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You Are Not a Stranger Here
Author | : Adam Haslett |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781400075621 |
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In these unforgettable stories, the acclaimed author of Imagine Me Gone explores lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. The impact is at once harrowing and thrilling. An elderly inventor, burning with manic creativity, tries to reconcile with his estranged gay son. A bereaved boy draws a thuggish classmate into a relationship of escalating guilt and violence. A genteel middle-aged woman, a long-time resident of a psychiatric hospital, becomes the confidante of a lovelorn teenaged volunteer. Told with Chekhovian restraint and compassion, and conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not a Stranger Here is a triumph of storytelling.
Stranger Here
Author | : Jen Larsen |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-02-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781580054720 |
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Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight, she would be unstoppable. She was convinced that once she found a way to not be fat any more, she would have the perfect existence she’d always dreamed of. When diet after diet failed, she decided to try bariatric surgery, and it worked better than she ever could have dreamed: she lost 180 pounds. As the weight fell away, though, Larsen realized that getting skinny was not the magical cure she thought it would be—and suddenly, she wasn’t sure who she was anymore. Stranger Here is the brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one woman’s journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created. Insightful and unsparing in her self-examination, Larsen depicts the exhilarating highs and devastating lows she experienced as a result of her weight loss—the incredible joy of finally beginning to look like the image of herself she’s always carried inside her head, and the crushing pain and confusion of feeling like a stranger in her own body after losing the weight that has always defined her.
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
Author | : Debra Gwartney |
Publsiher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826360717 |
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Winner of the 2020 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place.
Notes From a Big Country
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publsiher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780385674522 |
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When an old friend asked him to write a weekly dispatch from New Hampshire for the Mail on Sunday's Night and Day magazine, Bill Bryson firmly turned him down. So firm was he, in fact, that gathered here are nineteen months' worth of his popular columns about the strangest of phenomena -- the American way of life.Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the mind-boggling plethora of methods by which to shop, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on the world's richest and craziest country.
A Stranger Here
Author | : Thelma Hatch Wyss |
Publsiher | : HarperTeen |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1996-02-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0064470989 |
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While spending the summer in Idaho taking care of her sick aunt, sixteen-year-old Jada Sinclair meets a spirit from the past and tries to discover the reason for his return.
A Stranger Here
Author | : Robert David Quixano Henriques |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B784248 |
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A Stranger Here Below
Author | : Charles Fergus |
Publsiher | : Arcade Crimewise |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 195162744X |
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For fans of C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series, a fabulous historical mystery series set in early America. Set in 1835 in the Pennsylvania town of Adamant, Fergus’s first novel in a new mystery series introduces Sheriff Gideon Stoltz, who, as a young deputy, is thrust into his position by the death of the previous sheriff. Gideon faces his first real challenge as death rocks the small town again when the respected judge Hiram Biddle commits suicide. No one is more distraught than Gideon, whom the old judge had befriended as a mentor and hunting partner. Gideon is regarded with suspicion as an outsider: he’s new to town, and Pennsylvania Dutch in the back-country Scotch-Irish settlement. And he found the judge’s body. Making things even tougher is the way the judge’s death stirs up vivid memories of Gideon’s mother’s murder, the trauma that drove him west from his home in the settled Dutch country of eastern Pennsylvania. He had also discovered her body. At first Gideon simply wants to learn why Judge Biddle killed himself. But as he finds out more about the judge’s past, he realizes that his friend's suicide was spurred by much more than the man’s despair. Gideon’s quest soon becomes more complex as it takes him down a dangerous path into the past. A Stranger Here Below is so atmospheric, so compelling and convincing, that readers will taste the grit of the dirt roads, cringe at the unsanitary conditions and medical superstitions that inflame a flu epidemic, and marvel at the immensely arduous task of carrying out an investigation using the primitive tools of the early 1800s. Fergus leaves us breathlessly waiting for the next Gideon Stoltz mystery.
A Stranger At Home
Author | : Christy Jordan-Fenton,Margaret Pokiak-Fenton |
Publsiher | : Annick Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781554515936 |
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Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes her, screaming, “Not my girl.” Margaret realizes she is now marked as an outsider. And Margaret is an outsider: she has forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can’t even stomach the food her mother prepares. However, Margaret gradually relearns her language and her family’s way of living. Along the way, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people — and to herself. Highlighted by archival photos and striking artwork, this first-person account of a young girl’s struggle to find her place will inspire young readers to ask what it means to belong.