Author: Bāṇī BasuPublisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788189934064
Category : Bengali fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Dark Afternoons
Author: Bāṇī BasuPublisher: Katha
ISBN: 9788189934064
Category : Bengali fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Author: Douglas AdamsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476783004
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Detective Dirk Gently investigates after a passenger at Heathrow airport erupts into a mysterious ball of flames. Mystery, hilarity, and the fantastical are combined in this title from the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. -- HPL Readers Advisor.
Sunday Afternoons and Other Times Remembered
Author: Ben EwellPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684631424
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
On the afternoon of Easter Sunday, 1992, Ben Ewell’s brother, sister-in-law, and niece were all murdered. While trying to make sense of this staggering tragedy, Ben can’t help but think back through his life: the hard work and the many peaceful Sunday afternoons growing up on his family farm in Ohio in a house without a bathroom or running water; his high school antics in the 1950s; his time in Haight-Ashbury while attending law school in 1960s San Francisco; and the highs and lows, both personal and professional, of life after school. Threaded throughout these reminiscences, Ben reveals the details of the investigation of his family members’ murders—and the arrest and trial of the parties involved. In this decades-long saga, there is marriage and divorce, love and loss, family and friendship; there are political campaigns and business ventures, some failed and some fruitful. Ultimately, this is a story of perseverance in the face of tragedy, of creating opportunities out of problems, and of appreciating the gift of life and the world around us—with some humor along the way.
The lighter life, dialogues and sketches
Author: William WallaceThe Glovers Review
Author: She Read to Us in theLate Afternoons
Author: Kathleen HillPublisher: Delphinium Books
ISBN: 1504048598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Into the life of the author, a novel appears, as if by chance, and changes everything. As a child in a music class where a remarkable teacher watches over a classmate marked for tragedy, the author comes across Willa Cather’s novel, Lucy Gayheart, and is prepared by fiction for an actual death by drowning of someone near her. Later, recently married and living in a newly independent Nigeria, a teacher now herself, she assigns Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart to her students and is instructed by them in the violent legacy of colonialism, and visits an old slave port where she is made aware of her own benighted American innocence. In Nigeria, too, she is given A Portrait of a Lady and deeply ponders her own new marriage through the lens of Isabel Archer’s cautionary fate, remembers her adolescent fear that reading might be a way of avoiding experience. Afterward, spending a year in northern France, she puts Madame Bovary resolutely aside to discover in Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest a detailed guide to the town where she is living, the poverty and suffering hidden within its walls. The memoir closes with a tender account of the author’s friendship with the writer Diana Trilling, whose failing sight inspires a plan to read aloud Proust’s masterwork, an undertaking that requires six years to complete. Faced with Diana’s approaching death and the mysteries of her own life, the author wonders whether reading, after all, may not be experience at its most ardent, its most transforming.
Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set
Author: Philippa GregoryPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451682964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3436
Book Description
The six-book bosed set of the bestselling Tudor Court novels by Philippa Gregory, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "the queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY): The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen.
Among the Broad-arrow Men
Author: B.2.15Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broad Arrow men
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Ornaments of the Rubric
Author: John Thomas MicklethwaitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Author: Alcuin Club