Giving Up the Ghost

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me.” In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. But at nineteen, she became ill. Through years of misdiagnosis, she suffered patronizing psychiatric treatment and destructive surgery that left her without hope of children. Beset by pain and sadness, she decided to “write herself into being”—one novel after another. This wry and visceral memoir will certainly bring new converts to Mantel’s dark genius. “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times

Giving Up the Ghost

Author: Phoebe Rivers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442466162
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
Sara is preoccupied dealing with a brand-new ability that's just surfaced: the power to read minds.

Giving Up the Ghost

Author: Eric Nuzum
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0385342438
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
At once hilarious and incredibly moving, Giving Up the Ghost is a memoir of lost love and second chances, and a ghost story like no other. Eric Nuzum is afraid of the supernatural, and for good reason: As a high school oddball in Canton, Ohio, during the early 1980s, he became convinced that he was being haunted by the ghost of a little girl in a blue dress who lived in his parents’ attic. It began as a weird premonition during his dreams, something that his quickly diminishing circle of friends chalked up as a way to get attention. It ended with Eric in a mental ward, having apparently destroyed his life before it truly began. The only thing that kept him from the brink: his friendship with a girl named Laura, a classmate who was equal parts devoted friend and enigmatic crush. With the kind of strange connection you can only forge when you’re young, Laura walked Eric back to “normal”—only to become a ghost herself in a tragic twist of fate. Years later, a fully functioning member of society with a great job and family, Eric still can’t stand to have any shut doors in his house for fear of what’s on the other side. In order to finally confront his phobia, he enlists some friends on a journey to America’s most haunted places. But deep down he knows it’s only when he digs up the ghosts of his past, especially Laura, that he’ll find the peace he’s looking for.

Giving Up the Ghost

Author: Sheri Sinykin
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 1561456802
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
"That's the first step, you know. Admitting you're afraid. But when there's love, there can be no fear." Davia is afraid of many things, and everything about her elderly great-aunt Mari and her spooky-looking plantation home terrifies her. When she encounters Emilie, the tortured ghost of a well-to-do adolescent girl from the nineteenth century, she is even more frightened. Davia gradually begins to learn from Aunt Mari secrets about Emilie and about her own family's past—stories of premature endings and regrets. As Aunt Mari's health deteriorates, she and Davia become closer. Together, they hope to release Emilie's spirit from the mansion and the world of the living. Author Sheri Sinykin has written a provocative tale of a young girl who learns to accept uncertainty and to come to terms with her fears. Readers will be mesmerized by the intriguing supernatural mystery that lies at the heart of the story.

Giving Up the Ghost

Author: Sandford Dody
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871311429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description

Minerva Clark Gives Up the Ghost

Author: Karen Karbo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1582346798
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
Thirteen-year-old amateur sleuth Minerva Clark, armed with big hair and a big attitude, is contacted by a boy whose parents' Portland, Oregon, grocery store burned down, but when she agrees to investigate the fire, she does not expect to become an arson suspect herself.

Give Up The Ghost

Author: Kelly Moran
Publisher: Entangled: Covet
ISBN: 1633752755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Paranormal investigator Kerry Baker has seen it all. But nothing in her work with the Phantoms team prepares her for the most terrifying ghost of all-seeing her doppelganger. Rumored to be a foreshadowing of one's death, the spectre shakes Kerry to the core...sending her into the arms of her best friend and fellow Phantom cast member, Paul Leake, for comfort. Until a kiss changes everything. Paul has been in love with Kerry for ages, unwilling to compromise their friendship. As their investigation in a ghost town grows more intense, however, so does the chemistry between Paul and Kerry. With her life in danger and their jobs on the line, giving into their attraction couldn't be a worse idea-and yet they can't bring themselves to stop it. Even if it kills her... Each book in the Phantoms series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series order: Phantoms Book 1: Ghost of a Promise Phantoms Book 2: Give Up The Ghost Phantoms Book 3: Ghost of You

Giving Up the Ghost

Author: Katherine A. Fowkes
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814327210
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Arguing that our enjoyment of ghost films is linked to masochistic pleasure, Giving up the Ghost provides us with a new way of thinking about the relation between film viewing and gender. A deft but readable application of psychoanalytic theories, especially masochism (by way of Deleuze and Studlar), extends the utility of psychoanalysis to the understanding of film genre and film audiences. It is indispensable reading for scholars and students of film theory.

Give Up the Ghost

Author: Angie fox
Publisher: Angie Fox
ISBN: 1939661919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
Some secrets should stay buried. Ghost hunter Verity Long is no stranger to scandal. In fact, it seems to follow her around like her pet skunk, Lucy. But Verity is as shocked as anybody when a town relic discovered in a time capsule unleashes a torrent of secrets that lead to murder. Trouble is, the only residents in Sugarland who know the truth behind the scandal also happen to be very dead themselves. With a killer on the loose and a town in crisis, Verity braves a side of Sugarland she's never seen before. From a booby-trapped haunted mansion to a run-in with the spirit of Sugarland's most notorious blackmailer who may hold the key to setting mob ghost Frankie free...for a price. But when a live killer gets an inside track on Verity's investigation, will she live long enough to give up the ghost?

Ghost

Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481450166
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.