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Book The Unfinished Diary

Download or read book The Unfinished Diary written by Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Unfinished Diary

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  • Author : Thanh Nguyen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-19
  • ISBN : 9781511855594
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book An Unfinished Diary written by Thanh Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the life of a character that I never had. I was pretty much a loner when I was young. In a way, I wish I had a girl friend when I was in school.

Book Salt in My Soul

Download or read book Salt in My Soul written by Mallory Smith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug—from age fifteen to her death at the age of twenty-five—the inspiration for the original streaming documentary Salt in My Soul “An exquisitely nuanced chronicle of a terrified but hopeful young woman whose life was beginning and ending, all at once.”—Los Angeles Times Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three, Mallory Smith grew up to be a determined, talented young woman who inspired others even as she privately raged against her illness. Despite the daily challenges of endless medical treatments and a deep understanding that she’d never lead a normal life, Mallory was determined to “Live Happy,” a mantra she followed until her death. Mallory worked hard to make the most out of the limited time she had, graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, becoming a cystic fibrosis advocate well known in the CF community, and embarking on a career as a professional writer. Along the way, she cultivated countless intimate friendships and ultimately found love. For more than ten years, Mallory recorded her thoughts and observations about struggles and feelings too personal to share during her life, leaving instructions for her mother to publish her work posthumously. She hoped that her writing would offer insight to those living with, or loving someone with, chronic illness. What emerges is a powerful and inspiring portrait of a brave young woman and blossoming writer who did not allow herself to be defined by disease. Her words offer comfort and hope to readers, even as she herself was facing death. Salt in My Soul is a beautifully crafted, intimate, and poignant tribute to a short life well lived—and a call for all of us to embrace our own lives as fully as possible.

Book The Price of Freedom

Download or read book The Price of Freedom written by Hasan Muhammad Tiro and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Realization of Skipped Time

Download or read book The Realization of Skipped Time written by Lucette Kovatzis and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Presence of Krishnamurti

Download or read book In the Presence of Krishnamurti written by Mary Zimbalist and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Zimbalist's account of her time with Krishnamurti

Book An Unfinished Life

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  • Author : Mark Spragg
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2004-08-31
  • ISBN : 1400043808
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book An Unfinished Life written by Mark Spragg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary tale of love and forgiveness, Mark Spragg brings us this novel of a complex, prodigal homecoming. Jean Gilkyson has a history of choosing the wrong men. After yet another night of argument turned to violence with her boyfriend, Roy, Jean knows it's time to leave—if not for herself, then for her ten-year-old daughter, Griff. But the only place they can afford to go is Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's family is dead and her deceased husband's father Einar wishes Jean was too. Of course, Griff knows none of this—only that here in Wyoming, with a grandfather she has never known and his crippled friend Mitch, she may finaly be able to find a home.

Book White House Diary

Download or read book White House Diary written by Jimmy Carter and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edited, annotated New York Times bestselling diary of President Jimmy Carter--filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world. Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders; he narrated the progress of secret negotiations such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than five thousand pages. But this extraordinary document has never been made public--until now. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle East. We witness his interactions with such complex personalities as Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. We get the inside story of his so-called "malaise speech," his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic nomination, and the Iranian hostage crisis. Remarkably, we also get Carter's retrospective comments on these topics and more: thirty years after the fact, he has annotated the diary with his candid reflections on the people and events that shaped his presidency, and on the many lessons learned. Carter is now widely seen as one of the truly wise men of our time. Offering an unprecedented look at both the man and his tenure, White House Diary is a fascinating book that stands as a unique contribution to the history of the American presidency.

Book When the World Ended

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  • Author : Emma LeConte
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803281516
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book When the World Ended written by Emma LeConte and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them.

Book Unfinished Diary

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  • Author : Ronald Gan
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-02-28
  • ISBN : 9781507564141
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Unfinished Diary written by Ronald Gan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfinished Diary tells a story of a pretty and sharp-witted Lucy Rosalinda, a novelist who has to struggle with life due to her muteness since young age. The story begins in 1995 when a literature student named Stephanie was given the rare chance to look into the writer's diary which records important moments of Lucy Rosalinda's life. Stephanie learns that the novelist's muteness means that she has to endure social rejections throughout her life, but that doesn't mean that she doesn't live a meaningful life, thanks to her loved ones who are always there for her when she needs them. In the second half of the diary, Stephanie also learns that Lucy Rosalinda meets another equally romantic novelist, who has a serious problem with life. But just when things are starting to work out, they have to face the steepest odd of life and their true love is put into the toughest test they could ever imagine.

Book Unfinished Tales Of Numenor And Middle Earth

Download or read book Unfinished Tales Of Numenor And Middle Earth written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales is a collection of short stories ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. The book concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf's lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the story of the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan and the journey of the Black Riders during the hunt for the Ring. Unfinished Tales also contains the only surviving story about the long ages of Númenor before its downfall, and all that is known about the Five Wizards sent to Middle-earth as emissaries of the Valar, about the Seeing Stones known as the Palantiri, and about the legend of Amroth.

Book An Unfinished Republic

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  • Author : David Strand
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-07-06
  • ISBN : 0520948742
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book An Unfinished Republic written by David Strand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cogent and insightful reading of China’s twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life—one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China’s social and cultural order. Chinese citizens confronted their leaders and each other face-to-face in a stance familiar to republics worldwide. This shift in political posture was accompanied by considerable trepidation as well as excitement. Profiling three prominent political actors of the time—suffragist Tang Qunying, diplomat Lu Zhengxiang, and revolutionary Sun Yatsen—Strand demonstrates how a sea change in political performance left leaders dependent on popular support and citizens enmeshed in a political process productive of both authority and dissent.

Book The Unfinished Diary of Disraeli s Journey to Flanders and the Rhineland  1824

Download or read book The Unfinished Diary of Disraeli s Journey to Flanders and the Rhineland 1824 written by Clarence Lee Cline and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Variations

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  • Author : Luis Chitarroni
  • Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Release : 2013-06-04
  • ISBN : 1564787672
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book No Variations written by Luis Chitarroni and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cryptic, self-negating series of notes for an unfinished work of fiction, this astonishing book is made up of ideas for characters and plot points, anecdotes and tales, literary references both real and invented, and populated by an array of fictional authors and their respective literary cliques, all of whom sport multiple pseudonyms, publish their own literary journals, and produce their own ideas for books, characters, poems . . . A dizzying look at the ugly backrooms of literature, where aesthetic ambitions are forever under siege by petty squabbles, long-nurtured grudges, envied or undeserved prizes, bankrupt publishers, and self-important critics, The No Variations is a serious game,or perhaps a frivolous tragedy, with the author and his menagerie of invented peers fighting to keep their feelings of futility at bay. A literary cousin to David Markson and César Aira, The No Variations is one of the great "novels" of contemporary Latin American literature.

Book Numbered Days

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  • Author : Alexandra Garbarini
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300135033
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Numbered Days written by Alexandra Garbarini and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents an intuitive, practical alternative. He proposes an 'emergency constitution' that enables government to take extraordinary actions to prevent a second strike in the short run while prohibiting permanent measures that destroy our freedom over the longer run. Ackerman's 'emergency constitution' exposes the dangers lurking behind the popular notion that we are fighting a war on terror. He criticizes court opinions that have adopted the war framework, showing how they uncritically accept extreme presidential claims to sweeping powers. Instead of expanding the authority of the commander-in-chief, the courts should encourage new forms of checks and balances that allow for decisive, but carefully controlled, presidential action during emergencies. In making his case, Ackerman explores emergency provisions in constitutions ranging from France to South Africa, retaining aspects that work and adapting others. He shows that no country today is well equipped to both fend off terrorists and preserve fundamental liberties, drawing particular attention to recent British reactions to terrorist attacks. Written for thoughtful citizens throughout the world, this book is democracy's constitutional reply to political excess in the sinister era of terrorism.

Book Speaking of the Self

Download or read book Speaking of the Self written by Anshu Malhotra and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide range of women&'s autobiographical writing from South Asia. Expanding the definition of what kinds of writing can be considered autobiographical, the contributors analyze everything from poetry, songs, mystical experiences, and diaries to prose, fiction, architecture, and religious treatises. The authors they study are just as diverse: a Mughal princess, an eighteenth-century courtesan from Hyderabad, a nineteenth-century Muslim prostitute in Punjab, a housewife in colonial Bengal, a Muslim Gandhian devotee of Krishna, several female Indian and Pakistani novelists, and two male actors who worked as female impersonators. The contributors find that in these autobiographies the authors construct their gendered selves in relational terms. Throughout, they show how autobiographical writing—in whatever form it takes—provides the means toward more fully understanding the historical, social, and cultural milieu in which the author performs herself and creates her subjectivity. Contributors: Asiya Alam, Afshan Bokhari, Uma Chakravarti, Kathryn Hansen, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Anshu Malhotra, Ritu Menon, Shubhra Ray, Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Sylvia Vatuk

Book Calliope

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  • Author : People With Wings
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-07-05
  • ISBN : 9781889768335
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Calliope written by People With Wings and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope, a diary, one gloriously exasperating day at a time is a look into the psyche of Calliope, a middle-aged woman as she looks for work and love in the throes of an enduring depression. Its entries weave perceptions, memories and fantasies into fascinating vignettes of events in her past and present life.