Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me
Title | Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Kalajian |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2014-04-16 |
Genre | Armenia |
ISBN | 9780615979021 |
Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me recounts author Douglas Kalajian's lifelong attempts to overcome his father's reluctance to speak about his life as a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. In piecing together the scattered bits his father reluctantly shared, Kalajian reflects on how his father's silence affected his own life and his identity as an American of Armenian descent. Kalajian is a retired journalist who worked as an editor and writer for the Palm Beach Post and the Miami Herald. He is author of the nonfiction book Snow Blind and co-author of They Had No Voice: My Fight For Alabama's Forgotten Children.
Stories My Father Told Me
Title | Stories My Father Told Me PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Zughaib |
Publisher | Cune Press Classics |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2020-01-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781951082659 |
Reading My Father
Title | Reading My Father PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Styron |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1416591818 |
"Reading My Father" is an intimate, moving, and beautifully written portrait of the novelist William Styron by his daughter, Alexandra.
My Father's Suitcase
Title | My Father's Suitcase PDF eBook |
Author | Orhan Pamuk |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Nobel Prizes |
ISBN | 9780571238613 |
In League with Sherlock Holmes
Title | In League with Sherlock Holmes PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie S, Klinger |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-12-01 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 164313583X |
The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger’s popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle’s most acclaimed detective. Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective’s genius, mastery, and heroism became the standard by which other creators measured their creations, and the friendship between Holmes and Dr. Watson served as a brilliant model for those who followed Doyle. Not only did the Holmes tales influence the mystery genre but also tales of science-fiction, adventure, and the supernatural. It is little wonder, then, that when the renowned Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger invited their writer-friends and colleagues to be inspired by the Holmes canon, a cornucopia of stories sprang forth, with more than sixty of the greatest modern writers participating in four acclaimed anthologies. Now, King and Klinger have invited another fifteen masters to become In League with Sherlock Holmes. The contributors to the pair’s next volume, due out in December 2020, include award-winning authors of horror, thrillers, mysteries, westerns, and science-fiction, all bound together in admiration and affection for the original stories. Past tales have spanned the Victorian era, World War I, World War II, the post-war era, and contemporary America and England. They have featured familiar figures from literature and history, children, master sleuths, official police, unassuming amateurs, unlikely protagonists, even ghosts and robots. Some were new tales about Holmes and Watson; others were about people from Holmes’s world or admirers of Holmes and his methods. The resulting stories are funny, haunting, thrilling, and surprising. All are unforgettable. The new collection promises more of the same!
The Distance Between Us
Title | The Distance Between Us PDF eBook |
Author | Reyna Grande |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2012-08-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1451661800 |
In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
My Father is a Book
Title | My Father is a Book PDF eBook |
Author | Janna Malamud Smith |
Publisher | Catapult |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1619022001 |
Bernard Malamud was one of the most accomplished American novelists of the postwar years. From the Pulitzer Prize winner The Fixer as well as The Assistant, named one of the best "100 All–Time Novels" by Time Magazine—to mention only two of the more than a dozen published books—he not only established himself in the first rank of American writers but also took the country's literature in new and important directions. In her signature memoir, Smith explores her renowned father's life and literary legacy. Malamud was among the most brilliant novelists of his era, and counted among his friends Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Theodore Roethke, and Shirley Jackson. Yet Malamud was also very private. Only his family has had full access to his personal papers, including letters and journals that offer unique insight into the man and his work. In her candid, evocative, and loving memoir, his daughter brings Malamud to vivid life.