When Time Stood Still

Author : K. S. Adkins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781515394105
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Time Stood Still written by K. S. Adkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are spent watching the clock. We go to sleep by it. Wake up to it. Rely on it. Race it.It's easy to forget that we're only given so much.We ignore it because we're convinced we'll always have more.I am proof that we aren't promised anything.The clock owes us nothing.I know this because not only was Time my name, I wasn't given enough of it.Sure I had challenges but I vowed to make the most of it, of my young life.My limitations wouldn't hold me back.Time was on my side.Then I was told otherwise.Now the clock was working against me.I would face this disease alone.Then he walked in and changed everything.He gave me a reason to fight.He helped me prepare.Like others before me, when time slowed I wasn't ready.I begged for more.But the clock, it stopped for no one.On the day my world went black, I refused to take him with me.Only he didn't listen.I was a doctor.A bringer of bad news.I read the chart.She was fucked.My hands, they were tied.I was a doctor who could not heal what was beyond that door.I had no hope to offer her.But I wanted this over with.The sooner the better.I walked in, looked up and saw color.Not one.All of them.They surrounded her.She was a patient.You did not cross that line.I would not cross that line.I should have kept my eyes closed.Life was easier when you didn't see.But they were open now.They saw her.They saw everything.Suddenly invisible lines ceased to matter.For me, Time mattered.How far would you go to make sure the one you loved had enough of it?Would you challenge the clock?Help them prepare?Could you watch them suffer?Could you accept a life without them in it?Or, would you follow them into the darkness?I did. This is our story.

Author : Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241290252
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Town Where Time Stood Still written by Bohumil Hrabal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?' A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years ago, and never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their close-knit town - first in the shape of German occupiers, and then with the new Communist order. Elegiac and moving, Bohumil Hrabal's gem-like portrayal of the passing of an age is filled with wit, life and tenderness.

Author : Kenneth Edward BARNES
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781521805459
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day That Time Stood Still written by Kenneth Edward BARNES and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the day began, it was just like any other. Or so it seemed. The sun had come up with its warm rays shining through the trees and into the bedroom window of the little cabin in the woods. Outside the window, birds are singing because spring has just begun. The daffodils have already burst through the ground and are in full bloom, their bright yellow blossoms are a welcoming sight after a long cold winter.This day, however, will not be like any the couple has ever known. For that matter, it will be unlike anything that has ever happened throughout the entire world. It will be a day that time stood still! What makes this day different? Why is it important?Half way around the world an event will happen that will cause worldwide panic. Everyone on earth will be thrust into chaos such as it has never known. What is this event? What is the chaos? This story will tell you. The most surprising thing is--much of this book is not fiction, but fact!

Author : Ariana Neumann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982106395
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Time Stopped written by Ariana Neumann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that needs to be told and heard” (Booklist, starred review). In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid in plain sight under the Gestapo’s eyes. What Hans experienced was so unspeakable that, when he built an industrial empire in Venezuela, he couldn’t bring himself to talk about it. All his daughter Ariana knew was that something terrible had happened. When Hans died, he left Ariana a small box filled with letters, diary entries, and other memorabilia. Ten years later Ariana finally summoned the courage to have the letters translated, and she began reading. What she discovered launched her on a worldwide search that would deliver indelible portraits of a family loving, finding meaning, and trying to survive amid the worst that can be imagined. A “beautifully told story of personal discovery” (John le Carré), When Time Stopped is an unputdownable detective story and an epic family memoir, spanning nearly ninety years and crossing oceans. Neumann brings each relative to vivid life, and this “gripping, expertly researched narrative will inspire those looking to uncover their own family histories” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Helen Ellis
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593081684
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light written by Helen Ellis and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. "Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases: stories of husbands and kids, lost parents and lost jobs, powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges, dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year, and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around. In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with a theater full of women as a psychic exorcises their sorrows, gets twenty shots of stomach bile to the neck to get rid of her double chin, and gathers up the courage to ask, "Are you there, Menopause? It's Me, Helen." A book that reads like the best cocktail party of your life, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light is alive with the sensational humor and ferocious love for her friends that won Helen Ellis legions of fans. This book has a raw vulnerability and an emotional generosity that takes this acclaimed author to a whole new level of accomplishment.

Author : Rohn Rittenhouse
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457535734
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Time Stood Still written by Rohn Rittenhouse and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over drinks at a bar on Saint Thomas, Mike Ross overhears a tale that captivates his attention. In 1595, the Spanish galleon Santa Madero sank off the coast of Saint Croix, taking its crew and a treasure worth millions to the ocean floor, but attempts to recover the treasure over many centuries have all met mysterious and tragic ends. Giving little credence to the story of the curse surrounding the treasure, Ross enlists his best friend and partner, Lou Velez, to recover the sunken fortune. Far below the tranquil blue sea, both men engage in a horrifying confrontation that leaves Velez on the verge of death. As his friend battles for his life, Ross studies the few artifacts they had managed to recover: a handful of doubloons and a coral-encrusted idol. But what is this idol, and what secret does it hold? As Ross diggers deeper into the origin of the idol, an enigmatic and beautiful woman enters his world, speaking of more danger and another treasure worth millions. As the idol yields its secret—an ancient amulet which has to power to control time—Ross and his new partner set sail for a new sunken treasure as two mysterious and brutal agents relentlessly pursue them.

Author : Wayne Norwood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781515309512
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Day Time Stood Still written by Wayne Norwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 29, 1915 was a day that time stood still for residents of St. John Parish, Louisiana. A deadly hurricane was approaching. Before the night would end, the lives of the residents who lived along the shores of Lake Ponchartrain would be forever changed. September 29, 2015 marks the 100 year anniversary of that fateful night. Read the story of a storm survivor.

Author : The Reverend Watkins Leigh Ribble D.D.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450224261
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Time Stood Still written by The Reverend Watkins Leigh Ribble D.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s and early 1930s, the people of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia were living, thinking, and working as their forefathers had done for centuries. Their resistance to change extended to most areas of their lives, including their archaic way of speaking, the low position of women in the mountain home and society, and their outdated farming methods that drained the land of its productiveness each succeeding year. Their invariable response to suggestions for change was hostile: "This is the way my pa did it, and it was the way his pa did it. We ain't never done no different." Since those days--especially after the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park in 1935--vast changes have swept this primitive civilization away, and the picturesque mountaineer of story and legend has become a fading memory. Early in his ministry, Dr. Ribble worked as a missionary among these hardy but culturally-isolated Blue Ridge Mountain people. In his book Where Time Stood Still, he recounts delightful stories about the Blue Ridge Mountain folk, painting a vivid portrait of these mountaineers. A few of these stories involve the stereotypical hillbilly, such as shotgun weddings and illegal moonshining. On the whole, however, his stories paint a much more complete and sympathetic picture of these mountain people, whom he came to know well and for whom he came to feel great respect and affection.

Author : Kate Eastham
Publisher : Bookouture
ISBN 13 : 9781800194885
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the World Stood Still: Heartbreaking Historical Fiction Set in the Time of the Spanish Flu written by Kate Eastham and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nurses were putting in twelve-hour shifts now, day and night. Emily felt broken inside, dried out, not even capable of tears. They were short-staffed after a softly spoken Irish nurse, who'd only been with them for four days, had died from the deadly flu and two more had fallen ill. And more patients were coming in every hour, though the hospital beds were already full... 1918. Twenty-year-old Emily Burdon has been training as a nurse in London, learning on the job as she tends to patients from the crowded poorhouses that ring the hospital as well as wounded soldiers returning from the war. She pours her heart into her nursing while she waits for happier times - peace in Europe and the return of her childhood sweetheart Lewis from the Western Front. But when the deadly Spanish Flu arrives in London on the heels of the war, Emily's faith and courage are put to the test. All around her men and women in the prime of their lives are wasting away, and until a cure is found there is nothing for Emily and her colleagues to do except make them comfortable, treat them as best they can... and, eventually, ease the pain of their passing. But then Lewis catches the deadly flu himself on his way back home, just as a new doctor is transferred to head up Emily's ward. From the distant land of Prince Edward Island in Canada, Dr James Cantor is the first of a generations-old farming family to have left the island, and wartime London feels a long way away from the rugged beauty of his homeland. But despite their differences, he and Emily find common ground in their passion for helping patients and stopping the spread of the disease. But with life forever changed around her and Lewis' future hanging by a thread, can Emily survive the most terrible epidemic in the history with her life - and heart - intact? A heartbreaking historical novel based on true history - emotional and unforgettable. Perfect for fans of Jean Grainger, The Beantown Girls and Diney Costeloe. What readers are saying about Kate Eastham: 'I was completely glued to this book... I cried and I laughed... I would highly recommend this book - reminds me of Nadine Dorries' Nightingale stories but I preferred this one... Brilliant, entertaining and insightful.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'I felt a building of emotion and tears in my eyes. It still has the capacity to touch your heart and make you feel as if you are in the air with Jo and in the field hospital alongside Mac. The story is very real and will leave you with a sense of having lived through it as well.' Goodreads reviewer

Author : Alfred Elton Van Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House that Stood Still written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: