Author: Giorgio Pressburger
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This award-winning collection confirms Giorgio Pressburger as a European master of the short story. Each tale is wondrous in its situation and its telling, but each refined truth it contains is hauntingly familiar in its resonance. In the title story, four rabbis on a trip through the mountains offer marvelous interpretations of the similarities between snow and guilt, just before an avalanche, killing three of them, provides the most concrete interpretation of all for the survivor. In other stories, horrors await a scientist who provokes unrequited passion in a young girl; a wheelchair-bound philosopher rails at cosmic injustice; and a man who saves a kitten from death unwittingly changes his life through a random act of kindness. Giorgio Pressburger was born in Budapest in 1937 and later settled in Italy. He is now the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. Among his previous books isThe Law of White Spaces.
Snow and Guilt
Author: Giorgio Pressburger
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This award-winning collection confirms Giorgio Pressburger as a European master of the short story. Each tale is wondrous in its situation and its telling, but each refined truth it contains is hauntingly familiar in its resonance. In the title story, four rabbis on a trip through the mountains offer marvelous interpretations of the similarities between snow and guilt, just before an avalanche, killing three of them, provides the most concrete interpretation of all for the survivor. In other stories, horrors await a scientist who provokes unrequited passion in a young girl; a wheelchair-bound philosopher rails at cosmic injustice; and a man who saves a kitten from death unwittingly changes his life through a random act of kindness. Giorgio Pressburger was born in Budapest in 1937 and later settled in Italy. He is now the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. Among his previous books isThe Law of White Spaces.
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This award-winning collection confirms Giorgio Pressburger as a European master of the short story. Each tale is wondrous in its situation and its telling, but each refined truth it contains is hauntingly familiar in its resonance. In the title story, four rabbis on a trip through the mountains offer marvelous interpretations of the similarities between snow and guilt, just before an avalanche, killing three of them, provides the most concrete interpretation of all for the survivor. In other stories, horrors await a scientist who provokes unrequited passion in a young girl; a wheelchair-bound philosopher rails at cosmic injustice; and a man who saves a kitten from death unwittingly changes his life through a random act of kindness. Giorgio Pressburger was born in Budapest in 1937 and later settled in Italy. He is now the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. Among his previous books isThe Law of White Spaces.
Delusion's Master
Author: Tanith Lee
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0698404424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won numerous awards for her craft, including the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. Delusion’s Master is the third book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales. A long time ago when the Earth was Flat, beautiful indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above, curious passionate demons lived in the Underearth realm below, and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Chuz, Prince of Madness, third of the Lords of Darkness—beauty on one side, foul corruption on the other—“takes pity” on the world. In his gentle, soft embrace, mortal minds repose in a tide of illusion and twisted desire. Yet no one is immune from the sweetest madness of all, and even immortals fall at the cast of the bone dice…. Come within this ancient world of brilliant darkness and beauty, of glittering palaces and wondrous elegant beings, of cruel passions and undying love. Discover the wonder that is the Flat Earth.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 0698404424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A recognized master fantasist, Tanith Lee has won numerous awards for her craft, including the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Horror. Delusion’s Master is the third book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of The One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales. A long time ago when the Earth was Flat, beautiful indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above, curious passionate demons lived in the Underearth realm below, and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Chuz, Prince of Madness, third of the Lords of Darkness—beauty on one side, foul corruption on the other—“takes pity” on the world. In his gentle, soft embrace, mortal minds repose in a tide of illusion and twisted desire. Yet no one is immune from the sweetest madness of all, and even immortals fall at the cast of the bone dice…. Come within this ancient world of brilliant darkness and beauty, of glittering palaces and wondrous elegant beings, of cruel passions and undying love. Discover the wonder that is the Flat Earth.
When We Were Orphans
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375412654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375412654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition—and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
Ghosts & Liars
Author: Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The stunning conclusion of the Impossible Julian Strande, where all the magician's greatest secrets are revealed...for better or worse. All Alice wanted was a job. As the caretaker of the Strande Mansion, she got far more than she bargained for. Between trying to crack the code of the sinister Julian Strande and her new love affair with Charles, the current owner of the museum, she has a lot to balance. Alice didn't believe in ghosts. That was until she met Julian Strande. Unfortunately, it seems the legends of the ghost of the estate are all very real, and he seems to have become obsessed with her. Charles has promised her that Julian is harmless and just playing pranks. That he enjoys the company after all those years alone. It's too bad that Charles may not be all he seems... _____ Author's Note: Julian Strande is a villain. Ergo, he is not always the nicest man. This story has a HEA, but it may be a tough ride getting there.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The stunning conclusion of the Impossible Julian Strande, where all the magician's greatest secrets are revealed...for better or worse. All Alice wanted was a job. As the caretaker of the Strande Mansion, she got far more than she bargained for. Between trying to crack the code of the sinister Julian Strande and her new love affair with Charles, the current owner of the museum, she has a lot to balance. Alice didn't believe in ghosts. That was until she met Julian Strande. Unfortunately, it seems the legends of the ghost of the estate are all very real, and he seems to have become obsessed with her. Charles has promised her that Julian is harmless and just playing pranks. That he enjoys the company after all those years alone. It's too bad that Charles may not be all he seems... _____ Author's Note: Julian Strande is a villain. Ergo, he is not always the nicest man. This story has a HEA, but it may be a tough ride getting there.
First Episode Psychosis
Author: Katherine J. Aitchison
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781853174353
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The new edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated to include the latest data concerning treatment of first-episode patients. Drawing from their experience, the authors discuss the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode and review the appropriate use of antipsychotic agents and psychosocial approaches in effective management.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781853174353
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The new edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated to include the latest data concerning treatment of first-episode patients. Drawing from their experience, the authors discuss the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode and review the appropriate use of antipsychotic agents and psychosocial approaches in effective management.
Reconceiving Schizophrenia
Author: Man Cheung Chung
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019852613X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Schizophrenia has been investigated predominantly from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives. This text examines it from a philosophical point of view.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019852613X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Schizophrenia has been investigated predominantly from psychological, psychiatric and neurobiological perspectives. This text examines it from a philosophical point of view.
Illusions of Grandeur
Author: Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
All Alice wanted was a job. What she got was a bizarre mansion with bodies hidden in the walls...and the alluring but villainous ghost of Julian Strande. Alice has never been much for ordinary, and her new job at the mysterious Strande Mansion comes complete with strange noises, a sinister ghost, creepy legends, and a sexy amateur magician. Of course, Alice doesn't actually believe in ghosts, but what she encounters at the Strande Mansion has her questioning a lot of things--including whether or not her gorgeous new boss is as skilled in the bedroom as he is at illusions. Julian Strande may have died a century ago, but that doesn't stop him from taking a keen interest in the new caretaker of his estate. It's been such a long time since he's had anyone to play with. And he plans to have a great deal of fun with Alice. That is, if she doesn't run screaming from his home first... _______________ Author's Note: This book is what I would call "villain romance." This story is for anyone who always finds the villain more interesting than the hero. That said, they are therefore sometimes not the nicest of male heroes. This story has a HEA, but it may be a tough ride getting there. This story has mature themes and content.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
All Alice wanted was a job. What she got was a bizarre mansion with bodies hidden in the walls...and the alluring but villainous ghost of Julian Strande. Alice has never been much for ordinary, and her new job at the mysterious Strande Mansion comes complete with strange noises, a sinister ghost, creepy legends, and a sexy amateur magician. Of course, Alice doesn't actually believe in ghosts, but what she encounters at the Strande Mansion has her questioning a lot of things--including whether or not her gorgeous new boss is as skilled in the bedroom as he is at illusions. Julian Strande may have died a century ago, but that doesn't stop him from taking a keen interest in the new caretaker of his estate. It's been such a long time since he's had anyone to play with. And he plans to have a great deal of fun with Alice. That is, if she doesn't run screaming from his home first... _______________ Author's Note: This book is what I would call "villain romance." This story is for anyone who always finds the villain more interesting than the hero. That said, they are therefore sometimes not the nicest of male heroes. This story has a HEA, but it may be a tough ride getting there. This story has mature themes and content.
The Illusion of Living: An AFK Book (Bendy)
Author: Adrienne Kress
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338733915
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Enter the mind of Joey Drew in this exclusive memoir, sure to captivate fans of the hit horror video games Bendy and the Ink Machine and Bendy and the Dark Revival! Bendy fans will delight in poring over the memoir of his ingenious creator, Joey Drew. From humble beginnings to his meteoric rise as the force behind his eponymous studio, Mr. Drew offers a behind the scenes peek at his many animation innovations, such as Sillivision, his "Rules to Animate By," and of course his unique approach to franchising-among the first of its time. This re-release even includes never before seen information omitted from the original manuscript, cobbled together from the Joey Drew Studios archive as well as Mr. Drew's personal estate. Don't miss this exclusive peek inside the rise-and fall-of one of the most groundbreaking animators in history!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338733915
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Enter the mind of Joey Drew in this exclusive memoir, sure to captivate fans of the hit horror video games Bendy and the Ink Machine and Bendy and the Dark Revival! Bendy fans will delight in poring over the memoir of his ingenious creator, Joey Drew. From humble beginnings to his meteoric rise as the force behind his eponymous studio, Mr. Drew offers a behind the scenes peek at his many animation innovations, such as Sillivision, his "Rules to Animate By," and of course his unique approach to franchising-among the first of its time. This re-release even includes never before seen information omitted from the original manuscript, cobbled together from the Joey Drew Studios archive as well as Mr. Drew's personal estate. Don't miss this exclusive peek inside the rise-and fall-of one of the most groundbreaking animators in history!
Palm Beach
Author: Augustus Mayhew
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523709496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Cultural columnist and architectural historian Augustus Mayhew's revealing and entertaining essays portray Palm Beach's larger-than-life characters, bigger-than-ever mansions and stranger-than-fiction pursuits. Focused on the fine line between illusion and reality so often blurred at Palm Beach, the book explores the town's standing as a rarefied destination where extravagance and excess are commonplace, upheld by successive generations who have built their own Taj Mahals while partaking of all the splendors Worth Avenue offers. This detailed volume chronicles Palm Beach's unique ever-changing landscape from its origin as a remote tropical refuge to its transformation into an international resort playground that recreated itself as an exclusive residential enclave. New insights into Paris Singer and the building of the Everglades Club are gained from previously undiscovered research materials and archival sources in the United States and England. Our awareness and appreciation of Otto Kahn's role in the founding of Palm Beach's exclusive clubs are enriched by his diaries, account ledgers and correspondence found among the Otto H. Kahn Papers at Princeton University's Firestone Library. On a lighter note, Judge James R. Knott's wedding diary documents the numerous at-home ceremonies he performed, taking the reader inside the world of private Palm Beach where guests were asked to hum "Here Comes the Bride." Considering Palm Beach's fondness for distractions, the book also delves into the resort's passion for aviation, dancing, portraits, movie-making, marriage and divorce. Comprised of essays originally published at the New York Social Diary, Palm Beach Daily News and Palm Beach Life magazine, this new collection is illustrated with numerous historical photographs.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523709496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Cultural columnist and architectural historian Augustus Mayhew's revealing and entertaining essays portray Palm Beach's larger-than-life characters, bigger-than-ever mansions and stranger-than-fiction pursuits. Focused on the fine line between illusion and reality so often blurred at Palm Beach, the book explores the town's standing as a rarefied destination where extravagance and excess are commonplace, upheld by successive generations who have built their own Taj Mahals while partaking of all the splendors Worth Avenue offers. This detailed volume chronicles Palm Beach's unique ever-changing landscape from its origin as a remote tropical refuge to its transformation into an international resort playground that recreated itself as an exclusive residential enclave. New insights into Paris Singer and the building of the Everglades Club are gained from previously undiscovered research materials and archival sources in the United States and England. Our awareness and appreciation of Otto Kahn's role in the founding of Palm Beach's exclusive clubs are enriched by his diaries, account ledgers and correspondence found among the Otto H. Kahn Papers at Princeton University's Firestone Library. On a lighter note, Judge James R. Knott's wedding diary documents the numerous at-home ceremonies he performed, taking the reader inside the world of private Palm Beach where guests were asked to hum "Here Comes the Bride." Considering Palm Beach's fondness for distractions, the book also delves into the resort's passion for aviation, dancing, portraits, movie-making, marriage and divorce. Comprised of essays originally published at the New York Social Diary, Palm Beach Daily News and Palm Beach Life magazine, this new collection is illustrated with numerous historical photographs.
Witching For Grace
Author: Deanna Chase
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940299983
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number!Welcome to Premonition Pointe, where witches take care of their own.Grace Valentine had the perfect marriage and a great career managing her husband's real estate office. Or so she thought until three months ago when she was served with divorce papers. Thanks to her philandering ex, not only is she out of a husband, she's out of a job, too.At the age of forty-five with the help of her coven, Grace is ready to pick up the pieces and move on. But her only job prospect is at the rival real estate office, and it's only for a trial run. She'll need to prove that she can sell the haunted properties of Premonition Pointe before she's hired permanently. But who has time to deal with haunted houses when she's testing out every anti-perspirant on the market to combat her escalating hot flashes, trying not to succumb to the advances of the hot thirty-four-year-old in her office, and ignoring the urges to hex her ex with erectile disfunction? Okay, maybe she doesn't ignore the urges. She might be a witch, but she's only human. Can Grace prove to herself and her new boss she has the magical touch to sell the impossible and find the courage get her groove back... even if her new love interest is a decade younger?***Looking for more books in this HOT FLASH of a new genre?Check out these books available February 18/2020: Denise Grover Swank "Let it all Burn"KF Breene "Magical Midlife Madness"Eve Langlais "Halfway There"Robyn Peterman "It's a Wonderful Midlife Crisis"Shannon Mayer "Grave Magic Bounty"Jana DeLeon "Wrong Side of Forty"Deanna Chase "Witching For Grace"Kristen Painter "Sucks to be Me"Elizabeth Hunter "Suddenly Psychic"Michelle M Pillow "Second Chance Magic"Mandy M Roth "Cloudy With a Chance of Witchcraft"Darynda Jones "Betwixt"Christine Gael "Writing Wrongs"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940299983
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age is just a number!Welcome to Premonition Pointe, where witches take care of their own.Grace Valentine had the perfect marriage and a great career managing her husband's real estate office. Or so she thought until three months ago when she was served with divorce papers. Thanks to her philandering ex, not only is she out of a husband, she's out of a job, too.At the age of forty-five with the help of her coven, Grace is ready to pick up the pieces and move on. But her only job prospect is at the rival real estate office, and it's only for a trial run. She'll need to prove that she can sell the haunted properties of Premonition Pointe before she's hired permanently. But who has time to deal with haunted houses when she's testing out every anti-perspirant on the market to combat her escalating hot flashes, trying not to succumb to the advances of the hot thirty-four-year-old in her office, and ignoring the urges to hex her ex with erectile disfunction? Okay, maybe she doesn't ignore the urges. She might be a witch, but she's only human. Can Grace prove to herself and her new boss she has the magical touch to sell the impossible and find the courage get her groove back... even if her new love interest is a decade younger?***Looking for more books in this HOT FLASH of a new genre?Check out these books available February 18/2020: Denise Grover Swank "Let it all Burn"KF Breene "Magical Midlife Madness"Eve Langlais "Halfway There"Robyn Peterman "It's a Wonderful Midlife Crisis"Shannon Mayer "Grave Magic Bounty"Jana DeLeon "Wrong Side of Forty"Deanna Chase "Witching For Grace"Kristen Painter "Sucks to be Me"Elizabeth Hunter "Suddenly Psychic"Michelle M Pillow "Second Chance Magic"Mandy M Roth "Cloudy With a Chance of Witchcraft"Darynda Jones "Betwixt"Christine Gael "Writing Wrongs"