Author : Carol Beach York
Publisher : E-Rights/E-Reads Limited
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780759237445
The first Christmas after their mother dies is especially difficult when nine-year-old Jenny receives a message and a gift from Momma and writes her a letter.
Author : Keith Douglas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571230385
Part of Faber's critically acclaimed Poet to Poet series
Author : Sherryl Clark
Publisher : Verve Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 9780857308047
She hasn't seen her brother in years. Now, he's dead. When Judi Westerholme finds out her estranged brother has been murdered, she assumes it's connected to his long term drug addiction. Returning home, she is shocked to discover he had been clean for years, had a wife--now missing--and a child, and led a respectable life. But if he had turned his life around, why was he killed in a drug deal shooting? And where is his wife? Desperate to know what really happened, Judi sets out to uncover the truth, even though it means confronting her own traumatic past. But she's not the only one looking for answers. With a gutsy, unapologetic protagonist, Trust Me, I'm Dead is a gritty and bold crime thriller that explores the sacrifices people will make for their families.
Author : Cheryl A Head
Publisher : Bywater Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612940684
Finalist for the 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery. Charlene "Charlie" Mack is a PI in Detroit. Born and raised in the city that America forgot, Charlie has built a highly respected private investigation firm through hard work, smart choices, and relentless ambition. Her team of investigators is highly skilled and trustworthy, but she secretly struggles with her sexual orientation and a mother with early-onset Alzheimer's. When Charlie and her crack team head to Birmingham, Alabama following the trail of a missing person, what should be a routine case turns into a complex chase for answers. Shady locals and a southern patriarch with dark secrets dating back forty years obscure their path. It seems like everyone has something to hide, including Charlie. When the case turns deadly with a double murder, and Charlie is attacked on a quiet neighborhood street, everything suddenly becomes personal. Who can Charlie trust, and will she ever solve the riddles of the Magic City? A Detroit native, Cheryl A. Head now lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where she navigated a successful career as a writer, television producer, filmmaker, broadcast executive, and media funder. Her debut novel, Long Way Home: A World War II Novel, was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist in both the African American Literature and Historical Fiction categories. When not writing fiction, she's a passionate blogger and user of Twitter, and she regularly consults on a wide range of diversity issues.
Author : Christina Rossetti
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1640004130
A study in nature-based colors, Christina Rossetti's timeless poem is here represented in vivid, interpretive art by French illustrator Laëtitia Devernay.
Author : Saul Bellow
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451168702
Brings together three of Bellow's works of short fiction--"A theft," "The Bellarosa Connection," and "Something to Remember Me By."
Author : Ada Limón
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1472154576
'Bright Dead Things buoyed me in this dismal year. I'm thankful for this collection, for its wisdom and generosity, for its insistence on holding tight to beauty even as we face disintegration and destruction.' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, Bright Dead Things considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact - tracing in intimate detail the ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth and falls in love. In these extraordinary poems Ada Limón's heart becomes a 'huge beating genius machine' striving to embrace and understand the fullness of the present moment. 'I am beautiful. I am full of love. I am dying,' the poet writes. Building on the legacies of forebears such as Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, Limón's work is consistently generous, accessible, and 'effortlessly lyrical' (New York Times) - though every observed moment feels complexly thought, felt and lived.
Author : Michael C. Thomsett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1476611483
History is replete with pronouncements on war. Some reflect on man’s warlike nature (“We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth”—Homer); others deal with the practical strategies of the combatants (“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons”—Winston Churchill); and still others offer advice for avoiding conflict (“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war”—Desiderius Erasmus). More than 2,700 quotations on war and conflict are presented in this reference work. The quotations are arranged by more than 100 broad categories, from action to winning. For each, the quotation is first given, followed by its author, the work in which it appeared (when appropriate), and the date. The book includes numerous cross-references, and keyword-in-context and author indexes are provided for further utility.
Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781946684219
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.
Author : Canon Henry Scott Holland
Publisher : Souvenir PressLtd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780285628243
A comforting bereavement gift book, consisting of a short sermon from Canon Henry Scott Holland.
