Download or read book Wake up Calls written by Wanda Phipps and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Wanda Phipps's best poems from her writing project in which she wrote every day right after she awoke, Wake-Up Calls is a fascinating reflection of the many different moods a person can have in the morning and a very personal glimpse into the author's life (she was moving into a new home at the time). Phipps explores issues of identity and self with a freshness of voice and imagery fortuitously captured in the state between dreaming and fully waking up.

Download or read book Wake up Calls written by Lisa H. Newton and published by South Western Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The text presents cases based on widely observed business ethics blunders that have had a profound impact in the field. By exploring and discussing where businesses have failed, students get a greater insight into the importance of practicing eethical behaviour. Recognizable events: Includes a colleciton of pivotal cases that clearly show situations of business no longer being conducted "as usual". The Full Story: Each chapter begins with a description of the event or development thta sent the "wake-up call," then tracks the business practices that led to it and the resulting implications. The body of each the chapter analyzes the significance of these implications. Balanced Analysis: The analysis of these events illustrates the complexity of the key issues and presents a balance of perspectives, allowing readers to draw their own conclusions. Application Questions: Each chapter inclludes questions to keep in mind and questions for reflection which provide effective exam or term paper topics" -- Back cover.

Download or read book Collected Poems written by Robert Lowell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The Dolphin, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, Day by Day. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. Collected Poems at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.

Download or read book Miguel Street written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital, their neighbourhood is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. Their lives (and the legends their neighbours construct around them) are rendered by V. S. Naipaul with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion in this tender, funny novel.

Download or read book Aftershocks written by Nadia Owusu and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. A Most-Anticipated Selection by * The New York Times * Entertainment Weekly * O, The Oprah Magazine * New York magazine * Vogue * Time * Elle * Minneapolis Star Tribune * Electric Literature * Goodreads * The Millions *Refinery29 * HelloGiggles * Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. What followed, however, were periods of depression in which she struggled to hold herself and her siblings together. Aftershocks is the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand. Heralding a dazzling new writer, Aftershocks joins the likes of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, and does for race identity what Maggie Nelson does for gender identity in The Argonauts.

Download or read book The End of Books or Books Without End written by J. Yellowlees Douglas and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the possibilities of hypertext fiction as art form and entertainment

Download or read book ULYSSES Modern Classics Series written by James Joyce and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

Download or read book Just Another Square Dance Caller Authorized Biography of Marshall Flippo written by Larada Horner-Miller and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just Another Square Dance Caller is more than a biography filled with the remembrances and stories of a 90-year-old man with 64 years' experience in the world of square dance. It's a unique and colorful retelling of the life and times of Marshall "Flip" Flippo; a legend in the world of square dance callers. Flippo was a Navy veteran, father, husband, and proud Texan who lived a life of passion and zest until his passing in 2018. With chapter titles like Three More Ships & Baseball, Burma Shave Jingles, North and Then East, South, & Home for Christmas, Four Special "Once Mores," and Callers Flippo Called With & Slept With, this biography will give readers an entertaining look at the long life and career of a man who claimed to have acquired his first big career break in a chicken coop. Flippo may have been considered a Renaissance man by many, but those who knew him best recognized him as a humble man who insisted that he was lucky and oftentimes "at the right place at the right time." He also maintained until his passing that he was "just another square dance caller" who had been blessed with the opportunity to turn his passion into a career. Just Another Square Dance Caller is truly a legacy to his body of work, humor, wisdom, and love of life.

Download or read book How to Sit A Memoir in Stories and Essays written by TYRESE L. COLEMAN and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Memoir. Finalist for the 2019 PEN America Open Book Award. Second Edition. HOW TO SIT: A MEMOIR IN STORIES AND ESSAYS, when viewed in its entirety, plays with the line between fiction and nonfiction as it explores adolescence, identity, grief, and the transition between girlhood and womanhood for a young black woman seeking to ground herself when all she wants is to pretend her world is fantasy.

Download or read book On Trails written by Robert Moor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet. In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing--combining the nomadic joys of Peter Matthiessen with the eclectic wisdom of Lewis Hyde's The Gift. Throughout, Moor reveals how this single topic--the oft-overlooked trail--sheds new light on a wealth of age-old questions: How does order emerge out of chaos? How did animals first crawl forth from the seas and spread across continents? How has humanity's relationship with nature and technology shaped the world around us? And, ultimately, how does each of us pick a path through life? With a breathtaking arc that spans from the dawn of animal life to the digital era, On Trails is a book that makes us see our world, our history, our species, and our ways of life anew"--Book jacket flap.

Download or read book Curiosities of Literature written by Isaac Disraeli and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Name Is Monster written by Katie Hale and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Strikingly beautiful' Guardian 'Tough and tender' Joanne Harris After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor, feral, and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. But as the lonely days pass, the lessons the girl learns are not always the ones Monster means to teach . . .

Download or read book Oh No Noah written by Johanna Hurwitz and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah struggles to impress the kids he meets when he and his family move to a new house.

Download or read book Constructing Nineteenth Century Religion written by Joshua King and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Download or read book Blood on the Bulb Fields written by Judith Cranswick and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder and mayhem on the Dutch Bulb Fields...Tour manager Fiona Mason's first assignment turns into a nightmare. As if coping with difficult passengers were not enough, one of them disappears in mysterious circumstances. Suddenly a full-scale investigation is in swing headed by the autocratic Peter Montgomery-Jones who doesn't make Fiona's job any easier. The missing man was undercover on the trail of diamond smugglers. When his body turns up Fiona must face the fact that she has a murder in her party. The body count quickly mounts up when they move on to Amsterdam and Fiona needs to work out which of her passengers is the killer before she becomes his next victim.If you like gripping travel mysteries set in beautiful locations with plenty of red herrings that will keep you turning the page, then join our intrepid woman sleuth on her first outing as a tour manager in the first Fiona Mason Mystery - Blood on the Bulb Fields.The Fiona Mason SeriesBook 1: Blood on the Bulb FieldsBook 2: Blood in the WineBook 3: Blood and ChocolateBook 4: Blood Hits the WallBook 5: Blood Across the DivideBook 6: Blood Flows South coming summer 2018Acclaim for Blood on the Bulb Fields'Excellent read, gripping I couldn't put it down. More like this please.''Set in Holland, this whodunit kept me guessing to the very last page. It succeeds at every level - a fast paced story full of suspense with lots of twists and turns - the tension relieved by light touches of humour - beautifully described background bringing back memories of Keukenhof, Delft and Amsterdam - and superb characterization. Peter Montgomery-Jones is a modern day Mr Darcy - half the time you want to kick him in the shins but you can't help loving him and the merry widow Gloria is a joy.''Wonderful stuff in true Cranswick style. This first book introducing Fiona Mason is great. I just love the way that we are taken on a tour of The Netherlands; the descriptions of the parks, towns and the wonderful profusions of colour really makes the reader 'see' the settings; even without the murders and mayhem, it's a great read. (And if blood is good for growing grapes, perhaps it's good for tulips too!)Fiona is a character with whom the reader can identify. She is a lady bravely getting on with life after the death of her beloved husband of many years. Feeling out of her depth but determined to make a go of her new job, she embarks with her coach load of people, taking them on a tour to The Netherlands. Even before they have got across the channel there is a dead man on the ferry. So begins the crime mystery, and it's all about diamond smuggling and murder with Fiona trying to keep some semblance of order and calm with all this going on around the Super Sun coach party.''I loved the concept - a novice tour leader for a trip to the Netherlands finds herself embroiled in a web of cross-channel smuggling, intrigue, and murder.Great character in Fiona Mason, and many interesting secondary characters. Lots of local colour as the group pass through the major tourist sites of Holland. The novel has many twists and turns, with an ending I wasn't expecting. If you like murder mysteries, especially ones set in exotic locales, you'll love 'Blood on the Bulb Fields'.'

Download or read book Manna in the Morning written by Jacqueline Jules and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manna in the Morning is, quite simply, a lovely book. As she revisits holy texts, Jacqueline Jules gracefully connects ancient stories with modern times, gaining insights into her own quandaries and gently suggesting paths through which all of us may traverse our conflicts and crises. Go ahead and feast on the spiritual sustenance that Manna in the Morning provides. You won't regret it. -Erika Dreifus, author of Birthright: Poems and Quiet Americans: Stories In Manna in the Morning, poet Jacqueline Jules "stand[s] on a narrow bridge, /the width of a whisper, /connecting [yesterday to] today to tomorrow." Exploring choice and struggle in the lives of Abraham, Naomi, Noah, Jonah, Sarah, Eve, and other Biblical persons, the poet brings us back to ourselves. Jealousy and grief give way to prayer; humility and perseverance to hope. "Swirling in the fragile space/between faith and fear[, ]" she encourages us to "read beyond the transgression, /consider the whole saga." Only then do we find again the "lost . . . ability to speak to each other[, ]" the miracle of manna. -Marjorie Maddox, author of Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises The first poem in Manna in the Morning lists the crimes of Jacob, Moses, and David: "The Bible elevates lives / marked by more than merit" writes Jacqueline Jules. She continues: "Yet unlike Twitter, the Bible / doesn't cancel characters. We are told / to read beyond the transgression, / consider the whole saga." Jules explores contemporary faith with nuance and sensitivity, braiding together the ancient world and twenty-first century. She's particularly interested in the roles women play in the Biblical texts and brings a lively feminist sensibility to her poems: "I'm Miriam / holding a tambourine, / dancing in the desert, grateful / for the smallest excuse / to sing." -Katherine E. Young, author of Day of the Border Guards, Poet Laureate Emerita, Arlington, Virginia

Download or read book Infinite Days written by Alan Britt and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "The imagery in Britt's poems connects itself to an idea or an emotion and is, therefore, deeper and more meaningful than embellishment or decoration. In this manner, a linguistic experience is born, one that is palpable to the five senses. No accent pieces needed-Britt does more than get close to the bone-he gets to the heart of the thing itself and makes it resonate with something deeper than exactitude. His images are painted as if vibrating, as if his letters were tuning forks. Britt's imagery, therefore, evokes a mood and meaning simultaneously"-Dr. Maura Gage, from her introduction.