Download or read book A Borrowed Life written by Linda K. Elliott and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were given a chance to live in another time, would you? When Maggie O'Brien atends her mother's funeral, she learns that she is not an O'Brien, but a McFarland. This set her on a journey to find her true identity. She looks to her sisters for help but they fail to yield. With the help of a spirit guide and an Indian named Walking Eagle, Maggie finds herself gliding through time to 1889. Returning to the present to sell her house, she sees someone not only from the 1800's, but who is allegedly dead. Her mind works overtime leading her to believe that there is a conspiracy taking place. Could she be right? Take this exciting journey with Maggie and learn how subtly someone can take over your life without your knowledge until it's too late.
Download or read book Borrowed Lives written by Stanley Corngold and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1991-09-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowed Lives is a novel. It is an enactment of issues of literary philosophy and criticism, including the question of whether there can be originality, coherence, and authenticity in life and art. It deepens William Blake's point — Make your own myth or else be enslaved by another man's — by asking whether one's own myth isn't also another man's myth and by portraying the terrible consequences of taking one's own myth literally.
Download or read book The Borrowed Life written by Holly Hampton and published by Rawl Hardial. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Borrowed Life: A Gripping Psychological Thriller Their perfect life was a lie. Now, they must pay the price. Olivia Davis's world shatters when her husband vanishes, leaving behind a mountain of debt and a chilling mystery. Forced to confront the devastating truth of his deception, Olivia finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, hunted by ruthless forces from her husband's hidden past. Fueled by desperation and a mother's fierce love, Olivia embarks on a perilous journey, shedding her ordinary life for a terrifying existence in the shadows. She teams up with her best friend, Sarah, whose own dark secrets emerge, revealing a strength and cunning neither of them knew they possessed. Together, they transform into unlikely warriors, their fight for survival blurring the lines between victim and perpetrator, love and betrayal. They navigate a treacherous underworld of deception, violence, and shattered trust, their every move a desperate gamble against a relentless enemy. As they uncover the truth behind her husband's disappearance, they are confronted with a chilling question: how far will they go to protect the ones they love? Can they reclaim their lives from the clutches of a monstrous underworld, or will the darkness they embrace consume them entirely? A thrilling psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat, The Borrowed Life is a chilling exploration of love, loss, and the terrifying lengths a mother will go to protect her family. Fans of Gone Girl and The Silent Patient will devour this gripping tale of survival, sacrifice, and the monstrous choices we make in the face of unimaginable darkness.
Download or read book A Borrowed Man written by Gene Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel from Gene Wolfe, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series. It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots, and there are clones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He is a clone who lives on a third-tier shelf in a public library, and his personality is an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. A wealthy patron, Colette Coldbrook, takes him from the library because he is the surviving personality of the author of Murder on Mars. A physical copy of that book was in the possession of her murdered father, and it contains an important secret, the key to immense family wealth. It is lost, and Colette is afraid of the police. She borrows Smithe to help her find the book and to find out what the secret is. And then the plot gets complicated. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Borrowing Life written by Shelley Fraser Mickle and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant. "An extraordinary work. Shelley Fraser Mickle has not only provided a detailed, fascinating documentation of the world's first successful organ transplant, but she has also painted the lives of those involved--doctors, patients, family members--so vividly that the reader is completely enthralled and emotionally invested in their grieved losses as well as their successes. The result is a beautiful tribute to medical science as well as to humanity." Jill McCorkle, NYT bestselling author of Life After Life "Working with Dr. Moore, Dr. Murray and Dr, Vandam to create the painting commemorating their historic operation and the research leading up to it was the greatest adventure of my artistic career. Having my painting on the cover of Borrowing Life renews that excitement, for I know what grand adventure is waiting for the reader." Joel Babb, artist "I was so very pleased to be involved with Shelley as she wrote her captivating, compelling book. I only wish that Ron could be here with me to read it." Cynthia Herrick, wife of the first successful organ transplant donor "Had these men and women not worked diligently to save the life of Charles Woods, I and my 5 brothers and 3 sisters, would not have been born. Charles Woods and Miriam Woods are my parents. It is thrilling to read Ms Mickle's book as it closely mirrors the stories our dad and mom shared with us as children. The amazing thing is that as a disfigured war hero, our dad embraced his appearance as a badge of honor." David Woods Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, and the pursuit of excellence by a remarkable medical team--Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Joseph Murray, his boss and fellow surgeon Francis Moore, and British scientist and fellow Nobel laureate Peter Medawar. Drawing on the lives of these members of the Greatest Generation, Borrowing Life creates a compelling narrative that begins in wartime and tracks decades of the ups and downs, personal and professional, of these inspiring men and their achievements, which continue to benefit humankind in so many ways.
Download or read book Borrowed Lives written by Carol McClain and published by Elk Lake Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distraught from recent tragedy, Meredith Jaynes takes pity on a young girl who steals from her. Meredith discovers "Bean" lives in a hovel mothering her two younger sisters. The three appear to have been abandoned. With no other homes available, Social Services will separate the siblings. To keep them together, Meredith agrees to foster them on a temporary basis. Balancing life as a soap maker raising goats in rural Tennessee proved difficult enough before the siblings came into her care. Without Bean's help, she'd never be able to nurture these children warped by drugs and neglect-let alone manage her goats that possess the talents of Houdini. Harder still is keeping her eccentric family at bay. Social worker Parker Snow struggles to overcome the breakup with his fiancée. Burdened by his inability to find stable homes for so many children who need love, he believes placing the abandoned girls with Meredith Jaynes is the right decision. Though his world doesn't promise tomorrow, he hopes Meredith's does. But she knows she's too broken.
Download or read book The Borrowed written by Chan Ho-Kei and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary detective uncovers Hong Kong’s darkest crimes: “An ambitious narrative brilliantly executed . . . What an achievement!” (John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8). From award-winning author Chan Ho-kei, The Borrowed tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked in Hong Kong fifty years. Across six decades of Hong Kong’s volatile history, the narrative follows Kwan through the Leftist Riot of 1967, when a bombing plot threatens many lives; the conflict between the HK Police and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) in 1977; the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989; the Handover in 1997; and the present day of 2013, when Kwan is called on to solve his final case, the murder of a local billionaire, in a modern Hong Kong that increasingly resembles a police state. Along the way we meet Communist rioters, ultra-violent gangsters, pop singers enmeshed in the high-stakes machinery of star-making, and a people always caught in the shifting balance of political power, whether in London or Beijing. Tracing a broad historical arc, The Borrowed reveals just how closely everything is connected, how history repeats itself, and how we have come full circle to repeat the political upheaval and societal unrest of the past. It is a gripping, brilliantly constructed novel from a talented new voice.
Download or read book Borrowed Life written by Erich Maria Remarque and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photocopy of typescript.
Download or read book Borrowed Lives written by Laramie Dunaway and published by . This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Lessons in Survival and Hungry Women comes this witty contemporary novel of switched identities. Luna is an attractive, but lonely woman. When her successful friend is murdered, Luna makes the bold decision to assume her friend's identity, along with her job and her boyfriend.
Download or read book The Borrowed House written by Hilda van Stockum and published by Purple House Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II a young German girl, who has been indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth, travels to occupied Amsterdam to rejoin her parents then comes to realize the truth about the war. New introduction by the author's son, John Tepper Marlin. "So, you're falsifying papers?" said Janna. "You belong to the Dutch Resistance." She looked at him curiously. The boy shrugged his shoulders. "You could call it that. I'm just helping the van Arkels rescue innocent people from certain death. They need these identification papers and food cards to keep alive. If you betray me, all these people will either starve or be forced to give themselves up to be sent to the gas chambers of a concentration camp." "Gas chambers?" Janna looked at the boy with horror. "You mean ... they are killed?" The book looked sternly at her. "Do you think," he said, "that Germany is sending Jews to a nice vacation spa, or to pretty villages with geraniums in the windows? That's what they told us at first, though in Holland we never believed it." This book is based on a true story, and even though it deals with some hard issues brought about by the German occupation of Amsterdam, it provides an opportunity to discuss World War II from a unique perspective.
Download or read book The Borrowed Boy written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Angie Winkle plans a day-trip to Jaywick Sands to face up to a past which has cast its shadow over her life, she doesn't expect to be accompanied by four-year-old Danny, neither does she expect to have a second chance at life, but as Angie tries to do what is best for Danny she has to race against time or risk losing everything.
Download or read book Living on Borrowed Time written by Xavier Paules and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Climb of My Life written by Kelly Perkins and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kelly Perkins learned she needed a heart transplant at the age of 30, she thought the active healthy life she loved was over. From the brink of death to the summit of Mt. Fuji, Kelly, with the support of her husband Craig, not only survived the transplant surgery, but became the first heart transplant patient to summit some of the world's most recognized peaks. The Climb of My Life tells the story of Kelly's transplant, recovery, and ascents up such mountains as Mt. Kilimanjaro-all on a borrowed heart.
Download or read book A Borrowed Life written by Kerry Anne King and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Whisper Me This comes an emotional and sharply witty novel about how life's unexpected detours can ultimately bring you home. For thirty years Liz has perfectly played the part of Mrs. Thomas Lightsey, exemplary pastor's wife and mother. But maintaining appearances for the congregation and catering to her demanding husband takes a toll, and she's lost herself in meeting the expectations of others. When Thomas suddenly dies, Liz feels shock, grief, and, to her surprise, the siren song of freedom. Dare she dream of a life to call her own? Despite the resistance of her daughter, Abigail, to even the smallest changes, Liz lands a role at the community theater. Inspired by new friends and the character she plays, she explores life's possibilities, including an unexpected--and steamy--relationship with her leading man. Just when Liz thinks she might be winning, life hits her with an unthinkable shock. She's pregnant at forty-nine. Torn between conflicting loyalties to her daughter, her lover, her unborn baby, and herself, can Liz find a way to rebuild her dream life one more time?
Download or read book Borrowed Lives written by Stanley Corngold and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowed Lives is a novel. It is an enactment of issues of literary philosophy and criticism, including the question of whether there can be originality, coherence, and authenticity in life and art. It deepens William Blake's point -- Make your own myth or else be enslaved by another man's -- by asking whether one's own myth isn't also another man's myth and by portraying the terrible consequences of taking one's own myth literally.
Download or read book Borrowed Tongues written by Eva C. Karpinski and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. Drawing on feminist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial scholarship, this study examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. As a prolific and contradictory site of linguistic performance and cultural production, such texts challenge dominant assumptions about identity, difference, and agency. Using the writing of authors such as Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Jamaica Kincaid, Laura Goodman Salverson, and Akemi Kikumura, and focusing on discourses through which subject positions and identities are produced, the study argues that different concepts of language and translation correspond with particular constructions of subjectivity and attitudes to otherness. A nuanced analysis of intersectional differences reveals gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, and diaspora as unstable categories of representation.
Download or read book A girl a stolen camera and a borrowed bike written by Nikhil Singh Shaurya and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonali, a gleeful and cheerful medical graduate is on her trip to Goa with some friends when she discovers a camera; a camera that redefines her life and reshapes her journey. The camera revamps her journey in pursuit of someone that the pictures talk of. The tale of a journey is an account of Sonalis expedition to the one the camera beholds and intrigues her about. The book is a narrative of the girls exploration of Jai Singh Koranga and the stories that pass by on the borrowed bike. What is it in the camera that intrigues Sonali? Who is Jai Singh Koranga? Is her journey a quest in itself? Is it a quest to know about Jai or a quest to discover her own self?
