Born On A Tuesday

Author : Elnathan John
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802189905

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Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John Pdf

“A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism.” —O, The Oprah Magazine, “10 Titles to Pick Up Now” Winner of the 2017 Betty Trask Prize A Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature Nominated for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award An Indies Introduce Selection An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Literature & Fiction Longlisted for the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble. When their attempt to burn down the opposition’s local headquarters ends in disaster, Dantala must run for his life, leaving his best friend behind. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him with food, shelter, and guidance. With his quick aptitude and modest nature, Dantala becomes a favored apprentice to the mosque’s sheikh. Before long, he is faced with a terrible conflict of loyalties, as one of the sheikh’s closest advisors begins to raise his own radical movement. When bloodshed erupts in the city around him, Dantala must decide what kind of Muslim—and what kind of man—he wants to be. “An ambitious book that tackles modern Nigeria’s extremely complex religious landscape with great insight, passion, and humor by taking us deep into the mental and emotional space of the country’s most neglected.” —Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation

Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : Crown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307414090

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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was his college professor Morrie Schwartz. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. “The truth is, Mitch,” he said, “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.

Author : Daniel Tammet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 141654819X

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Born On A Blue Day by Daniel Tammet Pdf

A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today—guided by the owner himself. Bestselling author Daniel Tammet (Thinking in Numbers) is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head. He sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man. Fascinating and inspiring, Born on a Blue Day explores what it’s like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human—our minds.

Author : Dawn Powell
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781581952476

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A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell Pdf

This scathing “comedy of manners” set in the 1940s “steers us through the lives of women who come to New York . . . for love, money, opportunity, and a good time” (New York Times). At the center of this 1942 novel are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler—who ensnares Ohioan Vicky Haven in her social and romantic manipulations. Author Dawn Powell always denied Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary, “Who can I believe? Me or myself?” Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time of Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends.

Author : Molly Prentiss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501121043

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Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss Pdf

Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synaesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason?a small town beauty and Raul's muse?and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they've lost.

Author : Leigh Byrne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Abused children
ISBN : 1463690029

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Call Me Tuesday by Leigh Byrne Pdf

"At eight-years-old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when tragedy sends her family spiraling out of control into irrevocable dysfunction. For no apparent reason, Tuesday is singled out from her siblings, blamed for her family's problems, and targeted for unspeakable abuse. Suddenly, the loving environment she's come to know becomes an endless nightmare of twisted punishments as she's forced to confront the dark cruelty lurking inside the mother she idolizes. Based on a true story, Call Me Tuesday recounts a family's painful journey through the hidden horrors of child abuse, and a young girl's physical and mental torment at the mercy of the monster in her mother's clothes -- a monster she doesn't know how to stop loving."--Back cover.

Author : Luis Carlos Montalvan
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401303761

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Until Tuesday by Luis Carlos Montalvan Pdf

A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier’s life forever. A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, his physical wounds and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover. Then Luis met Tuesday, a sensitive golden retriever trained to assist people with disabilities. Tuesday had lived among prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, and he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being–until Luis. Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors, who had given so much and suffered the consequences, found salvation in each other. It is a story about war and peace, injury and recovery, psychological wounds and spiritual restoration. But more than that, it is a story about the love between a man and dog, and how, together, they healed each other’s souls.

Author : Erika Hammerschmidt
Publisher : AAPC Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asperger's syndrome
ISBN : 1934575208

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Born on the Wrong Planet by Erika Hammerschmidt Pdf

Presents the story of the author's childhood and young adulthood coping with the challenges of Asperger Syndrome. This book collects stories, poems, and essays that she penned in high school. It takes us into the confusing and tumultuous years of dating, and finally marriage to John, a young man who is also on the spectrum whom she met in college.

Author : David Wiesner
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395870822

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Tuesday by David Wiesner Pdf

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

Author : Robert Brooks
Publisher : Little Simon
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0671783440

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So That's How I Was Born! by Robert Brooks Pdf

When Joey's friend Lisa tells him how babies are born, he asks his mother and father to tell him how he was really born.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 819339609X

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Born on a Tuesday by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elnathan John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9789506635

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Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John Pdf

Author : Elnathan John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 1911115030

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Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John Pdf

Author : Steven E. Landsburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781328489821

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Can You Outsmart an Economist? by Steven E. Landsburg Pdf

This entertaining way to learn economics “will delight and inform anyone who enjoys rigorous thinking and the unexpected conclusions it delivers” (Jamie Whyte, author of Crimes Against Logic). Can you outsmart an economist? Steven Landsburg, acclaimed author of The Armchair Economist and professor of economics, dares you to try. In this whip-smart, entertaining, and entirely unconventional economics primer, he brings together over one hundred puzzles and brain teasers that illustrate the subject’s key concepts and pitfalls. From warm-up exercises to get your brain working, to logic and probability problems, to puzzles covering more complex topics like inferences, strategy, and irrationality, Can You Outsmart an Economist? will show you how to do just that by expanding the way you think about decision making and problem solving. Let the games begin! “Ingenious…enables you to think like an economist without incurring a Keynesian headache or a huge student loan.” —George Gilder, author of Life After Google “Entertaining as well as edifying. Read it, expand your mind, and have fun!” —N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNI482

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The Lower Canada Farmers' and Mechanics' Almanack for 1834 by Anonim Pdf