Between Two Kingdoms
Title | Between Two Kingdoms PDF eBook |
Author | Suleika Jaouad |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0399588590 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing, deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the author of the Life, Interrupted column in The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist • “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.
H, Natural science. H*, Medicine and surgery. I, Arts and trades. 1926
Title | H, Natural science. H*, Medicine and surgery. I, Arts and trades. 1926 PDF eBook |
Author | William Swan Sonnenschein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 848 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Best books |
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Helmut Saves the World
Title | Helmut Saves the World PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Sheehan |
Publisher | Carina Press |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2014-03-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1426898029 |
My name is Helmut Haase and I'm one half of the Fog City Detective Agency—specifically, the half that pays all the bills. My partner, Shamus O'Sheehan, mostly drinks beer and naps. I keep him around because he's my friend, but also because he's a Druid. I'm just a detective, and there are plenty of those in Wudong, the Confederacy of Hesperia. There's not another Druid for miles. We had it pretty good until the day we met Alek Pallas. He hired us to track down a thieving employee, and even though something was off, his big fat check was too much to pass up. But the man we found wasn't what we were led to believe, and neither was Alek. I'm talking shape-shifters, fallen angels and a conspiracy involving the vicious Cretan Empire. At least we didn't die. Hope that doesn't ruin the story. Why am I telling you all this? Someday I'd like some credit for saving the world. Maybe not the entire world, and maybe not alone, but I still deserve a medal. And perhaps a cash prize. 31,000 words
The Killing Season
Title | The Killing Season PDF eBook |
Author | William W. Johnstone |
Publisher | Pinnacle Books |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2014-09-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0786031115 |
USA Today bestselling author: A New Mexico town is being terrorized—but the O'Briens don't scare easy . . . William W. Johnstone, the USA Today bestselling master of the epic Western, continues the thrilling saga of the O'Brien brothers—Samuel, Jacob, Shawn, and Patrick—as they forge their destiny in the untamed New Mexico Territory and stake their claim in frontier America. Death rules the night They ride after sundown. Black-robed figures with skulls for faces, terrorizing the town of Recoil like the horsemen of the Apocalypse. If the sheriff hopes to defeat this hellish band of outlaws, he'll need back-up. Enter Colonel Shamus O'Brien. The seasoned ranch hand and patriarch has fought off more than his share of horse thieves and marauders. But he's never seen anything like these ornery devils. They torch the town without warning, killing and destroying everything in sight. Shamus could use some extra firepower, namely his sons Shawn and Jacob. But the O'Brien brothers have problems of their own. Vicious banditos have targeted the family ranch, gunning for gold and cattle in a hailstorm of bullets and bloodshed. But both cutthroat gangs are about to learn their lesson—the hard way. When you cross an O'Brien, there's hell to pay . . .
Out of Exile
Title | Out of Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Alan Siddoway |
Publisher | Derek Alan Siddoway |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2015-03-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
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War is brewing. The hunt begins. Exile is over. Revan Teutevar is the last heir of a forgotten kingdom, fed up with a life in hiding — until that life is torn apart by old enemies who kidnap his mother and turn him into a killer. Aided by a small band of misfits, the young Teutevar pursues his foes across a land on the brink of war. Faced with trials at every step, Revan learns quickly that, out of exile, the line between right and wrong is blurred in the best of times…and nonexistent in the worst. Out of Exile is the first book in the Teutevar Saga, an epic, coming of age fantasy series. If you like adventure fantasy mixed with a touch of the wild west, such as Miles Cameron's Traitor Son Cycle or Joe Abercrombie's Red Country and Shattered Sea Trilogy, then you'll love this suspenseful and refreshing tale.
Together We Stand
Title | Together We Stand PDF eBook |
Author | M.W. Allen |
Publisher | Trafford Publishing |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2007-11-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1412223245 |
This book is a historical drama beginning in Liverpool in 1911. It follows the lives of three children, Dave, 16, Sam, 14 and Mary Anne, aged 6. When Dave accidentally kills a man in self-defence while trying to steal a few bottles of whisky to sell for food, he is terrified of the consequences of his actions. He knows the friends of the man he killed will find him. Badly injured after having his face slashed with a broken bottle, Dave was further traumatized when on arriving home he finds his mother dead. When he and Sam found the cache of guinea coins she secreted away for them, they knew they could get away. They chose America. Gradually from small beginnings as bookies runners, they drift into a life of crime. With the introduction of prohibition, Sam and Dave become rumrunners and when with the help of a ship's captain and Albert Rothwell one of the richest men in America they acquire a distillery, their fortunes are made. Their lives follow a path of revenge when Suzy, Sam's wife is murdered. But when Dave meets up with his past, life for the brother's take a horrific turn.
The Sketch
Title | The Sketch PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
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