Download or read book Concerto to the Memory of an Angel written by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Book in the World, “a prodigious storyteller with a style both elegant and assured” (Les Echos). In this collection’s opening story, a woman with more skeletons in the closet than most falls in love with a parish priest, to whom she confesses her sins. But her motives and her intentions are anything but honorable or pious. The title story is the tale of two friends and rivals whose differences will at first lead to a terrifying and near fatal accident, and then to a vendetta lasting a lifetime. In “The Return,” while away at sea, a father is told that one of his four daughters has died but not which. He will ask himself the question no father should have to ask: which child would he want dead? His long ruminations will lead him to a realization of his failings as a man and a father and ultimately toward a touching transformation. “Love at the Elysée Palace” is as fine a short story as any in contemporary literature, and one that treats the themes of love, marriage, and forgiveness with superb delicacy and remarkable tenderness. In this vivid collection, Schmitt writes about regret and redemption, about the roles of love and memory in our lives, all with a lightness and compassion that is as rare as it is inspiring. “A wonderful book of remarkable everyday heroes who will haunt readers for a long time to come.” —L’Express “A small masterpiece.” —Le Parisien

Download or read book The Angel of Memory written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craft punch-out project originally included in a volume of Ninth Letter.

Download or read book Angel Catcher for Kids written by Amy Eldon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In Memory of an Angel written by David Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School prodigy and master of lyrical abstraction David Shapiro.

Download or read book Impasse of the Angels written by Stefania Pandolfo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Impasse of the Angels, Stefania Pandolfo takes the critical engagement of anthropology to its limit by presenting the relationship between observer and observed as one of interacting equals and mutually constituting subjects. Narrating, debating, and imagining, real characters take center stage and, through their act of speech, invent a people rather than stand for it. Exploring what it means to be a subject in the historical and poetic imagination of a Moroccan society, Impasse of the Angels listens to dissonant and often idiosyncratic voices elaborate the fractures, wounds, and contradictions of the Maghribi postcolonial present. Passionate and lyric, ironic and tragic, it is a transformative narrative experiment traveling the boundary of ethnography and fiction.

Download or read book El ngel de la Memoria written by Marjorie Agosín and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Angel of Oblivion written by Maja Haderlap and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haderlap is an accomplished poet, and that lyricism leaves clear traces on this ravishing debut, which won the prestigious Bachmann Prize in 2011. The descriptions are sensual, and the unusual similes and metaphors occasionally change perspective unexpectedly. Angel of Oblivion deals with harrowing subjects - murder, torture, persecution and discrimination of an ethnic minority - in intricate and lyrical prose. The novel tells the story of a family from the Slovenian minority in Austria. The first-person narrator starts off with her childhood memories of rural life, in a community anchored in the past. Yet behind this rural idyll, an unresolved conflict is smouldering. At first, the child wonders about the border to Yugoslavia, which runs not far away from her home. Then gradually the stories that the adults tell at every opportunity start to make sense. All the locals are scarred by the war. Her grandfather, we find out, was a partisan fighting the Nazis from forest hideouts. Her grandmother was arrested and survived Ravensbrück. As the narrator grows older, she finds out more. Through conversations at family gatherings and long nights talking to her grandmother, she learns that her father was arrested by the Austrian police and tortured - at the age of ten - to extract information on the whereabouts of his father. Her grandmother lost her foster-daughter and many friends and relatives in Ravensbrück and only escaped the gas chamber by hiding inside the camp itself. The narrator begins to notice the frequent suicides and violent deaths in her home region, and she develops an eye for how the Slovenians are treated by the majority of German-speaking Austrians. As an adult, the narrator becomes politicised and openly criticises the way in which Austria deals with the war and its own Nazi past. In the closing section, she visits Ravensbrück and finds it strangely lifeless - realising that her personal memories of her grandmother are stronger. Illuminating an almost forgotten chapter of European history and the European present, the book deals with family dynamics scarred by war and torture - a dominant grandmother, a long-suffering mother, a violent father who loves his children but is impossible to live with. And interwoven with this is compelling reflection on storytelling: the narrator hoping to rid herself of the emotional burden of her past and to tell stories on behalf of those who cannot.

Download or read book The House of Broken Angels written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub

Download or read book Memory in the Cells written by Luis Diaz and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the physical, emotional, and behavioral patterns that create pain and suffering in our lives are caused by the blockages of lifeforce flowing through our body-mind systems. This is usually the result of traumatic ancestral, prenatal and early childhood experiences that are repressed from conscious thought, yet remain active in the memory of our cells. Over the years, we become conditioned by these un-conscious patterns of repressed pain and trauma. We believe they define who we really are. We often defensively declare: it's "me", "myself", "that's just the way I am", or "I can't help it". The external circumstances they attract to us, we indifferently say: "that's my life".An adult self-image based on a false set of assumptions and beliefs will negatively impact everything that happens to us. We feel this as chronic contractions in our body's energy field or what is often called: the pain body. This adversely affects the way we perceive life, our relationships, work and our health. When life force is contracted in the pain body, life appears tight and dangerous and we must fight or flight constantly. When this is healed, life is expanding, creative and flowing. We rest in the deliciousness of being alive in our native state of grace responding to life, not in reaction to it.

Download or read book The Stone of Farewell written by Tad Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, finds his dreams of great deeds and heroic wars becoming an all too shocking reality in a terrifying civil war.

Download or read book Better Memory Now written by Luis Angel Echeverria and published by AE Mind. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why you Must Get the BETTER MEMORY NOW by Memory Master Champion, Luis Angel: Memory Training Tips to Creatively Learn Anything Quickly, Improve Memory, and Ability to Focus Book to help you with your school studies, business, social, and personal life, RIGHT NOW! **Free Gift** Better Memory Now Video Series > You're guaranteed to see a dramatic memory improvement in your ability to memorize and remember all sorts of information including school material for students, business information for professionals, names and faces, memory competition material for memory athletes, and more if you follow the simple to learn 3 Step AE Mind Memory System! > Luis Angel went from having ADD and memory problems to competing in several International Memory Competitions and as part of Team USA in the World Memory Championship. He also coached the AE Mind Memory Team to a Gold Medal in the 2014 USA Memory Championship in one of the events! When you GET THIS BOOK TODAY, You will be learning from one of America's Top Memory Coaches how to apply the creative memory techniques that the top memory athletes use in order to use memorize any information quickly! Here are the Chapters in the book: SECTION I – THE AE MIND MEMORY SYSTEM Ch 1 – HI! My name is Luis Angel and My Memory Sucked! Ch 2 – Location Ch 3 – Visualize Ch 4 – Review SECTION II – POSITIVE MIND FOR SUCCESS Ch 5 – Mindset Ch 6 – Goals, Block Time, and Scheduling Ch 7 – Focus and HealthSECTION III – MEMORY TRAINING Ch 8 – More Locations = More Storage Ch 9 – Names and Faces Ch 10 – Numbers: The Basics Ch 11 – Numbers: Double Digits Ch 12 – Everyday Memory -- Grocery Lists, Placed Keys, Parked Car, Street Names and Directions, Appointments and Important Dates Ch 13 – Accelerated Learning and Education -- Vocabulary Words, Reading and Comprehension, Give Speeches, Learn New Languages, Memorize Presidents, Memorize Table of Elements, and more...Section IV – MEMORY ATHLETES Ch 14 – Memory Competitions Ch 15 – Cards Ch 16 – Words Ch 17 – Numbers: Binary, New System, and Dates Ch 18 – Names and Faces: Competition In How to Win and Influence People, Dale Carnegie says, "Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language." I will walk you through actual examples with names and faces to help you with this all too important task of remembering the names of the people that you meet.As you will learn in this book, all of the top memory athletes will tell you that The Key to MEMORIZATION is VISUALIZATION!Your brain learns best when it can SEE the information that it wants to memorize and when it uses it's imagination to remember the given material. Who is this Book For: Business Professionals: Managers, Realtors, Attorneys, Doctors, Psychologist, Anyone in a leadership role and anyone that wants to see an increase in their sales business by making a memorable impact on your clients. Entertainment: Casting, TV Host, Actors, Directors, etc Education: Professors, Administrators, Principals, Students, etcMemory Athletes: Anyone who wants to compete in a memory competition If you want to Improve Your Memory and Ability to Focus in Any Capacity, Then THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!

Download or read book Angelarium Book of Watchers written by Peter Mohrbacher and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book two in the Angelarium series.This artbook is a chronicle of Enoch, a living man wandering the world of Angels. Seeking a path home, Enoch witnesses a rogue order of Angels invading his home and threatening the existence of humanity. The book includes illustrations, poetry, and short stories centering around the fallen Angels known as the Watchers.

Download or read book To Green Angel Tower written by Tad Williams and published by DAW. This book was released on 1994 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Three of'Memory, Sorrow and Thorn'

Download or read book In Memory of Angel Clare written by Christopher Bram and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA group of worldly New Yorkers inherit a friend’s last lover/divDIV A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness./div

Download or read book The Better Angels of Our Nature written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

Download or read book The Angel of History written by Stéphane Mosès and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Angel of History," Moses looks at three philosophersFranz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholemwho formulated a new vision of history informed by Jewish messianism in 1920s Germany."

Download or read book To Green Angel Tower written by Tad Williams and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order for the Storm King to cement his power over Osten Ard, he must find and defeat the rebel forces massing against him. But the rebels, led by the exiled Prince Josua, have rallied at the Stone of Farewell and are ready to fight the Storm King with every power they can muster. The key to their victory lies in finding the third sword of legend, Memory - but the sword has been lost for ages. Lost, that is, until Simon Snowlock realises that he knows exactly where the sword is and how to recover it. The only problem: an undead army, bolstered by powerful magic, lies between him and his destination. It will take every ounce of Simon's courage and intelligence to journey to and then recover the great sword Memory and bring peace to Osten Ard. If Simon's quest is to have any hope, Josua must move against the Storm King himself - a journey that will take him across endless seas, through ancient forests and into the stronghold of the Storm King himself. The finale to Tad Williams' breathtaking, beloved series Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.