Životopis Harryho Trumana, který působil ve funkci prezidenta. Autor, bývalý britský ministr financí a vnitra, svoji pozornost zaměřuje především na prezidentské období, ale neopomíjí ani mládí či "tichý konec" Rooseveltova nástupce.
Dominick Birdsey, un peintre en bâtiment de quarante ans vivant à Three Rivers, Connecticut, voit sa vie tranquille bouleversée lorsque son frère jumeau identique, Thomas, un schizophrène paranoïaque, commet un acte choquant d'automutilation. Dominick est contraint de s'occuper de son frère tout en affrontant des secrets sombres et des douleurs enfouies en lui-même. Ce voyage de l'âme le conduit au-delà de sa ville ouvrière du New England jusqu'au mont Etna en Sicile, lieu de naissance de son grand-père et homonyme. En cherchant à accepter sa vie et son héritage, Dominick lutte pour trouver le pardon et se reconstruire au-delà de l'ombre hantée de son jumeau troublé. Ce récit magistral explore l'aliénation et la connexion, le pouvoir et l'abus, la dévastation et le renouveau, offrant une œuvre inoubliable.
A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' - Independent 'Gripping and remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books
This novel explores the tribes and communities, conflicts and superstitions, flora and fauna of a wholly spellbinding an imaginary seventh continent. In these seven tales Jim Crace travels a strange and wonderful landscape, as fabulous as it is eerily familiar.