Download or read book Valerie written by Sara Stridsberg and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie Solanas In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away. A leading feminist in Sweden and one of the most acclaimed writers in Scandinavia, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, self-making and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, she reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, reaching back in time to amplify her voice and bring her powerful, heartbreaking story into new light.

Download or read book Dream House written by Valerie Laken and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The perfect haunted house story for these unnerving times.” —New York Times Dream House, the riveting debut novel from Pushcart Prize-winning author Valerie Laken, tells the story of one troubled house—the site of a domestic drama that will forever change the lives of two families. Embracing volatile issues such as race, class, and gentrification, while seamlessly mixing genres as diverse as crime fiction, suspense, and home renovation, Dream House is a “sexy, sharp-eyed, deeply haunted, [and] wonderful book.” (Charles Baxter, author of the National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love)

Download or read book Valerie Dream Journal written by proud of proud of my dream and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record your thoughts before sleep, emotions, dreams and interpretation about them, this journal is a simple Daily Dream Journaling for Valerie to write in and take notes... Valerie Dream Journal size 6 x 9 120 page Softcover bookbinding Flexible Paperback High quality

Download or read book Valerie s Dream Adventures written by Kimmy Everman and published by Kimmy Everman Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From princess to superhero to rockstar and more. Valerie dreams of all the amazing things she can be in Valerie's Dream Adventures. Always follow your dreams!

Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Do You Dare to Dream written by Valerie Jeannis and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you allowed people to define your dream for you? Have you allowed fear to keep you from going after dream? If yes, the message is simple - refuse to allow people, fears or circumstances to dictate what's possible for you and to keep you from going after your dreams. Why? Because your dream matters. It's the secret to creating the changes you want to see in your life. Is it great when people believe in you? Absolutely. Do you want the support of friends and loved ones? Without a doubt. However, if they doubt (and they might), and if they tell you you can't (and some will), even when "they" is really you (and it often is), I dare you to do it anyway. Dare to dream, then dare to pursue your dreams unapologetically. Because you can. Because you must. Because why not.

Download or read book Dream Stone written by Valerie Drake and published by Blackwyrm. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vashti Chamberlin is a 20 year old college student who wishes for nothing more than a quiet, unexciting, very routine life. Since she was a child Vashti has been plagued by the supernatural. For as long as she can remember she has seen what others do not, experienced the unexplainable and sometimes horrific manifestations; the only thing she truly desires is for it all to go away. For nearly five years her life has been quiet and she truly believed that maybe, just maybe, the universe was going to cut her a break and free her from this curse. Alas, the universe is not so kind. Vashti starts being haunted by visions of what she can only describe as a past life. Once the visions begin, there is no turning them off. She learns she has a power, a power passed down through generations, a power so great that none who have carried it before her have ever learned how to use it. The previous carriers of this gift, were either killed by it or died defending it, but none let it fall into evil's hands. Vashti also learns there isn't just this new power to defend, she is on a deadline to do so. If she isn't able to take full control of the power it will kill her by her 21st birthday, and more importantly the evil demons tracking her will win. But something else Vashti doesn't want to lose along with her life and relative peace of the universe, is this curious new love she has found on her journey. A love so pure it has spanned centuries. This book is for people who enjoy a roller coaster ride of past lives, alternate dimensions, demon attacks, and ass kicking weaponry. It is a first person narrative that will keep readers wanting to turn the pages to see more of the adventure, betrayal, love, and personal growth.

Download or read book The Faculty of Dreams Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 written by SARA. STRIDSBERG and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most genuinely insubordinate books I have read, and one of the most beautiful . . . this book earns its laurels" Katy Waldman, New Yorker Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, and the mental hospitals where she was interned. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto. Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner

Download or read book Valerie s Dream written by Jerry Gregory and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie’s Dream is a story of love, desire, betrayal, murder and redemption. A dramatic segment of this gripping tale takes place at a New England beach town where a frail old woman becomes the victim of a shocking crime. The story exposes the cunning and greed of a beautiful sociopath who destroys and manipulates everyone in her path. It also introduces the reader to a gifted woman who suffers much heartache when she loses her husband after only a year of marriage. However, the young widow, Valerie Carter, battles her loss and refuses to let it stop her from seeking significance in her world. The protagonist of the story becomes an endless dreamer, seeking the promise of a better and a more fulfilling existence for herself and those around her. Hosts of remarkable individuals weave their way through the story, exposing strengths and weaknesses inherent to their unique personalities. Valerie’s Dream is a story of scheming and murder as well as friendship and encouragement . . . but more importantly, it is a tale that promises you that when a dream dies, another one is waiting around the corner to fill its void.

Download or read book The Inner Lover written by Valerie Harms and published by Author's Choice Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding why we are passionately attracted to certain people can lead us to the "Inner Lover," a creative aspect of our own nature. Valerie Harms observes that the images, feelings, and fantasies that are aroused when we fall in love--in brief encounters and lasting bonds, in unrequited and "impossible" relationships--are the key to hidden potentials within ourselves. In this book, she presents techniques of journaling, dreamwork, and imaginal dialogues to guide the reader on an adventure of self-discovery in which the powerful energies of love may be transformed into creativity and fulfillment. Book jacket.

Download or read book Lush Life written by Valerie Rice and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lush Life is a California dream of a cookbook that will inspire readers to eat and drink what's in season, grow their own, cook it fresh, and pour a luscious beverage.

Download or read book House written by Frank E. Peretti and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.

Download or read book Illustrated Guide to Dreams written by Valerie Francis and published by Smithmark Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an intriguing introduction to the history of dreams throughout the world and explains common dream symbols, enabling readers to analyze their own dreams.

Download or read book Echopraxia written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for a different kind of singularity in Peter Watts' Echopraxia, the follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it's all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself. Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids." Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Separate Kingdoms written by Valerie Laken and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize–winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, these are boldly innovative stories—tales of fractured, misplaced characters moving beyond the borders of their isolation and reaching for the connections that will make them whole. A family, shaken by an industrial accident, is divided, its members isolated in their home and only able to understand one another from their separate rooms. A young gay couple travels to Russia to meet the child they're desperately trying to adopt, but the experience reveals an emotional divide between the parents-to-be. A recent amputee removes herself from her body to keep her husband at bay. And the idyllic village life of a blind Russian boy is disrupted by an American dentist and the wonders of racy Western magazines. Separate Kingdoms is a rich and satisfying collection that traverses the distances between people and places in each marvelously rendered story.

Download or read book Valerie and Her Week of Wonders written by Vítězslav Nezval and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood. Drawing on Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, and Murnau's Nosferatu as well as the form and language of the pulp serial novel, Nezval has constructed a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with a taste for chicken blood, changelings, a lecherous priest, a malicious grandmother desiring her lost youth, and an androgynous merging of brother with sister. Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror, the novel is a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death - an exploration of the grotesque that juxtaposes high and low genres with shifting registers of language and moods, thus placing it squarely in the tradition of the Czech avant-garde."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Arya s Flying Dreams written by Nagma Dawn Datt and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arya dreams about flying. Like a bird, like a plane or like Superman! Can he make his dreams come true? Even though he fails to fly time and time again, he tries and tries again. With his mum's encouragement, Arya keeps inventing and learns to have fun along the way!