Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book Sabrina so Far written by Patricia York and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabrina So Far is a coming-of-age story with a metaphysical twist. 25 year old Sabrina Ryder follows her new-found curiosity as it takes her down some strange rabbit holes. Segueing from a strict Mormon lifestyle into the wilds of the open mind/heart, she finds the ‘crossing’ somewhat treacherous and unpredictable. Inclined towards the ideal, her vivid imagination calls forth a teacher/guide from another realm, who just happens to have written a classic little gem called, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment. Thadeous Golas, once a hippie living in Haight-Ashbury during the 70’s (now a citizen of the 5th dimension), takes Sabrina on some rawther crazy head trips, hijacking her mind in the most unexpected places: a Narnian style closet, a new-age bookstore, and way out in the Utah Moab desert (I mean, way out, man). On her journey towards Self, Sabrina finds love in non-traditional ways; stares with bravado into the barrel of a shotgun; and encounters God—wait for it—in an elevator.
Download or read book So Far From God written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierce Slattery, a renegade cavalry officer, brings an astonishing insight and masterful fighting abilities to the aid of a revolution. The army of ill-trained, poorly prepared peasants are fighting for their lives and their freedom – but British Intelligence has an interest in the Mexican Revolution and in the striking Slattery.
Download or read book As Far As Souls Go written by L.R. Bakker and published by L.R. Bakker. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Sterling isn’t usually a guy you’d want to read about, but he did just accidentally sell his soul for a car. When the local nun informs him of this mishap, he embarks on a quest to fix the situation. His best friend, Rob Rooney, tags along without question, because that’s how friendship works. That neither of them has any clue how to do it isn’t going to stop them. Armed with little more than pop culture knowledge and a healthy dose of irreverence, they adventure their way past ostriches, lawyers, chicken legs, and insurance agents, because if the Devil screws you out of your soul, you stop at nothing to get it back. Can Eddie save himself before it’s too late? Only the automated phone menu knows.
Download or read book So Far Away written by Meg Mitchell Moore and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an unlikely form: Bridget O'Connell, an Irish maid working for a wealthy Boston family. The catch? Bridget lives only in the pages of a dusty old 1920s diary Natalie unearthed in her mother's basement. But the life she describes is as troubling -- and mysterious -- as the one Natalie is trying to navigate herself, almost a century later. I am writing this down because this is my story. There were only ever two people who knew my secret, and both are gone before me. Who was Bridget, and what became of her? Natalie escapes into the diary, eager to unlock its secrets, and reluctantly accepts the help of library archivist Kathleen Lynch, a widow with her own painful secret: she's estranged from her only daughter. Kathleen sees in Natalie traces of the daughter she has lost, and in Bridget, another spirited young woman at risk. What could an Irish immigrant domestic servant from the 1920s teach them both? As the troubles of a very modern world close in around them, and Natalie's torments at school escalate, the faded pages of Bridget's journal unite the lonely girl and the unhappy widow . . . and might even change their lives forever.
Download or read book So Far from Forfar written by Dan Makgow Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Macgow is good at what he does: a Scottish blacksmith. Living in Forfar, Scotland in the 1600's with his son, Ian, they make ends meet. Malcolm comes from a long line of blacksmith's and is teaching his son the trade as well. Although not officially single, he lives his life that way since his wife left him some time ago and has basically abandoned the family. His life takes a sudden change when a woman, Kate MacPherson, enters his life and turns him completely upside down emotionally. It doesn't take long before he falls madly in love with her. His life takes a turn for the worse when the local magistrate teams up with a group of domineering men who are bent on taking Malcolm's land right out from under him for purposes that are diabolical and not in the best interests of the town of Forfar. Malcolm's brother, Daniel, now living in the American colonies, has his own set of problems when he is accused of being in league with the Salem witch crowd. Daniel had sailed to America to make his own way in life as a fur trader, but fate had other plans for him in the name of an old family nemesis named, Theodore Higginbottom. Fleeing into the wilderness, Daniel evades capture and meets a woman by the name of Logan Moss, who he falls in love with. Eventually Daniel and Logan make their way back to Salem and prepare to make a stand with whatever awaits them there. In the present time, the brother's descendants come together, as family from America travel to Scotland where they discover their long lost relatives some three-hundred plus years later.
Download or read book The Mrs T Story So Far Including A Bonus Scene Swimming With Mrs T written by JLM and published by WritingsForTheMuse. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Trilogies with their bonus scenes in one big fat erotic book plus a brand spanking new bonus scene: Swimming with Mrs. T From the moment I ran into her by pure luck until the day I used a flogger on her was a constant bliss of erotic activities. We did everything possible. It was a constant arousal, whenever the lust took us over we filled another fantasy to the fullest. Mrs. T was willing to try everything and anything, and her husband and I made sure she did. Contains the books: Meeting Mrs. T, Taking Mrs. T, Sharing Mrs. T, Seeing Mrs. T, Exploiting Mrs. T and Punishing Mrs. T. Bonus scenes are Parking with Mrs. T, and Double-parking with Mrs. T It's sexy without being graphic, naughty without being explicit. But it hits the right places, just like that soft core movie that the censors have missed a scene here and there.
Download or read book Home So Far Away written by Judith Berlowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara’s first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in which Spain’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, shared deep cultural connections. At the same time, she is made aware of the harsh injustices that persist in Spanish society. By 1930, she has landed a position with the medical school in Madrid. Though she feels compelled to hide her Jewish identity in her predominantly Christian new home, she finds that she feels less “different” in Spain than she did in Germany, especially as she learns new ways of expressing her opinions and desires. And when the Spanish Civil War erupts in 1936, Klara (now “Clara”) enlists in the Fifth Regiment, a step that transports her across the geography of the embattled peninsula and ultimately endangers a promising relationship and even Clara’s life itself. A blending of thoroughly researched history and engrossing fiction, Home So Far Away is an epic tale that will sweep readers away.
Download or read book So Near and Yet So Far written by Martin Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in a meticulously researched four-part series that provides a comprehensive insight into the aerial exploits at Operation 'Market Garden' in September 1944. In an interesting method of presenting the information, the authorÕs arrangement of British, American, Dutch and German personal narrative interspersed with factual material offers a more personalized view of the war through the eyes of the hard-pressed Allied airborne troops who were actually there in the thick of the action. They take you steadily through the bitter house-to-house fighting in Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem and the fanatical attempts to keep open the narrow road to permit XXX Corps to reach and relieve Colonel John FrostÕs men, outnumbered and out-gunned at Arnhem Bridge. They reveal the frustration and bitter disappointment in the battles of the drop zones, the bloody fight for the bridges across the Rhine and the almost suicidal second and third lifts to re-supply the troops holding on precariously, fighting desperately, tenaciously and bravely to prevent their positions being overrun in the face of overwhelming enemy superiority. Stories of individual heroism act to humanize this period of wartime history, which is often reduced to mere facts. Timelines detail the day-to-day events happening in all areas of the battle both on the ground and in the air and also add weight to the story in hand, whilst carefully selected archive images work to supplement the text perfectly.
Download or read book So Far Gone The Jaxon Grey Chronicles 1 1 5 Hardcover written by J. Wright and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As Far as You Can Go written by Julian Mitchell and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Far As You Can Go was Julian Mitchell's third novel, first published in 1963. Its protagonist is Harold Barlow, a young stockbroker, on his way up in the world - but easily bored, desiring adventure. He accepts a commission to travel to America; and the further west he goes, the more he discovers in the way of wide open spaces and freedoms. There is, however, a limit. In an introduction written especially for this edition, Julian Mitchell describes his interest in writing 'a reverse Henry James novel, about a European discovering America rather than vice-versa.' 'Like Nabokov, but without his cynicism, Mr Mitchell sets the geography of the United States in motion.' Anthony Burgess, Observer 'This raid on the American psyche, so hilarious, yet so horrific in its implications, proves Mr Mitchell a first-rate satirist.' Telegraph
Download or read book A Galaxy Not So Far Away written by Glenn Kenny and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection of original essays by some of America's most notable young writers on the cultural impact of the Star Wars films A Galaxy Not So Far Away is the first ever exploration of the innumerable ways the Star Wars films have forever altered our cultural and artistic landscape. Edited by Glenn Kenny, a senior editor and critic at Premiere magazine, this singular collection allows some of the nation's most acclaimed writers to anatomize, criticize, celebrate, and sometimes simply riff on the prismatic aftereffects of an unparalleled American phenomenon. Jonathan Lethem writes of the summer he saw Star Wars twenty-one times as his mother lay dying of cancer. Neal Pollack chips in with the putative memoir of a certain young man having problems with his father, written in the voice of Holden Caulfield. Erika Krouse ponders the code of the Jedi Knight and its relation to her own pursuit of the martial arts. New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell meditates upon the mysterious figure Lando Calrissian. A classic assemblage of pop writing at its best, A Galaxy Not So Far Away is a book for everyone who loves Star Wars films and seeks to understand just what it is about these films that has so enchanted an entire generation of filmgoers.
Download or read book Craig Spector So Far written by Craig Spector and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in a single volume, three of Craig Spector's works of dark fiction -- A Question of Will, Underground, and Turnaround. A QUESTION OF WILL Paul Kelly is a good man: a firefighter and paramedic facing death and danger daily, risking his own safety for the sake of strangers. Paul has seen tragedy a thousand times, but it has never been his own. Until now… A shocking crime. A loved one, brutally murdered. Paul’s life is suddenly invaded by police, reporters, the harsh glare of spotlights on a family’s private sorrow. The killer shows no sorrow, no remorse – a teen sociopath whose dead eyes stare in sullen silence. Paul does not want blood or vengeance. He wants to know why. Paul Kelly was a good man. But his obsession is drawing him into the darkest depths of the human soul. Where a terrible truth lurks in the shadows of lies. And a price must be paid to answer… UNDERGROUND Once upon a time there were seven good friends. They were the forgotten little brothers and sisters of the Big Chill generation, born in the turbulent year when the flames of Watts lit the City of Angels and napalm kissed the war-torn skies of Vietnam. They called themselves The Underground. For Justin and Mia, Josh and Caroline, Amy, Seth, and Simon, there was nothing but drugs and music, combined with boundless cynicism and a deep yearning for something that really mattered. As graduation rolled around, they knew they would drift apart. By Labor Day weekend, there was just enough time to throw one last private party. But where? Creepy old Custis Manor was temporarily uninhabited. So they motored out to the moldering southern plantation, ready to party the night away. They could not have known that on the other side of the mirrors, something watched: a corrupt, voracious force, neither fully living nor truly dead. It was a soulless spirit of evil that had spent more than two hundred years cultivating its terrible powers. It was the Great Night. And Custis Manor was its domain. In one terrifying night their lives were forever shattered. One died. One disappeared. The survivors were scarred both inside and out. For twenty years, they couldn't face the truth of what had really happened. Until now. One has gone back, and through the mirror. And now the remaining friends are forced to confront the demons of their own pasts and a greater nightmare beyond their comprehension. Together they must face the Great Night, lay waste to its vicious legacy, and free the thousands of souls still trapped there, as the reunited Underground meets the Underground Railroad of souls. A truly original metaphysical thriller—gory and intense, satisfying and unique, Underground is a startling vision of the nightmare dimension from one of the true masters of the genre. TURNAROUND Eric Best's world is changing… not just a piece here or there, really changing. His monotonous day job working for an Internet search engine company leaves him unfulfilled, so he starts writing an exciting screenplay. His wife isn't happy with all of his time being monopolized, and their marriage is already a little rocky, but Eric is determined to finish what he started. He's becoming more and more invested in his work. He's even having lucid dreams of his scripted universe… but more real. Then he notices the changes. Changes in his life that are impossible, wonderful, and even horrific…
Download or read book This Fine Place So Far from Home written by C.L. Dews and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These autobiographical and analytical essays by a diverse group of professors and graduate students from working-class families reveal an academic world in which "blue-collar work is invisible." Describing conflict and frustration, the contributors expose a divisive middle-class bias in the university setting. Many talk openly about how little they understood about the hierarchy and processes of higher education, while others explore how their experiences now affect their relationships with their own students. They all have in common the anguish of choosing to hide their working-class background, to keep the language of home out of the classroom and the ideas of school away from home. These startlingly personal stories highlight the fissure between a working-class upbringing and the more privileged values of the institution.
Download or read book All the Days of My Life So Far written by Alison Sweeney and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by the actress describes her life and career, including her start as a child actress, her successful weight loss, and her portrayal of Sami on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
Download or read book So Far Back written by Pam Durban and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard--the last descendent of one of Charleston's oldest and most prominent families -- is caring for her ailing mother. An upright, unmarried spinster, Louisa has spent her life looking after others. In the aftermath of a hurricane that turns her life upside down, she finds a battered diary kept by one of her ancestors. The journal recounts the story of Diana, a 19th-century slave who worked for the Hilliards, but sought to improve her life and her means, and was severely punished. Diana's fate is gradually revealed, even as Louisa discovers objects in her house missing, moved, dented, and seemingly handled by an unappeasable presence. In some small way trying to set right age-old wrongs, Louisa discovers how her own life is entangled in her family's haunted history. So Far Back is a nuanced and resonant portrait of two families sharing an enduring past and an uneasy present.
Download or read book Scribner s Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
