The Beauty and the Sorrow

2012-09-04
The Beauty and the Sorrow

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  • Author: Peter Englund
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307739287
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 594

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

The Sorrow of War

2017-03-14
The Sorrow of War

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  • Author: Bao Ninh
  • Publisher: Anchor
  • ISBN: 0525434399
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 241

During the Vietnam War Bao Ninh served with the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade. Of the five hundred men who went to war with the brigade in 1969, he is one of only ten who survived. The Sorrow of War is his autobiographical novel. Kien works in a unit that recovers soldiers' corpses. Revisiting the sites of battles raises emotional ghosts for him and the memory of war scenes are juxtaposed with dreams and remembrances of his childhood sweetheart. The Sorrow of War burns the tragedy of war in our minds.

One for Sorrow

2011-09-30
One for Sorrow

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  • Author: Chloe Rhodes
  • Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
  • ISBN: 184317779X
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 178

This charming book is filled with sayings, legends and proverbs derived from the oral history of the countryside and unveils how they came about, what they mean, and how they came to be such a big part of the language we use today.

A Sorrow Fierce and Falling (Kingdom on Fire, Book Three)

2018-10-16
A Sorrow Fierce and Falling (Kingdom on Fire, Book Three)

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  • Author: Jessica Cluess
  • Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
  • ISBN: 0553536001
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 418

"A pinch of Potter blended with a drop of [Cassandra Clare's] Infernal Devices." --JUSTINE MAGAZINE "Plot twists so good they will leave you reeling." --TRACI CHEE, New York Times bestselling author of The Reader IT'S TIME FOR HER POWER TO RULE. As Henrietta nervously awaits her marriage to Lord Blackwood, she discovers that Sorrow-Fell is not a safe haven from the bloodthirsty Ancients. It's a trap. So with her friend Maria and Magnus, the young man who once stole her heart, at her side, Henrietta plots a dangerous journey straight into the enemy's lair. Some will live. Some will die. All will be tested. In this stunning conclusion to the Kingdom on Fire series, Henrietta must choose between the love from her past, the love from her present, and a love that could define her future. The fate of the kingdom rests on her decision: Will she fall or rise up to become the woman who saves the realm? Praise for Jessica Cluess's A Shadow Bright and Burning, Kingdom on Fire, Book 1: "This is a novel that gives off light and heat." --The New York Times "Vivid characters, terrifying monsters, and world building as deep and dark as the ocean." --VICTORIA AVEYARD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen "Devastatingly magical and monstrously romantic." --STEPHANIE GARBER, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval "Unputdownable. I loved the monsters, the magic, and the teen warriors who are their world's best hope! Jessica Cluess is an awesome storyteller!" --TAMORA PIERCE, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty

2019-05-28
Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty

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  • Author: Grace Schulman
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing
  • ISBN: 0811228673
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 141

A beautiful, compact, gift edition of some of the world’s greatest poems about loss and death, to ease the heart of the bereaved Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, Lorca, Denise Levertov, Keats, Hart Crane, Michael Palmer, Robert Frost, Hopkins, Hardy, Bei Dao, and Czeslaw Milosz—to name only some of the masters in this slim volume. “The poems in this collection,” as Schulman notes in her introduction, “sing of grief as they praise life.” She notes, “As any bereaved survivor knows, there is no consolation. ‘Time doesn’t heal grief; it emphasizes it,’ wrote Marianne Moore. The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We don’t want it to. In grief, one remembers the beloved. But running beside it, parallel to it, is the joy of existence, the love that causes pain of loss, the loss that enlarges us with the wonder of existence.”

Joy in the Sorrow: How a Thriving Church (and Its Pastor) Learned to Suffer Well

2019-09
Joy in the Sorrow: How a Thriving Church (and Its Pastor) Learned to Suffer Well

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  • Author: Matt Chandler
  • Publisher: Good Book Company
  • ISBN: 9781784984229
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

This is the moving story of Matt Chandler's battle with a potentially fatal brain tumor. But it's also the stories of those in his church family who taught him, and teach him, how to walk with joy in sorrow. Readers will find encouragement and strength to get through tough times, or to support others to do so.

House of Rage and Sorrow

2019-09-17
House of Rage and Sorrow

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  • Author: Sangu Mandanna
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1510733825
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

One kingdom. One crown. One family. “Maybe it’s time the great House of Rey came to an end. After all, what are we now? Just a house of rage and sorrow.” Esmae once wanted nothing more than to help her golden brother win the crown of Kali but that dream died with her best friend. Alexi broke her heart, and she vowed to destroy him for it. And with her sentient warship Titania beside her, how can she possibly fail? As gods, beasts, and kingdoms choose sides, Alexi seeks out a weapon more devastating than even Titania. Past lives threaten the present. Old enemies claim their due. And Esmae cannot outrun the ghosts and the questions that haunt her. What really happened to her father? What was the third boon her mother asked of Amba? For in the shadows, lurking in wait, are secrets that will swallow her whole. The House of Rey is at war. And the entire galaxy will bleed before the end.

Bittersweet

2022-04-21
Bittersweet

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  • Author: Susan Cain
  • Publisher: Viking
  • ISBN: 9780241300688
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Loss and impermanence are inescapable, part of the warp and weft of our lives. They are essential to love, to growth, and to art. And yet, too often, we do not acknowledge loss, let alone honour the experience of it. Illuminating, thoughtful, and deeply necessary, Susan Cain's new book will help us to name and value the experience of loss, pointing the way toward ways of being and rituals that help us to accept it rather than bury it. Blending memoir, reportage, and social science, it will reveal that joy and loss exist in equilibrium; that vulnerability, or even a melancholy temperament, can be a strength; and that embracing our inevitable losses makes us more human and more whole.

The Book of Sorrows

1996
The Book of Sorrows

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  • Author: Walter Wangerin, Jr.
  • Publisher: Zondervan
  • ISBN: 031021081X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

Following a conflict with the dreaded Wyrm, the barnyard animals try to piece together their shattered lives while unaware that their enemy plans new attacks.

Sorrow

2020-10-20
Sorrow

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  • Author: Tiffanie Debartolo
  • Publisher: Woodhall Press Llp
  • ISBN: 9781949116304
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

Joe Harper has backpedaled throughout his life. A once-promising guitar prodigy, he's been living without direction since abandoning his musical dreams. Now into his thirties, having retreated from every opportunity he's had to level up, he has lost his family, his best friend, and his own self-respect.