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Tending to Virginia is a audiobook of one family's most important stories - how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation - revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age.

Milo formade tummen och pekfingret till ett litet titthål och höll upp det framför Als ögon. "Titta här igenom. Det är vad jag ser, typ, fast sämre." "Wow, det måste vara helt otroligt." Milo ryckte på axlarna. "Inte direkt." "Jag menar, du kan verkligen fokusera, eller hur? Jag kan slå vad om att du ser alla möjliga saker som andra människor missar." Nioåriga Milo Moon har retinitis pigmentosa: hans syn blir successivt sämre och han kommer så småningom att bli helt blind.

Älter ist wie jünger, nur besser! Mit einem neuen Jahr beginnt Marie Sharp auch ein neues Tagebuch. Kurz vor ihrem 67. Geburtstag ist sie fest entschlossen, endlich mehr für ihre Gesundheit zu tun. Doch dann ertastet sie etwas Merkwürdiges an ihrem Bauch, bestimmt ein Symptom für … ja, für was nur? Gut, dass Marie genug Dinge hat, die sie vom Grübeln abhalten. Da wäre zum Beispiel der gut aussehende Untermieter, der offensichtlich etwas zu verbergen hat. Oder dieses „soziale Netzwerk", in das ihre Freunde plötzlich ständig seltsame Dinge schreiben. Und nicht zuletzt eine neue, völlig verrückte Nachbarin … In all dem Trubel wird eines schnell klar: Marie ist nicht mehr die Jüngste - und das ist auch gut so!

Loni Mae Murrow liebt ihr geordnetes Leben in Washington, D.C., wo sie ihr Talent zum Beruf gemacht hat: Für ein Naturkundemuseum fertigt sie naturgetreue Zeichnungen von Vögeln an. Als ihre Mutter Ruth erkrankt, folgt sie nur widerwillig der Bitte ihres Bruders, in die Kleinstadt ihrer Kindheit im Marschland Floridas zu kommen. Denn inmitten der unberührten Landschaft lauern die Erinnerungen an Ruths Gefühlskälte und an den tragischen Tod ihres Vaters Boyd als Loni zwölf Jahre alt war

Monday or Tuesday is a 1921 short story collection by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Leonard Woolf called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it. Most mistakes were corrected for the US edition published by Harcourt Brace. It contained eight stories: A Haunted House / A Society / Monday or Tuesday / An Unwritten Novel / The String Quartet / Blue and Green / Kew Gardens / The Mark on the Wall.

The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated by the beauty, insight and danger that awaits us all in the wild!

"Kew Gardens" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday, and subsequently in the posthumous collection A Haunted House (1944). Originally accompanying illustrations by Vanessa Bell, its visual organisation has been described as analogous to a post-impressionist painting.

THIS IS HOW it all came about. Six or seven of us were sitting one day after tea. Some were gazing across the street into the windows of a milliner's shop where the light still shone brightly upon scarlet feathers and golden slippers. Others were idly occupied in building little towers of sugar upon the edge of the tea tray.

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble.

The Ported fingers of glass hang downwards. The light slides down the glass, and drops a pool of green. All day long the ten fingers of the lustre drop green upon the marble. The feathers of parakeets their harsh cries sharp blades of palm trees green, too.

The Mark on the Wall is the first published story by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1917 as part of the first collection of short stories written by Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard Woolf, called Two Stories. It was later published in New York in 1921 as part of another collection entitled Monday or Tuesday. The Mark on the Wall is written in the first person, as a "tream of consciousness" monologue. The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and muses on the workings of the mind.

The narrator, apparently a woman, begins: "Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting." Along with her husband, the narrator experiences the sensations of a home literally alive with memories. She does not, however, try to keep the reader in suspense regarding the mysterious openings and closings of doors and windows that she and her husband witness. Despite the fact that she knows two ghosts wander through her home, she is not afraid. The ghosts, after all, mean the narrator and her husband no harm...

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains...