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Becoming Mrs. Lewis

Author : Patti Callahan

Publisher : Thomas Nelson

Page : 450 pages

File Size : 13,52 MB

Release : 2018-10-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0785218084

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Meet the brilliant writer, fiercely independent mother, and passionate woman who captured the heart of C.S. Lewis and inspired the books that still enchant and change us today, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea. When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis--known as Jack--she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford professor and the beloved writer of The Chronicles of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, found a love that even the threat of death couldn't destroy. In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women weren't meant to have a voice--and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn't know they had. At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer's life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love story--a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all. This expanded edition includes a map of Oxford, an expanded discussion guide with more than 20 questions that are perfect for book clubs, a timeline of Jack's and Joy's lives, Joy's (imagined) letter to Jack, 10 things you may not know about Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis's love story, and a behind-the-scenes essay on the city of Oxford. "Callahan crafts a masterpiece that details the friendship and ultimate romance between the real Davidman and Lewis . . . a magical and literary experience that won't be soon forgotten." --LIBRARY JOURNAL, STARRED review | ". . . an incredible portrait of a complex woman." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED review | ". . . a deeply moving story about love and loss that is transformative and magical." --PAM JENOFF | "I was swept along, filled with hope, and entirely beguiled." --LISA WINGATE | "This is the book Patti Callahan was born to write. Becoming Mrs. Lewis is a tour de force and the must-read of the season!" --MARY ALICE MONROE



Impossible Love

Author : Craig Keener

Publisher : Chosen Books

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 21,85 MB

Release : 2016-04-05

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1441229604

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Gripping True Story of War and Romance, Hope and Miracles When the odds are impossible, love goes to work. In this thrilling true-life story, readers follow the path of friendship that grows into a romance that spans continents and survives devastating hardship. Craig Keener, a respected white scholar, was cautious after a broken relationship. Médine, a well-educated African woman, met Craig through a campus ministry and the two became friends. Long after they parted for their respective worlds, Craig realized his love for her and began the arduous--and often supernatural--journey to be reunited. Médine faced terror and disease as a refugee in the war-torn Congo; Craig did not know most days if she was alive or dead. Their tender story of love beating the odds inspires readers to believe that God's own great love for each of us will always overcome.



The Improbable Love Story That Was

Author : Willie Price

Publisher : BookRix

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 42,10 MB

Release : 2012-04-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 386479529X

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The Improbable Love Story That was…..Spins an interesting tale. It is a love story that transcends time and space. A soul finds a recognizable new body with an indistinguishable persona. There are two Black Aphrodite’s, born forty seven years apart on different and distant continents. Mia and Sabrina were destined to become the enchanting objects of affection by three generations of the Leonard’s, a portentous, powerful and wealthy family. Our heroine in the present finds herself immerged in a mystical phenomenon and a love she cannot deny. Sabrina’s life transcends space and time with San Francisco as its port of call. By sheer coincidence, she becomes the spirit of the Leonardo’s struggle to comprehend and embrace the unexplainable, as they encounter anger, jealousy and revenge.



Improbable Love

Author : John Wertime

Publisher :

Page : 187 pages

File Size : 43,18 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780983438809

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Had my mother 's best friend not seduced me that night as I read my high school text in her den, there would be no story to tell. Despite my initial shock and confusion, we quickly became lovers. A web of entangled emotions and deceptions promoted and protected our relationship. My tale illuminates many facets of American life from the late 1940s to the early 60s. It also raises challenging questions about love, sex, responsibility, and the human condition.



An Impossible Love

Author : Christine Angot

Publisher : Archipelago

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 12,23 MB

Release : 2021-12-21

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1953861040

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An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel Incest. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Angot the author carves Angot the narrator out of this corrosive element, exposing an unmendable rupture, and at the same time offering a portrait of a striking, ineradicable bond between mother and daughter.



Like a Love Story

Author : Abdi Nazemian

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 355 pages

File Size : 46,31 MB

Release : 2019-06-04

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0062839381

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Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time "A book for warriors, divas, artists, queens, individuals, activists, trend setters, and anyone searching for the courage to be themselves.”—Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating. Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out and proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart—and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known. This is a bighearted, sprawling epic about friendship and love and the revolutionary act of living life to the fullest in the face of impossible odds.



Another Improbable Love Story That Was

Author : Willie Price

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 40,57 MB

Release : 2007-08-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1469112833

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Another fascinating lovers fairytale beginning during slavery and ending after the last cattle drive to Dodge City. This story will take the reader back to the cultural and political conditions during the nineteenth-century in America. The beautiful and gracious teller of this spectacular improbable love story is an Afro-American Centurion. Rosemary spins an epic, thrilling narrative of life and love along the Mississippi River in the young United States, as well as the Saint John River in Canada. This bold adventure takes the reader on many well traveled rivers and roads leading to arrogance, betrayal, envy, revenge and murder. True love crosses forbidden borders and human boundaries in this interesting and rebellious tale of passions during the often raw brutality of the times. Step back into turbulent scenarios during historical periods and enjoy this titillating, Another improbable love story that was. Enjoy!



A Love Story of Impossible Bottles

Author : Kathy Brown

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 74 pages

File Size : 32,16 MB

Release : 2014-10-07

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 148341891X

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A Love Story of Impossible Bottles (Second Edition) is author Kathy Brown's gift to her husband, Chris A. Brown, who tragically died in a skydiving accident on July 7, 2012, at the age of fifty-two. A special and unique person with many interests and talents, Chris was the master of the art of impossible bottles and the original owner and founder of the website insidethebottle.com. This book is based upon a beautiful concept: Impossible Bottles, all of which hold some special memory. According to the author, the bottles described in this book symbolize a person's heart. We don't easily let everything come in, but when someone or something is special and dear to us, it stays in our hearts like the memories captured in those bottles.



Impossible Love Stories

Author : Alexander Pushkin

Publisher : TSK Group LLC

Page : 27 pages

File Size : 19,85 MB

Release : 2024-03-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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19th century Russian writer Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is primarily known abroad for his poetry, particularly his novel in verse "Eugene Onegin". Assembled here are three delightful samples of his prose - three tales of mischance, mayhem, intrigue, and, of course, true love. This collection includes the following works: - The Blizzard - Novel in Letters - The Lady Peasant



Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story

Author : D. T. Max

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 12,71 MB

Release : 2012-08-30

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1101601116

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The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it is only because over the course of his short life and stunning career, he wrestled intimately and relentlessly with the fundamental anxiety of being human. In his characteristic lucid and quick-witted style, Max untangles Wallace’s anxious sense of self, his volatile and sometimes abusive connection with women, and above all, his fraught relationship with fiction as he emerges with his masterpiece Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of unpublished letters, manuscripts and journals, this captivating biography unveils the life of the profoundly complicated man who gave voice to what we thought we could not say.