Finding yourself in the midst of madness. Life is a Story - story.one

Finding yourself in the midst of madness. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: Sara Sfaqssi
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 3710845998

I always loved poetry. The art of using words in such an accurate manner, so beautifully, it is like painting a picture. I do not yet consider this book to be poetry. It is not a professionally written book by someone who knows what they are doing. By no means. This is a book written by someone who could not possibly be more inexperienced when it comes to writing. Nonetheless, I believe this book can offer something far more important and fascinating than professionalism. I consider this book to be true, relatable, and vulnerable. Maybe this short collection of thoughts, poems, and pieces of advice can make you smile or think about all kinds of things.

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2023-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

Makeover

Makeover
Author: Belinda Julian
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1982216654

What if the catastrophic personal events you once believed about your life turned out to be the catalyst for change you didn’t even know you needed? That every event in your life is divinely orchestrated entirely for you to evolve into who you are meant to be, even those so-called “bad times”. What if you realized you can choose peace and happiness at any moment in your life, even during chaos? By changing your perspective, and the lens through which you view things past, present, or future, you have the power to co-create your dream life. Learn to view the unfolding of your life as a masterpiece by consciously participating rather than unconsciously letting life happen to you. Own your power, and invoke beautiful experiences to you easily and effortlessly.

A Long Way Gone

A Long Way Gone
Author: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2007-02-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374105235

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

Masque of Honor

Masque of Honor
Author: Sharon Virts
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781948122702

In this coming-of-age tale set in early 19th century America, two sons of the Virginia aristocracy risk it all to defend their dreams and determine their own destinies. General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together they set out to find love, acceptance and honor on their own merit. Armistead—by nature a politician—demands respect and strives for perfection. Jack—by inclination a rover—looks to forge his own path. When Armistead is challenged by corruption in the political machine and is denied a seat in the US Congress, the two become embroiled in a bitter dispute that sets in motion an irrevocable chain of events, leading them to the dueling grounds and an outcome that changes everything. Based on historical events of the 1819 Mason-McCarty duel, Masque of Honor is a story of courage, conviction, and the cost of sacrificing one life to forge another.

Room

Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2017-05-07
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 178682177X

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781943910564

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or candlelight. Now for the first time thirteen of these tales are collected here, including a wide range of stories from a diverse group of authors, some well-known, others anonymous or forgotten. Readers whose only previous experience with Victorian Christmas ghost stories has been Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" will be surprised and delighted at the astonishing variety of ghostly tales in this volume. "In the sickly light I saw it lying on the bed, with its grim head on the pillow. A man? Or a corpse arisen from its unhallowed grave, and awaiting the demon that animated it?" - John Berwick Harwood, "Horror: A True Tale" "Suddenly I aroused with a start and as ghostly a thrill of horror as ever I remember to have felt in my life. Something--what, I knew not--seemed near, something nameless, but unutterably awful." - Ada Buisson, "The Ghost's Summons" "There was no longer any question what she was, or any thought of her being a living being. Upon a face which wore the fixed features of a corpse were imprinted the traces of the vilest and most hideous passions which had animated her while she lived." - Walter Scott, "The Tapestried Chamber"