Bøger af Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore's wickedly fresh first novel--a Canadian best seller, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region), and a "Globe and Mail" Book of the Year--moves with the swiftness of an alligator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters mingling in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland. St. John's is a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O'Connor country. Its denizens jostle one another in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Colleen is a seventeen-year-old would-be ecoterrorist, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. Her mother, Beverly, is cloaked in grief after the death of her husband. Beverly's sister, Madeleine, is a driven, aging filmmaker who obsesses over completing her magnum opus before she dies. And Frank, a young man whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers, is desperate to protect his hot-dog stand from sociopathic Russian sailor Valentin, whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters. "Alligator" is a remarkable book, a suspenseful, heartfelt, and sexy story that examines the ruthlessly reptilian and painfully human sides of all of us.

Harnessing the Power of Prayer is a guide using prayer to keep your life on a level plane. The book can be used for personal enrichment or in small group settings. The questions at the end of each chapter lead to practical application with in the reader's life. This book encourages you to be a "doer and not a hearer only". Prayer is the comfort, encouragement, and peace, as well as the physical needs of life. The relationship with the giver is more important than the stuff that is given. Come and see. Prayer is a dialogue between you and God. Jonah used it to help the people of Nineveh to move the hand of God. Prayer is the most powerful in the universe when used according to the use of God. When you discover the knowledge contained in his word you will discover that the gift he gave to the world is his only begotten son. He gave his son so that the ones who accept him as their Savior will be spared the penalty of sin. You also discover that God, who was from the beginning, when not only listen to your prayers but answer them as well. Learn to develop a prayer life that will keep you connected in a positive manner with the God of the universe. He stands at the door and knocks will you let him in?

Someone was killing the building blocks of a once proud organization that in the last decade had fallen on hard times. The Baltimore Orioles where in the process of rebuilding its minor and major league systems with shred trades and high draft picks. The city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland fans and their local officials where all excited that their beloved birds were on their way back to respectability. Attendance was up through the whole minor league system from Aberdeen to Fredrick, Bowie to Delmarva. Even in Camden yards home of the beloved birds they were seeing a resurgence of interest. Then the unthinkable started to happen. Some of their best prospects where being murdered. Systematically one by one the Orioles rising stars started to fall in all the minor league towns scattered across the state. It was devastating to the Oriole organization and the state's economy with the loss of tax revenues. The madness had to stop and it had to stop now. That task fell in the hands of Detective Mike Carrier a single father of two who had his own share of personal tragedies. Along with his partner detective Roger Ginavan (Guinea) and an elite team of specialized officers. In the past, they had handled some of the highest profile cases in the state of Maryland. However this one would outweigh them all. They will follow the leads wherever the leads take them. From town to town door step to door step and beyond to neighboring states if need be. They will pull out all the resources available to them no matter the cost to them both professionally or personally as they seek to end to these heinous crimes.

Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022. Featuring:Madhur Anand ¿ Sharon Bala ¿ Gary Barwin ¿ Billy-Ray Belcourt ¿ Xaiver Michael Campbell ¿ Corinna Chong ¿ Beth Downey ¿ Allison Graves ¿ Joel Thomas Hynes ¿ Elise Levine ¿ Sourayan Mookerjea ¿ Lue Palmer ¿ Michelle Porter ¿ Sara Power ¿ Ryan Turner ¿ Ian Williams

Lisa Moore's stories are bright, emotionally engaging, tangible. She marks out the precious moments of her characters' lives against deceptively commonplace backdrops ¿ a St. John's hospital cafeteria lit only by the lights in the snack machines; a half-built house "like a rib cage around a lungful of sky" - and the results linger long in the memory. The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore shows us that love, alongside desire, can sometimes come as a surprise, sometimes an ambush. She splices moments and images together so adroitly, so vividly, you'll swear you've lived them yourself. This new volume, bringing together Lisa Moore¿s first two books of stories, Open and Degrees of Nakedness, is the very best way to encounter one of the finest short-story writers in the country. This edition features a brilliant new introduction by Jane Urquhart on the importance of Moore¿s work.

From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?

"How much do we really know about Quincey Morris?In one of the greatest Grand-Guignol moments of all time, Dracula is caught feeding Mina blood from his own breast while her husband lies helpless on the same bed. In the chaos that follows, Morris runs outside, ostensibly in pursuit. "I could see Quincey Morris run across the lawn," Dr. Seward says, "and hide himself in the shadow of a great yew-tree. It puzzled me to think why he was doing this..." Then the doctor is distracted, and we never do find out.This story rose up from that one question: Why, in this calamitous moment, did the brave and stalwart Quincey Morris hide behind a tree?"Lisa Moore

Internationally celebrated as one of literature's most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives.

And then on to Columbia, where the real test begins. With bravado and the exuberant folly of youth, Slaney embarks on a road trip that will take him from the seedy motels of Nova Scotia to a beach party in Columbia, navigating bad weather and a ferocious storm at sea, undercover cops and gun-toting drug barons.

As John grapples with what it might mean to be a father, Helen realises that she must shake off her decades of mourning in order to help. With grace and precision and an astonishing ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore reveals the story that unfurls around those two moments.

From Newfoundland comes a fabulous new voice in a novel where humanity is a bizarre combination of the reptilian and the saintly. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller, the Canadian Booker Prize and regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.