These Precious Days

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063092808
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis These Precious Days by : Ann Patchett

Download or read book These Precious Days written by Ann Patchett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

The School Journal

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Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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The Elementary School Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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The Book of Daniel

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307762955
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Daniel by : E.L. Doctorow

Download or read book The Book of Daniel written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel.

The Book of the Dead

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ISBN 13 : 9781946684219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (842 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of the Dead by : Muriel Rukeyser

Download or read book The Book of the Dead written by Muriel Rukeyser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.

Travel Journal Scrapbook

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ISBN 13 : 9781089905974
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Travel Journal Scrapbook written by Travel Journal and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travel Journal Scrapbook allows you to collect memories of your travels, from weekends away to adventures which have shaped and revolutionised your life The Travel Journal Scrapbook and Wish List sections allow you to collect all your dreams of past and future holidays. In the introductory pages you will find practical suggestions and tools such as a detailed planning of your travels You can record 5 long trips; you can write your travel daily plans and easily organise yourself to checklists, suggestions on places not to be missed and budgets. Use the blank pages to collect photographs, tickets, maps and memories of a trip which has just finished The notebook will become your Travel Journal Scrapbook, to keep the memories of your adventures. Store it on your shelf along with guides and memories from your favourite trips

Journal of Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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The Supervisors Service Bulletin

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Supervisors Service Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Stationer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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New York School Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Western Journal of Education

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lessons in Language, Literature, and Composition

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Lessons in Language, Literature, and Composition by : Henry Pendexter Emerson

Download or read book Lessons in Language, Literature, and Composition written by Henry Pendexter Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Musical Record & Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Cities of the Dead

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876232
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Cities of the Dead by : William A. Blair

Download or read book Cities of the Dead written by William A. Blair and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained far more contentious than has been previously acknowledged. Commemorations by ex-Confederates were intended at first to maintain a separate identity from the U.S. government, Blair argues, not as a vehicle for promoting sectional healing. The burial grounds of fallen heroes, known as Cities of the Dead, often became contested ground, especially for Confederate women who were opposed to Reconstruction. And until the turn of the century, African Americans used freedom celebrations to lobby for greater political power and tried to create a national holiday to recognize emancipation. Blair's analysis shows that some festive occasions that we celebrate even today have a divisive and sometimes violent past as various groups with conflicting political agendas attempted to define the meaning of the Civil War.

A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy

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Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1636141471
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy by : Ron Kovic

Download or read book A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy written by Ron Kovic and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country's most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America. WHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1964, he couldn’t foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July became an antiwar classic and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Tom Cruise as Kovic. His follow-up, Hurricane Street, chronicled his advocacy for Vietnam veterans’ rights. A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy completes Kovic’s Vietnam Trilogy, delving deep into his long and often agonizing journey home from war and eventual healing, forgiveness, and spiritual redemption. The book opens with Kovic’s never-before-revealed Vietnam diary (July 7, 1967–July 26, 1968). His entries from this period portray a patriotic young soldier with a strong moral and religious conscience. Kovic then recalls his political awakening after his return from Vietnam confined to a wheelchair following his horrific injury. He also chronicles the tremendous guilt he feels over his accidental killing of a fellow Marine while on patrol. This killing psychologically torments him as much as his severe disability. After years of social, political, and sexual turmoil—and on the brink of suicide—Kovic experiences a powerful epiphany that gives him a reason and purpose to live; a renewed faith and strength to carry on. Although his trauma is severe, his third memoir is ultimately the inspirational story of a survivor finding a way to rise above his depression and despair, forgiving his enemies and himself, and growing deeply committed to a new life.

The Legend of Diadamia

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1420888315
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Diadamia written by C. J. Fisher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longtime residents of the Rhode Island mill village, Amethyst Hill, can tell you all about the haunting in the town’s old cemetery. The legend of the Amethyst Hill ghost has been around for as long as they can remember. But the story becomes all too real for shopkeeper Lydia Gwyndorra and her friend Cory Spenceton, who is the sole heir to the mansion that overlooks the town where the Spenceton Textile Mills were once a prosperous industry. With the discovery of some old diaries and stories from the past, Lydia and Cory are curious to learn what happened that turned a beautiful, intelligent young woman from the 1920s into the terrifying Amethyst Hill ghost. While they uncover this compelling tale of murder and deception, the supernatural activity around them intensifies at an alarming rate, as though the ghost were watching their every move, and manipulating Lydia and Cory into playing out the parts in a twisted reenactment of her past. Discovering the truth behind the legend may no longer be a mere curiosity. It now may be a matter of life and death... A sequel to ‘Afterimages,’ The Legend of Diadamia is C.J. Fisher’s second novel, again combining his love of the old amusement parks from New England, with his fascinations in history, architecture, movies, ghost stories, and new-age philosophy.

The Volta Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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