Your Eyes Will Be My Window
Your Eyes Will Be My Window

Author: Jodi Varon

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0820364673

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Your Eyes Will Be My Window reclaims the two erasures of Esta Plat. Murdered in Ukraine by Nazi troops in 1942, evidence of the life of Esta Plat was preserved in a bundle of her letters until the letters were tossed into a dumpster and destroyed. Haunted by the inheritance of survivor's guilt and shame in a family that kept no Old World keepsakes except her grandmother's one-sentence memory of Esta Plat, Jodi Varonis compelled to sift through records of Europe's genocidal past. Pitting grandiose Holocaust memorials against the act of bearing witness, Varon confronts the limitations of history, folklore, archival data, and survivor testimonies. Seeking solace in ritual, she challenges her upbringing as an outlier Jew in the Rocky Mountain West to provide a window to the meaning of cultural displacement in immigrant communities. When an ethnic German woman's corpse was discarded across from Varon's rented flat in Baden-Württemberg, the homemade memorial for Nadine E. prompts a meditation on violence against women and girls as a weapon of suppression and war. The record of unfiltered emotions among Kindertransport survivors in Europe, journalists in Ludwigsburg, and archivists and guides in Jerusalem, Your Eyes Will Be My Window is a defiant exercise in honoring the lost.

Fix Your Eyes
Fix Your Eyes

Author: Amy Gannett

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1087730554

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We live in a polarized time. Christians are quick to conceive of themselves either as theologically-minded or worship-minded; either thinking Christians or feeling Christians. The results are damaging: theology without worship is muted, stifled, and cold, and worship without theology is ungrounded, unrooted, and uninformed. This is not the way it was meant to be. Theology (our study and knowledge of God) should always lead to doxology (our worship of Him). Worship should always be rooted in theology. When we study the nature and character of God as revealed in his Word, we are invited to respond in the affectionate, obedient discipleship of worship. How can we keep our theology from being mere head knowledge? How do we give our worship roots that will last? By fixing our eyes on God Himself—the object of our study and the object of our worship. Fix Your Eyes is an invitation to understand core doctrines of the Christian faith and apply them in our daily worship of God. It walks believers through key theological concepts and shows how each can be lived out in daily life.

Eyes at the Window
Eyes at the Window

Author: Evie Miller

Publisher: Good Books

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 9781561484645

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This historical novel, literary and engaging, examines a close-knit community of Amish pioneers over several decades (right up to the eve of the American Civil War). Employing eight different voices, Miller unpeels the cohesions and tensions as settlers move west while others stay behind. Beneath the surface but never quite forgotten is the unsolved murder of an Amish baby (based on a true incident). This is a story of judgment and misplaced responsibility, of attempts at love and forgiveness, and finally of grace despite unspeakable loss. It is told lyrically from within this often-idealized but sometimes scarred human community. An unforgettable story. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Heaven In Your Eyes (La Fleur de Love: Book Four)
Heaven In Your Eyes (La Fleur de Love: Book Four)

Author: Lori Leger

Publisher: Cajunflair Publishing

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Things are finally falling into place for Annie McAllister. She’s relocated to a new town, into a new home, and partnered with a thriving physical therapy practice. The youngest of eight children has achieved the independence she’s always craved. No complications will keep this McAllister from doing whatever she wants, whenever she wants. Two men, in particular, didn’t get that memo: A would-be-rapist-turned-stalker named J.B. Montgomery, who is more determined than ever to have her; and Drake LeBlanc, the handsome attorney who saved Annie from J.B.’s attack on New Year’s Eve. Annie is livid when she’s coerced by family members into having Drake move in until her attacker is apprehended. There goes her independence. Drake is thrilled at the chance to protect Annie. He’s been captivated by the fiery redhead since their first anonymous, though undeniably hot encounter a month earlier. He’s vowed to keep Annie safe, and to win her trust. First, he must win over her pet cat, Martin, and wise-cracking parrot, Lewis. The question is, will he win Annie’s heart in the process? In a family as large as Annie’s, it’s nearly impossible to avoid other family drama. Her brother, Chad McAllister and his wife, Julia, seem to have plenty of trouble to share. Welcome to Clan McAllister.

Trust Your Eyes
Trust Your Eyes

Author: Linwood Barclay

Publisher: Doubleday Canada

Published: 2012-09-04

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0385669585

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Thomas Kilbride is a map-obsessed schizophrenic so affected that he rarely leaves the self-imposed bastion of his bedroom. But with a computer program called Whirl360.com, he travels the world while never so much as stepping out the door. He pores over and memorizes the streets of the world. He examines every address, as well as the people who are frozen in time on his computer screen. Then he sees something that anyone else might have stumbled upon--but has not--in a street view of downtown New York City: an image in a window. An image that looks like a woman being murdered. Thomas's brother, Ray, takes care of him, cooking for him, dealing with the outside world on his behalf, and listening to his intricate and increasingly paranoid theories. When Thomas tells Ray what he has seen, Ray humors him with a half-hearted investigation. But Ray soon realizes he and his brother have stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy. And now they are in the crosshairs.

My Window: The Memoirs of Fitz Aldridge
My Window: The Memoirs of Fitz Aldridge

Author: Michael Housley

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1105990141

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Read the memoirs of Fitz Aldridge, who at the age of 5 loses his father to a life sentence in prison for a multitude of crimes, including murder. Coming from a big family who loves Fitz very much, he still can't seem to fill in that empty space that only a father could fill. As a teen, Fitz undergoes life altering experiences as he battles against his most ultimate fear, which was to become just like his father. Fitz's fear started to become a reality when he dropped out of high school and started hanging with the wrong crowd, which ultimately led Fitz down a spiraling path of drugs and violence. The story takes you on one hell of a ride as his family ties are tested with a secret shared with his brother's wife, a friendship ending in bloodshed, his love life intertwined with his high school sweetheart, and finally coming face to face with his father. It is a raw story of pure beauty and emotion with a narrative approach that of which resembles, "The Catcher in the Rye".

Feast Your Eyes
Feast Your Eyes

Author: Myla Goldberg

Publisher: Scribner

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1501197843

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ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season—a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation. Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother, America’s Bravest Mother, America’s Worst Photographer, or America’s Greatest Photographer, depending on who was talking.” After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school’s photo club, Lillian rejects her parents’ expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha, Lillian is arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter’s sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and especially Lillian’s career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. Narrated by Samantha, Feast Your Eyes reads as a collection of Samantha’s memories, interviews with Lillian’s friends and lovers, and excerpts from Lillian’s journals and letters—a collage of stories and impressions, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated, above all, to a vision of beauty, truth, and authenticity.

MY HEART
MY HEART

Author: T.E Henry

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1493186566

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In this book I have bared my soul. I am in essence made naked. Words are such a powerful thing, and in this piece of literature I have carefully chosen the diction to portray all my heart. In the poems, readers will be amazed by the myriad topics that are shared; love, lust, happiness anguish and even American History. Be ready to be pulled into the rawness of the emotions, pay close attention to the care given in preserving the skill and artistry of poetry while being completely vulnerable with one’s emotion. In addition the short stories in this book are both emotional and entertaining. Here, in these pages you will be truly presented with a master piece.