Concerto to the Memory of an Angel

Concerto to the Memory of an Angel
Author: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Publisher: Europa Editions
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609459407

Stories from the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World, “a prodigious storyteller with a style both elegant and assured” (Les Echos). In this collection’s opening story, a woman with more skeletons in the closet than most falls in love with a parish priest, to whom she confesses her sins. But her motives and her intentions are anything but honorable or pious. The title story is the tale of two friends and rivals whose differences will at first lead to a terrifying and near fatal accident, and then to a vendetta lasting a lifetime. In “The Return,” while away at sea, a father is told that one of his four daughters has died but not which. He will ask himself the question no father should have to ask: which child would he want dead? His long ruminations will lead him to a realization of his failings as a man and a father and ultimately toward a touching transformation. “Love at the Elysée Palace” is as fine a short story as any in contemporary literature, and one that treats the themes of love, marriage, and forgiveness with superb delicacy and remarkable tenderness. In this vivid collection, Schmitt writes about regret and redemption, about the roles of love and memory in our lives, all with a lightness and compassion that is as rare as it is inspiring. “A wonderful book of remarkable everyday heroes who will haunt readers for a long time to come.” —L’Express “A small masterpiece.” —Le Parisien

In Memory of an Angel

In Memory of an Angel
Author: David Shapiro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: POETRY
ISBN: 9780872867130

The first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School prodigy and master of lyrical abstraction David Shapiro.

Angel Catcher for Kids

Angel Catcher for Kids
Author: Amy Eldon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780811834438

The House of Broken Angels

The House of Broken Angels
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316516252

In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub

In Memory of Angel Clare

In Memory of Angel Clare
Author: Christopher Bram
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480424552

DIVA group of worldly New Yorkers inherit a friend’s last lover/divDIV A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness./div

Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook)

Alan Jackson - Precious Memories (Songbook)
Author: Alan Jackson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1458452263

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook includes all 15 songs from the 2006 release, Jackson's first ever gospel album. Songs: Blessed Assurance * How Great Thou Art * I'll Fly Away * In the Garden * The Old Rugged Cross * Softly and Tenderly * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * and more.

Better Memory Now

Better Memory Now
Author: Luis Angel Echeverria
Publisher: AE Mind
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-11-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Why you Must Get the BETTER MEMORY NOW by Memory Master Champion, Luis Angel: Memory Training Tips to Creatively Learn Anything Quickly, Improve Memory, and Ability to Focus Book to help you with your school studies, business, social, and personal life, RIGHT NOW! **Free Gift** Better Memory Now Video Series > You're guaranteed to see a dramatic memory improvement in your ability to memorize and remember all sorts of information including school material for students, business information for professionals, names and faces, memory competition material for memory athletes, and more if you follow the simple to learn 3 Step AE Mind Memory System! > Luis Angel went from having ADD and memory problems to competing in several International Memory Competitions and as part of Team USA in the World Memory Championship. He also coached the AE Mind Memory Team to a Gold Medal in the 2014 USA Memory Championship in one of the events! When you GET THIS BOOK TODAY, You will be learning from one of America's Top Memory Coaches how to apply the creative memory techniques that the top memory athletes use in order to use memorize any information quickly! Here are the Chapters in the book: SECTION I – THE AE MIND MEMORY SYSTEM Ch 1 – HI! My name is Luis Angel and My Memory Sucked! Ch 2 – Location Ch 3 – Visualize Ch 4 – Review SECTION II – POSITIVE MIND FOR SUCCESS Ch 5 – Mindset Ch 6 – Goals, Block Time, and Scheduling Ch 7 – Focus and HealthSECTION III – MEMORY TRAINING Ch 8 – More Locations = More Storage Ch 9 – Names and Faces Ch 10 – Numbers: The Basics Ch 11 – Numbers: Double Digits Ch 12 – Everyday Memory -- Grocery Lists, Placed Keys, Parked Car, Street Names and Directions, Appointments and Important Dates Ch 13 – Accelerated Learning and Education -- Vocabulary Words, Reading and Comprehension, Give Speeches, Learn New Languages, Memorize Presidents, Memorize Table of Elements, and more...Section IV – MEMORY ATHLETES Ch 14 – Memory Competitions Ch 15 – Cards Ch 16 – Words Ch 17 – Numbers: Binary, New System, and Dates Ch 18 – Names and Faces: Competition In How to Win and Influence People, Dale Carnegie says, "Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language." I will walk you through actual examples with names and faces to help you with this all too important task of remembering the names of the people that you meet.As you will learn in this book, all of the top memory athletes will tell you that The Key to MEMORIZATION is VISUALIZATION!Your brain learns best when it can SEE the information that it wants to memorize and when it uses it's imagination to remember the given material. Who is this Book For: Business Professionals: Managers, Realtors, Attorneys, Doctors, Psychologist, Anyone in a leadership role and anyone that wants to see an increase in their sales business by making a memorable impact on your clients. Entertainment: Casting, TV Host, Actors, Directors, etc Education: Professors, Administrators, Principals, Students, etcMemory Athletes: Anyone who wants to compete in a memory competition If you want to Improve Your Memory and Ability to Focus in Any Capacity, Then THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!

The Angel in My Pocket

The Angel in My Pocket
Author: Sukey Forbes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Children
ISBN: 0143127578

After losing her daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, life for Sukey Forbes is completely shattered. As devastated as she is, Forbes searches for ways to deal with her grief. She wants desperately to recover a full, meaningful life on the private island of Naushon where she and her family live. Forbes begins exploring her family's rich history of spiritual seekers, including her great-great-great grandfather, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who similarly lost a young child.

Memory in the Cells

Memory in the Cells
Author: Luis Diaz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2010-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780595523788

Most of the physical, emotional, and behavioral patterns that create pain and suffering in our lives are caused by the blockages of lifeforce flowing through our body-mind systems. This is usually the result of traumatic ancestral, prenatal and early childhood experiences that are repressed from conscious thought, yet remain active in the memory of our cells. Over the years, we become conditioned by these un-conscious patterns of repressed pain and trauma. We believe they define who we really are. We often defensively declare: it's "me", "myself", "that's just the way I am", or "I can't help it". The external circumstances they attract to us, we indifferently say: "that's my life".An adult self-image based on a false set of assumptions and beliefs will negatively impact everything that happens to us. We feel this as chronic contractions in our body's energy field or what is often called: the pain body. This adversely affects the way we perceive life, our relationships, work and our health. When life force is contracted in the pain body, life appears tight and dangerous and we must fight or flight constantly. When this is healed, life is expanding, creative and flowing. We rest in the deliciousness of being alive in our native state of grace responding to life, not in reaction to it.

Angel of Oblivion

Angel of Oblivion
Author: Maja Haderlap
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0914671464

Haderlap is an accomplished poet, and that lyricism leaves clear traces on this ravishing debut, which won the prestigious Bachmann Prize in 2011. The descriptions are sensual, and the unusual similes and metaphors occasionally change perspective unexpectedly. Angel of Oblivion deals with harrowing subjects - murder, torture, persecution and discrimination of an ethnic minority - in intricate and lyrical prose. The novel tells the story of a family from the Slovenian minority in Austria. The first-person narrator starts off with her childhood memories of rural life, in a community anchored in the past. Yet behind this rural idyll, an unresolved conflict is smouldering. At first, the child wonders about the border to Yugoslavia, which runs not far away from her home. Then gradually the stories that the adults tell at every opportunity start to make sense. All the locals are scarred by the war. Her grandfather, we find out, was a partisan fighting the Nazis from forest hideouts. Her grandmother was arrested and survived Ravensbrück. As the narrator grows older, she finds out more. Through conversations at family gatherings and long nights talking to her grandmother, she learns that her father was arrested by the Austrian police and tortured - at the age of ten - to extract information on the whereabouts of his father. Her grandmother lost her foster-daughter and many friends and relatives in Ravensbrück and only escaped the gas chamber by hiding inside the camp itself. The narrator begins to notice the frequent suicides and violent deaths in her home region, and she develops an eye for how the Slovenians are treated by the majority of German-speaking Austrians. As an adult, the narrator becomes politicised and openly criticises the way in which Austria deals with the war and its own Nazi past. In the closing section, she visits Ravensbrück and finds it strangely lifeless - realising that her personal memories of her grandmother are stronger. Illuminating an almost forgotten chapter of European history and the European present, the book deals with family dynamics scarred by war and torture - a dominant grandmother, a long-suffering mother, a violent father who loves his children but is impossible to live with. And interwoven with this is compelling reflection on storytelling: the narrator hoping to rid herself of the emotional burden of her past and to tell stories on behalf of those who cannot.