Dead Love
Title | Dead Love PDF eBook |
Author | Linda McFerrin |
Publisher | Stone Bridge Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1611725011 |
Zombies, ghouls, vampires, gangsters; pursuit, betrayal, death—it's a globalized manga turned literature. Dead Love is Twilight with teeth.
Love Letters to the Dead
Title | Love Letters to the Dead PDF eBook |
Author | Ava Dellaira |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0374346682 |
“Dear Ava, I loved your book.” —Award-winning actress Emma Watson For fans of Kathleen Glasgow and Amber Smith, Ava Dellaira writes about grief, love, and family with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty in this emotionally stirring, critically acclaimed debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead. It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she begin to discover her own path.
Love in a Dead Language
Title | Love in a Dead Language PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Siegel |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2000-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0226756998 |
This translation of an Indian sex manual includes an erotic farce and a murder mystery, enticing the reader to follow both victims and celebrants of romantic love on the voyage of folly and lust through movie posters, upside down pages, and other illustrations.
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Title | People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present PDF eBook |
Author | Dara Horn |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0393531570 |
Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.
The Summer of Letting Go
Title | The Summer of Letting Go PDF eBook |
Author | Gae Polisner |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2014-02-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1616204400 |
Just when everything seems to be going wrong, hope—and love—can appear in the most unexpected places. Summer has begun, the beach beckons—and Francesca Schnell is going nowhere. Four years ago, Francesca’s little brother, Simon, drowned, and Francesca’s the one who should have been watching. Now Francesca is about to turn sixteen, but guilt keeps her stuck in the past. Meanwhile, her best friend, Lisette, is moving on—most recently with the boy Francesca wants but can’t have. At loose ends, Francesca trails her father, who may be having an affair, to the local country club. There she meets four-year-old Frankie Sky, a little boy who bears an almost eerie resemblance to Simon, and Francesca begins to wonder if it’s possible Frankie could be his reincarnation. Knowing Frankie leads Francesca to places she thought she’d never dare to go—and it begins to seem possible to forgive herself, grow up, and even fall in love, whether or not she solves the riddle of Frankie Sky.
Dead Girl in Love
Title | Dead Girl in Love PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Joy Singleton |
Publisher | North Star Editions, Inc. |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2010-11-08 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0738722103 |
This Temp-Lifer assignment will be easy. See, my dead grandmother keeps finding people who need help and then I step into their life—and their body—to help them solve their problems. This time, I’m in the body of my BFF, Alyce, so I won’t have to do a lot of detective work. But, as Alyce, I have one big question: What am I doing in this coffin?
Dead Love Has Chains
Title | Dead Love Has Chains PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Marriage |
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