Download or read book Snapshots From My Uneventful Life written by David I. Aboulafia and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "…she drove her right fist three inches deep into my solar plexus, putting her entire 102 pounds behind the blow. I retreated a full foot but remained on my feet. I gasped, treasuring the oxygen remaining in my lungs, and knew that little more was likely to enter there for some time. I wondered how long a person could live without breathing. More so, I wondered how long I could convince my sixteen-year-old daughter that I was unfazed by her puny blow." In this hysterical, irreverent and sometimes thought-provoking collection of essays, the author takes us on a journey through everyday, real-life events that start out as uneventful, but that wind up being anything but. 'Snapshots' is a book that everyone will identify with, and that will have you holding your stomach with laughter!
Download or read book More Snapshots From My Uneventful Life written by David I. Aboulafia and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Snapshots is the cheeky sibling of its predecessor Snapshots From My Uneventful Life. Chatty, hilarious and often poignant, David I. Aboulafia takes us on a journey through every day, real-life events that start out as uneventful, but that wind up being anything but…
Download or read book Snapshots of an Uneventful Life written by Dave Aboulafia and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hysterical, irreverent and sometimes thought-provoking collection of essays, the author takes us on a journey through everyday, real-life events that started out as "uneventful," but wound up being anything but. "Snapshots" is a book that everyone will identify with, and that will have you holding your stomach with laughter and scratching your head in wonder! This book will not read like a novel, or even a group of short stories. It does not have a riveting beginning or a memorable conclusion. It will never appear on any best-seller list. Hey, you could have written this. A thousand-thousand people could have and should have, but they didn't, and that's the point; it was left to me to do it for all of you. You're welcome.
Download or read book Snapshots written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seventeen stories written by some of the century's best women writers deals with "a single, central, and vital theme, the relationship of mothers to daughters and daughters to mothers."--Front jacket.
Download or read book The Hidden Legacy written by GJ Minett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-changing gift with a shadowy origin - a dark and suspenseful debut novel ONCE YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T FORGET A DEVASTATING CRIME John Michael Adams is just a small schoolboy, when a sudden shocking event tears his life and his family apart. A LIFE-CHANGING GIFT Years later, Ellen Sutherland is stunned when she inherits a beautiful cottage in the Cotswolds from a woman she's never heard of. A LONG-BURIED SECRET As she begins to investigate, the mysteries around her new home only deepen. And it's not long before she realises she's not the only one asking questions about the cottage . . . A powerful and suspenseful tale for fans of Val McDermid and Liane Moriarty PRAISE FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY 'The Hidden Legacy is the best kind of mystery novel, a cool and compelling story of secrets within secrets, all delivered to the page with a powerful sense of human need and frailty. It's a story that's hard to put down - and hard to forget.' Alison MacLeod, Booker-longlisted author of Unexploded 'I was gripped from page one by GJ Minett's debut thriller. He approaches a tough subject with remarkable skill and sensitivity. I loved it.' Fleur Smithwick, author of How To Make A Friend 'A thought provoking, subtle novel. GJ Minett explores with delicacy the aftershocks of this terrible event, not simply the media outrage at the time but the ongoing reverberations which span decades. The ending is tender and moving. I was left thinking about the crucial role played by simple human kindness in our lives; the devastation caused by its absence. Great stuff!' Jane Rusbridge, author of Rook
Download or read book Visions Through a Glass Darkly written by David I. Aboulafia and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two days, eighteen hours, fifty-eight minutes... The time of your life on this earth. Richard Goodman is the caretaker of a unique institution that trains disabled youth in the art of watchmaking. But he is no ordinary administrator. He possesses extra sensory powers he does not fully understand and cannot control. But an innocent outing to Coney Island results in him obtaining a more disturbing ability, along with a terrifying prophecy that he will die in less than three days. As the clock of his life counts down, a still greater threat emerges. An uncanny assassin who will destroy everyone he knows and loves. Unless he can discover who the killer is. And stop him in time.
Download or read book Snapshots from Old Registers written by Clara Endicott Sears and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short biographical sketches of persons, celebrated and other, who registered at the Hotel Vendome in Boston in the late 19th century. Begins with Sarah Bernhardt in 1880. Intended to "reveal something of the brilliancy of the days when this city of Boston was the very center of culture ..."--Page xiii.
Download or read book Uneventful written by Jeff Gates and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, Facebook users added seven petabytes of images each month - 7,516,192,768 megabytes every four weeks. And the power of photographs to impact and move us diminishes as we are increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer number of images to which we are exposed. In this thought-provoking essay, author Jeff Gates examines how the nature of picture taking and picture making is changing, and explores how we interpret historic photographs in an environment in which sharing is starting to replace exhibiting. Jeff Gates taught college photography for 23 years before joining the Smithsonian, where he is Lead Producer, New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Download or read book The All Encompassing Eye of Ukraine written by Maxim Tarnawsky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough and much-needed reexamination of Nechui-Levyts'kyi and his work. A solitary, modest man whose chief interest was in promoting and defending a Ukrainian identity threatened by the cultural policies of the Russian Empire, Levyts'kyi’s writing described Ukraine, its people, its culture, and the forces threatening it. A satirist who attacked modernism and cosmopolitanism, he wrote in a style marked by what Tarnawsky calls non-purposeful narration – slow-paced humour built on rhetorical finesse rather than on plot or character development. A vital reconsideration of a significant Ukrainian novelist written by the foremost expert on his work, The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine deepens and expands our understanding of Ukraine’s nineteenth-century literature.
Download or read book The Reiterated Resurrection written by Albertin I. Lemani and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President Harris discovers that he is next on Phantom's assassination list, nothing stops him from involving the following protagonists in his struggle for survival. Alexander Steel, a notorious air combatant, enters a prophetic battle that will bring to life the three days of darkness. Rudolph Baumgartner, a scientist, a colossal poet during the day, and a deadly terrorist at night, genetically erects himself into Adolph Hitler and resurrects the bygone nostalgia for the next and the last prophesized battle of Armageddon, and the tempting violin sounds of Helen, an essence of incomparable beauty caught between two giants destined to die for her.
Download or read book Visualising China 1845 1965 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does China project its image in the world? Why and how has the world come to form certain impressions of the Chinese and their way of life? These are issues that preoccupy Chinese citizens in the globalizing 21st century as they travel overseas, riding on the capacity of the country’s newly acquired economic power. In Visualizing China, the authors join forces to launch a broader inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the larger story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, spanning from the 1840s to the 1960s, and devote special attention to modern Chinese practices in the visualization of things Chinese.
Download or read book T P s and Cassell s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snapshot of a Killer written by Bryan M. Powell and published by New Life Publications On-Line. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After surviving Nelson Peterson’s vicious attempt on his daughter’s life, Trace tries to build a relationship with Lily. It isn’t long before he finds that to be one of his greatest challenges. But an anonymous threatening phone call shatters his plans and things rapidly spin out of control. Bodies begin to pile up and he is once again drawn into the vortex of a storm he and Lily might not survive. It is only God’s grace and his quick thinking that turns the tide. Buckle up for this heart-pounding ride filled with deception, misdirection, and unexpected turns in which no one is safe.
Download or read book The Line written by Olga Grushin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grushin's stunning debut drew praise that placed her in the top rank of young literary voices. Now she returns with that rarity: a second novel even more dazzling than her first. The line: the universal symbol of scarcity and bureaucracy that exists wherever petty officials are let loose to abuse their powers. The line begins to form on the whispered rumor that a famous exiled composer is returning to Moscow to conduct his last symphony. Tickets will be limited. Nameless faces join the line, jostling for preferred position. But as time passes and the seasons change and the ticket kiosk remains shuttered, these anonymous souls take on individual shape. Unlikely friendships are forged, long-buried memories spring to life, and a year-long wait is rewarded with unexpected acts of kindness that ease the bleakness of harshly lived lives. A disparate gaggle of strangers evolves into a community of friends united in their desire to experience music they have never been allowed to hear. The Line is a transformative novel that speaks to the endurance of the human spirit even as it explores the ways in which we love-and what we do for love.
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Download or read book Metropolis and Experience written by Hye-Joon Yoon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metropolis and Experience: Defoe, Dickens, Joyce offers a close reading of the major texts of Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce, in their respective historical contexts and in comparison with their intertextual companions, from seventeenth-century “character” pamphlets through Baudelaire to Calvino. In doing so, it challenges the quietist complacency of specialization prevalent in current academia to contribute to a critique of urban modernity in the tradition of Simmel, Benjamin, and Lefebvre. Taking its cue from Benjamin’s bisection of “experience” into subjective sensory Erlebnis and communal reflective Erfahrung, Metropolis and Experience uses this binary pair as a categorical guide in its analysis of the stylistic and thematic adventures of the three centerpiece authors. Whereas Defoe’s novels embody a Simmelian metropolitan mentality through its narration of lived experience in paratactic prose, Dickens strives to humanize the sprawling Victorian metropolis into an experience for communal sharing. In Joyce’s works, the colonial dejections and belatedness of the Hibernian metropolis are transformed into an exuberant excess where both Erlebnis and Erfahrung meet their joyous end. This investigation of the interconnections between the metropolis, experience, and the novel takes place in tandem with a sustained query on non-literary subtopics such as finance capitalism and urban class antagonism. This is literary criticism charged with relevance for the age of “Occupy Wall Street.”
Download or read book The Good Life Chronicles written by D. J. Blue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Life was a publication that was sent out on a semi-regular basis to a small group of friends/colleagues/subscribers beginning in November 1993 and concluding in September 2002. This book is a compilation of those issues. The subject material is varied and diverse---the bulk of it is a recounting of real life experiences, both mundane and dramatic, frequently analyzed from sociological, philosophical, psychological and humanistic perspectives. It also includes commentary on sociological issues, as well as topical commentary on the events of the day: the O.J. Simpson trial, the death of Princess Diana, and September 11, 2001. Sports topics of the day are discussed, and a smattering of poetry is also included, as well as reader commentary. It is an open-minded and multi-faceted book unlike any other you have read or will read.
