Download or read book Beautiful Shining People written by Michael Grothaus and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A damaged young man meets an enigmatic waitress in a Tokyo cafÉ, and they embark on a journey that will change everything ... an emotive speculative literary novel set in a near-future Japan It's our world, but decades into the future ... an ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There are two superpowers and a digital Cold War, but all conflicts are safely oceans away. People get up, work, and have dinner. Everything is as it should be... Except for seventeen-year-old John, a tech prodigy from a damaged family, who hides a deeply personal secret. But everything starts to change for him when he enters a tiny cafÉ on a cold Tokyo night. A cafÉ run by a disgraced sumo wrestler, where a peculiar dog with a spherical head lives, alongside its owner, enigmatic waitress Neotnia... But Neotnia hides a secret of her own – a secret that will turn John's unhappy life upside down. A secret that will take them from the neon streets of Tokyo to Hiroshima's tragic past to the snowy mountains of Nagano. A secret that reveals that this world is anything ordinary – and it's about to change forever...
Download or read book All the Shining People written by Kathy Friedman and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2023 Trillium Book Award Finalist, Writers Union of Canada 2023 Daunta Gleed Literary Award Finalist, 2023 ReLit Award for Short Fiction Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home. All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within Toronto’s Jewish South African community, as individuals come to terms with the oppressive hierarchies that separate, and the connections that bind. Seeking a place to belong, the book’s characters — including a life-drawing model searching the streets for her lover; a woman confronting secrets from her past in the new South Africa; and a man grappling with the legacy of his father, a former political prisoner — crave authentic relationships that replicate the lost feeling of home. With its focus on family, culture, and identity, All the Shining People captures the experiences of immigrants and outsiders with honesty, subtlety, and deep sympathy.
Download or read book Trust No One written by Michael Grothaus and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy. Chinese president Xi Jinping declaring nuclear war. Basketball legend Michael Jordan winning the World Cup. The only limit is the imagination. In a time where fake news and disinformation is becoming harder and harder to identify, it is more essential than ever to understand the dark origins of deepfakes. Journalist Michael Grothaus goes down the rabbit hole as he interviews the often morally dubious, yet incredibly skilled creators of this content. It's a journey that opens a window into the communities transforming reality. Challenging, enlightening and terrifying, Trust No One asks the question other people are too scared to: what happens when you can no longer believe your own eyes? 'An alarming look at deepfakes' Sunday Times 'Michael Grothaus takes a hard look at the growth of deep fakes, examining cases that demonstrate the threats presented by morally dubious creators. From the personal to political, the impact of deep fakes is considered carefully by Grothaus, both on the victims and on society as a whole, creating an essential picture of a growing trend in disinformation' Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat
Download or read book Beautiful World Where Are You written by Sally Rooney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
Download or read book I Am My Beloveds written by Jon Papernick and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ben Seidel wasn't sure how serious they were when he and his wife Shira discussed having an open marriage. But when Shira announces that she is going on a date with Liz, any ambiguity evaporates. Suddenly, every day is new terrain for Ben, navigating between keeping things together with Shira and exploring new partners. And when one of those new partners begins to matter to him more than he ever anticipated, he discovers that the complexities of this new life are only just beginning. Bracingly honest, refreshingly sexy, and deeply empathetic, I Am My Beloveds is the work of a superior storyteller, making real a lifestyle that might be as close as your own bedroom door"--
Download or read book Describe with Confidence written by Purnima Jhariya Pal and published by Fluent English121. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever Get stuck when trying to speak? Run out of words after one or two sentences? Feel unsure about what to say or how to say it? If so, Picture Descriptions could be one of the solutions! They help you organize your thoughts and express yourself more easily. Start practicing today, and you’ll be surprised at how quickly your English improves!
Download or read book The Little House in the Fairy Wood written by Ethel Cook Eliot and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Little House in the Fairy Wood" by Ethel Cook Eliot. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Three Friends of God written by Frances Bevan and published by CCEL. This book was released on 1887 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short account given in the following pages of three of the "Friends of God" of the fourteenth century, is but a small fragment of a history which would form in itself a voluminous library, the history of the "Brethren" of the Middle Ages, known to us under many names, but in England chiefly as the Lollards or Boni Homines. - Preface.
Download or read book Modern Classics of Fantasy written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While humanity has been telling fantastic stories for millennia, fantasy fiction has only come into its own as a genre in the latter half of the twentieth century, as the works of such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard have found a wide audience. This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy's heyday with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H.L.Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Michael Swanwick, Judith Tarr, Howard Waldrop, Jane Yolen, and Roger Zelazny. Just as Gardner Dozois's Modern Classics of Science Fiction has helped longtime fans and new readers alike discover the genre's finest short stories, so too shall this anthology allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy.
Download or read book Documentary Storytelling written by Sheila Curran Bernard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentary Storytelling is unique in offering an in-depth look at story and structure as applied not to Hollywood fiction, but to films and videos based on factual material and the drama of real life. With the growing popularity of documentaries in today's global media marketplace, demand for powerful, memorable storytelling has never been higher. This practical guide lays out the basics and applies them to diverse subjects and film styles, from cinema verite and personal narrative to financing and budgets. It shows how good storytelling can bring mundane or difficult subjects to life, and demonstrates that good films can be both rigorous and entertaining. Offering practical advice for ever state of production, Documentary Storytelling is filled with real-world examples drawn from the author's career and the experiences of a range of filmmakers, both emerging and established. Special interview chapters explore storytelling as practiced by David Guggenheim, Jon Else, Nicholas Fraser, Susan Froemke, Sam Pollard, Onyekachi Wambu and others. This third edition has been updated and expanded, with a look at newer and internationally-distributed films. It also features new coverage of financing and budgeting in the world of digital distribution of documentary films and the troubles that young filmmakers face as a result.
Download or read book For Spacious Skies written by Nancy Churnin and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mighty Girl's 2020 Books of the Year The true story of the unconventional woman and her enduring song about the spirit of America. Katharine Lee Bates first wrote the lines to "America the Beautiful" after a stirring visit to Pikes Peak in 1893. But the story behind the song begins with Katharine herself, who pushed beyond conventional expectations of women to become an acclaimed writer, scholar, suffragist, and reformer. Katharine believed in the power of words to make a difference, and in "America the Beautiful," her vision of the nation as a great family, united from sea to shining sea, continues to uplift and inspire us all.
Download or read book Queens Park Rangers Greatest Games written by Mike Donovan and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary players and great managers of the HoopsFrom the thousands of matches ever played by QPR, stretching from their Victorian foundation to the Premier League era, here are 50 of the most glorious, epochal, and thrilling games of all. Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident in atmospheric detail, this book offers a terrace ticket back in time, taking in historical highlights from their first matches at Welford's Field in Kensal Rise to Loftus Road, Jim Gregory's QPR Revolution, the plastic pitch, and beyond. An irresistible cast list of club legends-Stan Bowles and Les Ferdinand, Tony Ingham, George Goddard and Rodney Marsh-springs to life in a thrilling selection of famous firsts, derby showdown successes, Southern League title clinchers, last-day dramas, European nights, Cup finals, and that unforgettable Sixties Double. This journey through the highlights of the Hoops' history is guaranteed to make any fan's heart swell with pride.
Download or read book Max and Maxie written by James McLure and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Now rich, famous and perhaps a bit out of date, Max Love is in Florida about to star in a production of Waiting for Godot . An ex-vaudevillian, Max is not much for such high-class pursuits as the theatre, and he is having a bit o
Download or read book A Mysterious Spring Break written by Joshua Gilpin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spring break vacation for a group of friends turns into the most psychotic vacation you could ever imagine. Five friends travel down to Panama City Beach for a spring break vacation, yet not knowing what was waiting for them down there. Everything seems great in the beginning but good things can always take a turn for the worst. Adam and his friends arrive in Panama City Beach however when the girl of his dreams gets kidnapped by a murderer and goes missing, it is up to him and his group of friends to help him look for her. As they search high and low, tempers start to rise and there is so much tension you could cut it with a knife. Do you think he will find Amanda safe and sound? Or will worrying and panicking get him no where?
Download or read book Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book One written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new omnibus collecting the first three volumes of the Vampire Hunter D horror novel series! It is 12,090 A.D., thousands of years since the human race nearly destroyed itself in a nuclear war--a folly foreseen by those who waited to emerge out of the underground...not from shelters, but from crypts! The aristocratic vampire lords known as the Nobles inherited our world, and with dark science and immortal patience made real the things that mortals had merely dreamed, whether voyaging to the distant stars, or conjuring monsters to roam the Earth. Yet the grand civilization of the Nobles has grown decadent, and as the terrorized remnants of humanity at last found the strength to rebel, their undying lords have been pushed back to the Frontier--the violent borderlands where humans still remain the prey of vampires, who for all their knowledge and power have never lost their obsession with our living flesh, blood...and souls! In this bizarre and deadly far future the most dangerous thing of all is not a vampire, but the one who hunts them--the one who is half them--a dhampir, the unearthly beautiful wanderer known as D. The Vampire Hunter D Omnibus collects the first three novels in author Hideyuki Kikuchi's adventure horror series: Vampire Hunter D, Raiser of Gales, and Demon Deathchase. Illustrated by Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano, this book is only the beginning of a legend!
Download or read book Everlasting written by Nancy Thayer and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer comes a dazzling portrait of a young woman whose passion and ambition drive her to a fateful choice. Catherine Eliot was born to a world of privilege and prestige, with a family whose last name and vast fortune provide her with access to almost anything she could wish for. But what Catherine craves most is independence. So while her friends settle into comfortable lives financed by doting parents and indulgent husbands, she moves to New York City, determined to make it on her own. Taking a demanding job in a bustling flower shop, she works hard and learns the trade until, with courage and determination, she’s able to open Blooms, an exclusive floral boutique on the fashionable Upper East Side. Jetting from Manhattan’s flower district to elegant East Hampton, from England’s gorgeous countryside to Holland’s world-famous flower auctions, Catherine is at the height of her career. But before she can bask in her hard-won success, her brother’s desperate actions endanger her business. Meanwhile, while romanced by a charming Boston lawyer who whisks her off to Paris, Catherine also finds herself powerfully drawn to a secretive foreigner who takes her breath away. The question remains whether Catherine can confront her own demons to achieve the life she’s long desired. Includes a captivating excerpt of Nancy Thayer’s novel Nantucket Sisters! Praise for the novels of Nancy Thayer “The queen of beach books.”—The Star-Ledger “Thayer has a deep and masterly understanding of love and friendship, of where the two complement and where they collide.”—Elin Hilderbrand “Thayer’s gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters [is] captivating.”—Houston Chronicle “One of my favorite writers.”—Susan Wiggs “Thayer portrays beautifully the small moments, inside stories and shared histories that build families.”—The Miami Herald “Thayer’s sense of place is powerful, and her words are hung together the way my grandmother used to tat lace.”—Dorothea Benton Frank
Download or read book The People s Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
