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Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Burnt Child : an Autobiography written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Kloefkorn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803218727
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Restoring the Burnt Child written by William Kloefkorn and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring the Burnt Child is the second volume in William Kloefkorn’s four-part memoir, which will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. Negotiating the no man’s land between ages nine and thirteen, this memoir of a small-town boy’s life in 1940s Kansas continues the story Kloefkorn began in his much-loved volume This Death by Drowning. With characteristic humor and in prose as lyrical as his poetry, he describes the unsentimental education he received at the hands of the denizens of Urie’s Barber Shop and the Rexall Drugstore and at the knees of the true characters who made up his family. From the “firefly” stunt that nearly burns down his home to the distant firestorms of World War II, fire presents an endless range of subtle and surprising lessons for the boy, whose impressions Kloefkorn conveys with the immediacy, naiveté, and poignancy of youth—and reconsiders with the wisdom and distance of age. Restoring the Burnt Child powerfully brings to life the lost, unforgettable world of a boy, and of a poet, coming of age in midcentury middle America. Chosen as a 2008 One Book, One Nebraska selection, this Bison Books edition is updated with a set of discussion questions.
Author : Cordelia Edvardson
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807070956
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Burned Child Seeks the Fire written by Cordelia Edvardson and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [A] searing memoir. . . . An enduring, indeed universal, story. Robert Taylor, The Boston Globe Summoned with her mother to Gestapo headquarters in 1943, fourteen-year-old Cordelia Edvardson was given a terrible choice: to acknowledge her secret Jewish heritage and suffer the consequences or to see her mother charged with treason. Burned Child Seeks the Fire is the true story of the love between this mother and daughter, and a piercing example of the tragedies wrought by Nazi Germany. "A lacerating, beautifully translated memoir." Publishers Weekly, starred review "Mesmerizing. . . . [Has] the concise unreality of a horrifying fairy tale." Thomas Frick, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Behind [Edvardson's] deceptively simple prose is a complex and tragic story." Judith Bolton-Fasman, Newsday "Cordelia Edvardson's defiant tone challenges us to eschew simplified encounters with the literature and experiences of Holocaust survivors." Paul H. Hamburg, Jewish Book World "To see the horrors of the Holocaust through a child's eye is to experience hell. Cordelia Edvardson's astonishing story captures, with a terrifying reality, a child's response to the myriad atrocities of the Nazis and their murderous regime. Burned Child Seeks the Fire is compelling, horrifying, poetic in its intensity." Deborah Peifer, Bay Area Reporter
Author : Kevin Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062913484
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nothing to See Here written by Kevin Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, TIME, The A.V. Club, Buzzfeed, and PopSugar “I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and mesmerizing and funny sentences and then hits you in a way you didn’t see coming. You’re laughing so hard you don’t even realize that you’ve suddenly caught fire.” —Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of Fleishman is in Trouble, New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang, a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with a remarkable ability. Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school. But then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal and they’ve barely spoken since. Until now, when Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison’s twin stepkids are moving in with her family and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there’s a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated, flames igniting from their skin in a startling but beautiful way. Lillian is convinced Madison is pulling her leg, but it’s the truth. Thinking of her dead-end life at home, the life that has consistently disappointed her, Lillian figures she has nothing to lose. Over the course of one humid, demanding summer, Lillian and the twins learn to trust each other—and stay cool—while also staying out of the way of Madison’s buttoned-up politician husband. Surprised by her own ingenuity yet unused to the intense feelings of protectiveness she feels for them, Lillian ultimately begins to accept that she needs these strange children as much as they need her—urgently and fiercely. Couldn’t this be the start of the amazing life she’d always hoped for? With white-hot wit and a big, tender heart, Kevin Wilson has written his best book yet—a most unusual story of parental love.
Author : Burnt child
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book The burnt child written by Burnt child and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cordelia Edvardson
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Burned Child Seeks the Fire written by Cordelia Edvardson and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a girl who was raised as a Catholic but because she is discovered to be part Jewish, is sent to Auschwitz, where she miraculously survived.
Author : Jason Draper
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 148973855X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Burnt Child written by Jason Draper and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiring men have, do, and will continue to take advantage of each other because of our humanity, and history shows the worst offenders are not those who claim to do us any harm, but those who claim they are trying to do us good. The solution is not to cancel our goodness. The cure is not to have less of any of these good things. The cure is to balance it with more knowledge and more truth. Whatever “truth” is given by our churches, governments, and the media, can be measured by passing it through the fire. If it survives, we can accept it. If it doesn't, we can choose not to be burned again. It doesn't deserve our humanity and can and ought to perish.
Author : Louise Nayer
Publisher : Atlas and Company
ISBN 13 : 1934633305
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book Burned written by Louise Nayer and published by Atlas and Company. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single night overturns the lives of two young parents, making survival seem like the most tragic of outcomes. Four decades later, their daughter, Louise Nayer, describes what was irretrievable after the accident and how she and her sister tried to compensate for it with subtle acts of self-destruction and overeager appeals for attention. Louise discovers that it was her mother's will, an unbreakable, exacting and yet oppressive force, that kept the family together and prevented them from falling into their own forms of regret and self-pity.
Author : Deborah Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781631525476
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Saturday's Child written by Deborah Burns and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical firecracker of a memoir that chronicles the extraordinary childhood of author Deborah Burns, who grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of a beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, as well as her quest in midlife to unravel her mother's secrets and reclaim her own identity.
Author : Lise Deguire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734932003
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flashback Girl written by Lise Deguire and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of four, Dr. Lise Deguire suffered third-degree burns over 65% of her body. In this memoir, she tells her story as a burn survivor and growing up in her dysfunctional family. Despite the seriousness of the subject, the tone of the book is positive, humorous, and inspiring.
