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Author | : Edmund White |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408820455 |
A literary treat: a memoir of Edmund White's years among the cultural and intellectual elite of 1980s Paris
Author | : Tessa Afshar |
Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0802498787 |
Can a Canaanite harlot who made her living enticing men be a fitting wife for a leader of Israel? Shockingly, the Bible’s answer is yes. This 10th anniversary edition of Pearl in the Sand includes new features that will invite you into the untold story of Rahab’s journey from lowly outcast to redeemed child of God. Rahab’s home is built into a wall, a wall that fortifies and protects the City of Jericho. However, other walls surround her too, walls of fear, rejection, and unworthiness… Years of pain and betrayal have wounded Rahab’s heart—she doubts whether her dreams of experiencing true love will ever come true… A woman with a wrecked past—a man of success, of faith... of pride. A marriage only God would conceive! Through the heartaches of a stormy relationship, Rahab and Salmone learn the true source of one another’s worth and find healing in God.
Author | : Tori Murden McClure |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061718866 |
"In the end," writes Tori McClure, "I know I rowed across the Atlantic to find my heart, but in the beginning, I wasn't aware that it was missing." During June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. Within days she lost all communication with shore, but nevertheless she decided to keep going. Not only did she lose the sound of a friendly voice, she lost updates on the location of the Gulf Stream and on the weather. Unfortunately for Tori, 1998 is still on record as the worst hurricane season in the North Atlantic. In deep solitude and perilous conditions, she was nonetheless determined to prove what one person with a mission can do. When she was finally brought to her knees by a series of violent storms that nearly killed her, she had to signal for help and go home in what felt like complete disgrace. Back in Kentucky, however, Tori's life began to change in unexpected ways. She fell in love. At the age of thirty-five, she embarked on a serious relationship for the first time, making her feel even more vulnerable than sitting alone in a tiny boat in the middle of the Atlantic. She went to work for Muhammad Ali, who told her that she did not want to be known as the woman who "almost" rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. And she knew that he was right. In this thrilling story of high adventure and romantic quest, Tori McClure discovers through her favorite way—the hard way—that the most important thing in life is not to prove you are superhuman but to fully to embrace your own humanity. With a wry sense of humor and a strong voice, she gives us a true memoir of an explorer who maps her world with rare emotional honesty.
Author | : Julie Angeli |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2020-05-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781922374936 |
Author | : Edmund White |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2011-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307800466 |
Edmund White’s charming, funny, telling series of vignettes of the Paris neighborhood where he and his lover, French architect and illustrator Hubert Sorin, lived. In this ode to Pairs, the everyday becomes extraordinary with White’s observations accompanied by Sorin’s illustrations. With characters like Father Pierre Riches, the “kind and elegant” catholic priest whose hair had been stroked by Cavafy, to Billy Boy, the jewelry designer with 16,000 Barbies, there is delightful eccentricity to this collaboration. Written during Sorin’s decline to AIDS, Our Paris is a poignant look at the couple and the city they loved.
Author | : George Frederick Kunz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Pearl divers |
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Author | : Donna Jo Napoli |
Publisher | : Disney-Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-06-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781423145578 |
In a vast ocean, a single grain of sand seems hopelessly small and unimportant. But over time, the sand begins to change. Layer by layer, it grows and transforms. Its beauty starts to shine. Exquisitely crafted by an award-winning author-illustrator team, this luminous, uplifting story reminds us of the amazing capacity for change within us all.
Author | : Anchee Min |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-04-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1608191516 |
It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary. Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea. In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of Empress Orchid and Red Azalea, brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine.
Author | : Josephine F. Pacheco |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807888923 |
In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.
Author | : Johnette Downing |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2011-09-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1455614602 |
Explains why oysters make pearls and dangerous snakes have diamond-shaped heads.