Download or read book Destellos De Sunset Lake written by Ángel M. Aguirre and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es un tributo a la memoria de mi actriz dramática favorita: Susan Hayward, de descendencia sueco-irlandesa, y quien nació el 30 de junio de 1917 en el sector Flatbush de Brooklyn, Nueva York. Un agente en Hollywood le cambió el nombre, Edythe Marreenner, a Susan Hayward, porque Hayward era lo que consideraba más cercano al apellido de la famosa estrella Rita Hayworth. Durante su niñez vivió en la pobreza y a la sombra de su hermana mayor Florence, la favorita de su madre. Estudió en las escuelas públicas de Nueva York y aún niña, tras ser arrollada por un auto y recibir mala atención en el hospital del condado, quedó coja de una pierna, defecto que supo encubrir toda su vida, convirtiéndolo en su particular forma de andar, algo considerado “sexy” por sus admiradores, a quienes complacía también el tono bajo del registro de su voz..

Download or read book Perennes Destellos written by Nereida Guzman Rosario and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una colección de percepciones, emociones y vivencias transformadas en poesía. Perennes Destellos alude a la chispa que brota del alma y prevalece gravada en un poema. También alude al ser humano con sus fuerzas y flaquezas sobrellevando las tempestades de la vida como una flor que permanece erguida en medio de la tormenta; irradiando belleza, esperanza y entereza aún en los momentos más desoladores y sombríos.

Download or read book Suite Francaise written by Irene Nemirovsky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she’d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Némirovsky’s literary masterpiece The first part, “A Storm in June,” opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival—some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their lives—but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, “Dolce,” we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity. Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironic—of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.

Download or read book Voz de La Nostalgia written by Maria Aduke Alabi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando la tranquilidad se torna dominante y mi entorno fecundo, estalla con voz armoniosa y envolvente la nostalgia. Entonces llega la musa como sol naciente. Y de mi pluma brotan versos que hacen del papel un gorrión que hará de su canto mi poesía. Pasa un día y otro día. Vuelvo a escuchar la triste voz que me pone en manos de la tristeza. Planto otros versos que se vuelven poesía. Así pasan los días. Así nacen las musas. Esta obra es la esencia nostálgica que brota del rincón de mi existencia, las que presento en versos los que quizás muchos ojos leerán y al hacerlo no verán, mas mi voz gritara aunque quizás no se oiga, tal vez porque soy la simple lagrima que comienza a recorrer a ciegas y en la oscuridad los senderos de una faz desconocida. En cada uno de estos poemas me encuentro, porque cada uno formo parte de mi ser en algún momento de mi vida y en algún instante de mi vida fueron mi vida en ese instante. Quiero con esta obra remover los sentimientos más ocultos y darles vida, haciendo sentir en ellos la eternidad del instante, dejando sentir vibrante las luces de cada verso, casi cegante, expuestos sobre papel, tal vez tímidos y temerosos de que los ojos no los miren y las almas no los sientan. Voz de la nostalgia, tal vez no sea más que la migración de mi vida a la muerte, hacia tristes pasiones posiblemente absurdas, ya que evaden las finalidades de los hombres; mi meta no es negar la felicidad ni omitirla, sino simplemente despertar esa sensibilidad que yace bajo la corteza ruda de los mas apesadumbrados seres, presentándoles aquella soledad que se ahoga en el silencio y nos hace sus víctimas, aquellos sentimientos que queman el alma y que han quemado el corazón de muchos hombres. Este sin número de voces son ecos del alma con los que comparto sentimientos ajenos y propios que deseo hacer latir en otros corazones.

Download or read book Summer Garden written by James Milne and published by James Milne. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trei died. He got roasted by a mage, for trying to be a hero. Things aren't so bad. At least he didn't stay dead. Summer's life was always difficult. Her world was on the verge of war, a politician threatening to take her crown. Resurrecting Trei was an accident, but it might be the last she'll be allowed to make.

Download or read book Solenoid written by Mircea Cartarescu and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding, Solenoid is an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. The novel is grounded in the reality of Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life, while on a broad scale Solenoid's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines attempt to reconcile the realms of life and art. The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis preventorium, encounters with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. One character asks another: When you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? Combining fiction with autobiography and history—Nikola Tesla and Charles Hinton, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript—Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.

Download or read book TRASPASANDO HORIZONTES written by LILIANA MORALES and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando se escribe con el alma la poesía, no sólo es un género de la literatura, También es un estilo de vida, en la participación, el amor, el fervor, la comunión, La exaltación, transfiguran nuestra existencia y el derecho al goce, Al disfrute de la belleza, de la cual todo ser humano debe ser partícipe. Vivir poéticamente es seguir los pensamientos, La autora vive la poesía en plenitud, como poetisa y como excelente recitadora. Ella sí, vive poéticamente, vive la vida en toda su integridad. Sabemos que la poesía, en dosis bien servidas, alimenta y nutre el espíritu, Asusta una soledad, aleja una tristeza, acerca a un ser amando. Nos permite, además, reflexionar acerca de si la luna es medicina para curar el mal de amor. Por medio de la poesía podemos hablar, desde lo más íntimo De nosotros mismos, de nuestro corazón.

Download or read book When Divas Howl at the Moon written by Chezia Thompson Cager and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

Download or read book A Perfect Cemetery written by Federico Falco and published by Charco Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "His stories shimmer like revelations – the clarity, mystery, beauty, depth, and sheer, thrilling peculiarity of ordinary life when the veil lifts. They’re exhilarating to read, just as exhilarating to re-read."—Deborah Eisenberg Childhood does not last long in the Argentine mountains of Córdoba, and adult lives fall apart quickly. In disarming, darkly humorous stories, Federico Falco explores themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment and the strategies we must find to cope with death and painful longing. In the middle of a blizzard a widow watches the ruin of her late-husband’s garden, until suddenly she sees a woman running naked in the falling snow. After telling her parents she is abandoning her Christian faith, a girl becomes infatuated with a Mormon missionary who reminds her of a boy killed in her village years before. When his family’s home is lost, a father desperately offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to anyone who will take them in. And a town’s mayor tries to fulfill his father’s dying wish – to design the perfect cemetery.

Download or read book Skeletina and the In Between World written by Susie Jaramillo and published by Skeletina and the In-Between World. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Skeletina, a fun-loving, fearless little girl who lives in the in-between world with her friends, who include monsters, creatures, ghosts, and more. The upside-down, inside-out, in-between world is where the living go when they are fast asleep and where the dead hang out when they have unfinished business. Visitors to the in-between world are children who come to confront their fears or to see a loved one who has recently left the world of the living. Either way, Skeletina is there to guide them and help children conquer their anxieties. Inspired by Mexican culture and perfect for fans of the hit movies Coco and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Skeletina and the In-Between World is the first book in a series that combines kooky characters and a spooky story with important and resonant themes about empathy, bravery, self-esteem, and the enduring power of love.

Download or read book Goodbye Mr Chips written by James Hilton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A tiny, catch-in-the-throat story . . . perfectly done' New Yorker 'One of the most endearing creations of modern fiction' Telegraph Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School. Wholly conventional, he never veers from his established routines. Until, that is, he meets Katherine, who charms him and his students and teaches Mr Chipping that education is about more than just the hours spent in the schoolroom. As his love for Katherine blooms, Mr Chipping develops a sense of humour and a broad view of his role as a teacher and a friend to his students, becoming the beloved 'Mr Chips' to generations of schoolboys. Sweeping across four decades, Goodbye, Mr Chips features an extraordinary period of history, from the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s to Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s, and demonstrates that, through it all, love and a good sense of humour can make all the difference. Goodbye, Mr Chips is the beloved classic of generations of readers, and sure to delight people of all ages.

Download or read book Performance Constellations written by Marcela A. Fuentes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people struggle to be heard and effect long-term social justice. Its case studies explore collective political action in Latin America, including the Zapatistas in the mid-’90s, protests during the 2001 Argentine economic crisis, the 2011 Chilean student movement, the 2014–2015 mobilizations for the disappeared Ayotzinapa students, and the 2018 transnational reproductive rights movement. The book analyzes uses of space, time, media communication, and corporeality in protests such as virtual sit-ins, flash mobs, scarfazos, and hashtag campaigns, arguing that these protests not only challenge hegemonic power but are also socially transformative. While other studies have focused either on digital activism or on street protests, Performance Constellations shows that they are in fact integrally entwined. Zooming in on protest movements and art-activism in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile, and putting contemporary insurgent actions in dialogue with their historical precedents, the book demonstrates how, even in moments of extreme duress, social actors in Latin America have taken up public and virtual space to intervene politically and to contest dominant powers.

Download or read book Ruston written by James D. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Heroics Please written by Raymond Carver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver's early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpublished novel, poems that have previously appeared only in small-press editions, and all of his uncollected nonfiction. Included here as well is Carver's last essay, "Friendship" about a London reunion with Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff. Arranged chronologically, this book affords an intimate and comprehensive thirty-year vision of a great writer in the process of becoming himself.

Download or read book The Forbidden written by Benito Pérez Galdós and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benito Pérez Galdós, considered Spain’s most important novelist after Cervantes, wrote 77 novels, several works of theater and a number of other tomes during his lifetime (1843–1920). His works have been translated into all major languages of the world, and many of his most highly regarded novels, those of the contemporary period, have been translated into English two, three and even four times over. Of the few “contemporary novels” of Galdós that until now have not come to light in English, The Forbidden is certainly among the most noteworthy. The story line concerns a wealthy philanderer, José María Bueno de Guzmán, who attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He is successful with the first, Eloísa, a grasping materialist who falls deeply in love with him. Then he rejects her in order to attempt to seduce the youngest, Camila. Meanwhile, the third, the pseudo-intellectual María Juana, jealous, seduces José María. But it is Camila, healthy, impetuous and wild, who resists his temptations and holds our attention. The novelist and critic Leopoldo Alas, Galdós’s contemporary, calls her “the most feminine, graceful, lively female character that any modern novelist has painted.” As a naturalistic study, in the manner of Balzac in particular, principal characters of Galdós’s other novels (El doctor Centeno, La de Bringas, La familia de León Roch) become fleetingly visible in The Forbidden. In addition, the entire Bueno de Guzmán family gives evidence of the naturalistic emphasis on heredity: they all display certain physical or mental disorders. Eloísa has a morbid fear of feathers, María Juana often feels that she has a tiny piece of cloth caught in her teeth, José María suffers bouts of depression, an uncle is a kleptomaniac, one of the relatives writes letters to himself, etc. At the same time, this novel shows the foibles of Spanish society where status is determined by one’s associates, by the wearing of finery, and by living on borrowed money. In their history of Spanish literature, Chandler and Schwartz call Galdós “the greatest novelist of the nineteenth century and the only one who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with great novelists like Balzac, Dickens and Dostoievsky.” The Forbidden, written at the height of the author’s creative powers, is a major work and its publication for an English-speaking audience is long overdue.

Download or read book Isaura Victoria written by Miguel ÁNgel Minutti DíAz and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novela de corte costumbrista en la que se narra y se vive el existir de dos enajenados mentales, alegres y felices, allá en un lejano pueblo como tantos que hay en México, en la mitad del siglo pasado... ¿Qué mejor ambición que ser absolutamente feliz? El personaje central después de gritarle a su amado la causa de su desgracia: -"De tanto pensar en ti, me olvidé de mi" Nos deja un contundente mensaje para lograrlo: ¡Decídete a ser libre! ¡No dejes que te enferme la cordura! ¡Es mejor que seas feliz con la locura! Y la vida de la heroína trascurrió desde lo más absurdo de su niñez y juventud a lo más sublime de su alegría cuando ella decidió evadirse de la realidad. En su andar conoció a otro ser humano tan infeliz y enfermo como ella. Isaura le contagia su alegría y ambos deciden caminar juntos por la vida en medio de aventuras y maldades, recibiendo de su adoptada vida loca lo que de felicidad les obsequiara el destino, hasta que llegó el momento de su mágica partida.

Download or read book Ac Nito written by Lorena Garcia and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un vampiro y una bruja crearon una nueva raza de inmortales mezclando su sangre en un poderoso brebaje que otorgaba la inmortalidad y todos los poderes de ambas razas en un solo ser, son tan poderosos que amenazan la seguridad del mandato sobre el universo, por eso intentan destruirlos, pero es tarde, los gansmos son demasiado poderosos para vencerlos sin ayuda. Tesa es una joven humana, o eso piensa ella, que de pronto se ve involucrada en una guerra que no le importa, en un mundo que jamás pensó que existía y en un amor por el que está dispuesta a darlo todo y a hacerlo absolutamente todo, sin restricciones. Alex pensaba que ya no tenía oportunidad de ser feliz, de amar, de enamorase, pero cuando le envían a proteger a la futura gansma que será tan poderosa como él, se encuentra con la mujer que el destino eligió para él. Las guerras pon el control del universo son feroces, las batallas por llevarse a Tesa sanguinarias, pero de que sirven las guerras, las batallas sangrientas si el único modo de conseguir a la que todos quieren es conquistando su corazón, y ese ya pertenece a Alejandro Maxgrim.