Download or read book The Year of the End written by Anne Theroux and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A moving and absorbing account' Adam Buxton 'Scorching ... a brave book' Helen Brown, Telegraph 'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant' Fiona Sturges, i Paper 18TH JANUARY 1990 Paul left today at 8am. We had been married just over 22 years. The previous evening we had gone out to eat at a local restaurant, where we drank champagne and reminisced. In a short story which he wrote about that final evening of a marriage, the central characters talk wittily and poignantly about the explorer Sir Richard Burton and the sad, misunderstood wife who burnt his books. The reality was different. 'This memoir is based on the diary I kept during 1990, the year that my first marriage came to an end.' After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two children - Louis and Marcel - in 1990 Anne and Paul Theroux decided to separate. For that year, Anne - later a professional relationship therapist herself - kept a diary, noting not only her day-to-day experiences as a busy freelance journalist and broadcaster, but the contrasts in her feelings between despairing grief and hope for a new future. With reflections on truth and fiction, literature and art, and the nature of marriage, alongside commentary on notable political and cultural events, and interviews with prominent writers of the time, including Kingsley Amis and Barbara Cartland, The Year of the End offers a unique insight into the unravelling of a relationship and the attempt to rebuild a life.
Download or read book The Grace Year written by Kim Liggett and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Kim Liggett's The Grace Year is a speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power. Survive the year. No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between. “A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner.” – Libba Bray, New York Times bestselling author
Download or read book Star Trek Year Five Odyssey s End Book 1 written by Jackson Lanzing and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise in all-new adventures as they near the end of their five-year mission, featuring the characters from the Original Series! The crew of the Enterprise left Earth four years ago. They've traveled to strange new worlds, defeated impossible foes, and made universe-changing decisions. But now, with the end in sight, they'll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Step aboard the Enterprise with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and Chekov as they begin the end of their original five-year mission and boldly go into an uncertain future in this new continuing Star Trek series! Collects issues #1–6.
Download or read book Year of the Pitcher written by Sridhar Pappu and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season. “Seldom does an era, and do sports personalities, come alive so vividly, and so unforgettably.” —The Boston Globe In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation’s hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter who eschewed the team charter and his Detroit Tigers teammates to zip cross-country in his own plane. For one season, the nation watched as these two men and their teams swept their respective league championships to meet at the World Series. Gibson set a major league record that year with a 1.12 ERA. McLain won more than 30 games in 1968, a feat not achieved since 1934 and untouched since. Together, the two have come to stand as iconic symbols, giving the fans “The Year of the Pitcher” and changing the game. Evoking a nostalgic season and its incredible characters, this is the story of one of the great rivalries in sports and an indelible portrait of the national pastime during a turbulent year—and the two men who electrified fans from all walks of life. “Explores so much more than the battle between two pitchers and their teams . . . A fine history of a vital period in the history of not only baseball, but America.” —Kirkus Reviews “A compelling tale of all that America was in the turbulent year of 1968, told through a (mostly) baseball prism.” —New York Post
Download or read book Till Year s Good End written by W. Nikola-lisa and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what life was like for peasants living in Medieval Europe through this calendar of their daily labors and chores. Based on a Medieval Book of Hours, Till Year’s Good End describes the monthly activities of rural peasants in England during the Middle Ages. Rhyming couplets banner the top of each page while a paragraph for each month elaborates on the daily chores, showing the round of seasons in the farm year. “Each turn of the page reveals a new month and its chores, from plowing, planting and pruning to mending, spinning, and milling.” — Publishers Weekly
Download or read book We Begin at the End written by Chris Whitaker and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers Association An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between. Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return. We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families—the ones we are born into and the ones we create.
Download or read book Howards End is on the Landing written by Susan Hill and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again. A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howards End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
Download or read book Charlie Bumpers vs the End of the Year written by Bill Harley and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Bumpers juggles school bullies and a wacky scheme to keep his best friend from moving in this heartfelt conclusion to Bill Harley's beloved middle grade series. When Charlie learns that Hector's family is moving back to Chile at the end of the year, he is crushed. So with Tommy's help, he immediately starts cooking up schemes to keep Hector here, including a campaign to get him selected as next year's School Ambassador. (Surely Hector will have to stay, Charlie reasons, if he has such an important job.) As usual, Charlie's schemes lead to one near-disaster after another. But moving away from his friends turns out to be the least of Hector's problems. Three mean boys have targeted him for bullying and are making his life miserable. Hector wants to solve the problem by himself, but Charlie and Tommy see that he needs help. They start a campaign to save Hector and to defeat "The Jerzollies of Darkness." Black and white illustrations throughout.
Download or read book Wood s End written by Alexandra Clair and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manipulated into a marriage she didn¿t choose, Andrea Wodesende divorces her husband only to find that she has been a pawn locked into a cult¿s conspiracy. Brutally attacked while in the midst of a murder investigation, Jared Shiel returns two years later to unravel the mystery of the Wodsende murder case he was forced to abandon two years earlier. This former Boston Police Detective experiences a crisis of faith as he comes face to face with a demon and unmasks the evil intent of his prime suspect, a cult leader with international ties to the world¿s highest bastions of power. Liars Spot at Woods End is the first in a series of three books in the Woods End Series. Events take place on the eve of the ¿little age¿ where for a brief time evil is allowed sway over people and events in ways unprecedented. Confident of Christ¿s return, a group of escapees from the cult have banded together layering tools of defense into the world system that will benefit those that come to faith when, for a brief time, evil reigns. This book is a riveting account of the last days prior to the Rapture of the Church. All who read Liars Spot at Woods End will finish with an altered view of the unseen world and the ways in which people can be manipulated and entrapped, but also freed through the greater power of God¿s grace.
Download or read book The End of the Year and of All Things Six Sermons written by William Henry ANDERDON and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year 1700 Containing pt 1 The anatomical and medical papers pt 2 The philological and miscellaneous papers by H Jones written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1721 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Year with Symfony written by Matthias Noback and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've written A Year With Symfony for you, a developer who will work with Symfony2 for more than a month (and probably more than a year). You may have started reading your way through the official documentation ("The Book"), the cookbook, some blogs, or an online tutorial. You know now how to create a Symfony2 application, with routing, controllers, entities or documents, Twig templates and maybe some unit tests. But after these basic steps, some concerns will raise about... The reusability of your code - How should you structure your code to make it reusable in a future project? Or even in the same project, but with a different view or in a console command? The quality of the internal API you have knowingly or unknowingly created - What can you do to ensure that your team members will understand your code, and will use it in the way it was meant to be used? How can you make your code flexible enough to be used in situations resembling the one you wrote it for? The level of security of your application - Symfony2 and Doctrine seem to automatically make you invulnerable for well-known attacks on your web application, like XSS, CSRF and SQL injection attacks. But can you completely rely on the framework? And what steps should you take to fix some of the remaining issues? The inner workings of Symfony2 - When you take one step further from creating just controllers and views, you will soon need to know more about the HttpKernel which is the heart of a Symfony2 application. How does it know what controller should be used, and which template? And how can you override any decision that's made while handling a request?
Download or read book Year Book written by Suomen Pankki and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year 1700 Abridg d and Dispos d Under General Heads By John Lowthorp Containing pt 1 The mathematical papers pt 2 The physiological papers pt 3 The anatomical and medical papers pt 4 The historical and miscellaneous papers by J Martyn 2 v written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year 1700 Abridg d and Dispos d Under General Heads By John Lowthorp The Third Edition From MDCC to MDCCXX by Benj Motte From 1719 to 1733 By Mr John Eames and John Martyn From 1732 to 1744 By John Martyn From 1743 to 1750 By John Martyn written by III (London). Royal Society and published by . This book was released on 1721 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year 1700 Abridg d and Dispos d Under General Heads By John Lowthorp Containing pt 1 The mathematical papers pt 2 The physiological papers by H Jones written by Royal Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1721 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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