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Broken Glass and Other Stories

Author : Herbert Spohn
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059537705X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Broken Glass and Other Stories written by Herbert Spohn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many of the thought-provoking stories in Broken Glass, author Herbert Spohn delves into the situations that people face that make them question their sense of self and how they cope with such challenges. In the title story, "Broken Glass," a homeless man seeks to recover the image of his wife who was horribly disfigured and killed in an automobile accident. In "Becoming an American," an immigrant youth gains both citizenship and maturity in World War II. A produce department manager tells how he learned to cope with blindness in "Diary of a Blind Man." In "Drunks," a recovering alcoholic faces a grave threat to his sobriety. Searching for the source of a death threat, a workaholic therapist finds something he lost in "David Shore Ph.D." And "Emalyne" features a troubled young woman who takes her father, a renowned judge, to court on charges of molestation. Other stories tell of a daughter realizing too late that her father loved her, a boy acutely sensitive to other people's feelings, and a middle-aged man obsessed with a search for a long-lost love. Each of the tales in Broken Glass relays important life lessons and a profound ending that will leave you wanting more.

From Broken Glass

Author : Steve Ross
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316513083
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book From Broken Glass written by Steve Ross and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair. On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and injuring nineteen, the New England Holocaust Memorial was vandalized for the second time in as many months. At the base of one of its fifty-four-foot glass towers lay a pile of shards. For Steve Ross, the image called to mind Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass in which German authorities ransacked Jewish-owned buildings with sledgehammers. Ross was eight years old when the Nazis invaded his Polish village, forcing his family to flee. He spent his next six years in a day-to-day struggle to survive the notorious camps in which he was imprisoned, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau among them. When he was finally liberated, he no longer knew how old he was, he was literally starving to death, and everyone in his family except for his brother had been killed. Ross learned in his darkest experiences--by observing and enduring inconceivable cruelty as well as by receiving compassion from caring fellow prisoners--the human capacity to rise above even the bleakest circumstances. He decided to devote himself to underprivileged youth, aiming to ensure that despite the obstacles in their lives they would never experience suffering like he had. Over the course of a nearly forty-year career as a psychologist working in the Boston city schools, that was exactly what he did. At the end of his career, he spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial, a site millions of people including young students visit every year. Equal parts heartrending, brutal, and inspiring, From Broken Glass is the story of how one man survived the unimaginable and helped lead a new generation to forge a more compassionate world.

Broken Glass

Author : Alain Mabanckou
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593763085
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Broken Glass written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent, allusive, scatalogical, tragicomic masterpiece that centers on the patrons of a run-down bar as they try to document the details of their lives in a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering. In Republic of the Congo, in the town of Trois-Cents, in a bar called Credit Gone West, a former schoolteacher known as Broken Glass drinks red wine and records the stories of the bar and its regulars for posterity: Stubborn Snail, the owner, who must battle church people, ex-alcoholics, tribal leaders, and thugs set on destroying him and his business; the Printer, who had his respectable life in France ruined by a white woman, his wife; Robinette, who could outdrink and outpiss any man; and Broken Glass himself, whose own tale involves as much heartbreak, squalor, disappointment, and delusion. But Broken Glass fails spectacularly at staying out of trouble as one denizen after another wants to rewrite history in an attempt at making sure his portrayal will properly reflect their exciting and dynamic lives. Despondent over this apparent triumph of self-delusion over self-awareness, Broken Glass drowns his sorrows and riffs on the great books of Africa and the West. Brimming with life, death, and literary allusions, Broken Glass is Mabanckou's finest novel--a mocking satire of the dangers of artistic integrity.

The Sound of Broken Glass

Author : Deborah Crombie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062201603
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Broken Glass written by Deborah Crombie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie’s The Sound of Broken Glass, a captivating mystery that blends a murder from the past with a powerful danger in the present. When Detective Inspector James joins forces with Detective Inspector Melody Talbot to solve the murder of an esteemed barrister, their investigation leads them to realize that nothing is what it seems—with the crime they’re investigating and their own lives. With an abundance of twists and turns and intertwining subplots, The Sound of Broken Glass by New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie is an elaborate and engaging page-turner.

Ruth and the Night of Broken Glass

Author : Emma Carlson Berne
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
ISBN 13 : 1496583876
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Ruth and the Night of Broken Glass written by Emma Carlson Berne and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a note from the author, a glossary and discussion questions.

Broken Glass

Author : Alex Beam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0399592717
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Broken Glass written by Alex Beam and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time--unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, whose discoveries put her in contention for the Nobel Prize, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began an intimate relationship, spending weekends together, sharing interests in transcendental philosophy, Catholic mysticism, wine-soaked picnics, and architecture. Their collaboration would produce one of the most important works of architecture of all time, a blindingly original house made up almost entirely of glass and steel. But the minimalist marvel, built in 1951, was plagued by cost over-runs and a sudden chilling of the two friends' mutual affection. Though the building became world-famous, Farnsworth found it impossible to live in the transparent house, and she began a public campaign against him, cheered on by Frank Lloyd Wright. Mies, in turn, sued her for unpaid monies. The ensuing trial covered not just the missing funds and the structural weaknesses of the home, but turned into a trial of modernist art and architecture itself. Interweaving personal drama and cultural history, Alex Beam presents a stylish, enthralling tapestry of a tale, illuminating the fascinating history behind one of the twentieth-century's most beautiful and significant architectural projects"--

The Night of Broken Glass

Author : Feroz Rather
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352641620
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The Night of Broken Glass written by Feroz Rather and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, Kashmir has been ravaged by insurgency. While reams have been written on it - in human rights documents, academic theses, non-fiction accounts of the turmoil, and government and military reports - the effects of the violence on its inhabitants have rarely been rendered in fiction. Feroz Rather's The Night of Broken Glass corrects that anomaly. Through a series of interconnected stories, within which the same characters move in and out, the author weaves a tapestry of the horror Kashmir has come to represent. His visceral imagery explores the psychological impact of the turmoil on its natives - Showkat, who is made to wipe off graffiti on the wall of his shop with his tongue; Rosy, a progressive, jeans-wearing 'upper-caste' girl who is in love with 'lower-caste' Jamshid; Jamshid's father Gulam, a cobbler by profession who never finds his son's bullet-riddled body; the ineffectual Nadim 'Pasture', who proclaims himself a full-fledged rebel; even the barbaric and tyrannical Major S, who has to contend with his own nightmares. Grappling with a society brutalized by the oppression of the state, and fissured by the tensions of caste and gender, Feroz Rather's remarkable debut is as much a paean to the beauty of Kashmir and the courage of its people as it is a dirge to a paradise lost.

Walking on Broken Glass

Author : Christa Allan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1682998029
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Walking on Broken Glass written by Christa Allan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leah Thornton's life, like her Southern Living home, has great curb appeal. But a paralyzing encounter with a can of frozen apple juice in the supermarket shatters the façade, forcing her to admit that all is not as it appears. When her best friend gets in Leah's face about her refusal to deal with her life and her drinking, Leah is forced to make a decision. Can this brand-conscious socialite walk away from the country club into 28 days of rehab? Can she leave what she has now to gain back what she needs? Joy, sadness, pain and a new strength converge, testing her marriage, her friendships and her faith.

Benno and the Night of Broken Glass

Author : Meg Wiviott
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0822599759
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Benno and the Night of Broken Glass written by Meg Wiviott and published by Kar-Ben Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938 Berlin, Germany, a cat sees Rosenstrasse change from a peaceful neighborhood of Jews and Gentiles to an unfriendly place where, one November night, men in brown shirts destroy Jewish-owned businesses and arrest or kill Jewish people. Includes facts about Kristallnacht and a list of related books and web resources.

Dancing on Broken Glass

Author : Ka Hancock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451637381
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Dancing on Broken Glass written by Ka Hancock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerfully written novel offering an intimate look at a beautiful marriage and how bipolar disorder and cancer affect it, Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock perfectly illustrates the enduring power of love. Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn’t have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They’re both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder, and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy’s twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there’s no denying their chemistry. Cautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work—and they put it all in writing. Mickey promises to take his medication. Lucy promises not to blame him for what is beyond his control. He promises honesty. She promises patience. Like any marriage, they have good days and bad days—and some very bad days. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. Everything. Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is. An unvarnished portrait of a marriage that is both ordinary and extraordinary, Dancing on Broken Glass takes readers on an unforgettable journey of the heart.

Memoirs Of A Porcupine

Author : Alain Mabanckou
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847656528
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs Of A Porcupine written by Alain Mabanckou and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Outlandish, surreal and compelling, a murderous porcupine tells all: 'For years I was the double of Kibandi . . . He died the day before yesterday, so here is my confession' All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some are benign, others wicked. When Kibandi, a boy living in a Congolese village, reaches the age of eleven, his father takes him out into the night, and forces him to drink a vile liquid from a jar which has been hidden for years in the earth. This is his initiation and, from this point on, he, and his double, a porcupine, become murderers, attacking neighbours, fellow villagers, and anyone unfortunate enough to cross their path. But now Kibandi is dead, and the porcupine, free of his master, is free to tell their story at last.

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Author : Chanrithy Him
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393076164
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge written by Chanrithy Him and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gut-wrenching story told with honesty, restraint, and dignity." —Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child." In a mesmerizing story, Chanrithy Him vividly recounts her trek through the hell of the "killing fields." She gives us a child's-eye view of a Cambodia where rudimentary labor camps for both adults and children are the norm and modern technology no longer exists. Death becomes a companion in the camps, along with illness. Yet through the terror, the members of Chanrithy's family remain loyal to one another, and she and her siblings who survive will find redeemed lives in America. A Finalist for the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize.

Broken Glass

Author : Sally Grindley
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747586152
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Broken Glass written by Sally Grindley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful story of two brothers surviving on their own on the streets of an Indian city. Written by Sally Grindley, winner of the Gold Nestle Book Prize.

The Glass Hotel

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525521151
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Hotel written by Emily St. John Mandel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. “The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

Broken Glass

Author : V.C. Andrews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476792461
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Broken Glass written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second gothic novel in the dark Mirror Sisters trilogy continues the tale of sisterly love at its absolute worst—from the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina (now Lifetime movies). For fans of Ruth Ware (In a Dark, Dark Wood) and Liane Moriarty (The Husband’s Secret). Under their mother’s watchful eye, identical twins Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald have lived their entire lives in sync. Never alone, never apart, everything about them must be exactly the same: clothes, friends, punishments. One night, in the darkness of a movie theater, Haylee reveals that she’s leaving to meet up with someone she knows from online. But suddenly feeling ill, and not wanting to disappoint this older man, she convinces Kaylee to go in her stead. He’ll never know, and this way he won’t think she stood him up. Kaylee reluctantly agrees to go, but when the credits roll and she’s nowhere to be found, Haylee confesses everything to her mom. With the manhunt on, Haylee knows everything must be done to find her sister. Still, for the first time in her life, she’s free from her twin, which, really, isn’t so bad...is it?

Broken Glass Park

Author : Alina Bronsky
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
ISBN 13 : 1609459709
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Broken Glass Park written by Alina Bronsky and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17-year-old Sascha Naimann lives in Berlin's Russian ghetto with her two younger siblings and, until recently, her mother. She is precocious, independent, street-wise, and, since her stepfather murdered her mother several months ago, an orphan. Unlike most of her companions, she doesn't dream of escaping from the tough housing project where they live. Sascha's dreams are different: she longs to write a novel about her beautiful but nave mother and kill her stepfather. Sacha's story, candid and self confident, relates her struggle.

Relationship & Other Stories

Author : Mamta Mehrotra
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8184303742
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Relationship & Other Stories written by Mamta Mehrotra and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be captivated by the intricacies of human connections and emotions with "Relationship & Other Stories" by Mamta Mehrotra. Delve into a collection of poignant tales that explore the complexities of relationships, identity, and the human experience. Embark on a journey through the intricacies of human connections as Mehrotra weaves together a tapestry of emotions and experiences. From the tender bonds of love and friendship to the tumultuous dynamics of family and society, these stories offer a rich exploration of the ties that bind us together. Explore the themes and motifs that resonate throughout Mehrotra's narratives, from the search for belonging and acceptance to the quest for self-discovery and fulfillment. Through nuanced storytelling and heartfelt prose, Mehrotra invites readers to reflect on the universal truths that shape our lives and relationships. Delve into character analysis as you encounter a diverse cast of characters, each grappling with their own hopes, fears, and desires. From the introspective protagonist to the enigmatic supporting cast, Mehrotra's characters come to life with depth and authenticity, offering glimpses into the human condition. Experience the overall tone and mood of the stories, characterized by Mehrotra's evocative imagery, poignant insights, and subtle humor. Whether exploring the complexities of romantic love or the dynamics of interpersonal conflict, each story unfolds with sensitivity and grace, inviting readers to empathize with the characters' joys and sorrows. Since its publication, "Relationship & Other Stories" has garnered praise for its emotional depth, narrative richness, and thematic resonance. Mehrotra's storytelling prowess and keen observations of human nature have earned her acclaim as a masterful chronicler of the human experience. Whether you're a fan of short fiction or simply drawn to stories that explore the complexities of human relationships, "Relationship & Other Stories" offers a compelling journey through the intricacies of the heart. So, don't miss your chance to immerse yourself in these unforgettable tales. Grab your copy today and discover the transformative power of Mamta Mehrotra's storytelling.