Author: Don Carpenter
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590173902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Author: Barry Eisler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451209153
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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A Japanese-American assassin who specializes in "natural cause" killings finds his carefully ordered world coming under siege in the wake of a government official's murder, with which he has been falsely connected, a situation that is complicated by his attraction to the victim's daugher. Reprint.
Author: Neil Johnson
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 9781582463124
Category : Hydrologic cycle
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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As a storm rumbles and flashes, something wonderful happens up in the clouds: a raindrop begins his journey to earth, thrilled and delighted to be flying. But when flying begins to feel like falling, the raindrop can't enjoy himself for fear that a big change is coming. After hitting a campfire on the ground, the raindrop begins his journey back to the clouds as a wisp of steam. Readers will cheer for the little raindrop, experiencing his joys as well as his worries. This simple story uses spare text and art to explain the science of the water cycle, while happily showing that good things can result from change.
Author: Andrew Bovell
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822225300
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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THE STORY: It's raining. Gabriel York is awaiting the arrival of his grown son whom he hasn't seen since he was seven. I know what he wants. He wants what all young men want from their fathers. He wants to know who he is. Where he comes from. Wher
Author: Justina Wheelock
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438936109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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FROM THE GRAVIER FAMILY SERIES LIKE FALLING RAIN JUSTINA WHEELOCK HIGH ABOVE THE CLOUDS . . . U.S. Air Marshal Nicole Williams felt emotionally secure. Security specialist Phillip Gravier would force her to bring her emotions down to earth. The magnetic pull between them pulled Nicole off course and pulled down the years of defenses she built around her heart. Nicole was also a former Marine and she'd need all her past warfare training to manage Phillip's sometimes demanding personality. DOWNPOUR OF ROMANCE . . . Phillip quickly learned that beneath the tough persona of a family friend so much vulnerability existed. Phillip found Nicole challenging and he loved getting under her beautiful brown skin. With patience and time, Phillip wins Nicole's complete trust by tempering his own desires. Fate steps in with a cruel twist. Phillip must fight to regain the trust of the woman who may not remember more than his name.
Author: W. Travis Helms
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725258404
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The field of theopoetics explores the ways in which we “make God” (present)—particularly through language. This book explores questions of theopoetics as they relate to the central poetry of the American Sublime. It offers a fresh, theological engagement with what literary critic Harold Bloom terms the American religion (transcendentalism: Emerson’s homespun mysticism). Specifically, it seeks to rehabilitate Emerson’s concept of self-reliance from the charge of gross egoism, by situating it in the context of normative mysticisms Eastern and Western. It undertakes a more poetic approach to reading theologically-inflected poetry, by exegeting four poets collectively constituting Bloom’s American religious “canon”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, and Hart Crane. It utilizes a modified version of the ancient fourfold allegorical mode of reading Scripture, to draw out theological dimensions of four quintessential texts (Nature, “Song of Myself,” “Sunday Morning,” “Lachrymae Christi”), in order to offer a more imaginative way of reading imaginative writing. Building on Emerson’s contention, “just as there is creative writing, there is creative reading,” and Bloom’s claim, “a theory of poetry . . . must be poetry, before it can be of any use in interpreting poems,” it demonstrates the unique, viable ways in which poems are able to “do” theology—and perform or embody theopoetic truths.
Author: C.A. Bryers
Publisher: C.A. Bryers Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Something is killing Salla Saar. Ever since using the power of the Eyes of the One locked within him to locate Tempusalist and put an end to the 13th Paragon, the attacks have come, powerful and acute. Sometimes it’s as minor as a blackout. Other times, it’s as if he’s being broken to pieces from the inside out, and the next episode could be his last. He suspects it has something to do with the Eyes of the One, but why has their power turned on him now? Once in the custody of the Majdi Order, the peace-keeping sect that has been hunting him since Tempusalist, his fate is decided: Salla Saar is too dangerous to walk free. That declaration grants him a sentence to the House of Falling Rain—a retraining facility for wayward Majdi. Yet among the misfits of the Order housed in these decrepit corridors, there is another presence lurking, something filled with a dark and terrible purpose.
Author: Vikram Chandra
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571267157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times
Author: Nandita Basu
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9354923313
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Rumi is not too enthusiastic about accompanying Baba to the sleepy village of Shankerpur, where he is planning to convert their ancestral home into a bed and breakfast. But Rumi is happy to be away from school and friends who have problems understanding Rumi's identity. In the middle of one night, Rumi encounters a ghost--Rain, who does not remember his own story or why he is compelled to be a ghost. And it is in trying to help Rain find his peace, that sets Rumi on a journey of love, friendship and acceptance. This is a tale of love and loss, of rejection and affirmation, and above all, the healing and illuminating power of friendship.
Author: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147516773
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have. Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful being a friend who's outgrown her. Luckily, she has neighbors with strong shoulders to support her, and Ronan, a new friend who is caring and courageous but also troubled by the losses he's endured. As Ronan and Delsie traipse around Cape Cod on their adventures, they both learn what it means to be angry versus sad, broken versus whole, and abandoned versus loved. And that, together, they can weather any storm.
