Download or read book The Amnesiac written by Sam Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to England from Amsterdam to investigate what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall, twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew finds a familiar old house with a tragic past, along with a manuscript, a mysterious nineteenth-century thriller that seems to offer clues to a tragedy that took place in the house many years before. Original.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book The Amnesiac written by Sam Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping literary thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction Hailed as 'one to watch' by the UK's Telegraph, Sam Taylor is one of the most imaginative and innovative young writers at work today. With The Amnesiac, his United States debut, he incorporates a murder mystery and a forgotten manuscript into an exhilarating and intelligent novel. When twenty-nine-year-old James Purdew returns to England from his home in Amsterdam, it is to discover what happened during three earlier years of his life that he cannot recall. What he finds, in an old house with a tragic history, is a nineteenth-century manuscript that begins to seem less and less like a work of fiction-and more like the key to his own lost past. Memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, destiny and randomness, heaven and hell-all converge to form an engrossing gothic story that is sure to appeal to fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind.
Download or read book Amnesiac Selves written by Nicholas Dames and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its nuanced examination of a wide variety of Victorian theories of mind, including physiognomy, physiology, associationism, and cognitive philosophies, 'Amnesiac Selves' reveals a portrait of the interaction between psychology and the novel in the years 1810-1870.
Download or read book The Sheriff the Amnesiac written by Ryanne Corey and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "WHO IS JENNY KYLE? " Seems as if everybody in Bridal Veil Falls is asking that question. The feisty redhead with the high-powered motorcycle made quite an impression on the little Montana town—even before the accident that stole her memory… Sheriff Tyler Cook—a champion rodeo rider who'd walked away from a million-dollar career to become the law in his hometown—wants to know her story, too. But folks are starting to think his interest isn't purely professional… And the sparks flying between the sassy stranger and the rock-solid Western lawman have the town wondering if she'll be sticking around—even after she remembers who she is…
Download or read book Amnesiac written by Neil Jordan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunted record of a life devoted to the visual art of the cinema and the written word, by Ireland's greatest director and one of her finest novelists. In this vivid, moving and strange memoir, Neil Jordan – the author of classic fiction like The Past, Sunrise with Sea Monster and Night in Tunisia, and the creator of celebrated movies like Angel, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game and Interview with the Vampire – reaches deep into his own past and that of his family. His mother was a painter, his father an inspector of schools who was visited by ghosts, and Jordan grew up on the edge of an abandoned aristocratic estate in north Dublin whose mysterious ruins fed his imagination. Passionate about music, he played in bands and theatre groups and met, at University College Dublin, a young radical called Jim Sheridan. Together they staged unforgettable dramatic productions that hinted at their future careers. His first collection of stories and first novel, Night in Tunisia and The Past, were met with acclaim, but Jordan was also drawn to the freedom and visual richness of film, and worked with the great English director John Boorman on his Arthurian epic Excalibur. His own first movie with Stephen Rea, Angel, was a brilliant angular take on the horrific violence of the Troubles, and in the years since then his films have combined in a unique way, intense supernatural elements with reflections on violence and sexuality. Jordan describes his work with Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Bob Hoskins, Tom Cruise and many others, but this is not a conventional story of life in the movies. The book is an eerie meditation on loss, love and creativity, on inspiration and influence, by one of the most unusual artists Ireland has produced.
Download or read book Amnesiac Ex Unforgettable Vows written by Robyn Grady and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last woman Samuel Bishop expected to have in his arms was his ex-wife. Left with amnesia from an accident, Laura had no memory of their bitter divorce. In her mind, she and the business tycoon were still newlyweds. With her ready to pick up where she thought their scorching-hot marriage had left off, he couldn't turn her down. But soon Bishop realized he was playing with fire. He wanted to reclaim the wedded bliss this Laura had shown him, but what would happen when her memory returned? And what would happen if it didn't?
Download or read book The Sinner and the Amnesiac written by Alon Goshen-Gottstein and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of two intriguing figures in early rabbinic literature, shown to be products of the literary creativity of rabbinic storytellers who convey a particular ideology through the image of the rabbinic heroes they portray: Elisha ben Abuya, considered as apostate and sinner, and Eleazar ben Arach, known as the one who forgot his Torah.
Download or read book Memoirs of an Amnesiac written by Harry Parry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have heard it said that everyone alive has a special gift. Therefore it stands to reason that we all have a special disability. Maybe sometimes the two go hand in hand.
Download or read book The Sheriff s Amnesiac Bride written by Linda Conrad and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheriff Jericho Yates was about to marry a friend as a favor when a gorgeous damsel appeared, dodging bullets and running for shelter. He had to help this woman who didn't know who she was. Rosie wished she could tell Jericho why she'd been running—and how she'd ended up pregnant. She did know she was falling in love with the handsome, engaged sheriff. Then Jericho's marriage was called off… and he showed Rosie how far he'd go to keep her safe. But once her memory returned, would they lose their chance for a future together?
Download or read book The Amnesiac s Guide to Espionage written by Dave Sinclair and published by Dave Sinclair. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Destruction is Back! Eva is an MI6 agent who wakes to find armed men in her apartment hell-bent on revenge. The only problem is, she has no idea what they're talking about. Someone has stolen the last sixth months’ worth of her memories and the fate of the world rides on getting them back. On the eve of the G8 summit, Eva is thrown headlong into globe-trotting assassinations and gun battles on the trail of the mysterious plan known only as Halcyon. Together with a besotted CIA agent and a misogynistic MI6 operative, Eva races across the world to retrace her steps in the hopes of finding answers. With the clock ticking, Eva must track down those behind her memory loss, as well as battle a foe she can't remember. The globetrotting takes her from London, to exotic Macau casinos, to Hong Kong hydrofoils, to French castles, to English mansions, to a car chase between an ice-cream van containing a nuclear weapon and black SUVs through the streets of London. With betrayal at every turn, Eva discovers she can't trust anyone, including her own organisation. Eva must face down nuclear annihilation alone and she hasn't even had her coffee yet.
Download or read book This Isn t Happening written by Steven Hyden and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and space to make a masterpiece. But Radiohead didn't want to make another rock record. Instead, they set out to create the future. For more than a year, they battled writer's block, intra-band disagreements, and crippling self-doubt. In the end, however, they produced an album that was not only a complete departure from their prior guitar-based rock sound, it was the sound of a new era-and it embodied widespread changes catalyzed by emerging technologies just beginning to take hold of the culture. What they created was Kid A. Upon its release in 2000, Radiohead's fourth album divided critics. Some called it an instant classic; others, such as the UK music magazine Melody Maker, deemed it "tubby, ostentatious, self-congratulatory... whiny old rubbish." But two decades later, Kid A sounds like nothing less than an overture for the chaos and confusion of the twenty-first century. Acclaimed rock critic Steven Hyden digs deep into the songs, history, legacy, and mystique of Kid A, outlining the album's pervasive influence and impact on culture in time for its twentieth anniversary in 2020. Deploying a mix of criticism, journalism, and personal memoir, Hyden skillfully revisits this enigmatic, alluring LP and investigates the many ways in which Kid A shaped and foreshadowed our world.
Download or read book AMNESIAC EX UNFORGETTABLE VOWS written by Robyn Grady and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Laura appeared on the poster of a nonprofit, and her angelic looks captured the public's imagination. Now she’s an adult, and her beauty has captured the heart of millionaire Samual Bishop. But he’s overprotective of her. He treats Laura so delicately, she feels like a porcelain doll. She can’t tell if it’s love or pity that he feels for her…so she asks for a separation. Though she loves Samuel, she doesn’t know if there’s a future for them. While working through her concerns, Laura slips and hits her head and suffers a spell of amnesia…taking her back to the time when she and Samuel were madly in love!
Download or read book Kid A Mnesia written by Thom Yorke and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square painted canvases, from scissors-and-glue collages to immense digital landscapes. They utilised every medium they could find, from sticks and knives to the emerging digital technologies. The work chronicles their obsessions at the time: minotaurs, genocide, maps, globalisation, monsters, pylons, dams, volcanoes, locusts, lightning, helicopters, Hiroshima, show homes and ring roads. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the years at the commencement of this century. A time that seems an age ago - but so much remains the same.
Download or read book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac written by Oscar Levant and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-class pianist, composer, television and film personality, Levant seemed to know everyone who was anyone. His career took him from the concert hall to Broadway and Hollywood, to radio and television, to drug addiction and the psychiatric ward of Mt. Sinai hospital. Through a collection of anecdotal vignettes, Levant offers the reader a roller-coaster ride through the ups and downs of an often troubled, often brilliant artist and critic of the human condition, let loose on the uneasy ground where art and commerce overlap. Autobiography. Memoir.
Download or read book The Rancher and the Amnesiac Bride written by Joan Elliott Pickart and published by Harlequin Treasury-Silhouette Special Edition 90s. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rancher And The Amnesiac Bride by Joan Elliott Pickart released on Aug 25, 1998 is available now for purchase.
Download or read book Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album written by Marianne Tatom Letts and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the British rock band Radiohead subverts the idea of the concept album in order to articulate themes of alienation and anti-capitalism is the focus of Marianne Tatom Letts's analysis of Kid A and Amnesiac. These experimental albums marked a departure from the band's standard guitar-driven base layered with complex production effects. Considering the albums in the context of the band's earlier releases, Letts explores the motivations behind this change. She places the two albums within the concept-album/progressive-rock tradition and shows how both resist that tradition. Unlike most critics of Radiohead, who focus on the band's lyrics, videos, sociological importance, or audience reception, Letts focuses on the music itself. She investigates Radiohead's ambivalence toward its own success, as manifested in the vanishing subject of Kid A on these two albums.
