After the death of her best friend, Mika is determined to follow her into the grave. But her suicide attempt introduces her to a world unlike any she's ever seen...full of gods and spirits and entities of which she could never have dreamed. But even with this world of wonder, can she find a way out of her sorrow? Warning: This volume contains depictions of suicide attempts and suicidal ideation. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts or feelings, you are not alone, and there is help. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org. For international help visit findahelpline.com.
In shock after the death of her best friend, Mika resolves to die as well, but is saved from her suicide attempt by an immortal man named Hibino and a self-proclaimed god called Hani. Upon learning that the two are headed for Yomi, the mythological land of the dead, Mika decides to accompany them in the hopes of seeing her friend once more. After a brief acquaintance with an old woman in Hakone ends in tragedy, Mika is determined to learn to face death along their journey. But the group is suddenly waylaid by a folklore researcher who knows Hibino’s name and secret, and claims to be studying the secrets of immortality to save her sick friend. As Hibino dodges questions about his immortality, Mika struggles with her own discomfort at the researcher’s desperation… Warning: This volume contains depictions of suicide attempts and suicidal ideation. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts or feelings, you are not alone, and there is help. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org. For international help visit findahelpline.com.
Mika, Hibino, and Hani are set to resume their journey, but time is not on their side, as Hani's corporeal form won't hold out much longer. But the god doesn't wish to pass into Yomi without remembering something long forgotten–something that only Hibino seems to remember. As the truth of their bond finally comes to light, Mika steels herself for the descent into Yomi and her long-awaited reunion with her departed friend, Mitsuha… Will the three travelers find what they each seek, here at the end of the journey?
As human beings we know what home is, or for some of us the hope or ideal of what home should be: friends, family, nostalgia, all interlaced through love. It is an emotional, spiritual, and physical connection to a place that goes beyond the superficial level. In the broad sense I ask you the reader, ÔIs this world your home?Õ If you are honest with yourself you must confess it doesnÕt always feel like home. This path that you are about embark upon, the journey of my soul, to discover humanityÕs home. Not a home exclusively for one race, religion, or political creed, but a home for all, each accepted as members of one family and one creation.
Hiraeth: A feeling of longing for a home that no longer exists or for one that never was. Mike and the crew fight for their right to survive, to carve out a new home, even though Mike cannot help but carry with him all the group has lost. He now wonders if he can continue to sacrifice his own for the sake of others. Terrifying new monsters are born amid the chaos, do our heroes have the will and the firepower to overcome these latest threats? Friends and foes alike will fall, and there may be no human victor. Follow along in this heart-slamming, non-stop thriller, Michael Talbot's final journal, the conclusion of the epic adventure series: Zombie Fallout.
Utena has saved Anthy by defeating Akio in the final duel, but in doing so she has vanished from the world. Now the student council members at Ohtori Academy find themselves in their own revolutions. -- VIZ Media
Autumn Poetry CollectionHiraeth is a collection of poems about home that never was. The collection is about autumn and other artistic things around us; including love.
Dreaming of Hiraeth is a heart-rending tale about a true testament of friendship, drawing on a deeper meaning on what it means not just to survive, but to live. Julian Hayes--the moon: loner, introvert, dreamer--is haunted with the guilt of his actions one scarring night six years ago, when he ran away against his will from his twisted home, leaving him unable to remember most of his childhood. Theo Wilson--the sun: bright, bold, realist--was dropped off on the front steps of a group home as a newborn, with a record of the group and foster homes he has run from. No two people could be more opposites than Julian and Theo--yet they have more in common than most would believe. Both orphans, living in a group home in Brooklyn's Fort Greene, they suffer from dark pasts as they try to navigate their youth in the bustle of New York City and pave a worthy future for themselves. Despite their falls, secrets, adventures, and the many obstacles stacked against them, the best friends learn that perhaps the key to their survival is in each other--and that the fight is not in the fall, but the rise. A coming-of-age story about adolescence's innocence and life's meaning, Dreaming of Hiraeth deals with the realities of the foster care system, racism, sexuality, mental illnesses, and addiction in the twenty-first century.
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the daughter of a parent with dementia. Through the pull and tangle of these stories and her travels throughout Wales, hiraeth takes on radical new meanings. There is traditional hiraeth of place and home, but also queer hiraeth; and hiraeth triggered by technology, immigration, ecological crises, and our new divisive politics. On this journey, the notion begins to morph from a uniquely Welsh experience to a universal human condition, from deep longing to the creative responses to loss that Petro sees as the genius of Welsh culture. It becomes a tool to understand ourselves in our time. A finalist for the Wales Book of the Year Award and named to the Telegraph's and Financial Times's Top 10 lists for travel writing, The Long Field is an unforgettable exploration of “the hidden contours of the human heart.”
