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Book Now  Voyager

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olive Higgins Prouty
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Now Voyager written by Olive Higgins Prouty and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Now  Voyager

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  • Author : Olive Higgins Prouty
  • Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 2012-08-10
  • ISBN : 1558616330
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Now Voyager written by Olive Higgins Prouty and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic American melodrama that inspired the 1943 cult classic film starring Bette Davis. “Charlotte Vale a timeless and very sophisticated Cinderella.” —Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling author “Don’t let’s ask for the moon! We have the stars!” The film Now, Voyager concludes with these famous words, which reaffirmed Bette Davis’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few fans of this rich story know its source. Olive Higgins Prouty’s 1941 novel provides a rich, complex portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits. Over half a century later, it still offers fresh and quietly radical takes on psychiatric treatment, traditional family life, female desire, and women’s agency. Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Dowdy, repressed, and pushing forty, Charlotte finds salvation in the unlikely form of a nervous breakdown, placing her at a sanitarium, where she undergoes treatment to rebuild her ravaged self-esteem and uncover her true intelligence and charm. Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. “Like the film it inspired, Olive Higgins Prouty’s Now, Voyager is as striking for the conventions it bucks as for the ones it embraces: a vivid reminder of a time when people crossed the ocean in liners and wore hats, and a hymn to an American ideal of social, moral, and emotional independence.” —David Leavitt, author of Shelter in Place

Book Now  Voyager

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  • Author : Casey Robinson
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780299097943
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Now Voyager written by Casey Robinson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screenplay of motion picture

Book Voyager

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  • Author : Diana Gabaldon
  • Publisher : Doubleday Canada
  • Release : 2010-12-17
  • ISBN : 0385674686
  • Pages : 912 pages

Download or read book Voyager written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams. Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite—or forever doom—her timeless love.

Book Not Now  Voyager

Download or read book Not Now Voyager written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises both serious and amusing questions about travel, using her own experiences as vivid illustrations. Not Now, Voyager takes us on a voyage of self-discovery as the author traces how travel has shaped her sensibilities from childhood through adulthood. She makes an adolescent visit to Miami Beach, where she confronts the powerful sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses political and social unrest; and she takes a family road trip to Montreal and watches her daughters come to startling realizations of their own. Schwartz’s personal history takes on new shapes, and her feelings about travel change as she shows us who she started out as and who she has become. Above all, this memoir exemplifies a mode of travel in and of itself: the mind on a journey or quest, pausing here and there, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, occasionally backtracking, but always on the move.

Book Passage to Juneau

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  • Author : Jonathan Raban
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-06-22
  • ISBN : 0307797260
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Passage to Juneau written by Jonathan Raban and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss. "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers—between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class.

Book NASA s Voyager Missions

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  • Author : Ben Evans
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2022-08-23
  • ISBN : 303107923X
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book NASA s Voyager Missions written by Ben Evans and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Voyager probe launches. Launched into space in 1977, these twin probes explored the farthest reaches of the Solar System before venturing on a one-way journey beyond, all the while testing the bounds of science, robotic exploration and our collective imagination. This heavily revised commemorative book takes a comprehensive look at their incredible achievements, future potential and overall legacy. Chronicled herein is an epic journey to unveil the mysterious outer reaches of the Solar System for the first time. The book recounts the Voyagers’ travels through the asteroid belt and past the giant gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn, as well as Voyager 2’s forays near the distant ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Each chapter details in full the game-changing scientific data and glorious imagery they sent back to Earth. This new edition incorporates all the new data we have learned in the nearly 20 years since its original publication, discussing how the knowledge first gleaned with Voyager has been built upon in subsequent decades by Cassini, Juno and New Horizons. The Voyager probes captured imaginations around the world; now is an opportune time to reflect on their unparalleled quest across the edges of the Solar System and the enigmatic interstellar medium beyond.

Book The Interstellar Age

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  • Author : Jim Bell
  • Publisher : Dutton
  • Release : 2016-01-19
  • ISBN : 1101983892
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Interstellar Age written by Jim Bell and published by Dutton. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission— told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. --Publisher

Book Voyager

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  • Author : Srikanth Reddy
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2011-02-07
  • ISBN : 0520948262
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Voyager written by Srikanth Reddy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Srikanth Reddy’s second book of poetry probes this world’s cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, Voyager unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. At the heart of this volume lies the historical figure of Kurt Waldheim—Secretary-General of the U.N. from 1972-81 and former intelligence officer in Hitler’s Wehrmacht—who once served as a spokesman for humanity while remaining silent about his role in the collective atrocities of our era. Resurrecting this complex figure, Reddy’s universal voyager explores the garden of forking paths hidden within every totalizing dream of identity.

Book Max Steiner s Now  Voyager

Download or read book Max Steiner s Now Voyager written by Kate Daubney and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2000-07-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Steiner's contribution to the formulation of early Hollywood scoring techniques is significant, particularly through his music for King Kong (1933) and The Informer (1935). The Academy Award winning score for Now, Voyager reflects the maturation of the composer's understanding of the dramatic function of music in film. The primary resources incorporated in the analysis include, from the Max Steiner collection at Brigham Young University, Steiner's letters and scrapbooks and his unpublished autobiography Notes to You. In addition to contributing to the composer's own perspective on the music for this film and on scoring practice in general, these papers contribute to a broader debate about how films are interpreted and the part music plays in these schemes of criticism. This study of the film score occurs within the broader theoretical and historical debates currently characterizing film musicology and explores, from varied perspectives, how the score is meaningful and important to the film. Devoted to a single score, this study brings together for analysis all the contingent factors in the score's creation, use, and reception and will appeal to film music scholars and to scholars of music and of film. The scope of the analysis will also interest scholars involved in music in multi-disciplinary art forms, feminist musicologists and film scholars, and students of musical theater. Separate chapters discuss Steiner's musical background, his technique of film scoring, historical and critical contexts of the film, the music and its context, and an analysis of the score. Musical examples illustrate the text and an appendix of selected film scores by Steiner is included along with a selected bibliography.

Book To Lose the Earth

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  • Author : Kirsten Beyer
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 1501138855
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book To Lose the Earth written by Kirsten Beyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited follow-up to Voyager: Architects of Infinity from the New York Times bestselling author and cocreator of Star Trek: Picard! As the crew of the Full Circle fleet works to determine the fate of their lost ship, the Galen, a struggle for survival begins at the far edge of the galaxy. New revelations about Species 001, the race that built the biodomes that first drew the fleet to investigate planet DK-1116, force Admiral Kathryn Janeway to risk everything to learn the truth.

Book A Christmas Memory

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  • Author : Truman Capote
  • Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2014-10-28
  • ISBN : 0385392761
  • Pages : 49 pages

Download or read book A Christmas Memory written by Truman Capote and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.

Book Now Voyagers

    Book Details:
  • Author : James McCourt
  • Publisher : Turtle Point Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Now Voyagers written by James McCourt and published by Turtle Point Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited sequel to James McCourt's first novel, the comic masterpiece Mawrdew Czgowchwz.

Book Outlander

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  • Author : Diana Gabaldon
  • Publisher : Dell
  • Release : 2004-10-26
  • ISBN : 0440335167
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Outlander written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Dell. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News

Book Star Trek  Voyager  Mirrors and Smoke

Download or read book Star Trek Voyager Mirrors and Smoke written by Paul Allor and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded far from the ruins of the Terran Empire, Captain Janeway of the rebel ship Voyager has crowned herself Pirate Queen of the Delta Quadrant! Of course, the locals won't give in without a fight--especially not scavengers Neelix and Kes. And who is this apparent Terran who calls herself Annika Hansen? Find out in Mirror Voyager's amazing comic book debut!

Book The Night Voyage

Download or read book The Night Voyage written by Daria Song and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl delivers gifts across the world with the help of her toy train’s conductor in this gorgeous coloring book for all ages—the third installation of the magical Time series It’s the night before the little girl’s birthday, and she’s surrounded by gifts—but there are too many! Suddenly, she’s swept away by her toy train conductor, who has come to life to help the little girl give her presents away to children around the globe. From evocatively illustrated paper cranes, bicycles, and trolleys to cityscapes, hot air balloons, and star-filled skies, The Night Voyage is a magical and imaginative adventure from Korean artist Daria Song. The Night Voyage has extra-thick craft paper and a removable—and colorable!—jacket. Featuring gorgeous gold foil on the cover and a customizable dedication page, The Night Voyage is perfect for anyone looking to add some magic into their lives. Unleash your creativity with Daria Song’s whimsical Time series: THE TIME GARDEN • THE TIME CHAMBER • THE NIGHT VOYAGE

Book The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway

Download or read book The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway written by Una McCormack and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captain who went further than any had before tells her life story for the first time in her own words; perfect for fans of the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy Kathryn Janeway reveals her career in Starfleet, from her first command to her epic journey through the Delta Quadrant leading to her rise to the top as vice-admiral in Starfleet Command. Discover the story of the woman who travelled further than any human ever had before, stranded decades from home, encountering new worlds and species. Explore how she brought together Starfleet and the Maquis as part of her crew, forged new alliances with species across the galaxy and overcame one of Starfleet's greatest threats - the Borg - on their own remote and hostile territory. Get Janeway's personal take on key characters such as Seven of Nine, her trusted friend Tuvok, new arrivals like Neelix and her second-in-command, Chakotay.