Author: Ulrich Baer Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814799353 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 343
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In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, some of New York's leading authors of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose reflect on the event.
Author: Sarah Tuft Publisher: ISBN: 9781623840556 Category : Languages : en Pages : 70
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110 Stories captures the grief and resilience of New York City in the wake of September 11th through the words of those who experienced it directly -- not only the firefighters and police, but the ironworkers, chaplains, K9 handlers, nurses, photojournalists, and the homeless who witnessed the horrific events and saved lives that day, too. Together these unflinching first-person testimonials offer catharsis by revealing the hope, humor, and compassion that emerged in the midst of this tragedy. Memorializing 9/11 by sharing the stories no one saw on the news, this play is a powerful and humanizing account of New York City's darkest day.
Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1894
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This carefully crafted ebook: "MYSTERY & CRIME Ultimate Collection: 110+ Thriller Novels & Detective Stories In One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Nicholas Goade, Detective Wild Man's Logic The Affair of the House Party The Unshared Secret The Emerald Pendant Gypsy Blood... Peter Hames The Imperfect Crime Going, Going, Gone! No Questions Asked The Luckiest Young Man Mademoiselle Anna Disappears The Tiger on the Mountains . . . Major Forester The Dancing Gentleman With a Dash The Château of Phantasies The Battling Pacifist Ange Marie The Modern Marauder . . . Pudgy Pete & George Angus Drama in the Dolls' House The Ninety-Ninth Thread The Actor's Romance The Happy Ending The Pedagogue of Bellevue Mansions . . . Peter Ruff & The Double Four The Indiscretion Of Letty Shaw The Little Lady From Servia The Demand Of The Double-Four Recalled by The Double-Four The Ambassador's Wife . . . Michael Sayers & Norman Greyes The Undiscovered Murderer The Kiss of Judas The Leeds Bank Robbery The Winds of Death Seven Boxes of Gold . . . Jennerton & Co. The Great Bear The Lion's Den Numbers One and Seven The Man with Two Bags Judgment Postponed The Yankeedoodle Kid . . . Joseph Cray The Donvers Case The Two Philanthropists Pussyfoot in Mischief The Reckoning with Otto Schreed Satan and the Spirit . . . Commodore Jasen The Ghosts Of Suicide Corner No Red Ribbon For The Commodore Commodore Jasen Watches His Step The Seven Taverns Of Marseilles . . . Miss Mott Ask Miss Mott Dinner Without Masks The Magic Popgun The House Of Dread Behind Barred Doors . . . Baroness Clara of Linz Thirty-Nine Wooden Boxes An Olympian Debacle Broken Engagements ... E. Phillips Oppenheim, the Prince of Storytellers (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1640093249 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 449
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize–winning author, with an introduction by Anita Desai Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures—European, post–Independence Indian, and American—is never more acute. In “A Course of English Studies,” a young woman arrives at Oxford from India and struggles to adapt, not only to the sad, stoic object of her infatuation, but also to a country that seems so resistant to passion and color. In the wrenching “Expiation,” the blind, unconditional love of a cloth shop owner for his wastrel younger brother exposes the tragic beauty and foolishness of human compassion and faith. The wry and triumphant “Pagans” brings us middle–aged sisters Brigitte and Frankie in Los Angeles, who discover a youthful sexuality in the company of the languid and handsome young Indian, Shoki. This collection also includes Jhabvala’s last story, “The Judge’s Will,” which appeared in The New Yorker in 2013 after her death. The profound inner experience of both men and women is at the center of Jhabvala’s writing: she rivals Jane Austen with her impeccable powers of observation. With an introduction by her friend, the writer Anita Desai, At the End of the Century celebrates a writer’s astonishing lifetime gift for language, and leaves us with no doubt of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s unique place in modern literature. "The stories—all of them elegantly plotted and unsentimental, with an addictive, told–over–tea quality—are largely character studies of people isolated, often tragically, by custom or self–delusion . . . Vivid, unsparing portraits are leavened with the kind of humanizing moments that evoke a total world within their compression."—Megan O’Grady, The New York Times Book Review
Author: Carolyn Keene Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743437098 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 134
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An evening of ballet leads Nancy into a dance with danger! Madame Dugrand’s Dance Academy is in rehearsal for The Nutcracker Ballet, and it could be a huge hit this year. Shana Edwards, a recent graduate who has made a big splash in New York, is returning to River Heights to star in the show. But the closer the dancers get to showtime, the clearer it becomes that the stage is set for disaster. Someone is determined to bring the production down before the curtain goes up. Theft and arson threaten to darken the theater and doom the dance. And Nancy will have to conduct her investigation with extreme precision and agility: one false step, one wrong move, and The Nutcracker could come to a swift and bitter end.
Author: Jennifer S. H. Brown Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496204484 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 244
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In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely across the lives of four generations of Anishinaabeg along the Berens River in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. In an open and wide-ranging conversation, Hallowell discovered that Bigmouth was a vivid storyteller as he talked about the eight decades of his own life and the lives of his father, various relatives, and other persons of the past. Bigmouth related stories about his youth, his intermittent work for the Hudson’s Bay Company, the traditional curing of patients, ancestral memories, encounters with sorcerers, and contests with cannibalistic windigos. The stories also tell of vision-fasting experiences, often fraught gender relations, and hunting and love magic—all in a region not frequented by Indian agents and little visited by missionaries and schoolteachers. With an introduction and rich annotations by Brown, a renowned authority on the Upper Berens Anishinaabeg and Hallowell’s ethnography, Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River is an outstanding primary source for both First Nations history and the oral literature of Canada’s Ojibwe peoples.
Author: Judith Pearl Summerfield Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004370978 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 291
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A story in history of a multi-generational Jewish family from a lost world, a shtetl in Ukraine before WWI. Explores narrative as cultural study, cultural performance, meta-narrative, and auto-ethnography. Story as antidote to trauma, the insistence that we know the past, and remember those who came before.
Author: Ulrich Baer
Author: Sarah Tuft
Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Author: Carolyn Keene
Author: Jennifer S. H. Brown
Author: Charles Dickens
Author: Judith Pearl Summerfield
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
Author: Tennessee Book Company