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Final Passage
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Author : Caryl Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
Final Passage written by Caryl Phillips and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Caryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s. Unsatisfied with life on the island, Leila decides to leave her friends and follow her mother overseas, taking her restless husband Michael and her young son with her. Her subsequent passage to England brings her face to face with the consequences of the decisions she has made to determine her life on her own terms.
The Final Passage
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Author : Caryl Phillips
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1995-10-31
The Final Passage written by Caryl Phillips and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10-31 with Fiction categories.
From the British-West Indian novelist who is rapidly emerging as the bard of the African diaspora comes a haunting work about “the final passage”—the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities of England. In her village of St. Patrick’s, Leila Preston has no prospects, a young son, and a husband, Michael, who seems to prefer the company of his mistress. So when her ailing mother travels to England for medical care, Leila decides to follow her. As Caryl Phillips follows the Prestons’ outward voyage—and their bewildered attempt to find a home in a country whose rooming houses post signs announcing “No vacancies for coloureds”—he produces a tragicomic portrait of hope and dislocation. The Final Passage is a novel rich in language, acute in its grasp of character, and unforgettable in its vision of the colonial legacy. “Like Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, Phillips writes of times so heady and chaotic and of characters so compelling that time moves as if guided by the moon and dreams.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
On Our Way
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Author : Robert Kastenbaum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-07
On Our Way written by Robert Kastenbaum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07 with categories.
Life often has been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country. We increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. Here is a fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death. Drawing upon a range of observations -- from psychology, anthropology, religion, biology, and personal experience -- Kastenbaum re-envisions life¿s forward-looking progressions, from early-childhood bedtime rituals to the many small rehearsals we stage for our final separation. ¿Enriches our understanding of life as a never-ending passage.¿ Illustrations.
Passage Into Death Without Fear
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Author : Christine Lockett Fielder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-23
Passage Into Death Without Fear written by Christine Lockett Fielder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-23 with Religion categories.
Passage
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Author : Connie Willis
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Passage written by Connie Willis and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience using a psychoactive drug. Joanna's first NDE is as fascinating as she imagined - so astounding that she knows she must go back, if only to find out why that place is so hauntingly familiar. But each time Joanna goes under, her sense of dread begins to grow, because part of her already knows why the experience is so familiar, and why she has every reason to be afraid. Yet just when Joanna thinks she understands, she's in for the biggest surprise of all - a shattering scenario that will keep you feverishly reading until the final climactic page.
Final Passages
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Author : Gregory E. O'Malley
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014
Final Passages written by Gregory E. O'Malley and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
The City Of Mirrors
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Author : Justin Cronin
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2016-05-24
The City Of Mirrors written by Justin Cronin and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Fiction categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”—Stephen King You followed The Passage. You faced The Twelve. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final reckoning. As the bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale, Justin Cronin’s band of hardened survivors await the second coming of unspeakable darkness. The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy—humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate. Look for the entire Passage trilogy: THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS Praise for The City of Mirrors “Compulsively readable.”—The New York Times Book Review “The City of Mirrors is poetry. Thrilling in every way it has to be, but poetry just the same . . . The writing is sumptuous, the language lovely, even when the action itself is dark and violent.”—The Huffington Post “This really is the big event you’ve been waiting for . . . A true last stand that builds and comes with a bloody, roaring payoff you won’t see coming, then builds again to the big face off you’ve been waiting for.”—NPR “A masterpiece . . . with The City of Mirrors, the third volume in The Passage trilogy, Justin Cronin puts paid to what may well be the finest post-apocalyptic epic in our dystopian-glutted times. A stunning achievement by virtually every measure.”—The National Post “Justin Cronin’s Passage trilogy is remarkable for the unremitting drive of its narrative, for the breathtaking sweep of its imagined future, and for the clear lucidity of its language.”—Stephen King
Final Passage
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Author : Barbara H. Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: HCI
Release Date : 1998-03-01
Final Passage written by Barbara H. Whitfield and has been published by HCI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-01 with Self-Help categories.
When we enter this life, we are surrounded by caring and love. We deserve caring and love again when this life ends. In this groundbreaking book on the meaning of death, Barbara Harris Whitfield shares with you her near-death experiences and the stories of individuals who, assisted by her loving help, left this life with dignity. These accounts will inspire you, allow you to accept death more easily, and reveal the connection to the Spirit that embraces and guides us all as we die. Whitfield demonstrates how it is possible for terminal patients to be fully present—even in their deepest pain—so that they can spread kindness, compassion and forgiveness to their loved ones. Whether you fear death because it symbolizes the unknown, marvel at its awesome mystery, or grieve for a loved one it has claimed, this book will answer your questions about what happens when we die.
The Last Passage
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Author : Donald Heinz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-12-17
The Last Passage written by Donald Heinz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-17 with Social Science categories.
Is death merely the cessation of life? Are our final years simply a wearing out of the body? Are hospitals and funeral homes--the bureaucratic machinery of death--capable of handling the profound spiritual dimension of dying? In The Last Passage, Donald Heinz offers wise answers to these questions in a book that urges us to "recover a death of our own" and to view our final years as a fulfillment, a "last career." Despite the recent spate of books on death and dying, death remains a fact our culture tries desperately to ignore. In other times and in other cultures, preparing for death was seen as an important spiritual task--perhaps the most important task of our lives. Heinz argues that we can reconceive of death, reinvest it with meaning, and save it from becoming a meaningless biological event. Seeking appropriate models for such a reconstruction, Heinz offers a fascinating overview of the many ways death has been envisioned and ritualized throughout human history, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to 15th century Christian ars moriendi--manuals on the art of dying--and from Jean Paul Sartre to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. He also surveys the more recent contributions of psychologists, anthropologists, cultural critics, and death awareness advocates, whose efforts have largely failed to integrate death into a larger human story and the larger human community. Finally, Heinz shows us how we might create rituals through the use of music, visual arts, dance, drama, and language that would enable us to approach death with reverence, as the spiritual consummation of our lives.
The Heart Remembers
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Author : Jan-Philipp Sendker
language : en
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Release Date : 2021-05-18
The Heart Remembers written by Jan-Philipp Sendker and has been published by Other Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with Fiction categories.
The highly anticipated final book in the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats trilogy, a moving story about love’s power to transcend distances and heal seemingly irreparable wounds. Twelve-year-old Ko Bo Bo lives with his uncle U Ba in Kalaw, a town in Burma. An unusually perceptive child, Bo Bo can read people’s emotions in their eyes. This acute sensitivity only makes his unconventional home life more difficult: His father comes to visit him once a year, and he can hardly remember his mother, who, for unclear reasons, keeps herself away from her son. Everything changes when Bo Bo discovers the story of his parents’ great love, which threatens to break down in the whirlwind of political events, and of his mother’s mysterious sickness. Convinced that he can heal her and reunite their family, Bo Bo decides to set out in search of his parents. A gripping, heartwarming tale that takes the reader from Burma to New York and back, The Heart Remembers is a worthy conclusion to Jan-Philipp Sendker’s beloved series.