The Shadow Of A Life

Author : Hiromi Goto
Publisher : First Second
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781250831347

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Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto Pdf

Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow. Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?

Author : Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030787956

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The Shadow of Life by Anne Douglas Sedgwick Pdf

Author : Shanna Greene Benjamin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469661896

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Half in Shadow by Shanna Greene Benjamin Pdf

Nellie Y. McKay (1930–2006) was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. The author of several books, McKay is best known for coediting the canon-making with Henry Louis Gates Jr., which helped secure a place for the scholarly study of Black writing that had been ignored by white academia. However, there is more to McKay's life and legacy than her literary scholarship. After her passing, new details about McKay's life emerged, surprising everyone who knew her. Why did McKay choose to hide so many details of her past? Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy. Benjamin shows that McKay's secrecy was a necessary tactic that a Black, working-class woman had to employ to succeed in the white-dominated space of the American English department. Using extensive archives and personal correspondence, Benjamin brings together McKay’s private life and public work to expand how we think about Black literary history and the place of Black women in American culture.

Author : Joan Pressman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546355936

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The Shadow of My Life by Joan Pressman Pdf

Each chapter in this delightful book tells its own story. As you read this book you cannot help but think about you own life. There really isn't too much of a difference among us. You will see how much alike we are. Believe in yourself.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307367099

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The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.

Author : Lauren Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643131658

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The Shadow King by Lauren Johnson Pdf

A thrilling new account of the tragic story and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both. Firstborn son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agincourt, Henry VI of the House of Lancaster inherited the crown not only of England but also of France, at a time when Plantagenet dominance over the Valois dynasty was at its glorious height. And yet, by the time he died in the Tower of London in 1471, France was lost, his throne had been seized by his rival, Edward IV of the House of York, and his kingdom had descended into the violent chaos of the Wars of the Roses. Henry VI is perhaps the most troubled of English monarchs, a pious, gentle, well-intentioned man who was plagued by bouts of mental illness. In The Shadow King, Lauren Johnson tells his remarkable and sometimes shocking story in a fast-paced and colorful narrative that captures both the poignancy of Henry’s life and the tumultuous and bloody nature of the times in which he lived.

Author : Robert Bly
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780061971174

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A Little Book on the Human Shadow by Robert Bly Pdf

Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.

Author : Daisy Dunn
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631496400

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The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn Pdf

“A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world.”—Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father. Grieving his loss, Pliny the Younger inherited the Elder’s notebooks—filled with pearls of wisdom—and his legacy. At its heart, The Shadow of Vesuvius is a literary biography of the younger man, who would grow up to become a lawyer, senator, poet, collector of villas, and chronicler of the Roman Empire from the dire days of terror under Emperor Domitian to the gentler times of Emperor Trajan. A biography that will appeal to lovers of Mary Beard books, it is also a moving narrative about the profound influence of a father figure on his adopted son. Interweaving the younger Pliny’s Letters with extracts from the Elder’s Natural History, Daisy Dunn paints a vivid, compellingly readable portrait of two of antiquity’s greatest minds.

Author : Valerie James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 1728805295

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Shadow in the House of Life by Valerie James Pdf

Two medical students with unique abilities are thrust into a most unusual murder investigation that soon draws the attention of the most powerful man in Egypt, the god king Khnum Khufu. Nothing is as it seems when dark forces conspire to conceal the truth as political intrigue ensues and young love blossoms.

Author : Oli Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798673539767

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Shadow Life by Oli Anderson Pdf

Shadow Life is an exploration of the human shadow and the hidden side of our personalities. It looks at the masks we wear, where these masks come from, and how we can take them off. The book explores how we can better manage our relationships with shame, guilt, and trauma in order to remove the Mask that the world has asked us to wear (and that we forgot we were wearing) so we can live an authentic life with less drama, chaos, or BS whilst we're still around.This is a book for anybody who is waking up to the truth about themselves, the world, and reality and wants to understand the mechanics of their relationship between themselves and their own 'stuff' so they can let go of the past, move into their potential, and live a real, fulfilling life as their undivided selves.Shadow Life is a book about the power of Unconditional Self-Acceptance and the strength, creativity, and energy that comes from unleashing the hidden sides of ourselves in alignment with the truth.

Author : Barry Denenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439416787

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Shadow Life by Barry Denenberg Pdf

Recounts the plight of the Frank family, including their years in Germany, their flight to Amsterdam, their two years in hiding, their eventual discovery, the deaths of Anne, her sister and mother, and the survival of Otto Frank.

Author : Susan Breiddal
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781039114272

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In the Shadow of Angels by Susan Breiddal Pdf

“You people are angels!” This is how many respond to those who work in palliative care. How hospice care professionals manage the emotional tension of being surrounded by sick, dying, and grief-stricken people is unfathomable. Over her 20 years of work as a hospice counsellor, author Dr. Breiddal, has collected stories of how ordinary people face death and dying. In this living body of work she reveals the skills needed, along with the struggles and rewards of providing hospice care. Bridging memoir and creative nonfiction, she weaves together theory and practice in the service of the dying and their families. Breiddal aims to make the often-strange reality of death accessible through an intimate, raw, and realistic portrayal of the art of providing loving end-of-life care. Admittedly, being called to this work is to be pulled out of everyday life which requires a willingness to have one’s sense of safety and familiarity challenged: to be off-balance, to surrender to uncertainty, change, discomfort and growth. Encouraging a relational way to encounter mortality, she offers hope that caring for the dying and bereaved is a paradoxical opportunity to open up to life. By entwining her personal and professional experiences, the author presents a timely primer for readers who are facing the death of their loved ones, their own death, or are bereaved. Additionally, both those currently working in the field or considering a career in palliative care will find In the shadow of angels: Intimate stories from a hospice counsellor a fascinating read.

Author : Elisabeth Elliot
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781598562491

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Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot Pdf

"Shadow of the Almighty" is the bestselling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador. "Elizabeth Elliot's account is more than inspirational reading, it belongs to the very heartbeat of evangelic witness"--"Christianity Today."

Author : Hope Chance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1953397468

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The Shadow of My Life by Hope Chance Pdf

Author : Tim Hall
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545823135

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Shadow of the Wolf by Tim Hall Pdf

A stunning re-imagining of Robin Hood, the first in an exciting new trilogy Forget everything you've ever heard about Robin Hood.Robin Loxley is seven years old when his parents disappear without a trace. Years later the great love of his life, Marian, is also taken from him. Driven by these mysteries, and this anguish, Robin follows a darkening path into the ancient heart of Sherwood Forest. What he encounters there will leave him transformed . . .The first book of a trilogy, Shadow of the Wolf is a breathtakingly original--an utterly compelling--retelling that will forever alter the legend of Robin Hood.