The Walking People

Author : Mary Beth Keane
Publisher : HMH
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547394367

Get Book

The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane Pdf

A “beautifully crafted” novel of two sisters’ lives, spanning from 1950s Ireland to modern-day America (Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin). Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in west Ireland. Yet one day she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister, Johanna, and a boy named Michael Ward, a son of itinerant tinkers. Back home, her family hadn’t expressed much confidence in her abilities, but Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, earn a living, and build a life. She longs to return and show her family what she has made of herself—but that could mean revealing a secret about her past to her children. So she carefully keeps her life in New York separate from the life she once loved in Ireland, torn from the people she is closest to. Decades later, she discovers that her children, with the best of intentions, have conspired to unite the worlds she has so painstakingly kept apart. And though the Ireland of her memory may bear little resemblance to that of present day, she fears it is still possible to lose all . . . “A compelling drama of transatlantic Irish life.” —Billy Collins “Marries a deliciously old-fashioned style of storytelling with a fresh take on the immigrant experience . . . A warm, involving family drama.” —Booklist

Author : Mary Beth Keane
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405945707

Get Book

The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane Pdf

THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NOVEL OF NEW BEGINNINGS AND OLD FAMILY SECRETS FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ASK AGAIN, YES 'A fearless writer' LISA TADDEO 'An epic story about immigration, identity and family' Guardian 'Atmospheric, moving and brilliantly well-written' Daily Mail 'Engrossing . . . the kind of novel you simply don't want to end' Daily Express 'A beautifully crafted novel about love, loyalty, culture, family and identity' Irish Sunday Independent *Features an extract from Mary Beth Keane's new novel The Half Moon!* ______ 1960s Rural Ireland. Greta Cahill must abandon her quiet village to follow her fearless sister Johanna onto a ship bound for New York . . . It's here that she steps out of her sister's shadow and into a life of her own, rich with love, work and family. As the years pass Greta longs to revisit the past - to see her mother, to show her what she has made of herself. But she must protect a family secret, decades old. So when her children conspire to unite the worlds she's kept so carefully apart, Greta fears she could lose it all . . . A profoundly moving, compassionate story of self-discovery, The Walking People is a powerful and compelling story about our connection to the past. ______ 'A novel of great compassion and understanding . . . rich with story' JOHN BOYNE on Ask Again, Yes 'Keane's previous novel Ask Again, Yes, was on my best Books of 2019, and this is just as good. Its slow, melodic pace proves we don't always need fast action and twists' Prima, 'Best Books of March' 'The characters are so well drawn and out of the ordinary that I was quickly drawn into their story and didn't want it to end' 5***** Reader Review 'The story becomes so engrossing it grows on you with its real and engaging characters ... a very moving and original love story' Irish Examiner 'A gorgeous nostalgic family drama with real characters. Loved it' 5***** Reader Review Praise for Mary Beth Keane: 'A fearless writer' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women 'A novel of great compassion and understanding . . . rich with story' John Boyne 'I'll read everything she writes' Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies 'A writer of extraordinary depth, feeling and wit' Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion 'Immersive and deeply moving' Anna Hope, author of Expectation 'It's an absolute stunner, an ode to family and forgiveness that has been crafted with compassion and insight' Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton **THE HALF MOON, the new novel by Mary Beth Keane, is available to pre-order now!**

Author : Mary Beth Keane
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241524385

Get Book

The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane Pdf

Author : Paula Underwood
Publisher : A Tribe of Two Press
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 1879678101

Get Book

The Walking People by Paula Underwood Pdf

Author : Mary Beth Keane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982107000

Get Book

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane Pdf

The triumphant New York Times Bestseller *The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick* Named one of the Best Books of the Year by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle "A gem of a book." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo How much can a family forgive? Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie NYPD cops, are neighbors in the suburbs. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis’s wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian’s wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. In Mary Beth Keane's extraordinary novel, a lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes is a gorgeous and generous portrait of the daily intimacies of marriage and the power of forgiveness.

Author : Kathryn Davis
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618082387

Get Book

The Walking Tour by Kathryn Davis Pdf

Two couples -- businessman Bobby Rose and his artist wife, Carole Ridingham; his partner, Coleman Snow, and Snow's wife, Ruth Farr -- have gone on a walking tour in Wales, during which a fatal accident occurs. The question of what happened preoccupies not only an ensuing negligence trial but also the narrator, Bobby and Carole's daughter, Susan, who lives alone in her parents' house near the coast of Maine. Assisted by court transcripts, a notebook computer containing Ruth Farr's journal, and a young vagrant who has taken to camping on her doorstep, Susan lays open the moral predicament at the heart of the book: we are culpable beings, even though we live in a world of imperfect knowledge.

Author : Lee Scott,Michele Stanten
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781492591399

Get Book

The Walking Solution by Lee Scott,Michele Stanten Pdf

If you’re a fitness professional eager to expand your program offerings, a wellness coach who wants to help your patients become more active, or a personal trainer trying to attract new clients, walking can be your low-cost solution! Learn the techniques and coaching cues to turn a low-impact, easily accessible activity into a fun and challenging workout for clients of every age and ability. The Walking Solution will help you create innovative programs to engage individuals across the fitness spectrum. Introduce a program for inactive individuals to get moving, or challenge experienced clients with a new cross-training activity. In The Walking Solution, you will discover the four progressions of walking technique, how to increase intensity, and how to incorporate strength-building exercises to get the most out of every walk. Clear instructions and photos show the dynamic and static stretches that help to ensure safety and improve performance. Case studies describe unique and successful walking programs that you can customize for your own clients. You will also learn the key business strategies that allow you to increase revenue and reach new audiences to expand your clientele. You will also get access to customizable business development resources such as waivers and marketing plans. Transform lives using the simple and effective strategies in The Walking Solution and help all your clients experience improved mental and physical well-being. Get your clients—and your business—moving today! Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.

Author : Robert E. Manning,Martha S. Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0870716832

Get Book

Walking Distance by Robert E. Manning,Martha S. Manning Pdf

At the heart of Walking Distance: Extraordinary Hikes for Ordinary People are firsthand descriptions of thirty of the world's best long-distance hikes on six continents—including personal anecdotes, historical backgrounds, and useful tips—accompanied by stunning full-color photographs and maps.

Author : Susan Hughes
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781525300639

Get Book

Walking in the City with Jane by Susan Hughes Pdf

How one committed woman changed the way we think about cities. Jane Jacobs was always a keen observer of her community. When she moved to New York City and began to explore it, she figured out that, just like in nature, the city was an ecosystem. And all its different parts — from sidewalks and parks, to stores and, of course, people — were necessary to keep the city healthy and thriving. So, when urban planner Robert Moses wanted to build highways that would destroy neighborhoods — the lifeblood of New York — Jane fought back. And won! Kids will be inspired to notice the “sidewalk ballet” around them and to protect what makes their communities — and their cities — great!

Author : Lisa Feldman Barrett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780358157144

Get Book

Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett Pdf

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain, in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Author : Melissa Balmain
Publisher : Able Muse Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781927409305

Get Book

Walking in on People (Able Muse Book Award) by Melissa Balmain Pdf

In Melissa Balmain’s Walking in on People, the serious is lightened with a generous serving of wit and humor, and the lighthearted is enriched with abundant wisdom. She shows us how poetry can be fun yet grounded in everyday challenges and triumphs, with subjects ranging from the current and hip (Facebook posts, online dating, layoffs, retail therapy, cell-phone apps, trans fat), to the traditional and time-tested (marriage, child-rearing, love, death). Through it all, her craft is masterful, with a formal dexterity deployed with precision in a showcase of forms such as the villanelle, ballad, triolet, nonce, and the sonnet. It is little wonder then that Walking in on People is the winner of the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, as selected by the final judge, X.J. Kennedy. This is a collection that will not only entertain thoroughly, but also enlighten and reward the reader. PRAISE FOR WALKING IN ON PEOPLE: Walking in on People grabbed me with its very title, and it never let go. Poetry these days is rarely so entertaining, so beautifully crafted, so sharp of eye, yet so wise and warm of heart. Melissa Balmain keenly perceives faults in people and in our popular culture, with piercing wit but never bitterness. Don’t miss the wonderful “Lament,” on what it takes to write a best seller, or “The Marital Bed,” a love poem with naturalistic detail. She really commands her art. Indeed, I think any poet who rhymes lobsters and Jersey mobsters deserves to have an equestrian statue of herself erected in Bangor or Newark or both. — X.J. Kennedy (Judge, 2013 Able Muse Book Award) Melissa Balmain’s poems add to the rhythmic bounce of light verse a darker, more cutting humor. The result is an infectious, often hilarious blend of the sweet and the lethal, the charming and the acidic. — Billy Collins So many of the poems in Melissa Balmain’s triumphant debut lodge themselves in that Frostian zone where they are hard to get rid of. They recur in the mind in moments of hilarity and pathos, of exaltation and mortification, and they never let us go. — David Yezzi (from the foreword) Accessible and entertaining poetry doesn't often prevail over the grim personal memoir in poetry contests, but this time the judges were smart. They went for Melissa Balmain's stylish and always metrically perfect wit. You can relate to this poetry if you have ever: longed to save the restaurant lobsters from their fate, lost your lover to his electronic devices, faced the fact that babies are ugly and toddlers suppress your genius, or (of course) walked in on people in all the wrong places. With diverse forms, inventive rhymes, the right word always chosen and a sense of humor always in evidence—you really have no excuse not to buy this book. — Gail White

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101199558

Get Book

Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

Author : Ed Stafford
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780753515648

Get Book

Walking the Amazon by Ed Stafford Pdf

On 9th August 2010, Ed Stafford became the first person ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon river. This text takes readers on his daring journey along the world's greatest river and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth.

Author : John Kelly
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571284436

Get Book

The Graves are Walking by John Kelly Pdf

The Irish famine that began in 1845 was one of the nineteenth century's greatest disasters. By its end, the island's population of eight million had shrunk by a third through starvation, disease and emigration. This is a brilliant, compassionate retelling of that awful story for a new generation - the first account for the general reader for many years and a triumphant example of narrative non-fiction at its best. The immediate cause of the famine was a bacterial infection of the potato crop on which too many the Irish poor depended. What turned a natural disaster into a human disaster was the determination of senior British officials to use relief policy as an instrument of nation-building in their oldest and most recalcitrant colony. Well-meaning civil servants were eager to modernise Irish agriculture and to improve the Irish moral character, which was utterly lacking in the virtues of the new age of triumphant capitalism. The result was a relief programme more concerned with fostering change than of saving lives. This is history that resonates powerfully with our own times.

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172707

Get Book

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.