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Book The Sun on the Tongue

Download or read book The Sun on the Tongue written by Etel Adnan and published by Performance Ideas. This book was released on 2018 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th volume in the Performance Ideas series. A collection of literary texts, poems, plays, paintings, and drawings, accompanied by an interview on poetry and painting with the author.

Book Breaking the Tongue

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  • Author : Vyvyane Loh
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780393326543
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Breaking the Tongue written by Vyvyane Loh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dramatic....One of the most ambitious and accomplished debut novels in recent memory."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review.

Book Tongue First

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  • Author : Emily Jenkins
  • Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
  • Release : 2014-09-30
  • ISBN : 1466882409
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Tongue First written by Emily Jenkins and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart, humorous exploration of bodily thrills and paranoia from aerobics to acupuncture, strip shows to sensory deprivation. Your perception of your body will change when you read this book. You will be pulling on your boxer shorts or your black lace bra, and suddenly consider why you decorate yourself the way you do. You will shake up your martini, kiss your beloved, read a dirty magazine, go for a jog, and think about what your bodily behavior says about your soul. And what it is doing to your soul. You will notice the defenses you erect for yourself. Perhaps a tube of lipstick. Perhaps an addiction. Testing the boundaries between fear and temptation, Emily Jenkins takes us on a journey from ordinary physical experiences (going to the dentist, putting on stockings) to extreme ones (snorting heroin, shaving her head). She interviews people whose bodies are radically different from hers and enters communities where people share unusual ideas about physicality. Sometimes you will recognize your own habits. Other times you'll be shocked or repulsed. Always you will find yourself questioning the ordinary things you do, rethinking your relationship to your body.

Book From the Tip of My Tongue

Download or read book From the Tip of My Tongue written by Cindy Hutson and published by Story Farm LLC. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Hutson's expansive culinary journeys, from the delis and restaurants of Hutson's New Jersey hometown, through her time as a charter-boat captain, to the streets and mountainsides of her beloved, adopted Jamaica, these dishes offer highly flavorful fare that ranges from casual meals that Hutson's family enjoys at home to the creative and exotic plates that she, Delius and manager/daughter Ashley serve in their three restaurants.

Book Slip of the Tongue

Download or read book Slip of the Tongue written by Jessica Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadie Hunt isn't perfect-but her husband is. Nathan Hunt has her coffee waiting every morning. He holds her hand until the last second. He worships the Manhattan sidewalk she walks on. Until one day, he just...stops. And Sadie finds herself in the last place she ever expected to be. Lonely in her marriage. When rugged and sexy Finn Cohen moves in to the apartment across the hall, he and Sadie share an immediate spark. Finn reveals dreams for a different life. Sadie wants to save her marriage. Their secrets should keep them apart, not ignite a blistering affair. But while Sadie's marriage runs colder by the day, she and Finn burn hotter. Her husband doesn't want her anymore. The man next door would give up everything to have her. "Slip of the Tongue is a standalone forbidden romance. Please note it contains adultery themes that may be triggers for some people."

Book Canaan s Tongue

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Wray
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307425150
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Canaan s Tongue written by John Wray and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the American South in the years before and during the Civil War, John Wray’s hypnotic new novel is at once a crime story, a bravura work of historical fiction, and a fire-and-brimstone meditation on American credulity and corruption. Thaddeus Morelle’s followers call him “the Redeemer.” Over the years he has led the Island 37 Gang from stealing horses to stealing slaves in an enterprise so nefarious that both the Union and Confederacy have placed a bounty on their heads. But now Morelle is dead, murdered by his puppet and protégé, Virgil Ball, who may rid himself of the Redeemer but can never be free of his Trade. Based on the true story of John Murrell, a figure once as infamous as Jesse James, Canaan’s Tongue is suspenseful and fiercely comic, a modern masterpiece of the American grotesque.

Book Native Tongue

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  • Author : Suzette Haden Elgin
  • Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 2013-08-15
  • ISBN : 1558617760
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Native Tongue written by Suzette Haden Elgin and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, Native Tongue earned wide critical praise, and cult status as well. Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies’ languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the population, and in fear of class warfare. But a group of women is destined to challenge the power of men and linguists. Nazareth, the most talented linguist of her family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for the government, supervising the children’s language education in the Alien-in-Residence interface chambers, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth does not yet know is that a clandestine revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them of men’s domination. Their secret must, above all, be kept until the language is ready for use. The women’s language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action. A complete work in itself, it is also the first volume in Elgin’s acclaimed Native Tongue trilogy.

Book The Prodigal Tongue

Download or read book The Prodigal Tongue written by Lynne Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English “English accents are the sexiest.” “Americans have ruined the English language.” Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she explores the fiction and reality of the special relationship between British and American English. By examining the causes and symptoms of American Verbal Inferiority Complex and its flipside, British Verbal Superiority Complex, Murphy unravels the prejudices, stereotypes and insecurities that shape our attitudes to our own language. With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political and linguistic forces that have driven American and British English in different directions: how Americans got from centre to center, why British accents are growing away from American ones, and what different things we mean when we say estate, frown, or middle class. Is anyone winning this war of the words? Will Yanks and Brits ever really understand each other?

Book Salt On Your Tongue

Download or read book Salt On Your Tongue written by Charlotte Runcie and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It’s an ode to our oceans – to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women who lost their loved ones to the waves, to the creatures that dwell in their depths, to beachcombers, swimmers, seabirds and mermaids. Navigating through ancient Greek myths, poetry, shipwrecks and Scottish folktales, Salt On Your Tongue is about how the wild untameable waves can help us understand what it means to be human.

Book Journal of American Folklore

Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vulgar Tongue

Download or read book The Vulgar Tongue written by Jonathon Green and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the language of thieves and beggars, slang is an ever present part of today's culture for people across the strata. It allows us to connect to others, to express otherwise guarded thoughts, and to convey humor in the everyday. But how did slang escape its stigma as the language of the streets and integrate itself so seamlessly with "standard English?" The Vulgar Tongue tells the full story of English language slang, from its origins in early British beggar books to its spread in American and Australian culture in the eighteenth century. The aim is not to record the history of the over 125,000 English words that make up the lexis. Rather, the author focuses on the common, often profane themes that run through the word-list--crime, sex, bodily parts and functions, insults, and drink and drugs--and their scope and function throughout the various cultures and overlapping subcultures of English language history, from the sporting world to the university campus to ethnic communities. In tracing its development and trajectory throughout the English-speaking world, Jonathon Green offers an impassioned defence for its vitality, showing how slang has grown into a modern, versatile vocabulary that has nevertheless established its own role in contemporary English. Drawing on thirty years' worth of research, The Vulgar Tongue is a celebration of the words and phrases of an overlooked aspect of human language and interaction.

Book What Is Written on the Tongue

Download or read book What Is Written on the Tongue written by Anne Lazurko and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released from Nazi forced labour as WWII ends, twenty-year old Samuel Vandenberg is quickly drafted and sent to the island of Java to help regain control of the East Indies colony. The story of one young man's journey from being occupied to holding the gun, from having an enemy to becoming one.

Book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Download or read book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue written by John McWhorter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax patterns, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary, maddening nature of English— and its ironic simplicity due to its role as a streamlined lingua franca during the early formation of Britain. This is the book that language aficionados worldwide have been waiting for (and no, it’s not a sin to end a sentence with a preposition).

Book Atlas of Tongue Diagnosis

Download or read book Atlas of Tongue Diagnosis written by Ding Cheng-hua and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seventy Reasons for Speaking in Tongues

Download or read book Seventy Reasons for Speaking in Tongues written by Bill Hamon and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speak in Tongues? About 95 percent of Spirit-baptized Christians don’t understand the purposes and benefits of speaking in tongues. More than 600 million Christians have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet most do not utilize this precious gift to its full potential. And many who do speak in tongues on a regular basis do not fully understand all the benefits this gift brings. You can learn how to use your spirit language to see prayers answered, activate more faith, receive healing and victory, and increase God’s love and power within your life and ministry. You can utilize the gifts of the Holy Spirit through speaking in tongues by learning: 70 Reasons for Speaking in Tongues 15 Biblical Proof Reasons 30 Personal Benefit and Blessing Reasons 25 Powerful Spiritual Ministry Reasons 70 Reasons for Speaking in Tongues was written for Spirit-filled believers and those who want to know more about this God-given, Holy Spirit-infused gift that has changed hearts and minds for generations.

Book Without a Name and Under the Tongue

Download or read book Without a Name and Under the Tongue written by Yvonne Vera and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two short stories about two young Zimbabwe women.

Book Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication

Download or read book Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: