Author: William Maxwell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030778987X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.
Author: Rébecca Déraspe
Publisher: Scirocco Drama
ISBN: 9781927922958
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Margaret Shakespeare, age 13, must write her remarkable plays in secret: it is 1577, and a girl who can read and write is in danger from the witch-hunters. After all, as her father keeps reminding her, a woman's place is in the home...next to a big pile of laundry. Once the sweet but dim William discovers his sister's astonishing talent, a chain of events is set in motion that will change both their lives forever. What happens to women of genius in a world that wants only their silence? Can a sister's determination — and a brother's unfailing love — really conquer all? Seamlessly translated from the original French by Leanna Brodie, this strikingly original play with music tackles the big feminist questions with wit, heart, and infectious energy. Winner of Quebec's prestigious Prix de la critique and Prix Louise-Lahaye, Rébecca Déraspe's I Am William has toured France, Spain, and the province of Quebec to great acclaim. This English version, commissioned by Theatre Le Clou, was also a hit at the Stratford Festival.
Author: David Magee
Publisher: BenBella Books
ISBN: 1953295681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER 2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST — MEMOIR "Shot through with hope, purpose and an unflinching love, it's a story that must be read." —Newsweek "Essential, poignant, and insightful reading." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Award-winning columnist and author David Magee addresses his poignant story to all those who will benefit from better understanding substance misuse so that his hard-earned wisdom can save others from the fate of his late son, William. The last time David Magee saw his son alive, William told him to write their family’s story in the hopes of helping others. Days later, David found William dead from an accidental drug overdose. Now, in a memoir suggestive of Augusten Burroughs meets Glennon Doyle, award-winning columnist and author David Magee answers his son's wish with a compelling, heartbreaking, and impossible to put down book that speaks to every individual and family. With honesty and heart, Magee shares his family’s intergenerational struggle with substance abuse and mental health issues, as well as his own reckoning with family secrets—confronting the dark truth about the adoptive parents who raised him and a decades-long search for identity. He wrestles with personal substance misuse that began at a young age and, as a father, he sees destructive patterns repeat and develop within his own children. While striving to find a truly authentic voice as a writer despite authoring nearly a dozen previous books, Magee ultimately understands that William had been right and their own family’s history is the story he needs to tell. A poignant and uplifting message of hope translates unimaginable tragedy into an inspirational commitment to saving others, as David founded the William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing at the University of Mississippi. His mission to share solutions to self-medication and addiction, particularly as it touches America’s high school and college students, emphasizes that William’s story is about much more than a tragic addiction—it’s an American story of a family broken by loss and remade with love. Dear William inspires readers to find purpose, build resilience, and break the cycles that damage too many individuals and the people who love them. It’s a life-changing book revealing how voids can be filled, and peace—even profound, lasting happiness—is possible.
Author: William Cameron
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1525598732
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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One person’s perspective of life and it's evolution. All personally from my soul and how I’ve dealt with certain challenges along the way. A look into my sacred circle of life from poems to personal thoughts. How can we keep it healthy as we journey forward through the challenges we face in life. How we can develop tools at any age to be able to make these choices each morning. Do I face the day or do I embrace the day? Followed by breaking life down to a simple equation as life is 99% health and 1% choice. What can we do with those choices?
Author: Danny White
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782430199
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Will.i.am: The Unauthorized Biography traces the rise to fame and fortune of William James Adams, Jr. (stage name Will.i.am).
Author: Jenny Kay Dupuis
Publisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 1772602329
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis’ grandmother, I Am Not a Number is a hugely necessary book that brings a terrible part of Canada’s history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.
Author: Stephen Hanisch
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1648049818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 509
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The Chronicles of William John Brickell the Second By: Stephen Hanisch In the early 19th century, John Brickell, a young American lawyer, chose to serve on his father’s ship after graduating university to repay him for his education. He quickly learns that being a lawyer isn’t what he expected, so he decides to change the direction of his life. These memoirs detail the struggle between himself and a ring of highly sophisticated smugglers, along with the friendships and adventures he discovers on the way.
Author: Shawn D. Rochester
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999007204
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Shows how the Black Tax (which is the financial cost of conscious and unconscious anti-black discrimination), creates a massive financial burden on Black American households that dramatically reduces their ability to leave a substantial legacy for future generations. Mr. Rochester lays out an extraordinarily compelling case which documents the enormous financial cost of current and past anti-black discrimination on African American households. The Black Tax, provides the fact pattern, data and evidence to substantiate what African Americans have long experienced and tried to convey to an unbelieving American public.
Author: Bruce Peltzer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1491818328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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What if you get one last chance? What if testing your soul is the last gift of Gods grace? Dark and twisted As soon as you get in, you want out but you find you cant, until the end All he had to do was perform one act of love, one act of kindness. All he had to do was perform one act of compassion for another, to get back. What if you had to be tested? WHAT IF?
Author: Willis Maxwell Goodhue
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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