Gifts of Passage
Author: Santha Rama Rau
Publisher: New York : Harper
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutobiographical accounts, travel sketches, and reminiscences, many of them reprints of former magazine articles.
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Author: Santha Rama Rau
Publisher: New York : Harper
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutobiographical accounts, travel sketches, and reminiscences, many of them reprints of former magazine articles.
Author: Darrell Dunhill
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2009-10-26
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1467854220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJared Dane is a history teacher thatdies and is at the gates of Heaven.He is given a choice to enter or go back to his true love.He returns only to find he has been given a " gift" to travel at will back in time to witness history firsthand.He will be an observer only.He cannot interfere with destiny or history.His passion for World War II drives him to explore a unique ,never before experienced veiw of history live as it happens.Join him as he witnesses the love,compassion,and sorrow of World war II and the human spirit in its most vulnerable state.This book isnot justfor the wwii enthusiast,but for the lovers of the imagination of time travel.enjoy..
Author: Amy Hollingsworth
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2009-08-31
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1418576166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot all gifts are tangible. After suffering the loss of her father while writing her bestselling debut book, Amy Hollingsworth began to search for the meaning behind his dying moments. What she found was a simple truth at the heart of overcoming the deepest grief: the dying leave gifts. With deeply moving stories of how others discovered the gifts their loved ones left behind, this book will gently encourage you to anticipate and uncover your own. Weaving together the warm intimacy of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie and the straightforward honesty of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Amy Hollingsworth adds her hopeful voice to the literature of life and the life beyond. The result is a collection of stories that gives the reader myriad ways to identify their own pain and healing and is an intriguing journey for any and all readers fascinated by this brief overlap of heaven and earth. From the bestselling author of The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers.
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1995-12-19
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 006447111X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Johnny, you're leaving us tonight . . . " Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and loves his family. Then suddenly, with a few short words, his idyllic life is shattered. He learns that the family he has loved all his life is not his own, but a foster family. And now he is being sent to live with someone else. Shocked by the news, Johnny does the only thing he can think of: he runs. Leaving his childhood behind forever, Johnny takes to the streets where he learns about living life--the hard way. Richard Wright, internationally acclaimed author of Black Boy and Native Son, gives us a coming-of-age story as compelling today as when it was first written, over fifty years ago. ‘Johnny Gibbs arrives home jubilantly one day with his straight ‘A’ report card to find his belongings packed and his mother and sister distraught. Devastated when they tell him that he is not their blood relative and that he is being sent to a new foster home, he runs away. His secure world quickly shatters into a nightmare of subways, dark alleys, theft and street warfare. . . . Striking characters, vivid dialogue, dramatic descriptions, and enduring themes introduce a enw generation of readers to Wright’s powerful voice.’—SLJ. Notable 1995 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Author: Jim McBride
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1575678764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor generations, other religions and cultures have put their children through a rite of passage to adulthood. Many people are aware of the Jewish practice of the Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, for example. The reality, however, is that many children today don’t learn how to become adults on purpose; rather, they ride the wave of adolescence toward an unknown adult future. Moms, dads, and other perfectly placed adults have the unique opportunity to guide the teenagers in their life toward adulthood. This is not a privilege to be taken lightly, but neither is it an impossible task. Jim McBride, executive producer of Fireproof and Courageous, brings wisdom, experience, and practical examples to his guidebook for leading those burgeoning adults in your life through a real-life Rite of Passage.
Author: Connie Willis
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2009-12-09
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 0307573729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of those rare, unforgettable novels that are as chilling as they are insightful, as thought-provoking as they are terrifying, award-winning author Connie Willis's Passage is an astonishing blend of relentless suspense and cutting-edge science unlike anything you've ever read before. It is the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates the near-death experience, she will either solve life's greatest mystery -- or fall victim to its greatest terror. At Mercy General Hospital, Dr. Joanna Lander will soon be paged -- not to save a life, but to interview a patient just back from the dead. A psychologist specializing in near-death experiences, Joanna has spent two years recording the experiences of those who have been declared clinically dead and lived to tell about it. It's research on the fringes of ordinary science, but Joanna is about to get a boost from an unexpected quarter. A new doctor has arrived at Mercy General, one with the power to give Joanna the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Dr. Wright is convinced that the NDE is a survival mechanism and that if only doctors understood how it worked, they could someday delay the dying process, or maybe even reverse it. He can use the expertise of a psychologist of Joanna Lander's standing to lend credibility to his study. But he soon needs Joanna for more than just her reputation. When his key volunteer suddenly drops out of the study, Joanna finds herself offering to become Richard's next subject. After all, who better than she, a trained psychologist, to document the experience? Her first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined it would be -- so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why this place is so hauntingly familiar. But each time Joanna goes under, her sense of dread begins to grow, because part of her already knows why the experience is so familiar, and why she has every reason to be afraid.... And just when you think you know where she is going, Willis throws in the biggest surprise of all -- a shattering scenario that will keep you feverishly reading until the final climactic page is turned.
Author: Steven Herrick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2004-05
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0689868677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeary of life with his alcoholic, abusive father, sixteen-year-old Billy packs a few belongings and hits the road, hoping for something better than what he left behind.
Author: Justin Cronin
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2010-06-08
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0385669526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control. At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .
Author: Abigail Brenner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780742547483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner s desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women s lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.
Author: Joseph F. Kett
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13:
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