“Urban realism meets dark fantasy in this spine-tingling [and] wonderfully creepy thriller of a ghost story” exploring New Orleans history (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Max Corbett has returned to New Orleans for the funeral of his former girlfriend, Gabrielle Doucette, but between the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of his ruined relationship, the city feels alien. At Gabrielle's graveside, Max meets a man who tells him of a real magic practitioner—not some Bourbon Street phony—who could open a window to the past and send a warning to Gabrielle. Maybe Max can even deliver the warning in person? The man offers Max a cheap map and sends him on his way. But it turns out this quest is not so easy. When Max comes to his first stop, he is drawn into the fabric of history to witness dark and violent periods. And with each passing step, a grim conspiracy is revealed... "Golden and Lebbon vividly evoke the rich, enduring character of New Orleans, as well as spinning a compelling fantasy yarn that builds momentum as Max works his way through the city's history." —Booklist

During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments. Antebellum white North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt, but the Civil War undermined these entrenched attitudes, forcing a reinterpretation of these issues in a new social, cultural, and economic context in which they were increasingly untethered from social expectations. Black North Carolinians, for their part, used emancipation to lay the groundwork for new bonds of community and their own interpretation of social frameworks. Silkenat argues that North Carolinians' attitudes differed from those of people outside the South in two respects. First, attitudes toward these cultural practices changed more abruptly and rapidly in the South than in the rest of America, and second, the practices were interpreted through a prism of race. Drawing upon a robust and diverse body of sources, including insane asylum records, divorce petitions, bankruptcy filings, diaries, and personal correspondence, this innovative study describes a society turned upside down as a consequence of a devastating war.

'When I listen to Bach, I seem to turn into a fish'. - Bach (Pau) in Love. 'We forget because we want to live. We forget because we live in hope for a better life. It's this wretched hope that demands that we forget the unforgettable'. - The Last Smile of Graf Tolstoy. These stories explore the nature of love, loss and memory: central to them is the uneasiness the narrators feel about their place in the world. A critical moment in the life of each narrator illuminates these themes in remarkable ways. For instance, in the story 'Walter Benjamin's Pipe' the narrator wants to comprehend that critical moment when Walter Benjamin, the famous Jewish-German philosopher and literary critic, decided to end his life. In the story 'Bach (Pau) in Love,' the famous Catalan cellist Pablo Casals imagines the situation which would have inspired Bach to compose his six suites for cello. In the story 'Anna and Fyodor in Basel,' Anna, Fyodor Dostoevsky's wife waits for that moment when Holbein's famous painting about the dead Christ makes its appearance in the novel The Idiot. In 'The Quartz Hill,' a Cantonese photographer looks at the prints of Paddy Bedford's paintings about the Bedford Downs massacre and decides to visit Halls Creek in search for her Gija grandmother's roots.

The authors study the moments of equilibrium measures for iterated function systems (IFSs) and draw connections to operator theory. Their main object of study is the infinite matrix which encodes all the moment data of a Borel measure on $\mathbb{R}^d$ or $\mathbb{C}$. To encode the salient features of a given IFS into precise moment data, they establish an interdependence between IFS equilibrium measures, the encoding of the sequence of moments of these measures into operators, and a new correspondence between the IFS moments and this family of operators in Hilbert space. For a given IFS, the authors' aim is to establish a functorial correspondence in such a way that the geometric transformations of the IFS turn into transformations of moment matrices, or rather transformations of the operators that are associated with them.

What if true love takes a lifetime to appear? ------------------- 'A joyful read for anyone who's happily in love, has loved, or is yet to find love' Heat 'Do not miss this book especially if you love books by David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes' The Book Magnet 'A powerful story of missed chances' Bella ------------------- Matthew and Myrtle are made for each other. The only problem is, they haven't met yet . . . Their paths keep crossing, but what happens if they miss their moment? What if Myrtle gets on the wrong bus, or Matthew doesn't speak to the right person at a party, or both of them stay in a job that isn't for them? Will they miss their one chance at happiness? Or will happiness find them eventually, when the moment is right? A heartbreaking page-turner about love, loss and the wonderful, messy reality of life, perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Kate Eberlen and Rebecca Serle. ------------------- Readers have laughed and cried with The Moments! 'Astutely observed and so tenderly told...pure pleasure from beginning to end' The Express 'It will make you laugh - although keep the tissues nearby' Heat 'A mesmerising read' Woman's Weekly 'Tender and poetic' Woman 'Reading The Moments made me glad to be me, to be alive, and to have led the life I have - good and bad bits included' Linda's Book Bag 'A tender and emotional story that really pulls the reader in and appreciate the small things in life' Handwritten Girl 'The Moments blew me away...an incredibly beautiful, raw, insightful, and highly emotive read which will stay with me for a very long time. Please, please do put this on your wishlist as you will not regret it' The Writing Garnet

This edition includes: "A Haunted House" "Monday or Tuesday" "An Unwritten Novel" "The String Quartet" "Kew Gardens" "The Mark on the Wall" "The New Dress" "The Shooting Party" "Lappin and Lappinova" "Solid Objects" "The Lady in the Looking-Glass" "The Duchess and the Jeweller" "Moments of Being" "The Man who Loved his Kind" "The Searchlight" "The Legacy" "Together and Apart" "A Summing Up"

Children are naturally curious. Sometimes they have BIG questions. MAP OF MEMORY LANE is a heartwarming story that gently introduces the topic of loss while celebrating the simple moments we share with those we love.

Miracle moments are the "cracks of light" pouring into the ego's dark system. It is the ego which makes you a slave of time, dreaming a dream of violence, pain, fear, guilt, and despair. Discover how to make of every meeting an opportunity for miracle moments, opening your mind to experience the best that life has to offer, allowing the wisdom of the inner light to shine. What are miracle moments? How can we achieve them? What are the catalysts that make these moments possible? How can the notion of miracle moments be applied to our personal relationships, to psychotherapy, and to educational, organizational, and political settings? What can miracle moments teach us about race, religion, politics, and sex? The author, Antonio Monteiro dos Santos, brings together his experience of twenty-five years as a psychotherapist, the knowledge of A Course in Miracles, of The Bhagavad Gita, and of the Gospel of the Buddha to write this passionate book in answering these questions. His practice of yoga and meditation, and his work and experience with the power of silence permeates his writings. The experience and wisdom of accomplished psychotherapists and communicators such as Carl R. Rogers, Virginia Satir, Eugene Gendlin, Erving Polster, John Grinder, Robert Stein, and Robert Nemiroff presented in this book, add to its richness, making it into a profound statement about the crucial moments of life.

"Moments of Being" reveals true stories that have altered lives forever. Join celebrities, athletes, business and community leaders from all walks of life as they share their amazing twist of fate experiences.

The authors define the :th moment of a Banach space valued random variable as the expectation of its :th tensor power; thus the moment (if it exists) is an element of a tensor power of the original Banach space. The authors study both the projective and injective tensor products, and their relation. Moreover, in order to be general and flexible, we study three different types of expectations: Bochner integrals, Pettis integrals and Dunford integrals.