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Book What Jonah Knew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Graham
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2022-07-05
  • ISBN : 0063230208
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book What Jonah Knew written by Barbara Graham and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A spellbinding literary thriller packed with psychological suspense and profound questions about motherhood, trauma and how death illuminates life.”—Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins “Barbara Graham is a literary alchemist. What Jonah Knew not only grabs you from the first page, it makes the mystical believable and the human predicament shine with wit, wisdom, and love.”—Tara Brach, meditation teacher and bestselling author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion A seven-year-old boy inexplicably recalls the memories of a missing 22-year-old musician in this psychological thriller about the fierce love between mothers and sons across lifetimes, a work of gripping suspense with a supernatural twist that will mesmerize fans of Chloe Benjamin and Lisa Jewell. Helen Bird will stop at nothing to find Henry, her musician son who has mysteriously disappeared in upstate New York. Though the cops believe Henry’s absence is voluntary, Helen knows better. While she searches for him—joined finally by police—Jonah is born to Lucie and Matt Pressman of Manhattan. Lucie does all she can to be the kind of loving, attentive mother she never had, but can’t stop Jonah’s night terrors or his obsession with the imaginary “other mom and dog” he insists are real. Whether Jonah’s anxiety is caused by nature or nurture—or something else entirely—is the propulsive mystery at the heart of the novel. All hell breaks loose when the Pressmans rent a summer cottage in Aurora Falls, where Helen lives. How does Jonah, at seven, know so much about Henry, Helen’s still-missing son? Is it just a bizarre coincidence? An expression of Jung’s collective unconscious? Or could Jonah be the reincarnation of Henry? Faced with more questions than answers, Helen and Lucie set out to make sense of the insensible, a heart-stopping quest that forces them to redefine not just what it is to be a mother or a human being, but the very nature of life—and death—because of what Jonah knows.

Book What Jonah Knew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Graham
  • Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
  • Release : 2022-07-05
  • ISBN : 9780063230187
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book What Jonah Knew written by Barbara Graham and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seven-year-old boy inexplicably recalls the memories of a missing 22-year-old musician in this psychological thriller about the fierce love between mothers and sons across lifetimes, a work of gripping suspense with a supernatural twist that will mesmerize fans of Chloe Benjamin and Lisa Jewell. In September 2002, young musician Henry Bird mysteriously disappears in Aurora Falls. He's last seen walking towards the Timber Creek Motel. In May 2003, Jonah Daniel is born to Lucie and Matt Pressman in New York City. Four years later, the episodes start. The mysterious night terrors. The imaginary friends Jonah insists are real. The dog named Charlie and his "other" mom. But Jonah doesn't have a pet or another mother. When a psychologist suggests that Jonah may be having recollections of a previous life, this shocking news leads Lucie Pressman to Helen Bird, the owner of Queen Hearts Bakery in Aurora Falls and Henry Bird's mother. Aching for her lost son, Helen remains unconditionally devoted to solving his disappearance. Is it possible that little Jonah is Helen;s son come back to her? Or just a cruel and unsettling coincidence? But how could he seem to know things about Henry's life? Left with so many questions and seemingly no answers, the two mothers join forces to make sense of the unimaginable. It is a quest that will force them to redefine what it means not just to be a mother or a human being, but the very nature of life--and death.

Book Jonah s Whale

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  • Author : Eileen Spinelli
  • Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
  • Release : 2012-01-12
  • ISBN : 080285382X
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book Jonah s Whale written by Eileen Spinelli and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contented whale one day sees a ship tossed on the waves by a storm and obeys God's command to save a drowning man by swallowing him.

Book Running from Mercy

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  • Author : Anthony Carter
  • Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
  • Release : 2018-10-01
  • ISBN : 1535902469
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Running from Mercy written by Anthony Carter and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jonah the prophet is familiar to us. It's full of unforgettable images, ironic twists and turns, and dramatic encounters between humanity, nature, and God. Most importantly, it is a microcosm of the human story. Your story. My story. The story of Jonah. In these pages, you will meet a prophet not so different from yourself. The prophet's rebellious spirit is astounding, but more astounding still is the surprising grace of God. The same God who relentlessly pursued Jonah and who relentlessly pursued the Ninevites is pursuing you. May this story cause you to rest in his unstoppable grace.

Book Lucky Jonah

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  • Author : Richard Scrimger
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 144341073X
  • Pages : 141 pages

Download or read book Lucky Jonah written by Richard Scrimger and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could escape your life with just one click? Bullied by his brother and living in the shadow of his cute, athletic best friend, Jonah is crippled by self-loathing and insecurity. Then a mysterious stranger hands him a disposable camera with the power to transport him into someone else’s body—and someone else’s life. But with a limited number of shots and trouble mounting click by click, will this unhappy boy find a new life? Or will his deepest, darkest secret follow him wherever he goes? Richard Scrimger’s Lucky Me is a hilarious take on a Freaky Friday-esque switcheroo with an outsized identity crisis.

Book Bunny

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  • Author : Mona Awad
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2019-06-11
  • ISBN : 0525559744
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Bunny written by Mona Awad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Book What I Wish I Knew Before 30  Life Lessons to Inspire You to Greatness

Download or read book What I Wish I Knew Before 30 Life Lessons to Inspire You to Greatness written by Francis Jonah and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I never had a parent who shared such life changing stories with me"Brenda LLoris, CA.If you could have first hand information of decisions taken by others, their implications and consequences and how they resolved those consequences where possible, would you be guided by those lessons?This book delves straight into the lives of individuals and the hard lessons they got from their experiences.It will educate, inspire and motivate you.There are some of the stories that you can relate to, others you can learn from.To the majority of us, we will pick valuable lessons to help us in present situations as well as future scenarios we may find ourselves in. All in all you will receive strength to press on.Excerpts from the book: "there are thousands of good reasons why you should not take action, but you need to find one good reason why you should""not all activity is progress""It worked because I made it work. I found out how to make it work and I made it work.""Deadlines put a certain level of pressure on us to perform. Without these deadlines, we just do what we want at sometimes unacceptable paces""You see, a partner cannot demand what he cannot give. If I expect you to go one mile for me, it should mean I can or have gone one mile for you too""Partners are so called because they join forces to achieve a common goal. More often than not if there is nothing being worked towards, it becomes a boring exercise. ""You will not find many people who will go through your toughest time with you and still carry a smile. Bill is the kind who will walk into a room when all others are leaving just to stand in support of you."

Book This is Why I Came

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  • Author : Mary Rakow
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2015-12-15
  • ISBN : 1619025752
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book This is Why I Came written by Mary Rakow and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman sits in prayerful meditation, waiting to offer her first confession in more than thirty years. She holds a small book on her lap, one that she's made, and tells herself again the Bible stories it contains, the ones she has written anew, for herself, each story told aslant, from Jonah to Jesus, Moses to Mary Magdalen. Woven together and stitched by hand, they provide a new version, virtually a new translation, of the heart of this ancient and sacred text. Rakow's Bernadette traces, through each brief and familiar story, a line where belief and disbelief touch, the line that has been her home, ragged and neglected, that hidden seam. The result is an amazing book of extraordinary beauty, so human and humorous, and yet so holy it becomes a work of poetry, a canticle, a song of lament and praise. In the private terrain of silence and devotion, shared with us by a writer of power and grace, Rakow offers, through Bernadette, her own lectio divina for the modern world. No reader will forget this book or be able to read the Bible itself without a new perspective on this text that remains, arguably, Western civilization's greatest literary achievement.

Book Things I m Seeing Without You

Download or read book Things I m Seeing Without You written by Peter Bognanni and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy strikes, Tess drops out of school and moves in with her funeral director dad, forcing her to examine life, death, and the boy she thought she knew and loved in a brand new light.

Book The Prodigal Prophet

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  • Author : Timothy Keller
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2018-10-02
  • ISBN : 0735222061
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Prodigal Prophet written by Timothy Keller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An angry prophet. A feared and loathsome enemy. A devastating storm. And the surprising message of a merciful God to his people. The story of Jonah is one of the most well-known parables in the Bible. It is also the most misunderstood. Many people, even those who are nonreligious, are familiar with Jonah: A rebellious prophet who defies God and is swallowed by a whale. But there's much more to Jonah's story than most of us realize. In The Prodigal Prophet, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller reveals the hidden depths within the book of Jonah. Keller makes the case that Jonah was one of the worst prophets in the entire Bible. And yet there are unmistakably clear connections between Jonah, the prodigal son, and Jesus. Jesus in fact saw himself in Jonah. How could one of the most defiant and disobedient prophets in the Bible be compared to Jesus? Jonah's journey also doesn't end when he is freed from the belly of the fish. There is an entire second half to his story--but it is left unresolved within the text of the Bible. Why does the book of Jonah end on what is essentially a cliffhanger? In these pages, Timothy Keller provides an answer to the extraordinary conclusion of this biblical parable--and shares the powerful Christian message at the heart of Jonah's story.

Book How We Decide

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  • Author : Jonah Lehrer
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2010-01-14
  • ISBN : 0547347480
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book How We Decide written by Jonah Lehrer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we “blink” and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason—and the precise mix depends on the situation. When buying a house, for example, it’s best to let our unconscious mull over the many variables. But when we’re picking a stock, intuition often leads us astray. The trick is to determine when to use the different parts of the brain, and to do this, we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think. Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing on cutting-edge research as well as the real-world experiences of a wide range of “deciders”—from airplane pilots and hedge fund investors to serial killers and poker players. Lehrer shows how people are taking advantage of the new science to make better television shows, win more football games, and improve military intelligence. His goal is to answer two questions that are of interest to just about anyone, from CEOs to firefighters: How does the human mind make decisions? And how can we make those decisions better?

Book Jonah

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  • Author : Mark Yarbrough
  • Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 1087723507
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Jonah written by Mark Yarbrough and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people are intrigued by the biblical account of Jonah. Unfortunately, some view it as a simplistic moral tale, akin to a fish story or a child’s fable. In Jonah: Beyond the Tale of a Whale, author Mark M. Yarbrough leads readers into a deeper investigation of this significant biblical book, discovering in it encouragement to Christ- followers to evaluate their spiritual growth as they pursue the heart of God.

Book Three Things I Know Are True

Download or read book Three Things I Know Are True written by Betty Culley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Jandy Nelson and Marieke Nijkamp will love this deeply moving novel in verse about the aftermath of a gun accident. Life changes forever for Liv when her older brother, Jonah, accidentally shoots himself with his best friend Clay’s father’s gun. Now Jonah needs round-the-clock care just to stay alive, and Liv feels like she’s the only person who can see that her brother is still there inside his broken body. With Liv’s mom suing Clay’s family, there are divisions in the community that Liv knows she’s not supposed to cross. But Clay is her friend, too, and she refuses to turn away from him—just like she refuses to give up on Jonah. This powerful novel is a stunning exploration of tragedy, grief, compassion, and forgiveness.

Book Echoing Hope

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurt Willems
  • Publisher : WaterBrook
  • Release : 2021-03-16
  • ISBN : 0593193512
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Echoing Hope written by Kurt Willems and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is Jesus when we need him most? An influential pastor shares how despair can lead us to discover true hope and a deeper relationship with God, helping us emerge stronger and more joyful from times of crisis. “May this careful look at pain in the context of Jesus’s life open up avenues of discovery and healing.”—Mindy Caliguire, cofounder and president of Soul Care We all experience difficulties and hardships. But how can we learn to live richly in the midst of them? And even grow spiritually because of them? The answer is found in the hopeful humanity of Jesus. As the Son of God, Jesus wasn’t exempt from suffering, disappointment, or injustice. He lived in the real world as a real person. He wept for those he loved. He felt hunger and thirst. He endured temptation, betrayal, and ridicule. He died after being unjustly tortured. And somehow through it all, he embodied hope—by defeating death and opening a new world of life for us. In Echoing Hope, influential pastor and blogger Kurt Willems reveals how understanding the humanity of Jesus can radically transform our identity and empower us to step into our pain-filled world in a new way. Combining rich theological insight with personal stories and practices for response, he shows how we can overcome despair and encounter the beautiful potential of our lives.

Book The Secret Project

Download or read book The Secret Project written by Jonah Winter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five starred reviews! Mother-son team Jonah and Jeanette Winter bring to life one of the most secretive scientific projects in history—the creation of the atomic bomb—in this “astonishing…beautifully told” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book. At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists have gathered to work on the “Gadget,” an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot even call it by its real name. They work hard, surrounded by top security and sworn to secrecy, until finally they take their creation far out into the desert to test it, and afterward the world will never be the same.

Book When We Collided

Download or read book When We Collided written by Emery Lord and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know . . . Jonah never thought a girl like Vivi would come along. Vivi didn't know Jonah would light up her world. Neither of them expected a summer like this . . . a summer that would rewrite their futures. In an unflinching story about new love, old wounds, and forces beyond our control, two teens find that when you collide with the right person at just the right time, it will change you forever. “When We Collided is a book I wish could have written, but am so much better for having read." --Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'

Book Jonah  The Depths of Grac

Download or read book Jonah The Depths of Grac written by Stephen Witmer and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jonah and the whale is one of the most famous in the Bible: but its message is perhaps one of the most ignored.