And Softly Go to the Crossings

And Softly Go to the Crossings
Author: Danielle Lim
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-02-06
Genre: Short stories, Singaporean (English)
ISBN: 9789814882194

In this collection of short stories, Singapore Literature Prize-winner Danielle Lim probes the unseen changes which take place in the human psyche and their impact on the textures of life. Weaving through pain and healing, beauty and darkness, these silent crossings of the human heart and mind are deep and formidable. They often go unnoticed due to their quiet and subtle nature. From a man struggling to bridge the distance between him and his dying father, to the changes in the human psyche when people are pit competitively against one another, these stories seek to draw out the emotional and psychological threads which form the tapestry of lived experience. With its portraits of love and loss, loneliness and heartache, hope and healing, And Softly Go the Crossings challenges the reader to encounter human connection through soft, yet powerful, inner rhythms.

The Crossing

The Crossing
Author: Andrew Miller
Publisher: Europa Editions
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609453573

“In pristine, elegant prose,” the Costa Prize–winning author “creates an indelible portrait of a mysterious woman” and her quest for total independence (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Maud enters Tim’s life as no one else could: by falling straight past him, seemingly to her death, then standing up and walking away. From that moment on, Tim is desperate to love her, rescue her, reach her. Yet there is nothing to suggest Maud has any need of him. She is already complete. A woman with a talent for survival, she works long hours and loves to sail—preferably on her own. When Maud finds her unfulfilling marriage tested by unspeakable tragedy, she attempts to escape from her husband and society’s hypocrisy. In her quest, she encounters the impossible and pushes her mind and body to their limits. A wise and thrilling portrait of an irreducible heroine who asks no permission and begs no pardon, The Crossing explores a truth that’s absent from most contemporary literature. “An extraordinary portrait of an enigmatic woman.” —The Guardian

The Crossing

The Crossing
Author: Robert Stock
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2012-12-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466971118

A story of four boys whose lives, thrown together through their misadventures, over the summer haphazardly grown into men, finding what life is all about.

The Crossing

The Crossing
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1995-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0679760849

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning—a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

The Crossing

The Crossing
Author: B. Michael Radburn
Publisher: Pantera Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1921997001

A GRIPPING MYSTERY WITH A SUPERNATURAL TWIST A MISSING CHILD, TASMANIAN TIGERS, A LOCAL TOWN WITH DARK SECRETS AND A RACE AGAINST TIME "Redemption is born of guilt, and weighs heavy on even the strongest man." – Stephen King In self-exile on the remote Australian island of Tasmania, Taylor Bridges is the only Ranger of an isolated National Park, its former logging town slowly drowning beneath the rising waters of the new dam project down-river. Struggling with the guilt of his own missing daughter on the mainland a year before, Taylor has since become a chronic sleepwalker. So, when another little girl goes missing in his park a year to the day of his own child's unsolved disappearance, Taylor's sense of redemption finds him wading in over his head to find her. The only problem is, due to his sleep-walking, Taylor must first take himself off the growing list of suspects. As the clues mount, he races against time and the rising lake waters to find the girl. But the town's dark history unearths a trail of missing children over many years.

A New Man Book Three The Gift

A New Man Book Three The Gift
Author: Richard Mills
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1794769048

""We must not waste the Gifts."" Seou Chant TT's sanity is threatened as he searches for a way to protect the Ooda in their coming test. With time slipping away, TT and the Ooda in his tiny Circle begin pondering the metal fute. Facing insurmountable odds, Uloma struggles to unite the Damned under History's momentum. Determined to rescue the woman he loves, Zarn sails to The Far East with unexpected allies. Despite his best efforts, Jom also finds himself sailing through the heart of the rocksharks. Xenolia descends closer to War. Armed with Al'eu's new weapons, the Riders demonstrate their loyalty to their Queen. NewLand flexes its military might as they prepare to launch their invasion. Rumors of the Hultek spread across Ditarin, destroying entire cities in its flaming wake. With a rich cast of compelling characters in realistic settings, The Gift explodes with action and adventure. Richard Mills' masterpiece series, A New Man is a landmark in 21st Century science fiction.

The Crossing

The Crossing
Author: Mary Ann Hinrichs
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2022-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1669815552

Same world - Different times... Paths will cross. Hearts will awaken. Lives will shatter. Genna Fierce and broken, Tethered to a ravaged heart, A girl bound by grief; Unchained by a boy lost in time. Ian Passionate and brutal, Fighting for justice, A rebel with a deadly cause; Fated to a girl whose heart can never be his. Can love unravel history and survive time?

The Crossing

The Crossing
Author: Serita Ann Jakes
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307730344

Imprisoned by memories, Claudia Campbell lives each day in the shadow of a ten-year-old murder. Who can set her free? On the way home from a football game, a decade earlier, a masked gunman opened fire on a Texas school bus. Cheerleading coach B.J. Remington was killed, but her murderer was never found. Claudia, who had a close friendship with the young, spirited teacher, constantly relives the anguish of that day, caught in one moment in time. When her husband, the assistant district attorney, becomes determined to uncover the mystery of that tragedy, the secrets buried over the years threaten to tear their family apart. Officer Casio Hightower will never forget the day his dreams were destroyed. A star quarterback with a promising future, Casio was on top of the world—until one bullet changed everything. He is eager to help Victor Campbell find B.J.’s killer, the man who shot him. Maybe solving the case will help silence the demons driving Casio to hurt the woman he loves. As the Campbells and Casio teeter on the brink of losing everything, will they be able to discover that what begins at the crossing ends at the cross?

Crossing the Line (Border Town #1)

Crossing the Line (Border Town #1)
Author: Malín Alegría
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545472849

In Dos Rios, Texas, life is all about borders -- and what happens when you cross the line.Nothing is simple in a border town like Dos Rios, in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Even for high school students Fabiola Garza and her younger sister Alexis, whose parents run a local Tex-Mex restaurant, Dos Rios is full of borders -- where you should go, who your friends should be, which boy you should date.Dos Rios is also full of opportunities, but it's a town divided, between the haves and the have-nots, the Whites and the Mexicans-Americans, the Texans and the Mexicans, the legal and illegal. But through it all, the Garza sisters have each other. Water can be crossed, but blood is the ultimate borderline -- no matter what.

The Crossing - Boxed Set - Two Romantic Suspense & Adventure Novels

The Crossing - Boxed Set - Two Romantic Suspense & Adventure Novels
Author: Faith Mortimer
Publisher: Topsails Charter
Total Pages: 452
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Two Complete Novels tell the story of "The Crossing" "The Seeds Of Time" This intensely romantic yet realistic action and adventure novel spans two generations and the unimaginable gulf between the Second World War and the present. When Englishman Richard Barker suffers a devastating loss he learns to come to terms with his grief. He is helped by two beautiful women, newly discovered quiet and smouldering American, Sorrel and the tempestuous and wilful, Miranda an old flame from long ago. While Richard is battling with his feelings, by chance he enters into the dark, often surreal world of his dead father's past life spent during the Second World War. It is Sorrel's Grandfather, an American Air Force pilot, who contacts Richard with some intriguing news which helps Richard to his senses. Richard lives in a world that is sometimes as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. His story and that of his father are crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love. The action is non-stop, the locations are intriguing and the characters are appealing. There is tension, romance and harrowing escapes all woven within a story that captures the imagination and keeps the reader guessing until the very end. "HARVEST" Continues Richard and Billy's stories which begun in "The Seeds of Time". Billy returns home and marries his love, while Richard has to make a decision between the two beautiful women in his life. Richard discovers he is torn between love and duty. In Sorrel he finds what he believes is his soul-mate, whereas sexy Miranda keeps Richard guessing. When Richard discovers an old war-torn photograph of a woman and two children he is shaken to the core. What was it his father did & never divulged to his wife and family? Harvest is a world where tragedy rests alongside joy. Harvest deals with harsh, cruel, & often despicable conditions - at the same time describing the indestructibility of love in past & present lives. This is a story of deep romance, bravery, survival, heartbreak and happiness, all poignantly & convincingly conveyed. Richard's compelling desire to finally lay his father's dark secrets to rest brings warmth and understanding into the two intertwined stories. All perfectly blended with non-stop action, intriguing locations, and appealing characters.