Download or read book The Maid s Version written by Daniel Woodrell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed the waltzing couples for their sins? Or could it just have been a colossal accident? Alma Dunahew, whose scandalous younger sister was among the dead, believes the answer lies in a dangerous love affair, but no one will listen to a maid from the wrong side of the tracks. It is only decades later that her grandson hears her version of events - and must decide if it is the right one.

Download or read book Revisiting Gramsci s Notebooks written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks offers a rich collection of historical, philosophical, and political studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci, one of the most significant intellects of the twentieth century. Based on thorough analyses of Gramsci’s texts, these interdisciplinary investigations engage with ongoing debates in different fields of study. They are exciting evidence of the enduring capacity of Gramsci’s thought to generate and nurture innovative inquiries across diverse themes. Gathering scholars from different continents, the volume represents a global network of Gramscian thinkers from early-career researchers to experienced scholars. Combining rigorous explication of the past with a strategic analysis of the present, these studies mobilise underexplored resources from the Gramscian toolbox to confront the actuality of our ‘great and terrible’ world. Contributors include: F. Antonini, A. Bernstein, D. Boothman, W. Buddharaksa, T. Chino, R. Ciavolella, C. Conelli, A. Crézégut, V. Cuppi, Y. Douet, A. Freeland, F. Frosini, L. Fusaro, R. Jackson, A. Loftus, S. Meret, S. Neubauer, A. Panichi, I. Pohn-Lauggas, R. Roccu, B. Settis, A. Showstack Sassoon, A. Suceska, P.D. Thomas, N. Vandeviver, M.N. Wróblewska.

Download or read book The Notebook written by Jose Saramago and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of José Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends, and meditates on his favorite authors. Precise observations and moments of arresting significance are rendered with pointillist detail, and together demonstrate an acute understanding of our times. Characteristically critical and uncompromising, Saramago dissects the financial crisis, deplores Israel’s punishment of Gaza, and reflects on the rise of Barack Obama. The Notebook is a unique journey into the personal and political world of one of the greatest writers of our time.

Download or read book Victims of the Book written by Francois Proulx and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen’s masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen’s reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.

Download or read book My Angel Daniel written by Vassula Ryden and published by . This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Darling I Love You written by Daniel Ladinsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming collection of short verse celebrating our beloved pets and the wonder of life Daniel Ladinsky is the internationally acclaimed poet known for his inspired, contemporary renderings of works by Hafiz, Rumi, St. Francis of Assisi, and poet-saints East and West. Patrick McDonnell is the venerated author, artist, and creator of the beloved MUTTS comic strip. In Darling, I Love You! these two artists have collaborated for the first time to create a delightful, universal collection of sweet, welcome-to-the-moment poems about the essential places animals and wonder hold in our lives and in our hearts, accompanied by line drawings of the illustrious MUTTS characters that readers have come to know and love. “Pet owners will chuckle knowingly about the way the speakers shift between simple observations and deeper statements . . . that remind us why humans need animals as much as they need us.” —The Washington Post

Download or read book If They Give You Lined Paper Write Sideways written by Daniel Quinn and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Ishmael shares his advice on how to challenge your own thought processes so you can see the world in new, creative, revolutionary ways In Ishmael, Daniel Quinn offered new ways of seeing and understanding human history, and our collective future. His message was transformative for millions of people, and Ishmael continues to attract tens of thousands of new readers each year. Subsequent works, such as The Story of B and My Ishmael, expanded upon his insights and teachings, but only now does he finally tackle the one question he has been asked hundreds of times but has never taken on: “How do you do what you do?” In If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways Quinn elucidates for readers the methods behind his own thought processes, challenging and ultimately empowering them to view the world for themselves in creative, perhaps even revolutionary ways. If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways also includes Quinn's never-before-published essays “The New Renaissance” and “Our Religions.” There is a scientific consensus that global warming is approaching a tipping point beyond no return faster than had previously been predicted. Quinn has long portrayed humans as “a species of beings, which, while supposedly rational, are destroying the very planet they live on.” So what are we to do? There has never been a plan for the future—and there never will be. But something extraordinary will happen in the next two or three decades; the people of our culture will learn to live sustainably—or not. Either way, it will be extraordinary. The sooner we understand this reality, the greater the chances that human society will transform itself so that the human race might have a future.

Download or read book Come Let Me Love You written by Constance Kent and published by Writewood Creations Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Razor is that guy. Hot, rich, and written about in every major magazine. A tech boom billionaire who has one soft spot in his impenetrable armor--his agoraphobic brother, Joel. As of last month, I was a low level employee at Razor Industries until Daniel made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. I'm 22, I have no money and an expensive passion that I'm trying to turn into a career--the classical violin. I would do anything to keep playing. The deal I struck was like winning the lottery. For one year, I would be Joel's companion in his attic apartment in their Nob Hill mansion and Daniel would pay me one hundred thousand dollars. Joel was sexy, young and interesting. What could go wrong? Quite a few things as it turns out ... problems I didn't see coming. The dark secret the Razor brothers share that they've now shared with me being one of them. The other being falling in love with the wrong brother ... because Daniel Razor is that guy. The guy a girl never gets over. ---- Set in fog-shrouded San Francisco, Come, Let Me Love You is a standalone modern gothic romance with a seriously steamy twist.

Download or read book But I Love You Anyway written by Sara Lewis and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "charming and deceptively breezy second novel, [the author of "Heart Conditions"] stakes further claim to the fictional territory defined by Laurie Colwin" ("Publishers Weekly"). The story of two sisters and the men who drive them crazy, "But I Love You Anyway" "deftly explores big issues like loyalty, trust, sorrow, and disappointment in sure, bright, effervescent prose" ("New York Times Book Review").

Download or read book PS I Love You written by Cecelia Ahern and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times bestselling author, a recent widow falls in love with life again, thanks to the help of her guardian angel–her late husband. Now a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Holly and Gerry were childhood sweethearts–soulmates. And then the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her, leaving her a bundle of notes signed ‘PS, I Love You’. One for each month of the year. The man who knows her better than anyone is set out to teach her that life goes on. With the help of her friends and family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, and dancing–life is for living, she’s realizing–and it helps if there's an angel watching over you.

Download or read book Truth Love and Healing written by Andy Seabern and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie a high school cheerleader, has her whole life flipped upside down. While fishing with her father she falls off of the boat, her father tries to get her but the boat drifts off. A speedboat hits her headfirst she sinks down the water, her father dives in and gets her and rushes her to the hospital. In the hospital she meets the love of her life, a twenty five year old male nurse. She witnesses unbelievable occurrences in the hospital, Daniel is healing everyone in the hospital just by a laying of hands and prayer. Just in mere moments these injured people are totally restored, from aids patients and cancer patients they become healed in a blink of an eye. Daniel and Stephanie eventually get married and have a child when the most horrible disasters are taking place across the world, a earthquake hits their town and all that is still standing is very few buildings and a hospital. Everyone injured in the earthquake goes to that hospital, hundreds of thousands are receiving healing. But with a blessing comes a curse, the people are receiving healing but the medicine companies are not to fond of their money being taken away, they plan to find the cause and exterminate it. A story filled with love so passionate and extreme Poetry so emotional and deep Disaster drama and comedy Let your mind and eyes lead So what are you waiting for? Open up the book, turn the pages and read.

Download or read book Roof over Love Lust written by Robert Leahy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danny Roarkes thirty-six year adventure through love and lust is reminiscent of Homers Odyssey and Joyces Ulysses. The novel begins when Danny is a college senior during the final year of the radical 1960s. He goes from college student, to professional soccer player hauntedby the Vietnam War, to Cornell doctoral candidate enduring several turbulent relationships. Eventually, as a professor he develops a theory of genuine teaching at a small private university in Florida. He defends his most inspired graduate students career when she is denied tenure, then both of their careers are sabotaged by two malcontent faculty members. From rebellion in the free love Sixties, to reconciliation as his parents age and die, Dannys journey winds through his friends and extended family of brothers, their wives and children. Named for the Irish song Danny Boy and Daniel in the biblical lions den, astrological implications develop as he encounters women from every zodiac sign. Danny Roarke travels America, Spain, Mexico and Ireland in search of authenticity and one great love.

Download or read book Rash and Rationality written by Ellen Mint and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM POPULAR ROMANCE AUTHOR ELLEN MINT Book two in the Happily Ever Austen series Love is a lot closer and more complicated than Marty ever dreamed. Marty Dashwood is a true romantic. Hearts, chocolates, kisses on the hand—the whole nine yards. His killjoy brother Eldon doesn't believe in love at first sight, but one day Marty will have the perfect meet-cute, she'll fall helplessly in love with him and they'll live happily ever after. Brandy's worked with Marty for almost two years. He's the best friend she could ever have hoped for after the accident that took her husband. So she should be happy that Marty finally found what he'd always wanted, right? So why does it feel like every time she sees Marty with the &‘Social-Media Angel' he rescued from a mugger, a piece breaks off her heart? How can she explain any of this to him before she loses her best friend forever? Rash and Rationality is a modern gender-swapped friends-to-lovers Sense & Sensibility, set in a cozy bookshop.

Download or read book The Book of Daniel written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel.

Download or read book Witness to My Life written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hero of Los Angeles written by Petra Antwick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero of Los Angeles, Max Smith, must fight against the gangs who seek to annihilate the city and its innocent inhabitants. Los Angeles is the only remaining metropolis in the United States that has withstood the force of the mafia government thus far, and it is rapidly going downhill. When President Newbert Pockethand took control of the US government in the year 2030, he turned what had been a democracy into an anarchic dictatorship. Max and the other members of the light community seek to resist the oppressive government and save as many lives as possible. While Sheila, the leader of the light community, believes Max to be a hero, he doesnt find his true motives particularly heroic. Although Max cares about civilians, he cares more for Brenda Gonzalez, who is the gangs most victimized person. The light community expects Max to protect the city, but all he wants to do is protect Brenda from the gangs and her inexplicable illness.

Download or read book Almost Zero written by Nikki Grimes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the Dyamonde Daniels series, by bestselling author Nikki Grimes, is perfect for fans of the Keena Ford, Judy Moody, and Magnificent Mya Tibbs series and includes illustrations by Coretta Scott King honor winner R. Gregory Christie. Dyamonde really wants red high-top sneakers. Too bad they're so expensive! A classmate tells her it's her mom's job to give her what she needs, but when Dyamonde tries that argument, her mom teaches her a lesson by literally only giving her what she needs. Now Dyamonde is down to almost zero outfits! But then she finds out one of her friends has it much worse, and she's determined to do what she can to help.