Author: Sterling Watson
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 161775319X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A haunting Florida-based literary thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock.
Suitcase City
Author: Sterling Watson
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 161775319X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A haunting Florida-based literary thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock.
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 161775319X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A haunting Florida-based literary thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock.
Big-City Bags
Author: Sara Lawson
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604682949
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Ready to move beyond basic bags and totes? Now you can create sophisticated handbags and totes with a modern look. Learn a variety of intermediate to advanced techniques--from installing zippers and magnetic snaps to creating adjustable straps--and find detailed info on selecting the right interfacing, stabilizer, or batting for any project. Choose from 12 new designer-style bags and purses--alternate colorways provide additional inspiration Make use of clearly illustrated, well-tested patterns for sewing attractive bags Add stylish design elements that make your bags stand out: piping, three-dimensional pockets, fabric pleats, and more
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604682949
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Ready to move beyond basic bags and totes? Now you can create sophisticated handbags and totes with a modern look. Learn a variety of intermediate to advanced techniques--from installing zippers and magnetic snaps to creating adjustable straps--and find detailed info on selecting the right interfacing, stabilizer, or batting for any project. Choose from 12 new designer-style bags and purses--alternate colorways provide additional inspiration Make use of clearly illustrated, well-tested patterns for sewing attractive bags Add stylish design elements that make your bags stand out: piping, three-dimensional pockets, fabric pleats, and more
City of Love and Ashes
Author: Yusuf Idris
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774246999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a committed young radical, his goal to build a secret armed brigade to fight for freedom, independence, and national self-esteem. Fawziya is a woman with a mission too, keen to support the cause. Among the ashes of the city love may grow, but at a time of national struggle what place do personal feelings have beside the greater love for a shackled homeland? In this finely crafted novel, Yusuf Idris, best known as the master of the Arabic short story, brings to life not only some of the most human characters in modern Arabic fiction but the soul of Cairo itself and the soul of a national consciousness focused on liberation. ''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or the Ibo villagers of Achebe, Idris raises his authentic characters into convincing types within their context: he makes us live their agonies and hopes.''--Ferial Ghazoul
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774246999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Cairo, January 1952. Egypt is at a critical point in its modern history, struggling to throw off the yoke of the seventy-year British occupation and its corrupt royalist allies. Hamza is a committed young radical, his goal to build a secret armed brigade to fight for freedom, independence, and national self-esteem. Fawziya is a woman with a mission too, keen to support the cause. Among the ashes of the city love may grow, but at a time of national struggle what place do personal feelings have beside the greater love for a shackled homeland? In this finely crafted novel, Yusuf Idris, best known as the master of the Arabic short story, brings to life not only some of the most human characters in modern Arabic fiction but the soul of Cairo itself and the soul of a national consciousness focused on liberation. ''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or the Ibo villagers of Achebe, Idris raises his authentic characters into convincing types within their context: he makes us live their agonies and hopes.''--Ferial Ghazoul
Poetry Los Angeles
Author: Laurence Goldstein
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472120417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein presents original commentary on six decades of poets who have contributed to the iconography and poetics of Los Angeles literature, including Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dorothy Barresi, Victoria Chang, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, James Harms, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Garrett Hongo, Suzanne Lummis, Paul Monette, Harryette Mullen, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frederick Seidel, Gary Soto, Timothy Steele, Diane Wakoski, Derek Walcott, and Charles Harper Webb. Forty poems are reproduced in their entirety. One chapter is devoted to Charles Bukowski, the celebrity face of the city’s poetry. Other chapters discuss the ways that poets explore “Interiors” and “Exteriors” throughout the cityscape. Goldstein also provides ample connections to the novels, films, art, and politics of Southern California. In clear prose, Poetry Los Angeles examines the strategies by which poets make significant places meaningful and memorable to readers of every region of the U.S. and elsewhere.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472120417
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein presents original commentary on six decades of poets who have contributed to the iconography and poetics of Los Angeles literature, including Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dorothy Barresi, Victoria Chang, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, James Harms, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Garrett Hongo, Suzanne Lummis, Paul Monette, Harryette Mullen, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frederick Seidel, Gary Soto, Timothy Steele, Diane Wakoski, Derek Walcott, and Charles Harper Webb. Forty poems are reproduced in their entirety. One chapter is devoted to Charles Bukowski, the celebrity face of the city’s poetry. Other chapters discuss the ways that poets explore “Interiors” and “Exteriors” throughout the cityscape. Goldstein also provides ample connections to the novels, films, art, and politics of Southern California. In clear prose, Poetry Los Angeles examines the strategies by which poets make significant places meaningful and memorable to readers of every region of the U.S. and elsewhere.
Cases Determined in the St. Louis and the Kansas City Courts of Appeals of the State of Missouri
Author: Missouri. Courts of Appeals
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
City of Stairs
Author: Robert Jackson Bennett
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0804137188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov's oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country's most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem—and that Bulikov's cruel reign may not yet be over.
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0804137188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions—until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself—first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it—stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov's oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country's most accomplished spies, dispatched to catch a murderer. But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem—and that Bulikov's cruel reign may not yet be over.
Bay City Blast
Author: Warren Murphy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1035998815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Bay City, New Jersey has seen better days. Once a centre of coastal commerce, its docks sit empty, its factories idle, its business district a ghost town. It’s the kind of blighted backwater that attracts criminals like a body draws blowflies. Bay City’s newly-appointed mayor, the sharp-suited, deep-pocketed Rocco Nobile, may have earnest urban renewal on his mind, or he may be a frontman for organised crime. Either way, in Bay City that puts him squarely in the sights of a gang of misguided vigilantes with a very twisted perspective on social justice. Fortunately for Nobile, secret government agency CURE has decided the mayor should survive . . . so they send in the Destroyer. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1035998815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Bay City, New Jersey has seen better days. Once a centre of coastal commerce, its docks sit empty, its factories idle, its business district a ghost town. It’s the kind of blighted backwater that attracts criminals like a body draws blowflies. Bay City’s newly-appointed mayor, the sharp-suited, deep-pocketed Rocco Nobile, may have earnest urban renewal on his mind, or he may be a frontman for organised crime. Either way, in Bay City that puts him squarely in the sights of a gang of misguided vigilantes with a very twisted perspective on social justice. Fortunately for Nobile, secret government agency CURE has decided the mayor should survive . . . so they send in the Destroyer. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.
Cruel City
Author: Mongo Beti
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride-price for the woman he has chosen to wed. A series of misfortunes causes Banda to lose both his crop and his bride-to-be. As he makes his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253008239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride-price for the woman he has chosen to wed. A series of misfortunes causes Banda to lose both his crop and his bride-to-be. As he makes his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa.
Wild capital
Author: Torsten Birne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture and society
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture and society
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description