Download or read book Sylvia s Violin The Amber Eye written by David Manning and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia Solo is a seventh-grade student at an ultra-expensive private school that she attends by virtue of a violin scholarship. As part of a class assignment, Sylvia visits the Metropolitan Museum's ancient Egyptian collection. While there in Perneb's tomb, the lights go out. As she begins playing her violin, a guard investigates, and his flashlight reveals ancient symbols carved into the stone walls that look to Sylvia like musical notes. She plays the notes and finds herself transported back to the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt. There, she meets Da'av and his cat Teekay, who guide her on a brief romp into the underworld. Da'av is a protege of Imhapknum, a priest trying to save the spiritual soul of the kingdom from the ambitious Niphut, right-hand lady to the aging Pharaoh. A young adult fantasy, the book can be enjoyed by adults of any age with active imaginations.
Download or read book Dead Letters written by David Manning and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor Day 1989: Duncan Twist's sleazy client, Nick Varnish, has loaned him a cottage overlooking the salt marshes of Dusktide Beach, a barrier island in southeast North Carolina. Just to the south lies Lorn Island, which is deserted, except for one ethereal resident: the Kindred Spirit. Duncan accidentally encounters a former lover, Tendency Specter, who introduces him to the Kindred Spirit. In turn, the Kindred Spirit introduces him to an unnamed person who has mysteriously disappeared. Intrigued as much by their rekindling relationship as they are by the missing person, Duncan and Tendency begin investigating. As they grapple with both the growing mystery and each other, curious events continue to interrupt both interests. A skeleton half-buried in the sand seems to indicate murder... or maybe not. Or are there two skeletons? Is the skeleton a murder victim or has it been there since the Civil War? Only the Kindred Spirit knows the answers, and it's not talking.
Download or read book A Brief History of the Recent Future written by David Manning and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Manning wrote A Brief History of the Recent Future in the mid 1970s with the idea of satirizing the present by forecasting the most bizarre imaginable future. The result was a verbally animated cartoon tracing the evolution of an apocalyptic conflict between proponents of ganic garbage vs those advocating ficial garbage as civilization's final energy resource. Along the way, the tale introduces such absurdities as a credit-system economy; the Bronx Sanitation Air Force; a 3,000-acre rubber-raft island named Carabia; a news toaster that burns headlines onto breakfast bread; and people metabolically transformed by Mango Tango, the core building block of the artificial ecosystem. Resurrected from the past, the book remains, after 35-plus years, a satiric fantasy, now looking back at the odd events nobody knows transpired but brought us to our increasingly dystopian state. Once the harbinger of a future too ridiculous to contemplate, the original bizarre predictions resonate more every day.
Download or read book Half Slave Half Free written by David Manning and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two homeless beggars meet on the streets of New York in the winter of 1870. One is a handicapped Irish Civil War veteran with a low self-esteem trying to find something in life to hang on to; the other a confident, well-educated former slave trying to make the most of his considerable potential as an accomplished chef. An exploration of the two men's lives is augmented by images brought to life through the magic of the ex-slave's cooking. During the course of this exploration, and subsequent events, it becomes apparent that the veteran has emerged from the war half slave and the slave only half free. Rather than a historic drama, the play comments on the present (often in humorous or absurd tones) through parallels between the 1870s and current issues: homelessness, growing extremes of wealth and poverty, corporate greed, a recent controversial war, and racial/ethnic prejudices.
Download or read book How to Live Like an Artist Even If You re Not One written by David Manning and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of published and unpublished creative non-fiction essays represents the lifelong reflections of a creatively afflicted mind, from humorous to serious, extraordinary to ordinary, biographical to metaphysical and other alliterations lurking between the lines, all organized into thematic topics including Homefront, Internal and External Travels, the title section, Politics, and an eclectic Addendum.
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Download or read book Daughters of Song written by Paula Huston and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the role of music in life. It is set in a conservatory in Baltimore and follows a group of students as they prepare for a recital. The protagonist is Sylvie, a pianist made accidentally pregnant by a fellow student, whose struggle to master Beethoven's Opus III turns into a lesson in life and love.
Download or read book The Journals of Sylvia Plath written by Sylvia Plath and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.
Download or read book The Doll s Eye written by Marina Cohen and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Hadley wants is for everything to go back to the way it used to be—back when she didn’t have to share her mother with her stepfather and stepbrother. Back when she wasn't forced to live in a musty, decomposing house. Back when she had a life in the city with her friends. As Hadley whiles away what’s left of her summer, exploring the nearby woods and splitting her time between her strange, bug-obsessed neighbor Gabe and the nice old lady that lives above the garage, she begins to notice the house isn’t just old and creaky. It’s full of secrets, just like appearance of a mysterious dollhouse and the family of perfect dolls she finds. Oh, how she wishes her family were more like those lovely dolls! Then one day, Hadley discovers a lone glass eye rolling around the floor of the attic. Holding it close one night, she makes a wish that just might change her world forever.
Download or read book Compton Mackenzie written by Andro Linklater and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Towards Another Summer written by Janet Frame and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Self–styled" writer Grace Cleave has writer's block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be "among people, even for five or ten minutes." And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her place in the world, but first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all. From the author of the universally acclaimed An Angel at My Table comes an exquisitely written novel of exile and return, homesickness and belonging. Written in 1963 when Janet Frame was living in London, this is the first publication of a novel she considered too personal to be published while she was alive.
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Download or read book String Music in Print written by Robert W. Cho and published by Philadelphia : Musicdata. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Encompasses all music in editions for one to ten players involving one or any combination of violin, viola, violoncello, double-bass, and viols. Other combinations include strings in company with woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboards, guitar, mandolin, harp and electronic equipment" -- Pref.
