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Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas
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Author : Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525507154

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"Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience." -- Garth Greenwell The acclaimed memoir of queer Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of a Communist regime The astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels.

Before Nightfall

Silvia Vecchini
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Author : Silvia Vecchini
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781681377933

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A moving tale about a brave hearing-impaired teen losing his vision, told through the perspective of his loving sister in poetry, prose, and the sign-language alphabet. Carlo is a teenager who happens to be hearing-impaired and can see only out of one eye. Now that eye is failing, and Carlo must have an operation to try to save his vision. His fierce and funny sister Emma, Carlo’s closest companion, begins writing poems that express the fear she works hard to hide, while his seeing-eye dog Lulù remains steadfastly at his side. But even with the support and affection of his family, how can Carlo face such uncertainty? And what will happen if he can no longer communicate with them? Before Nightfall is a book about trust, imagination, empathy, and language, narrated through the poems Emma types and through prose passages told from multiple perspectives and illustrated with sign-language alphabet, drawn by the Italian artist Sualzo. Despite the immense challenges Carlo and Emma face, their story is one of hope and wonder.

Before Nightfall

Kat Martin
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Author : Kat Martin
Publisher : HQN Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369700315

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Kat Martin is back with another thrilling Maximum Security novella filled with danger, suspense and one smoldering road trip to the mountains of Mexico! When her best friend’s son is kidnapped, private detective Lissa Blayne drops everything to focus on the missing boy. Julie and Lissa have been close for years, so when Julie’s friend Colt Wheeler joins the investigation, Lissa bristles at the former ranger’s take-charge attitude. Lissa doesn’t need a man calling the shots, even if there is something about Colt’s protective side that has her tough exterior melting away. As Lissa and Colt take their search on the road, the tension between them slowly morphs into trust and understanding—and they’ll need both in order to outsmart the dangerous abductor they’re tracking. The only thing hotter than their attraction is the heat of the Mexican sun, but this road trip is no vacation…

Die Before Nightfall

Shirlee McCoy
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Author : Shirlee McCoy
Publisher : Steeple Hill
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781552543566

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Die Before Nightfall by Shirlee McCoy Pdf

"Even out here in the country, bad things happen." Raven Stevenson was in Lakeview barely twenty-four hours when she heard those ominous words. She'd come to the small Virginia town to reconcile with her brother and forget the haunting memories of her past. She didn't expect to find friends, community — or a thirty-five-year-old mystery of tragic love. Nor did she expect to meet Shane Montgomery, whose love for his ailing aunt Abby breaks through Raven's carefully built defenses. When Abby unwittingly shares some of the secrets behind that long-buried mystery, she and Raven are targeted by someone who wants those secrets silenced — and who's willing to kill both of them to do it.

Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas
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Author : Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781258686

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Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of the twentieth century. In Before Night Falls, Arenas tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his suppression as a writer, his disillusionment with Castro, his imprisonment and torture, to his eventual exile from Cuba to New York, where in 1987 he was diagnosed with AIDS. He committed suicide in 1990, ending a life of constant struggle against repression. In a farewell note, Arenas wrote: Due to my delicate state of health and to the terrible depression that causes me not to be able to continue writing and struggling for the freedom of Cuba, I am ending my life ... I do not want to convey to you a message of defeat, but of continued struggle and hope.Cuba will be free. I already am.(signed)Reinaldo Arenas

Before Nightfall

Rachel Amphlett
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Author : Rachel Amphlett
Publisher : Saxon Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780992268534

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If they move you, they will kill you. When Kate Foster secures a lucrative new job, her boss insists that she undertake a pre-deployment security and hostage survival course – a course that’s not meant to be easy, and one that Kate almost fails, to the consternation of her instructor. Six months later, Kate is working in Istanbul when a simple day’s task goes horribly wrong. Kidnapped and held hostage by a group of violent criminals, Kate must recall the lessons she learned during her security training in order to stay alive while she hopes for rescue. For Finn Scott, the man who trained her, it’s his worst nightmare. Haunted by memories of a failed hostage rescue, he is thrust into a situation beyond his control. Now, against a sinister adversary whose ambitions will split apart Eastern Europe, Finn must face the demons from his past to secure Kate’s future before the kidnappers’ deadline expires... Before Nightfall is an action-packed suspense novel from USA Today bestselling crime author Rachel Amphlett. What readers are saying about Before Nightfall: "An action-packed thriller that barrels along at an astonishing pace, and one that will keep you guessing until the very end!” Goodreads spy novels, spy books, spy series, espionage books, espionage book series, action and adventure books, thriller books, crime fiction, crime fiction books, fast paced books

Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall

John Dugdale
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Author : John Dugdale
Publisher : Twin Palms Publishers
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015037777326

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In an interplay of metaphor and time, artist John Dugdale invokes a world of light-filled chambers and sensuous bodies. From the muted blue luster of the archaic cyanotype process, his imagery emerges in a mist of loss and remembrance. In the manner of Julia Margaret Cameron's Victorian albums, Dugdale has created an extremely personal and vibrant body of work. Revealed in this first monograph of Dugdale's work is an artistic vision that weds contemporary consciousness with more ageless concerns.

Nightfall

Jake Halpern,Peter Kujawinski
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Author : Jake Halpern,Peter Kujawinski
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698405561

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Nightfall by Jake Halpern,Peter Kujawinski Pdf

The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light in this gripping and eerie survival story, perfect for fans of James Dashner and Neil Gaiman. On Marin’s island, sunrise doesn’t come every twenty-four hours—it comes every twenty-eight years. Now the sun is just a sliver of light on the horizon. The weather is turning cold and the shadows are growing long. Because sunset triggers the tide to roll out hundreds of miles, the islanders are frantically preparing to sail south, where they will wait out the long Night. Marin and her twin brother, Kana, help their anxious parents ready the house for departure. Locks must be taken off doors. Furniture must be arranged. Tables must be set. The rituals are puzzling—bizarre, even—but none of the adults in town will discuss why it has to be done this way. Just as the ships are about to sail, a teenage boy goes missing—the twins’ friend Line. Marin and Kana are the only ones who know the truth about where Line’s gone, and the only way to rescue him is by doing it themselves. But Night is falling. Their island is changing. And it may already be too late.

By Nightfall

Michael Cunningham
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Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007431076

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From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of ‘The Hours’, comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity.

Everyday Use

Alice Walker
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Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813520762

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Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.

Farewell to the Sea

Reinaldo Arenas
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Author : Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670529605

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Twice confiscated by Cuban authorities and rewritten from memory, this litany of despair--the story of life in totalitarian Cuba--is told through the voice of a wife (who remains nameless), then through that of her husband, Hector, a disenchanted revolutionary and poet. Hector, his wife and baby vacation for six days at a small seaside cabin. There, in feverish lyrical outbursts, they each lament the loss of the freedom they had barely begun to know in early Castro years, and with its passing the loss of everything else--enthusiasm, rebelliousness and hope. Nothing except terror remains, and as it grows, Hector and his wife's relationship becomes intolerable. Under the domestic idle chatter lie their complete solitudes, a vestige of wilted love, her disgust at the messier aspects of child care, his silent fury and homosexual desire.--From publisher description.

Chosen at Nightfall

C. C. Hunter
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Author : C. C. Hunter
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250012906

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Chosen at Nightfall by C. C. Hunter Pdf

Don't miss this magnificent final chapter in the breathtaking Shadow Falls series! Kylie's epic journey is about to lead her exactly where she belongs... When Kylie Galen entered Shadow Falls Camp, she left her old life behind forever and discovered a world more magical than she ever imagined. A place where your two best friends can be a witch and a vampire...and where love doesn't happen the way you'd expect. When Kylie's most powerful enemy returns to destroy her once and for all, there's only one way to stop him—to step into her full powers and make a stunning transformation that will amaze everyone around her. But her journey won't be complete until she makes one final choice...which guy to love. Should she choose the werewolf who broke her heart but will give anything to win her back, or the half Fae who ran from their attraction before they had a chance? Everything she's learned at Shadow Falls has been preparing her for this moment—when her fate will be revealed and her heart claimed forever. From author C. C. Hunter comes Chosen at Nightfall, the final book in the New York Times bestselling Shadow Falls series about a camp for paranormal teens.

Nightfall

Shannon Messenger
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Author : Shannon Messenger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481497428

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A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal–winning series Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they’ve seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster is struggling. Grieving. Scrambling. But she knows one thing: she will not be defeated. The Neverseen have had their victories—but the battle is far from over. It’s time to change tactics. Make sacrifices. Reexamine everything. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies. All paths lead to Nightfall—an ominous door to an even more ominous place—and Sophie and her friends strike a dangerous bargain to get there. But nothing can prepare them for what they discover. The problems they’re facing stretch deep into their history. And with time running out, and mistakes catching up with them, Sophie and her allies must join forces in ways they never have before. In this spectacular sixth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities’ insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality.

Singing from the Well

Reinaldo Arenas
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Author : Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000032467765

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His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills surrounding his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears flowers in her hair, and his cousin Celestino, a poet who inscribes verse on the trunks of trees, understands his visions. The first novel in Reinaldo Arenas's "secret history of Cuba," a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of a childhood besieged by horror--and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.

The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864

Sean Michael Chick
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Author : Sean Michael Chick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612347370

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The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 by Sean Michael Chick Pdf

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their final, futile attack on the fourth day only added to already staggering casualties. By holding Petersburg against great odds, the Confederacy arguably won its last great strategic victory of the Civil War. In The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864, Sean Michael Chick takes an in-depth look at an important battle often overlooked by historians and offers a new perspective on why the Army of the Potomac's leadership, from Grant down to his corps commanders, could not win a battle in which they held colossal advantages. He also discusses the battle's wider context, including politics, memory, and battlefield preservation. Highlights include the role played by African American soldiers on the first day and a detailed retelling of the famed attack of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, which lost more men than any other Civil War regiment in a single battle. In addition, the book has a fresh and nuanced interpretation of the generalships of Grant, Meade, Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, and William Farrar Smith during this critical battle.