Book Description
For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war.
Author : Laura Palmer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0307765636
For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America's least popular war.
Author : Laura Palmer
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 1990-05-01
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ISBN : 9780517051023
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
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ISBN : 9780812478471
Author : J. Russ L. Felt
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Short stories, American
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Author : Ronald W. Wynkoop
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1990
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ISBN : 9780962684807
Author : James Forrester
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1466862556
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier. On Sept. 7, 1895, Ludwig Rehn successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time. Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the x-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart...and lived. On June 6, 1944 - D-Day - another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier, saved his life and the term "cardiac surgeon" born. Dr. Forrester tells the story of these rebels and the risks they took with their own lives and the lives of others to heal the most elemental of human organs - the heart. The result is a compelling chronicle of a disease and its cure, a disease that is still with us, but one that is slowly being worn away by "The Heart Healers".
Author : Stephanie Lawton
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2013-01
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781771302463
It's been six years since Dylanie and her family visited a Civil War site and the place came alive with cannon fire. Problem was, no one could hear it but her. Now she's sixteen, her dad's moved out, her mom's come out of the closet and Dylan's got a spot on Paranormal Teen, a reality TV show filming at historic Oakleigh Mansion. She'll spend a weekend with two other psychic teens-Jake and Ashley-learning how to control her abilities. None of them realized how much their emotional baggage would put them at the mercy of Oakleigh's resident spirits, or that they'd find themselves pawns in the 150-year-old battle for the South's legendary Confederate gold. Each must conquer their personal ghosts to face down Jackson, a seductive spirit who will do anything to protect the gold's current location and avenge a heinous attack that destroyed his family.
Author : Philip Metres
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619322218
Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Toura, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, uneasy interactions between Arab and Jewish neighbors in University Heights, the expulsion of Palestinians in Jaffa, another bombing in Gaza: Shrapnel Maps traces the hurt and tender places, where political noise turns into the voices of Palestinians and Israelis. Working with documentary flyers, vintage postcards, travelogues, cartographic language, and first person testimonies, Shrapnel Maps ranges from monologue sonnets to prose vignettes, polyphonics to blackouts, indices to simultaneities, as Palestinians and Israelis long for justice and peace, for understanding and survival.
Author : Vivek Shraya
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1773055151
“Biting and beautiful.” — Jonny Sun, author of everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Everyone talks about falling in love, but falling in friendship can be just as captivating. When Neela Devaki’s song is covered by internet-famous artist Rukmini, the two musicians meet and a transformative friendship begins. But as Rukmini’s star rises and Neela’s stagnates, jealousy and self-doubt creep in. With a single tweet, their friendship implodes, one career is destroyed, and the two women find themselves at the center of an internet firestorm. Celebrated multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya’s second novel is a stirring examination of making art in the modern era, a love letter to brown women, an authentic glimpse into the music industry, and a nuanced exploration of the promise and peril of being seen.
Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0805212582
A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time. Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his life. Emotions, images, faces, and questions flash through his mind. His family before and during the unspeakable Event. The gifts of marriage, children, and grandchildren that followed. In his writing, in his teaching, in his public life, has he done enough for memory and for the survivors? His ongoing questioning of God—where has it led? Is there hope for mankind? The world’s tireless ambassador of tolerance and justice gives us a luminous account of hope and despair, an exploration of the love, regrets, and abiding faith of a remarkable man. Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel