Your Eyes Will Be My Window
Title | Your Eyes Will Be My Window PDF eBook |
Author | Jodi Varon |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2023-09-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820364673 |
Your Eyes Will Be My Window reclaims the two erasures of Esta Plat. Murdered in Ukraine by Nazi troops in 1942, evidence of the life of Esta Plat was preserved in a bundle of her letters until the letters were tossed into a dumpster and destroyed. Haunted by the inheritance of survivor's guilt and shame in a family that kept no Old World keepsakes except her grandmother's one-sentence memory of Esta Plat, Jodi Varonis compelled to sift through records of Europe's genocidal past. Pitting grandiose Holocaust memorials against the act of bearing witness, Varon confronts the limitations of history, folklore, archival data, and survivor testimonies. Seeking solace in ritual, she challenges her upbringing as an outlier Jew in the Rocky Mountain West to provide a window to the meaning of cultural displacement in immigrant communities. When an ethnic German woman's corpse was discarded across from Varon's rented flat in Baden-Württemberg, the homemade memorial for Nadine E. prompts a meditation on violence against women and girls as a weapon of suppression and war. The record of unfiltered emotions among Kindertransport survivors in Europe, journalists in Ludwigsburg, and archivists and guides in Jerusalem, Your Eyes Will Be My Window is a defiant exercise in honoring the lost.
Eyes at the Window
Title | Eyes at the Window PDF eBook |
Author | Evie Miller |
Publisher | Good Books |
Pages | 513 |
Release | 2005-02-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781561484645 |
This historical novel, literary and engaging, examines a close-knit community of Amish pioneers over several decades (right up to the eve of the American Civil War). Employing eight different voices, Miller unpeels the cohesions and tensions as settlers move west while others stay behind. Beneath the surface but never quite forgotten is the unsolved murder of an Amish baby (based on a true incident). This is a story of judgment and misplaced responsibility, of attempts at love and forgiveness, and finally of grace despite unspeakable loss. It is told lyrically from within this often-idealized but sometimes scarred human community. An unforgettable story. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Fix Your Eyes
Title | Fix Your Eyes PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Gannett |
Publisher | B&H Publishing Group |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1087730554 |
We live in a polarized time. Christians are quick to conceive of themselves either as theologically-minded or worship-minded; either thinking Christians or feeling Christians. The results are damaging: theology without worship is muted, stifled, and cold, and worship without theology is ungrounded, unrooted, and uninformed. This is not the way it was meant to be. Theology (our study and knowledge of God) should always lead to doxology (our worship of Him). Worship should always be rooted in theology. When we study the nature and character of God as revealed in his Word, we are invited to respond in the affectionate, obedient discipleship of worship. How can we keep our theology from being mere head knowledge? How do we give our worship roots that will last? By fixing our eyes on God Himself—the object of our study and the object of our worship. Fix Your Eyes is an invitation to understand core doctrines of the Christian faith and apply them in our daily worship of God. It walks believers through key theological concepts and shows how each can be lived out in daily life.
Joe Angel
Title | Joe Angel PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Teel |
Publisher | WestBow Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2013-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1449787657 |
Joe Angel: The Guardian Games Book One is a fiction adventure filled with sports, faith, humor, and angels battling demons. DANIEL WALSH is a high school senior, a can't miss first round Major League Baseball prospect, just months away from a multimillion dollar signing bonus. Everything's perfect until Daniel meets Joe, an angel with attitude. JOE ANGEL has it made. He lives in heaven, and when he travels to earth, he battles and defeats demons in The Guardian Games. Everything's perfect until Joe meets Daniel, a human whose weak faith frustrates the angel. THE GUARDIAN GAMES pit angels against demons in a series of challenges that occur on Earth but are invisible to human eyes... unless you're Daniel Walsh and can convince an angel to let you see into the supernatural realm.
My Window: The Memoirs of Fitz Aldridge
Title | My Window: The Memoirs of Fitz Aldridge PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Housley |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2012-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1105990141 |
Read the memoirs of Fitz Aldridge, who at the age of 5 loses his father to a life sentence in prison for a multitude of crimes, including murder. Coming from a big family who loves Fitz very much, he still can't seem to fill in that empty space that only a father could fill. As a teen, Fitz undergoes life altering experiences as he battles against his most ultimate fear, which was to become just like his father. Fitz's fear started to become a reality when he dropped out of high school and started hanging with the wrong crowd, which ultimately led Fitz down a spiraling path of drugs and violence. The story takes you on one hell of a ride as his family ties are tested with a secret shared with his brother's wife, a friendship ending in bloodshed, his love life intertwined with his high school sweetheart, and finally coming face to face with his father. It is a raw story of pure beauty and emotion with a narrative approach that of which resembles, "The Catcher in the Rye".
The Retail Druggist
Title | The Retail Druggist PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Drugstores |
ISBN |
Feast Your Eyes
Title | Feast Your Eyes PDF eBook |
Author | Myla Goldberg |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019-04-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 150119786X |
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Finalist 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist “A daringly inventive parable of female creativity and motherhood” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season, about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood—a balancing act familiar to women of every generation. Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother, America’s Bravest Mother, America’s Worst Photographer, or America’s Greatest Photographer, depending on who was talking.” After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school’s photo club, Lillian rejects her parents’ expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha, Lillian is arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter’s sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives, and especially Lillian’s career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. “A searching consideration of the way that the identities and perceptions of a female artist shift over time” (The New Yorker), Feast Your Eyes shares Samantha’s memories, interviews with Lillian’s friends and lovers, and excerpts from Lillian’s journals and letters—a collage of stories and impressions, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated, above all, to a vision of beauty, truth, and authenticity. Myla Goldberg has gifted us with “a mother-daughter story, an art-monster story, and an exciting structural gambit” (Lit Hub)—and, in the end, “a universal and profound story of love and loss” (New York Newsday).