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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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The Builder
Author: Riddance
Author: Shelley JacksonPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Finalist for the Believer Book Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, New York Magazine, and more "A ravishing novel charged with the idea of the incommunicable." —The New Yorker Eleven–year–old Jane Grandison, tormented by her stutter, sits in the back seat of a car, letter in hand inviting her to live and study at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing–Mouth Children. Founded in 1890 by Headmistress Sybil Joines, the school—at first glance—is a sanctuary for children seeking to cure their speech impediments. Inspired by her haunted and tragic childhood, the Headmistress has other ideas. Pioneering the field of necrophysics, the Headmistress harnesses the “gift” she and her students possess. Through their stutters, together they have the ability to channel ghostly voices communicating from the land of the dead, a realm the Headmistress herself visits at will. Things change for the school and the Headmistress when a student disappears, attracting attention from parents and police alike. Set in the overlapping worlds of the living and the dead, Shelley Jackson’s Riddance is an illuminated novel told through theoretical writings in necrophysics, the Headmistress’s dispatches from the land of the dead, and Jane’s evolving life as Joines’s new stenographer and central figure in the Vocational School’s mysterious present, as well as its future.
Pose Models from Stems
Author: Bradley PereraPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524634158
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The aim of this as literature is of casual and personal incidence. It is not one of assurance yet there remains certainty in its lines. Through language, we are given the right to debate its notion and promote or discontent in the belief it brings. This basis is proof of its aim and the understanding is not that of being sure by matters, instead it is the participation of alliance and combination in the self as interventional resource giving invite the message laid on your shoulders. Do not believe, do not receive, and be aware to choose inspiration. When all is questionable, retort with a query to equate confusion with certainty and in this practice, watch the guide and reconvene of yourself extend. The only abrupt is disguise and yet, to reveal is the complexity in forming another worthy front, to which will consider the act of realism in convey of what is truly favourable to complete notion and exceed the mind and self to fruition. Have soul to right. Have right in division to show pride for the becoming of find and access. Realise the sense of potential and with risk, commit the reality of persuasion, and know reasoning rests.
The Rebel's Daughter
Author: John Gabriel WoernerPublisher:
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Category : Political fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Becoming a Giant
Author: Cole LemmePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312615680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Most of the written works of Cole D. Lemme, including the weird poetry, short stories, other tales, notes, and essays.
ALICE FOR SHORT
Author: WILLIAM DE MORGANBeyond the Valley
Author: Rita GerlachPublisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 1426769717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
When Sarah Carr's husband Jamie drowns, her young life is shattered and takes a turn that she never expected. Pregnant and now widowed, she reaches out to Jamie's family for help but they are unwilling. Instead they devise a plan to have her kidnapped and taken to the Colonies to live a life of servitude. In the wilds of Maryland, Sarah endures the hardships of being indentured and the debasement of being a woman. In despair, she offers up faithful prayers that are answered. But Sarah's new life in the Colonies finds her surrounded by a family's whirlwind of secrets, while she hopes the young doctor she loves will bring her freedom.
The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens
Author: John RechyPublisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555847285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
“A funny, sexy, far-fetched coming-of-age story” from the award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of City of Night (The Washington Post). John Rechy—described by Gore Vidal as “one of the few original writers of the last century”—delivers a riotous bildungsroman that pays homage to the classic eighteenth-century picaresque. Loosely inspired by Fielding’s Tom Jones, The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens follows the journey of handsome Lyle Clemens as he travels through the religious fundamentalist world of Texas to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas and the enticing traps of Los Angeles’s mythologies. As Lyle approaches adulthood, everyone wants him to be something he’s not. His beautiful mother wants to make him into a reflection of the cowboy who abandoned her; a group of avaricious fundamentalists plot to convert him into “the Lord’s Cowboy” to rouse their televangelical empire to new frenzied heights; and the lovely Maria wants him to fulfill her varying fantasies of “true love.” When Lyle leaves home to make his own destiny, he encounters a gallery of charlatans and wistful souls, quirky gamblers, aging starlets, and wily pornographers. The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens is “a potent compound of both sex and rapture . . . sly, smart, sexy and laugh-out-loud funny, but it is also tinged with sorrow and ultimately elevated into the realm of magic” (The Los Angeles Times Book Review). “Ambitious and very funny . . . a tall tale, a simultaneously sweet and vicious satire of contemporary America . . . a comic tour de force and, at the same time, a truly heartfelt book.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Good Riddance
Author: Elinor LipmanPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544808282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In a delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '68 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion, scribbling notes and observations after each one—not always charitably—and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not, Daphne concluded, "spark joy"), she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it's found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker, the yearbook's mysteries—not to mention her own family's—take on a whole new urgency, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd. Good Riddance is a pitch-perfect, whip-smart new novel from an "enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original, and Austen-like stylist" (Washington Post).
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