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Book A Solitary Heart

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thea Harrison
  • Publisher : Teddy Harrison LLC
  • Release : 2022-07-05
  • ISBN : 1947046489
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book A Solitary Heart written by Thea Harrison and published by Teddy Harrison LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times best-selling author Thea Harrison comes a vintage contemporary romance, as originally published under the pen name Amanda Carpenter in 1994. As the daughter of a notorious gambler, Sian Riley has an unearned reputation to overcome. This is never quite so clear as when Matt Severn accuses her of romantically exploiting his younger brother, Joshua, and threatens retribution if she doesn’t end the relationship. Although shocked by the false accusation—Joshua is nothing more than a friend—Sian is enraged both by Matt’s insults and his mistaken belief that he has any say over her life or actions. She decides to engage in a little retribution of her own, and invents a fake engagement to bait the overbearing, brooding man. Matt thought he understood exactly who Sian was and what her intentions were towards his brother, but as he gets to know her, he realizes the serious-minded, recent Notre Dame grad isn’t the opportunistic tease he’d assumed her to be. In fact, she’s the opposite of what he thought—and exactly who he wants. Can Matt and Sian overcome their first impressions, as well as past traumas, and take a chance on each other? Or will hasty assumptions and misunderstandings keep them apart?

Book A Solitary Heart

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  • Author : Amanda Carpenter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9781863863797
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book A Solitary Heart written by Amanda Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Solitary

Download or read book Solitary written by Albert Woodfox and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York Times Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived at all was a feat of extraordinary endurance. That he emerged whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit. While behind bars in his early twenties, Albert was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a fifty-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement. Without a shred of evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice. Decades passed before Albert was finally released in February 2016. Sustained by the solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Solitary is a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world.

Book The Faraway Nearby

Download or read book The Faraway Nearby written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy, from the author of Orwell's Roses Apricots. Her mother's disintegrating memory. An invitation to Iceland. Illness. These are Rebecca Solnit's raw materials, but The Faraway Nearby goes beyond her own life, as she spirals out into the stories she heard and read—from fairy tales to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—that helped her navigate her difficult passge. Solnit takes us into the lives of others—an arctic cannibal, the young Che Guevara among the leprosy afflicted, a blues musician, an Icelandic artist and her labyrinth—to understand warmth and coldness, kindness and imagination, decay and transformation, making art and making self. This captivating, exquisitely written exploration of the forces that connect us and the way we tell our stories is a tour de force of association, a marvelous Russian doll of a book that is a fitting companion to Solnit's much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Book Solitary Hearts

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  • Author : Susan Bryant
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2008-03
  • ISBN : 0595439373
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Solitary Hearts written by Susan Bryant and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". a novel filled with characters you'll swear you know . Solitary Hearts reflects the author's own innate sense of compassion." Sandra Redding Off the Shelf Greensboro News & Record "A compelling journey into the human soul, Solitary Hearts is a terrific book club read that sparks much intriguing discussion. The colorful characters make it a 'must read' from cover to cover." Burlington Bibliognosts Club Burlington, N Solitary Hearts is the story of one woman's struggle to stand up in her own life and accept herself. A courageous widow whose curiosity and spunk enable her to make new friends. Wise and caring, Elizabeth Clay soon becomes a treasured companion willing to listen to the things her friends need to say-even the difficult words of grief and pain. She is one big heart happy to be so needed until a life changing event causes Elizabeth to question all that she loves and believes in. "Solitary Hearts has a quiet power that sneaks up on you, a story told simply and elegantly with a great deal of warmth." Ann Hamilton writer/producer thirtysomething, Party of Five, Grey's Anatomy (WGA Award 2006, Best New Series)

Book The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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  • Author : Carson MacCullers (pseud. van Lola Carson-Smith.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book The Heart is a Lonely Hunter written by Carson MacCullers (pseud. van Lola Carson-Smith.) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Download or read book The Heart is a Lonely Hunter written by Carson McCullers and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1961 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. "From the Paperback edition."

Book A Solitary Blue

Download or read book A Solitary Blue written by Cynthia Voigt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor–winning installment of the Cynthia Voigt’s classic Tillerman series. Jeff Greene was only seven when he came home from school to find a note from his mother. She felt that the world needed her more than her “grown up” son did. For someone who believed she could see the world’s problems so clearly, she was blind to the heartache and difficulties she pushed upon her son, leaving him with his reserved, undemonstrative father. So when, years later, she invites Jeff to spend summers with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and a happiness he’s been missing fills him. But Jeff's second visit ends with a devastating betrayal and an aching feeling of loneliness. In life, there can be emotional pits so deep that seemingly nothing will grow—but if he digs a little deeper, Jeff might just come out on the other side.

Book A Father s Heart

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  • Author : Karen Young
  • Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780373707867
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book A Father s Heart written by Karen Young and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Father's Heart by Karen Young released on Mar 25, 1998 is available now for purchase.

Book Heart Song

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  • Author : V.C. Andrews
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-02-08
  • ISBN : 1451637020
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Heart Song written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 bestselling author V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes the second book in the captivating Logan series... Melody Logan was as alone as a solitary gull, with only the wild Atlantic wind to lift her spirits... When Melody Logan's mother died in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. She was practically a stranger to the Logans, her wealthy relatives on Cape Cod, where she now drifted on a sea of dark secrets. In the eyes of gentle Aunt Sara, Melody was a replacement for her dead daughter, while for Uncle Jacob she was a reminder of the family's shameful past. Only good-hearted Cary seemed to care, and since it was revealed that she and Cary weren't truly cousins, the affection that had always surged between them now crested in thrilling waves. But Melody knew she could never truly echo Cary's loving promises until she discovered her own buried identity. Despite Grandma Olivia's dagger-like threats, Melody sought out Belinda, a mysterious, half-crazy woman who was her real grandmother. Belinda gave Melody hope — and a glimmer of the pearls of truth she knew were hidden in the shifting Cape Cod sands. Somehow, someday, the story of her past would be her hard-won treasure, to be savored in a world of sunshine and happiness...where she truly belonged.

Book What He Did in Solitary

Download or read book What He Did in Solitary written by Amit Majmudar and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning poet reflects on what sustains us in a sundered world. With his dazzling ability to set words spinning, Amit Majmudar brings us poems that sharpen both wit and knives as he examines our "life in solitary." Equally engaged with human history and the human heart, Majmudar transfigures identity from a locus of captivity to the open field of his liberation. In pieces that include a stunning central sequence, "Letters to Myself in My Next Incarnation," the poet is both the Huck and Jim of his own adventures. He is unafraid to face human failings: from Oxycontin addiction to Gujarat rioting, he examines--often with dark comedy--the fragility of the soul, the unchartability of pain, and the reasons we sing and grieve and make war. All-American and multitudinously alone, dancing in his confinement, Majmudar is a poet of exuberance and transcendence: "What I love here, / Poems and women mostly, / I know you can't remember," he tells his future self. "But they were worthy of my love."

Book Solitary Man

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  • Author : Eric Landfried
  • Publisher : Ambassador International
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 1620208792
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Solitary Man written by Eric Landfried and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after a brutal war, cannibals and humans fight over the pieces of a hardscrabble existence. Former Navy SEAL Doyle has been prowling the broken remnants of a devastated America for years. Alone in an armored bus loaded with weapons and supplies, he's grateful for his solitude. Being alone makes it easier to survive, as others can become a liability in the end of the world. But when a particularly brutal attack leaves Doyle in need of fuel and repair, he has no choice but to venture into the nearest settlement. Jonathan has been pastoring a small church of Christians in that same settlement, but when he meets Doyle he sees an opportunity to expand his ministry. Cannibals have kept everyone from traveling, but Doyle's armored transport and weapons bring hope to his small band of followers. The two men strike up a mutually beneficial bargain, but neither of them realizes that this journey will change them in ways they could never have imagined. As they search for other believers, they must battle cannibals, militant atheists, and a mysterious super soldier. Doyle's unbelief and Jonathan's faith will collide in this action-packed wasteland. Solitary Man is a gritty, action-packed post-apocalyptic story with a solid, Biblical worldview.

Book Wilcox s Surgical Anatomy of the Heart

Download or read book Wilcox s Surgical Anatomy of the Heart written by Robert H. Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised fourth edition of this classic textbook on cardiac anatomy written from the stance of the cardiac surgeon features many new images, including computed tomography angiography. The provision of multiple high quality surgical and pathological photographs makes it essential reading for cardiac surgeons, and of great value to cardiologists, surgical pathologists, radiologists and anaesthetists. The book will also be a valuable reference resource for any healthcare professional or researcher who needs to understand detailed cardiac anatomy. The book begins by describing the surgical approaches to the heart. It goes on to discuss the normal surgical anatomy of the cardiac chambers, the valves, and the systems for circulation and conduction within the heart. This provides the essential anatomical information required to assess and interpret the malformations, lesions and abnormalities discussed in the remainder of the book.

Book A Solitary Heart

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  • Author : Amanda Carpenter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780263133820
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book A Solitary Heart written by Amanda Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Solitary

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  • Author : Travis Thrasher
  • Publisher : David C Cook
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1434764214
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Solitary written by Travis Thrasher and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the Solitary Tales suspense series will remind you what it means to believe in what you cannot see.

Book The Pierced Heart

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  • Author : Lynn Shepherd
  • Publisher : Delacorte Press
  • Release : 2014-10-21
  • ISBN : 0345545443
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Pierced Heart written by Lynn Shepherd and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shadow of Bram Stoker’s Dracula looms large over the darkest mystery yet faced by Victorian detective Charles Maddox—as the acclaimed author of The Solitary House and A Fatal Likeness once again pays homage to a literary classic, in a chilling tale of superstition, dangerous science, and shocking secrets. When an Austrian nobleman offers a substantial donation to the University of Oxford, Charles Maddox is called on to investigate the generous benefactor. It is a decidedly mundane task for the increasingly renowned criminal investigator, but Maddox welcomes the chance to trade London’s teeming streets for the comforts of a castle in the Viennese countryside. Comfort, however, is in short supply once Maddox steps onto foreign soil—and into the company of the mysterious Baron Von Reisenberg. A man of impeccable breeding, the Baron is nonetheless the subject of frightened whispers and macabre legends. Though Maddox isn’t one to entertain supernatural beliefs, the dank halls and foreboding shadows of the castle begin to haunt his sleep with nightmares. But in the light of day the veteran detective can find no evidence of the sinister—until a series of disturbing incidents prove him gravely mistaken and thrust him into a harrowing quest to expose whatever evil lurks behind the locked doors of the Baron’s secretive domain. After a terrifying encounter nearly costs him his sanity, Maddox is forced to return home defeated—and still pursued by the horror he’s unearthed. Owing to a string of gruesome murders committed by an elusive predator branded the Vampire, London is on the verge of widespread panic. But there’s little doubt in Maddox’s mind who is responsible. And whether his enemy proves merely mortal—or something more—Maddox must finally end the monstrous affair . . . before more innocent blood is spilled. Praise for The Pierced Heart “Another tour de force with a striking finale from [Lynn] Shepherd, who specializes in turning iconic novels into clever, complicated mysteries for her tormented hero to solve.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Shepherd’s [plots] are darkly serious and feel very real. . . . The idea that Stoker’s novel was somehow inspired by events surrounding the subject of Maddox’s investigation seems tantalizing plausible. Another sterling entry in this imaginative series.”—Booklist “A heart-thumping climax . . . The Pierced Heart is a clever and seductive pastiche of genres [that] builds to an electrifying and stunning dénouement. A stylish and gripping Gothic revival.”—Lancashire Evening Post “Compulsively readable, suspenseful, and dark . . . The book is unsettling in the best way. . . . This is a new tale, with a similar creepy flavor that Dracula lovers will enjoy.”—Historical Novels Review “With wonderfully descriptive passages and stunningly atmospheric prose, Shepherd spins a compelling, intricately plotted story which quite capably stands apart from the novel that inspires it.”—Book Batter (five stars) “Captures some of the best elements of Dracula, while at the same time creating a thrilling and absorbing crime novel.”—The Dracula Society

Book The Single Individual and the Searcher of Hearts

Download or read book The Single Individual and the Searcher of Hearts written by Jeff Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Morgan argues that both Immanuel Kant and Søren Kierkegaard think of conscience as an individual's moral self-awareness before God, specifically before the claim God makes on each person. This innovative reading corrects prevailing views that both figures, especially Kant, lay the groundwork for the autonomous individual of modern life – that is, the atomistic individual who is accountable chiefly to themselves as their own lawmaker. This book first challenges the dismissal of conscience in 20th-century Christian ethics, often in favour of an emphasis on corporate life and corporate self-understanding. Morgan shows that this dismissal is based on a misinterpretation of Immanuel Kant's practical philosophy and moral theology, and of Søren Kierkegaard's second authorship. He does this with refreshing discussions of Stanley Hauerwas, Oliver O'Donovan, and other major figures. Morgan instead situates Kant and Kierkegaard within a broad trajectory in Christian thought in which an individual's moral self-awareness before God, as distinct from moral self-awareness before a community, is an essential feature of the Christian moral life.