Download or read book Things Nobody Knows But Me written by Amra Pajalić and published by Transit Lounge . This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she is four years old Amra Pajalić realises that her mother is different. Fatima is loving but sometimes hears strange voices that tell her to do bizarre things. She is frequently sent to hospital and Amra and her brother are passed around to family friends and foster homes, and for a time live with their grandparents in Bosnia. At sixteen Amra ends up in the school counsellor's office for wagging school. She finally learns the name for the malady that has dogged her mother and affected her own life: bipolar disorder. Amra becomes her mother's confidante and learns the extraordinary story of her life: when she was fifteen years old Fatima visited family friends only to find herself in an arranged marriage. At sixteen she was a migrant, a mother, and mental patient. Surprisingly funny, Things Nobody Knows But Me is a tender portrait of family and migration, beautifully told. It captures a wonderful sense of bicultural place and life as it weaves between St Albans in suburban Australia and Bosanska Gradiška in Bosnia. Ultimately it is the heartrending story of a mother and daughter bond fractured and forged by illness and experience. Fatima emerges as a remarkable but wounded woman who learns that her daughter really loves her.
Download or read book The Things That Nobody Knows written by William Hartston and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playful and diverting, yet always scientifically rigorous look at those simple mysteries that are yet to be solved Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped? Where did our alphabet come from? Can robots become self-aware? Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight? What goes on inside a black hole? Are cell phones bad for us? Why can't we remember anything from our earliest years? Full of the mysteries of life, the universe, and everything, this is a fascinating and unputdownable exploration of the limits of human knowledge of our planet, its history and culture, and the universe beyond.
Download or read book Nobody Knows But You written by Anica Mrose Rissi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nail-bitingly intense story of a summer at camp that ends in a disturbing death—and depicts a powerful friendship that won’t ever be forgotten. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Broken Things. Kayla is still holding on to Lainie’s secrets. After all, Lainie is Kayla’s best friend. And despite Lainie’s painful obsession with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, and the ways he has tried to come between them, friends don’t spill each other’s secrets. They don’t betray each other’s trust. The murder at the end of the summer doesn’t change all that. Besides—Kayla knows that the truth is not the whole story.
Download or read book Nobody Knows What They re Doing written by Lee Crutchley and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything no one will tell you about being an artist Nobody Knows What They’re Doing is an honest guide to the creative life for artists of all kinds. Lee Crutchley, author of How to Be Happy (Or At Least Less Sad), skips the platitudes, positive affirmations, and guarantees of success; he'll never ever tell you to just Do What You Love. Instead, Crutchley discusses the things nobody else is talking about—that, frankly, your work sucks (but that’s ok because everyone else's does too), that making bad art is worth it, and so much more. In a world desperate for a glimpse of authenticity, Nobody Knows What They’re Doing is a breath of fresh air that reveals the truths hiding between the lines of Instagram-friendly aphorisms and behind the words of the most inspirational TED talks. An honest look at the reality of creativity and the joy and difficulty of crafting good (and bad) art, this book belongs in the hands of every exhausted creative, every starry-eyed dreamer, and every artist who is trying to make their way in the world—and keep a roof over their head while they do it.
Download or read book Nobody Will Tell You This But Me written by Bess Kalb and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • FORBES • BOOKPAGE • NEW YORK POST • WIRED “I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi Picoult Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess’s mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. But it was Bobby and Bess who always had the most powerful bond: Bobby her granddaughter’s fiercest supporter, giving Bess unequivocal love, even if sometimes of the toughest kind. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me marks the creation of a totally new, virtuosic form of memoir: a reconstruction of a beloved grandmother’s words and wisdom to tell her family’s story with equal parts poignancy and hilarity.
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Download or read book The Devil s Chair written by Alexander Binning and published by Calgary : Bayeux Arts. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful story of Angus Ashabish, Lake Superior fisherman. WWII veteran, and a 'shaman' to boot, and Burl Manion, a wildlife 'technician'. Their lives and those of others around then unfurl against the backdrop of the Devil's Chair, an ancient local site of fable and love for generations of Native people.
Download or read book Barely a Crime written by Robert Ovies and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping thriller, two men from the Northern Irish underworld are recruited by an enigmatic stranger for a shadowy operation. Promising to make them very rich without involving them in theft or murder, the job seems too good to be true; in fact, it seems to be barely a crime. When Crawl and Kieran discover the identity of the man who has hired them for the break-in of the century, they realize they might be involving themselves in a high-stakes technological breakthrough. And they devise a scheme for demanding a bigger payout. As the law of unintended consequences kicks in, so do life-and-death consequences, not only for themselves, not only for many others, but for the whole world.
Download or read book Introducing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art written by Darren Hudson Hick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world – things like the Mona Lisa, but also things like horror movies, things like the ugliest dog in the world, and things like wallpaper. There's a surprising amount of philosophical content to be found in wallpaper. Using a case-driven approach, Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art is grounded in real-world examples that propel thought, debate, and discussion about the nature of art and beauty. Now in its third edition, this tried-and-tested text features fresh cases and new activities. Hands-on Do Aesthetics! activities pepper the text, and Challenge Cases appear at the end of each chapter to test intuitions, to complicate the field of discussion, and to set a path forward. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-Paper” serves as a recurring case throughout, and this edition includes the full text of this classic short story. From classical debates that continue to bother philosophers today, to emerging problems of identity, appropriation, and morality, this introduction is designed to engage you in a field that itself engages with so much of the world around you. Here is everything you need to know about the history, themes, thinkers and theories to get you started on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Download or read book Literature and Gender written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to the study of literature. The volume covers all three major literary genres - poetry, fiction and drama - and closely examines a wide range of themes, including: feminity versus creativity in women's lives and writing the construction of female characters autobiography and fiction the gendering of language the interaction of race, class and gender within writing, reading and interpretation. Literature and Gender is also a superb resource of primary texts, and includes writing by: Sappho Emily Dickinson Sylvia Plath Tennyson Elizabeth Bishop Louisa May Alcott Virginia Woolf Jamaica Kincaid Charlotte Perkins Gilman Susan Glaspell Also reproduced are essential essays by, amoung others, Maya Angelou, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Toni Morrison, Elaine Showalter, and Alice Walker. No other book on this subject provides an anthology, introduction and critical reader in one volume. Literature and Gender is the ideal guide for any student new to this field.
Download or read book The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction written by Christopher Linforth and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 20 classic short stories by a variety of renowned authors, including Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce and Edith Wharton, The Anthem Guide to Short Fiction has been designed to offer students and instructors both inspiration and guidance when thinking and writing about literary texts and their construction. Each story is followed by a critical ‘Thinking About the Story’ section, and is accompanied by a set of incisive discussion questions formulated to stimulate insightful literary thought. Similarly, the guide’s creative activities have been devised to engage critical and imaginative thinking, as well as to offer the reader an understanding of authorship and the creative process. Additional features include biographical notes, editorial introductions, and a concise glossary of literary terms.
Download or read book Sam This Is You written by Murray Leinster and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could talk to the version of you who existed ten days ago, or the you who will exist ten days in the future? That's exactly what enterprising telephone lineman Sam Yoder figures out how to do in the surprisingly funny science-fiction story "Sam, This Is You." At first, he focuses on the money-making potential of his little scheme -- but before long, he runs into some unforeseen complications.
Download or read book Tell Me Three Things written by Julie Buxbaum and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Download or read book American Protest Literature written by Zoe Trodd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I like a little rebellion now and then”—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future.American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements—political, social, and cultural—from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres—pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters—and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.
Download or read book Dreams Visions and Realities written by Stephanie Forward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology introduces stories written by British and American Women from 1877 to 1910. The collection and the detailed, authoritative, introduction and notes, will enable the twenty-first-century reader to explore the themes and techniques these women developed as the Victorian was superseded by a new, Modernist, sensibility. Authors covered include Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Kate Chopin.
Download or read book ANGELS OR DEMONS 50 Feminist Classics in One Volume written by Louisa May Alcott and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 13177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of world's greatest classics with the most influential female protagonists in literature:_x000D_ Camilla (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)_x000D_ Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)_x000D_ The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)_x000D_ Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov)_x000D_ Hester (Margaret Oliphant)_x000D_ Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Harding Davis)_x000D_ Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ Behind a Mask (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)_x000D_ Daisy Miller (Henry James)_x000D_ The Bostonians (Henry James)_x000D_ Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)_x000D_ Wives and Daughter (Elizabeth Gaskell)_x000D_ The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)_x000D_ Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)_x000D_ A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)_x000D_ Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen)_x000D_ The Awakening (Kate Chopin)_x000D_ The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen)_x000D_ Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen)_x000D_ The Story of a Baby (Ethel Sybil Turner)_x000D_ New Amazonia (Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett)_x000D_ Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells)_x000D_ A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter)_x000D_ A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter)_x000D_ The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland)_x000D_ O Pioneers! (Willa Cather)_x000D_ My Ántonia (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)_x000D_ Summer (Edith Wharton)_x000D_ Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)_x000D_ Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser)_x000D_ Sisters (Ada Cambridge)_x000D_ Hagar (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley)_x000D_ The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie)_x000D_ Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)_x000D_ Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley)_x000D_ The Job (Sinclair Lewis)_x000D_ Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale)_x000D_ The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)_x000D_ The Lost Girl (D. H. Lawrence) _x000D_ The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)_x000D_ Fanny Herself (Edna Ferber)_x000D_ So Big (Edna Ferber)
Download or read book The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 14227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume' is a seminal anthology that encapsulates the multifaceted nature of feminist literary expression across two centuries. This collection traverses a vast landscape of literary styles from the penetrating realism of Henrik Ibsen to the nuanced social commentary of Charlotte Brontë, and the pioneering environmentalism of Gene Stratton-Porter. It underscores the incredible diversity and significant impact of feminist literature, showcasing standout pieces that have fundamentally shifted the cultural and literary discourse surrounding gender, society, and human rights. The range of narratives, from novels and essays to speeches and letters, provides a comprehensive view of the feminist literary canon, highlighting the enduring relevance of its themes. The contributing authors and editors, coming from varied backgrounds, epochs, and disciplines, bring together a rich tapestry of perspectives that reflect the historical, cultural, and literary movements of their times. From the enlightened essays of Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill to the poignant novels of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, each contributor has played a pivotal role in shaping the contours of feminist thought. The anthology serves not only as a literary collection but as a dynamic conversation among some of the most influential feminist voices, examining the intersectionality of gender, class, and race, and advocating for social and political reform. 'The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume' is an indispensable resource for readers seeking to delve into the depths of feminist literature. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to engage with the works of trailblazing authors who have articulated the struggles, aspirations, and triumphs of women across generations. This anthology is recommended for its educational value, its breadth of insights, and the rich dialogue it fosters between the diverse authors' works. Readers are invited to explore this comprehensive collection, which serves not only as a testament to the progress of feminist thought but also as an inspiration for ongoing advocacy and discourse in the quest for gender equality.
