Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book The Painted Bird written by Jerzy Kosinski and published by Transaction Large Print. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award The Painted Bird is one of the most shocking indictments of Nazi madness and terrors of the Holocaust during World War II. It is a story about the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is a vivid and graphic portrayal of the hellish Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe as seen through the eyes of a boy struggling for survival, an alien child lost in a world gone mad.
Download or read book McGraw Hill s Dictionary of American Slang 4E PB written by Richard A. Spears and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More bling for the buck! The #1 guide to American slang is now bigger, more up-to-date, and easier to use This new edition of McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions offers complete definitions of more than 12,000 slang and informal expressions from various sources, ranging from golden oldies such as . . . golden oldie, to recent coinages like shizzle (gangsta), jonx (Wall Street), and ping (the Internet). Each entry is followed by examples illustrating how an expression is used in everyday conversation and, where necessary, International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciations are given, as well as cautionary notes for crude, inflammatory, or taboo expressions. This edition also features a fascinating introduction on “What is Slang?,” a Thematic Index that cross-references expressions by standard terms--such as Angry, Drunk, Food, Good-bye, Mess-up, Money, and Stupidity--and a Hidden Word Index that lets you identify and locate even partially remembered expressions and phrases.
Download or read book Pretenses written by Kate William and published by Sweet Valley. This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too much mystery ... Cara Walker feels that her boyfriend, Steven Wakefield, isn't paying enough attention to her. Suddenly he's acting aloof and withdrawn. Cara's good friend Jessica, Steven's sister, suggests that Cara add some mystery to the relationship. When Cara takes Jessica's advice, it backfires. Steven starts to act even more distant, and Cara is sure he's hiding something. He used to confide in her, but now it seems he's tuming to his sister Elizabeth's friend Abbie Richardson. Will Cara discover Steven's secret before she's replaced by someone new?
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on J M Coetzee written by Graham Huggan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-02-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee is one of the first collections of critical essays on this major contemporary writer. The essays, written by an international cast of contributors, adopt a variety of approaches to Coetzee's often controversial work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's oeuvre, as well as essays that analyse in more detail individual Coetzee novels. The collection also includes a preface by Coetzee's fellow South African, the internationally acclaimed writer Nadine Gordimer.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of American Slang written by Jonathan E. Lighter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Freeware written by Rudy von Bitter Rucker and published by Eos. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The robotic "moldies" are evolved artificial lifeforms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked molds and algae. Universally despised, the moon is the place to be, if you're a persecuted "moldie" or an enlightened "flesher" intent on creating a new, more utopian hybrid civilization. On the moon, there are other intergalactic intelligences to contend with--and some not so intelligent--who have their own agendas and appetites.
Download or read book The Information written by Martin Amis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry’s atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold success. Prizes, prestige and wealth abound, and from far below Tull can only watch, stewing in torment. Until, that is, resentment turns to revenge. Consumed by the question of how one writer can really hurt another, Tull’s quest for an answer will unleash increasingly violent urges on both writers’ lives. ‘A funny, vicious portrait of literary London’ Evening Standard
Download or read book The Sexual History of the World War written by Magnus Hirschfeld and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: Introduction The Release of Sexual Restraints War Wives and Immorality Eroticism of Nurses Sensuality in the Trenches Venereal Diseases Women Soldiers and Female Battalions Homosexuality and Transvestitism Regulation of Army Brothels Prostitution Behind the Lines Lust in the Conquered Areas Civilian Debauchery Back Home Genital Injuries, War Eunuchs, Etc. Sex Life of War Prisoners Amatory Adventures of Female Spies Eroticism Behind Military Drill Propaganda and Sex Lies The Bestialization of Man Sadism, Rape, and Other Atrocities Post-War Revolution and Sexuality Appendix-U.S. Starts Cleanup of Camp Followers
Download or read book Tausug English dictionary written by Irene Hassan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Anagram Solver written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anagram Solver is the essential guide to cracking all types of quiz and crossword featuring anagrams. Containing over 200,000 words and phrases, Anagram Solver includes plural noun forms, palindromes, idioms, first names and all parts of speech. Anagrams are grouped by the number of letters they contain with the letters set out in alphabetical order so that once the letters of an anagram are arranged alphabetically, finding the solution is as easy as locating the word in a dictionary.
Download or read book Spam Kings written by Brian S. McWilliams and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2005 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at a variety of spam entrepreneurs and how anti-spam activists are trying to stop their activities.
Download or read book Amygdalatropolis written by B. Yeager and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Schism[2] Press Amygdalatropolis is a work of brilliant neurorealism in which the city is a Computer, a libidinal pornutopia voided of all bedeutung other than the residual, electronic prickling of sexual fear and auto-autistic aggression where software and synapse flicker in an endless algorithmic loop. Norburt Wiener's apocalyptic steersman leads directly here: a psychopathological cyberutopia heading straight into the lake of fire. Scott Wilson, author of Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism Yeager's haphephobic protagonist /1404er/ has got over reality, family or the social and moved on - to a somewhat more tenable amnion of snuff porn, clickbait and casual online scapegoating. Amygdalatropolis inhabits our post-truth heterotopia like some virulent new literary life form, perfectly tooled for the death of worlds. David Roden, author of Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human
Download or read book Pediatrics written by Carol D. Berkowitz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a well-organized discussion of the most common issues, both clinical and psychosocial, of general pediatrics. The book covers a wide scope of topics from those as benign as thumb-sucking to those as devastating as HIV and childhood cancer. A case history opens each chapter to set the stage for a practical discussion of primary care pediatrics. This state-of-the-art reference emphasizes concepts in health promotion, illness prevention, and family and community participation. The book includes well-child care for normal children and adolescents. It also discusses premature infants, and children with specific needs such as patients with Down's Syndrome. Signs and symptoms are presented by body system in a logical approach. Provides a comprehensive overview of general pediatric issueswith a special focus on treatment, management, and well-child care. Comprehensive discussion of communication skills helps the reader develop unique methods for talking with children, parents and adolescents. An emphasis on preventive medicine and health maintenance builds the foundation for the care of all children, both well and chronically ill. Prepares the practitioner for the common problematic psychosocial problems of childhood such as enuresis, encopresis, and temper tantrums. Includes issues related to the New Morbidity Chapters follow a uniform format to facilitate reading from chapter to chapter with boxes highlight important questions to consider. Short, focused chapters can be read of completed during pediatric clerkship or rounds Each chapter is summarized in a conclusion box to emphasize important points. Content appeals to health care providers from various disciplines: Pediatricians, Family Medicine Practitioners, NPs and RNs Nine new chapters: Disorders of the Breast, Shock, Ingestions, Inguinal Lumps and Bumps, the Approach to the Dysmorphic Child, Obesity, Fluid, Electrolytes and Dehydration, Syncope, Approach to Therapeutics.
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