Old Man Winter: Heavenly Gates

Old Man Winter: Heavenly Gates
Author: Michael Cook
Publisher: Michael Cook
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2021-05-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780578914800

If you like The Shining, The Sixth Sense, and The Haunting of Hill House, you'll love this book. In the winter of 1974, Old Man Winter came calling, again. In August of '74, Detective Penelope Bryce had just won her four-year legal battle with the City of Philadelphia and finally earned her Detective Badge. Her first case ended up being her last. Penny's new partner, Detective Frank Bruno, was wrestling with his own demons when he came across Old Man Winter himself, Garrison Winter. The grizzled detective would finally meet his match. Detectives Bryce and Bruno would attempt to chase down the man they suspected in the disappearances of nine elderly people across seven states and five decades. Who was the phantom, the ghost, or the devil that they were chasing? Only death would answer their question.

At Heaven's Gate

At Heaven's Gate
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811209335

The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic.

Old Man Winter: Heavenly Gates

Old Man Winter: Heavenly Gates
Author: Michael Cook
Publisher: Michael Cook
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2021-05-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780578914800

If you like The Shining, The Sixth Sense, and The Haunting of Hill House, you'll love this book. In the winter of 1974, Old Man Winter came calling, again. In August of '74, Detective Penelope Bryce had just won her four-year legal battle with the City of Philadelphia and finally earned her Detective Badge. Her first case ended up being her last. Penny's new partner, Detective Frank Bruno, was wrestling with his own demons when he came across Old Man Winter himself, Garrison Winter. The grizzled detective would finally meet his match. Detectives Bryce and Bruno would attempt to chase down the man they suspected in the disappearances of nine elderly people across seven states and five decades. Who was the phantom, the ghost, or the devil that they were chasing? Only death would answer their question.

Through Heaven’s Gate and Back: A Spiritual Journey of Healing and What it Taught Me About Love, Life, and Forgiveness

Through Heaven’s Gate and Back: A Spiritual Journey of Healing and What it Taught Me About Love, Life, and Forgiveness
Author: Lee Thornton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1483415163

Lee Thornton's book is an autobiographical account of how her life-changing encounter during a near-death experience helped guide her on a path of healing. An upbringing that included childhood sexual abuse and deception left her battling depression and illness on her quest for wholeness. She recounts growing up as the daughter of a distinguished U.S. diplomat in a world where respectable appearances concealed the reality of underlying secrets, violation, duplicity and manipulation. In the course of going through a divorce, long separations from her son, struggles with unresolved family issues, and trying to heal from a chronic illness, she learns universal lessons about love, self-acceptance, and forgiveness that help her win her hard-fought battle for wholeness, authenticity, and the realization of her purpose. She hopes that sharing her story helps others who have suffered similar adversities or are seeking self-acceptance and greater fulfillment.

At Heaven's Gate: Novel

At Heaven's Gate: Novel
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1985-03-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811226514

The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic. At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren’s second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of the author’s years in Nashville during a period of political and financial scandals much like those later so memorably portrayed his Pulitzer-Prize-winning All The King’s Men. Other formative elements, as he has said, "came originally out of Dante by a winding path." During the winter of 1939-40 in Rome, where the first half of the book was written, one of the most touching characters, a "Christ-bit mountaineer," and his part of the story literally came full-blown to the author in a typhus-induced delirium. At Heaven’s Gate is a novel of violence, of human beings struggling against a fate beyond their power to alter, of corruption, and of honor. It is the story of Sue Murdock, the daughter of an unscrupulous speculator who has created a financial empire in the South, and the three men with whom she tries to escape the dominance of her father and her father’s world. The background is the capital of a Southern state in the late twenties and the promoters and politicians, the aristocrats and poor whites, the labor organizers and the dispossessed farmers, the backwoods prophets and university intellectuals who are drawn into its orbit. Warren’s picture of the South is as fresh, dramatic, and powerful today as it was when the book was first published. Its plot structure is a tour de force.

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
Author: David Gates
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804168741

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young, old or somewhere in between, who are broadly knowledgeable and often creative and variously accomplished, whether as doctors, composers, academics or journalists. Terrifyingly self-aware, each one of them carries the full weight of the human condition: parents in assisted-living facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. In settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast, we follow their lives, alternately hilarious and tragic, as they refuse to go gently—even when they’re going nowhere fast. Relentlessly inventive, these eleven stories and novella prove yet again that David Gates is one of our most talented, witty and emotionally intelligent writers.