Author : Paul Watkins
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312359416
An acclaimed writer describes his spellbinding trek through the mountains of Norway--a grand but harsh landscape where myth and reality meet.
Author : Walter Justice
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0976576406
A guide to overcoming. Walter Justice has an answer for the disillusioned and broken-hearted. It's called overcoming. He guides them through a painful, but victorious process of confronting the greatest obsticle in their lives-themselves. What ensues is a radical restructuring of values and life. Jesus was and is the ultimate Overcomer, and those who follow Him are called to overcome too. Eventually, the believer will be able to say like the Lord Jesus Christ, "In me he hath nothing." FellowshipofGhosts.com
Author : Nelson Press
Publisher :
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN : 9780976576495
Author : John McNally
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810127318
In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally captures the poignancy of both the shared experiences of a city and the interior details of his everyday characters.
Author : Dorothy Rabinowitz
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 0595141285
Author : Nadia Terranova
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1644210088
This award-winning novel about a woman facing her past introduces Terranova to English-speaking audiences. Translated by Ann Goldstein, translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet. Finalist, Premio Strega, 2019 | Winner, Premio Alassio Centolibri | Selected among the 10 Best Italian Books of 2018 by Corriere della Sera Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Rome and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things--to decide what to keep and what to throw away. Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to return. The fierce silences between mother and daughter, the unbalanced friendships that leave her emotionally drained, the sense of an identity based on anomaly, even the relationship with her husband, everything revolves around the figure of her absent father. Mirroring herself in that absence, Ida has grown up into a woman dominated by fear, suspicious of any form of desire. However, as her childhood home besieges her with its ghosts, Ida will have to find a way to break the spiral and let go of her father finally. Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein, who also translated Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, Farewell, Ghosts is a poetic and intimate novel about what it means to build one's own identity.
Author : Maryanne Vollers
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316914857
An examination of a noted civil rights case involving the murder of an NAACP official and his killer's three trials draws comparisons between the case and the racial climate in the Deep South
Author : Kat Chow
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1538716305
This "graceful, captivating" (New York Times Book Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American family—perfect for readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander. Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her. After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to reclaim and tell your family’s story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss. AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 PICK * A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2021 PICK * A NEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 * A HARPER'S BAZAAR BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2021 * A TOWN & COUNTRYBEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK * A FORTUNE BEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK
Author : David G. Campbell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547523432
The biologist and award-winning author journeys deep inside the Amazon rainforest in this eloquent and insightful look at one of earth’s last wild places. For thirty years, biologist David G. Campbell has been exploring the lush wilderness, of the western Amazon, which contains more species than ever existed anywhere on our planet. In A Land of Ghosts, Campbell takes readers on his latest venture. In Cruzeiro do Sul, 2,800 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, Campbell collects three old friends: Arito, a caiman hunter turned paleontologist; Tarzan, a street urchin brought up in a bordello; and Pimentel, a master canoe pilot. Heading further into the rainforest, they survey every living woody plant they can find. The land is so rich that an area of less than fifty acres contains three times as many tree species as all of North America. Campbell knows the trees individually, and he knows the wildlife and the people as well: the recently arrived colonists with their failing farms; the Caboclos, masters of hunting, fishing, and survival; and the refugee Native Americans. These people live in a land whose original inhabitants were wiped out by centuries of disease, slavery, and genocide, taking their traditions and languages with them: a land of ghosts.
Author : Julius Lester
Publisher : Dial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Boys
ISBN : 9780803725133
A resourceful young boy tries to help three hungry ghosts find something to eat.
