Download or read book The Bride of the Wind written by Susanne Keegan and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perceptive, sweepingly dramatic biography of the astonishing woman who was wife, muse, and mistress to a generation of geniuses--composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, novelist Franz Werfel, and painter Oskar Kokoschka. "The most balanced biography of Alma Mahler yet to have appeared".--The Times Literary Supplement (London). Photographs.

Download or read book Walk the Blue Fields written by Claire Keegan and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll’s old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer. A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland’s greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.

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Download or read book The Irish Short Story at the Turn of the Twenty First Century written by Madalina Armie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, Ireland was experiencing the "best of times". The Celtic Tiger seemed to instil in the national consciousness that poverty was a problem of the past. The impressive economic performance ensured that the Republic occupied one of the top positions among the world’s economic powers. During the boom, dissident voices continuously criticised what they considered to be a mirage, identifying the precariousness of its structures and foretelling its eventual crash. The 2008 recession proved them right. Throughout this time, the Irish contemporary short story expressed distrust. Enabled by its capacity to reflect change with immediacy and dexterity, the short story saw through the smokescreen created by the Celtic Tiger discourse of well-being. It reinterpreted and captured the worst and the best of the country and became a bridge connecting tradition and modernity. The major objective of this book is to analyse the interactions between fiction and reality during this period in Ireland by studying the short stories written by old and emergent voices published between the birth of the Celtic Tiger in 1995 up to its immediate aftermath in 2013.

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Download or read book MR KEEGAN S ELOPEMENT written by WINSTON CHURCHILL and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1903-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Keegan's Elopement is a short story published by American writer Winston Churchill in June 1896 in The Century Magazine. His first published story, it was republished in book format by Churchill's publisher Macmillan in June 1903 following the success of his first three novels, especially 1899's Richard Carvel.

Download or read book Skin written by April Lindner and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haven't we all been told how beauty is thin as truth? And don't we believe and disbelieve this "lie we'd carve and starve for. / We'd suck it till the juice ran down our arms"? Skin compels us, repels us. Beauty may be only skin deep, a fine covering--sensuous, at times translucent, almost transparent, and yet so obdurate. Skin insulates, guarding its vital organs just beneath this surface that teases us to peek, to try to penetrate. We call this desire by many names, the best of which is love. April Lindner's sensuously orchestrated collection of poems conveys the beauty and truth of love, how we know it to be paradoxical, obsessive, fearful, rapacious, holy.--Robert FinkFontanelHere's the ravine, a stretch of skinspanning the breach like a footbridge.Canvas-thin, it trembles with the bloodthat runs beneath. Something less tangiblecourses there too, a whitewater flumeof images: the stretching housecat;car keys that sing and catch light;floorboards knotted with dark, animal eyes;the window with its shifting square of sky.All things equal, each thing startling, and everything unmediated by the mind'shabitual grapple with whyand so what. You frown at a fadedwallpaper pineapple, and the membraneflutters harder. I'm carefulwhen I comb your sparse brown hair.When I sing your name I borrow a liltI'd never use in speech. The wordsdon't matter; I'm saying drink me while you can, like milk. Let me be flesh and flannel, hands that loosen your tangled blanket.Know me by scent before you learn my name, before doorknobs turn into doorknobs, before the gates knit shut.

Download or read book BROKEN TOGETHER You May Now Kiss The Bride written by Keegan Inambao and published by Keegan Inambao. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Together; You May Now Kiss The Bride serves as a guiding light for couples and intending couples who find themselves facing unexpected trials. It skillfully intertwines emotional narratives with practical advice, offering readers the tools they need to mend, strengthen, and rekindle the flames of love that brought them together. In this powerful book you will learn; · What love really is · How people looks at love · The elements of love · How to have a successful dating that leads into marriage · Why dating and when to start dating · Couples compatibility analysis · What is marriage · Why marry and when to marry · What keeps marriage together · How to deal with and avoid cheating Drawing from psychological insights, expert interviews, and heartfelt accounts, this book offers a roadmap for couples seeking to mend their fractured bonds. Grab a copy and uncover practical strategies that promote understanding, empathy, and growth within relationships.

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Download or read book A BRIDE FOR SAINT NICK written by Carole Buck and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOLIDAY HONEYMOONS Was it too late to make her his wife? SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN HE'D EVER LOVED…. One snowy Christmas, John Gulliver came to a sleepy New England town as a stranger. He had a new name, a new face, and even the woman he'd loved and lost didn't recognize him. Because everything from their shared past—except their passion—had been a lie…. Now John wanted to reclaim the bride who should have been his six years ago. And be a father to the son he'd just discovered. Finally having a family would be the greatest Christmas gift of all. But telling Leigh the truth was not without its price…. HOLIDAY HONEYMOONS. Because when you combine holidays with weddings, something magical happens!

Download or read book Bratva s Revenge written by Tom Sloan and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bratva, the Russian mob operating out of Brighton Beach, NY, seeks revenge for the loss of their chieftain, anonymously slain by a sniper’s single shot to the head. His son, the young Belov, is the newly installed Bratva Chieftain, and seeks to kill the person, who he believes, orchestrated his dad’s execution: retired Secret Service Director Larry Cassell. Cassell, and his family, are in clear and present danger, but don’t know it. Belov orders his operatives to kidnap Cassell’s daughter from a university sponsored archeological “dig” in Guatemala; and his son, from the United States Naval Academy. He intends to use them to draw Director Cassell into a death trap. Thrust back into the mix are Coast Guard Intelligence Captain Will Strain and his wife, Carly, the newly installed Agent- in-Charge of the Secret Service’s Miami Office. Both survived Bratva’s previous operation to leverage an international hostage exchange to gain the release the mob’s global super-hacker, Max, from federal custody. The Strains, threatened by the Bratva, are now to be collateral damage; part of Bratva’s plan to kill Director Cassell. This does not go well. Revenge is sweet, but for whom?

Download or read book Mr Keegan s Elopement written by Winston Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book McKettrick s Heart written by Linda Lael Miller and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s the last woman this cynical rancher thinks he needs in his life… a beloved classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller! Keegan McKettrick has learned the hard way that trust results in betrayal. The only light in his life these days is the young daughter he sees all too rarely, and his sole passion is for his job overseeing his family’s corporation. Until beautiful but mysterious Molly Shields comes to Indian Rock on a mission—and keeping a suspicious eye on her becomes Keegan’s full-time hobby…. Molly doesn’t know why she’s attracted to a man who’s determined to dig up dirt on her, even if he is gorgeous. But cynical Keegan might be the one person who can truly understand her shadowy past—and if the two can risk opening their hearts, they just might forge a brighter future. Originally published in 2007