Download or read book States of Plague written by Alice Kaplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States of Plague examines Albert Camus’s novel as a palimpsest of pandemic life, an uncannily relevant account of the psychology and politics of a public health crisis. As one of the most discussed books of the COVID-19 crisis, Albert Camus’s classic novel The Plague has become a new kind of literary touchstone. Surrounded by terror and uncertainty, often separated from loved ones or unable to travel, readers sought answers within the pages of Camus’s 1947 tale about an Algerian city gripped by an epidemic. Many found in it a story about their own lives—a book to shed light on a global health crisis. In thirteen linked chapters told in alternating voices, Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris hold the past and present of The Plague in conversation, discovering how the novel has reached people in their current moment. Kaplan’s chapters explore the book’s tangled and vivid history, while Marris’s are drawn to the ecology of landscape and language. Through these pages, they find that their sense of Camus evolves under the force of a new reality, alongside the pressures of illness, recovery, concern, and care in their own lives. Along the way, Kaplan and Marris examine how the novel’s original allegory might resonate with a new generation of readers who have experienced a global pandemic. They describe how they learned to contemplate the skies of a plague spring, to examine the body politic and the politics of immunity. Both personal and eloquently written, States of Plague uncovers for us the mysterious way a novel can imagine the world during a crisis and draw back the veil on other possible futures.

Download or read book Tell Me Gently written by Ashley Woods and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: POETRY CAN BE A FANTASTIC WAY to find words and express feelings, but sometimes it fails to provide help beyond the feelings. This poetry book aims to bridge that gap, acknowledging pain while moving patiently toward hope. May it be that bridge to you.

Download or read book Touch Me Gently written by D. Jackson Leigh and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets lead to nothing but trouble and heartbreak. Newly arrived in the small Southern town of Oakboro, Salem Lacy is planning to keep a low profile after an ill-timed step out of the closet cost her the corporate job and high-powered friends she had in Atlanta. That plan derails when Salem meets the mysterious and beautiful Knox Bolander, a woman who is whispered to cause odd and sometimes dangerous things to happen. When a fire that occurred twenty years earlier on the Bolander estate threatens to destroy Salem's chance to rebuild her life, she must decide if she will risk everything again for this secretive woman who has been rarely touched and never loved.

Download or read book Young Master Tease Me Gently written by Chui Xing and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her previous life, Shen Qing Sang suffered extreme humiliation and died after being betrayed. In this life, she swore that she would take it back twice as quickly. Naturally, he had to keep his men under tight control. Before separation? Goodbye, I'm afraid to sleep alone. Someone was looking for trouble? Let's see how my man will protect his wife! What! There was actually a scheming bastard coming over. No problem, let's see how we can settle this! Mo Liancheng could only feel that Shen Qing Sang was different now. As for what was different, he was unable to say. Dear wife, you are becoming more and more charming. " Shen Qing Sang smiled charmingly, "Just because, I am Young Madam Mo."

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Download or read book CEO Please Love Me Gently written by Liang ZhiMao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the man he loved the most was married to his sister and she was even going to marry another man who was seriously ill instead of this sister however on the day of the wedding the groom even released the pigeon leaving her to face the awkward situation rumor has it that this man was sick and also very sick but who could tell her who was the man who had torn her apart on their wedding night she had originally thought that she would be able to escape from that disgusting home but she didn't expect that she would end up in another tiger cave how could she protect herself

Download or read book The Chosen written by Chaim Potok and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again.

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Download or read book Let Me Sing You Gentle Songs written by Linda Olsson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning first novel that was to become an international bestseller. Veronika, a writer in her early thirties, rents a house in the Swedish countryside to finish her novel. She is also cocooning herself from her past. She befriends Astrid, a reclusive older woman who has lived in the village all her life. Olsson leads us through the flowering of their unusual and tender friendship, as they slowly and carefully reveal their life histories and sometimes heart-rending pasts. The Swedish landscape is always a powerful presence and measures the progress of the women's relationship; as the icy winter and bare trees give way to spring and then summer, the women's friendship deepens. Also available as an eBook

Download or read book First and Last Love written by Robert W. Miles and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many thoughts and gratifying memories recounted in this volume began in 1924 and ended in 2013. The memories are of the author’s development as a songwriter and the many talented and likeable people he got to know. The locale is mainly New York City, with important time spent as a composer at a Catskill Mountain resort. Many of the thoughts are about the changing popular music scene in America.

Download or read book Tell Me A Dark Mafia Romance written by Quinn Marlowe and published by Spitfire Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone thought they knew who I was. Well. They thought they had an idea. The truth is, they don’t have a clue, and I’ve worked very hard to keep it that way. My past, my connections, my true identity… Those are all things that belong to me, and me alone. Because if they knew who I actually was, everything would change. And I’ve never been willing to let that happen. But when my adopted families, the Rossis and Brennans, find themselves in an impossible situation, at war with an unidentified stranger who has an unknown number of men, things get serious quickly. The Rossis and Brennans are outnumbered, outgunned, and in trouble, and for the first time in my memory, the Rossi brothers don’t know how to get out of a sticky situation. Quick thinking and luck aren’t going to save them when they’re outmanned. Charm isn’t going to give them the salvation they need. Because they need an army. And they don’t have one. I, however… Well, I do. If I take the chance of going home. If I face not only my father, but also my family and the man I was supposed to marry, but ran out on. Lucien Boudreaux is just as charming as the Rossis and twice as dangerous. He took my virginity. He stole my heart and then broke it. So I broke his right back. And now I’m going back to New Orleans to see whether he’s forgiven me yet. Because the Rossis need me. And when it comes to the Rossis, I’ll do anything it takes to save them. Even if it means facing my past, and the man who might still have a tight enough hold on my heart to change my life. Tell Me is the second in the New York Rogues: Brooks Peterson series, and is a spicy, spooky, suspenseful story full of guns, intrigue, and lost-but-not-forgotten loves who come back to haunt you. This story takes place on the same time as Her Master, the last in the Rossi series.

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Download or read book The Invitation written by Oriah Mountain Dreamer and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2000 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cult bestseller The Invitation is more than just a poem. It is a profound invitation to a life that is more fulfilling and passionate, with greater integrity. This book is a word-of-mouth sensation, whose truths have resonated with people all over the world, and is now reissued with a beautiful new cover design.

Download or read book Gently with the Innocents written by Alan Hunter and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an old man is found dead at the foot of the staircase in his rambling old house, a hint of murder and the lure of hidden treasure draw Gently into the case. Gently has plenty of suspects for the old man's murder. A warehouse watchman across the street misses nothing that goes on at the house, but can shed no light on the murderer. A local antiques dealer knows a suspicious amount about the house and a good deal more about the treasure that is thought to be hidden within its walls. When the murderer strikes again, Gently has a high profile case on his hands and faces a night of sheer terror alone in a house whose secret has claimed at least two lives . . .

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