A Hand Reached Down To Guide Me

Author : David Gates
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385351546

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A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me by David Gates Pdf

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me is populated by characters, young, old or somewhere in between, who are broadly knowledgeable and often creative and variously accomplished, whether as doctors, composers, academics or journalists. Terrifyingly self-aware, each one of them carries the full weight of the human condition: parents in assisted-living facilities, too many or too few people in their families and marriages, the ties that bind a sometimes messy knot, age an implacable foe, impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. In settings that range across the metropolitan and suburban Northeast, we follow their lives, alternately hilarious and tragic, as they refuse to go gently—even when they’re going nowhere fast. Relentlessly inventive, these eleven stories and novella prove yet again that David Gates is one of our most talented, witty and emotionally intelligent writers.

Author : David Gates
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782831808

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A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me by David Gates Pdf

A woman moving calamitously into middle-age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates's characters are a dark reflection of our own urban and suburban lives. Terrifyingly self-aware, overcome by the burdens of the human condition, they find their impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. But wherever it is they're going - and sometimes it's nowhere fast - they won't go gently. Relentlessly inventive, by turns comical, caustic and tragic (and often all three together) but always moving, the novella and ten short stories which make up A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me reinforce David Gates as 'a true heir to both Raymond Carver and John Cheever.' (New York Magazine).

Author : E. L. Tenenbaum
Publisher : Fire & Ice Young Adult Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781680466904

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End of Ever After by E. L. Tenenbaum Pdf

"I had never wondered about Snow White once her prince kissed and whisked her away. I had imagined a similarly happy fate for the Sleeping Beauty. Would either have warned me had I asked for the truth? That 'Happily Ever After' doesn't exist?" When the invitation to the prince's ball was put in her hands, Ella imagined a single night of wonder, a single night to escape her wretched life and be anyone else for a while. She never expected to turn the prince's head, she certainly never expected to run off with his heart. Five years later, Ella looks back on her faerytale rise from soot stained cinderwench to the queen the people call CinderElla. Ignored and humiliated much of her life, she could hardly believe her sudden good fortune. Nor could she anticipate what was to follow, not the lies, not the betrayal, not the truth of her handsome Prince Charming. Ella is desperate to figure out how, despite her best intentions, everything went so horribly wrong. And what, if anything, she can do to get back her ever after. End of Ever After is the first in a five part companion series that rewrites the classic tales of happily ever after.

Author : Jennifer Egan,Heidi Pitlor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547819228

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The Best American Short Stories 2014 by Jennifer Egan,Heidi Pitlor Pdf

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Author : David Gates
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782831792

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Jernigan by David Gates Pdf

Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?) Jernigan's answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him - his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his vulnerable new girlfriend Martha and, eventually, himself - until the laughs have turned to mute horror. But while he's busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, Jernigan's perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end. Shot through with gin and irony, Jernigan is a funny, scary, mesmerising portrait of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open - wisecracking all the way.

Author : James Hendershot
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490716749

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Penance by James Hendershot Pdf

Penance is paid for past evils on Lamenta as Sammael lures Lilith into a new world. A new world appears looking piquant for revenge, which shockingly reveals an unpredictable alliance forming between the first and second wives of Adam, as both escape the grips of Adam, one through rebellion, the other through death. All three try to save a creation after the image of El Shaddai that has gone wrong, even as murder has spoiled the Earth with blood. Follow Lilith as she watches a new source of wickedness explode in this indulging earth. The Wickedness of the Earthmen as they break the laws given by Jehovah's apex in the end times as their greed and lust destroy each other in numbers beyond comprehension. The heavens now turn away from the giants from the past to the smallest among beasts to punish wickedness through diseases and plagues that enforce the price of sin being death. Lilith finally, on behalf of her father's armies avenge the murder of her mother, yet now must be the executor for Jehovah, who orders the final end of the Earth. Jehovah gives Lilith one last chance to save as many daughters of Eve as possible.

Author : Lenika Scott
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768451030

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Angelic Allies by Lenika Scott Pdf

Open your eyes to the unseen realm of your angel allies! God is working in our lives every day. In the good, the bad, and the seemingly ordinary moments of life, there is great supernatural activity taking place just beyond the veil of what natural eyes can see. Angels are intervening in your life under the direction of the Lord of Hosts. Its time to discover how to operate in greater alliance with these messengers, warriors, and agents of Heaven! Lenika Scott will demystify angels, providing sound Biblical doctrine on how these Angelic Allies operate. As you learn more about angels, their assignments, and how they are commissioned, you will become more aware of what is happening in the spirit realm around you! Lenikas powerful teaching, combined with compelling testimonies of angelic encounters, will reveal how to create an open heaven over your life and home. how Jesus partnered with the angelic realm. how the prophetic and angelic realms operate together. how to partner with angelic activity. how to ascend to new levels of operating in Gods supernatural power. Learn to release Heaven on earth in powerful new ways by partnering with your angelic allies!

Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015036637943

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The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather Pdf

Author : Wally Lamb
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060987561

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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Pdf

Tells the story of a pair of twins, one plagued by schizophrenia and the other by a promise he made to his dying mother to look after his brother.

Author : John B. Babcock
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574887990

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Taught to Kill by John B. Babcock Pdf

A less nostalgic look at "the greatest generation"

Author : Denzel Washington
Publisher : Meredith Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0696230496

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A Hand to Guide Me by Denzel Washington Pdf

C.1 COUNTY FUNDS. B & T. 12-18-2006. $23.95.

Author : Franny Billingsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689848100

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The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley Pdf

"Here in the Cellar," Corinna says, "I control the Folk. Here, I'm queen of the world." As Folk Keeper at the Rhysbridge Home, she feeds the fierce, dark-dwelling cave Folk; keeps them from souring the milk, killing the chickens, and venting their anger on the neighborhood; and writes it all down in her Folk Record. Since only boys are Folk Keepers, she has disguised herself as a boy, Corin, and it is a boy and a Folk Keeper she intends to stay. Yet there comes a moment when someone else knows the truth. Old, dying Lord Merton not only knows she is a girl, but knows some of her other secrets as well. It is at his bidding that she, as Corin, leaves Rhysbridge to become Folk Keeper and a member of the family on Cliffsend, an isle where the Folk are fiercer than ever they were at Rhysbridge. It is on Cliffsend that Corinna comes face to face with herself, with the powers she does have (some quite unexpected) and those she does not have (even if she lies and says she does). Who really is she? Why does her hair grow two inches a night? Why does the sea draw her? What does she really want? And what future can and will she choose?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Dressmaking
ISBN : UCD:31175036342635

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Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca Stead
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375892691

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When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Pdf

"Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" —The Washington Post This Newbery Medal winner that has been called "smart and mesmerizing," (The New York Times) and "superb" (The Wall Street Journal) will appeal to readers of all types, especially those who are looking for a thought-provoking mystery with a mind-blowing twist. Shortly after a fall-out with her best friend, sixth grader Miranda starts receiving mysterious notes, and she doesn’t know what to do. The notes tell her that she must write a letter—a true story, and that she can’t share her mission with anyone. It would be easy to ignore the strange messages, except that whoever is leaving them has an uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the case, then Miranda has a big problem—because the notes tell her that someone is going to die, and she might be too late to stop it. Winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book Five Starred Reviews A Junior Library Guild Selection "Absorbing." —People "Readers ... are likely to find themselves chewing over the details of this superb and intricate tale long afterward." —The Wall Street Journal "Lovely and almost impossibly clever." —The Philadelphia Inquirer "It's easy to imagine readers studying Miranda's story as many times as she's read L'Engle's, and spending hours pondering the provocative questions it raises." —Publishers Weekly, Starred review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Mormons
ISBN : WISC:89118581644

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Saints Herald by Anonim Pdf