Author: Sarah Perry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302656
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life
After the Eclipse
Author: Sarah Perry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302214
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. “A heartfelt memoir and a suspenseful story” of a murdered mother (Gabourey Sidibe, Book of the Month Club). When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse; she took it as a good omen for her and her mother, Crystal. But that moment of darkness foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine. It took twelve years to find the killer. In that time, Sarah rebuilt her life amid abandonment, police interrogations, and the exacting toll of trauma. She dreamed of a trial, but when the day came, it brought no closure. It was not her mother’s death she wanted to understand, but her life. She began her own investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, deep into the darkness of a small American town. “Pull[ing] the reader swiftly along on parallel tracks of mystery and elegy” in After the Eclipse, “Perry succeeds in restoring her mother’s humanity and her own” (The New York Times Book Review). “Raw and perfect . . . After the Eclipse [has] an eerie, heartbreaking power that it shares with the very best of true crime.” —Laura Miller, Slate “A gut punch . . . A heartbreaking yet hopeful testament to human resilience.” —Samantha Irby, Marie Claire “With clear, powerful prose, Perry paints a portrait of unconventional motherhood while questioning society’s handling of violence against women. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, After the Eclipse tells the very human story at the center of a needless crime.”—W Magazine
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302214
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. “A heartfelt memoir and a suspenseful story” of a murdered mother (Gabourey Sidibe, Book of the Month Club). When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse; she took it as a good omen for her and her mother, Crystal. But that moment of darkness foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine. It took twelve years to find the killer. In that time, Sarah rebuilt her life amid abandonment, police interrogations, and the exacting toll of trauma. She dreamed of a trial, but when the day came, it brought no closure. It was not her mother’s death she wanted to understand, but her life. She began her own investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, deep into the darkness of a small American town. “Pull[ing] the reader swiftly along on parallel tracks of mystery and elegy” in After the Eclipse, “Perry succeeds in restoring her mother’s humanity and her own” (The New York Times Book Review). “Raw and perfect . . . After the Eclipse [has] an eerie, heartbreaking power that it shares with the very best of true crime.” —Laura Miller, Slate “A gut punch . . . A heartbreaking yet hopeful testament to human resilience.” —Samantha Irby, Marie Claire “With clear, powerful prose, Perry paints a portrait of unconventional motherhood while questioning society’s handling of violence against women. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, After the Eclipse tells the very human story at the center of a needless crime.”—W Magazine
After the Eclipse
Author: Fran Dorricott
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1785657895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie - who has returned to her home town to care for her ailing grandmother - suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister: that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out.
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1785657895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. Tremeyne Two solar eclipses. Two missing girls. Sixteen years ago a little girl was abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse while her older sister Cassie was supposed to be watching her. She was never seen again. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie - who has returned to her home town to care for her ailing grandmother - suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister: that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out.
Reason After Its Eclipse
Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 029930650X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 029930650X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: What is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? The eminent intellectual historian Martin Jay surveys Western ideas of reason, particularly in German philosophy from Kant to Habermas.
After the Eclipse
Author: Sarah Perry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302656
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544302656
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-age in the wake of immense loss, and her mission to know the woman who gave her life
Io After Galileo
Author: Rosaly M.C. Lopes
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540488413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This is the only book solely about Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Written by experts in the field, many of whom took part in the Galileo mission, the book reviews the basics about Io and its unique space environment. Coverage includes all subjects, where the Galilio mission has shed new light on, with some emphasis on Io's most remarkable characteristics: its active volcanism.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540488413
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This is the only book solely about Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Written by experts in the field, many of whom took part in the Galileo mission, the book reviews the basics about Io and its unique space environment. Coverage includes all subjects, where the Galilio mission has shed new light on, with some emphasis on Io's most remarkable characteristics: its active volcanism.
Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers
Author: J.M. Steele
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401595283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Eclipses have long been seen as important celestial phenomena, whether as omens affecting the future of kingdoms, or as useful astronomical events to help in deriving essential parameters for theories of the motion of the moon and sun. This is the first book to collect together all presently known records of timed eclipse observations and predictions from antiquity to the time of the invention of the telescope. In addition to cataloguing and assessing the accuracy of the various records, which come from regions as diverse as Ancient Mesopotamia, China, and Europe, the sources in which they are found are described in detail. Related questions such as what type of clocks were used to time the observations, how the eclipse predictions were made, and how these prediction schemes were derived from the available observations are also considered. The results of this investigation have important consequences for how we understand the relationship between observation and theory in early science and the role of astronomy in early cultures, and will be of interest to historians of science, astronomers, and ancient and medieval historians.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401595283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Eclipses have long been seen as important celestial phenomena, whether as omens affecting the future of kingdoms, or as useful astronomical events to help in deriving essential parameters for theories of the motion of the moon and sun. This is the first book to collect together all presently known records of timed eclipse observations and predictions from antiquity to the time of the invention of the telescope. In addition to cataloguing and assessing the accuracy of the various records, which come from regions as diverse as Ancient Mesopotamia, China, and Europe, the sources in which they are found are described in detail. Related questions such as what type of clocks were used to time the observations, how the eclipse predictions were made, and how these prediction schemes were derived from the available observations are also considered. The results of this investigation have important consequences for how we understand the relationship between observation and theory in early science and the role of astronomy in early cultures, and will be of interest to historians of science, astronomers, and ancient and medieval historians.
Light Thrown Upon Thucydides, to Illustrate the Prophecy of Daniel as to the Coming of the Messiah: in Remarks on Dr. Pusey's Daniel the Prophet ...
Author: Franke Parker
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Proceedings of AFCRL Workshop on 20 July 1963 Solar Eclipse
Author: John A. Klobuchar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year ...
Author: United States Coast Survey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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