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Book Keanu Reeves  Unfinished Portrait

Download or read book Keanu Reeves Unfinished Portrait written by Arkadiy Novikov and published by Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist of the book is the actor, director and producer Keanu Reeves. His real social biography and success story serves as the basis for describing his spiritual path. The plot develops along two parallel lines. The first is an external well-known biography and filmography, the second is the realization of his spiritual fate. The emphasis is precisely on this second half of the biography, as the story of a completely free person living his own spiritual life, without regard to generally accepted stereotypes and patterns.

Book The Unfinished Portrait

Download or read book The Unfinished Portrait written by Ethel Gertrude Christiansen Hunke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Woman Beyond the Attic

Download or read book The Woman Beyond the Attic written by Andrew Neiderman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this compelling celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews—featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more. Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South during the Great Depression and faced a series of increasingly challenging health issues. Yet, once she rose to international literary fame, she prided herself on her intense privacy. Now, The Woman Beyond the Attic aims to connect her personal life with the public novels for which she was famous. Based on Virginia’s own letters, and interviews with her dearest family members, her long-term ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman tells Virginia’s full story for the first time. Perfect for anyone hoping to learn more about the enigmatic woman behind one of the most important novels of the 20th century, The Woman Beyond the Attic will have you “transfixed” (Publishers Weekly) from the first page.

Book The Devourers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Indra Das
  • Publisher : Del Rey
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 110196751X
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Devourers written by Indra Das and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dreamlike novel about a young historian and a persuasive and beguiling stranger coming together in modern-day Kolkata, India to transcribe an ancient journal. A collection of paper, parchment, and skins, the journal tells of bloodshed, kidnapping, magic and shapeshifting, set against the harsh landscapes of the 17th-Century Mughal Empire. It reveals the story of hunters and prey, lovers and the beloved, and, in the end, the choice to be transformed, or be quarry"--

Book Gay Bar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeremy Atherton Lin
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2021-02-09
  • ISBN : 0316458740
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Gay Bar written by Jeremy Atherton Lin and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum * “Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson "Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex.” –New York Times Book Review As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of queer history. Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it? In Gay Bar, the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life, with each club, pub, and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball, he time-travels from Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s; from chichi bars in the aftermath of AIDS to today’s fluid queer spaces; through glory holes, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. He charts police raids and riots, posing and passing out—and a chance encounter one restless night that would change his life forever. The journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity—a tale of liberation, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac, randy, and sparkling with wry wit, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry, a love story and an epic night out to remember.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994-06-13
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-06-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book TLA Video   DVD Guide 2004

Download or read book TLA Video DVD Guide 2004 written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the absolutely indispensable guide to worthwhile cinema. It includes over 10,000 entries on the best of film and video that a real film lover might actually want to see.

Book Constantine

Download or read book Constantine written by Steven T. Seagle and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the City of Angels, Hell has always simmered just below the surface. At the shadowy border between this world and the next, John Constantine works to keep the demonic forces at bay. In the course of investigating a woman's apparent suicide, however, he discovers that something new is coming up from the inferno -- something that will destroy the delicate balance between Heaven and Hell and plunge Earth into catastrophic , other-worldly war. But can Constantine save a world which terminal cancer is about to take away from him -- especially when he knows his own soul is already condemned to eternal damnation?"--Cover.

Book New York

Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993-08-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book The Death Scene Artist

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  • Author : Andrew Wilmot
  • Publisher : Buckrider Books
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781928088714
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Death Scene Artist written by Andrew Wilmot and published by Buckrider Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "M_____ is a film extra with a meagre list of credits to their name and a side career writing obituaries for the Los Angeles Times. M_____ is also dying of cancer at only thirty-two. With the stark reality of death looming overhead, and against the even greater threat of being forgotten, M_____ starts down a strange, fantastic and ultimately tragic path recounting a doomed love affair with the world's greatest living "redshirt"--a man who, over a career spanning two decades, has died or appeared dead in nearly eight hundred film and television roles. A compelling narrative interspersed with blog fragments and film scripts, The Death Scene Artist is a three-act surrealist exploration of the obsessive fault-finding of body dysmorphia, the internal conflict of gender dysphoria and the dangerous desires of a man who has lived several hundred half-minute lives without having ever experienced his own."--

Book New York Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993-08-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book WEST MIDLANDS HO

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aldona Grupas
  • Publisher : Hertfordshire Press
  • Release : 2021-01-14
  • ISBN : 9781913356231
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book WEST MIDLANDS HO written by Aldona Grupas and published by Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Midlands Ho! is a compelling work of local history, focused on a particular corner of England but set against a background of tumultuous international events. In the book, Lithuanian author Aldona Grupas reveals the personal tales of Lithuanian migrants who moved to Britain in the wake of World War II. Unable to return to their homeland due to the Soviet occupation, from 1947 onwards, several thousand refugees swapped the refugee camps of Allied-occupied Germany for basic accommodation in Britain, along with jobs in manufacturing and agriculture. In the following decades, they put down roots in Britain, all the while keeping their Lithuanian identity alive. In a series of interviews, Grupas teases out the personal experiences of five members of this migrant community in the West Midlands of England. The book begins with an overview of Lithuanian history, taking in World War II and the post-war Soviet period. Drawing on existing literature, Grupas explains why so many Lithuanians were stuck in Germany in the post-war period and were subsequently offered new lives in Britain under resettlement programmes like Balt Cygnet and Westward Ho! The main part of the book consists of five interviews with members of the Lithuanian migrant community in the city of Wolverhampton, where the interviewees spent most of their lives. The first interview is with a woman named Gene, who arrived in Britain in 1947. Gene tells of the wartime experiences that caused her to flee Lithuania, her time as a refugee in Germany, and her migration to England. She describes the basic living conditions, and the long process of building a new life and raising a family. Gene describes the ongoing effort to balance two conflicting forces: the need to integrate into one's host culture, and the desire to preserve one's national culture and identity. This latter task was important to migrants such as Gene, due to the Soviet occupation of their country, which they feared might erase the national culture. Gene tells of the creation of a network of community groups that linked all post-war Lithuanian migrants across Britain, and her local branch in Wolverhampton, which organized social, religious, sporting and cultural events. Another of the first-generation migrants interviewed is Kunigunda, who arrived as an infant, having been born to Lithuanian parents in post-war Germany. She tells of her parents' difficult migration journey, and the challenges faced by a young girl of migrant background. The three second-generation migrants -- John, Grazina and Terese -- provide similarly personal accounts, covering such issues as bullying, poverty, cultural identity, language and the strong bonds of camaraderie formed within a tight-knit community. All five tell of the difficulty of communicating with relatives in Lithuania during the Cold War period, and the changes brought about by independence. Grupas concludes her book with a summary of the key factors that caused these post-war migrants to bond in the way that they did, forming a strong and vibrant community that nurtured their distinct identity against all the odds. This book is an important contribution to the body of work on migration within Europe in the period since World War II. With its focus on personal accounts extracted through face-to-face interviews, it conveys the highs and lows, challenges and triumphs of a community caught up in the stormy seas of major historical events.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993-08-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Blood on the Moon

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Ellroy
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2021-02-16
  • ISBN : 0593312244
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Blood on the Moon written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can’t stand music, or any loud sounds. He’s got a beautiful wife, but he can’t get enough of other women. And instead of bedtime stories, he regales his daughters with bloody crime stories. He’s a thinking man’s cop with a dark past and an obsessive drive to hunt down monsters who prey on the innocent. Now, there’s something haunting him. He sees a connection in a series of increasingly gruesome murders of women committed over a period of twenty years. To solve the case, Hopkins will dump all the rules and risk his career to make the final link and get the killer.

Book New York Magazine

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987-05-25
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-05-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Book Critic After Dark

Download or read book Critic After Dark written by Noel Vera and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: