The Walking Man

Author : Jiro Taniguchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 1908007427

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The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi Pdf

Whoever takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet? To stop and observe the comings and goings of the birds? To play in the puddles after the rain has gone? To return a shell to the sea? i]The Walking Man /i] follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan - often silent, usually alone - with his vivid dreams that let time stand still. Every corporate American should have a copy on their desk and, in times of stress, take two chapters, twice a day. Take a little stress out of your life and relax with i]The Walking Man /i], a little step every day. Lovingly reversed in collaboration with the creator to read left to right.

Author : Helen Prejean
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780307787699

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Dead Man Walking by Helen Prejean Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.

Author : Robert Wehrman
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1483572285

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Walking Man by Robert Wehrman Pdf

Walking Man is the only biography of Colin Fletcher, the man who walked through time. He was an iconic American folk hero best known as the first person to force a passage through the length of Grand Canyon National Park in one arduous solo journey. He was the world's most famous long-distance walker. He was the first thru-hiker. Called the father of modern backpacking by Backpacker Magazine and others, Fletcher was the one who showed us the way--more than a million people followed his shadow into the green world. Born in Wales, he was in the first wave of British Marines to hit the beachhead in Normandy on D-Day. After the war he farmed in Kenya, prospected in British Columbia, and then began his writing career in California where he wrote and published ten books. Fletcher's was a preeminent and powerful voice for environmental concerns on par with Edward Abbey and John Muir. He was to the outdoor world and its preservation, what Leonard Bernstein was to music, or Walter Cronkite to reporting. When Colin Fletcher had something to say, people listened. The impact of his work, while unacknowledged, is seen far and wide today. Although most of them don't know it, the hordes of hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail today would not be there without Fletcher's pioneering work.

Author : Constance O. Irvin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595434060

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The Walking Man by Constance O. Irvin Pdf

It was the summer of 1950 in Taneytown, Alabama, and what started out as a childish game quickly turned tragic when Maggie Green's playmate Angel disappeared. Maggie lied to her parents and the police about where they had been playing to protect another friend. That lie would haunt her long after she and her brother discovered Angel's lifeless body in the woods. Sensing that their way of life would never be as innocent and carefree again, Maggie and her friends struggled to comprehend who in their town could commit such a brutal crime. Frustrated and scared residents voiced prejudices and hurled accusations against odd town characters, including the Walking Man and Maggie's trusted friend, Mozell, the old Negro woman who lived in the river bottoms. But Maggie soon learned that good and evil can be found in many forms-few of them obvious or predictable. Five decades later, Maggie heads back to her hometown. Memories of the past instantly flood her mind: the smell of red clay, the coolness of the Cahaba River, and the calls of mockingbirds take her back to that hot summer when she made a promise that would take a lifetime to fulfill .

Author : Andy Nieman
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460235478

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FREE MAN WALKING by Andy Nieman Pdf

The horror of loneliness. Over 10 years in prison. Hooked on heroin, cocaine and drugs for 23 years. A chronic alcoholic for 27. Homeless. Eating out of garbage bins. Born into a violent alcoholic home. Molested by a pedophile in a residential school for three years. Surviving on skid row for 10 years. Living with the constant threat of suicide. Now this same person has a University Degree, is a United Pentecostal Church Pastor, an Officer of the Legislative Assembly, a poet, husband and stepdad. This true story will give you a unique front-row look into a world few know about or experience. Once you read this book your heart will be overflowing with hope. You will be left with no other alternative because this story will touch you so deeply it will remain in your heart the rest of your life. If you know a chronic alcoholic or drug addict whose life appears to be totally hopeless, or have a family member living with one, this book is a book for you and for them. I could not stop drinking! I could not stop sticking that needle in my arm! No matter what I tried I always failed…until I learned the TRUTH!

Author : Mo Hayder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443426145

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Poppet by Mo Hayder Pdf

Everything goes according to procedure when a patient, Isaac, is released from a high-security mental health ward. But when the staff realize that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of tragic self-harm amongst the ward’s patients and that he was released in error, they call on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate and to track Isaac down before he can kill again.

Author : Narciso Zamora
Publisher : The Quilldriver
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780979163906

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Walking Man by Narciso Zamora Pdf

Walking Man recounts Zamora's winding and treacherous path, literally and figuratively, toward finding his calling in missions. Characteristic of Zamora's more than 25 years of mission experiences is his determination to go anywhere he felt called to preach and teach -- walking day and night into the jungle or trekking from valley to alpine zone and back down the other side of the mountain, just to reach an isolated village. --from publisher description.

Author : Colin Fletcher
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780804152440

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The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher Pdf

The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.

Author : Ted Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 192579329X

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Ross Seaton by Ted Snell Pdf

Author : Jirō Taniguchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 190800729X

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Furari by Jirō Taniguchi Pdf

Jiro Taniguchi returns with this delightful and insightful tale of life in a Japan long forgotten. Inspired by an historical figure, Tadataka Ino (1745 - 1818), Taniguchi invites us to join this unnamed but appealing and picturesque figure as he strolls through the various districts of Edo, the ancient Tokyo, with its thousand little pleasures. Now retired from business he surveys, measures, draws and takes notes whilst giving free rein to his taste for simple poetry and his inexhaustible capacity for wonder.

Author : James A. Thompson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546236016

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The Walk of a Man by James A. Thompson Pdf

Some events happen to us. All situations come, and we, oftentimes, are not prepared for them. The past, at times, haunts us; the present ties and tries us; and the future can become uncertain. David sees so much of what happened in this communityloss of loved ones and so much unspoken hurt. Loss was out in the fields of life. The pleasures of that life and things that bloom can never answer to the call of help, yet help and hope were among them and visited them far and near. The hand of God guided a man in his life in a time of great sorrow. The love of God flowed out and touched and drew them out of many troubled waters of the soul. Gods great love and presence led a man that loved God. He is by no means perfect in his walk, yet in him walks the real man who believes in who he believes and stands for who he stands for.

Author : Mo Hayder
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802194497

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Birdman by Mo Hayder Pdf

A serial killer stalks the streets of London in this “top-notch debut thriller”—the first Jack Caffery novel from the acclaimed author of Gone (Kirkus Reviews). In his first case as lead investigator with London’s murder squad, Det. Inspector Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, southeast London. Mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area—all female and all ritualistically murdered. And when the postmortem examination reveals a gruesome signature connecting the victims, Caffery realizes exactly what he’s dealing with—a dangerous serial killer. A finalist for the Edgar Award, Birdman explores the darkest reaches of the human mind and introduces a fascinating detective to the world of British crime fiction. “Treading the grisly path blazed by Thomas Harris in 1981 with Red Dragon, promising newcomer Hayder crafts a blood-curdlingly creepy debut thriller.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A deftly plotted assault on the nerves . . . Birdman preys on the reader’s expectations expertly, and Hayder handles her story’s complicated time scheme with enviable assurance. Graphic, disturbing, splendidly readable.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Mo Hayder
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802192578

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Wolf by Mo Hayder Pdf

The Edgar Award–winning, internationally bestselling author delivers a bone-chilling novel about a family held hostage in their country home. Wolf kicks off when a vagrant—the Walking Man, an enigmatic, recurring character in Hayder’s fiction—finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words “HELP US” attached to its collar. He’s sure it’s a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Det. Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved—until the Walking Man promises to exchange new information regarding the childhood disappearance of Caffery’s brother. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it’s a race against time. Meanwhile, the Anchor-Ferrers, a wealthy local family, are fighting for their lives, held hostage in their remote home ten miles away. As their ordeal becomes increasingly bizarre and humiliating, the family begins to wonder: Is this really a random crime? “The home invasion novel to end all home invasion novels . . . Wolf is exceptionally original in premise and nightmarish in its rendering.”—BookPage

Author : Debbie Morris
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310231875

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Forgiving the Dead Man Walking by Debbie Morris Pdf

Robert Willie, the death-row prisoner in Dead Man Walking, was convicted of raping a woman who tells her story here.

Author : Giana Darling
Publisher : Giana Darling Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1774440288

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Dead Man Walking by Giana Darling Pdf

☆A Top 100 Amazon Bestseller☆ From USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Giana Darling comes a dark MC romance about a broken enforcer and the beautiful, innocent woman who shows him that light can exist even in the dark... A killer. A criminal. A psychopath. The Irish enforcer for The Fallen Men MC is everything good girls are taught to stay away from. Only, I found myself inexorably drawn into his dark gravitational pull. I wanted to know what it would be like to walk beside the human personification of Death and hold his hand, feel his kiss, and maybe even earn his undying love. But Priest McKenna is older, cold as ice, and notoriously unfeeling. So what are the odds that a dead man walking would come to life for little, insignificant me? When a serial killer begins to target the women of Entrance, BC, and The Fallen suffers another terrible blow, Priest resolves to hunt down the killer himself. And when the murderer sets his eyes on me? My very own psychopath steps between me and certain death, thrusting us into an intimacy I prayed we would never recover from. *A standalone book in The Fallen Men Series.*