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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Win Me Something
Author: Kyle Lucia WuPublisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1951142810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post, Shondaland, NPR Books, Parade, Lit Hub, PureWow, Harper’s Bazaar, PopSugar, NYLON, Alta, Ms. Magazine, Debutiful and Good Housekeeping Best Book of Fall A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging—of a young woman determined to be seen. Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens—a wealthy white family in Tribeca—as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.
The Other Shore. (Twilight ... Peace ... The Short Way Back ... The King ... The City.).
Author: Anna Bartlett WarnerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Unity
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Waiting For Something to Happen
Author: Athol E VarleyPublisher: Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
ISBN: 1861514867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
ÿ Athol Varley already had a pilot?s licence when he joined the RAF in 1941, but his eyesight precluded him from flying in combat. Instead a disappointed Athol spent much of the war bored, frustrated and dreaming of his sweetheart, the woman with whom he would spend the rest of his life. His diary records no heroic escapes or acts of bravery, but portrays an ordinary young man who was keen to serve his country but grew increasingly disillusioned with his lack of involvement in a war that seemed remote. Having too much time on his hands allowed him to write many letters and diary entries about his thoughts and feelings. The result is an interesting insight into the hopes, fears and attitudes of the war years. Athol Varley?s diaries have been collated and edited by his daughter, Adrienne de Mont.
Wrestling and Waiting
Author: John Fothergill Waterhouse WarePublisher:
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Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Waiting for the Man
Author: Arjun BasuPublisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1770905162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
An advertising man searches for meaning in this “fascinating dissection of the media world we live in . . . A thought-provoking road-trip tale” (Chicago Tribune). Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize In his mid-thirties, Joe works as an advertising copywriter for a slick New York agency. But he feels disillusioned with his life, and finds himself experiencing dreams about a mysterious man, seeing him on the street, hearing his voice. Joe decides to listen. So he waits on his stoop, day and night, for instructions. A local reporter takes notice, and soon Joe has become a media sensation, the center of a storm. When the Man tells Joe to “go west,” he does. What follows is a compelling and visceral story about the struggle to find something more in life, told in two interwoven threads—Joe at the beginning of his journey in Manhattan, and at the end of it as he finds new purpose on a ranch in Montana under the endless sky. “A strangely engrossing, meticulously written allegory of the present moment.” —Douglas Coupland, author of Worst. Person. Ever.
The Adelphi
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Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries
Author: Melville Davisson PostPublisher: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Religious Thinking of John Burroughs
Author: Arthur Wakefield SlatenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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