I Saw Your Face
Title | I Saw Your Face PDF eBook |
Author | Kwame Senu Neville Dawes |
Publisher | Dial |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 9780803718944 |
A poem and portraits of children illustrate the shared beauty and heritage of people of African descent living throughout the world.
The First Time I Saw Your Face
Title | The First Time I Saw Your Face PDF eBook |
Author | Hazel Osmond |
Publisher | Quercus Books |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Life change events |
ISBN | 9781849164191 |
Jennifer had it all. Until a terrible accident took almost everything. When she moves back home, with her interfering ex right on the doorstep, the future doesn't look that bright. Until she meets Mack. Sexy, dishevelled and just a little clumsy, he starts to make her believe that she can move on from the past and embrace life all over again. But he has a secret he'd do anything to protect, and he's about to betray her to keep it. Will he realise what she means to him in time? And if he does, will she be able to love the real Mack?
Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Title | Since First I Saw Your Face: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2016-04-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0008173389 |
A short story by Emma Donoghue from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.
Before I Ever Saw Your Face
Title | Before I Ever Saw Your Face PDF eBook |
Author | Norah Billups Wilson |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2019-02-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 179601365X |
Dreams can be the very basic plans of life, disturbing the qualities of my five senses. I began witnessing many perplexing situations in life that would not relate to my common sense. A man speaks to me from standing at my side yet the shadow engulfs his body as he appears without a face! How can a man appear right beside me and have no face for me to see? “Life is not how you make it, but how you dream it.” It seems to be a lesson well taught as the dream, and the events as in the dream unveil when I do see a face. Alone and suddenly caught up in the aura of love that for the moment seemed to have nothing to do with none of my five senses, yet I was so fully aware of being loved like I’ve never knew. Finally, seeing what was attracting me, it was not at all what I would ever guess could happen to me. But it did here in my soul, just like it was a dream, and then, realizing what was happening in my life was not only a dream, but just the beginning of “Souluos”—the spiritual joining of me with a man! Joy is a dreamer. What if her dreams in the night, when her eyes are closed, do come true in her life with a man that has no emotions? Chemistry of a man’s love is a different kind of spirit that captures the heart of a woman this time. Even broad daylight is blind when God joins her in “Souluos.”
The Song Poet
Title | The Song Poet PDF eBook |
Author | Kao Kalia Yang |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2016-05-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1627794956 |
From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.
The Musical Library
Title | The Musical Library PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1842 |
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If I Had Your Face
Title | If I Had Your Face PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Cha |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-04-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593129474 |
A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-pop mania “Powerful and provocative . . . a novel about female strength, spirit, resilience—and the solace that friendship can sometimes provide.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • Esquire • Bustle • BBC • New York Post • InStyle Kyuri is an achingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a Seoul “room salon,” an exclusive underground bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake threatens her livelihood. Kyuri’s roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the heir to one of the country’s biggest conglomerates. Down the hall in their building lives Ara, a hairstylist whose two preoccupations sustain her: an obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that she hopes will change her life. And Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to have a baby that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise in Korea’s brutal economy. Together, their stories tell a gripping tale at once unfamiliar and unmistakably universal, in which their tentative friendships may turn out to be the thing that ultimately saves them.