Download or read book Secondhand Sunsets written by Gail Kittleson and published by WordCrafts Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West. Heading west. Put the past behind you. Start over. In nose-biting pre-dawn cold, Ray's rap sounded. Out front waited a new wagon. Abby buttoned her wool coat and bonnet, doubled Papa's traveling blanket over her arm with her parasol, and crossed the threshold for the last time. Ray hoisted her trunk as she clambered into the buckboard. He was no gentleman-no surprise to that. Through hushed streets, past Annabelle's house, the silent empty clapboard church, and beyond the new train depot, memories flitted one by one. With each, her heaviness lifted, and out in the countryside west of town, each squeaky turn of the wheels breathed hope.In rhythm with the creaking wheels, words circled through her mind like poetry - Now we are wed... no longer alone... heading west. A fog immersed her. Not an endearing word from him, nor even a kindly touch of his hand. Her husband. *** A sudden light spangled the heavens as if to show that sunshine still reigned.Abby sank to a fallen log-the glow rimmed the clouds in an ethereal aura. Crimson became rose, yellows transformed to gold, and periwinkle caressed deep purple. "Could I have been befuddled all this time?" The scripture Fred read at supper filtered back. The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. The day's warmth still hovered, and with it, a sense that all was well. The sky flamed for several more minutes. This beauty and my love for you are one. She hugged the message close. "Perhaps, after all, I am loved."
Download or read book Secondhand Sunsets written by Kittleson Gail (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Types of Solitude written by Brian Aldiss and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Brian Aldiss, who died in 2017, was best known for his science fiction - and in particular for a short story optioned by Stanley Kubrick, which would, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, become the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Aldiss's first book was published by Faber in 1955. This brief, late trilogy contains much of his lively humour, one improbable invention, and a pervasive sense of loneliness and longing. 'Sadness is just happiness in reverse,' says someone in a story within the story, 'We humans have to put up with it.'
Download or read book Sunsets written by Benjamin Darling and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Close up on Sunset Boulevard written by Sam Staggs and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, a classic film noir and also a damning dissection of the Hollywood dream factory, evokes the glamour and ruin of the stars who subsist on that dream. It's also one long in-joke about the movie industry and those who made it great-and who were, in turn, destroyed by it. One of the most critically admired films of the twentieth century, Sunset Boulevard is also famous as silent star Gloria Swanson's comeback picture. Sam Staggs's Close-Up On Sunset Boulevard tells the story of this extravagant work, from the writing, casting and filming to the disastrous previews that made Paramount consider shelving it. It's about the writing team of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett-sardonically called "the happiest couple in Hollywood"-and their raucous professional relationship. It's about the art direction and the sets, the costumes, the props, the lights and the cameras, and the personalities who used those tools to create a cinematic work of art. Staggs goes behind the scenes to reveal: William Holden, endlessly attacked by his bitter wife and already drinking too much; Nancy Olson, the cheerful ingenue who had never heard of the great Gloria Swanson; the dark genius Erich von Stroheim; the once famous but long-forgotten "Waxworks"; and of course Swanson herself, who-just like Norma Desmond-had once been "the greatest star of them all." But the story of Sunset Boulevard doesn't end with the movie's success and acclaim at its release in 1950. There's much more, and Staggs layers this stylish book with fascinating detail, following the actors and Wilder into their post-Sunset careers and revealing Gloria Swanson's never-ending struggle to free herself from the clutches of Norma Desmond. Close-Up On Sunset Boulevard also chronicles the making of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical production of Sunset Boulevard and the explosive diva controversies that dogged it. The book ends with a shocking example of Hollywood life imitating Hollywood art. By the last page of this rich narrative, readers will conclude: We are those "wonderful people out there in the dark."
Download or read book Kiss The Sunset Pig written by Laurie Gough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical, poetic, and charmingly funny book, Laurie Gough drives from Ontario to California reflecting on a life spent travelling in search of new experiences and familiar sensations. Heading towards a half-remembered cave on the Pacific coast where her younger, more adventurous self once stayed, she recalls adventures in Sumatra, the Yukon and many places in between—and wonders what compels her to keep moving through life while everyone else has found a place to belong.
Download or read book West of Sunset written by Valerie Anand and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 1992 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WEST of SUNSET is the compelling saga of three families who come to England to start a new life and their struggle to accept—and be accepted by—an alien culture. Mohan Lal Bhatia and his wife Leela arrive first, Hindus who mean to bring Indian fabrics to the English but soon find themselves enclosed in the growing Indian community in west London. Thev see no need for integration with the English around them, and will not be compelled to face that challenge until the next generation. Kartar Singh Virk and his wife Nita want to participate more fully in English life, while upholding the proud values of their Sikh community back in India. Neither Nita nor Kartar realize what impossible ideals they have created for their daughters—until it is too late. It is Kartar's brother Perry and Mohan Lal's sister Shanti who find the challenges the hardest. To the problems of a mixed Sikh-Hindu marriage, they must add the conflicts between a husband who wishes he were more English and a wife who wants to cling to the old ways—even when these mean submission to her unreasonable mother-in-law. Yet in the end, their family in some ways adapts to England best. As we follow all three families from the drab 1950s through three decades of hope, heartache and passion, we see their successes, their failures, their fears and dreams, their conflicts and compromises. Above all, we see how three generations of women face the challenges of a world where the old ways are no longer enough, and a new way has not yet been found.
Download or read book Sunset in the Morning written by Ambrose Bruce Chimbganda and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunset in the Morning is a tragic novel whose simplicity, rare imagery, idiom and accent carries the torch in modern Zimbabwean literature. In the novel Ndoda, a seasoned former guerrilla fighter, is appointed to spearhead development. Initially he is a hero, but the trappings of power transform him into a ruthless dictator who brooks no criticism. And faced with drought and AIDS, he unscrupulously exploits these calamities to enrich himself, becoming a filthy rich mogul through gold panning and selling rubies and sapphires clandestinely. Ndodas autocratic rule is, however, fiercely opposed by David Kaseke, a local high school teacher and Rufaro, a law student. To silence them, Ndoda orders his lackey, Mandebvu, to deal with Rufaro who is stabbed twice near the heart but survives the assassination. Years later Rufaro, now a qualified attorney, is found dead in a police cell. Similarly, David is brutally tortured by the partisan police. As the sun sets on his life, Ndoda is found dead on his expensive mahogany bed, having been haunted by the ghost of a spirit medium he had previously ordered to be killed. His benevolent will, though, raises new hope for the future.
Download or read book The Inn at Sunset Harbor Bundle Books 7 and 8 written by Sophie Love and published by Sophie Love. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of books #7 (FOR YOU, FOREVER) and #8 (CHRISTMAS FOREVER) in Sophie Loves’s #1 bestselling The Inn at Sunset Harbor series. This bundle offers books #7 and #8 in one convenient file, with over 120,000 words of reading. In FOR YOU, FOREVER, Fall has arrived in Sunset Harbor, and as the town clears out, Emily Mitchell enters her second trimester. Their new rooms at Trevor’s house open for their first guests, while their new spa and restaurant open for business. All the while, they pursue their bid on the island, hoping to add yet another dimension to their life at Sunset Harbor. Amy insists on throwing Emily a layette in New York City, and Emily returns to her old home, in shock at how much she has changed—and at the unwanted guests who show up. She is mortified to learn that there will be a new resident of Sunset Harbor—a NYC developer who will open a rival inn—and destroy Emily’s business. Chantelle goes back to school, but her new grade is an unpleasant surprise, and as things don’t work out, the drama puts her into a tailspin. Roy is getting sicker, and as the weather turns cold, he invites them all to a getaway in his home in Greece, and Emily, although worried for her growing baby, cannot refuse. It is a trip that will change all of them forever, culminating in a Thanksgiving none of them will forget. In CHRISTMAS FOREVER, Christmas and New Years are fast approaching in Sunset Harbor, and Emily Mitchell is nearing her third trimester. While they continue to develop their new private island, a new business opportunity arises—one Emily had never anticipated, and which could change everything. Roy’s time left to live is running out fast, and as Christmas looms and all are busy preparing, Emily knows that this will be the most meaningful one of her life. It will be an inspirational holiday season, one that changes their lives forever. THE INN AT SUNSET HARBOR is a dazzling new romance series that will make you laugh, make you cry, will keep you turning pages late into the night—and will make you fall in love with romance all over again.
Download or read book Sunset written by Pablo Urbanyi and published by Broken Jaw Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunset is the story of Pedro and Ana, a young couple living in a small town on the pampas near Buenos Aires, whose first child is born with crippling medical complications. Their ordeal leads them into an ever stranger and more desperate labyrinth of medical ethics, in which others would like to decide their son's fate for them.
Download or read book Second Hand Lies written by Krissi Lyn Mazon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another glimpse into the life of poet, Krissi Lyn Mazon. This collection details events the occured both during previous publications and works as new as April 2012. It regains the dark edge of 'Lies Told to Liquintine', losing some of the happier jots like those in 'Melt'. There's also the bonus of sequel poems such as 'Ovation (Recaptured). People who have enjoyed Mazon's past works are enjoying this new installment.
Download or read book Sunset written by Manshik Ch'ae and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch’ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres—novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children’s story, one-act play, three-act play, and roundtable discussion. This anthology moves beyond the usual “representative works” to provide a well-rounded selection of writing by one of Korea’s most innovative and memorable voices, drawing on Ch'ae's ten-volume Complete Works. This edition also provides a comprehensive introduction outlining the limitations of existing approaches to Ch'ae. It contextualizes the anthology's contents both in terms of the author's career and the rich Korean tradition of intertextuality and intermediality that he reflects from the country's earliest times to the new millennium.
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Download or read book A SCOTS QUAIR Sunset Song Cloud Howe Grey Granite World s Classics Series written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'A Scots Quair' is a groundbreaking trilogy that includes 'Sunset Song', 'Cloud Howe', and 'Grey Granite'. Set in rural Scotland during the early twentieth century, the series delves into the lives of individuals grappling with themes of love, loss, and social change. Gibbon's lyrical prose and vivid descriptions of the Scottish landscape create a sense of place that is both poignant and immersive, making the reader feel part of the unfolding narrative. The trilogy is considered a cornerstone of Scottish literature, showcasing the author's masterful storytelling and deep understanding of human emotions and relationships. Each book in the series can be read independently, but together they form a powerful exploration of Scottish identity and history. Lewis Grassic Gibbon, a pseudonym for James Leslie Mitchell, was a Scottish writer known for his portrayals of rural life and social issues. His experiences growing up in rural Scotland greatly influenced his writing, leading him to explore themes of class struggle, personal growth, and the impact of industrialization on communities. Gibbon's dedication to capturing the essence of Scotland's culture and landscape is evident in 'A Scots Quair', solidifying his place as one of Scotland's most celebrated literary figures. I recommend 'A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe & Grey Granite' to readers interested in Scottish literature, social history, and the human experience. Gibbon's trilogy offers a captivating journey through the lives of characters grappling with personal and social challenges, leaving a lasting impact on those who dive into its pages.
Download or read book Thoughts Towards Sunset written by Clinton Capers Brown and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
