Wave
Wave

Author: Sonali Deraniyagala

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0771025386

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A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation at the seaside resort of Yala on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines through Southeast Asia. When the water began to encroach closer to their hotel, they began to run, but in an instant, water engulfed them, Sonali was separated from her family, and all was lost. Sonali Deraniyagala has written an extraordinarily honest, utterly engrossing account of the surreal tragedy of a devastating event that all at once ended her life as she knew it and her journey since in search of understanding and redemption. It is also a remarkable portrait of a young family's life and what came before, with all the small moments and larger dreams that suddenly and irrevocably ended.

One Wave at a Time
One Wave at a Time

Author: Holly Thompson

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807561134

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After his father dies, Kai experiences all kinds of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, guilt. Sometimes they crash and mix together. Other times, there are no emotions at all—just flatness. As Kai and his family adjust to life without Dad, the waves still roll in. But with the help of friends and one another, they learn to cope—and, eventually, heal. A lyrical story about grieving for anyone encountering loss.

Journey to One
Journey to One

Author: Kristi Bowman

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-11-18

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1440179123

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PowerfulKristis story of personal freedom is an inspiration and a road map for anyone seeking wholeness. HeatherAsh Amara, author of The Four Elements of Change Triumphant! An example to us all of what is truly possible when we commit to lovebeyond conditioning, religious programming, personal drama and fear. Sarah McCroskey, HumanSpirit Radio Network Journey to One is Kristi Bowmans inspiring personal story of healing and transformation. She shares about growing up in a small town in a strict, fundamentalist Christian religion, struggling with suicidal depression as a teenager and young adult, and her journey from darkness and despair to vibrant health, happiness and wholeness. This memoir follows Kristi as she emotionally recovers from a history of abuse, leaves family, fiance and the religion of her youth, and embarks on a path of self-discovery. The journey takes her from the therapists couch, to the sacred Toltec pyramids in Mexico, to the realm of quantum physics, to the yoga mat, and ultimately......to finding awakening. Journey to One is told in two parts: Exhale and Inhale. It is a story of releasing those things that weigh us down and creating the space to breathe in a new life, where we can find happiness and our own truth.

Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory

Author: Edwidge Danticat

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1569477965

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At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

The Minefield of Memories
The Minefield of Memories

Author: Karina Wetherbee

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2004-03-18

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1414054858

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The world knows of the horrors Hitler unleashed upon an entire race of people, but, what of the countless other lives torn apart? This is the story of one such innocent, a young Austrian boy who struggles to find meaning and hope amidst the chaos and horror of World War II. The calm of Alfie’s childhood in the heart of Sudetenland is surrounded and eventually destroyed as Hitler’s greed consumes all of Europe. Left behind by his fleeing family, Alfie is separated from all he holds dear. He sets out on a journey of survival and discovery--as agonizing loneliness, witnessed brutalities, and numbing hunger all determine to break Alfie’s faith in those around him. Alfie must navigate the many minefields, real and psychological, that lurk before him in his uncertain future and behind him in his troubled past. Even upon Alfie’s eventual escape to America, the very idea of family is thrown into question, as long buried secrets are revealed.Throughout this story of love and loyalty, war and renewal, betrayal and trust, Alfie finds that the most difficult road he faces is the beleaguered path of his own memories.

Memory
Memory

Author: Gérard Emilien

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004-04-28

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1135424438

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Reviews the impact of recent neuropsychological and biological discoveries on our understanding of human memory and its pathology.

Writing the History of Memory
Writing the History of Memory

Author: Stefan Berger

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-02-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1849666741

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How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history. This book includes: - Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches - Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral history and generational and collective memory - Two key case studies on Holocaust memorialisation and the memory of Communism

The Palace of Memory
The Palace of Memory

Author: Julian Sedgwick

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1444913743

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Danny Woo has escaped from the jaws of death once - but his trials are not yet over. He's meant to be recovering, but when he discovers the Mysterium - the circus into which he was born, and which cost his parents their lives - is being reformed in Barcelona, he determines to join them. But all is not well - who is the bad seed inside the once-loyal company? And who is the woman in green who can kill, and who seems to be trailing Danny with each move he makes? Everything, he knows, is linked to the death of his parents: he must continue his quest to find his parents' killers. Once again, the story culminates in Danny's participation in a well-known and dangerous stunt.

Poems
Poems

Author: Elizabeth H. Connor

Publisher:

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2003-04-07

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780007161232

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This is a reissue of the novel inspired by Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream: We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas.