The Waiting

Author : Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465718

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The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Pdf

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It’s not an uncommon story—the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother’s story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the couple started a family. But peace didn’t come. The young family—now four—fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then 70 years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can’t stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother. Expertly translated from Korean by award-winning Janet Hong, The Waiting is the devastating followup to Gendry-Kim’s Grass, which won the Krause Essay Prize, the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Harvey Award, and appeared on best of the year lists from the New York Times, The Guardian, Library Journal, and more.

Author : Cathy LaGrow
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496408600

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The Waiting by Cathy LaGrow Pdf

Now with a new afterword! A five star–reviewed, unforgettable story that bestselling author Homer Hickam calls “one of the most eloquent, moving, irresistible true stories” he’s ever read. The Waiting will touch your heart and make you believe in love’s enduring legacy, as well as the power of prayer. In 1928, 16-year-old Minka was on a picnic in the woods when she was assaulted and raped. And suddenly this innocent farm girl—who still thought the stork brought babies—was pregnant. The story that follows has been almost a hundred years in the making. After a lifetime of separation, Minka whispered an impossible prayer for the first time: Lord, I’d like to see Betty Jane before I die. What happened next was a miracle. Written by Cathy LaGrow (Minka’s granddaughter), The Waiting brings three generations of this most unusual family together over the course of a century in a story of faith that triumphs, forgiveness that sets us free, and love that never forgets. (As seen on The Today Show.)

Author : Shandi Mitchell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143199014

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The Waiting Hours by Shandi Mitchell Pdf

“The most impressive trick of this book – and it is a very good one – is the way Mitchell pulls off a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is introspective.” - The Globe and Mail When you spend your life saving others...who will be there to save you? When tragedy erupts on a stifling summer night, three ordinary people, with the extraordinary jobs of rescuing strangers, are connected to one another in ways both explicit and invisible. Each is deeply devoted to what they do, but they are all beginning to crack under the immense pressures of their work. Tough-as-nails Kate, when she's not working with her beloved search-and-rescue dog, Zeus, is a trauma nurse who spends her off-duty hours trying to forget what she has seen. Estranged from her troubled family, she must confront the fact that resolution may elude her forever. Respected police officer Mike is on the edge of burnout and sets himself on a downward spiral that may be impossible to break, fraying the bonds of love that hold his family together. Tamara, an agoraphobic 911 dispatcher, who is trying her hardest to remain as calm and emotionless as an automated message, is propelled into the middle of a story that she can't avoid and must enter the world to find out how it ends. With a city prickling under a heat wave and a hurricane threatening to make landfall, these responders will be forced to make fateful choices that will alter lives. A storm is coming and nobody is prepared.

Author : Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770464186

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Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Pdf

Appeared on best of the year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year! Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War—a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. Beginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee’s memories. The cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.

Author : DeVon Franklin,Meagan Good
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781501123481

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The Wait by DeVon Franklin,Meagan Good Pdf

The authors discuss the circumstances that brought them together and their decision to abstain from sex until marriage.

Author : Dina Nayeri
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536218541

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The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found by Dina Nayeri Pdf

An unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time—and bravely proceeding anyway—inside the Katsikas refugee camp in Greece. Every war, famine, and flood spits out survivors. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cites an unprecedented 79.5 million forcibly displaced people on the planet today. In 2018, Dina Nayeri—a former refugee herself and the daughter of a refugee—invited documentary photographer Anna Bosch Miralpeix to accompany her to Katsikas, a refugee camp outside Ioannina, Greece, to record the hopes and struggles of ten young Farsi-speaking refugees from Iran and Afghanistan. “I wanted to play with them, to enter their imagined worlds, to see the landscape inside their minds,” she says. Ranging in age from five to seventeen, the children live in partitioned shipping-crate homes crowded on a field below a mountain. Battling a dreary monster that wants to rob them of their purpose, dignity, and identity, each survives in his or her own special way. The Waiting Place is an unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time—and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author’s reflections on life in a refugee camp. Locking the global refugee crisis sharply in focus, The Waiting Place is an urgent call to change what we teach young people about the nature of home and safety.

Author : Kevin Henkes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062430915

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Waiting by Kevin Henkes Pdf

What are you waiting for? An owl, a puppy, a bear, a rabbit, and a pig wait for marvelous things to happen in this irresistible and resonant picture book by the New York Times–bestselling and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes. Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected? Waiting is a big part of childhood—waiting in line, waiting to grow up, waiting for something special to happen—but in this book, a child sets the stage and pulls the strings. Timeless, beautiful, and deeply heartfelt, this picture book about imaginative play, the seasons, friendship, and surprises is a Caldecott Honor and Geisel Honor Book. Share Waiting alongside Mo Willems's Waiting Is Not Easy at home or in a classroom—these books about waiting for kids will be enjoyed as picture book stories and also allow kids to explore their emotions about that ultimate frustration: waiting. “The short sentences of the text flow with the precision one would expect from a master picture-book creator like Henkes. Little ones, to whom each experience is new, will know what it’s like to dream and wait.”—ALA Booklist

Author : Belle Boggs
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555979454

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The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs Pdf

A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility When Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in New York magazine's "Approval Matrix." In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her--the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo--for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports, with great empathy, complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives. In The Art of Waiting, Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family.

Author : Paula Gooder
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781853119088

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The meaning is in the waiting by Paula Gooder Pdf

Arranged for daily reading in the hectic run-up to Christmas, this book will enable us to grow more fully into a way of being that is governed more by expectancy than by urgency, more focused on God's presence today than on some imagined future. Changing the focus of our restless, busy lives takes time and for most of us will be a lifetime's work, but we venture on this journey in companionship with the God who waits with us.

Author : Elana K. Arnold
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062445872

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Bat and the Waiting Game by Elana K. Arnold Pdf

In the tradition of Clementine and Ramona Quimby, meet Bat. Author Elana K. Arnold returns with another irresistible story of friendship in this widely acclaimed series starring an unforgettable boy on the autism spectrum. For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life is pretty great. He’s the caretaker of the best baby skunk in the world—even Janie, his older sister, is warming up to Thor. When Janie gets a part in the school play and can’t watch Bat after school, it means some pretty big changes. Someone else has to take care of the skunk kit in the afternoons, Janie is having sleepovers with her new friends, and Bat wants everything to go back to normal. He just has to make it to the night of Janie’s performance. . . . Elana K. Arnold's Bat trilogy is a proven winner in the home and classroom—kids love these short illustrated young middle grade books. The trilogy is A Boy Called Bat, Bat and the Waiting Game, and Bat and the End of Everything.

Author : Carolyn Beck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000053920607

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The Waiting Dog by Carolyn Beck Pdf

The book reveals a dog's ultimate Fantasy.

Author : Edward Norris Kirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNS48

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The Waiting Saviour by Edward Norris Kirk Pdf

Author : Tamika M. Brown
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781490833644

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Women in the Waiting by Tamika M. Brown Pdf

God's plan is for a marriage to last forever. When one spouse is saved and the other is not, it can result in one or both individuals wanting to call it quits. If you ever felt like your personal experience of being married to an unbeliever was one in a million, this book seeks to encourage you. You are not alone. It is time to stop feeling like you are alone and allow this book to give you realistic, biblical principles that can change your life. As Christians, we don't like to talk about the roller coaster of emotions and the desire to walk out of our marriage. Instead, we choose to suffer silently and pray that it will pass quickly. This book speaks to your inner thoughts and experiences and instructs you through the Word of God, how to become an overcomer.

Author : Phyllis Tickle
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0829417656

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Wisdom in the Waiting by Phyllis Tickle Pdf

A collection of essays by Phyllis Tickle which mark the passage of spring at her farm in rural West Tennessee.

Author : Danny S. Allen
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781638854647

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Ramble along the Waiting Path by Danny S. Allen Pdf

Benjamin Ramble is dead. His brief eighteen years of life taught him many things, but would they be enough to help him defeat Slate, the leader of the defiant army? The world between the living and the dead is filled with characters both good and evil. Ben, with the help of his new friends, must navigate his way from the place he died to where he was finally laid to rest. Along the way, dark forces conspire to not only prevent Ben from succeeding but also eliminate all light in the world.