An Old Captivity
Author | : Nevil Shute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Nevil Shute |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : György Spiró |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632060493 |
This translation originally copyrighted in 2010.
Author | : Chuck Klosterman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735217939 |
Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a small-town Oklahoma high school football team installs an offense comprised of only one, very special, play. A man explains to the police why he told the employee of his local bodega that his colleague looked like the lead singer of Depeche Mode, a statement that may or may not have led in some way to a violent crime. A college professor discusses with his friend his difficulties with the new generation of students. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its new-found fame when its song "Blizzard of Summer" becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian's rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larsen and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. They might be good company, though. Funny, wise and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.
Author | : Pamela Redmond |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439139539 |
They've satisfied their biological clocks. They met six years ago in a mom's group. Deirdre, Juliette, Anne, and Lisa are each living The Dream in the suburbs outside of New York City: beautiful wedding, big house, picture perfect family. What more could a woman want? Plenty, though none of them has ever admitted it. Out loud, anyway. It all starts with Deirdre....When she learns that her ex-lover, musician Nick Ruby, has moved back East, she confides in her girlfriends that she regrets her lost singing career, and her lost love affair with Nick. And since there doesn't seem to be a "what's next" in her life, she's more than a little curious about "what if...?" So what's that ticking sound? Deirdre's confession -- and her plan to revive her dreams and make them reality -- has a startling ripple effect. It turns out none of the four is as happy as she seems: Anne fears her marriage is in jeopardy. Juliette desperately wants to have another baby but can't. And Lisa's facing decisions that her life -- literally -- depends on. The doors swing wide when these babes start breaking out...but at what price? There's no satisfaction guarantee for any one of them, but taking chances together sure beats going it alone.
Author | : Kathy Parks |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062394029 |
"Like Siberia itself, this story is wild, mysterious, full of danger—and then, quite unexpectedly, captivates you with its beauty. I was so glad I went on the adventure." —Goldy Moldavsky, New York Times bestselling author of Kill the Boy Band Notes from My Captivity is a sharp, sensitive, and darkly funny novel perfect for fans of Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens and Adam Silvera’s More Happy Than Not. Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather’s belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there’s no question that she’s going to fly across the world. But the Russian terrain is even less forgiving than Adrienne. And when disaster strikes, none of their extensive preparations seem to matter. Now Adrienne’s being held captive by the family she was convinced didn’t exist, and her best hope for escape is to act like she cares about them, even if it means wooing the youngest son.
Author | : Ernest Hebert |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2001-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781584652137 |
A long-awaited new novel set in the period of the French and Indian Wars brings a new dimension to the region's history
Author | : Mendez-Ferrell An |
Publisher | : Destiny Image Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010-07 |
Genre | : Spiritual warfare |
ISBN | : 9780768432336 |
Taking our captivity away from the devil represented one of the most important parts of Jesus sufferings. This affects all human beings from the most downtrodden to the most successful one. Somehow part of our soul is held prisoner rather through sin, sickness fear or pain
Author | : Emma Donoghue |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2017-05-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 178682177X |
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
Author | : Lois Lenski |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2011-12-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453227520 |
A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Author | : A.J. Grainger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481429035 |
Sixteen-year-old Robyn Knollys-Green struggles to keep faith in her father, the British Prime Minister, while being held hostage by a group of extremist that includes an attractive, kind young man called Talon.