The Memory House

Author : Rachel Hauck
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780310350972

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The Memory House by Rachel Hauck Pdf

The inspirational story of two women whose lives have been destroyed by disaster but find healing in a special house. When Beck Holiday lost her father in the North Tower on 9/11, she also lost her memories of him. Eighteen years later, she’s a tough New York City cop burdened with a damaging secret, suspended for misconduct, and struggling to get her life in order. When a mysterious letter arrives informing Beck that she’s inherited a house along Florida’s northern coast, she discovers something there that will change her life forever. Matters of the heart only become more complicated when she runs into handsome Bruno Endicott, a sports agent who has never forgotten their connection as teenagers. But Beck can't even remember him. Decades earlier, widow Everleigh Applegate lives a steady, uneventful life with her widowed mother after a tornado ripped through Waco, Texas, and destroyed her new, young married life. When she runs into her former high school friend Don Callahan, she begins to yearn for change. Yet no matter how much she longs to love again, she is hindered by a secret she can never share. New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hauck brings us a sweet romance where the power of love and the miracle of faith promise hope and healing in a beautiful Victorian home known affectionately as The Memory House. A split-time (contemporary and historical) standalone romance Book length: approximately 100,000 words Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by Rachel Hauck: The Wedding Dress, Once Upon a Prince, and The Writing Desk

Author : Linda Goodnight
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780373789122

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The Memory House by Linda Goodnight Pdf

Welcome to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, and a house that's rich with secrets but brimming with possibilities. Memories of motherhood and marriage are fresh for Julia Presley--though tragedy took away both years ago. She finds comfort in running the Peach Orchard Inn, then a man and his son come into her life and they both find something in one another that fills deep voids. With the chance discovery of a dusty stack of love letters, the long-dead ghosts of a Civil War romance begin to develop between the two.

Author : Lucia Graves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1930067178

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The Memory House by Lucia Graves Pdf

In 1492 Columbus sailed to the New World, but in the same year the Jews in Spain who refused to convert to Catholicism were sent into exile. Graves describes a situation in which two lovers are separated because one Jewish family decides to stay and convert, and the other decides to leave Spain forever.

Author : Lucy Maria Boston
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036792229

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Memory in a House by Lucy Maria Boston Pdf

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451494702

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The House of Memory by John Freely Pdf

An engaging, funny, and tender memoir from a man of ninety years: of growing up poor in a Brooklyn and Ireland that now exist only in memory, and of serving in the China/Burma/India theater during World War II as a member of an elite U.S. Navy commando unit John Freely's voice is still astonishingly youthful, full of wonder, humor, and gratitude, as he remembers his fully lived life. Born in Brooklyn to Irish immigrants, he went to Ireland with his mother when he was five, where he spent his young childhood on his grandfather's farm. Western Ireland was impoverished by the times, but rich in beauty and intriguing people, and it opened in him a lifelong desire to see the world and its inhabitants. When he was seven, he returned to Brooklyn, and the antics of a coming-of-age boy played out on streets filled with character and characters. He took whatever jobs he could when times got tough, always shaking off his losses and moving on, hungry to see and experience what was next. He joined the U.S. Navy at seventeen to "see the world," and did just that. In wartime, while bringing supplies and ammunition over the Stilwell-Burma Road to Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese guerrilla forces, Freely served alongside them during the last weeks of World War II in the Tibetan borderlands of China, a Shangri-la that war had turned into hell on earth.

Author : Yoko Ogawa
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101911815

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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa Pdf

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB American Book Award winner

Author : Rachel Hauck
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781401686314

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The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck Pdf

Hidden away for years in a trunk welded shut, one wedding dress ties four brides together across time in their hour of decision. As Charlotte unravels the mystery of the dress and its prior owners, her own heart begins to reveal its truth. Charlotte owns a chic Birmingham bridal boutique. Dressing brides for their big day is her gift—and her passion. But with her own wedding day approaching, why can’t she find the perfect dress—or feel certain she should marry Tim? Then Charlotte purchases a vintage dress in a battered trunk at an estate sale. It looks brand-new, shimmering with pearls and satin, hand-stitched and timeless in its design. But where did it come from? Who wore it? Charlotte’s search for the gown’s history—and its new bride—begins as a distraction from her sputtering love life. But it takes on a life of its own as she comes to know the women who have worn the dress. Emily from 1912. Mary Grace from 1939. Hillary from 1968. Each with something unique to share. For woven within the threads of the beautiful hundred-year-old gown is the truth about Charlotte’s heritage, the power of courage and faith, and the beauty of finding true love. From?New York Times?bestseller and award-winning author Rachel Hauck comes a timeless tale of truth love and hearts desires. Multiple POV and timelines A clean and wholesome no spice romance with religious undertones Perfect for book clubs - featuring reading group discussion questions An excellent gift for birthdays, Christmas and holidays, or other occasions

Author : Edward Hollis
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781619025622

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The Memory Palace by Edward Hollis Pdf

A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained. The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one day, the structures will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will persist. In this dazzling work of imaginative reconstruction, edward Hollis takes us to the sites of great abodes now lost to history and piecing together the fragments that remain, re–creates their vanished chambers. From Rome's palatine to the old palace of Westminster and the petit Trianon at Versailles, from the sets of MGM studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of the Crystal palace and the author's own grandmother's sitting room, The Memory Palace is a glittering treasure trove of luminous forgotten places and the alluring people who lived in them.

Author : Howard Mansfield
Publisher : Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 1555912478

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In the Memory House (PB) by Howard Mansfield Pdf

A recollection of the land, its people, and its ideals. Examines what we choose to remember and how progress has created absences in our landscapes.

Author : Bette Lee Crosby
Publisher : Bent Pine Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0996080368

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Memory House: Memory House Collection by Bette Lee Crosby Pdf

A magical tale that trips lightly through the hallowed ground of Spare Change and several other reader favorites...from a USA Bestseller and Multi-Award-Winning Author. Is it possible for a memory to outlive its owner? Ophelia Browne knows the answer is yes. She knows because she's been granted the unique gift of finding and caring for forgotten memories. But now she's nearing ninety, and Browne women seldom live beyond such an age. Before time runs out Ophelia must find her successor...someone who can carry forth the gift and keep the memories from fading. When broken-hearted Annie Cross shows up on the doorstep of The Memory House Bed and Breakfast, Ophelia knows she is the one. As the two women sip dandelion tea and share stories, Annie begins to uncover new memories. Ugly ones. Ones buried deep enough to hide the scars. Excitement turns to fear when a thread of violence begins to unravel and Ophelia knows they have gone too far.

Author : Gae Polisner
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250095534

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The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner Pdf

"[A] gripping, emotional story set in the part of history we’ll never forget." - New York Daily News On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, a NYC detective likely on his way to the disaster, Kyle makes the split-second decision to bring the girl home. What follows is their story, told in alternating points of view, as Kyle tries to unravel the mystery of the girl so he can return her to her family. But what if the girl has forgotten everything, even her own name? And what if the more Kyle gets to know her, the less he wants her to go home? The Memory of Things tells a stunning story of friendship and first love and of carrying on with our day-to-day living in the midst of world-changing tragedy and unforgettable pain—it tells a story of hope.

Author : Judy Fong Bates
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307356536

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The Year of Finding Memory by Judy Fong Bates Pdf

In the tradition of The Concubine's Children and Paper Shadows, a probing memoir from the author of the acclaimed novel Midnight at the Dragon Cafe. An elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family's difficult arrival in Canada, and a daughter's search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents' past lives. Growing up in her father's hand laundry in small town Ontario, Judy Fong Bates listened to stories of her parents' past lives in China, a place far removed from their every-day life of poverty and misery. But in spite of the allure of these stories, Fong Bates longed to be a Canadian girl. Fifty years later she finally followed her curiosity back to her ancestral home in China for a reunion that spiralled into a series of unanticipated discoveries. Opening with a shock as moving as the one that powers The Glass Castle, The Year of Finding Memory explores a particular, yet universal, world of family secrets, love, loss, courage and shame. This is a memoir of a daughter's emotional journey, and her painful acceptance of conflicting truths. In telling the story of her parents, Fong Bates is telling the story of how she came to know them, of finding memory.

Author : Elisabeth Combres
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781554981618

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Broken Memory by Elisabeth Combres Pdf

IRA Notable Books for a Global Society selection Hiding behind an armchair, five-year-old Emma does not witness the murder of her mother, but she hears everything. And when the assassins finally leave, the young Tutsi girl somehow manages to stumble away from the scene, motivated only by the memory of her mother's last words: "You must not die, Emma!" Eventually Emma is taken in by an old Hutu woman who risks her own life to hide the child. Emma stays with the old woman and a quiet bond forms between the two, but long after the war ends, the young girl is still haunted by nightmares. When the country establishes courts to allow victims to face their tormenters in their villages, Emma is uneasy and afraid. But through her growing friendship with a young torture victim and the gentle encouragement of an old man charged with helping child survivors, Emma finds the courage to return to the house where her mother was killed and begin the journey to healing.

Author : Scott Thornley
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487003302

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Erasing Memory by Scott Thornley Pdf

The heart-pounding first installment of the MacNeice Mysteries, featuring a sophisticated detective solving the horrific murder of a beautiful young violinist — perfect for fans of Peter Robinson’s Alan Banks series. Detective Superintendent MacNeice is returning from a pilgrimage to his wife’s grave when he’s called to a crime scene of singular and disturbing beauty. A young woman in evening dress lies gracefully posed on the floor of a pristine summer cottage so that the finger of one hand regularly interrupts the needle arm of a phonograph playing Schubert’s Piano Trio. The only visible mark on her is the bruise under her chin, which MacNeice recognizes: it is the mark that distinguishes dedicated violinists, the same mark that once graced his wife. The murder is both ingenious and horrific, and soon entangles MacNeice and his team in Eastern Europe’s ancient grievances...

Author : Mary Rakow
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619026940

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The Memory Room by Mary Rakow Pdf

The novel opens with Barbara, who, after remembering incidents of torture at the hands of her father, has quite literally broken down. Found inside a disabled elevator, she is no longer able to function with her new consciousness of these memories—those which are so resistant to understanding. Confronted with this knowledge of evil, she must begin the painful process of remembering and reconstructing a new whole self. Helping Barbara to navigate her grief and her memories are her therapist, the Psalms, and most of all, the words of Paul Celan. Paul Celan: 1920–1970, Poet. An eastern European holocaust survivor who wrote haunting poems about the darker spiritual trials of life and relationships that exhibit a compact style that fuses broken words and chopped syntax to produce a stark musicality. This is a novel about a woman who goes to hell and back. It's a story which affirms the resilience of the human spirit and the healing power of love and faith.