Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Doris Meets the Extraordinary PDF full book. Access full book title Doris Meets the Extraordinary by Dany Flores. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Dany Flores Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 198223802X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 117
Book Description
Doris had always had the feeling that something was missing in her life. Now in her twenties, living in Paris with a handsome guy by her side, she feels this void inside her that only gets deeper every day. There is no spark in her life, and she wants it. She will go through a self-discovery journey hand-in-hand with the Extraordinary to find her wholeness. Perhaps she will find love in a partner when she again meets an Italian chef from her old life in Paris. Once we decide, the Extraordinary arranges everything to give us exactly what we want the way we need. This is Doris’s journey.
Author: Dany Flores Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 198223802X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 117
Book Description
Doris had always had the feeling that something was missing in her life. Now in her twenties, living in Paris with a handsome guy by her side, she feels this void inside her that only gets deeper every day. There is no spark in her life, and she wants it. She will go through a self-discovery journey hand-in-hand with the Extraordinary to find her wholeness. Perhaps she will find love in a partner when she again meets an Italian chef from her old life in Paris. Once we decide, the Extraordinary arranges everything to give us exactly what we want the way we need. This is Doris’s journey.
Author: Doris Lessing Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307777642 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 159
Book Description
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.
Author: Sallie Bingham Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374711860 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
"Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.
Author: Doris Bloodsworth Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738585864 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
For centuries, people have been entranced by Clermont's spectacular beauty. Named after picturesque Clermont-Ferrand, France, the birthplace of an early settler, Clermont is often called "Gem of the Hills," referring to the area's sparkling lakes, rolling hills, and an early citrus brand. Clermont's history, like the countryside, includes many pinnacles and valleys--from millions made in land investments and citrus to devastating freezes and economic depression that brought the city to bankruptcy. It is an exotic history filled with adventure; steamboats; railways; freak weather phenomena; iconic tourist attractions; unparalleled golf, fishing, and hunting venues; visionary leaders; legendary athletes; a world-class library overlooking the city; and a historic village beside Lake Minneola. Coming off its 125th anniversary, Clermont flourishes as Lake County's largest city.
Author: Doris Lessing Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007283202 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 18
Book Description
Doris Lessing’s first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led.
Author: Idries Shah Publisher: Octagon Press Ltd ISBN: 0863040365 Category : Folklore Languages : en Pages : 424
Book Description
No ordinary collection of tales, this anthology was the result of extensive research that led Shah to conclude that there is a certain basic fund of human fictions which recur again and again throughout the world and never seem to lose their compelling attraction. This special paperback version of World Tales concentrates on the essentials, the text of the stories, and omits the illustrations which were part of a previous edition.
Author: Stephen Benatar Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590173724 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city—and she sheds her old life without delay. Gone is her dull administrative job, her mousy wardrobe, her downer of a roommate. She will live as a woman of leisure, devoted to beauty, creativity, expression, and love. Once installed in her new quarters, Rachel plants a garden, takes up writing, and impresses everyone she meets with her extraordinary optimism. But as Rachel sings and jokes the days away, her new neighbors begin to wonder if she might be taking her transformation just a bit too far. In Wish Her Safe at Home, Stephen Benatar finds humor and horror in the shifting region between elation and mania. His heroine could be the next-door neighbor of the Beales of Grey Gardens or a sister to Jane Gardam’s oddball protagonists, but she has an ebullient charm all her own.
Author: Doris Lessing Publisher: HarperPerennial ISBN: 9780006548256 Category : Doris Lessing, Autobiography, (1919-1949) Languages : en Pages : 419
Book Description
This book begins with Lessing's childhood in Africa, recalling her marriages and involvement in communist politics and ends on her arrival in London in 1949, with the typescript of her first novel - The Grass is Singing - in her suitcase.
Author: Michelle Fine Publisher: Teachers College Press ISBN: 0807776068 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays—as urgently needed now as when they first appeared—on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted over the course of two decades. The authors invite all of us to take a serious look at the paradox of public education—the ways in which urban schools reproduce social inequalities while, at the same time, serve as sites for learning at its most transformative and compelling. A must–read for all those educators who believe that “we can no longer afford to cede this space to policymakers who know little of the life of a classroom, the curiosity of a child, and the moral imperatives of teaching for critical citizenship.” “Michelle Fine and Lois Weis are among the very best writers on education in the entire nation. This book shows why they are so worthy of our highest respect. It demonstrates the limits and possibilities of critical education in powerful ways.” —Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison “For those of us who share the experience of having waited hungrily for more from Michelle Fine and Lois Weis, having these historic works collected in one volume is deeply satisfying. This book is mandatory material for us all.” —Deborah L. Tolman, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College
Author: Dany Flores
Author: Dany Flores
Author: Doris Lessing
Author: Sallie Bingham
Author: Doris Bloodsworth
Author: Doris Lessing
Author: Idries Shah
Author: Stephen Benatar
Author: Doris Lessing
Author: John M. Doris
Author: Michelle Fine