Broken But Still A Masterpiece
Broken But Still A Masterpiece

Author: Miyoshi U Gordon

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781951883324

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Some things are not only tough to endure but equally challenging to communicate. Miyoshi Umeki Gordon grew up in a loving and caring environment. She was raised to be strong and confident. However, there came a time in her life when her faith and strength were challenged. Faced with the choice to suffer in silence or speak her truth, the author chose to 'let go and let God.' The values her parents instilled, and her faith in God are what sustained the author when life seemed bleak and hopeless. Fueled by the love and desire to parent her only son well, the author persevered through her emotional and physical pain to live out God's purpose for her life. This book is her story of triumph.

The Life of an Unknown Man
The Life of an Unknown Man

Author: Andreï Makine

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1555970540

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A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present. Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving the siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin, and Stalin's purges, and of a transcendent love affair. Volsky's life is an inspiration to Shutov -- because for all that he suffered, he knew great happiness. This depth of feeling stands in sharp contrast to the empty lives Shutov encounters in the new Russia, and to his own life, that of just another unknown man . . .

Dreams Of My Russian Summers
Dreams Of My Russian Summers

Author: Andrei Makine

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1998-08-27

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0684852683

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This international bestseller has been translated into 26 languages and is the first work to win both of France's top literary honors. "A masterpiece. . . . Makine belongs on the shelf of world literature--between Lermontov and Nabokov, a few volumes down from Proust".--"The Atlanta Journal".

Surviving Bhopal
Surviving Bhopal

Author: S. Mukherjee

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-20

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0230106323

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On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an economic, medical, environmental, and political disaster. Surviving Bhopal draws on oral testimonials of the affected community and analyzes the cause and aftermath of the disaster from the perspective of those who suffered the severe consequences of systemic failure and travesty of justice. The event resulted in a resistance movement, led by women, against corporate and state power. Mukherjee explores the underlying gender politics, showing how activism challenged and redefined the contemporary model of development.

Omar's Guide for Surviving This Turbulent Age Including Poetry and Thoughts to Consider
Omar's Guide for Surviving This Turbulent Age Including Poetry and Thoughts to Consider

Author: Omar

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1491787643

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The author's views are practical, honest, common sense solutions to problems we are encountering. The topics are ment to encourage any reader to offer his or her thoughts, add additional topics for survival of our freedoms. Poetry contains deeper meanings, which prose cannot express. Each reader should "feel" poetry, not just read it. Omar, a 3000 year old scribe, scholar, etc..., the author's nom de plume (alter ego) offers humor and additional insights.