Download or read book Leaving Orbit written by Margaret Lazarus Dean and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA, Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathering possible answers to the question: What does it mean that a spacefaring nation won't be going to space anymore?
Download or read book The Legend of Hobart written by Heather Mullaly and published by Favored Oak Press. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Marvelously told; a middle-grade fantasy for everyone.” -Kirkus Reviews Tired of being teased about his name and his stutter, twelve-year-old Hobart sets out to do a few heroic deeds and earn a place in Knight School. But the local damsels he hopes to save assure him that the last thing they need is rescuing. The runaway bull he tries to catch wears him like a hat. And don't even ask about the ogre. Finally, in desperation, Hobart sets out on the most daring quest he can think of--he will slay a dragon. Or that's his plan anyway. The Legend of Hobart is a hilarious, heart-felt adventure, for the would-be hero in all of us.
Download or read book Fanny Says written by Nickole Brown and published by BOA Editions. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.
Download or read book Hobart Review written by Hobart College and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climbing Glass written by Lyle Closs and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climbing Glass is a unique personal view of climbing, climbers and Tasmanian and Australian climbing and mountaineering from a personal perspective from the 1970s to 2010s. Coverings climbs and expeditions in Tasmania, Greenland, Australia, K2 and Antarctica from the 1970s on.
Download or read book Bishop Hobart A review of Bishop Hobart s sermon entitled The United States of America compared with some European countries particularly England contained in the London Quarterly Theological Journal for October 1826 With two Answers to the same etc written by John Henry HOBART (Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treacherous Country written by K.M. Kruimink and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winner of the prestigious literary award that has launched over a hundred authors - The Australian/Vogel's Literary award. WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL'S LITERARY AWARD There is a woman, somewhere, here, in Van Diemen's Land, unless she had died or otherwise departed, called Maryanne Maginn. Gabriel Fox, the young son of an old English house, arrives in a land both ancient and new. Drawn by the promise of his heart's desire, and compelled to distance himself from pain at home, Gabriel begins his quest into Van Diemen's Land. His guide, a Cannibal who is not all he seems, leads him north where Gabriel might free himself of his distracting burden and seek the woman he must find. As Gabriel traverses this wild country, he uncovers new truths buried within his own memory. Authentic, original and playful, A Treacherous Country is a novel of loyalty, wisdom and the freedom to act. 'Warm and lively ... a witty Tasmanian Moby Dick' -Tegan Bennett Daylight, acclaimed author of Six Bedrooms
Download or read book You Are Having a Good Time written by Amie Barrodale and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An observant, strange, and startlingly funny collection of short stories"--
Download or read book The Review of reviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Review of Reviews written by Albert Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Second Suspect written by Heather Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel and Ingrid Santerre are a wealthy, highly connected couple with a savage kink: In the privacy of a posh New York City hotel suite, they like to subject teenage prostitutes to extremely rough sex. This time, though, they've gone too far, and their victim is dead. As Gabriel goes out to buy a golf bag to hide the body in, Ingrid, strangely passive and long brutalized by her husband, suddenly feels remorse and calls the police. The two are swiftly taken into custody and separated; Gabriel calls in his high-powered lawyer and calmly schemes to frame his wife. But NYPD detective Caroline Reese won't let him get away with it. Despite Gabriel's connections--reaching right into the district attorney's office--and a warning from her lieutenant that she's proceeding at her own risk, Reese finds the one woman who can lead her to the truth. Reese's quest is blocked not only by Gabriel's pull, but by a violent episode in her own past--one that has left her with a blind spot that keeps her from seeing the whole picture about Gabriel and his wife. Bringing an exciting new voice to the noir thriller, Heather Lewis coolly and masterfully builds the tension until the novel's shattering--and deeply satisfying--payoff.
Download or read book Worsted written by Garielle Lutz and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. WORSTED is a collection of fourteen new stories (214 pages) by the author of The Complete Gary Lutz. Some excerpts appeared in Chicago Review, Lake Effect, and South Carolina Review, as well as online at Hobart, Post Road, and Southwest Review.
Download or read book Knocked Down written by Aileen Weintraub and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids. Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds of the country, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a man who knows a lot about produce, tractors, and how to take a person down in one jiu-jitsu move. Within months of saying “I do” she’s pregnant, life is on track, and then wham! Her doctor slaps a high-risk label on her uterus and sends her to bed for five months. As her husband’s bucolic (and possibly haunted) farmhouse begins to collapse and her marriage starts to do the same, Weintraub finally confronts her grief for her father while fighting for the survival of her unborn baby. In her precarious situation, will she stay or will she once again run away from it all? Knocked Down is an emotionally charged, laugh-out-loud roller-coaster ride of survival and growth. It is a story about marriage, motherhood, and the risks we take.
Download or read book Smart Ovens for Lonely People written by Elizabeth Tan and published by Brio Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracies, celebrities, and therapies underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan. A cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincidences in her life. Four girls gather to celebrate their fabulous underwear. With her trademark wit and slicing social commentary, Elizabeth Tan’s short stories are as funny as they are insightful. This collection cements her role as one of Australia’s most inventive writers ‘This utterly original book will mess with your mind and make you laugh like a drain.‘ Sydney Morning Herald ‘Elizabeth Tan can twist ordinary suburban life into the weirdest shapes.’ The Monthly ‘Tan twists a future that has already arrived with one in the process of arriving.’ The Saturday Paper ‘In a collection of consistent highlights, the brilliance of some stories is particularly blinding.’ Australian Book Review ‘Tan’s evocation of this dreamlike incongruity is playful, reminiscent of Murakami’s blasé surrealism and Coupland’s crafty wryness.’ Sydney Review of Books
Download or read book Her Lesser Work written by Elizabeth Ellen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Women's Studies. The stories in Elizabeth Ellen's third story collection have been published in Harper's Magazine, Joyland, FENCE, and Southwest Review. Elizabeth is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for fiction.
Download or read book The Industrial Hobarts written by Peter C. Hobart and published by Hobart Institute. This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Hobarts is the story of how three generations engineered the growth and success of their family business during the prime of America's industrial age. The story, - told by Peter C. Hobart, Hobart Brother's former vice president for international business, and historian Michael W. Williams-is a clear and engaging narrative of how one family found purpose and success in the golden age of American industry.
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