The Letters We Never Sent
Title | The Letters We Never Sent PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Staples |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2018-04-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781981520176 |
Sometimes the best possible future starts with goodbye... Evoking a sense of intimate nostalgia, this collection of letters - never sent and never read - offers a window into the lives of strangers at once immediately familiar and yet also out of reach. Like a gift of secrets, this memorable collection explores romances, friendships, and family relationships with truth, humor, and authenticity, ultimately coming together into a celebration of the self. From the enthusiasm of first love to the cynicism of first regret, The Letters We Never Sent is a haunting confession of passion, fear, hope, and possibility...
Letters Never Sent
Title | Letters Never Sent PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth E. Van Reken |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781555134600 |
Letters Never Sent
Title | Letters Never Sent PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Moran |
Publisher | Bink Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781939562104 |
Three women, united by love and kinship, struggle to conform to the social norms of the times in which they lived. In 1931, Katherine Henderson leaves behind her small town in Kansas and the marriage proposal of a local boy to live on her own and work at the Sears & Roebuck glove counter in Chicago. There she meets Annie--a bold, outspoken feminist who challenges Katherine's idea of who she thinks she is and what she thinks she wants in life. In 1997, Katherine's daughter, Joan, travels to Lawrence, Kansas, to clean out her estranged mother's house. Hidden away in an old suitcase, she finds a wooden box containing trinkets and a packet of sealed letters to a person identified only by a first initial. Joan reads the unsent letters and discovers a woman completely different from the aloof and unyielding mother of her youth-a woman who had loved deeply and lost that love to circumstances beyond her control. Now she just has to find the strength to use the healing power of empathy and forgiveness to live the life she's always wanted to live.
Letters Never Sent, a Global Nomad's Journey from Hurt to Healing
Title | Letters Never Sent, a Global Nomad's Journey from Hurt to Healing PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Ellen Van Reken |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2012-03-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781904881483 |
For more than twenty-five years, Ruth has traveled to over 45 countries sharing what she has learned while 'listening to life' about the often paradoxical nature of growing up globally. Here she shares some of her lessons.
Letters I Never Mailed
Title | Letters I Never Mailed PDF eBook |
Author | Alec Wilder |
Publisher | University Rochester Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781580462082 |
Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer. Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to a Life, by Alec Wilder, in a new, annotated edition with introduction and supplementary material by David Demsey, foreword by jazz pianist Marian McPartland, and photographs by Louis Ouzer. Alec Wilder is a rare example of a composer who established a reputation both as a prolific composer of concertos, sonatas, and operas, and as a popular songwriter [including the hit "I'll Be Around"]. He was fearsomely articulate and had a wide and varied circle of friends ranging from Graham Greene to Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz. Letters I Never Mailed, hailed at its first publication [in 1975, by Little, Brown], tells the story of Wilder's musical and personal life through unsent "letters" addressed to various friends. In it, he shares his insights -- and sometimes salty opinions -- on composing, musical life, and the tension between art and commercialism. Thisnew, scholarly edition leaves Wilder's original text intact but decodes the mysteries of the original through an annotated index that identifies the letters' addressees, a biographical essay by David Demsey, and photographs by renowned photographer and lifelong friend of Wilder, Louis Ouzer. David Demsey is Professor of Music and coordinator of jazz studies at William Paterson University and an active jazz and classical saxophonist. He is co-author of Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography [Greenwood Press] and has contributed to The Oxford Companion to Jazz.
Strictly Personal and Confidential
Title | Strictly Personal and Confidential PDF eBook |
Author | Harry S. Truman |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780826212580 |
Harry S. Truman made plain speaking his trademark, and it was a common belief that "Give 'em hell" Harry spared few with his words. However, this fascinating collection of 140 amusing, angry, sarcastic, and controversial letters President Truman wrote but never mailed proves that conception wrong. Addressed to admirers and enemies alike, including Adlai Stevenson, Justice William Douglas, Dwight Eisenhower, Joe McCarthy, and Truman's wife, Bess, these intriguing letters cover such diverse subjects as the atomic bomb, running the country, and human greed.
Other People's Love Letters
Title | Other People's Love Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Shapiro |
Publisher | Clarkson Potter Publishers |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0307382648 |
A voyeuristic look at modern romance brings together an assortment of actual love letters, written by a diverse cross section of people, that appear exactly as they were originally written, offering candid insights into how people think about love.