Drifting Memories
Author : Frances L. Higgins
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Chatham Region (Mass. : Town)
ISBN : 9780936972213
Author : Frances L. Higgins
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Chatham Region (Mass. : Town)
ISBN : 9780936972213
Author : Krys Lee
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101571977
An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience from an extraordinary new talent in fiction. Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut, Drifting House, illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present. In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set in America reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls. A makeshift family is fractured when a shaman from the old country moves in next door. An abandoned wife enters into a fake marriage in order to find her kidnapped daughter. In the tradition of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Drifting House is an unforgettable work by a gifted new writer.
Author : Alexander Maksik
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385679181
Alexander Maksik's electrifying novel tracks a woman's journey from the horrors of Charles Taylor's Liberia to abject poverty and self-exile on a Greek island, where she must grapple with a haunted past and find a way back into human society. On an island somewhere in the Aegean, Jacqueline, a young Liberian woman, veers between starvation and satiety, between the brutality of her past and the precarious uncertainty of her present in the aftermath of experiences so unspeakable that she prefers homeless numbness to the psychological confrontation she knows is inevitable. Hypnotic, highly sensual, exquisitely written, and extraordinary in its depiction of both pleasure and pain, of excruciating physical and spiritual hungers, A Marker to Measure Drift is a novel about memory, how we live with what we know, and whether and how we go forward, intact and whole, after the ravages of loss. It is beautiful, lacerating, impossible to put down. A breakthrough work from a prodigiously gifted young writer.
Author : Anne Nicholas
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480994790
The Drift: Bonded By: Anne Nicholas and J.J. Robinson Donovan Ashwood wishes he was just a normal teenager. He already has the usual problems of an overbearing father, a bully at school, and, of course, school itself. On top of that, Donovan carries the guilt of his mother dying while giving birth to him. He tries to find solace in his only two friends: Brendan and Britney Palmer, twins with high IQs and a similar low social standing. But even that has problems because of the “more than friends” feelings he harbors for Britney. Donovan also has a supernatural problem. When he is of age, he will have the drift — the ability to turn, at will, into a seven-foot-tall werewolf. His father tries to guide Donovan and help prepare him for the drift, but strange events begin happening to him, culminating in a tragic event that turns his life upside down, opening up a new world he never even knew existed. Donovan will have to become much more than the normal teenager he longs to be and learn about his unusual and unexplainable power and how to control it — or else put his friends and himself in danger.
Author : Bevin Marie Caffery
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Homer Eugene LeGrand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 1988-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521311052
A historical account of the triumph of the global theory of plate tectonics and its implications for the "modern revolution in geology" of the 1960s and 1970s after fifty years of controversy and competition.
Author : John Cowper Powys
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 1917
Category : English poetry
ISBN :
Author : Diana McCaulay
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062673009
“McCaulay’s prose is lyrical. A solemn adventure about resolve, loyalty, and family, that gives readers insight into life in a small fishing community and brings to light the dangers marine life face in the wild.” — School Library Journal “The relationships between boy and elder, man and sea, crime and poverty all lift McCaulay’s first children’s novel into a different league. Beautiful.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The heartbreaking realism of this story of innocence lost at sea truly sets this novel apart.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books “This makes a good choice for adventure fans, the eco-conscious, and those hoping to understand the economic hardships faced by those who make their living from the sea.” — Booklist “Gone to Drift is a compelling coming-of-age story with a strong sense of place and culture.” — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
Author : Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"That's a dangerous fellow, Stuart," remarked Baldwin Carr, who had unperceived entered the library, and, over his nephew's shoulder, read the title: "Thus Spake Zarathustra." Stuart Heron laid down the ponderous volume of Nietzsche, and smiled up lazily at his juvenile uncle-by-marriage: "Oh, we're a depraved family! Not half an hour ago I caught Babs behind the drawing-room screen, reading Ella Wheeler Wilcox." Baldwin looked startled. "Isn't that all right? I myself gave it to the child; the complete edition, bound in white vellum." "We'll send old Nietzsche to be bound in white vellum, and rob him of his sting." "And this man is just as bad"; Baldwin ignored his nephew's flippancy, and discontentedly flicked over the pages of Bernard Shaw's "Getting Married," which he had picked up from the floor beside the arm-chair. "They're both mad, stark staring mad, master and disciple."
Author : Elijah Stephens
Publisher : Liquid Heaven Productions
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939068371
A Celtic fantasy rendition of Arthurian legend.