The Given Day
Title | The Given Day PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Lehane |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 2009-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061982288 |
"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.
Any Given Day
Title | Any Given Day PDF eBook |
Author | Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux |
Publisher | |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Missouri |
ISBN | 9780333726822 |
Her message is inspiring: that life is about meeting our challenges...and that extraordinary courage can be found inside ordinary lives, wisdom resides behind every elderly face, and everyday heroes and heroines stand beside us within our own American families.
Today Is the Day
Title | Today Is the Day PDF eBook |
Author | Bil Cornelius |
Publisher | Baker Books |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2014-01-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441245537 |
We all have dreams God has placed in our hearts, but many things keep us from fulfilling them. Fear of failure, insecurity about our financial situation, self-doubt, and more erode those ambitions until they are little more than pipe dreams. But Bil Cornelius is here to tell readers that today is the day they are going to start reaching their full potential and fulfilling their dreams. With upbeat encouragement, Cornelius motivates readers to make their dreams reality by helping them set goals, focus their time and energies, develop their unique gifts, steep everything in prayer, and take action that God will bless. Readers will be challenged and inspired to achieve all that God has set in their hearts--starting now!
Maybe Someday
Title | Maybe Someday PDF eBook |
Author | Colleen Hoover |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476753164 |
When she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her, Sydney, a 22-year-old college student, must decide what to do next, especially when she becomes captivated by her mysterious neighbor Ridge.
Before I Die
Title | Before I Die PDF eBook |
Author | Candy Chang |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1466857315 |
After losing someone she loved, artist Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood with chalkboard paint and stenciled the sentence, "Before I die I want to _____." Within a day of the wall's completion, it was covered in colorful chalk dreams as neighbors stopped and reflected on their lives. Since then, more than four hundred Before I Die walls have been created by people all over the world. This beautiful hardcover book is an inspiring celebration of these walls and the stories behind them. Filled with hope, fear, humor, and heartbreak, Before I Die presents an intimate portrait of the dreams within our communities and a chance to ponder life's ultimate question.
The Sun Does Shine
Title | The Sun Does Shine PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Ray Hinton |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250124719 |
"A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit"--
Never Let Me Go
Title | Never Let Me Go PDF eBook |
Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2009-03-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307371336 |
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. “Brilliantly executed.” —Margaret Atwood “A page-turner and a heartbreaker.” —TIME “Masterly.” —Sunday Times As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.