Author: Hiromi Goto
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250831342
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow. Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?
Author: Barry Denenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439416788
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Recounts the plight of the Frank family, including their years in Germany, their flight to Amsterdam, their two years in hiding, their eventual discovery, the deaths of Anne, her sister and mother, and the survival of Otto Frank.
Author: Richard Bugajer
Publisher: Jewish Heritage Project
ISBN: 9780966044089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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The noise from my memories never ceases; in its rumblings lies the essence of my life. This is the price I pay for living.
Author: Oli Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Shadow Life is an exploration of the human shadow and the hidden side of our personalities. It looks at the masks we wear, where these masks come from, and how we can take them off. The book explores how we can better manage our relationships with shame, guilt, and trauma in order to remove the Mask that the world has asked us to wear (and that we forgot we were wearing) so we can live an authentic life with less drama, chaos, or BS whilst we're still around.This is a book for anybody who is waking up to the truth about themselves, the world, and reality and wants to understand the mechanics of their relationship between themselves and their own 'stuff' so they can let go of the past, move into their potential, and live a real, fulfilling life as their undivided selves.Shadow Life is a book about the power of Unconditional Self-Acceptance and the strength, creativity, and energy that comes from unleashing the hidden sides of ourselves in alignment with the truth.
Author: Jenna Ware
Publisher: Jenna Ware
ISBN: 9781946438027
Category : Aerospace engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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A patriotic love story, an unlikely romantic adventure, behind the scenes in aviation history. Based on real life. Joe Ware was a man of national note, a conservative Republican Christian 40 years older, and I was private, a liberal Democrat Jewish transsexual. He was former Lockheed Skunk Works, who helped make the first two Air Force Ones for President Eisenhower and who was Depart-ment Manager of Engineering Flight Test over the U-2, and the SR-71; I was a social worker and, before that, in the National Security Agency, NSGA, NSOC, SIGINT, Ft. Meade, Mary-land. Shadow Life: Aerospace, Love, and Secrets is a beautiful romance between two people in a mixed marriage, fighting to stay together, corrects popular misconceptions about transgender and transsexual living, and makes a suggestion. I've been in this since the 1970s, I've lived the life, and I've helped others. Inspired by Kenji Yoshino (Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, 2006), I'm concerned about the current direction of the transgender paradigm: It's still hiding key stigmata. I know where the bodies are buried. I've done it myself. I tried to keep my sexuality away from other people's concern, but there is no such thing as actual stealth living. People knew. I wouldn't discuss it, and my husband and I caught hell for years. Now I see most transgender people doing the same thing in another way, unwittingly enabling prejudice and opposition they don't handle any better than I did. It's not the fact they're transgender they're hiding but what they really need or desire. The transgender movement is winning access to places most don't even want to go, where dis-robing is required. If they can't say it, they can't show it. So they don't go, marginalizing them-selves into a less than equal integration, furthering lack of awareness, preventing equal em-ployment, and where it's discovered during sex, possibly even incurring surprise violence or murder. Trans people can never fully integrate into society if we're embarrassed to embrace ourselves. Leaders of the social movement cannot advocate for something they downplay. They need to bring these issues to the fore, not leave them to serve as doubt and denial, not relegate them to the periphery or treat questions as offensive. Rhetoric must be as clear in media as it would be in locker rooms so that those who are interested may more fully integrate. I've waited 20 years for leaders to do so. Most of them don't, so I did, herein. Shadow Life is explicit.
Author: Heraldo Munoz
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786726040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank support were told to emulate Pinochet's free-market policies, and Chile's government pension even inspired President George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. The other baggage -- the assassinations, tortures, people thrown out of airplanes, mass murders of political prisoners -- was simply the price to be paid for building a modern state. But the questions raised by Pinochet's rule still remain: Are such dictators somehow necessary? Horrifying but also inspiring, The Dictator's Shadow is a unique tale of how geopolitical rivalries can profoundly affect everyday life.
Author: Jason Mather
Publisher: EDGE-Lite
ISBN: 1770531602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Hans Ricker knows the value of his life. 500 dollars. He came cheap, and death came easy. But in the near future it’s not that easy to die, and now he’s back, and the trouble is only growing deeper. Two feuding underworld figures, both immensely powerful, want him dead. Something else wants him alive, something even more powerful, more mysterious, and Hans isn’t the only one with the power of resurrection.
Author: Michael Decter
Publisher: Cormorant Books
ISBN: 177086668X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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In one minute, delivering a not guilty verdict at the end of the trial for a disturbing murder of a child, Matthew Rice’s life begins to unravel. The very structures his life is built upon start to collapse. Matthew retreats to Quarry Island in Georgian Bay, where he loses his wallet in a boating mishap. Among the pieces of identification he needs to replace is his birth certificate, but he’s informed it’s not on file. His birth certificate was a forgery. Not only have the foundations of his life given way, his very identity is shattered. Matthew learns that the woman who raised him was his father’s second wife, and that his real mother died when he was a baby. What began as a search for a replacement for his birth certificate becomes a search for a woman who was a trailblazing journalist. His search takes him on a journey to Sydney, Australia, Boston, and Dublin; it results in the possession of the journals his mother kept up to her dying days in 1952. These entries are a window into a fascinating woman and a distant time not so different from our own. Still unsure of his place in a world that has changed in ways he has difficulty completely understanding, he returns to Quarry Island in Georgian Bay, where he stocks up on books and a case of good Scotch to sit out the end of his world as he knew it. But fate has more in store for Matthew than he can understand.
Author: Louisa Müller
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711566952
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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There are infinite mysteries on this earth, secrets untold, and ancient beings who forever remain unseen. One of these entities is known as the Wanderer, an immortal being tasked with roaming our realm indefinitely. There is no way of knowing their true purpose or what they could do if given the chance. But one thing is certain: they are a silent watcher, observing humanity from the shadows, unseen and unknown. Their influence on our lives is limited, but no less impactful. They have aided us as we evolved, stood by as pestilence shook humanity, and even when wars threatened to end entire civilizations. Would you care to join this ancient being on its journey?
Author: Sarah Night
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711508324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Two different origins Two different destinies He was born from the shadows. She shines brighter than the stars. He fell from grace, meant to punish humankind. She is blessed by the light, but hunted by her own demons. He has a mission and is out for revenge. She is just a girl trying to survive. He desires her light. She craves his darkness. But not everything is what it seems. Who's really the angel and who's the devil in this story?
