Half Moon Scar

Author : Allison Green
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312275938

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Half-Moon Scar by Allison Green Pdf

Allison Green's Half Moon Scar is an edgy novel about three childhood friends who reunite as adults to discover and heal each other's wounds, both physical and emotional. Amy is a thirtysomething lesbian who escaped her small, Midwestern hometown of Willow Bay, Wisconsin, to pursue an academic career and establish a life with her lover. After years away from Willow Bay, she returns to visit the people she's left behind--only to discover that her old friends Gina and Gavin have learned to dissociate from their pasts in extreme ways that rival her own. Amy's tendency toward self-mutilation parallels both Gavin's anorexia and Gina's moody detachment from life, and Amy soon begins to fear for Gavin's life while becoming more and more bewildered by Gina's behavior. As past and present collide and the visit extends far beyond its intended length, as the reunion forces all three to examine the shame and guilt they experienced as gay adolescents. Amy finds that she must reconcile the tense relationship with her family and her long-standing attraction to Gina, as well as her past romantic experimentation with Gavin. Together, Amy, Gina, and Gavin examine the scars--both emotional and physical, visible and invisible--that pervade their still-unresolved lives.

Author : Suzanne M. Lewenstein
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292741270

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Stone Tool Use at Cerros by Suzanne M. Lewenstein Pdf

For centuries scholars have pondered and speculated over the uses of the chipped stone implements uncovered at archaeological sites. Recently a number of researchers have attempted to determine prehistoric tool function through experimentation and through observation of the few remaining human groups who still retain this knowledge. Learning how stone tools were made and used in the past can tell us a great deal about ancient economic systems, exchange networks, and the social and political structure of prehistoric societies. Suzanne M. Lewenstein used the artifacts from Cerros, an important Late Preclassic (200 BC–AD 200) Mayan site in northern Belize, to study stone tool function. Through a comprehensive program of experimentation with stone tool replicas, she was able not only to infer the tasks performed by individual tool specimens but also to recognize a wide variety of past activities for which stone tools were used. Unlike previous works that focused on hunter-gatherer groups, Stone Tool Use at Cerros is the first comprehensive experimental study of tool use in an agricultural society. The lithic data are used in an economic interpretation of a lowland Mayan community within a hierarchically complex society. Apart from its significance to Mayan studies, this innovative work offers the beginnings of a reference collection of identifiable tool functions that may be documented for sedentary, complex society. It will be of major interest to all archaeologists and anthropologists, as well as those interested in economic specialization and artisanry in complex societies.

Author : Susan J. Sample
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781800435186

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Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors by Susan J. Sample Pdf

In this collection of unique patient narratives, adolescents who survived kidney, heart, and liver transplants explore through poetry issues significant to all ages: body changes, independence, identity, and mortality. Background narratives provide context and analyses of their poems that are ultimately healing as they voice hope amid uncertainty.

Author : Thom Thomas
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573640300

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The Interview by Thom Thomas Pdf

Author : Linda Duquesne
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781450229708

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Night of a Thousand Dreams by Linda Duquesne Pdf

NIGHT OF A THOUSAND DREAMS is a personal journey through the difficulties and mysteries of life. It is the endeavor of one Soul to understand the shadows and light that we all live. The stories, dreams, and challenges presented in this manuscript attempt to simplify many abstract and ancient concepts. The beauty of truth is that it is simple...not complex. The chapter Essence of Gold speaks to the nuggets of gold (truths) which are often twisted so tightly by conventional religion that their sacred intent and meaning is lost. Storytelling is an art that weaves the light of truths into the common stories of humanities struggles. These stories serve as an inspiration for me to keep moving forward on my journey. They reveal the spectrum of human emotions. This collection of spiritual stories is my attempt as a storyteller to inspire others to share their unique perspectives and truths.

Author : Rory Black
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780719821776

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102 Golden Eagles for Iron Eyes by Rory Black Pdf

Bounty hunter Iron Eyes is heading south to Mexico in search of outlaws Bodine and Walters, but is himself being hunted down by his erstwhile sweetheart Squirrel Sally. Then Iron Eyes learns that Sally has been kidnapped by landowner Don Jose Fernandez, and rushes to her aid. But Sally, Iron Eyes and the outlaws are all just pawns in a much larger game, with an enemy more deadly than they can imagine, and Iron Eyes has to use all his courage and skill to survive.

Author : Veerle Rots
Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789058678010

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Prehension and Hafting Traces on Flint Tools by Veerle Rots Pdf

This volume introduces a methodology, based on a systematic, in-depth study of prehension and hafting traces on experimental stone artifacts. The author proposes a number of distinctive macro- and microscopic wear traits for identifying handheld tools.

Author : Marty Silverthorne
Publisher : Pudding House Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1589987543

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Rewinding At 40 by Marty Silverthorne Pdf

Author : Margaret Homans
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780472118885

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The Imprint of Another Life by Margaret Homans Pdf

How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity

Author : Cynthia Lucy Stephens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781855663497

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The Borges Enigma by Cynthia Lucy Stephens Pdf

Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical short stories, particularly from the famous collections Ficciones and El Aleph. Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doubles and allusions and the roles played by translation and the figure of the creator, the book provides new readings of these stories, revealing their hidden personal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. These insights shed fresh light on Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.

Author : Don Easton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459739826

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Subverting Justice by Don Easton Pdf

Jack Taggart never thought he would miss Damien Zabat, until his old nemesis was unseated by a new head of the Satans Wrath motorcycle gang. Now the new boss is settling old scores, and Taggart’s family are on his revenge list. His superiors tell him to hold back, but Taggart knows a bit about vengeance, too.

Author : Don Easton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 4398 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459744837

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Jack Taggart Mysteries 12-Book Bundle by Don Easton Pdf

This ebook bundle contains the twelve-novel the Jack Taggart Mysteries series by Don Easton. Includes Easton’s latest novel, An Element of Risk. “Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his police work.” — The Globe and Mail

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135961602

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How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins Pdf

James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often misunderstood and largely ignored, brought into striking focus. With the discerning eye of a painter and the zeal of a detective, Elkins explores complicated things like mandalas, the periodic table, or a hieroglyph, remaking the world into a treasure box of observations--eccentric, ordinary, marvelous.

Author : Kenneth Wood,Florence Wood
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752463896

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Homer's Secret Odyssey by Kenneth Wood,Florence Wood Pdf

Homer is renowned as the finest of the storytellers who for countless generations passed down by word of mouth the myths and legends of Ancient Greece. Yet, for some 2500 years there have been persistent folk memories that his genius extended far beyond literature and that scientific knowledge was hidden in his stories of heroes and villains, gods and ghosts, monsters and witches. Research now reveals that at a time when the Greeks did not have a written script, Homer concealed an astonishing range of learning about calendar making and cycles of the sun, moon and planet Venus in the Odyssey, his epic of the Fall of Troy and the adventures of the warrior-king Odysseus.

Author : Sarah Lindsay
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802196750

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Primate Behavior by Sarah Lindsay Pdf

A National Book Award Finalist—a bestiary in verse from the acclaimed poet whose “molten imagination burns new channels for poetry” (Kay Ryan, author of Erratic Facts). Once in a generation a poet arrives with such an unexpected and compelling vision that readers take notice right from the start. With Primate Behavior, Sarah Lindsay made just such a debut with her exuberant, witty, and outrageous poems. Primate Behavior is the product of a wild imagination ranging wide across an abundant imaginary landscape. Sarah Lindsay writes of space migration and the cave paintings of 35,000 B.C; she speaks from the perspective of an embalmed mummy and details the adventures of nineteenth century explorers. In this “must read” volume full of “eerie, spectral beauty,” Lindsay investigates the world as no one else could, reanimating history and folk legend and setting in motion curious new worlds that speak eccentrically, but unmistakably, to our own (Fred Chappell, author of As if it Were).