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What Storm, What Thunder

2021-10-05 Fiction
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Release : 2021-10-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 845/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis What Storm, What Thunder by : Myriam JA Chancy

Download or read book What Storm, What Thunder written by Myriam JA Chancy. This book was released on 2021-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Book Award Winner Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist A NPR, Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and Library Journal Best Book of the Year “Stunning.” —Margaret Atwood At the end of a long, sweltering day, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster—Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a global NGO; a small-time drug trafficker, Leopold, who pines for a beautiful call girl; Sonia and her business partner, Dieudonné, who are followed by a man they believe is the vodou spirit of death; Didier, an emigrant musician who drives a taxi in Boston; Sara, a mother haunted by the ghosts of her children in an IDP camp; her husband, Olivier, an accountant forced to abandon the wife he loves; their son, Jonas, who haunts them both; and Ma Lou, the old woman selling produce in the market who remembers them all. Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.

Thunder Cake

1990-03-15 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 1990-03-15
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 316/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Thunder Cake by : Patricia Polacco

Download or read book Thunder Cake written by Patricia Polacco. This book was released on 1990-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find . . . and the storm is coming closer all the time! Reaching once again into her rich childhood experience, Patricia Polacco tells the memorable story of how her grandma--her Babushka--helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl. Ms. Polacco's vivid memories of her grandmother's endearing answer to a child's fear, accompanied by her bright folk-art illustrations, turn a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately . . . a celebration! Whether the first clap of thunder finds you buried under the bedcovers or happily anticipating the coming storm, Thunder Cake is a story that will bring new meaning and possibility to the excitement of a thunderstorm.

The Loneliness of Angels

2010 Fiction
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Release : 2010
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 224/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Loneliness of Angels by : Myriam J. A. Chancy

Download or read book The Loneliness of Angels written by Myriam J. A. Chancy. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global context as a place of ethnic and cultural complexity, this novel explores the role of spirituality in Caribbean life and culture. Told through multiple voices in a nonlinear fashion, the narrative unfolds through the perspectives of a Haitian-Syrian merchant, Ruth, who recounts her young adulthood and final days as she intuits her imminent death; Catherine, a professional pianist living in Paris who travels home to Haiti upon hearing of her Aunt Ruth’s murder; Rose, Catherine’s mother, an empath, who is believed to have committed suicide in Canadian exile in reaction to the worst years of the Duvalier regime; Romulus, a once famous Konpa singer and an addict, who, released by rebels from a Port-au-Prince jail searches for his redemption; and Elsie, an Irish, working-class seer who emigrates to Haiti in 1847 in search of a new mystic who will guide them all. Traversing the terrains of Port-au-Prince middle-class life, working-class French Canada, expatriate Paris, the peat bogs of famine stricken Ireland, and tracing lives that cross boundaries of time and place, this is a deeply absorbing portrayal of a fragmented community whose deepest connections lie in a shared sense of spirituality.

The Thunder Before the Storm

2018-10-15 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2018-10-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Thunder Before the Storm by : Clyde Bellecourt

Download or read book The Thunder Before the Storm written by Clyde Bellecourt. This book was released on 2018-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic activist and AIM cofounder Clyde Bellecourt tells "the damn truth" about the American Indian Movement as he lived it.

Storm's Thunder

2016-09-27 Fiction
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Release : 2016-09-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 234/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Storm's Thunder by : Brandon Boyce

Download or read book Storm's Thunder written by Brandon Boyce. This book was released on 2016-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bloody banks of the Rio Grande to the edge of the American frontier comes this truly epic Western from the author of the acclaimed Here by the Bloods. A Twelve Man Massacre Along the Rio Grande, a dozen bodies fester in the sun. Harlan Two-Trees discovers the massacre, but wants nothing to do with it. Mistrusted by the whites who run Caliche Bend and estranged from the Navajo, Harlan heads west to California—to freedom. He will find the Rio Grande’s bloody baptism does not wash off so easily. Death Rides Alongside From his berth aboard the gleaming Santa Fe railway, Harlan brims with the promise of a new life in California. But when a daring robbery maroons him in the desert, he is back in the world he knows—where death is king, and justice comes from the smoking barrel of a gun. Pursued by a murderous, insane, lone lawman who dogs his every move, Harlan has a new goal—to stagger out of the desert alive . . .

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