Ghost Letters

Author : Stephen Alter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599908158
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Letters written by Stephen Alter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two modern-day kids discover a grotesque secret in an abandoned mailbox, they have no idea they are about to be drawn into a mystery that began on the other side of the world. Through the help of an English genie and a phantom postman, the two children begin to communicate with another boy, a young calligrapher's apprentice who lived 125 years ago in an Indian village. Writing back and forth, across continents and centuries, the three children eventually realize the possibility of changing history by delivering three letters that were never received. If they can make sure these lost letters reach those for whom they were intended, love may be restored, the life of a kidnapped child could be saved, and a secret agent might be able to prevent a pointless war.

Author : Baba Badji
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1643171984
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Letters written by Baba Badji and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ghost Letters, one emigrates to America again, and again, and again, though one also never leaves Senegal, the country of one’s birth; one grows up in America, and attends university in America, though one also never leaves Senegal, the country of one’s birth; one wrestles with one’s American blackness in ways not possible in Senegal, though one never leaves Senegal, the country of one’s birth; and one sees more deeply into Americanness than any native-born American could. Ghost Letters is a 21st century Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, though it is a notebook of arrival and being in America. It is a major achievement. —Shane McCrae

Author : Chantel Acevedo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312340476
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Ghost Letters written by Chantel Acevedo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josefina Navarro childhood was one of previledge and pampering in the pre-Castro days of Cuba. When she reached adulthood, however, she impulsively marries a poor and reckless young man who will only bring her heartache and grief. During the start of all the political troubles in Cuba, Josefina starts to get a series of letters from her father, whom she thought was dead. These "ghost letters" help her to better understand her distant father and bring some meaning to her otherwise disappointing life.

Author : Richard McCann
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 1938584546
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Letters written by Richard McCann and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiercely passionate and deeply elegiac, Richard McCann's Ghost Letters chronicles the intersection of grief and desire. These are poems of memory, but they are made of the body--the consoling body; the wounded body; the sexual body, both loved and unloved.

Author : Chantel Acevedo
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466852151
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Ghost Letters written by Chantel Acevedo and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outside, Josefina Navarro's life seems fortunate enough—she lives with her father and her nursemaid, Regla, who raises her after the death of her mother in a luxurious home in Vedado, one of Cuba's wealthiest districts. She attends society dances and is courted by all of Havana's elite young bachelors. Enchanted by the rituals of her nursemaid, Josefina learns about the profound mysticism inherent in even the most mundane affairs. Though she is pampered, Josefina feels that her life is without passion or excitement. Her father, Sergeant Antonio Navarro, a Spaniard by birth, is a stern and demanding man whose past is a tightly kept secret. When she meets and marries Lorenzo Concepción, a poor, reckless young man, the sergeant tells her, "So, you have chosen him...and you will be hungry and miserable all your life." The couple moves to El Cotorro, a poverty-stricken town that is far removed from the Vedado plazas and carefully tended gardens Josefina knew. Lorenzo begins to leave her for months at a time, "looking for work," but in reality, womanizing and carousing all over the island. Even after the birth of two healthy children, Josefina is not happy. This is not the life she had envisioned. During a political maelstrom, history brings the sergeant to El Cotorro to quell a riot, where he is attacked and presumed dead. But perception is reality on an island in which darkness and light commingle, and magic and truth are one in the same. When Josefina begins receiving letters from her father, she believes that what she holds are heaven's missives, ghost letters. Through the letters, Josefina comes to know her father intimately, as a ghost and guardian, as he reveals the truth about his life. In the act of writing and reading, she has found a love to fill the empty places in her heart. Set in Cuba and Miami, covering nearly fifty years of the island's history, LOVE AND GHOST LETTERS unfolds the lives of the Navarro-Concepción families in the patterns and permutations of memory, and conjures a Cuban setting that evokes mysticism and magic.

Author : Idowu Fatorisa
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465310215
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Ghost Letter written by Idowu Fatorisa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an embodiment of several letters written under the title of Holy Ghost letters. They are written with reference to biblical contents with relevance to daily life events. The letters are independent of one another. They contain life testimonies which align perfectly with the subject under consideration. They are meant to provide insights and understanding to certain biblical stories or event and its application to daily life. It is worth mentioning that the sole aim of the letters is the dissemination of the gospel of our lord Jesus Christ which is our collective responsibility as Christians. Furthermore, the letters have been carefully tailored to be useful to all. It also contains some academic materials which are meant to expose and clearly pave the way for easy understanding and assimilation.

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949338
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiny Beautiful Things written by Cheryl Strayed and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

Author : An Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432713546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters to Erik written by An Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Chagny is still haunted.

Author : Asa Ray Henson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329791177
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghost Letters written by Asa Ray Henson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part two from the original seller, Unsettled and Unsaid. Take a look into a continuation of the story that is more focused and driven. This book follows from the beginning of U&U, allowing readers to take a look into real life thoughts. It is a story about growing and becoming somebody that understands her rights from wrongs, and every day life lessons. Between the ups and downs of a natural relationship, words create patterns to tell of appreciation for love and life.

Author : Jessica Weible
Publisher : Sunbury Press
ISBN 13 : 9781620062777
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Letters written by Jessica Weible and published by Sunbury Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On assignment for a small-town newspaper in rural Pennsylvania, rookie reporter, Jessica Weible, meets Joan Swigart, a creative fireball and "pioneer in print". As the two women forge a relationship based on their passion for storytelling, Joan reveals a mystery that she had discovered years ago, but had never solved-a pile of dead letters found in an abandoned general store, just before it was torn down. Joan gives Jessica the letters, each stamped and dated over a hundred years ago, and encourages Jessica to investigate the untold stories of the people and places contained in each one. What begins as yet another assignment for the reporter, a young millennial who relies happily on email and texting as the primary means of communication, develops into a heartfelt mission to tell the story of the people and places in the letters. The young reporter's journey takes unexpected twists and turns through the quiet lumber towns of Pennsylvania, the early American settlements in Massachusetts, the bustling crowds at Ellis Island, the violent strikes at the Passaic textile mills, and beyond. Dead Letters is an intimate portrait of small town America and the people who, at times, risked everything in pursuit of economic prosperity, religious freedom, and social equity.