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Author: Alex Landragin Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250259053 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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"A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." —Publishers Weekly "Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended." —Library Journal (Starred Review) Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has spanned seven generations. With each new chapter, the stunning connections between these seemingly disparate people grow clearer and more extraordinary. Crossings is an unforgettable adventure full of love, longing and empathy.
Author: Alex Landragin Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250259053 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
"A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." —Publishers Weekly "Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended." —Library Journal (Starred Review) Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has spanned seven generations. With each new chapter, the stunning connections between these seemingly disparate people grow clearer and more extraordinary. Crossings is an unforgettable adventure full of love, longing and empathy.
Author: Jon Kerstetter Publisher: Crown ISBN: 1101904399 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 354
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A searing, beautifully told memoir by a Native American doctor on the trials of being a doctor-soldier in the Iraq War, and then, after suffering a stroke that left his life irrevocably changed, his struggles to overcome the new limits of his body, mind, and identity. Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter’s life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself. Crossings is a memoir of an improbable, powerfully drawn life, one that began in poverty on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin but grew by force of will to encompass a remarkable medical practice. Trained as an emergency physician, Kerstetter’s thirst for intensity led him to volunteer in war-torn Rwanda, Kosovo, and Bosnia, and to join the Army National Guard. His three tours in the Iraq War marked the height of the American struggle there. The story of his work in theater, which involved everything from saving soldiers’ lives to organizing the joint U.S.–Iraqi forensics team tasked with identifying the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons, is a bracing, unprecedented evocation of a doctor’s life at war. But war was only the start of Kerstetter’s struggle. The stroke he suffered upon returning from Iraq led to serious cognitive and physical disabilities. His years-long recovery, impeded by near-unbearable pain and complicated by PTSD, meant overcoming the perceived limits of his body and mind and reimagining his own capacity for renewal and change. It led him not only to writing as a vocation but to a deeper understanding of how healing means accepting a new identity, and how that acceptance must be fought for with as much tenacity as any battlefield victory.
Author: Tanya Grubaugh Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0578012634 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 112
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Experience God's relentless desire to heal your heart. Each chapter in this nine-week study includes commentary, scripture references, journaling prompts and a discussion guide for small groups.
Author: Gabriella Sanchez Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134483090 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 161
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This book fills an important gap in our knowledge of human smugglers and offers fresh empirical data from an area in the US where trafficking is widespread. This book will be useful supplementary reading for a growing number of courses on crime and trafficking, as well as sociology modules in citizenship and migration.
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226556727 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 308
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We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing—completely and entirely—the gender line. Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman. McCloskey's account of her painstaking efforts to learn to "be a woman" unearth fundamental questions about gender and identity, and hatreds and anxieties, revealing surprising answers.
Author: Dr. Curtis J. Way Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1483653838 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 216
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River Crossings By: Dr. Curtis J. Way Edited by: Staff at Spoon Book Publishing About this Book This book is about a black woman who vicariously and ability wise saw herself as a blue-eyed blond seeking economic security, compatible sex, and peace amongst races; she experienced River Crossings. Rivers are beautiful to view and they are an iconic symbol of natures grace and power. River Crossings here represents the obstacles that this woman had to overcome just to have the basics. This family and this woman were sharecroppers who had to overcome obstacles that were mostly embedded in the customs; now she attempts to promote healing and end hate. River Crossings has some very vivid intimate scenes but not as many as in Dr. Ways two other books Sunrise Sunset at East Blythewood Ranch & Maggies Cycle. This trilogy is intended to be sexually real raw enjoyable quick reads and it is hoped that you will like them. Please let us know what you think at Spoon Book Publishing at [email protected].
Author: Sheila L. Mills Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1607999803 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 136
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In the Old Testament, The Israelites took an intimidating, faith-filled journey across the Jordan River to move forward into the land God promised. For believers in the twenty-first century, our modern-day Jordan represents facets of our daily Christian walk-obstacles, temptations, and detours that threaten to push us off course. InCrossing Your Jordan in Faithauthor Sheila L. Mills invites you to discover that God's covenant promise To The Israelites as they journeyed across the Jordan is still available to us. Nothing is too hard for God, and it is only through faith in the Creator that we can reach our inherited place of promise. So get moving To The edge of your Jordan and prepare for God to move mightily on your behalf. Are you still standing there? Keeping going-your Jordan awaits.
Author: Deirdre Nansen Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022666273X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 319
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year “I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am.” Once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s privilege, Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald) had wanted to change genders from the age of eleven. But it was a different time, one hostile to any sort of straying from the path—against gays, socialists, women with professions, men without hats, and so on—and certainly against gender transition. Finally, in 1995, at the age of fifty-three, it was time for McCloskey to cross the gender line. Crossing is the story of McCloskey’s dramatic and poignant transformation from Donald to Dee to Deirdre. She chronicles the physical procedures and emotional evolution required and the legal and cultural roadblocks she faced in her journey to womanhood. By turns searing and humorous, this is the unflinching, unforgettable story of her transformation—what she lost, what she gained, and the women who lifted her up along the way.
Author: Celeste Hudson-Watson Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456807498 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 83
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This is a story about rebellion and Gods' love, and it is a testimony of how He never gave up on me. God called the Israelites stiff-necked people because they rebelled repeatedly against Him. He allowed persecution to come upon them from their enemies and they repented, He would send a vindicator to rescue them and this happened many times. People are rebelling today and because God loves us, He gave His Son to be our vindicator. Jesus paid the cost and He will rescue us when we repent and believe. Now is your 'Time to Decide', will you break the cycle of rebellion and become the person that God has created you to be. You can cross over and live the fulfilled life of purpose you have always wanted to live.
Author: Alex Landragin
Author: Alex Landragin
Author: Jon Kerstetter
Author: Tanya Grubaugh
Author: Gabriella Sanchez
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Author: Dr. Curtis J. Way
Author: Sheila L. Mills
Author: Deirdre Nansen
Author: Celeste Hudson-Watson
Author: George Sebastian Rousseau