Shooting Ghosts

Author : Thomas J. Brennan USMC (Ret.),Finbarr O'Reilly
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399562563

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Shooting Ghosts by Thomas J. Brennan USMC (Ret.),Finbarr O'Reilly Pdf

"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls "The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS works because its authors are so committed to transparency, admitting readers into the dark crevices of their isolation." Wall St Journal War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side by side in the desert. It deepened after Sergeant T. J. Brennan was injured during a Taliban ambush, and both returned home. Brennan began to suffer from the effects of his injury and from the fallout of his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. But war correspondents experience similar rates of posttraumatic stress as combat veterans. The causes can be different, but guilt plays a prominent role in both. For Brennan, it’s the things he’s done, or didn’t do, that haunt him. Finbarr O’Reilly’s conscience is nagged by the task of photographing people at their most vulnerable while being able to do little to help, and his survival guilt as colleagues die on the job. Their friendship offered them both a shot at redemption. As we enter the fifteenth year of continuous war, it is increasingly urgent not just to document the experiences of the battlefield but also to probe the reverberations that last long after combatants and civilians have returned home, and to understand the many faces trauma takes. Shooting Ghosts looks at the horrors of war directly, but then turns to a journey that draws on our growing understanding of what recovery takes. Their story, told in alternating first-person narratives, is about the things they saw and did, the ways they have been affected, and how they have navigated the psychological aftershocks of war and wrestled with reforming their own identities and moral centers. While war never really ends for those who’ve lived through it, this book charts the ways two survivors have found to calm the ghosts and reclaim a measure of peace.

Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481438278

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Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Pdf

“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316262255

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Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes Pdf

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing. Soon Jerome meets another ghost: Emmett Till, a boy from a very different time but similar circumstances. Emmett helps Jerome process what has happened, on a journey towards recognizing how historical racism may have led to the events that ended his life. Jerome also meets Sarah, the daughter of the police officer, who grapples with her father's actions. Once again Jewell Parker Rhodes deftly weaves historical and socio-political layers into a gripping and poignant story about how children and families face the complexities of today's world, and how one boy grows to understand American blackness in the aftermath of his own death.

Author : Alyn Troy
Publisher : Mystic Brews Publishing LLC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Double Shot of Ghosts by Alyn Troy Pdf

A duo of deceased demanding justice. A ghost-whispering barista. Can she stop peril from percolating through her picturesque town? Coffee connoisseur April Storm can’t wait to knock the socks off an acclaimed fae food critic. She’s even called in a world-class-barista friend from America to help WOW! the critic. But just as she proudly finishes polishing her Welsh café’s cups, the anxious witch is horrified to find the critic’s archnemesis dead in a nearby alley. She has to hide the magic of her village from her American friend while the deceased demands answers. It’s up to April to filter through her town’s suspects and roast the Killer. Trouble is also brewing next door at Black Bart’s pirate reunion. The quiet village gets a double shot of murder when a sailor meets his doom. The main suspects are one of April’s new pirate friends, or a long-dead undead pirate returned from Davy Jone’s locker. April prefers it to be neither. Add in the usual trouble from her over-caffeinated snarky feline, and how the local inspector is eyeing her American friend as a prime suspect in at least one of the murders, April fears her small community’s reputation will end up in the dregs. But when yet another body stuns the town, this java girl races to scorch the assassin before another deadly déjà-brew. Can April earn a Michelin star in serving up justice? A Double Shot of Ghosts is the action-packed third book in the charismatic Mystic Brews cozy mystery series. If you like sassy heroines, investigative misfits, and crime served with perfect crema, then you’ll love Alyn Troy’s cappuccino caper. Buy A Double Shot of Ghosts for a strong cup of intrigue today!

Author : Rob Kirkup
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781445628394

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Ghosts of York by Rob Kirkup Pdf

A fabulous collection of ghostly hauntings in York with over 60 illustrated photographs.

Author : Biasino Pezzimenti
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781925011906

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Shooting Ghosts by Biasino Pezzimenti Pdf

Author : Robin Karr-Morse,Meredith S. Wiley
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780802196330

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Ghosts from the Nursery by Robin Karr-Morse,Meredith S. Wiley Pdf

An “ominous and persuasive” study of when violence starts in child development—and the preventive measures to stop it (The New York Times Book Review). This new, revised edition incorporates significant advances in neurobiological research and includes a new introduction by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, a leading researcher in the field. When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was first published, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb and become entrenched in a child’s brain by preschool. The authors’ groundbreaking conclusions became even more relevant following the wave of school shootings across the nation including the tragedies at Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School, and shocking subsequent shootings. Following each of these, media coverage and public debate turned yet again to the usual suspects concerning the causes of violence: widespread availability of guns and lack of mental health services for late-stage treatment. Discussion of the impact of trauma on human life—especially early in life during chemical and structural formation of the brain—is missing from the equation. Karr-Morse and Wiley continue to shift the conversation among parents and policy makers toward more fundamental preventative measures against violence. “Karr-Morse and Wiley boldly raise some tough issues . . . [They] start with a grim question—why are children violent?—and they forge a passionate and cogent argument for focusing our collective energies on infancy and parenthood to stop the cycle of ruined lives.” —The Seattle Times

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-07
Category : African American children
ISBN : 1540357589

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The Ghosts in the Castle by Zetta Elliott Pdf

Zaria has dreamed of England for as long as she can remember-according to the novels she's read, everything magical happens there! When her grandfather suffers a stroke, Zaria and her mother head to London to help care for him. Zaria reads fantastic tales to her grandfather every afternoon, and she's thrilled to discover that her cousin Winston shares her love of wands, wizards, and mythical creatures. But Zaria soon finds that life in London is actually quite ordinary-until she goes on a day trip to nearby Windsor Castle. There Zaria meets two extraordinary ghosts who need help finding their way back to the African continent they once called home.

Author : Jason Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481450164

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Ghost by Jason Reynolds Pdf

Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.

Author : Mary Robinette Kowal
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466860735

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Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal Pdf

“Powerful, laden with emotion, and smartly written.” —Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and The Way of Kings A brilliant historical fantasy novel from acclaimed author Mary Robinette Kowal featuring the mysterious spirit corps and their heroic work in World War I. Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Harford, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force. Each soldier heading for the front is conditioned to report to the mediums of the Spirit Corps when they die so the Corps can pass instant information about troop movements to military intelligence. Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence of her fiancé to validate her findings, the top brass thinks she's just imagining things. Even worse, it is clear that the Spirit Corps is now being directly targeted by the German war effort. Left to her own devices, Ginger has to find out how the Germans are targeting the Spirit Corps and stop them. This is a difficult and dangerous task for a woman of that era, but this time both the spirit and the flesh are willing... Other Books Forest of Memory Glamour in Glass Of Noble Family Shades of Milk and Honey Valour and Vanity Without a Summer At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Reki Kawahara,Keiichi Sigsawa
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781975375249

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Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, Vol. 13 (light novel) by Reki Kawahara,Keiichi Sigsawa Pdf

A BRAND-NEW BATTLEFIELD AWAITS! The fifth Squad Jam has had one surprise twist after another, and it’s finally reaching a climax. Other teams have proven they’re more interested in Llenn’s hundred-million-credit bounty than winning the competition! It doesn’t help that even her friends are tempted to take her out as well. Thanks to the target on her back, Llenn’s allies are dropping like flies. It all comes down to a game of tower defense—will Llenn persevere when she’s caught between a hail of bullets and a ten-thousand-foot drop?!

Author : Kyle Starks
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:MAY220231

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I Hate This Place #3 by Kyle Starks Pdf

“And it’s good; it’s very, very good. And yes, it creeped me the F out, and I loved every page.” —Patrick Brower, Challengers Comics + Conversation At their wits’ end, Gabby and Trudy have called on the help of famous ghost hunter Dante Howitzer. But can he actually help with the mysterious and terrifying phenomena occupying this land? Or will he find out exactly why the woods are off limits?

Author : Ray L. Sengbush
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401163972

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Seismic Exploration Methods by Ray L. Sengbush Pdf

This book describes the seismic methods used in geophys ical exploration for oil and gas in a comprehensive, non rigorous, mathematical manner. I have used it and its predecessors as a manual for short courses in seismic methods, and it has been extensively revised time and again to include the latest advances in our truly remark able science. I once called it, "Advanced Seismic Inter pretation," but the geophysicists who attended the courses always wondered when I was going to start dis cussing interpretation. They discovered at the end that I never did discuss interpretation as they knew it. No men tion was made of reflection picking, posting times, map ping, contouring, and things they already knew perfectly well. Instead, I discussed Fourier transforms, sampling theory, impulse responses, distortion operators, Wiener filters, noise in f-k space, velocity spectra, wave-equation migration, and direct detection of hydrocarbons as each of these topics appeared on the seismic scene. I wanted the geophysicists to think beyond the routine ofinterpre tation, to develop a better understanding of why seismic sections look as they do, to have a better feel for what digital processing is doing, for good or evil, to the seismic data. I attempted to stretch their minds. Whitehead said it best: "A mind once stretched by a new idea can never shrink to its former dimension. " May this book be a suc cessful mind-stretcher. R. L.

Author : Catherine Ann Crowe
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547182979

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The Night-Side of Nature: Ghosts and Ghost-Seers by Catherine Ann Crowe Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Night-Side of Nature: Ghosts and Ghost-Seers" by Catherine Ann Crowe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Stephanie Waters
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614236153

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Ghosts of Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak by Stephanie Waters Pdf

Get your Rocky Mountain high on with creepy tales of demon dogs, pioneer phantoms, and Old West wraiths. Eerie tales have been part of the city’s history from the beginning: Pikes Peak and Cheyenne Mountain are the subjects of several spooky Native American legends, and Anasazi spirits are still seen at the ancient cliff dwellings outside town. In the Old North End neighborhood, the howls of hellhounds ring through the night, and visitors at the Cheyenne Canon Inn have spotted the spirit of Alex Riddle on the grounds for over a century. Henry Harkin has haunted Dead Mans’ Canyon since his gruesome murder in 1863, and Poor Bessie Bouton is said to linger on Cutler Mountain, hovering where her body was discovered more than a century ago. Ghost hunter and tour guide Stephanie Waters explores the stories behind “Little London’s” oldest and scariest tales. Includes photos!