Download or read book An Unfamiliar Guest written by E. C. Murray and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious widow. A distraught mother. A pristine island in the Pacific Northwest filled with secrets, deception, and duplicity. Meaghan Farren, a distraught widow, speeds from Massachusetts to Lorissa Orondo's home in the Pacific Northwest, hoping to make amends for cruelty back in college. Lorissa, a frustrated mother of teenagers, is coming undone. Her music career, propelled by her Juilliard education, falters; her teenage children are driving her crazy; and her absentee husband constantly travels for work. Still, the two old friends reconcile when Meaghan confesses the family secrets that led to her ruthlessness two decades earlier.Meaghan settles in an apartment on Lorissa's island, starts an accounting business, and falls in love with her sexy neighbor. As in real life, nothing is as it seems. Meaghan abruptly moves to La Serena, Chile where she meditates and communes with nature. Secrets are revealed, a man is shot, and to Lorissa's horror, police arrest her son for shooting an unarmed man in order to steal opioids. Lorissa knows her son is a trouble maker, but she can't believe he'd shoot anyone. In a saga that leads from Massachusetts to Washington state to La Serena, Chile, An Unfamiliar Guest is a story of friendships, suspicion, and intrigue with twists that will shock even the most astute reader.
Download or read book The Lord s Song in a Strange Land written by Jeffrey A. Summit and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the United States, Jews come together every week to sing and pray in a wide variety of worship communities. Through this music, made by and for ordinary folk, these worshippers define and re-define their relationship to the continuity of Jewish tradition and the realities of American life. Combining oral history with an analysis of recordings, The Lord's Song in a Strange Land examines this tradition incontemporary Jewish worship and explores the diverse links between the music and both spiritual and cultural identities. Alive with detail, the book focuses on metropolitan Boston and covers the full range of Jewish communities there, from Hasidim to Jewish college students in a transdenominational setting. It documents a remarkably fluid musical tradition, where melodies are often shared, where sources can be as diverse as Sufi chant, Christmas carols, rock and roll, and Israeli popular music, and where the meaning of a song can change from one block to the next.
Download or read book The Unbidden Guest written by Ernest William Hornung and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unbidden Guest written by E. W. Hornung and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unbidden Guest is one of the most celebrated novels by English author and poet E. W. Hornung. Like many of his other famous works, this story of an uninvited guest follows Australian themes depicting an interesting yet lifelike picture of the country's society.
Download or read book Extraordinary Encounters written by Katherine Smith and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is experienced and imagined as a kind of space within which personal, biographic and social cues and norms can be explored and interrogated. The interview possesses its own authenticity, therefore—true to the persons involved and true to their moment of interaction—whilst at the same time providing information on human capacities and proclivities that is generalizable beyond particular social and cultural contexts.
Download or read book And Today Is Only Monday written by Vern Thornton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going back to the 1920s the book follows the life of a man in a small New England town as he gives up a secure government job to become a newspaper reporter, then an editor, with dramatic and often humorous accounts of events of the times. Hoodwinked into a new profession, this time in law enforcement, examine his career in Connecticut and Florida that followed. His final career takes him to the Florida Attorney General's office where he becomes founder of a nationally acclaimed program. But all is not just work in the life of this man. The second part of the book recalls his various world trips of unusual circumstances and when he meets some of the most fascinating people to be found anywhere.
Download or read book The Summer Guests written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “authentic, generous, and heartfelt” (Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Beach House series is about the bonds and new beginnings that are born from disasters and how, even during the worst of circumstances—or perhaps because of them—we discover what is most important in life. Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast—the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. It’s the perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it’s also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina: the Phillips’s daughter Moira and her rescue dogs, famed equestrian Javier Angel de la Cruz, makeup artist Hannah McLain, horse breeder Gerda Klug and her daughter Elise, and island resident Cara Rutledge. Strangers to all but the Phillips, they must ride out the storm together. During the course of one of the most challenging weeks of their lives, relationships are put to the test as the evacuees are forced to confront the unresolved issues they have with themselves and with each other. But as the storm passes, they realize that what really matters isn’t what they brought with them to the mountains. Rather, it’s what they’ll take with them once they leave. “Fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Wendy Wax will enjoy the picturesque setting and heartwarmingly intertwined character arcs” (Booklist) and “Monroe writes gorgeously, with authority and tenderness, about the natural world and its power to inspire, transport, and to heal” (Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
Download or read book Unfamiliar Fishes written by Sarah Vowell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight. Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.
Download or read book Influences of Pre Christian Mythology and Christianity on Old Norse Poetry written by Andrew McGillivray and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál serves as a representation of early pagan beliefs or myths and as a myth itself; the poem performs both of these functions, acting as a poetic framework and functioning as sacred myth. In this study, the author looks closely at the journey of the Norse god Óðinn to the hall of the ancient and wise giant Vafþrúðnir, where Óðinn craftily engages his adversary in a life-or-death contest in knowledge.
Download or read book Semiotics and Interpretation written by Robert Scholes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection.-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Create Sustainable Hospitality written by Christopher Warren and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how to actively persuade guests to participate in achieving sustainable hospitality and introduces a five-step methodology on how to directly and effectively involve them in saving energy and water, reducing food waste and cutting carbon.
Download or read book Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women written by Louise Barnett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift was the subject of gossip and criticism in his own time concerning his relations with women and his representations of them in his writings. For over twenty years he regarded Esther Johnson, "Stella," as "his most valuable friend," yet he is reputed never to have seen her alone. From his time to our own there has been speculation that the two were secretly married--since their relationship seemed so inexplicable then and now. For thirteen of the years that Swift seemed committed to Stella as the acknowledged woman in his life, he maintained a clandestine--but apparently also nonsexual--relationship with another woman, Esther Van Homrigh, or "Vanessa." Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women looks again at these much-examined relationships and at others that reveal Swift as a man who enjoyed the company of a number of women as pupils and as ministrants to his various needs. Swift, a man with a complex private life, was also a writer whose satiric portraits of women could be unsparing. While Swift often criticized women for frivolous pastimes and idle chatter, his most notorious texts on women image their bodies as loathsome: as he once wrote in a serious political tract, a woman is a "nauseous, unwholesome carcass." Such representations cross a line by showing a repugnance for women as a sex, the biological other. They have led, not surprisingly, to repeated charges of misogyny, an issue that Jonathan Swift in the Company of Women addresses at some length. This first book-length treatment of Swift and women comprehensively examines Swift's attitude toward women in all their manifestations in his work and life: as intimates, acquaintances, protégés, wives, mothers, nurses, disobedient daughters, young women who marry older men, and--finally--as poets and critics.
Download or read book The Independent written by Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Princess history written by V. Speys and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is set in the period of the return of the pharaoh from emigration to Egypt and the power of Rome to restore him to the throne. A year after the return of the pharaoh to Alexandria, Ptolemy begins preparing his daughter for reign over Egypt. For impoverished Egypt during the period of suppression of the conspiracy to overthrow Ptolemy XII, the pharaoh decides to initiate his daughter into the secrets of the treasury of Egypt, which is under the care of the high priest of the Temple of...
Download or read book The Way You Make Me Feel written by Maurene Goo and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2018 A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of 2018 A We Need Diverse Books 2018 Must-Read A TAYSHAS 2019 Reading List Book A California Book Award Finalist From the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food truck. Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad’s business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind? With Maurene Goo's signature warmth and humor, The Way You Make Me Feel is a relatable story of falling in love and finding yourself in the places you’d never thought to look.
Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
