Resultados para "MEMO" en Literatura de género

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."

La vie incroyable du psychiatre américain Irvin D. Yalom, auteur de "Et Nietszche a pleuré" et du "Problème Spinoza". Après avoir passé sa vie à explorer celle des autres, Irvin Yalom se penche sur son propre parcours. Né américain sur le territoire américain, il nous laisse remonter à l'origine de sa famille : des immigrés juifs de Russie d'un petit shtetl. Il a vécu, enfant puis adolescent dans ce monde, faisant face à l'antisémitisme, se battant pour pouvoir faire partie des 5% du quota des médecins juifs dans cette Amérique des années 1950.

MEM is a rare novel, a small book carrying very big ideas, the kind of story that stays with you long after you've finished listening to it. Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete. 

From the bestselling author of The Power comes a part memoir, part speculative novel, following a writer wrestling with grief even as a new species is discovered, forcing humans to reconsider what it means to share our planet. They came from nowhere, and now they are everywhere. A few months...

In den Dörfern der Distelebene Dikenlidüzü, am Fuß des Taurusgebirges, herrscht unbarmherzig der Grundbesitzer Abdi Aga. Bis aufs Blut presst er seine Bauern aus. Auch der Bauernsohn Memed und seine Mutter werden immer wieder Opfer seines Zornes. Das innere Aufbegehren gegen die Ungerechtigkeit gedeiht in dem heranwachsenden Knaben, und als der Aga ihm schließlich auch seine große Liebe Hatçe verwehrt, stellt er sich offen dem Kampf. Und so wird Memed zum Rebell und zur Hoffnung seines Volkes.

Trois destins de femmes intimement liés, trois portraits poignants au cœur d'une Amérique raciste ; un seul sang. Au milieu des années 1960, Grace, jeune fille noire exilée du Sud ségrégationniste vers un New York en pleine lutte pour les droits civiques, tombe enceinte en même temps...

The Memoir of the Minotaur is the posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently deceased 21st-century fellow souls in Hades’ domain. This book is a satire for listeners unafraid of a rollicking good tale involving anatomically complex beings, unforgivable puns, the champion serial killer of all time, scantily clad Greek maidens and youths, articulate tyrants, and feminist proto-history leavened with theological impertinence.

Winner of the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2024 Mary Anne is haunted by the death of her sister and worn down by depression. She's not a good wife and she's not a good mother. Then, one morning, she wakes to find her life completely unfamiliar to her, and she leaves her family to become...

When I Asked to Die is not the story of Elijah’s whole life. It is the story of his collapse. After fire falls on Mount Carmel, after the prophets of Baal are judged, after rain finally breaks the long drought, Elijah should stand in triumph. Instead, one message from Jezebel sends him fleeing into the wilderness. The prophet who faced kings and called on Yahweh before all Israel now finds himself overtaken by fear, exhaustion, shame, and the bitter knowledge that public victory is not the same thing as peace in the soul.

Follow the adventures of a baby boomer born in 1948 from his birth to high school graduation in 1966. Born in a small South Western Pennsylvania town on the edge of Appalachia, the narrator, in a fictional memoir filled with amusing anecdotes, captures life in an absorbing snapshot of coming of age in the Pennsylvania bituminous coalfields of the 1950s.

The following books are included...Children of the Streets and Memos from Purgatory.

Before the Water Stirred is a deeply human retelling of the man at the pool of Bethesda—the one remembered for a single day, but shaped by years of loss before it. Once, he was a working man, strong in his father’s trade and sure of the life opening before him. Then injury took his strength, dependence took his pride, and time slowly stripped away his place in his family, his work, and the world he had known. By the time he is carried to the pool near the Sheep Gate, he is no longer only a man in pain, but a man worn thin by waiting, bitterness, shame, and the ache of being left behind.

Men have spoken Tamar’s name as though it were only a wound. This is her answer. Born into the royal house of David, Tamar grows up amid cedar halls, guarded daughters, rival sons, and the dangerous splendor of kingship. She expects the life prepared for women of her station: marriage, household, children, continuance. Instead, one summons, one locked room, and one brother’s violence cut her life away from the road that had seemed secure. But Tamar is more than the story of a single crime.

Before she was remembered as the widow of Zarephath, she was a wife, a mother, and a woman watching her house disappear one handful at a time. The sky has closed over Zarephath. The wells are sinking. The fields are failing. The gods of her people are silent. Inside one poor house, a sick husband weakens beside the wall, a little boy watches too much, and a woman measures flour, oil, water, and breath with trembling hands.

The story follows James Murphy, who lives an extraordinarily unique life learning ordinary life lessons to which everyone can relate through his many misadventures. James' misadventures feature everything from swindling friends out of valuable baseball cards to run-ins with bullies and kids in Connecticut "gangs", from awkward romantic heartbreak to family party fiascos, from sophisticated pranks that build up to a court appearance and community service to a death defying "rafting" incident.

The day I fell in love with Kara was the day I accidentally ruined her life, and I was as blindsided by ruining her life as much as I was by falling in love with her. According to my now ex-best friend, Miles, love is supposed to make you feel stupid, but I never thought my stupidity, or anybody else’s for that matter, would lead to such devastation.

Jenny Green is dreading her Class of 2007 reunion. While her friends are killing it, Jenny's promising career as an artisanal baker went up in flames (literally) and her deadbeat, commitment-phobe boyfriend is cheating on her with their swishy-ponytailed neighbour. She feels like she didn't get the memo... As it turns out, she didn't. Begrudgingly back at university, she receives a text from an unlisted number: Jenny Green - please collect your memo. Hidden on her old campus is a secret female-led organisation providing memos to select students; blueprints for success.

""The perfect summer read: a novel both quick and funny."" —Airmail “A total joyride of a novel. The Memo is a funny, fascinating exploration of love, friendship, ambition and what it truly means to live a good life. I loved it.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of...

Before the wilderness. Before the burning bush. Before Pharaoh and the sea. He was a Hebrew child drawn out of the Nile and raised in the house of the oppressor. Born of Israel, preserved by Egypt, Moses grows up divided between two worlds: the mother-house that first marked him with the name of Yahweh, and the palace that clothes him in privilege, order, and power. He is taught the wisdom of Egypt, yet never fully belongs to it. He is bound by blood to the afflicted, yet cannot return to them without shame.

Clay's life has reached a standstill. Recently divorced, he spends his days drifting from his drab apartment to his equally lackluster job as an editor for a small Boston press and back again. His dreary routine has left him mired in a seemingly meaningless existence, until the night he meets Lucian - a demon - and everything changes. With the simple words, "I'm going to tell you my story, and you're going to write it down and publish it", Lucian catapults Clay's mundane life into turmoil.