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Sun & Spoon
After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
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La Guerre Sainte de Muriel
La seule femme occidentale a avoir jamais commis un attentat suicide.Cet ouvrage raconte l'histoire vraie de Muriel Degauque qui quitta Bruxelles a bord de sa Mercedes blanche pour aller se faire exploser a Bagdad. Une femme extraordinaire minee par un chagrin extraordinaire. Chris de Stoop s'est entretenu avec les divers protagonistes et leurs proches, il a etudie les dossiers et a suivi les traces de Muriel jusqu'en Irak ou il a retrouve l'epave de la voiture piegee et mis un terme a son recit.Une histoire qui leve le voile sur un phenomene inquietant, alors que des centaines de jeunes Europeens rejoignent au nom du djihad islamique la guerre en Syrie, en Irak ou en Afghanistan.A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Chris De Stoop est journaliste. Il a pris un an de conge sans solde pour realiser la presente enquete. Outre de nombreux articles et reportages, il est egalement l'auteur d'une etude sur la traite des femmes redigee a l'intention de la Fondation Roi Baudouin.EXTRAIT La paix soit avec toi, sA ur dit Muriel en s'avancant de derriere la tenture avec deux tasses de sang dans les mains. Elle sourit aux huit femmes assises sur le tapis, mais son salut de paix s'adressait surtout a Rebecca qui etait venue non en patiente mais en amie. Rebecca etait la petite fiancee africaine d'un ami wallon, Pascal, un converti aux yeux bleus et aux cheveux blonds qui lui avait tourne la tete et lui promettait le paradis.C'etait une vraie succession de malheurs dans la piece : les recits des femmes commencaient systematiquement par un grand soupir pour se terminer par un inch'Allah resigne. Elles se plaignaient de toutes sortes de troubles et douleurs : maux de dos et maux de tete, stress et anxiete. D'avoir de mauvaises selles, des mains deformees ou la peau purulente. Ou de souffrir des nerfs et d'insomnie parce que leur mari ne leur parlait plus, que leurs fils trainaient dans la rue, qu'elles-memes ne quittaient plus la maison ou ne connaissaient personne ou ne parlaient pas la langue. Ou avaient le mal du pays.La plupart des patientes s'adressaient a Muriel par son prenom islamique : Maryam. Celle-ci les ecoutait avec compassion, leur posait quelques questions precises : age, alimentation, maladies anterieures, medication, douleur. Avant de commencer le traitement, elle prononcait la bismillah: Au nom d'Allah, le Tout-Misericordieux, le Tres-Misericordieux.
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The Dogs of Detroit
Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction
The 14 stories ofThe Dogs of Detroiteach focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation. In some cases, grief drives the stories as a strong, reactionary force, and yet in other stories, that grief evolves quietly over long stretches of time. Many of the stories also use grief as a prism to explore the beguiling bonds within families. The stories span a variety of geographies, both urban and rural, often considering collisions between the two.
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Waiting for unicorns
\"After her mother dies, twelve-year-old Talia McQuinn goes to the Arctic with her father, a whale researcher. Over the course of one summer, and through several unlikely friendships, Talia learns that stories have the power to connect us, to provide hope, and to pull us out of the darkness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fish in Exile
A couple loses their child in this poetic and devastating novel in which grief reaches \"enthralling and mysterious pleasures\" (Carol Maso). A couple named Catholic and Ethos struggle with the loss of their child. How? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent's grief all the more clearly. \"The result is a novel that forges a new vocabulary for the routine of grief, as well as the process of healing\" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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Ella and the balloons in the sky
Ella comes down one morning to feed her pets and finds that they have disappeared. She discovers them floating away on balloons, high in the sky. Try as she might, she can't get them to come back. But although they are out of reach, Ella soon learns they are not truly gone as long as they remain in her heart and her memories.
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Dear departed: Writing the lifeworlds of place
This paper is concerned with the lifeworlds of place, and the significant part that the storied word might play in them. It considers the modern disciplinary history of place study, and styles of creative geographical writing presently being employed to configure place as a lived phenomenon, with a past, present and future. Across the piece, an experiment in place-portraiture unfolds, according to a series of episodes penned in non-fiction prose. The muse for these meditations is an arresting site reserved for burying the remains of loved ones: a seaside pet cemetery. Deep diving into the cemetery's place lore, and the life of its custodian, \"The Keeper,\" the essay explores the loss, love and longing felt for domestic companion animals by grieving humans, the better to understand a nexus of geographies; variously, of memory, emotion, intimacy, responsibility and creativity. The essay closes by reflecting on how a sustained fusion of site, subject and style can give voice to a language of radical parochialism and, simultaneously, reset the wider representational project by which geographers engage proprietary feelings about place, its presumed fate and possible prospects. In its avoidance of a more conventional academic mode, and adoption of descriptive geographical narratives, the paper offers an alternate literary model by which pressing environmental challenges might yet be affectively articulated and addressed.
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On guard
\"She is the star player on her basketball team, until her sister is injured in a violent crime. Instantly, her game is derailed, and she becomes a second victim. Can she save her scholarship season?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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