Floating In My Mother S Palm

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144534

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Floating in My Mother's Palm by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Floating in My Mother's Palm is the compelling and mystical story of Hanna Malter, a young girl growing up in 1950's Burgdorf, the small German town Ursula Hegi so brilliantly brought to life in her bestselling novel Stones from the River. Hanna's courageous voice evokes her unconventional mother, who swims during thunderstorms; the illegitimate son of an American GI, who learns from Hanna about his father; and the librarian, Trudi Montag, who lets Hanna see her hometown from a dwarf's extraordinary point of view. Although Ursula Hegi wrote Floating in My Mother's Palm first, it can be read as a sequel to Stones from the River.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:436974680

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Floating in My Mother's Palm by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144763

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Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439144138

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Tearing the Silence by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Ursula Hegi grew up in Germany and moved to the United States at age eighteen. As she grew older and raised a family, questions about her roots and her native land haunted her until, at last, she felt compelled to write about them. Tearing the Silence brings together her interviews with dozens of German-born Americans, and their confrontations with the taboo of the Holocaust.

Author : Anne McCracken,Mary Semel
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1568385560

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A Broken Heart Still Beats by Anne McCracken,Mary Semel Pdf

A Broken Heart Still Beats Softcover

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451661590

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Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set by Ursula Hegi Pdf

The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set by Ursula Hegi brings together her four novels set in Burgdorf, Germany that explore the consequences of Hitler’s reign and the ramifications of World War II.

Author : Olmstead Robert
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781599635002

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Elements of The Writing Craft by Olmstead Robert Pdf

Great narratives are built piece by piece, through myriad small tasks and careful moves. In this landmark book, Robert Olmstead shows how distinguished writers past and present have built their fiction and nonfiction. Through this writer's-eye analysis of more than 150 of literature's most finely crafted passages, you'll learn to read like a writer. Then, more than 500 innovative exercises challenge you to experiment with - and expand upon - the techniques of the masters, so you can use them for great narratives of your own.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250156815

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The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls by Ursula Hegi Pdf

"A joy to read." —New York Times Book Review From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi, a new novel about three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, to the delight of the island’s people. But after the show, a Hundred-Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children. Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte, whose children are lost; Sabine, a Zirkus seamstress with her grown daughter; and Tilli, just a girl herself, who will give birth later that day at St. Margaret’s Home for Pregnant Girls. After the tragedy, Lotte’s husband escapes with the Zirkus, while she loses the will to care for their surviving son. Tilli steps in, bonding with him in a way she isn’t allowed to with her own baby, taken away at birth. Sabine, struggling to keep her childlike daughter safe in the world, forms a complicated friendship with Lotte. But the mothers' fragile trio is threatened when Lotte and her husband hatch a dangerous plan to reunite their family, and Tilli and Sabine must try to find a way to pull them back to reality. As full of joy and beauty as it is of pain, and told with the luminous power that has made Ursula Hegi a beloved bestselling author for decades, The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls is a shining testament to the ways in which women hold each other up in the most unexpected of circumstances.

Author : Gloria Naylor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679721819

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Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Pdf

A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, admirable novel” (New York Times Book Review). On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces.

Author : Jay McInerney
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307763228

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Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney Pdf

Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting. As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell's wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s. From the literary chimeras and corporate raiders to those dispossessed by the pandemonium of money and power, Brightness Falls captures a rash era at its moment of reckoning and gives reality back to a time that now seems decidedly unreal.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144121

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The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Ursula Hegi returns with a luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy, and redemption. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Stefan Blau, whom readers will remember from Stones from the River, flees Burgdorf, a small town in Germany, and comes to America in search of the vision he has dreamed of every night. The novel closes nearly a century later with Stefan's granddaughter, Emma, and the legacy of his dream: the Wasserburg, a once-grand apartment house filled with the hidden truths of its inhabitants both past and present. The Vision of Emma Blau illustrates a fascinating picture of immigrants in America, including their dreams and disappointments, the challenges of assimilation, the frailty of language and its transcendence, the love that bonds generations and the cultural wedges that drive them apart.

Author : Thanhha Lai
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780702251177

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Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai Pdf

Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.

Author : Vonnie Winslow Crist,Wendy Hellier Stevens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557394883

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The Gunpowder Review 2010 by Vonnie Winslow Crist,Wendy Hellier Stevens Pdf

The Gunpowder Review is an annual literary magazine that features the creative writing, photography, and art work of women. Published by Gunpowder Branch, National League of American Pen Women, The Gunpowder Review strives for excellence, but still encourages beginning writers and artists.

Author : Ursula Hegi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439144107

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Salt Dancers by Ursula Hegi Pdf

Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear one day without so much as a word? How did a loving father who taught her such a beautiful thing as the salt dance become such a terrifying and abusive presence? These are the questions which Julia must confront when she returns to Spokane, Washington, after an absence of twenty-three years. Salt Dancers, a superbly written novel, is a poignant and truthful chronicle of self-discovery and the power of resurrection.

Author : Brenda Peynado
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525507277

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The Rock Eaters by Brenda Peynado Pdf

An NPR Best Book of 2021 NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021 A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia What does it mean to be other? What does it mean to love in a world determined to keep us apart? These questions murmur in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado’s strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place, these stories explore what it means to cross borders and break down walls, personally and politically. In one story, suburban families perform oblations to cattlelike angels who live on their roofs, believing that their “thoughts and prayers” will protect them from the world’s violence. In another, inhabitants of an unnamed dictatorship slowly lose their own agency as pieces of their bodies go missing and, with them, the essential rights that those appendages serve. “The Great Escape” tells of an old woman who hides away in her apartment, reliving the past among beautiful objects she’s hoarded, refusing all visitors, until she disappears completely. In the title story, children begin to levitate, flying away from their parents and their home country, leading them to eat rocks in order to stay grounded. With elements of science fiction and fantasy, fabulism and magical realism, Brenda Peynado uses her stories to reflect our flawed world, and the incredible, terrifying, and marvelous nature of humanity.