Download or read book Agnes Among the Gargoyles written by Patrick Flynn and published by Bitingduck Press LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes among the gargoyles is a novel steeped in the lore of New York City. The engine of the novel is the love of the city felt by the book's protagonist, Agnes Travertine, an architectural preservationist. Agnes is the sort of person who spies a dignified sliver of the Woolworth Building behind some formless modern building and thinks of "a line of lace slip showing at the bottom of a gaudy dress." Agnes is painted on a broad social canvas and tackles big themes, the lure of the past and the ultimate failure of nostalgia, the resonance of place, the dangerous mysteries of love and sex.
Download or read book The Subway Chronicles written by Jacquelin Cangro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some seven million people board the New York City subway every day, each one with a story to tell. The Subway Chronicles collects twenty-seven of the tales, dramas and comedies that unfold during the daily commute. From the “mole people” living in the subway tunnels, to the transit employees working behind the scenes, to the locals and tourists riding shoulder-to-shoulder in harmony, discord, or indifference, The Subway Chronicles offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives on this most public of spaces. Prominent New York writers weigh in: Jonathan Lethem confesses his childhood subway sins Colson Whitehead offers mass-transit tips for newcomers to the city Francine Prose recalls the thrill and apprehension of riding alone as a teenage girl Calvin Trillin pokes fun at the classic New York tendency to be skeptical about everything Stan Fischler delights in memories of riding the open-air train cars to Coney Island as a boy Equal parts hilarious, poignant, and heartbreaking, The Subway Chronicles is a journey into New York’s underground with some of today’s most loved writers.
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Download or read book London and Literature 1603 1901 written by Angela Kikue Davenport and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London and Literature, 1603–1901 brings together papers by scholars and researchers interested in British literature of the period covered. It will be of value to the many students and colleagues of the contributors, as well as people connected with or influenced by the work of Eiichi Hara. This volume covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. It takes the city of London as its focus, and the chapters explore different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within the time period. This connection is doubly significant as the book is also a Festschrift to celebrate the career of Eiichi Hara, the most renowned Dickensian in Japan and a scholar with a particular interest in London. With a preface by Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens, and a foreword by Toru Sasaaki, President of the English Literary Society of Japan, London and Literature, 1603–1901, brings together leading scholars in the field of English literature to offer a series of valuable perspectives on the city and its artistic life.
Download or read book Fifty One Years of Victorian Life written by Countess of Jersey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Countess of Jersey
Download or read book Fifty One Years of Victorian Life written by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Countess of Jersey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life is an autobiography by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers. Villiers was an English noblewoman, activist, writer and hymn-writer who here relates her life in warm fashion.
Download or read book Fifty One Years of Victorian Life written by Countess of Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Jersey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life is an autobiography by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers. Villiers was an English noblewoman, activist, writer and hymn-writer who here relates her life in warm fashion.
Download or read book Evol written by Jean Carlo Baldrich and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arlo Sylmar the creator of Evol, is so deluded by his own interpretation of his own world - made from glass. As he loses track of what’s happening to his creations. His world starts deteriorating by becoming as his creations, robotic, and manic. As he loses all empathy, the suffering of losing himself gets him playing both sides of the coin in order to set a balance between being pure and dark. Evol is a rollercoaster ride of emotions, in a spectrum of color. Mio rolls dice with self-hate, in order to get the creator’s attention. His imaginary creatures start plotting against him, as they start showing him the many versions of himself. The creations start noticing that such vengeance is not worth inflicting on those who have harmed him. As he himself is one of them.
Download or read book The Dragon Within Me written by Arnie Grimm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was 'The Wizard Within Me'. Then came along 'The Curse Within Me'. Now, here is 'The Dragon Within Me'. This trilogy will take you inside the magical world and allow you to discover the unseen magical world that exists around us. Read them in order. Read them out of order. You'll enjoy each book no matter what order you read them in. It was crystal clear that Zimmer Wardcrystal had a long enduring grudge with the magical world. What was unclear to all was what Zimmer Wardcrystal had unleashed this time and went completely out of control. What did Simon Norman Lavinsky get himself into when he went to Zimmer Wardcrystal the ghoul? Was it really Simon's lucky day when he joined forces with the entity known as the Black Dragon? The wizarding world knew all too well the only way to kill a dragon is to cut its heart out. That is exactly what JayCee Münter wanted to do to Simon, if they could only catch him. Nothing could stop the Black Dragon from removing magic from the world. Read the final book of The Wizard Within Me trilogy, to see if Penelope Candlewick and JayCee Münter can stop this latest foe of the magical world.
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Download or read book The Once and Future Witches written by Alix E. Harrow and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. The characters live, bleed, and roar. "―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books • Barnes and Noble • BookPage In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women's suffrage—the lost ways are calling. Praise for The Once and Future Witches: "A glorious escape into a world where witchcraft has dwindled to a memory of women's magic, and three wild, sundered sisters hold the key to bring it back...A tale that will sweep you away."―Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author "This book is an amazing bit of spellcraft and resistance so needed in our times, and a reminder that secret words and ways can never be truly and properly lost, as long as there are tongues to speak them and ears to listen."―P. Djèlí Clark, author The Black God's Drum For more from Alix E. Harrow, check out The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
Download or read book The Best Witch in Paris written by Lauren Crozier and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2023 Text Prize winner is a magical middle-grade adventure featuring an array of enchanting characters, exotic settings, a deliciously sinister villain and an intriguing mystery to be solved
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster written by William Farrer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bad HairCult Silver Hills Cozy Mysteries Book 5 written by Sam Cheever and published by Electric Prose Publications. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come to Silver Hills. Where a bad hair day could end up costing you your life. If you were a “mature” individual with a mighty fine bouff, would you consider shaving your head to solve a case of possible murder? That’s the million-dollar question for Flo and Agnes as they find themselves neck-deep in missing Satanists, scheming cultists, and a long string of seriously bad hair days. But what’s a sleuth to do when the queen of the night comes to them pleading…erm…threatening…ahhh…pleatening them for help? If you know Flo and Agnes you already know the answer to that question. They’re goin’ in!
Download or read book European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro Theatrical Sites written by Mark Pizzato and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares monumental designs and performance spaces of Christian, Buddhist, and related sanctuaries, exploring how brain networks, animal-human emotions, and cultural ideals are reflected historically and affected today as "inner theatre" elements. Integrating research across the humanities and sciences, this book explores how traditional designs of outer theatrical spaces left cultural imprints for the inner staging of Self and Other consciousness, which each of us performs daily based on how we think others view us. But believers also perform in a cosmic theatre. Ancestral spirits and gods (or God) watch and interact with them in awe-inspiring spaces, grooming affects toward in-group identification and sacrifice, or out-group rivalry and scapegoating. In a study of over 80 buildings – shown by 40 images in the book, plus thousands of photos and videos online – Pizzato demonstrates how they reflect meta-theatrical projections from prior generations. They also affect the embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended (4E) cognition of current visitors, who bring performance frameworks of belief, hope, and doubt to the sacred site. This involves neuro-social, inner/outer theatre networks with patriarchal, maternal, and trickster paradigms. European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites investigates performative material cultures, creating dialogs between theatre, philosophy, history, and various (cognitive, affective, social, biological) sciences. It applies them to the architecture of religious buildings: from Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant in Europe, plus key sites in Jerusalem and prior “pagan” temples, to Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and imperial in China. It thus reveals individualist/collectivist, focal/holistic, analytical/dialectical, and melodramatic/tragicomic trajectories, with cathartic poetics for the future.
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