My Father's Suitcase
Author | : Orhan Pamuk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Nobel Prizes |
ISBN | : 9780571238613 |
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Author | : Orhan Pamuk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Nobel Prizes |
ISBN | : 9780571238613 |
Author | : John Corner |
Publisher | : Landmark Books Pte Ltd |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9814189472 |
In Search of E.J.H Corner the Relentless Botanist John (Kay) Corner left home in 1960, aged 19. He would never see his father, E. J. H. Corner, again. Edred John Henry Corner was one of the most colourful and productive biologists and mycologists of the 20th century. His career began in 1929 as Assistant Director of the Straits Settlements Singapore Botanic Gardens, where he trained monkeys to collect specimens from the treetops of the rainforest, and published Wayside Trees of Malaya, a classic field guide interspersed with his delightful and idiosyncratic observations on plant life. He was key in the creation of Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, a 163- hectare plot that contains more tree species than the whole of North America. When war came, he considered it his responsibility to safeguard the scientific and cultural collections of Singapore during the Japanese Occupation, but was branded by some as a collaborator. Post-war, after heading the ambitious UNESCO Hylean Amazon Project, he returned to Cambridge University and was appointed Professor of Tropical Botany in 1965. There he propounded his theory that the Durian represented an ancestral type of angiosperm tree. He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society, where he promoted the conservation of tropical forests and led expeditions to the British Solomon Islands and Mount Kinabalu. For the latter, he proposed Kinabalu Park which led to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After 46 years, John Corner faces his estranged father in a suitcase marked: ‘For Kay, wherever he might be.’ The letters, pictures and other memorabilia that spill out led him to search for the father he hardly knew, resulting in an engaging and frank biography of an eminent scientist who put science above all, including his family.
Author | : Ruth Schwenk |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 031034946X |
Mothering is messy. Our joy and hope in raising children doesn’t change the reality that being a mom can be frustrating, stressful, and tiring. But just as God is using us to shape our children, God is using our children and motherhood to shape us. In The Better Mom, author Ruth Schwenk, herself a mother of four children, encourages us with the good news that there is more to being a mom than the extremes of striving for perfection or simply embracing the mess. We don’t need to settle for surviving our kids’ childhood. We can grow through it. With refreshing and heartfelt honesty Ruth emboldens moms to: Find freedom and walk confidently in purpose Create a God-honoring home environment Overcome unhealthy and destructive emotions such as anger, anxiety, and more Avoid glorifying the mess of mom-ing or idolizing perfection Cultivate life-giving friendships At the heart of The Better Mom is the message that Jesus calls us to live not a weary life, but a worthy life. We don’t have to settle for either being apathetic or struggling to be perfect. Both visions of motherhood go too far. Ruth offers a better option. She says, “It’s okay to come as we are, but what we’re called to do and be is far too important to stay there! The way to becoming a better mom starts not with what we are doing, but with who God is inviting us to become."
Author | : Chris Naylor-Ballesteros |
Publisher | : HMH Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0358329604 |
"When a weary stranger arrives one day with nothing but a suitcase, his new neighbors ask nervous questions about who he is and where he comes from before they are challenged to decide between trusting the newcomer or taking the risk of not believing him"--
Author | : Robert Munsch |
Publisher | : Scholastic Canada |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 144316318X |
Kelsey travels back and forth between her mom's house and her dad's, and each time her suitcase gets bigger, and BIGGER, and BIGGER . . .
Author | : Sergei Dovlatov |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1582438838 |
Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them, occasioning a brilliant series of interconnected tales: A poplin shirt evokes the bittersweet story of a courtship and marriage, while a pair of boots (of the kind only the Nomenklatura can afford) calls up the hilarious conclusion to an official banquet. Some driving gloves—remnants of Dovlatov's short–lived acting career—share space with neon–green crepe socks, reminders of a failed black–market scam. And in curious juxtaposition, the belt from a prison guard's uniform lies next to a stained jacket that once belonged to Fernand Léger. Imbued with a comic nostalgia overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dry wit, The Suitcase is an intensely human, delightfully ironic novel from "the finest Soviet satirist to appear in English since Vladimir Voinovich."
Author | : Jane G. Meyer |
Publisher | : Paraclete Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781612617763 |
Thomas packs a suitcase full of items for the needy, inspiring his family to visit a homeless shelter.
Author | : Louise Walters |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0399169504 |
A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its best. Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta’s narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with a Polish war pilot, Dorothy believes she’s finally found happiness, but must instead make an unthinkable decision whose consequences forever change the framework of her family. The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty years as they both make their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. Utterly absorbing, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the truth.
Author | : Frances Stonor Saunders |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781784707705 |
Author | : Lene Kaaberbol |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1569479828 |
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.