Leaving the World

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439180814
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving the World by : Douglas Kennedy

Download or read book Leaving the World written by Douglas Kennedy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Bestseller “In this surging epic, a veritable decathlon of the spirit, Kennedy incisively dramatizes the enigma of chance, petty cruelty, and catastrophic evil, ‘unalloyed grief,’ and the tensile strength concealed beneath our obvious vulnerability.” —Booklist (starred review) On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise—but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a decision—stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth. Leaving the World is a riveting portrait of a brilliant woman that reflects the way we live now, of the many routes we follow in the course of a single life, and of the arbitrary nature of destiny. A critically acclaimed international bestseller, it is also a compulsive read and one that speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path.

Leaving the World

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409061248
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving the World by : Douglas Kennedy

Download or read book Leaving the World written by Douglas Kennedy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling novel from the number 1 bestselling author of Five Days, The Moment and The Pursuit of Happiness. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then she falls pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise - but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when Jane has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a decision - stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth. Like Kennedy's previous highly acclaimed novels, Leaving the World, speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

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Publisher : Pearson UK
ISBN 13 : 129230300X
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (923 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by : John Wood Chris Rice

Download or read book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World written by John Wood Chris Rice and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Year Off

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Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 9781885211651
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis One Year Off by : David Elliot Cohen

Download or read book One Year Off written by David Elliot Cohen and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With three children under the age of nine, the youngest still in diapers, the Cohens decide to do something many dream of, but few actually undertake: sell the house, the cars, and the belongings and take off for a year-long journey around the world. Demonstrating great creativity and tremendous tenacity, David, Devi, and their children create the adventure of a lifetime -- an inspiration to anyone who dreams of leaving it all behind. Book jacket.

Leaving Mother Lake

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316029300
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving Mother Lake by : Yang Erche Namu

Download or read book Leaving Mother Lake written by Yang Erche Namu and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunting memoir of a girl growing up in the Moso country in the Himalayas -- a unique matrilineal society. But even in this land of women, familial tension is eternal. Namu is a strong-willed daughter, and conflicts between her and her rebellious mother lead her to break the taboo that holds the Moso world together -- she leaves her mother's house.

Leaving Zion

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108478344
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving Zion by : Ori Yehudai

Download or read book Leaving Zion written by Ori Yehudai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Jewish emigration from Palestine and Israel during the critical period between 1945 and the late 1950s by weaving together the perspectives of governments, aid organizations, Jewish communities and the personal stories of individual migrants.

Leaving China

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202556
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving China by : James McMullan

Download or read book Leaving China written by James McMullan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning artist of Stink! recounts in more than 50 short essays and evocative illustrations how his early childhood in China and wartime journeys with his mother influenced his life and career.

A Walk Out of the World

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Publisher : Ace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780441871339
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis A Walk Out of the World by : Ruth Nichols

Download or read book A Walk Out of the World written by Ruth Nichols and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brother and sister walk through a wood into another world whose inhabitants are convinced that the girl is a descendant of a revered but nearly extinct line of kings.

Leaving Mundania

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613740670
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving Mundania by : Lizzie Stark

Download or read book Leaving Mundania written by Lizzie Stark and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing a subculture only beginning to enter the imagination of mainstream America, this is the story of live action role-playing (LARP) games. A hybrid of games—such as Dungeons & Dragons, historical reenactment, fandom, and good old-fashioned pretend—LARP games are thriving and this book explores its multifaceted culture and related phenomenon, including the Society for Creative Anachronism, a medieval reenactment group that boasts more than 32,000 members. The history of LARP is detailed and is shown to have arisen from the pageantry of Tudor England and is currently being used as a training tool for the U.S. military. Along the way, the author duels foes with foam-padded weapons, lets the great elder god Cthulhu destroy her parents' beach house, and endures an existential awakening in the high-art LARP scene of Scandinavia.

Leaving China

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 146163878X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving China by : Wanning Sun

Download or read book Leaving China written by Wanning Sun and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-08-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever before, China is on the move. When the flow of people and images is fused, meanings of self, place, space, community, and nation become unstable and contestable. This fascinating book explores the ways in which movement within and across the national borders of the PRC has influenced the imagination of the Chinese people, both those who remain and those who have left. Travelers or no, all participate in the production and consumption of images and narratives of travel, thus contributing to the formation of transnational subjectivities. Wanning Sun offers a fine-grained analysis of the significant narrative forms and discursive strategies used in representing transnational space in contemporary China. This includes looking at how stay-at-homes fantasize about faraway or unknown places, and how those in the diaspora remember experiences of familiar places. She considers the ways in which mobility-of people, capital, and images-affects localities through individuals' constructions of a sense of place. Relatedly, the author illustrates how economic, social, and political forces either facilitate or inhibit the formation of a particular kind of transnational subjectivity.

A Distant Tomorrow

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Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 0373776527
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (737 download)

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Book Synopsis A Distant Tomorrow by : Bertrice Small

Download or read book A Distant Tomorrow written by Bertrice Small and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the original masters of romance, "New York Times"-bestselling author Small invites readers back to the magical, sensual world of Hetar. Reissue.

Leaving World War II Behind

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Publisher : David Swanson
ISBN 13 : 1734783745
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Leaving World War II Behind written by David Swanson and published by David Swanson. This book was released on 2020 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the case that World War II happened in such a different world that it has little relevance to today's foreign policy, as well as the case that U.S. participation in WWII was not justifiable. Specifically, WWII was not fought to rescue anyone from persecution, was not necessary for defense, was the most damaging and destructive event yet to occur, and would not have happened had any one of these factors been missing: World War I, the manner in which WWI was ended, U.S. funding and arming of Nazis, a U.S. arms race with Japan, U.S. development of racial segregation, U.S. development of eugenics, U.S. development of genocide and ethnic cleansing, or the U.S. and British prioritization of opposing the Soviet Union at all costs. The author corrects numerous misconceptions about the most popular and misunderstood war in western culture, in order to build a case for moving to a world beyond war.

Never Leaving Laramie

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ISBN 13 : 9780870710315
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Never Leaving Laramie by : John W. Haines

Download or read book Never Leaving Laramie written by John W. Haines and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Leaving Laramie takes readers from a small university town in Wyoming into the human and natural landscapes of remote and dangerous areas in the world. John Haines bicycles across Tibet and kayaks the length of West Africa's Niger River. He rides the Trans-Siberian train across the former Soviet Union and survives a traumatic train accident in the Czech Republic. For two decades, the author lived a restless life exploring pockets of the world in transition, always finding a route back to Laramie, the home that shaped him--a place he loved but needed to leave, and in the end never left.

Running Out of Time

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689800843
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Running Out of Time by : Margaret Peterson Haddix

Download or read book Running Out of Time written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

The World of the End

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765333562
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis The World of the End by : Ofir Touché Gafla

Download or read book The World of the End written by Ofir Touché Gafla and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American debut of a bestselling Israeli novel about a man who crosses into another world for the sake of love.

Leaving the Atocha Station

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Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892929
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving the Atocha Station by : Ben Lerner

Download or read book Leaving the Atocha Station written by Ben Lerner and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.

Leaving My Amish World: My True Story

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Publisher : Fearless Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9780578516868
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Leaving My Amish World: My True Story written by Eirene Eicher and published by Fearless Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant.Shunned.Heartbroken.This is Eirene's true story of how she left the Amish. Like most Amish children, Eirene had a carefree childhood in a tight-knit family life in the Old Order Amish community where she grew up Indiana. Though she had no indoor plumbing, no electricity, and no modern conveniences, her young life was full of joy. Horseback riding, reading, working with her father, and singing while making noodles and quilts with her sisters filled her days as she grew up. When Eirene becomes pregnant and marries at the tender age of 17, the harsh reality of her new life sets in. From getting snowed in by 10 feet of snow to carrying icy buckets of water inside just to make coffee or wash dishes, Eirene remains steadfast in providing the best care she can for her son. As she has four more children, her world revolves around them, and they bring her more joy than she could have ever imagined.Though she loves being a mother, and she loves her family, Eirene knows there has to be more to life than just being a housewife confined to her home with no money, no phone, and no transportation. Doesn't God have a bigger purpose for her? Wasn't she meant for more? When Eirene makes a Christian friend, she is hungry to learn more about the loving God who died for her and rose again, a God so unlike the one she'd learned about growing up Amish. Eirene knows God is calling her to leave so she can serve God. But is she willing to leave her family, her community, and everything she's ever known behind? Eirene prays that her story will be in encouragement to a struggling young mother out there wondering if life will ever change or get better.Please follow Eirene on Amazon to be notified of her new releases in the future.* "This book was so enthralling, I stayed up late into the night to find out what would happen next. Never before has a book taken me through such a roller coaster ride of emotions: suspense, anguish, sorrow, indignation, and joy. This woman's story touched my heart, and when she was hurt in the story, it was written so beautifully that I could feel her pain. Her story was so incredible, how she could still have such unwavering faith after everything that happened to her. So many things in this story were absolutely shocking and absolutely heart-wrenching, but there were also so many joyful parts that spoke of the cheerful memories of the author's childhood, and the close-knit Amish community. I am a true admirer of the Amish, but all Amish communities are different. We sometimes put the Amish on a pedestal, but they are human too, and also make mistakes just like us. This story was heartbreaking and raw, but most of all, it truly was inspirational. Once you start, you won't be able to put it down." -Ashley Emma, bestselling author of Undercover Amish, Amish Under Fire, and more