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Author: Summer Theron Publisher: Leigh Clay ISBN: 9780996789707 Category : Addiction Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Eva Parsons, a thirty-year-old single mother, is overtaken by her past on a lonely night. Captivated by memories, she begins by recalling her first sexual encounter. Despite Eva's youth during the violation, a cruel lesson is imparted-some people just want to use you. Her mother turns out to be one of those people. She expects her daughter to keep a dark secret inside the family. To inspire silence, she provides Eva with an endless supply of liquor. Eva poisons her body with alcohol and drugs for years. To keep the clamoring of addiction at bay, Eva attends meetings where she finds camaraderie and the man who will make her a mother and then toss her away when he's through with her. It's at this point, divorced and drinking again, that Eva's past and present merge and she stumbles into the bathroom with a bottle of pills that have the power to end the stranglehold a lifetime of trauma has over her. But the love of her two young sons creates the ultimate dilemma- Eva must decide if she will continue to live or if she will stain her children's memory with her death. Told in an edgy voice, Clay-Stained Memories explores the line between deviance and legitimacy. Difficult issues such as sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and addiction are discussed frankly and with realism, allowing readers to walk in a victim's shoes.
Author: Summer Theron Publisher: Leigh Clay ISBN: 9780996789707 Category : Addiction Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Eva Parsons, a thirty-year-old single mother, is overtaken by her past on a lonely night. Captivated by memories, she begins by recalling her first sexual encounter. Despite Eva's youth during the violation, a cruel lesson is imparted-some people just want to use you. Her mother turns out to be one of those people. She expects her daughter to keep a dark secret inside the family. To inspire silence, she provides Eva with an endless supply of liquor. Eva poisons her body with alcohol and drugs for years. To keep the clamoring of addiction at bay, Eva attends meetings where she finds camaraderie and the man who will make her a mother and then toss her away when he's through with her. It's at this point, divorced and drinking again, that Eva's past and present merge and she stumbles into the bathroom with a bottle of pills that have the power to end the stranglehold a lifetime of trauma has over her. But the love of her two young sons creates the ultimate dilemma- Eva must decide if she will continue to live or if she will stain her children's memory with her death. Told in an edgy voice, Clay-Stained Memories explores the line between deviance and legitimacy. Difficult issues such as sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and addiction are discussed frankly and with realism, allowing readers to walk in a victim's shoes.
Author: Clay Lewis Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820320090 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
In Battlegrounds of Memory Clay Lewis crosses seven generations of his family to illuminate a heritage of romantic hope and abject defeat, seeking freedom from the past by understanding it. His story is a cry from the heart, reaching into the depths of a family's collective soul and finding hope in the midst of despair. Heritage was a heavy burden on Lewis's parents, children of the South whose denial of their past bound them more tightly to it. Their battles with each other and their son followed old patterns of intergenerational conflict. The book opens with a harrowing scene in which the author as a teenager is urged by his mother to discipline his drunken father on Christmas Eve. In the forty years since he assaulted his father that night, Lewis has struggled to understand how his family was changed by the history they had experienced--the wilderness frontier, the Civil War, and the Great Depression. How they were changed ultimately became his legacy. In the Marines he found that his capacity for violence ran deep; in his unhappy marriages he found himself repeating old mistakes. Over the years he began to recognize that the terrible wounds on both sides of his family formed patterns of scapegoats and rebels, of betrayal and grief, and finally of yearning and hope. In this knowledge he found freedom. Battlegrounds of Memory is a work of deep courage--at times humorous and ironic, at other times melancholy and lyrical, it is told with an amazing sensitivity and passion. It is a strong testament to the force of love.
Author: Myra Johnson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1682998843 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Joanna Trapp found adventure serving in France as a “Hello Girl” for the Army Signal Corps, but she still mourns her doughboy sweetheart killed in battle. Returning to Hot Springs, Arkansas, she takes a job as a switchboard operator at the Arlington Hotel and quickly discovers that after her experiences overseas, civilian life proves dull. Thomas Ballard still regrets he was medically ineligible to serve in the war and feels inferior to those who did, especially his war-hero brother, Gilbert. When Thomas finds himself attracted to Joanna, he strives to match her adventurous spirit, when all he really wants is to settle down, raise a family, and earn respect as a successful businessman. As romance blossoms, can two such different people learn to accept not only their own but each other's God-created individuality . . . or will love change them both?
Author: Lindsay Buroker Publisher: Lindsay Buroker ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 366
Book Description
Ridge, Sardelle, and their comrades may have rescued Tolemek’s sister and freed the dragon, but trouble awaits at home. The king is missing, a secret organization is hunting sorcerers, and the capital is more vulnerable than ever to enemy attack. Worst of all, at least from Ridge's point of view, someone put that jackass Colonel Therrik in charge of the flier battalion. Ridge and his allies have a lot of problems to fix, but they can’t show their faces in the capital without being arrested or shot. This time, it’s going to take a lot more than magic to save the country. The Blade’s Memory is the fifth installment in the Dragon Blood series.
Author: Naomi Foyle Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books ISBN: 1784299669 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 482
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Astra Ordott tried - and failed - to deny her destiny. The final installment in the critically-acclaimed SF quartet 'for Hunger Games fans of all ages' (Library Journal). Perfect for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin, Joan Slonczewski and Joyce Carol Oates. For ten years Astra Ordott has lived as a traitor, hated by most of her fellow prisoners and abused by the guards. She made the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loved, voluntarily giving up her freedom when she handed herself over to the Is-Land authorities. Now long-simmering conflicts are beginning to boil over again as the wider world faces devastating threats both old and new. Non-Land and Is-Land are further from reunification than ever. Outside Astra's fortified Gaian homeland, an infertility crisis is threatening the survival of the human race, while the world's reliance on rare earth metals is infuriating the ancient spirits of the planet. Astra may have found her voice as a messenger of cosmic harmony - but is anyone listening?
Author: Harold Bloom Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0525520880 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 545
Book Description
In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested only in the influence of the mind upon itself when it absorbs the highest and most enduring imaginative literature. He offers more than eighty meditations on poems and prose that have haunted him since childhood and which he has possessed by memory: from the Psalms and Ecclesiastes to Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson; Spenser and Milton to Wordsworth and Keats; Whitman and Browning to Joyce and Proust; Tolstoy and Yeats to Delmore Schwartz and Amy Clampitt; Blake to Wallace Stevens--and so much more. And though he has written before about some of these authors, these exegeses, written in the winter of his life, are movingly informed by "the freshness of last things." As Bloom writes movingly: "One of my concerns throughout Possessed by Memory is with the beloved dead. Most of my good friends in my generation have departed. Their voices are still in my ears. I find that they are woven into what I read. I listen not only for their voices but also for the voice I heard before the world was made. My other concern is religious, in the widest sense. For me poetry and spirituality fuse as a single entity. All my long life I have sought to isolate poetic knowledge. This also involves a knowledge of God and gods. I see imaginative literature as a kind of theurgy in which the divine is summoned, maintained, and augmented."
Author: Pronoy Chatterjee Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1434333612 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 302
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Set in the days of violent revolution against British rule in India, "A Living Memory" begins in a remote village, Alipur, at the bank of Mahi River in India, where families live in harmony in a close-knit community surrounding a sugar mill. Life in the community remains serene, not affected by the outside turmoil, as Romi and Tushar grow up playing and having adventures in a rural setup. As they mature, their paths diverge but they remain in close contact maintaining their old intimacy. One day a young girl, Runu, is found missing from her home. She was being held captive by a man of authority in the community. Later, as she walks to a house late one night, Tushar and his friends recognize her and bring her back home. The story then begins to unfold the life of Runu, along with Tushar, as she goes through a tumultuous life in uncertainty and disappointments as well as love and hopes. She longs for reaching her living memories and to her dismay finds that time has robbed her dreams. The story reflects the complexities of life in love, desire and social conflicts. Life in a small close community with scenes of a rural village in India has been eloquently described. Significant historical events, like the revolt against colonial power, great famine and horror of communal riots of the1930s and 40s that changed the social and political landscape of India are entwined with the characters' lives. Born in India, the author was educated and professionally engaged in scientific disciplines and moved to the United States in the 60s. On the literary side, he has written many short stories and essays for various magazines and published his first novel, "Her Own Path" in 2002.
Author: Rodney Martin II Publisher: Writers Republic LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 98
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This story is not what you expect it to be. It’s like wandering into the dark without a flashlight. But you chose this because you wanted to get away. It’s like holding the lives of others in your hands. Not because you like playing God, but because you don’t have a- Shh. I can’t say more. I’m not one to give away secrets that don’t belong to me. I’d hate to give someone else’s story. I’ll let them tell it. So, what are you waiting for? Don’t you want to know why this is in Memory of you?
Author: Summer Theron
Author: Summer Theron
Author: Clay Lewis
Author: Myra Johnson
Author: Lindsay Buroker
Author: Naomi Foyle
Author: Charlotte Heavisides Marshall
Author: Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Author: Harold Bloom
Author: Pronoy Chatterjee
Author: Rodney Martin II