Author: Greg Chivers
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008308799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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A sharp, lyrical thriller of power, religion, and artificial intelligence.

Author: Heather Christle
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226456
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.

Author: Thomas Pynchon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101594608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times “The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

Author: Sebastian Willman
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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A fine morning turns into a horrifying day when Inspector Philip Haywood starts investigating a suicide case. A week of leave from work to enjoy with his wife turns out to be the most hectic and terrifying seven days of his life. The reason? A little girl in a red dress. Brutal deaths, broken expensive objects found beside the corpses and similar-looking papers with childish handwriting on them make the town inspector join hands with a London inspector, Edward Adams, to reinvestigate a ten-year-old case of the murder of a six-year-old girl. But Philip finds himself always accompanied by someone. He cannot see her, he cannot touch her. But he can hear her cry. With so many happenings and so less people to rely on, Philip needs to find out the mastermind behind those atrocious deeds. But as he advances, he uncovers some horrifying truths. The whole trilogyseries tells the story of an unfortunate little girlgirl, who takes revenge and a countryside police inspector who comes to town and unearths shocking revelations.

Author: Gail Myers
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595162908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Confused and uncertain about life, death, sex, and music, about in that order, Rudy comes of age the summer before his final high school year in Galt, a town as dust-bowl depressed as its 1,800 citizens. Church pulpits on Sundays preach hope and eternal rewards to impatient youths and resigned elders who during the rest of the week engage their secular natures in Hollywood's escapist movies and express sinful instincts at dances and intermissions. To support himself and his widowed mother, Rudy works for those forces of escapism and sin by playing nights in a pickup dance band, janitoring days for the town's movie theater. He wants to play the sax better, make out with girls, avoid fights at home, and not have so many of his friends leave Galt or die. Thieves murder Indian friend Jack for a silver belt buckle. An after-dance car wreck kills classmate Elgin. Illness wastes cousin Lana, love of his school-boy crush. Rudy's mother leaves town to re-marry. His passionate partner in crying room trysts moves away. In autumn 1940 Rudy reflects on his self-absorbed, poignant personal life and realizes that all the sad departures and dying were just the beginning as he and Galt awaken to an impending world war.

Author: Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521381630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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The Crying of Lot 49 is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the '50s and '60s in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays on Thomas Pynchon's important novel, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine the novel's "semiotic regime" or the way in which it organizes signs; the comparison of postmodernist Pynchon and the influential South American writer, Jorge Luis Borges; metaphor in the novel; the novel's narrative strategies; and the novel within the cultural contexts of American Puritanism and the Beat movement. Together, these essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical, and scientific contexts.

Author: Kristen Maddox
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512721433
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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One in three women will have an abortion. Forty-five percent will have more than one. I am one in three. I am one in forty-five percent. I am not alone. I was sixteen years old when the cry began. It was a silent screaming within my soul that I felt sure everyone could hear. I carried the cry for fifteen years before I was able to identify it. It started the day I had my first abortion. “A simple outpatient procedure; we will remove the mass of tissue. You’re young—you have your whole lives ahead of you to have children. You’re making the right choice.” I believed them. My “choice” led me down a dark path of self-destructive behavior that lasted for ten long years! I was desperate to be free. “God, if you can hear me, please help me, make it stop!” I cried. Jesus heard my cry and healed the aching in my heart. What is post-abortion syndrome? Will God heal me after what I did? How can I be free? These were all questions that I had. If you are struggling with a past abortion, or if you have been carrying a cry, you are not alone. Whether you have had one abortion or multiple abortions, only He can heal the damage that abortion causes. Jesus sees your pain and longs to heal you. You have a choice to make. You can allow the Lord to heal you, or you can continue to carry the cry.

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Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1330

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Author: Steve Vai
Publisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1705111769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 679

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(Guitar Recorded Versions). 24 note-for-note transcriptions spanning Vai's career, including: The Attitude Song * The Audience Is Listening * Bad Horsie * Big Trouble * Building the Church * The Crying Machine * Die to Live * Eugene's Trick Bag * For the Love of God * Gravity Storm * Hand on Heart * Head Cuttin' Duel * I Would Love To * Jibboom * Juice * K'm-Pee-Du-Wee * Lotus Feet * Now We Run * The Story of Light * Tender Surrender * Touching Tongues * Viv Woman * Whispering a Prayer * Yankee Rose.