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Gracefully Gone
by Alicia Coppola Matthew CoppolaGracefully Gone is the fusion of two journals: my father, Matthew L Coppola Sr.’s and mine. My father’s journal was written in 1982, two years after his diagnosis and remission with brain cancer. Mine was written in 1990-1991, roughly eight years later, as he began to die. In Gracefully Gone I chronicle my twenty-one year old pursuit of life and all the bitter and amusingly confusing angst that accompanies being twenty-one during the last six months of my father’s struggle towards death. <p><p> What I am hoping, what I am counting on, is that my life, my father’s life and our story, might be meaningful to strangers; or perhaps, if not meaningful, then at the very least, identifiable, relatable and at times, humorously understandable. Gracefully Gone is not about death, it is about the journey of a family, specifically, the journey of a young girl trying to find her way in the wake of growing up in the looming shadow of cancer. <p> Gracefully Gone is written as a prayer for all the families, all the children too young to understand and for all the victims of this all too often insurmountable war to know they are not alone. After all, the sad fact is in the world we live in today there are no strangers to cancer and there are certainly no strangers to struggle and loss. <p> Even though my mother and brother went through the same experience as I, we experienced it very differently. It was as if my father was the LOVEBOAT and we three were on our own separate lifeboats surrounding him, each of us handling our grief privately. Perhaps, if we’re really lucky, Gracefully Gone might allow someone a little peace and some comfort knowing that even though they are on their own lifeboats they are in an ocean full of them.
Grace's Letter to Lincoln
by Peter Roop Connie RoopOn the eve of the 1860 presidential election, as war clouds gather and the South threatens to secede, eleven-year-old Grace decides to help Abraham Lincoln get elected by writing and advising him to grow a beard.
GRACIAS NESTOR (EBOOK)
by Lucio Di MatteoGracias, Néstor; cuenta por primera vez el modus operandi de los socios del poder político en la Argentina. Los kirchneristas no dejan documentos por escrito, de hecho las caras de los empresarios K casi no aparecen en público; pero los hechos comenzaron a regularizarse en Santa Cruz, sistematizarse en Buenos Aires y volverse prácticas habituales a nivel nacional. A tal punto que este Holding (aunque no formalizado como tal) alcanza una facturación millonaria en la actualidad. Lucio Di Matteo cuenta por qué no se trata de movimientos económicos aislados sino de un cuidadoso plan instrumentado por uno de los presidentes más ambiciosos desde Perón. Los cuatro empresarios que protagonizan este libro participan de negocios relacionados con el Estado. Enrique Eskenazi con el petróleo, bancos, construcción y bodegas, entre otros. Cristóbal López con el juego (los casinos y el hipódromo), y también el petróleo, aunque se diversifica preparándose para el poskirchnersimo. Lázaro Báez en la caja grande de la obra pública, el petróleo nuevamente, hotelería y distintas empresas. Y Rudy Ulloa, ex chofer de Néstor Kirchner, en la caja chica del multimedios santacruceño, gracias a la generosa pauta publicitaria del Estado Nacional. A partir de la argentinización de YPF la metodología comenzó a vislumbrarse con mayor claridad y surgieron las denuncias de apriete a empresas extranjeras para que dejen sus activos en manos de la "burguesía nacional". Ezkenazi, López, Báez y Ulloa muestran una forma de ejercer el poder en la Argentina y constituyen un ejemplo de las relaciones entre política y negocios.
Gracias, papá
by Héctor SuárezUna historia de humor amor En este libro Héctor abre su baúl más preciado y más que contarnos la historia de don Héctor Suárez el actor, el hombre que perteneció a su público, nos comparte la amorosa visión de un hijo recordando a su padre con todos sus matices y cómo esto lo formó.» JAVIER POZA «Las historias en estas páginas son memorables por tantas razones como personajes que Héctor Suárez creó, cumpliendo cabalmente con el dictamen de Shakespeare: “El arte es un espejo que levantamos ante la naturaleza”. Nuestra muy particular naturaleza, sin duda.» SUSANA MOSCATEL «Lo más bonito de este libro, además de ser emotivo y entretenido, es que desde los ojos de Héctor Suárez Gomís podemos ver y oler la presencia de su papá, pero también la del Héctor Suárez que es nuestro, porque es parte indispensable de nuestra historia colectiva.» TIARÉ SCANDA «El amor del autor hacia su padre es el fruto de una intensa, no siempre fácil, pero fructífera relación, es agradecido y eterno. Resulta imposible preguntarle a Suárez papá lo que opina de este generoso homenaje de parte de Héctor Suárez Gomís, pero seguro empezaría por decir: “Gracias, hijo”.» BENNY IBARRA DE LLANO
Gracie: A Love Story
by George BurnsDelineating the intelligent woman behind the comedic facade, Burns here tells a true-love story of his marriage to Gracie Allen, who died in 1964.
Grade B Reporter: Reflections of a Grade B Reporter
by Martin BellMartin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist. From Vietnam to Bosnia to Iraq, he has witnessed first-hand the dramatic changes in how conflicts are fought and how they are reported. He has seen the truth degraded in the name of balance and good taste – grief and pain censored so the viewers are not disturbed. In an age of international terror, where journalists themselves have become targets, more and more reports are issued from the sidelines. The dominance of social media has ushered in a post-truth world: Twitter rumours and unverifiable videos abound, and TV news seeks to entertain rather than inform. In this compelling account, one of the outstanding journalists of our time provides a moving, personal account of war and issues an impassioned call to put the substance back in our news.
Graduates in Wonderland
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale Jessica PanTwo best friends document their post-college lives in a hilarious, relatable, and powerfully honest epistolary memoir. Fast friends since they met at Brown University during their freshman year, Jessica Pan and Rachel Kapelke-Dale vowed to keep in touch after their senior year through in-depth--and brutally honest--weekly e-mails. After graduation, Jess packs up everything she owns and moves to Beijing on a whim, while Rachel heads to New York to work for an art gallery and to figure out her love life. Each spends the next few years tumbling through adulthood and reinventing themselves in various countries, including France, China, and Australia. Through their messages from around the world, they swap tales of teaching classes of military men, running a magazine, and flirting in foreign languages, along with the hard stuff: from harrowing accidents to breakups and breakdowns. Reminiscent of Sloan Crosley's essays and Lena Dunham's Girls, Graduates in Wonderland is an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of two young women as they embark upon adulthood.
Graeme Souness Football: My Life, My Passion
by Graeme SounessGraeme Souness is a Glasgow Rangers icon, and a Liverpool legend in the same bracket as Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher.He has racked up getting on for fifty years in and around the world of professional football. The game has been his life, and his enduring passion.Souness has written a perceptive and opinionated autobiography. It chronicles one of the most successful and colourful careers in the history of British football. But it also provides an intriguing assessment of the game which has dominated his existence, drawing extensively on his incredibly rich and varied experiences as a player, manager and pundit.The result is a shrewd, incisive and hard-hitting memoir, at times tinged with hindsight and regret, which also grapples with many of the major talking points affecting the game today. It is shot through with Souness' trademark tenacity and wisdom, and with fantastic anecdotes from his glittering career.In many ways, Football: My Life, My Passion is the story of the last half-century of British football writ large.
Graeme Souness – Football: My Life, My Passion
by Graeme SounessGraeme Souness is a Glasgow Rangers icon, and a Liverpool legend in the same bracket as Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher.He has racked up getting on for fifty years in and around the world of professional football. The game has been his life, and his enduring passion.Souness has written a perceptive and opinionated autobiography. It chronicles one of the most successful and colourful careers in the history of British football. But it also provides an intriguing assessment of the game which has dominated his existence, drawing extensively on his incredibly rich and varied experiences as a player, manager and pundit.The result is a shrewd, incisive and hard-hitting memoir, at times tinged with hindsight and regret, which also grapples with many of the major talking points affecting the game today. It is shot through with Souness' trademark tenacity and wisdom, and with fantastic anecdotes from his glittering career.In many ways, Football: My Life, My Passion is the story of the last half-century of British football writ large.
Graeme Souness – Football: My Life, My Passion
by Graeme SounessGraeme Souness is a Glasgow Rangers icon, and a Liverpool legend in the same bracket as Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher.He has racked up getting on for fifty years in and around the world of professional football. The game has been his life, and his enduring passion.Souness has written a perceptive and opinionated autobiography. It chronicles one of the most successful and colourful careers in the history of British football. But it also provides an intriguing assessment of the game which has dominated his existence, drawing extensively on his incredibly rich and varied experiences as a player, manager and pundit.The result is a shrewd, incisive and hard-hitting memoir, at times tinged with hindsight and regret, which also grapples with many of the major talking points affecting the game today. It is shot through with Souness' trademark tenacity and wisdom, and with fantastic anecdotes from his glittering career.In many ways, Football: My Life, My Passion is the story of the last half-century of British football writ large.(P)2017 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Graeme Swann: The Breaks Are Off - My Autobiography
by Graeme SwannGraeme Swann's transformation from international outsider to England's primary match-winner and undisputed best spin bowler in the world has been remarkably rapid. Within two years of his 2008 Test debut, he had become his country's most reliable bowler, made the shortlist for the ICC's cricketer of the year award and claimed an Ashes-sealing wicket. Yet the script took many twists and turns along the way.Drafted into the squad for the full tour of South Africa in 1999-2000. Swann's meteoric received a jolt. While some liked the cut of his jib, others did not and England coach Duncan Fletcher already had a foot in the latter camp when Swann missed the bus for the first of two times on that tour. Suddenly he was judged on temperament and not talent. Although Swann candidly concedes he was nowhere near good enough for the top level at that stage in his career, his jettisoning back to county cricket for the next seven years, following a solitary one-day international, hinted at a career wasted. A clash with then Northamptonshire coach Kepler Wessels triggered his move to Nottinghamshire in 2005. A County Championship winner in his debut season, he was back in the England fold at the end of his third. Forever a flamboyant showman, he made up for lost time with two wickets in his first over against India - his habit of striking in his opening over a spell has become a party piece. You cannot keep the spotlight off him for long. Since moving into the top 10 of the world rankings for bowlers on the back of eight wickets in the Ashes-defining Oval Test of 2009, he has not dropped outside it, and has been widely tipped to be the decisive factor in the defence of the urn in Australia.
Graeme Swann: My rise to the top
by Graeme SwannGraeme Swann's transformation from international outsider to England's primary match-winner and undisputed best spin bowler in the world has been remarkably rapid. Within two years of his 2008 Test debut, he had become his country's most reliable bowler, made the shortlist for the ICC's cricketer of the year award and claimed an Ashes-sealing wicket. Yet the script took many twists and turns along the way.Drafted into the squad for the full tour of South Africa in 1999-2000. Swann's meteoric received a jolt. While some liked the cut of his jib, others did not and England coach Duncan Fletcher already had a foot in the latter camp when Swann missed the bus for the first of two times on that tour. Suddenly he was judged on temperament and not talent. Although Swann candidly concedes he was nowhere near good enough for the top level at that stage in his career, his jettisoning back to county cricket for the next seven years, following a solitary one-day international, hinted at a career wasted. A clash with then Northamptonshire coach Kepler Wessels triggered his move to Nottinghamshire in 2005. A County Championship winner in his debut season, he was back in the England fold at the end of his third. Forever a flamboyant showman, he made up for lost time with two wickets in his first over against India - his habit of striking in his opening over a spell has become a party piece. You cannot keep the spotlight off him for long. Since moving into the top 10 of the world rankings for bowlers on the back of eight wickets in the Ashes-defining Oval Test of 2009, he has not dropped outside it, and has been widely tipped to be the decisive factor in the defence of the urn in Australia.
Graham Greene: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
by Graham GreeneA master of twentieth century fiction, Graham Greene looks back on his life. This volume also includes several key interviews from throughout his long, fruitful career.Graham Greene led one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. The son of a Hertfordshire headmaster, he quickly discovered a love for writing, beginning a career that would last a lifetime. Greene's fascination with global politics took him around the world, to places that would become the settings for many of his most famous novels: Mexico (The Power and the Glory), Sierra Leone (The Heart of the Matter), and Haiti (The Comedians) - among dozens of other far-flung locations. He produced masterpieces throughout his life, many of which now stand as indisputably canonical: Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, and The Quiet American to name but a few.
Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
by Richard GreeneThere have been a number of Graham Greene biographies, but none has captured his voice, his loves, hates, family and friends-intimate and writerly-or his deep understanding of the world, like this astonishing collection of letters. Graham Greene is one of the few modern novelists who can be called great. In the course of his long and eventful life (1904--1991), he wrote tens of thousands of letters to family, friends, writers, publishers and others involved in his various interests and causes. A Life in Letters presents a fresh and engrossing account of his life, career and mind in his own words. Meticulously chosen and engagingly annotated, this selection of letters-many of them seen here for the first time-gives an entirely new perspective on a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, exotic travel and romantic entanglement.In several letters, the individuals, events or places described provide the inspiration for characters, episodes or locations found in his later fiction. The correspondence describes his travels in Mexico, Africa, Malaya, Vietnam, Haiti, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Liberia and other trouble spots, where he observed the struggles of victims and victors with a compassionate and truthful eye. The volume includes a vast number of unpublished letters to authors Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh, Anthony Powell, Edith Sitwell, R.K. Narayan and Muriel Spark, and to other more notorious individuals such as the double-agent Kim Philby. Some of these letters dispute previous assessments of his character, such as his alleged anti-Semitism or obscenity, and he emerges as a man of deep integrity, decency and courage. Others reveal the agonies of his romantic life, especially his relations with his wife, Vivien Greene, and with one of his mistresses, Catherine Walston. The letters can be poignant, despairing, amorous, furious or amusing, but the sheer range of experience contained in them will astound everyone who reads this book.From the Hardcover edition.
Graham Ibbeson, The People's Sculptor: Bronze, Clay and Life
by John Trelkeld Graham IbbesonJust William. The name conjures memories of Richmal Cromptons favourite character. No childhood was complete without the outrageous exploits of William and his constant companions, The Outlaws. Sculptor Graham Ibbeson was beguiled by the words in the bestselling books and by the portrait of William on the front covers, a cheeky boy with tousled hair and a catapult sticking out of a pocket. Decades later Graham produced his own version of William, immortalized in fibre glass for the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, to mark the centenary of Cromptons birth. The Daily Mirror was so impressed by this tribute to one of fictions wonderful characters that one of its staff men photographed Graham walking with the statue up one of the last remaining cobbled streets in Barnsley. Much of Grahams work has revolved around childhood. His early years figure in much of his amusing fibre glass work and characters such as George and Eric are based on Graham and his cousin, Paul. His own humour responds to the distant sounds of boyhood and in a way this book is a celebration of childhood and laughter. It also traces the setbacks and triumphs of an artist who was born in a mining village and who produced a national icon, the Eric Morecambe statue, which helped to turn the economic tide in the Lancashire resort of Morecambe. The book outlines the stories behind other notable public statues, including Laurel and Hardy, Les Dawson, Dickie Bird and Cary Grant. It is both an informative and entertaining book about the life and times of the peoples sculptor, a man whose craftsmanship has left an elegant and permanent mark on more than 30 of the countrys townscapes
A Grain of Wheat: A Writer Begins
by Clyde Robert BullaThe author describes his early years, up until the age of ten, growing up on a Missouri farm and how he decided to be a writer.
The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible
by Aviya KushnerFor readers of Bruce Feiler's Walking the Bible and Kathleen Norris's The Cloister Walk comes a powerful exploration of the Bible in translation. Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking family, reading the Bible in the original Hebrew and debating its meaning over the dinner table. She knew much of it by heart--and was therefore surprised when, while getting her MFA at the University of Iowa, she took the novelist Marilynne Robinson's class on the Old Testament and discovered she barely recognized the text she thought she knew so well. From differences in the Ten Commandments to a less ambiguous reading of the creation story to a new emphasis on the topic of slavery, the English translation often felt like another book entirely from the one she had grown up with. Kushner began discussing the experience with Robinson, who became a mentor, and her interest in the differences between the ancient language and the modern one gradually became an obsession. She began what became a ten-year project of reading different versions of the Hebrew Bible in English and traveling the world in the footsteps of the great biblical translators, trying to understand what compelled them to take on a lifetime project that was often considered heretical and in some cases resulted in their deaths. In this eye-opening chronicle, Kushner tells the story of her vibrant relationship to the Bible, and along the way illustrates how the differences in translation affect our understanding of our culture's most important written work. A fascinating look at language and the beliefs we hold most dear, The Grammar of God is also a moving tale about leaving home and returning to it, both literally and through reading.Praise for The Grammar of God "Aviya Kushner has written a passionate, illuminating essay about meaning itself. The Grammar of God is also a unique personal narrative, a family story with the Bible and its languages as central characters."--Robert Pinsky "Kushner is principally interested in the meanings and translations of key Biblical passages, and she pursues this interest with a fierce passion. . . . A paean, in a way, to the rigors and frustrations--and ultimate joys--of trying to comprehend the unfathomable."--Kirkus Reviews "A remarkable and passionately original book of meditation, exegesis, and memoir. The biblical passages are of a piece with stories of Kushner's childhood, her quest to become a writer, and commemoration of her Israeli grandfather, the only one of his German family to escape extinction at the hands of the Nazis. In Kushner's redemptive vision, the Bible in its many translations is a Noah's ark, and her book, too, does a work of saving. When I put it down, I wept."--Rosanna Warren, author of Stained Glass "What a glorious book! From Sarah's laughter to the idea of Jewish law being a dialogue and not a rigid set of rules, this is a book not only to learn from but to savor."--Peter Orner, author of Love and Shame and Love "In this splendid book, each page is a wonder."--Willis Barnstone, author of The Restored New Testament "Kushner reminds us in The Grammar of God that in Hebrew beautiful things are also beautiful words. Her gift as a writer is to take us very near to the text, breathe into it, and give it a new life."--Rodger Kamenetz, author of The Jew in the LotusFrom the Hardcover edition.
La gran búsqueda
by Sylvia NasarEn un relato revolucionario y conmovedor la autora de Una mente prodigiosa recorre los dos últimos siglos junto conlos protagonistas que han cambiado el modo de vida de todos los habitantes del planeta. Construye una biografía coral del pensamiento político contemporáneo, una historia épica de la creación de la economía moderna, y de cómo ésta salvó a parte de la humanidad de la miseria y el hambre al poner su destino material bajo su control en vez de dejarlo en manos del azar. Por su relato desfilan Marx y Engels, el gran John Maynard Keynes, Schumpeter, Hayek, Joan Robinson, los influyentes estadounidenses Paul Samuelson y Milton Friedman, o el premio Nobel indio Amartya Sen. Nasar demuestra cómo lasideas de estos pensadores y activistas transformaron el mundo, del Londres de mediados del siglo xix, la ciudad más rica y deslumbrante del mundo, a los países desarrollados de Europa y América, y después al resto del planeta. En la apasionante historia de estos pioneros presenciamos la respuesta de hombres y mujeres a crisis personales, guerras mundiales, revoluciones y desastres económicos, y el modo en que lograron convertir una ciencia maldita en una victoria sobre el secular destino humano de pobreza y muerte prematura.
La gran manzana: Las 10 claves del éxito de Apple
by Leandro ZanoniApple, la empresa más exitosa de todos los tiempos: desde el diseño desus productos hasta las fabulosas tiendas en las principales ciudadesdel mundo, su mítica historia, la fascinante vida de Steve Jobs, losfanáticos de la manzana y la particular comunicación que hizo famosa ala marca. El 5 de octubre de 2011 murió Steve Jobs y los medios de todo el mundocubrieron la noticia como si fuera una estrella de rock. Se refirieron aél como «un genio», «el creador del siglo XX» y hasta lo compararon conLeonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison y Albert Einstein. Su rostro fue tapade los principales diarios y revistas internacionales. Por eso, LeandroZanoni se propuso explorar las razones del descomunal éxito de Apple.El tridente imbatible: iPod, iPhone y iPad son símbolos del nuevomilenio. Cómo fueron creados, qué nuevas conductas instalaron en elpúblico y en las industrias a las que pertenecen, y el fenomenal negocioque permitió que Apple lidere el ranking de las empresas más cotizadasdel planeta. La gran manzana también cuenta quiénes fueron los hombres ymujeres más importantes de la compañía. Entre esos dieciséis nombres, ellector encontrará el espíritu y los motivos de los logros de Apple, laempresa más exitosa de todos los tiempos.
GRAN MANZANA, LA (EBOOK)
by Leandro ZanoniEl 5 de octubre de 2011 murió Steve Jobs y los medios de todo el mundo cubrieron la noticia como si fuera una estrella de rock. Se refirieron a él como #un genio#, #el creador del siglo XX# y hasta lo compararon con Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Edison y Albert Einstein. Su rostro fue tapa de los principales diarios y revistas internacionales. Por eso, Leandro Zanoni se propuso explorar las razones del descomunal éxito de Apple. Desde el diseño de sus productos hasta las fabulosas tiendas en las principales ciudades del mundo, su mítica historia, la fascinante vida de Steve Jobs, los fanáticos de la manzana y la particular comunicación que hizo famosa a la marca. El tridente imbatible: iPod, iPhone y iPad son símbolos del nuevo milenio. Cómo fueron creados, qué nuevas conductas instalaron en el público y en las industrias a las que pertenecen, y el fenomenal negocio que permitió que Apple lidere el ranking de las empresas más cotizadas del planeta. La gran manzana también cuenta quiénes fueron los hombres y mujeres más importantes de la compañía. Entre esos dieciséis nombres, el lector encontrará el espíritu y los motivos de los logros de Apple, la empresa más exitosa de todos los tiempos.
El gran Mónico: La insólita aventura de un ingeniero manchego en tiempos de crisis
by Manuel Lozano LeyvaLa fabulosa e instructiva historia del ingeniero e inventor Mónico Sánchez, que saliendo de la miseria terminó conquistando Nueva York. «En resumen, lo que pretendo con este relato no es acercarme al alma de Mónico Sánchez Moreno ni al detalle academicista de su historia, sino algo mucho más sencillo a la vez que ambicioso: animar a nuestros jóvenes desesperanzados en esta época de crisis del sur de Europa, en particular, por razones obvias, a los españoles. A ellos va dirigido este librito, para que vean que en condiciones enormemente más adversas que las actuales, es posible no sólo salir adelante, sino llevar a cabo proezas admirables y a priori imposibles para el bienestar propio y del país. O sea, que el (supuesto) destino es siempre evitable.» Manuel Lozano Leyva
Gran Sol (Galería Literaria Ser.)
by Ignacio AldecoaEn alta mar las fuerzas naturales se oponen a los hombres con extrema crudeza. Esta realidad aparece retratada en una novela ya clásica de nuestra literatura, a veces triste y siempre auténtica, capaz de dignificar la soledad y la miseria. Ignacio Aldecoa escribió Gran Sol después de compartir la intensa experiencia de la pesca de altura con los marineros del Cantábrico. Testigo del sacrificio y la pobreza, consigue acercarnos con singular talento su día a día, sus conflictos laborales, sus dificultades y sus conversaciones. El íntimo vínculo entre los trabajadores del mar y la naturaleza queda al descubierto mediante un lenguaje luminoso y colorista que construye una estructura literaria de maestría indiscutible.
Grand: A Grandparent's Wisdom for a Happy Life
by Charles JohnsonNational Book Award winner and MacArthur Genius Fellow Charles Johnson reflects on the joys of being a grandparent in this warm, inspiring collection of wisdom and life lessons—the ideal gift for any new parent or grandparentAn award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has held numerous impressive titles over the course of his incomparable career. Now, for the first time, with his trademark wisdom and philosophical generosity, he turns his attention to his most important role yet: grandparent.In Grand, Johnson shares stories from his life with his six-year-old grandson, Emery, weaving in advice and life lessons that stand the test of time. “Looking at the problems I see in the world around me,” Johnson writes, “I realize that there are so many things I want to say to him about the goodness and beauty that life offers. What are the perennial truths that I can impart to Emery that might make his journey through life easier or more rewarding?” Johnson shares these truths and more, offering profound meditations on family, race, freedom and creativity.Joyful, lucid and deeply comforting, Grand is Johnson at his most accessible and profound, an indispensable compendium for new grandparents and growing grandchildren alike, from one of America’s most revered thinkers.
Grand: A Memoir
by Sara SchaeferFor fans of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress and Let&’s Pretend This Never Happened, comedian and Emmy award–winning writer Sara Schaefer&’s hilariously honest memoir follows Sara&’s trip through the Grand Canyon with her sister that causes her to reflect on her childhood and the scandal that changed her family forever.When Sara Schaefer is in first grade, her father warns her to always tell the truth because one lie leads to another and soon you will find yourself in a hole you can&’t escape. A few years later, the Schaefer family is completely upended when it&’s revealed that their grand life is based on a lie. Her parents become pariahs in their upper middle class community and go from non-religious people to devout church members. The idea of good and evil as binary, opposed forces is drilled into Sara and it becomes the perfect framework on which to build her anxiety and increasingly-obsessive thoughts. The year she turns forty, Sara decides to take each member of her family on a one-on-one vacation culminating with a whitewater rafting journey through the Grand Canyon with her younger sister. The only problem is she&’s terrified of rafting. Along the way, she grapples with unresolved grief over the death of her mother and the family scandal that changed the trajectory of her life. Heartfelt, candid, and witty, Grand is a story about family, identity, and struggling to make something of yourself. Sara deconstructs her struggles with anxiety and depression, what it means to be a good person, and the radically discordant stories we tell ourselves and share with the world.
Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America
by Benedicte IngstadIn 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America – a thousand-year-old Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In A Grand Adventure, the Ingstads’ daughter Benedicte tells the story of their remarkable lives spent working together, sharing poignant details from her parent’s private letters, personal diaries, their dinner table conversations, and Benedicte’s own participation in her parents’ excavations. Following young Helge Ingstad from his 1926 decision to abandon a successful law practice for North American expeditions through Canada’s Barren Lands, Alaska’s Anaktuvuk Pass, and the mountains of northern Mexico, the story recounts his governorship of Norwegian territories and marriage to Anne Stine Moe. The author then traces Helge and Anne Stine’s travels around the world, focusing in particular on their discovery of the Viking settlement at the northern tip of Newfoundland. With Anne Stine as the head archaeologist, they excavate these ruins for eight years, while weathering destructive skepticism from academic peers, until indisputable evidence is unearthed and their find is confirmed. A remarkable look at a personal and professional relationship, A Grand Adventure shows two explorers’ unrelenting drive and unfailing courage.