Download or read book A Few Yards Shy of Heaven written by Kevin Giffin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Few Yards Shy of Heaven smothers the canvas with a litany of hues that convey the mastery football has on its fans, players, and coaches. Beyond entertainment, the game possesses the ability to completely altar rational thought. Although it crosses various levels of achievement, the heart of the game beats strongest at the high school level, where pageantry is by-product of town identity. A Few Yards Shy of Heaven details one aberrational championship football season for the people of South Heaven, Ohio. In 1980, South Heaven is struggling to overcome hardships and a deplorable economy that is forcing family-owned business to close, pushing unemployment to record high levels, and creating a general malaise of sorrow. The people find resolute escape in the unexpected and amazing success of their hometown Rangers. Melvin Wright is an outsider and young reporter assigned by a large Cleveland paper to cover South Heaven. Although his professional task is to write a story on the closure of the auto plants, Wright allows his personal agenda to overwhelm logic; expressive resentment toward the people of western Ohio. Wright holds the people responsible for his recent assignment to nowhere, and possesses an awkward sympathy for those in South Heaven desperate to leave. Mostly from spite, he develops an appetite for the surreal fascination the South Heaven faithful have in their team, despite a lack of a viable economic future. As days turn into weeks, Wright cannot avoid misfortune, and as such, cannot leave western Ohio. He is forced to endure a football season in small town America. However, as those weeks turn into months, Wright is transformed spiritually and begins to wallow in that same surrealism, only he discovers that the fascination is not about football but more about the sensation of home and small town life.
Download or read book Heaven s Bones written by Samantha Henderson and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and death walk hand in hand... Dr. Sebastian Robarts is a man paralyzed by the fate of his adored wife, dead in childbirth, their only child with her. He searches for a way to build angels from women, a pastime known to Scotland Yard as murder. Robarts meets the Vistani seer named Trueblood, who becomes his assistant and leads him to the Antebellum-era domain of Riverbend, controlled by the sadistic Dr. Weldon, to create angels, unfettered by conventional morality, or even rules. When the murderer returns to earth, it is the task of a Vistani policeman and a woman with a strange connection to Robarts to stop him. If he can be stopped. Heaven's Bones skillfully blends horror and steampunk and classic Victorian literary style into something exotic and fascinating.
Download or read book Up at the College written by Michele Andrea Bowen and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-07-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring fan-favorite characters from Holy Ghost Corner, Up at the College is bestselling author Michele Andrea Bowen's fourth novel continuing her hilarious tradition of writing about the dramatic lives of church folk. Yvonne Fountain Copeland is determined to move on after her husband of fifteen years decides to leave her because their marriage became "boring." Returning to her hometown of Durham, North Carolina, Yvonne is convinced that a change of scenery will help her draw closer to God and find inner peace. Yvonne didn't know that the journey to peace would lead her to sexy, single childless basketball coach Curtis Parker. Yvonne and Curtis soon discover that you can't find true peace and joy without God's help. What began as a series of "why me's" evolves into an extraordinary journey consisting of victory, faith, joy and love.
Download or read book Crossed Blades written by Kelly McCullough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A new series filled with multifaceted characters, layered plots, and the type of quixotic scenarios that only the imagination of Kelly McCullough could possibly create…Brilliant!”—Huntress Book Reviews For six years, former temple assassin Aral Kingslayer has been living as a jack of the shadow trades, picking up odd jobs on the wrong side of the law. But the past is never dead, and Aral’s has finally caught up to him in the beautiful, dangerous form of Jax Seldansbane—a fellow Blade and Aral’s onetime fiancée. Jax claims that the forces that destroyed everything Aral once held dear are on the move again, and she needs his help to stop them. But Aral has a new life now, with a fresh identity and new responsibilities. And while he isn’t keen on letting the past back in, the former assassin soon finds himself involved in a war that will leave him with no way out and no idea who to trust…
Download or read book The Gettysburg Campaign written by Carol Reardon and published by Department of the Army. This book was released on 2013 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Battle of Gettysburg attained a special aura that has distinguished it ever since. Boston journalist Charles Carleton Coffin dubbed it "the high water mark" of the rebellion, while others described it as the "turning point of the war." But it was President Lincoln who most eloquently expressed Gettysburg's significance. On 19 November 1863, Lincoln delivered "a few appropriate remarks" at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery that became known as the Gettysburg Address: "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." --p. 61.
Download or read book The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys Volume II written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another spellbinding trip around the globe with some of today's most celebrated writers and journalists Condé Nast Traveler is the preeminent travel magazine in the United States, boasting a readership of 3.5 million. This second collection of the award-winning magazine's best travel writings, includes essays by luminaries such as, Robert Hughes, Russell Banks, E. L. Doctorow, André Aciman, Pico Iyer, and Edna O'Brien. As the world becomes smaller and ever more accessible, interest in travel writing is only growing greater. So whether readers are preparing for their own journeys or just indulging in an armchair adventure, this new volume of The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys will open their eyes to the world.
Download or read book The Furies written by Mark Alpert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Alpert's The Furies weaves cutting-edge science into an ingenious thriller, showing how a simple genetic twist could have inspired tales of witchcraft and sorcery, and how the paranormal could indeed be possible. For centuries, the Furies have lived among us. Long ago they were called witches and massacred by the thousands. But they're human just like us, except for a rare genetic mutation that they've hidden from the rest of the world for hundreds of years. Now, a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Ariel has led John Rogers into the middle of a secret war among the Furies. Ariel needs John's help in the battle between a rebellious faction of the clan and their elders. The grand prize in this war is a chance to remake the human race.
Download or read book Heaven Has No Favorites written by Erich Maria Remarque and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the twentieth century’s master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn’t wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see Paris again, then Venice—to live frivolously for as long as possible. She might die on the road, she might not, but before she goes, she wants a chance at life. Clerfayt, a race-car driver, tempts fate every time he’s behind the wheel. A man with no illusions about chance, he is powerfully drawn to a woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together, he and Lillian make an unusual pair, living only for the moment, without regard for the future. It’s a perfect arrangement—until one of them begins to fall in love. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Download or read book Three Novels of New York written by Edith Wharton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention. This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York. The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money. The Custom of the Country follows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finacée's cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1999-03-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage. Commentary by William Lyon Phelps and E. M. Forster
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton Illustrated written by Edith Wharton and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 7883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton created a diverse body of works, featuring innovative novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction, demonstrating her inimitable wit and psychological insight. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring Edith Wharton’s complete works for the first time in publishing history. (Version 5) Features: * illustrated with many images relating to Wharton’s life and works * annotated with concise introductions to the novels, novellas and other works * ALL 18 novels, each with contents tables * INCLUDES the rare first novel FAST AND LOOSE, which Wharton wrote aged 14 – first time in digital print * EVEN contains the Wharton’s unfinished novel THE BUCCANEERS, available nowhere else * images of how the novels first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * ALL 12 short story collections, with RARE uncollected tales available nowhere else * separate chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories – find that special story easily! * the war novella THE MARNE, first time in digital print * EVEN includes Wharton’s rare non-fiction texts, including THE DECORATION OF HOUSES, her groundbreaking manual on interior design – fully illustrated * ALSO includes Wharton’s European and African travel books, with numerous original illustrations * includes Wharton’s play THE JOY OF LIVING, translated from German * features the complete poetry with rare poems available for the first time in digital print * also includes Wharton autobiography A BACKWARD GLANCE – explore her amazing literary life * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Wharton’s immense oeuvre Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Fast And Loose The Valley Of Decision Sanctuary The House of Mirth The fruit of THE TREE Ethan Frome The Reef The custom of the country Summer The age of innocence The glimpses of the moon A son at the front The mother’s recompense Twilight sleep The Children Hudson River Bracketed The Gods Arrive The Buccaneers The Novellas The Touchstone Madame de treymes The marne Old new york False dawn The old maid The spark New year’s day The Short Story Collections The Greater Inclination Crucial Instances The descent of man and other stories The hermit and the wild woman and stories Tales of men and ghosts Uncollected early short stories Xingu and other stories Here and beyond Certain people Human nature The world over Ghosts The Short Stories List of stories in chronological order List of stories in alphabetical order The Play The Joy Of Living The Poetry Artemis to Actaeon and other verses Uncollected poetry Alphabetical list of poems The Non-Fiction THE DECORATION OF HOUSES Italian villas and their gardens Italian Backgrounds A Motor-Flight Through France France, From Dunkerque To Belfort French ways and their meaning In Morocco The Writing Of Fiction The Biography A Backward Glance Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Download or read book Edith Wharton The Complete Works written by Edith Wharton and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. Wharton's writings often dealt with themes such as social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the new elite. A key recurring theme in Wharton's writing is the relationship between the house as a physical space and its relationship to its inhabitant's characteristics and emotions. Contents The Novels Fast and Loose The Valley of Decision Sanctuary The House of Mirth The Fruit of the Tree Ethan Frome The Reef The Custom of the Country Summer The Age of Innocence The Glimpses of the Moon A Son at the Front The Mother’s Recompense Twilight Sleep The Children Hudson River Bracketed The Gods Arrive The Buccaneers The Novellas The Touchstone Madame de Treymes The Marne Old New York The Short Story Collections The Greater Inclination Crucial Instances The Descent of Man and Other Stories The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories Tales of Men and Ghosts Uncollected Early Short Stories Xingu and Other Stories Here and Beyond Certain People Human Nature The World Over Ghosts The Short Stories List of Stories in Chronological Order List of Stories in Alphabetical Order The Play The Joy of Living The Poetry Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses Uncollected Poetry The Non-Fiction The Decoration of Houses Italian Villas and Their Gardens Italian Backgrounds A Motor-Flight Through France France, from Dunkerque to Belfort French Ways and Their Meaning In Morocco The Writing of Fiction The Autobiography A Backward Glance
Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-04-01T22:34:06Z with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upper-class New York gentleman Newland Archer is set to wed May Welland in a picture-perfect union when the bride’s cousin, Ellen Olenska, returns from a failed marriage overseas. As Newland endeavors to help Countess Olenska be reinstated into the family’s good graces, his affections for her grow. Newland soon finds himself torn between his desire to conform to the society he knows and his new-found passion for the forbidden Countess. The Age of Innocence was originally published in 1920 as a four-part series in Pictoral Review, then later that same year as Wharton’s twelfth novel. It went on to win the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Selected Novels of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special ebook edition includes four of Edith Wharton's best-known novels: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and Madame de Treymes.
Download or read book The Love of Romance 50 Books in One Collection written by Stendhal and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 12070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection. Content: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Play) Romeo & Juliet (Prose Version) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Wharton Edith and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. The novel centers around several rich families in New York and their preoccupation with reputation and appearance. Written by Wharton in her late 50s, her title refers to a bygone age of innocence that was dramatically changed with the first World War.
