt stories in the book show why she has been respected as a serious author since her 1968 novel, The Quest for Christa T. . . . Wolf uses her own experiences and observations to create universal themes about the controls upon human freedom.—Herbert Mitgang, New York Times Christa Wolf has set herself nothing less than the task of exploring what it is to be a conscious human being alive in a moment of history.—Mary Gordon, New York Times Book Review The simultaneous publication of these two volumes offers readers here a generous sampling of the short fiction, speeches and essays that Wolf has produced over the last three decades.—Mark Harman, Boston Globe
Author : B.R. Goodwin
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1664226419
When Vala’s family is deemed a threat to society by the government, her life is dramatically shifted from that of a normal seventeen-year-old girl, to a life on the run. Along with a small group of friends, she embarks on a journey to find her captured brother and learns to trust the one who has seemingly led her through the wilderness all along.
Author : Claudia / Delfina Cardona
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780924047923