Author : Sarah Painter
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2014-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472054806
Step back into the magical world of Pendleford with Sarah Painter’s new book The Secrets of Ghosts. Don’t miss the magical, heart-warming story from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells!
Author : Steve Luxenberg
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1401394426
Beth Luxenberg was an only child. Or so everyone thought. Six months after Beth's death, her secret emerged. It had a name: Annie. Praise for Annie's Ghosts "Annie's Ghosts is one of the most remarkable books I have ever read . . . From mental institutions to the Holocaust, from mothers and fathers to children and childhood, with its mysteries, sadness, and joy--this book is one emotional ride."--Bob Woodward, author of The War Within and State of Denial "Steve Luxenberg sleuths his family's hidden history with the skills of an investigative reporter, the instincts of a mystery writer, and the sympathy of a loving son. His rediscovery of one lost woman illuminates the shocking fate of thousands of Americans who disappeared just a generation ago."--Tony Horwitz, author of A Voyage Long and Strange and Confederates in the Attic "I started reading within minutes of picking up this book, and was instantly mesmerized. It's a riveting detective story, a moving family saga, an enlightening if heartbreaking chapter in the history of America's treatment of people born with what we now call special needs." -- Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand and You're Wearing That "This is a memoir that pushes the journalistic envelope . . . Luxenberg has written a fascinating personal story as well as a report on our communal response to the mentally ill." -- Helen Epstein, author of Where She Came From and Children of the Holocaust "A wise, affecting new memoir of family secrets and posthumous absolution." -- The Washington Post "Annie's Ghosts will resonate for many, whether the chords have to do with family secrets, the Depression, memories of a thriving Detroit, the Holocaust's horrors, or the immigrant experience." -- The Detroit Free Press
Author : Paul Gater
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1291499652
This is the third book in Paul Gater's investigation of the supernatural - 'Living with Ghosts' and 'Ghosts at War' were both popularly successful paperbacks, Large Print and E-book editions. Paul has interviewed hundreds of 'ordinary' people as well as psychics, mediums and ghost-hunters. He reveals how far from being cold and inhuman, the phantoms which haunt our towns and countrysides live busy, passionate lives. They are involved in love tangles, vendettas, jealous plots, remorseful penitence, fascinating tales of desire, hate, revenge and death covering many centuries. Paul writes regular features on the supernatural for newspapers and magazines. His books are critically acclaimed as 'absorbing and fascinating reads'. Here he also includes interviews with his wife Dilys Gater and friend Jaine Francis, both professional mediums.
Author : Nikki Crescent
Publisher : Princess Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Eric Holliday landed what seemed like a dream job, caring for the Chateau Femme through the winter months when Chateau Femme is closed each year. The job is going to be perfect: solitude, relaxation, quiet… at least that’s how it looks on paper. But Eric is only alone for a few hours before he gets his reality check. The extreme, unpredictable storms are constantly knocking out the power and blowing open windows. After a single night, Eric is snowed in, feeling suddenly claustrophobic in the 24,000 square foot lodge. And to make matters worse, he’s not actually alone; he’s stuck in that lodge with a ghost. He’s never been a believer in the paranormal, but there’s no other way to explain the strange noises, the moving objects, the piano that keeps playing itself… and there’s no other way to explain why Eric’s personal clothes have disappeared, or why girly outfits keep showing up in his little room. The ghost seems to want him to dress up like a chick, and with nothing else to wear (and cold weather blowing into the lodge), Eric doesn’t have many other options. Not to mention, who wants to get on a ghost’s bad side?
Author : Alice Rayner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1452908885
Making spirits visible has been a part of the theatrical experience since at least the sixteenth century. Instead of illusions, however, ghostly doubles in theatre are materially real and pervasive. In Ghosts, Alice Rayner examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stagecraft turn familiar elements into something uncanny. Citing examples from the works of Shakespeare, Beckett, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as the films Vertigo, Gaslight, and The Sixth Sense, she begins by describing time as it is employed by theatre with multiple aspects of presence, duration, and passage. Suggesting that objects connect past to present through the sense of touch, she explores how props are suspended backstage between motion and meaning. Her final chapters consider the curtain as theatre’s means for attempting to divide real and imaginary worlds. If ghosts hover where secrets—secrets of the past, secrets from oneself, secrets of life and death—are kept, then, according to Rayner, “theatre is where ghosts best make their appearances and let communities and individuals know that we live amid secrets hiding in plain sight.” Alice Rayner is associate professor of drama at Stanford University and author of, most recently, To Act, To Do, To Perform: Drama and the Phenomenology of Action.
Author : Sarah Painter
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2020-06-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781916465251
Step back into the magical world of Pendleford with Sarah Painter's new book The Secrets of Ghosts. Don't miss the magical, heart-warming story from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells! This cosy paranormal mystery, set in a country hotel, will enchant readers of Sarah Addison Allen, Mary Stewart and Meena van Praag.
Author : Janna Odabas
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3839444497
The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost concept, Odabas emphasizes how ghosts critically renegotiate the notion of 'Asian America' as heterogeneous and transnational and resist interpretation through a morally or politically preconceived approach to Asian American literature. Responding to the tensions of the scholarly field, Odabas argues that the literary works under scrutiny openly play with and rethink conceptions of ghosts as mere exotic, ethnic ornamentation.
Author : James M. Harding
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472118749
Pronouncements such as “the avant-garde is dead,” argues James M. Harding, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. His book examines the diversity and plurality of avant-garde gestures and expressions to suggest “avant-garde pluralities” and how an appreciation of these pluralities enables a more dynamic and increasingly global understanding of vanguardism in the performing arts. In pursuing this goal, the book not only surveys a wide variety of canonical and noncanonical examples of avant-garde performance, but also develops a range of theoretical paradigms that defend the haunting cultural and political significance of avant-garde expressions beyond what critics have presumed to be the death of the avant-garde. The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) offers a strikingly new perspective not only on key controversies and debates within avant-garde studies but also on contemporary forms of avant-garde expression within a global political economy.
Author : Wylly Folk St. John
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 163168311X
After three days at Grandma and Grandpa’s summer cabin, we knew it was going to be a long, boring summer. Then Jenny got her bright idea: Ghost Hunting at Wormwood! I don’t know about Chuck, but I felt prickles on the back of my neck. The place across the lake looked like something an author named Edgar Allen Poe wrote about in Grandma’s book with the horrible pictures of the ruined castles with bats, and people decaying and dribbling down the sides of their coffins. But Jenny thought it would be fun to poke around and see if the ghost stories Grandma told us were really true. None of us were prepared for the strange noises and suspicious characters we were going to meet. This summer vacation turned out to be plain scary! But if it hadn’t been we would never have found the lost treasure (not one but two treasures) or have helped Sheriff Jenkins solve a real life robbery and murder case!
Author : V. L. Harrison
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1728395690
I would describe this book as : Harry Potter meets Beatrix Potter meets Enid Blyton.. The animals are the stars of the book, having numerous adventures, while their owners have no idea at all that they all lead double lives! Set in a fairly remote spot on a wild coast, the history of the old lighthouse ties itself to its contemporary occupants with astonishing results. Highs, lows, panic & terror are just some of the emotions to grip the friends in their quest to salvage some old stolen treasure! Things are never what they seem; with ghosts, witches and wizards all adding to the strange brew!! Life will never be the same again..
