Download or read book Cardiff by the Sea written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four brand-new novellas by the #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (Publishers Weekly). An academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl, overcome with loneliness, befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore is distraught to discover that she’s pregnant, and the professor who takes her under his wing may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries into a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor’s voice, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive attraction to a garage that took two lives. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for “great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Download or read book The Optician of Lampedusa written by Emma Jane Kirby and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only optician on the island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean is an ordinary man in his fifties, who used to be indifferent to the fate of the thousands of refugees landing on the coast of the Italian island. One day in the fall of 2013, the unimaginable scale of the tragedy became clear to him, and it changed him forever: as he was out boating with some friends, he encountered hundreds of men, women and children drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck. The Optician and his seven friends managed to save 47 people (his boat was designed to hold ten people). All the others died. This is a poignant and unforgettable account about the awakening of conscience: more than that, it brings home the reality of an ongoing refugee crisis that has resulted in one of the most massive migrations in human history. More than 360 people died in the disaster off the coast of Lampedusa on October 3, 2013. The original interview with Carmine Menna, the basis for this book, can be heard at http: //bit.ly/optlamp
Download or read book The Ventriloquists written by E.R. Ramzipoor and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] remarkable saga.... Engrossing.” —Booklist, starred review In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich. The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be silenced. Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin—daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail, E.R. Ramzipoor’s dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. It is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history.
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Cardiff Docks written by John Hutton and published by Silver Link Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the Cardiff Railway, a 6.5 mile branch to the docks opened in 1909 and that of the docks during the Second World War, when the became targets for the Luftwaffe.
Download or read book Cardiff After Dark written by Maciej Dakowicz and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiff After Dark is the first monograph by British-based Polish photographer Maciej Dakowicz. Dakowicz spent five years photographing the nighttime revelries that take place in Cardiff over the weekend. Focused around a few pedestrianized streets in the city centre, Dakowicz's images capture nightlife fueled by alcohol and emotions. The arc of an evening's entertainment is captured in these candid photographs, which reveal fun and hilarity as well as fighting and drunken exhaustion. There are stag nights and hen parties, men dressed as superheroes and women dressed as Playboy bunnies, mountains of discarded chip wrappers, arrests by the police, and lots and lots of posing for photographs. Dakowicz's images, at times shocking or upsetting, form an important documentary photobook of British urban life in the early part of the 21st century.
Download or read book The Cardiff Giant written by Larry Lockridge and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cardiff Giant, set in Cooperstown, New York, has up its novelistic sleeve Puck's profound declaration, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" Jess Freeman, investigative reporter, arrives on the scene to look into the weird disappearance from the Farmers' Museum of a huge human figure. He had been unearthed in the late nineteenth century near Cardiff, New York. Jess confronts locals and outsiders who all have a theory, including that the giant has been reanimated and is lurching throughout the community. They are enmeshed in self-punishing belief systems such as alien abduction, astrology, kabbalistic numerology, New Age rebirthing, and religious dogmas reduced to literal absurdities. The fast-paced action centers around episodes where they pay a sorry price for their beliefs. But skeptics don't fare much better, susceptible as they are to mental disorders that show the faculty of reason is fragile indeed. These characters group and regroup, with romance always on their minds, and finally come to recognitions at once surprising and moving.
Download or read book The Pirates Next Door written by Jonny Duddle and published by Templar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jolley-Rogers - a pirate family, are moving to Dull-on-Sea, a quiet seaside town. Stopping to fix up their ship, this unusual family get the whole neighbourhood spreading rumours. Defying the grown-ups, Matilda from next door decides to become friends with the youngest pirate son. When the Jolley-Rogers leave, the town discovers they were wrong to assume the worst - the pirate clan have buried treasure in everyone's gardens (shown in a stunning double-gatefold). Matilda feels sad until she discovers her own treasure - an incredibly exciting new pen friend.
Download or read book Real Cardiff written by Peter Finch and published by Real Wales. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A further alternative illustrated guide to Cardiff offering interesting information about the past and present of the outlying areas of the city, their streets, churches and pubs, railways and industries, place names and famous personalities. A sequel to Real Cardiff. 78 black-and-white photographs and 3 maps.
Download or read book River Taff written by Alvin Nicholas and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning photographic journey along the length of this iconic river
Download or read book The Lemon Grove written by Helen Walsh and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the rugged, mountainous west coast of Mallorca, this taut, sultry, brilliantly paced novel is an urgent meditation on female desire, the vicissitudes of marriage and the allure of youth. Taking place over the course of one week, The Lemon Grove lands in the heat of Deia, a village on an island off the southeast coast of Spain. Jenn and Greg are on their annual holiday to enjoy languorous, close afternoons by the pool, and relaxed dinners overlooking the rocks. But the equilibrium is upset by the arrival of their teenage daughter, Emma, and her boyfriend, Nathan. Jenn, in her early forties, loves her (older) husband and her (step)daughter and is content with her life, she thinks. But when this beautiful, reckless young man comes into her world, she is caught by a sexual compulsion that she's seldom felt before. As the lines hotly blur between attraction, desire and obsession, Jenn’s world is thrown into tumult--by Nathan's side, she could be young and carefree once again, and at this stage in her life, the promise of youth is every bit as seductive as the promise of passion. Jenn struggles between the conflicting pulls of resistance and release, and the events of the next few days have the potential to put lives in jeopardy as the players carry out their roles in this unstoppably sexy and unputdownable novel from a brilliant observer of the human condition.
Download or read book Janet Cardiff George Bures Miller written by Janet Cardiff and published by Hatje Cantz Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise retrospective, this publication contains previously unpublished written and visual material, as well as pertinent literature on the oeuvre of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. SPECIALIST
Download or read book Cardiff by the Sea written by Wehtahnah Tucker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiff-by-the-Sea is a beautiful Southern California coastal town nestled between the San Elijo Lagoon to the south and rolling hills to the east. Known simply by locals as Cardiff, it was named by Esther M. Cullen, who arrived from Boston in 1910 with her husband, J. Frank Cullen, a man determined to transform the swampy expanse of fertile farmland into a coastal playground and town. During the 1920s, the town evolved quickly into a bustling community with a school district, post office, train station, and water irrigation district. The independent character of today's residents can be gleaned throughout the history of the area, from Cullen's determination to build a town in a region thought to be unsuitable for inhabitation, to the citizens' battle in the 1980s to retain autonomy as the town was incorporated into a larger city. Today Cardiff-by-the-Sea is one of five communities comprising the city of Encinitas and is proud of the small-town atmosphere first cultivated by the pioneering spirit of its early settlers.
Download or read book Salt written by Catrin Kean and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardiff in 1878 is grimy, crowded and grey, and Ellen dreams of escaping her dreary life as a domestic for the sea. But when she falls in love with Samuel she is able to fulfil her destiny by running away with him. Life at sea is brutal and dangerous, and when circumstances bring her home the hardships of working class life and racism begin to poison their lives.
Download or read book San Diego written by Aaron Chang and published by Aaron Chang. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed surf and ocean photographer, Aaron Chang travelled the world for Surfing magazine in search of the Endless Summer. After three decades of capturing waves, beach lifestyle and exotic landscapes around the world, Aaron wanted to show the natural beauty in his own backyard, San Diego, through his eyes. Aaron¿s most recent book project, SAN DIEGO: Through the Lens of Aaron Chang captures the natural beauty of the San Diego beaches and its coastal communities. This 116 page book is in it¿s 4th edition and is a best seller at Aaron¿s two San Diego based galleries, one downtown and the other in Solana Beach: AaronChang.com/galleries From the stunning beauty of Torrey Pines to coastal charm of Encinitas and Solana Beach, Aaron¿s interpretation of San Diego captures its special allure that attracts millions of visitors every year. Aaron has been nominated San Diego¿s `Ambassador of the Arts¿ 3 years running by the San Diego Tourism Authority. ¿My goal is for people to appreciate the beauty that surrounds us on a daily basis, but gets lost in our busy lives,¿ Aaron explains. A stunning sunset in Cardiff, to a winter swell in Del Mar, to the glamorous roof top views of a city in bloom, these images inspire the viewer to take a break. Look around. Life is good right here in our beautiful city, San Diego.
Download or read book A Guide to San Diego Sea Shells written by Nancy Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local San Diego resident, Nancy Lee, Artist By-the-Sea, has written and illustrated A Guide to San Diego Sea Shells. This book contains Nancy Lee's watercolor sea shell illustrations & sea shell photographs with educational information about the sea shells written in calligraphy. * Learn information such as the name of local sea shells, how long some shells live, predators of some of these marine mollusks and where these sea shells can be found in other parts of the west coast. * Discover fun facts about some of our local San Diego sea shells! * Identify San Diego sea shells from photographs.
Download or read book Standard of Excellence written by Bruce Pearson and published by Neil a Kjos Music Company. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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