Author: The Maggot
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300801867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
On November 2, 2012, five writers met in the austere, white confines of the Inspace gallery, in Edinburgh, Scotland and wrote for seven hours. They were later joined by two other contributors. Their work was coldly delegated and mediated by a software edit-machine known as The Maggot. This book is the the chewed-up corpse of the corpus that arose.
Heroic Real Estate Otter of the 21st Century
Author: The Maggot
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300801867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
On November 2, 2012, five writers met in the austere, white confines of the Inspace gallery, in Edinburgh, Scotland and wrote for seven hours. They were later joined by two other contributors. Their work was coldly delegated and mediated by a software edit-machine known as The Maggot. This book is the the chewed-up corpse of the corpus that arose.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300801867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
On November 2, 2012, five writers met in the austere, white confines of the Inspace gallery, in Edinburgh, Scotland and wrote for seven hours. They were later joined by two other contributors. Their work was coldly delegated and mediated by a software edit-machine known as The Maggot. This book is the the chewed-up corpse of the corpus that arose.
Diamond Doris
Author: Doris Payne
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006291801X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams. Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Doris Payne was told her dreams were unattainable for poor black girls like her. Surrounded by people who sought to limit her potential, Doris vowed to turn the tables after the owner of a jewelry store threw her out when a white customer arrived. Neither racism nor poverty would hold her back; she would get what she wanted and help her mother escape an abusive relationship. Using her southern charm, quick wit, and fascination with magic as her tools, Payne began shoplifting small pieces of jewelry from local stores. Over the course of six decades, her talents grew with each heist. Becoming an expert world-class jewel thief, she daringly pulled off numerous diamond robberies and her boyfriend fenced the stolen gems to Hollywood celebrities. Doris’s criminal exploits went unsolved well into the 1970s—partly because the stores did not want to admit that they were duped by a black woman. Eventually realizing Doris was using him, her boyfriend turned her in. She was arrested after stealing a diamond ring in Monte Carlo that was valued at more than half a million dollars. But even prison couldn’t contain this larger-than-life personality who cleverly used nuns as well as various ruses to help her break out. With her arrest in 2013 in San Diego, Doris’s fame skyrocketed when media coverage of her astonishing escapades exploded. Today, at eighty-seven, Doris, as bold and vibrant as ever, lives in Atlanta, and is celebrated for her glamorous legacy. She sums up her adventurous career best: “It beat being a teacher or a maid.” A rip-roaringly fun and exciting story as captivating and audacious as Catch Me if You Can and Can You Ever Forgive Me?—Diamond Doris is the portrait of a captivating anti-hero who refused to be defined by the prejudices and mores of a hypocritical society.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006291801X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams. Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, Doris Payne was told her dreams were unattainable for poor black girls like her. Surrounded by people who sought to limit her potential, Doris vowed to turn the tables after the owner of a jewelry store threw her out when a white customer arrived. Neither racism nor poverty would hold her back; she would get what she wanted and help her mother escape an abusive relationship. Using her southern charm, quick wit, and fascination with magic as her tools, Payne began shoplifting small pieces of jewelry from local stores. Over the course of six decades, her talents grew with each heist. Becoming an expert world-class jewel thief, she daringly pulled off numerous diamond robberies and her boyfriend fenced the stolen gems to Hollywood celebrities. Doris’s criminal exploits went unsolved well into the 1970s—partly because the stores did not want to admit that they were duped by a black woman. Eventually realizing Doris was using him, her boyfriend turned her in. She was arrested after stealing a diamond ring in Monte Carlo that was valued at more than half a million dollars. But even prison couldn’t contain this larger-than-life personality who cleverly used nuns as well as various ruses to help her break out. With her arrest in 2013 in San Diego, Doris’s fame skyrocketed when media coverage of her astonishing escapades exploded. Today, at eighty-seven, Doris, as bold and vibrant as ever, lives in Atlanta, and is celebrated for her glamorous legacy. She sums up her adventurous career best: “It beat being a teacher or a maid.” A rip-roaringly fun and exciting story as captivating and audacious as Catch Me if You Can and Can You Ever Forgive Me?—Diamond Doris is the portrait of a captivating anti-hero who refused to be defined by the prejudices and mores of a hypocritical society.
Under the Wave at Waimea
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358446287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0358446287
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century
Author: James D. Tracy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In the 16th century, the people of the Low Countries (modern Belgium and The Netherlands), the most urbanized and best educated in Transalpine Europe, provided a ready audience for ideas of religious reform and a sophisticated political framework for the airing of the great debates of the age. The present volume reproduces fourteen essays in which James Tracy studies different aspects of Low Countries culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In the 16th century, the people of the Low Countries (modern Belgium and The Netherlands), the most urbanized and best educated in Transalpine Europe, provided a ready audience for ideas of religious reform and a sophisticated political framework for the airing of the great debates of the age. The present volume reproduces fourteen essays in which James Tracy studies different aspects of Low Countries culture.
Best Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.
To Be Continued
Author: Hope Apple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313095981
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313095981
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.
Glorious Misadventures
Author: Owen Matthews
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408833980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov ? diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408833980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov ? diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders.
Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Hannele Klemettilä
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317551907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317551907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description