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Author: Ward Larsen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0765385775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning author Ward Larsen's celebrated protagonist, assassin David Slaton, returns for another breathless adventure
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1408883961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature 'There is a wonderful sardonic eloquence to this unnamed narrator's voice' Financial Times 'I don't think I've ever read a novel that is so convincingly and hauntingly sad about the loss of home' Independent on Sunday _____________________ He thinks, as he escapes from Zanzibar, that he will probably never return, and yet the dream of studying in England matters above that. Things do not happen quite as he imagined – the school where he teaches is cramped and violent, he forgets how it feels to belong. But there is Emma, beautiful, rebellious Emma, who turns away from her white, middle-class roots to offer him love and bear him a child. And in return he spins stories of his home and keeps her a secret from his family. Twenty years later, when the barriers at last come down in Zanzibar, he is able and compelled to go back. What he discovers there, in a story potent with truth, will change the entire vision of his life.
Author: Raouf Mama
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2017-03-13
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 1512762156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt Was A Beautiful Day and Other Personal Quiet Miracle Stories is a collection of powerful, inspirational stories. It captures personal, life-changing moments of redemption from utter despair to radiant hope, of astonishing transmuting of sorrow into joy, agony into a song of thanksgiving. It is a celebration of our sense of the mysterious, which Einstein called the fundamental emotion of true art and true science. In an increasingly skeptical world, amid the rush and roar of technology, these stories echo John O Donahues call to all of us to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention. They are a joyous song in praise of the human capacity to marvel and to wonder.
Author: Sheila Coral Grimes
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1608441962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sophia Glock
Publisher: Little, Brown Ink
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0316458996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unforgettable graphic memoir by debut talent Sophia Glock reveals her discovery as a teenager that her parents are agents working for the CIA. Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of her life in America. Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret. They are not who they say they are. They are working for the CIA. As Sophia tries to make sense of this news, and the web of lies surrounding her, she begins to question everything. The impact that this has on Sophia's emerging sense of self and understanding of the world makes for a page-turning exploration of lies and double lives. In the hands of this extraordinary graphic storyteller, this astonishing true story bursts to life.
Author: Nancy King
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2020-07-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1948749564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Dad, there are things about my childhood I’d like to know.” “I don’t want to talk about it. It would only hurt your mother.” “But Dad, you’re the only one who can tell me.” “I don’t want to talk about it. It would only hurt your mother.” Secrets. Lies. Silences. Stories told by parents and their families to protect themselves. A father who defends his wife despite her damage to their daughter’s health and welfare. A mother, shielded by her husband, who perpetuates murderous acts of violence against the daughter, and keeps secret her husband’s sexual “play” with the young girl. And yet ... Nancy King, determined to learn the truth of her childhood and the heartbreaking effects it has had on her adult life, uncovers the secrets. Sees through the lies. Breaks the silence. Empowered by the stories she told herself as a child, she learns to use stories as part of her work as a university professor teaching theater, drama, world literature, and creative expression. Gradually, with the help of body work and therapy, she finds her voice. Says no to abuse and abusers. Reclaims her self and life. Writes a memoir. She climbs mountains. Weaves tapestries. Writes books. Makes friends. Creates a meaningful life. This is her story.
Author: Rodica Mihalis
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: 2011-12-30
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1618974912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the defection & acculturation of a Romanian woman. She describes life under a totalitarian regime & adapting to freedom.
Author: Eneas Sweetland Dallas
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 738
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Indu Sundaresan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-09-18
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0743283686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternationally bestselling author Sundaresan pens her first novel set in the 20th century, merging her Indian and American inspirations into a heartrending tale of tragic love and clashing cultures in a time of war.
Author: Gina Azizah
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1780881312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen I was 5 years old my father inserted mashed chillies into my genitals and burned my eyes with a flaming torch.’ Life Behind the Silence is a heartbreaking and inspiring autobiography which gives hope to children and women who have been abused. Gina Azizah’s Malaysian childhood was not filled with toys, presents and love, it was filled with physical, sexual and mental abuse from a monsterous father and a dysfunctional family. Her childhood was punctated by episodes of abuse from the very people who should have been caring for her – even her grandfather (a Muslim priest) tried to rape her. Gina had no one she could tell about her abuse – who would believe her word against that of respected members of the community? So Gina has now chosen to give voice to the darkness of her childhood in her memoir Life Behind the Silence.Gina’s story proves that if you believe in yourself and are strong, anything is possible.
