Skylight Confessions

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759516596
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skylight Confessions written by Alice Hoffman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780099520849
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skylight Confessions written by Alice Hoffman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night that Arlyn Singer's father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John Moody is an architectural student, serious, reserved, and deliberate. And he has no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl whom he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life. John Moody takes Arlyn to live in a house made of glass, the Glass Slipper. Her life there is not the romantic destiny she envisaged. She dreams of escape for herself and her children, Sam and Blanca, but her eventual escape, too, is not the one she dreamed of... Years later, Arlyn is gone, and Meredith Weiss arrives at the Moody house. Sam, now a teenager, is careening down a path of drug-fuelled self-destruction, while John Moody is tormented by visions of a red-haired woman in white. Meredith sets out to try to save this troubled family. But will her devotion be enough to pull them back from the fate they seem to have chosen for themselves? Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules and have their own secrets. Told with Alice Hoffman's signature grace and originality, SKYLIGHT CONFESSIONS is a shimmering, powerful story of passion, heartbreak and families.

Author : Wally Wang
Publisher : No Starch Press
ISBN 13 : 1593271956
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My New IPhone written by Wally Wang and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step instructions covering the features of the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

Author : Tom Rastrelli
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387090
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Gay Priest written by Tom Rastrelli and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse who then became a priest in the early days of the Catholic Church’s ongoing scandals. Confessions of a Gay Priest divulges the clandestine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into the psychosexual and spiritual dynamics of celibacy and lays bare the “formation” system that perpetuates the cycle of abuse and cover-up that continues today. Under the guidance of a charismatic college campus minister, Rastrelli sought to reconcile his homosexuality and childhood sexual abuse. When he felt called to the priesthood, Rastrelli began the process of “priestly discernment.” Priests welcomed him into a confusing clerical culture where public displays of piety, celibacy, and homophobia masked a closeted underworld in which elder priests preyed upon young recruits. From there he ventured deeper into the seminary system seeking healing, hoping to help others, and striving not to live a double life. Trained to treat sexuality like an addiction, he and his brother seminarians lived in a world of cliques, competition, self-loathing, alcohol, hidden crushes, and closeted sex. Ultimately, the “formation” intended to make Rastrelli a compliant priest helped to liberate him.

Author : Manly, Inc.
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140770
Total Pages : 4512 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Manly, Inc. and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 4512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307720837
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Garden written by Alice Hoffman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Rules of Magic comes a transfixing glimpse into a small American town where a mysterious, magical garden holds the truth behind three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption. “[A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories . . . [These] tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell.”—The Washington Post The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone’s life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look. Beautifully crafted and shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving.

Author : J. Peder Zane
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339866
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books written by J. Peder Zane and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top? You'll find the answer in The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books: the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the ten books that have meant the most to them, you'll be reminded of books you have always loved and introduced to works awaiting your discovery. The Top Ten includes summaries of 544 books—each of which is considered to be among the ten greatest books ever written by at least one leading writer. In addition to each writer's Top Ten List, the book features Top Ten Lists tabulated from their picks, including: • The Top Ten Books of All Time • The Top Ten Books by Living Writers • The Top Ten Books of the Twentieth Century • The Top Ten Mysteries • The Top Ten Comedies The Top Ten will help readers answer the most pressing question of all: What should I read next?

Author : Deborah Cuyle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439673314
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts and Legends of Spokane written by Deborah Cuyle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spokane is brimming with haunted buildings and shades reluctant to leave their beloved city. Patsy and Mary Clark have refused to leave their glorious mansion even after their passing, and the ghost of Ellen, who plunged to her death from a skylight in 1920, still whispers to current guests at the extravagant Davenport Hotel. In Greenwood Cemetery, a set of haunted stairs attracts visitors who come to see if the spirits will prevent them from reaching the top. Join author Deborah Cuyle as she explores the Lilac City's haunted landmarks and the colorful stories of its former residents.

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501137492
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rules of Magic written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk. From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. Yet, the children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the memorable aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. Alice Hoffman delivers “fairy-tale promise with real-life struggle” (The New York Times Book Review) in a story how the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is “irresistible…the kind of book you race through, then pause at the last forty pages, savoring your final moments with the characters” (USA TODAY, 4/4 stars).

Author : Trivion Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Opposites: By Alice Hoffman (Trivia-On-Books) written by Trivion Books and published by . This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: