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Affliction

Author : Laura Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164742125X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Affliction written by Laura Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Ralph Hall, suicidal, revealed his sexual orientation to his grandmother, knowing she would comfort him. He was out for three years afterwards, until an indiscretion sent him back into the closet. At twenty-four, while in the army, he met and married Irene. The couple made their home on the San Francisco Peninsula and had four children. Ralph was an attentive husband and father—albeit with an intense interest in interior design, flower arranging, and fine objects—and a diligent worker who rose to payroll accountant at Standard Oil. It wasn't until 1975 that Ralph came out to his middle daughter, Laura, telling her that he had once considered his sexuality an aberration, an affliction. She was shocked, as the possibility her father might be gay had never crossed her mind. Irene had known Ralph’s secret for eighteen years, but the two remained married until she died. It was only then that this charismatic man and devoted father, by now in his eighties, could freely express his authentic, gay self. Here, Laura paints a vivid and honest portrait of her beloved father and the effect his secret had on her own life.

Affliction

Author : Russell Banks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0676970958
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Affliction written by Russell Banks and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wade Whitehouse, divorced, estranged from his young daughter, spends his days as a well-driller, snow-plow operator, and policeman, his nights in a wind-swept trailer park. But when a union boss is killed in an apparent hunting accident near Wade's home, and he is convinced that it is murder, he seizes the event as a chance to right many wrongs—unaware that as he unravels the mystery he himself will become unravelled. Soon his hunger for justice and self-respect become inseparable from a desperate violence.

The Affliction

Author : C. Dale Young
Publisher : Four Way Books
ISBN 13 : 1945588160
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Affliction written by C. Dale Young and published by Four Way Books . This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel told in short stories, The Affliction is an astounding fiction debut by an award-winning poet full of memorable characters across America and the Caribbean. Young beautifully weaves together the elaborate stories of many while holding together a clear focus: people are not always as they seem.

The Afflictions

Author : Vikram Paralkar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941360354
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Afflictions written by Vikram Paralkar and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Encyclopedia of Medicine is a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you've ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury you--or after? The Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo-diseases, an encyclopedia of archaic medicine written by a contemporary physician and scientist. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence. First published in English in the United States, The Afflictions has since been published in Argentina, Italy, and India. This second U.S. edition features the original illustrations created by Pia Valentinis for the Italian language edition.

Beautiful Affliction

Author : Lene Fogelberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631529862
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Affliction written by Lene Fogelberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER GOLD MEDAL WINNER OF THE 2016 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS ("IPPY”) Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her. Love stories enfold her, with her husband, her two precious daughters, her enchanting surroundings, but the question she has carried in her heart since childhood—Will I die young?—is threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young family moves to the US, an answer, a diagnosis, is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late? A young woman risks everything to save her own life in this “unusual, riveting medical drama crafted with deep emotion and exquisite detail” (BookPage).

The Constantine Affliction

Author : T. Aaron Payton
Publisher : Night Shade
ISBN 13 : 9781597805001
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Constantine Affliction written by T. Aaron Payton and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1864. London is a city in transition. The Constantine Affliction–a strange malady that kills some of its victims and physically transforms others into the opposite sex–has spread scandal and upheaval throughout society. Scientific marvels and disasters, such as clockwork courtesans, the alchemical fires of Whitechapel, electric carriages, and acidic monsters lurking in the Thames, have forever altered the face of the city. Pembroke “Pimm” Halliday is an aristocrat with an interest in criminology, who uses his keen powers of observation to assist the police or private individuals–at least when he’s sober enough to do so. Ellie Skyler, who hides her gender behind the byline “E. Skye,” is an intrepid journalist driven by both passion and necessity to uncover the truth, no matter where it hides. When Pimm and Skye stumble onto a dark plot that links the city’s most notorious criminal overlord with the Queen’s new consort, famed scientist Sir Bertram Oswald, they soon find the forces of both high and low society arrayed against them. Can they save the city from the arcane machinations of one of history’s most infamous monsters–and uncover the shocking origin of . . . THE CONSTANTINE AFFLICTION Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Devil in Massachusetts

Author : Marion L. Starkey
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125626
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Devil in Massachusetts written by Marion L. Starkey and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic and deeply moving book combines a narrative that has the pace and excitement of a novel, a timeless portrait of bigotry and a self-righteousness, and an authentic history of the Salem witch trials. It stands alone in applying modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Nearly three hundred years ago the fate of Massachusetts was delivered into the hands of a pack of young girls. Because of the fantasies and hysterical antics of unbalanced teenagers, decent men and women were sent to the gallows. Medical science that day had no better explanation than “the evil eye”; and so Massachusetts was precipitated into a reign of terror that did not end until the highest in the land had been accused of witchcraft—ministers, a judge, the Governor’s lady. One by one were brought to the gallows such diverse personalities as a decent grandmother; a rakish, pipe-smoking female tramp; a plain farmer who thought only to save his wife from molestation; a lame old man whose toothless gums did not deny expression to a very salty vocabulary. But from the very beginning some fought the hysteria, pitting sanity against insanity, and eventually forced the community to atone for its tragic error. Written with sly humor, much of the book reads like a novel. In the end, one is pretty sure what was wrong with Cotton Mather, the august judges, and the tormented young girls. “The Devil in Massachusetts is a vivid and compassionate reconstruction of the Salem witchcraft hysteria. Marion Starkey has written history which illustrates the past and at the same time packs and important contemporary moral.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. “It is certainly a ‘one sitting’ sort of book, with the dramatic appeal of the well-told story and the significances of good human history.”—Gerald Warner Brace “A fresh and full narration...of one of the most lurid, pitiful and deeply significant episodes in American history....”—Odell Shepard

Daily Afflictions

Author : Andrew Boyd
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322811
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Daily Afflictions written by Andrew Boyd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionizing a bestselling genre, this thinking man's parody hijacks the format of "daily affirmations" by offering "daily afflictions" to give readers inspiration, practical advice, and food for thought.

A Shining Affliction

Author : Annie G. Rogers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440621098
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Shining Affliction written by Annie G. Rogers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Soars into sublime meditation...what makes this book so extraordinary is her willingness to reveal exactly what goes on in the sometimes mysterious encounter between therapist and patient."—The Los Angeles Times. A moving account of a true-life double healing through psychotherapy. In this brave, iconoclastic, and utterly unique book, psychotherapist Annie Rogers chronicles her remarkable bond with Ben, a severely disturbed five-ear-old. Orphaned, fostered, neglected, and forgotten in a household fire, Ben finally begins to respond to Annie in their intricate and revealing platy therapy. But as Ben begins to explore the trauma of his past, Annie finds herself being drawn downward into her own mental anguish. Catastrophically failed by her own therapist, she is hospitalized with a breakdown that renders her unable to speak. Then she and her gifted new analyst must uncover where her story of childhood terror overlaps with Ben's, and learn how she can complete her work with the child by creating a new story from the old—one that ultimately heals them both.

A Strange Vineyard in Palestina ...

Author : Nehemiah Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Strange Vineyard in Palestina ... written by Nehemiah Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Afflicted Man's Companion

Author : John Willison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Afflicted Man's Companion written by John Willison and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Expatriates

Author : Martin Edmond
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 1988533147
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The Expatriates written by Martin Edmond and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connection between a colony and its founder, centre and margin, is always paradoxical. Where once Britain sent colonists out into the world, now the descendents of those colonists return to interrogate the centre. This is a book about four of these returners: Harold Williams, journalist, linguist, Foreign Editor of The Times; Ronald Syme, spy, libertarian, historian of ancient Rome; John Platts-Mills, radical lawyer and political activist; and Joseph Burney Trapp, librarian, scholar and protector of culture. These were men, born in remote New Zealand, who achieved fame in Europe—even as they were lost sight of at home. Men who became, from the point of view of their country of origin, expatriates. A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of these four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealand’s place in the world, then and now.

The Thinking Woman

Author : Julienne van Loon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978819900
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Thinking Woman written by Julienne van Loon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love -- Play -- Work -- Fear -- Wonder -- Friendship.

The Land Without Shadows

Author : Abdourahman A. Waberi
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925080
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Land Without Shadows written by Abdourahman A. Waberi and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in France in 1994, this newly translated collection presents stories about the precolonial and colonial past of Djibouti alongside those set in the postcolonial era. With irony and humor, these short stories portray madmen, poets, artists, French colonists, pseudointellectuals, young women, aspiring politicians, famished refugees, khat chewers, nomads struggling to survive in Djibouti's ruthless natural environment, or tramps living (and dying) in Balbala, the shantytown that stretches to the south of the capital--Cover.

A Body of Practical Divinity

Author : Thomas Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book A Body of Practical Divinity written by Thomas Watson and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Afflicted Man's Companion: Or, a Directory for Families and Persons Afflicted with Sickness Or Any Other Distress. With Directions to the Sick ... Also to the Friends of the Sick ... With a Collection of the Dying Words of Many Choice and Eminent Saints ... By ... John Willison ...

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Author : John Willison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Afflicted Man's Companion: Or, a Directory for Families and Persons Afflicted with Sickness Or Any Other Distress. With Directions to the Sick ... Also to the Friends of the Sick ... With a Collection of the Dying Words of Many Choice and Eminent Saints ... By ... John Willison ... written by John Willison and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fictions of Affliction

Author : Martha Stoddard Holmes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025961
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Affliction written by Martha Stoddard Holmes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny Tim, Clym Yeobright, Long John Silver---what underlies nineteenth-century British literature's fixation with disability? Melodramatic representations of disability pervaded not only novels by Dickens, but also doctors' treatises on blindness, educators' arguments for "special" education, and even the writing of disabled people themselves. Drawing on extensive primary research, Martha Stoddard Holmes introduces readers to popular literary and dramatic works that explored culturally risky questions like "can disabled men work?" and "should disabled women have babies?" and makes connections between literary plots and medical, social, and educational debates of the day. The first book of its kind, Fictions of Affliction contributes a new emphasis to Victorian literary and cultural studies and offers new readings of works by canonic and becoming-canonic writers like Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and others.