Download or read book The Strangers Around Me written by C.J. Chalet and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a little girl whos life is a cascade of unusual events. She lives a life of confusion every day and then something happens that changes everything and adds a whole new twist to growing up. She notices things that she never gives a second thought. Lights coming up the hill that make the circle driveway and never show up, hillsides that are lit up behind the boulders where there are no roads and lights in the sky that seem to be dancing with the stars. Her whole life is a series of events that she sees and experiences and the more things go on, the more frightened she becomes because things become more intense and real. This is a true story of true events that have happened and are still happening even today.
Download or read book The Strangers on Montagu Street written by Karen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charleston psychic Melanie Middleton discovers the past isn't finished revealing unsettling secrets in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series. With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother’s pressure to ‘go public’ with her talent—a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem. Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well. As a special, bonding gift Jack’s mother buys Nola an antique dollhouse—a precious tableaux of a perfect Victorian family. Melanie hopes the gift will help thaw Nola’s reserve and draw her into the family she’s never known. At first, Nola is charmed, and Melanie is delighted—until night falls, and the most unnerving shadows are cast within its miniature rooms. By the time Melanie senses a malevolent presence she fears it may already be too late. A new family has accepted her unwitting invitation to move in—with their own secrets, their own personal demons, and a past that’s drawing Nola into their own inescapable darkness...
Download or read book The Strangers written by Katherena Vermette and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strangers, a breathtaking companion to Vermette's bestselling debut The Break, is a fierce exploration of race, class, inherited trauma, and matrilineal bonds that--despite everything--refuse to be broken. Cedar, Phoenix, and Elsie--these are the Strangers, each haunted in her own way. Cedar grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and her sister, Phoenix. From a youth detention center, Phoenix gives birth to a baby she'll never get to raise. And Elsie, struggling with addiction and determined to turn her life around, is buoyed by the idea of being reunited with her daughters and striving to be someone they can depend on, unlike her own distant mother. Between flickering moments of warmth and support, the women diverge and reconnect, fighting to survive in a fractured system that pretends to offer success but expects them to fail. Facing the distinct blade of racism from those they trusted most, they urge one another to move through the darkness, all the while wondering if they'll ever emerge safely on the other side.
Download or read book The Strangers We Know written by Pip Drysdale and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine seeing your loving husband pop up on your best friend’s dating app. Now imagine that’s the best thing that happens to you all week... When Charlie sees a man who is the spitting image of her husband, Oliver, on a dating app, her heart stops. Her first desperate instinct is to tell herself she must be mistaken—after all, she only caught a glimpse from a distance as her friends laughingly swiped through the men on offer. But no matter how much she tries to push her fears aside, she can’t let it go. Because she took that photo. On their honeymoon. When other signs of betrayal begin to surface, Charlie does the only thing she can think of to defend herself—she signs up for the app to catch Oliver in the act. But Charlie soon discovers that infidelity is the least of her problems. Nothing is as it seems, and nobody is who she thinks they are...
Download or read book When Strangers Meet written by Kio Stark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for the practice of talking to strangers as a way of widening one's experience of the world, addressing the transformative possibilities as well as the political and practical considerations of engaging with strangers in public.
Download or read book The Face written by Tash Aw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage
Download or read book Chimera written by Jody White and published by Lumieres Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being forced to confront death is a profound opportunity to explore what it means to be alive. In 1999, on the cusp of adulthood and newly in love, Jody White's whole world caved in, taking his breath away. He was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of acute leukaemia and given two weeks to live. After a whirlwind of intensive treatment, and close to death, he drifted between worlds, dreaming himself into the care of a wizened old cowboy, his own personal SWAT team and an old crone who wanders the desert collecting wolf bones. That year broke him apart, before he slowly put himself back together again. Anyone touched by cancer or life-threatening events will know how this feels. We are forced to confront our own mortality and nothing can prepare us. Chimera is his attempt to describe how that felt, how a dance with death changes us, exposing the bones, the very core, of who we really are. Jody spent the two decades since facing facts, recovering and integrating the fractured parts of himself, collecting understandings he once thought impossible. Eventually, he caught his breath. His arduous journey revealed itself as what he understood to be an alchemical initiation – a near-death experience framed by the innate, mythic stories that touch all our lives.
Download or read book Sleeping With Strangers written by Eric Jerome Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Jerome Dickey introduces a hit man like no other in this New York Times bestseller—the first “gritty, graphic...[and] amazing” (Booklist) novel in the Gideon series. In a wicked world of sex and violence, where the wronged demand the ultimate revenge, his is the last face the offender sees.... Gideon is more than a contract killer—he's the master of the game. Now he's got the job of a lifetime. The prize is the woman he desires and a cool million. The problem is it's just the kind of hit that can make him more enemies. Like the two beautiful strangers on Gideon's tail. Are they there to protect him or bring him down? There's one way to find out. Follow them into an underworld where killers and victims alike thrive on the darker passions of revenge and desire.
Download or read book The Baptist Missionary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Changing Worlds written by M. Evangeline Anderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision date: February 2015 Between July 1999 and June 2000, 173,210 immigrants arrived in Canada, including 6,196 Caribbean nationals. Most settled in Toronto, enhancing its burgeoning multiculturalism; but Evangelines family chose Ottawa instead - a city known as the coldest posting a Jamaican diplomat could receive. Evangeline discovers more about Canada the hard way. Although from 1994 to 2001 the United Nations declared Canada the best country of abode, Evangeline confirms that there are at least two sides to this, as to every other story. Minority status and its unfamiliar problems, subtle pressures to conform to new molds, unemployment and family reunification hurdles dog the resettling experience. However, active faith and steadfast purpose bring triumph in each circumstance. Jamaica, never far from Evangelines heart, becomes a target for prayer as well as a destination for family visits and snowbird escapes. As recipient of Jamaicas 1992 Governor Generals Award for the parish of St. Andrew, Evangeline remains patriotic. She continues to support the community outreach projects of Christian Life Fellowship in Jamaica, and the work of the Jamaica House of Prayer.
Download or read book Bride Of the Rich Family written by Mei Yue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mo Yuchen, the successor to the hundreds of billions of empire's Mo Family Group, was known as the Four Young Masters. It was rumored that he did not like women. Facing Leng Xin ruthlessly, killing him decisively and being extremely vicious, he was the most terrifying existence in the world. However, the Fourth Young Master Mo who had just gotten married suddenly transformed into a berserk wife. Help her abuse the Scumbag, tear the innocent bitch apart, and trample on the Green Tea Bitch. From then on, she would stand at the peak of her life. Everyone said that Mo Yuchen was using Luo Yixin and would get a divorce soon. In an interview, the female host asked Mo Yuchen, "Four Young Masters, what is the most important thing to be proud of in this life?" "With my name, I crowed her in her name." "I heard that the Four Young Masters has no status at all in the family. Everyone sympathizes with Four Young Masters. " "Pet my wife, what does it have to do with you!" "But Four Young Masters, Young Madame is raising Xiao Bai's face outside, do you really not care?" Mo Yuchen's face immediately became pitch black, "Just you wait, I'll go home and take care of her right now!"
Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous Fourth Edition written by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. and published by A. A. World Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the "Big Book," the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous has helped millions of people worldwide get and stay sober since the first edition appeared in 1939. Opening chapters articulate A.A.’s program of recovery from alcoholism — the original Twelve Steps — and recount the personal histories of A.A.'s co-founders, Bill W. and Dr. Bob. In the pages that follow, more than 40 A.A. members share how they stopped drinking and found a new healthier and more serene way of life through the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. Whether reading passages at meetings, reading privately for personal reflection, or working with a sponsor, the Big Book can be a source of inspiration, guidance and comfort on the journey to recovery. This Fourth Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous has been approved by the General Service Conference.
Download or read book Stranger written by Brooke Cochrane and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hartley White has her life figured out. Her days are spent with either her two best friends or with her nose in a book. Everything changes when the boy across the street is assigned to be Hartley’s partner in English class. Jason Carter keeps to himself because of the rumors circulating about his family. Gossip spreads fast in a small town, whether it’s true or not. One thing that is true, however, is his strong infatuation with Hartley. After having an intimate dream about Jason, Hartley finds herself more curious about this neighborhood stranger. Their relationship develops rapidly, testing the limits of themselves and the people around them. When unexpected tragedy strikes, their love faces another challenge. In a situation rife with secrets, Hartley struggles to make sense of the truth while Jason fights his own battles. Ten days is all it took for Jason and Hartley to fall for one another, but how well do they really know each other?
Download or read book Inside written by Michael G. Santos and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that 6 to 7 percent of the U.S. population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers, little is known about life inside beyond the mythology of popular culture. Michael G. Santos, a federal prisoner nearing the end of his second decade of continuous confinement, has dedicated the last eighteen years to shedding light on the lives of the men warehoused in the American prison system. Inside:Life Behind Bars in America, his first book for the general public, takes us behind those bars and into the chaos of the cellblock. Capturing the voices of his fellow prisoners with perfect pitch, Santos makes the tragic--- and at times inspiring---stories of men from the toughest gang leaders to the richest Wall Street criminals come alive. From drug schemes, murders for hire, and even a prostitution ring that trades on the flesh of female prison guards, this book contains the never-before-seen details of prison life that at last illuminate the varied ways in which men experience life behind bars in America.
Download or read book Survive written by Frederika Amalia Finkelstein and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I’m under twenty-five and I am unable to envision the future. I’m not the only one." A singular voice of the French "Bataclan Generation"—those most acutely conscious of the terrorist attacks in the mid-2010s—grappling with issues of memory or post-memory, trauma, and survivors’ dilemmas. Survive is concerned with the work of grieving for strangers—a grief which does not begin or end, but is rather a structural part of one’s being in the world. For Finkelstein, it is essential “[t]o abide. Deep inside what is dying, in the midst of the bullets going astray and the offenses accumulating, in the midst of the misunderstandings imposed on a face other than my own, on a body other than my own...to build a world that thinks, a world that gives, a world that beats—a living world.” Frederika Amalia Finkelstein cuts across national and cultural contexts, from French to Argentinian to North American, touching on the challenge facing her generation: to understand their own lives as uniquely meaningful in the face of unending mass suffering.
Download or read book A Country of Strangers written by David K. Shipler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary Americans as they encounter one another across racial lines. We learn how blacks and whites see each other, how they interpret each other's behavior, and how certain damaging images and assumptions seep into the actions of even the most unbiased. We penetrate into dimensions of stereotyping and discrimination that are usually invisible, and discover the unseen prejudices and privileges of white Americans, and what black Americans make of them. We explore the competing impulses of integration and separation: the reference points by which the races navigate as they venture out and then withdraw; the biculturalism that many blacks perfect as they move back and forth between the white and black worlds, and the homesickness some blacks feel for the comfort of all-black separateness. There are portrayals of interracial families and their multiracial children--expert guides through the clashes created by racial blending in America. We see how whites and blacks each carry the burden of our history. Black-white stereotypes are dissected: the physical bodies that we see, the mental qualities we imagine, the moral character we attribute to others and to ourselves, the violence we fear, the power we seek or are loath to relinquish. The book makes clear that we have the ability to shape our racial landscape--to reconstruct, even if not perfectly, the texture of our relationships. There is an assessment of the complexity confronting blacks and whites alike as they struggle to recognize and define the racial motivations that may or may not be present in a thought, a word, a deed. The book does not prescribe, but it documents the silences that prevail, the listening that doesn't happen, the conversations that don't take place. It looks at relations between minorities, including blacks and Jews, and blacks and Koreans. It explores the human dimensions of affirmative action, the intricate contacts and misunderstandings across racial lines among coworkers and neighbors. It is unstinting in its criticism of our society's failure to come to grips with bigotry; but it is also, happily, crowded with black people and white people who struggle in their daily lives to do just that. A remarkable book that will stimulate each of us to reexamine and better understand our own deepest attitudes in regard to race in America.
Download or read book Strangers No More written by Bill Griffeth and published by New England Historic Genealogical Society. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 2016 best-seller, The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir, Bill Griffeth told of learning that the father who raised him was not, in fact, his biological father. In this sequel, Bill continues his journey to learn about his newly discovered biological family and shares some of the dramatic stories strangers and friends told him about their own shocking DNA discoveries. In the process, Bill stumbles on some closely guarded family secrets. This "moving portrait of coming to terms with the past" is at once witty and sensitive and provides "a clear-sighted and compassionate roadmap for us all." Warning: It's another page-turner that may keep you up all night!
