The Hidden Letters Of Velta B

Author : Gina Ochsner
Publisher : HMH
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544253124

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The Hidden Letters of Velta B. by Gina Ochsner Pdf

“A beautifully spun tale” set in a tiny town in Latvia—“an astonishing alchemy of history, romance, and fable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Maris was born knowing things: His very large, very special ears enable him to hear the secrets of the dead, as well as the memories that haunt his Latvian hometown. As a boy, he finds himself heir to an odd assortment of hidden letters, from which he would weave a story that could finally expose—and maybe even patch—the holes in the fabric of his family and their town. With humor, heart, and her characteristic “luminous writing [and] affection for her characters,” Gina Ochsner creates an intimate, hopeful portrait of a fascinating town in all its complications and charm. From the onset of World War II through the cold shock of independence, we see how, despite years of distrust, a community can come through love and loss to the joy of understanding (The New York Times). A finalist for the Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, The Hidden Letters of Velta B. is “a captivating novel of secrets, love, and memory . . . This terrific novel knocked me out” (Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black). “Intimate, vibrant, and richly colored.” —Portland Monthly “A gift on par with Joanne Harris’s Chocolat . . . Quirky, ethereal, hilarious, and sorrowful.” —Shelf Awareness “[An] extraordinary feat of storytelling . . . A spellbinding novel as tough as it is beautiful.” —Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820358406

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A Day’s Pay by Ethan Laughman Pdf

Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on work—and for planned anthologies on such topics as family, gender and sexuality, animals, and more. Sometimes work is rewarding, and sometimes it’s just demanding. From the cubicle to the courtroom, from the stage to the station. These fifteen stories reflect upon the time we dedicate to the jobs we do, from the moment we begin our commute to the second we return home, and every hardworking hour in between.

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820355313

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The Slow Release by Ethan Laughman Pdf

Death, that ending of all endings, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series. More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O'Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on death-and for planned anthologies on such topics as work, family, animals, children, and more. Most of the expected ways by which we take our leave are covered here: accident, murder, suicide, illness, old age. Perhaps less expected is how, in these stories, a matter we'd rather not think about becomes the stuff of fiction so compelling that we can't stop thinking about it. How can something so final and certain spread so much ambiguity in its wake? What did we think of the departed, and what did they think of us? How long will they be around--in our hearts and heads-even after they're gone? How will we forgive those who may have caused the death of a loved one? These fifteen stories give us many new ways of looking not only at death but at the lives that must go on in its aftermath.

Author : Leslie Leyland Fields,Paul J. Willis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514008348

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A Radiant Birth by Leslie Leyland Fields,Paul J. Willis Pdf

"In Advent we prepare for the coming of all Love." —Madeleine L'Engle "At the birth of Jesus, an event of cosmic significance by which we humans still mark our calendars, the invisible and visible worlds come together." —Philip Yancey "Help us to realize, as those who love and believe in you that we, too, are pregnant with Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, and that day by day we are being enlarged." —Luci Shaw The first Christmas sermon preserved in church history was preached by St. John Chrysostom in AD 386, in which he declared, "Behold a new and wonderful mystery!" In this volume, the Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful season of anticipation and glory. Through forty-two readings from the first Sunday of Advent through Epiphany, contributors prepare us in watchful waiting for the coming of Jesus. We enter slowly so that the familiar can astonish us and become wondrous once again. Jesus is born in Bethlehem. But not only there. He is also born in us, that we might bear his presence and impart his goodness to the world.

Author : Ethan Laughman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820368658

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Changes by Ethan Laughman Pdf

Author : Jamie Duclos-Yourdon
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942436201

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Froelich's Ladder by Jamie Duclos-Yourdon Pdf

When Froelich disappears from his permanent perch atop a giant ladder, his nephew embarks on a madcap quest to find him in this nineteenth century adventure novel, set in a reimagined Pacific Northwest landscape inhabited by resolute young women who outwit their guardians, skittish Civil War veterans, hungry clouds, and a few murderers, all seeking their own versions of the American dream.

Author : Robert Hill
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942436171

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The Remnants by Robert Hill Pdf

The town of New Eden, peopled with hereditary oddities, has arrived at its last days. As two near-centenarian citizens prepare for their annual birthday tea, a third vows to interrupt the proceedings with a bold declaration. The Remnants cartwheels rambunctiously through the lives of wood-splitters, garment-menders, and chervil farmers, while exposing an electrical undercurrent of secrets, taboos, and unfulfilled longings. With his signature wit and wordplay, Robert Hill delivers a bittersweet gut-buster of an elegy to the collective memory of a community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781943328970

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Oregon Reads Aloud by Anonim Pdf

Oregon Reads Aloud is a collection of twenty-five read-aloud stories for children, written and illustrated by Oregon authors and illustrators. The twenty-five stories in Oregon Reads Aloud are a celebration of all things Oregon, including a great food cart feud, the dance of the Chapman Swifts, the creation of Oregon’s mountain ranges, and a legendary African American cowboy at the Pendleton Round-up. The book is a tribute to twenty-five years of SMART Reading’s work empowering Oregon children for reading and learning success. Oregon Reads Aloud proudly features the state’s rich trove of talent within the children’s literary community, including Eric A, Kimmel, Elizabeth Rusch, David Horn, Brian Parker, and Trudy Ludwig, among many others.

Author : Scott Nadelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1938126939

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The Fourth Corner of the World by Scott Nadelson Pdf

Stories of physical and emotional exile and connection from 1880s utopian settlers to 1920s Paris refugees to modern-day Oregon suburbanites.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180943772

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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Pdf

A young woman starts working as a governess at the isolated estate of Bly outside London. There, she is greeted by the two orphaned children she is to take care of, an ambiguous housekeeper, and an icy, supernatural atmosphere. Soon, a couple of peculiar figures begin to appear unannounced, and a creeping horror tightens its grip on both the governess and the reader. The Turn of the Screw is one of the most classic ghost stories of all time, written by the master of the psychological novel, Henry James. Perhaps more than anyone from his time, James came to inspire our modern horror mythologies, from the image of innocence as evil to schizoid labyrinths a la Roman Polanski. HENRY JAMES [1843-1916] was born in New York but emigrated early to Europe. He is one of the most important names in Anglo-Saxon literature, renowned as a great stylist and as a link between the Victorian era and modernism. Among his most famous novels are The American [1877], Portrait of a Lady [1881], and especially The Turn of the Screw [1898].

Author : Gina Ochsner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0820323144

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The Necessary Grace to Fall by Gina Ochsner Pdf

Eleven soulful stories span the globe, using folklore and myth to explore the territory separating life from death. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Author : Valerie Sayers
Publisher : Slant
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781725253735

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The Age of Infidelity and Other Stories by Valerie Sayers Pdf

In the spirit of Muriel Spark and Walker Percy, The Age of Infidelity's eleven stories embrace the comic, the absurd, and the dead serious. Faithless parents betray their children, the young betray the old, and lovers betray each other--but somehow these characters cling to hope. Aging white cheerleaders shout through an online megaphone, remembering a time when racial equality seemed almost possible; a teenager endures her father's abandonment as her mother's psychotic episodes pick up pace; an old couple on the lam from the Constitutional Guard of the future hides out in a garage reminiscent of our consumerist past. In an age many call post-religious, these characters want to believe in something, but they're not always sure what that something is. Set in landscapes from the small-town South to New York City, from a parched Midwest to a deserted Dublin, these stories time-travel from our Jim Crow past to an imagined future of warehouses for the aged where robots do the nursing. With what the Washington Post describes as her ""distinctive brutal elegance,"" Valerie Sayers writes playfully, powerfully, and musically. These stories form an album riffing on our age, the Age of Infidelity.

Author : Gina Ochsner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618563725

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People I Wanted to be by Gina Ochsner Pdf

In her eagerly anticipated collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life or a love slips away, and discovers that the human heart can be large enough for anything.

Author : Maureen Lockhart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1059 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594776540

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The Subtle Energy Body by Maureen Lockhart Pdf

A global study of the psychospiritual body and its central role in the esoteric and spiritual traditions of the world • Explains the nature, purpose, and functions of the subtle body • Explores the role of the subtle body in such traditions as Alchemy, Ayurveda, Tantra, Qi Gong, and Yoga • Shows how the various layers of the subtle body provide a map for various levels of consciousness Ancient traditions of both the East and West have long maintained that the human being is a complex of material and nonmaterial systems, or energy bodies. The “subtle body” is an energetic, psychospiritual entity of several layers of increasing subtlety and metaphysical significance through which the aspirant seeks knowledge of the self and the nature of God. In many traditions, the component parts of the subtle body serve as a map of the different levels of consciousness. The practices and disciplines that evolved from an awareness and understanding of the subtle body, and how the material and nonmaterial work together, form a coherent system of psychospiritual transformation that is central to numerous and extremely diverse spiritual practices--including those of the Gnostics, Sufis, Native Americans, Vedic seers, Chinese, and Greeks. The subtle body plays an essential part in more recent traditions such as Anthroposophy and Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way and the cutting-edge science of Ervin Laszlo’s research into the Akashic field. But the benefits of understanding the role of the subtle energy body are not confined solely to the spiritual plane. The energetic bodies provide a coherent system of life-affirming principles and practices for the diagnosis and treatment of the whole person that is not only part of many traditional healing systems, such as Acupuncture and Ayurveda, but also is forming the basis for a synthesis of traditional and contemporary healing practices that could lay the foundation for the medicine of the future.

Author : Anaïs Nin
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015061091628

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Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin Pdf

Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru.