Download or read book Adam and Evelyn written by Ingo Schulze and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of Germany’s finest writers comes a wonderfully light and humorous novel set during the tumultuous events of 1989. A wobbling Hungary has just opened its borders to Austria enabling a flood of refugees to escape, the Berlin Wall is on the cusp of falling, and, yet, seemingly sheltered from this onrushing new world in their idyllic East German home are Adam, a tailor and dressmaker who enjoys a life of dressing (and undressing) his appreciative clientele, and Evelyn, Adam’s restless girlfriend. Having just unexpectedly quit her job as a waitress, Evelyn returns home one day to find Adam sleeping with one of his customers. Calmly, but quickly, Evelyn packs her belongings and runs off to Hungary on a vacation she had originally planned to take with Adam. Accompanying Evelyn on her journey is her friend Simone and Michael, Simone’s West German cousin. In hot pursuit, however, to everyone’s surprise or dismay, is Adam. Following the group in his family’s rickety 1961 Communist-made automobile, Adam chases after Evelyn, banishing himself from his Garden of Eden as she pursues her very own idea of heaven. As Adam and Evelyn are swept out on a Western tide of new freedoms—helping refugees and helping themselves to impetuous trysts with others along the way—they find themselves forced to adjust to life in a world forever changed. Paradise regained? Perhaps not. Upending our expectations from the start, Adam and Evelyn is a deceptively simple love story that will enthrall longtime readers and those new to the delights of Ingo Schulze’s stories alike.
Download or read book Adam Evelyn written by Pat Ballard and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Carmichael arrived in Nashville, Tennessee with hopes of starting a new life for her and her four-year-old daughter far, far away from her abusive ex-husband. She was absolutely sure she could make a life for them without the help of any man on Earth. And then she met Pastor Adam Singletary. From his vantage point on the stage, Adam Singletary’s body went very still as he watched the woman slip quietly, otherwise unnoticed, into the back of the church and take a seat on the last row. She set her purse on the floor and then looked up directly into his eyes. An arc of unseen electricity connected them, jolting his body to the center of his being. She’s finally here, he thought.
Download or read book Adam and Evelyn written by Ingo Schulze and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Germany as Adam and Evelyn by Berlin Verlang GmbH, Berlin, in 2008"--T.p. verso.
Download or read book VILE BODIES written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”
Download or read book Adam and Evie written by Marisa Concetta and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could happen when the nerd of Roosevelt High becomes Hollywood's next superstar? Answer: Anything. Before she became Evie Chase, Hollywood's Golden Girl, Evie was a nobody at the bottom of the high school food chain with only a handful of friends. Her best friend - Adam Fields - was a popular jock who always had her back. Until one day, he stopped, and they never spoke again. Fast forward three years, and everything has changed. Evie is out in LA living the dream as a seventeen year old popstar, Adam's at home finishing off high school, and they are both trying their best to forget the past. They are living separate lives and everything is running smoothly. Until...Evie's back. To avoid paparazzi, the young starlet returns to school in disguise. As the teenagers get to know each other again, Adam unaware that the new girl is his former best friend, they are both left wondering - did the past actually happen the way they remember it? And could their revived friendship turn out to be something more?
Download or read book The Shape of Things written by Neil LaBute and published by Faber & Faber Plays. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in The Shape of Things. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. The world premi re of The Shape of Things was presented at the Almeida, London, in May 2001.
Download or read book The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope written by Rhonda Riley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope is an unconventional and passionately romantic love story that is as breathtaking and wondrous as The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. During WWII, teenager Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier on their property. She rescues him, and it quickly becomes clear he is not a man…and not one of us. The rescued body recovers at an unnatural speed, and just as fast, Evelyn and Adam fall deeply in love. In The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, Rhonda Riley reveals the exhilarating, terrifying mystery inherent in all relationships: No matter how deeply we love someone, and no matter how much we will sacrifice for them, we can only know them so well…
Download or read book Born Into This written by Adam Thompson and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The Story Prize Spotlight Award, Winner * Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist * Queensland Literary Awards – University of Southern Queensland Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection, Shortlist * Age Book of the Year award, Finalist * An ABA Indie Next pick for “Great New Reads” for August. * "A Best Native Book of 2021" —The Tribal College Journal * "A Best Book of the Year" —Independent Book Review The remarkable stories in Born Into This are eye-opening, razor-sharp, and entertaining, often all at once. From an Aboriginal ranger trying to instill some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and compromised decisions, Adam Thompson presents a powerful indictment of colonialism and racism. With humor, pathos, and the occasional sly twist, Thompson’s characters confront discrimination, untimely funerals, classroom politics, the ongoing legacy of cultural destruction, and — overhanging all like a discomforting, burgeoning awareness for both black and white Australia — the inexorable disappearance of the remnant natural world. "A legacy of cultural destruction in Australia and the disappearance of the natural world loom over stories of Aboriginal rangers, untimely funerals and angry bees in this sharp fiction debut." —New York Times Book Review "With its wit, intelligence and restless exploration of the parameters of race and place, Thompson’s debut collection is a welcome addition to the canon of Indigenous Australian writers." —Thuy On, The Guardian
Download or read book Adam a Evelyn written by Ingo Schulze and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Approaching Eden written by Theresa Sanders and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to be religious for the story of Adam and Eve to have touched your life. From Voldemort's snake mascot in Harry Potter novels to the 'forbidden fruit' apple that puts Snow White to sleep in fairy tales, we are inundated with references to the Garden of Eden in popular culture from an early age. On a deeper level, the story has been used as justification for conflicting viewpoints on issues ranging from nudity to marriage to slavery. Approaching Eden digs much deeper than merely cataloguing entertaining Adam and Eve references in popular culture by exploring how these references are used and how they shape society. Theresa Sanders provides essential historical background from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives to show the relevance and prominence of Adam and Eve's story in life today.
Download or read book Adam and Evelyn at Kew Or Revolt in the Gardens written by Robert Herring and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tuk Tuk for Two written by Adam Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The race." She said. "India. Were you serious...?" About racing a tuk-tuk one thousand kilometres through India with a woman I'd just met? No, I wasn't serious. "There's a fifty percent chance we'll die. And the flight's in two days. But if you want to, okay..." It was not a reasonable offer. But then she wasn't a reasonable woman. She was certainly unreasonably attractive. I tried not to let that sway me, which was like a hammock deciding a tornado wouldn't sway it. And driving terrified me; I hadn't done it in a decade. But if I could drive in India, I could drive anywhere. If I drive a tuk-tuk, I could drive anything. And if I said yes, I'd get to spend ten days with her. Would that be enough time to find out who she was, what she wanted, and then convince her to abandon that and want me instead? There was only one way to find out... The books in the Weird Travel series can be read in any order.
Download or read book Adam und Evelyn written by Ingo Schulze and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Frauen lieben Adam, weil er ihnen Kleider schneidert, die sie schön und begehrenswert machen. Adam liebt schöne Frauen. Wenn sie erst seine Kleider tragen, begehrt er sie alle, und abgesehen davon liebt er Evelyn. Die ertappt ihn eines heißen Augusttages 1989 in flagranti mit einem seiner Geschöpfe. Statt mit Adam fährt Evelyn gemeinsam mit einer Freundin und deren Westcousin nach Ungarn an den Balaton. Adam setzt sich mit seinem alten Wartburg dem roten Passat auf die Spur. Für Evelyn würde er bis ans Ende der Welt fahren - und vielleicht muss er das auch, denn Ungarn will die Grenze gen Westen öffnen. Plötzlich ist die verbotene Frucht greifbar, und alle müssen sich entscheiden. In der Ausnahmesituation jenes Spätsommers 1989, dem Schwebezustand plötzlicher Wahlfreiheit, entdeckt Ingo Schulze die menschliche Urgeschichte von Verbot und Verlockung, Liebe und Erkenntnis und nicht zuletzt der Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies. Doch wo ist das zu finden? In der Verheißung des Westens, der Ungebundenheit eines endlosen Feriensommers am Plattensee oder doch im vertrauten Amtsstubenduft einer frisch geöffneten Brotkapsel und dem eigenen Garten? Im Spiel mit dem biblischen Mythos von Adam und Eva gelingt Ingo Schulze eine grandiose Tragikomödie. Mit seinem ironisch gebrochenen Begriff vom Sündenfall findet er eine Chiffre für den Eintritt in unsere heutige Welt.
Download or read book If I Stay written by Gayle Forman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed, bestselling novel from Gayle Forman, author of Where She Went, Just One Day, and Just One Year. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Chloe Moretz! In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heartwrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family. Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia's story will stay with you for a long, long time.
Download or read book The Loved One written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art... A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, "The Loved One" depicts a world where love, reputation and death cost a very great deal.
Download or read book To be a Nurse written by Evelyn Adam and published by Philadelphia ; Toronto : W.B. Saunders. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explains the fundamental concepts of nursing, as developed throughout the years and looks at where nursing may be going in the future.
Download or read book Evelyn written by Evelyn Doyle and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the eyes of his daughter Evelyn, this is the true story of a father's fight to reclaim his children from the Irish government in the 1950s, now a major film. Desmond Doyle, 29, a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the infamous Fatima Mansions in Dublin in 1953. One day he comes home to find his wife has left him. He decides to go to England to find work and is advised to put his children into the state Industrial Schools system for a short time until he returns. When he returns he is told to his horror that the children have been consigned to the state until they are 16. This is the story of how Desmond Doyle fought the Irish legal system to change the law and win back his family.
