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Author | : Leslie Kirk Campbell |
Publisher | : Sarabande Books |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2022-04-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1946448893 |
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In these brilliant, thematically linked stories, men and women from the Midwest to the West Coast, from Germany to Japan—engineers, opera singers, waitresses, teenagers, and monks—reckon with their body’s relationship to grief, illness, violation, technology, and genocide. They escape their fate in unusual ways—by befriending the squatting heroin addict next door, using a child’s flute as a gun in the dark, or ordering a new pair of legs, all in a variety of rich settings. The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally (burns, bruises, tracks, tattoos), and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. There’s a little O’Connor, a dash of DeLillo, and a cup of Alice Munro mixed together with a great deal of compassion. Leslie Campbell’s fiction debut is a must-read and sure winner.
Author | : Colum McCann |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250047765 |
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Eighty pieces of short fiction and nonfiction on manhood by some of the world's best writers. To help launch the literary nonprofit Narrative 4, Esquire asked eighty of the world's greatest writers to chip in with a story, all with the title, "How to Be a Man." The result is The Book of Men, an unflinching investigation into the essence of manhood.
Author | : Katherine Neville |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504013670 |
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The “fascinating” #1 international bestseller of a quest across centuries by two intrepid women to reunite the pieces of a powerful, ancient chess set (Los Angeles Times Book Review). A fabulous, bejeweled chess set that belonged to Charlemagne has been buried in a Pyrenees abbey for a thousand years. As the bloody French Revolution rages in Paris, the nuns dig it up and scatter its pieces across the globe because, when united, the set contains a secret power that could topple civilizations. To keep the set from falling into the wrong hands, two novices, Valentine and Mireille, embark on an adventure that begins in the streets of Paris and leads to Russia, Egypt, Corsica, and into the heart of the Algerian Sahara. Two hundred years later, while on assignment in Algeria, computer expert Catherine Velis finds herself drawn unwillingly into the deadly “Game” still swirling around the legendary chess set—a game that will require her to risk her life and match wits with diabolical forces. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Katherine Neville including rare images from her life and travels.
Author | : Leslie K. Campbell |
Publisher | : Riverhead Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997-03 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781573225762 |
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This guided journal helps expectant mothers explore--in their own personalized and creative way--the thoughts, feelings, and discoveries of their unique experience of pregnancy. With contributions from expectant mothers, and exercises to inspire readers, this book is a keepsake that will forever hold the memories of an extraordinary and precious time.
Author | : Roald Dahl |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2007-08-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101653019 |
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From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything—except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge.
Author | : Michelle Wildgen |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142990996X |
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Michelle Wildgen's debut novel You're Not You is "a complex and satisfying dish: a story of intimate strangers and their impact on each other's lives" (O, The Oprah Magazine). Now a major motion picture directed by George C. Wolfe, produced by Denise Di Novi and starring Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel and Emmy Rossum. Bec is adrift. It's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has been immobilized by ALS. As it turns out, before the disease Kate was a stylish and commanding woman, an advertising executive and an accomplished chef. Now, as she and Bec spend long days together, Bec begins to absorb Kate's sophistication and her sensuality, cooking for her, sharing her secrets, and gradually beginning to live her own life with a boldness informed by Kate's influence. The more intense her commitment to Kate, the further Bec strays from the complacency of her college life. And when Kate's marriage veers into dangerous territory, Bec will have to choose between the values of her old life and the allure of an entirely new one.
Author | : Thanhha Lai |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0702251178 |
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Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Author | : Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn |
Publisher | : Akashic Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161775160X |
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Manila is not for the faint of heart. Population: over ten million and growing by the minute. Climate: hot, humid and prone to torrential monsoon rains of biblical proportions. The ultimate femme fatale, she's complicated and mysterious, with a tainted, painful past. The perfect, torrid setting for noir. Edited by Dogeaters (Penguin, 1991) author and National Book Award Nominee Jessica Hagedorn, and featuring original stories from a stunning group of multi-award-winning authors.
Author | : Joseph K. Blitzstein |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 599 |
Release | : 2014-07-24 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1466575573 |
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Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and tools for understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, medicine, computer science, and information theory. The print book version includes a code that provides free access to an eBook version. The authors present the material in an accessible style and motivate concepts using real-world examples. Throughout, they use stories to uncover connections between the fundamental distributions in statistics and conditioning to reduce complicated problems to manageable pieces. The book includes many intuitive explanations, diagrams, and practice problems. Each chapter ends with a section showing how to perform relevant simulations and calculations in R, a free statistical software environment.
Author | : Nora Raleigh Baskin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2010-03-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416995005 |
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Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world.