The Deafening Echoes of the Past. Life is a Story - story.one


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This book tries to draw a picture of what life was like in Mexico from the Porfiriato era to the 1980s, through a family history. It all started with a good man with good intentions, but the pain of his loss would echo throughout generations. This family history mirrors the country's trajectory, from being a land of promise, to the unfulfilled potential of the subsequent decades. Women and older members of society tend to disappear in the weavings of the story and become invisible elements that were only relevant in their youth. Perhaps, in the future we will learn to listen to our history and avoid making the same mistakes over and over again. Perhaps...







And then I woke up. Life is a Story - story.one


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Psychologists say dreams unravel the truth lying in your subconsciousness...but if we were to pretend, even if just for a moment, that dreams were a portal to a different dimension, one that our souls traveled to, wouldn't that just be exciting? Enigmatic? What if these new worlds, new people, and new adventures all belong to you, and only you? What if you saved the world of another reality and the scientists just manipulated you into thinking it was just your hero complex? What if you met the love of your life and they told you it wasn't real? What if it was? Just for a moment, what if they are all real?




Emerging from Shadows: Lunas Fight for Peace. Life is a Story - story.one


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In the gripping third installment of Lunas journey, "Emerging from Shadows: Lunas Fight for Peace", Luna faces her toughest challenge yet. Without her therapist due to age and insurance issues, she must navigate life on her own. A fresh start with a new job, friends, and a budding romance is overshadowed by a toxic coworker who becomes a relentless stalker. Luna's world spirals into isolation and fear, threatening her relationship and pushing her to the edge. Abandoned and battling harassment while juggling motherhood, Luna fights for survival and a brighter future. "Emerging from Shadows" is a powerful testament to resilience, offering a deeper look into Lunas continued struggle and triumph. For readers of "Echoes of Silence", "Surviving the Shadows", and "Breaking the Shadows", this book reveals Lunas intense journey of hope and self-discovery.




Ambient Parking Lot


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Fiction. Part fiction, part earnest mockumentary, AMBIENT PARKING LOT follows a band of musicians as they wander the parking structures of urban downtown and greater suburbia in quest of the ultimate ambient noise—one that promises to embody their historical moment and deliver them up to the heights of their self-important artistry. Along the way, they make sporadic forays into lyric while contending with doubts, delusions, miscalculations, mutinies, and minor triumphs. This saga peers into the wreckage of a post-9/11 landscape and embraces the comedy and poignancy of failed utopia.







Ollie Ollie In Come Free


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"The loss of a first child sends chilling tremors through a young family. The two parents try to rebuild, with visions of creating a large, happy Catholic family. Yet the universe lurches and takes the next oldest child, and yet the next, just a few years apart. Such devastating losses are unimaginable. It is even harder to imagine coping with them in an era of emotional sterility. During the 1950s and '60s there were few outward displays of mourning, no understanding of the five stages of grief, no support groups. The Bernards had to deal with their cataclysmic losses in a way that would be acceptable to the other middle-class families of the time-privately, and silently. Ollie Ollie In Come Free explores the emtional toll unexpressed grief can have on a young child. In the unfiltered voice of a child and adolescent, author Anne Bernard Becker offers a touching insight into her own buried grief, loneliness and survivor's guilt."--Back cover.




The Woman Who Borrowed Memories


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An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel The Summer Book and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that throughout her life she turned again and again to the short story. The Woman Who Borrowed Memories is the first extensive selection of Jansson’s stories to appear in English. Many of the stories collected here are pure Jansson, touching on island solitude and the dangerous pull of the artistic impulse: in “The Squirrel” the equanimity of the only inhabitant of a remote island is thrown by a visitor, in “The Summer Child” an unlovable boy is marooned along with his lively host family, in “The Cartoonist” an artist takes over a comic strip that has run for decades, and in “The Doll’s House” a man’s hobby threatens to overwhelm his life. Others explore unexpected territory: “Shopping” has a post-apocalyptic setting, “The Locomotive” centers on a railway-obsessed loner with murderous fantasies, and “The Woman Who Borrowed Memories” presents a case of disturbing transference. Unsentimental, yet always humane, Jansson’s stories complement and enlarge our understanding of a singular figure in world literature.




The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle


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Millions of readers have followed this master of suspense into the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin haunted by the splintered nightmares of his former life—and the inspiration for a series of blockbuster films. Now, for the first time, all three of the gripping Bourne thrillers by Robert Ludlum are packaged together in one spellbinding eBook bundle: THE BOURNE IDENTITY “Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.”—The New York Times Meet Jason Bourne. His memory is a blank. His bullet-ridden body was fished from the Mediterranean Sea. His face has been altered by plastic surgery. A frame of microfilm has been surgically implanted in his hip. His real name is a mystery. Marked for death, he is racing for survival through a bizarre world of murderous conspirators, led by Carlos, the world’s most dangerous terrorist. Who is Jason Bourne? The answer may kill him. THE BOURNE SUPREMACY “Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this.”—Publishers Weekly Someone else has taken on the Bourne identity—a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage—an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances—all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes—and one must die. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM “Vintage Ludlum.”—The Plain Dealer At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by a telegram signed “Jason Bourne,” witness a bizarre killing. Only they know Bourne’s true identity. They understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos. Now one man must do something he hoped never to do again: Assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: Use himself as bait to lure Carlos into a deadly trap—from which only one of them will escape.




Modernist Short Fiction by Women


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Taking on the neglected issue of the short story's relationship to literary Modernism, Claire Drewery examines works by Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf. Drewery argues that the short story as a genre is preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, and thus offers an ideal platform from which to examine the Modernist fascination with the liminal. Embodying both liberation and restriction, liminal spaces on the one hand enable challenges to traditional cultural and personal identities, while on the other hand they entail the inevitable negative consequences of occupying the position of the outsider: marginality, psychosis, and death. Mansfield, Richardson, Sinclair, and Woolf all exploit this paradox in their short fiction, which typically explores literal and psychological borderline states that are resistant to rational analysis. Thus, their short stories offered these authors an opportunity to represent the borders of unconsciousness and to articulate meaning while also conveying a sense of that which is unsayable. Through their concern with liminality, Drewery shows, these writers contribute significantly to the Modernist aesthetic that interrogates identity, the construction of the self, and the relationship between the individual and society.