![]() ![]() Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. ![]() “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.” “In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took-and what it actually felt like-to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”-Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes-and one man’s quest to lead them all home-now in a special edition for 2022, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, featuring a new introduction by the author. ![]()
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Roo doesn't believe in ghosts or fairy stories, but what are those eerie noises she keeps hearing? And who is that strange wild boy who lives on the river? People are lying to her, and Roo becomes determined to find the truth. Once a tuberculosis sanitarium for children of the rich, the strange house is teeming with ghost stories and secrets. As it turns out, Roo, much to her surprise, has a wealthy if eccentric uncle, who has agreed to take her into his home on Cough Rock Island. ![]() When her parents are murdered, it's her special hiding place under the trailer that saves her life. 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In a video that routinely makes its rounds on social media, James Baldwin tells an interviewer, “You always told me it takes time.… How much time do you want for your progress?” Though the clip has been removed from its original context, Baldwin’s point is clear: you (whoever that might be, whenever it might be) are focusing on the wrong thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also said that due to the way the book had to be bound, it could not be produced in a hardcover edition. The only printing office who could do the job was die Keure, from Belgium. ĭue to the physical difficulties involved in printing a book where most of the words have been cut out, Foer stated that he had to contact several different publishers before finding one who was willing to print it. ![]() The publisher, Visual Editions, describes it as a "sculptural object." Foer himself explains the writing process as follows: "I took my favorite book, Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, and by removing words carved out a new story". To create the book, Foer took Bruno Schulz's book The Street of Crocodiles and cut out the majority of the words. ![]() Tree of Codes is an artwork, in the form of a book, created by Jonathan Safran Foer, and published in 2010. ![]() ![]() ![]() To end this dangerous cat-and-mouse game, Sadie must reclaim her courage and rescue Elana before a rapist can attack again. ![]() She doesn’t know what he did or why he really wants to keep their relationship secret. Instead, she’s started cutting to deal with the pain.Įlana has a secret of her own she’s texting Hunter and making plans for a clandestine meeting with him. Sadie and Elana are keeping dangerous secrets.īest friends since elementary school, they know everything about each other, but on the night of the fireworks, something terrible happened to Sadie that she hasn’t told anyone. For fans of Girl in Pieces comes an empowering story about the complicated nature of friendship, trauma, and healing in the aftermath of sexual assault. ![]() ![]() ![]() ""Writing in the shadow of mass killings of unarmed black persons in the United States, Lightsey's Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology is a timely publication. ![]() Theological reflection on contemporary debates such as same-sex marriage and ordination rights make this book a valuable resource to clergy, students of theology, LGBTQ persons and allies. The author privileges their narratives and experiences as she reviews several doctrines and dogma of the Christian church. Lightsey helps readers explore the impact of oppression against Black LBTQ women while introducing them to the emergent intellectual movement known as queer theology. Using a womanist methodological approach, Pamela R. Our Lives Matter uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessive police force against Black people to frame the book as following the discursive tradition of liberation theologies broadly speaking and womanist theology specifically. ![]() ![]() The Rob Roy from New Orleans docks at the landing, and off the boat step two remarkable a vibrant, commanding young lady in a rustling hoop skirt and a darker, silent woman in a plain cloak, with a bandanna wrapped around her head. A boy named Curry could possibly become a distraction. ![]() Here, fifteen-year-old Tilly Pruitt frets over the fact that her brother is dreaming of being a soldier and that her sister is prone to supernatural visions. The whole country is changing in 1861-even the folks from a muddy little Illinois settlement on the banks of the Mississippi. Richard Peck is a master of stories about people in transition, but perhaps never before has he told a tale of such dramatic change as this one, set during the first year of the Civil War. ![]() |