Download or read book The Inverted Forest written by John Dalton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “gripping, tender, and at times disturbing tale” (Entertainment Weekly) of unlikely devotion and sudden violence in an isolated Midwestern summer camp is a compelling follow up to the award-winning Heaven’s Lake. From the prizewinning author of Heaven Lake comes an extraordinary story of unlikely devotion and sudden crisis in an isolated summer camp. Late on a warm summer night in rural Missouri, an elderly camp director hears a squeal of female laughter and goes to investigate. At the camp swimming pool he comes upon a bewildering scene: his counselors stripped naked and engaged in a provocative celebration. The first camp session is set to start in two days. He fires them all. As a result, new counselors must be hired and brought to Kindermann Forest Summer Camp. One of them is Wyatt Huddy, a genetically disfigured young man who has been living in a Salvation Army facility. Gentle and diligent, Wyatt suffers a deep anxiety that his intelligence might be subnormal. But while Wyatt is not worldly, he is also not an innocent. He has escaped a punishing home life with a reclusive and violent older sister. Along with the other new counselors, Wyatt arrives expecting to care for children. To their astonishment, they learn that they will be responsible for 104 severely developmentally disabled adults, all of them wards of the state. For Wyatt it is a dilemma that turns his world inside out. Physically, he is indistinguishable from the campers he cares for. Inwardly, he would like to believe he is not of their tribe. Fortunately for Wyatt, there is a young woman on staff who understands his predicament better than he might have hoped. The Inverted Forest is filled with yearning, desire, lust, banked hope, and unexpected devotion. This remarkable novel confirms John Dalton’s rising prominence as a major American novelist.

Download or read book J D Salinger written by Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on Salinger and his works as well as a chronology of events in the author's life.

Download or read book The Inverted Forest written by John Dalton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late on a warm summer night in rural Missouri, an elderly camp director hears a squeal of joyous female laughter and goes to investigate. At the camp swimming pool he comes upon a bewildering scene: his counselors stripped naked and engaged in a provocative celebration. The first camp session is set to start in just two days. He fires them all. As a result, new counselors must be quickly hired and brought to the Kindermann Forest Summer Camp. One of them is Wyatt Huddy, a genetically disfigured young man who has been living in a Salvation Army facility. Gentle and diligent, large and imposing, Wyatt suffers a deep anxiety that his intelligence might be subnormal. All his life he’s been misjudged because of his irregular features. But while Wyatt is not worldly, he is also not an innocent. He has escaped a punishing home life with a reclusive and violent older sister. Along with the other new counselors, Wyatt arrives expecting to care for children. To their astonishment, they learn that for the first two weeks of the camping season they will be responsible for 104 severely developmentally disabled adults, all of them wards of the state. For Wyatt it is a dilemma that turns his world inside out. Physically, he is indistinguishable from the state hospital campers he cares for. Inwardly, he would like to believe he is not of their tribe. Fortunately for Wyatt, there is a young woman on staff who understands his predicament better than he might have hoped. At once the new counselors and disabled campers begin to reveal themselves. Most are well-intentioned; others unprepared. Some harbor dangerous inclinations. Among the campers is a perplexing array of ailments and appearances and behavior both tender and disturbing. To encounter them is to be reminded just how wide the possibilities are when one is describing human beings. Soon Wyatt is called upon to prevent a terrible tragedy. In doing so, he commits an act whose repercussions will alter his own life and the lives of the other Kindermann Forest staff members for years to come. Written with scrupulous fidelity to the strong passions running beneath the surface of camp life, The Inverted Forest is filled with yearning, desire, lust, banked hope, and unexpected devotion. This remarkable and audacious novel amply underscores Heaven Lake’s wide acclaim and confirms John Dalton’s rising prominence as a major American novelist.

Download or read book A Sonnet for Every Day written by DEVIDASAN VELLAT and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India to Vattompadath Madhavan Nair and Vellat Kalyanikutty Amma as the youngest of their four children. His father was a farmer and he helped his father in agriculture along with his two brothers and one sister. After his primary and secondary education in AUP School and MNKMHS, Chittilamchery respectively, he got graduated in Physics from NSS College Nemmara and took his postgraduate degree in English Literature from Government Victoria College, Palakkad. Devidasan Vellat entered into his teaching career as Junior Lecturer in English at NSS College in 1986 and continued in his alma mater for 32 years until his retirement as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English. After his retirement, he went to Thunchathezhuthachan College and VR Krishnanezhuthachan College of Law, Elavancheri as visiting faculty of English for two years and currently works as Principal of Aashrayam College of Arts and Science, a unit of Samarpitham Educational and Charitable Trust, Nenmeni. During his teaching career, he developed a passion for translation and was a much sought-after expert in the genre. He took up a Research Project on "Translation: A Postcolonial Stratagem" sponsored by UGC and translated popular verse in Malayalam into English which won him great appreciation. He published a collection of bilingual poems titled 'Macaronic Verse' in 2006. Devidasan Vellat has started a blog - ddvellat62. blogspot. com - through which he brings to light some of his poems. Further, he has collaborated with the national award-winning film director Jayaraj in the production of a documentary on the Malayalam poet Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan by translating some of his poems including 'Devisthavam' and 'Kurathi' which was highly challenging. Devidasan Vellat lives in Kollengode and is married to Sasikalakumari Kambrath and has a son Siddharth and a daughter Sreedevi, both employed in the United Arab Emirates.

Download or read book Salinger written by David Shields and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times bestseller, this “explosive biography” (People) of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth century is “as close as we’ll ever get to being inside J.D. Salinger’s head” (Entertainment Weekly). This “revealing” (The New York Times) and “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) oral biography, “fascinating and unique” (The Washington Post) and “an unmitigated success” (USA TODAY), has redefined our understanding of one of the most mysterious figures of the twentieth century. In nine years of work on Salinger, and especially in the years since the author’s death, David Shields and Shane Salerno interviewed more than 200 people on five continents, many of whom had previously refused to go on the record about their relationship with Salinger. This oral biography offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger’s World War II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his New Yorker colleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were secret even to his own family. Their intimate recollections are supported by more that 175 photos (many never seen before), diaries, legal records, and private documents that are woven throughout; in addition, appearing here for the first time, are Salinger’s “lost letters”—ranging from the 1940s to 2008, revealing his intimate views on love, literature, fame, religion, war, and death, and providing a raw and revelatory self-portrait. The result is “unprecedented” (Associated Press), “genuinely valuable” (Time), and “strips away the sheen of [Salinger’s] exceptionalism, trading in his genius for something much more real” (Los Angeles Times). According to the Sunday Times of London, Salinger is “a stupendous work…I predict with the utmost confidence that, after this, the world will not need another Salinger biography.”

Download or read book Halo Last Light written by Troy Denning and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original novel set in the Halo Universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It is 2553, and the three-decade long Covenant War that defined a generation has suddenly drawn to a close. Yet, in the remotest parts of human space, tensions remain that threaten to overflow into another full-scale conflict. Beneath the surface of the planet Gao lies a vast cavern system renowned for its therapeutic effects and rumored miraculous cures. But now Gao natives are turning up brutally murdered down there—violent acts that happen to coincide with the recent arrival of a UNSC research battalion protected by Spartan Blue Team, led by the renowned Spartan-II Fred-104. Maverick detective Veta Lopis of the Gao Ministry of Protection is only trying to do her job as the Special Inspector assigned to catch a serial killer—one who is possibly hiding within the Spartan ranks—but she never anticipates the situation spiraling out of control into an all-out crisis. When Gao is revealed to harbor ancient Forerunner technology that could solidify the UNSC’s military supremacy for centuries to come, Insurrection loyalists within the planetary government will do anything—even align with a vicious faction of what remains of the Covenant—to ensure that never happens…

Download or read book Salinger written by Paul Alexander and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander offers the first full-length popular account of American literature's great recluse in over 30 years, giving new insights into the author of "The Catcher in the Rye".

Download or read book Almost Completely Decomposable Groups written by A Mader and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An almost completely decomposable abelian (acd) group is an extension of a finite direct sum of subgroups of the additive group of rational numbers by a finite abelian group. Examples are easy to write and are frequently used but have been notoriously difficult to study and classify because of their computational nature. However, a general theory of acd groups has been developed and a suitable weakening of isomorphism, Lady's near-isomorphism, has been established as the rightconcept for studying acd groups. A number of important classes of acd groups has been successfully classified. Direct sum decompositions of acd groups are preserved under near-isomorphism and the well-known pathological decompositions can actually be surveyed in special cases.

Download or read book The Devil s Mouth written by Thomas Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-06-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When political conspirators murder his father, Prince Lanson of Lochlaund flees for his life. He falls in love with a beautiful tavern maid who is hiding from the moral condemnation of the powerful Lochlaund church, which has a stranglehold on the kingdom. Ultimately Lanson must decide whether to release her to the church's legalistic justice or defy the church and save her life by wedding her. This mythical story of freedom, justice, and forbidden love is the second book in "The Seven Kingdoms Chronicles."

Download or read book Forest Amelioration written by O. Riedl and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is primarily addressed to workers engaged in water management and forest husbandry. It provides an overview of the problems and describes biological and engineering measures designed to improve drainage conditions in small catchment areas, protect forest land against erosion, control torrential flows, regulate the water economy of forest soils, and improve the microclimatic conditions.The thirteen chapters not only provide the reader with all the essential theoretical information, but are also supplemented by practical examples indicating solutions to typical situations. In addition, numerous diagrams and photographs are included to illustrate both theoretical considerations and the practical solutions, and several tables are added to facilitate actual computations.

Download or read book A Reader s Guide to J D Salinger written by Eberhard Alsen and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys and discusses the entire body of Salinger's work and presents extensive bibliographical information.

Download or read book Abelian Groups and Representations of Finite Partially Ordered Sets written by David Arnold and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this book is an exposition of connections between representations of finite partially ordered sets and abelian groups. Emphasis is placed throughout on classification, a description of the objects up to isomorphism, and computation of representation type, a measure of when classification is feasible. David M. Arnold is the Ralph and Jean Storm Professor of Mathematics at Baylor University. He is the author of "Finite Rank Torsion Free Abelian Groups and Rings" published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Mathematics series, a co-editor for two volumes of conference proceedings, and the author of numerous articles in mathematical research journals.

Download or read book Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature written by Sarah Daw and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the neglected subject of Gothic B-movies in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa

Download or read book Made in Abyss Vol 2 written by Akihito Tsukushi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reg and Riko's descent to the bottom of the netherworld has begun! With a perilous journey ahead and their pursuers from the surface not far behind, the trek is already testing the limits of their strength. Will their quest end before it's barely even started?

Download or read book Groups Modules and Model Theory Surveys and Recent Developments written by Manfred Droste and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on group theory and model theory with a particular emphasis on the interplay of the two areas. The survey papers provide an overview of the developments across group, module, and model theory while the research papers present the most recent study in those same areas. With introductory sections that make the topics easily accessible to students, the papers in this volume will appeal to beginning graduate students and experienced researchers alike. As a whole, this book offers a cross-section view of the areas in group, module, and model theory, covering topics such as DP-minimal groups, Abelian groups, countable 1-transitive trees, and module approximations. The papers in this book are the proceedings of the conference “New Pathways between Group Theory and Model Theory,” which took place February 1-4, 2016, in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, in honor of the editors’ colleague Rüdiger Göbel. This publication is dedicated to Professor Göbel, who passed away in 2014. He was one of the leading experts in Abelian group theory.

Download or read book Twentieth Century Fiction written by George Woodcock and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Made in Abyss Vol 3 written by Akihito Tsukushi and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riko and Reg have left the Seeker Camp and ventured further into the Abyss! The mysteries and peril that await them are the stuff of nightmares--but these nightmares are ruthless, deadly and very real. Do they have the courage and strength to survive as they descend into the deeper layers?