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City of Flickering Light

Juliette Fay
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Author : Juliette Fay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501192951

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Juliette Fay—“one of the best authors of women’s fiction” (Library Journal)—transports us back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the raucous Roaring Twenties, as three friends struggle to earn their places among the stars of the silent screen—perfect for fans of La La Land and Rules of Civility. It’s July 1921, “flickers” are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry. At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no other place on earth—iridescent, scandalous, and utterly exhilarating—and the three friends yearn for a life they could only have dreamed of before. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn’t come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead. With their ambitions challenged by both the men above them and the prejudice surrounding them, their friendship is the only constant through desperate times, as each struggles to find their true calling in an uncertain world. What begins as a quest for fame and fortune soon becomes a collective search for love, acceptance, and fulfillment as they navigate the backlots and stage sets where the illusions of the silver screen are brought to life. With her “trademark wit and grace” (Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer’s Daughters), Juliette Fay crafts another radiant and fascinating historical novel as thrilling as the bygone era of Hollywood itself.

City of Flickering Light

Juliette Fay
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Author : Juliette Fay
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501192937

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Juliette Fay—“one of the best authors of women’s fiction” (Library Journal)—transports us back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the raucous Roaring Twenties, as three friends struggle to earn their places among the stars of the silent screen—perfect for fans of La La Land and Rules of Civility. It’s July 1921, “flickers” are all the rage, and Irene Van Beck has just declared her own independence by jumping off a moving train to escape her fate in a traveling burlesque show. When her friends, fellow dancer Millie Martin and comedian Henry Weiss, leap after her, the trio finds their way to the bright lights of Hollywood with hopes of making it big in the burgeoning silent film industry. At first glance, Hollywood in the 1920s is like no other place on earth—iridescent, scandalous, and utterly exhilarating—and the three friends yearn for a life they could only have dreamed of before. But despite the glamour and seduction of Tinseltown, success doesn’t come easy, and nothing can prepare Irene, Millie, and Henry for the poverty, temptation, and heartbreak that lie ahead. With their ambitions challenged by both the men above them and the prejudice surrounding them, their friendship is the only constant through desperate times, as each struggles to find their true calling in an uncertain world. What begins as a quest for fame and fortune soon becomes a collective search for love, acceptance, and fulfillment as they navigate the backlots and stage sets where the illusions of the silver screen are brought to life. With her “trademark wit and grace” (Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer’s Daughters), Juliette Fay crafts another radiant and fascinating historical novel as thrilling as the bygone era of Hollywood itself.

Flickering Light

Christoph Ribbat
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Author : Christoph Ribbat
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780231273

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Without neon, Las Vegas might still be a sleepy desert town in Nevada and Times Square merely another busy intersection in New York City. Transformed by the installation of these brightly colored signs, these destinations are now world-famous, representing the vibrant heart of popular culture. But for some, neon lighting represents the worst of commercialism. Energized by the conflicting love and hatred people have for neon, Flickering Light explores its technological and intellectual history, from the discovery of the noble gas in late nineteenth-century London to its fading popularity today. Christoph Ribbat follows writers, artists, and musicians—from cultural critic Theodor Adorno, British rock band the Verve, and artist Tracey Emin to Vladimir Nabokov, Langston Hughes, and American country singers—through the neon cities in Europe, America, and Asia, demonstrating how they turned these blinking lights and letters into metaphors of the modern era. He examines how gifted craftsmen carefully sculpted neon advertisements, introducing elegance to modern metropolises during neon’s heyday between the wars followed by its subsequent popularity in Las Vegas during the 1950s and '60s. Ribbat ends with a melancholy discussion of neon’s decline, describing how these glowing signs and installations came to be seen as dated and characteristic of run-down neighborhoods. From elaborate neon lighting displays to neglected diner signs with unlit letters, Flickering Light tells the engrossing story of how a glowing tube of gas took over the world—and faded almost as quickly as it arrived.

A Flickering Light

Jane Kirkpatrick
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Author : Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307459299

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Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams. She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was the true image exposed. Fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F.J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photography appear to find root in reality. With the infamous hazards of the explosive powder used for lighting and the toxic darkroom chemicals, photography is considered a man' s profession. Yet Jessie shows remarkable talent in both the artistry and business of running a studio. She proves less skillful, however, at managing her growing attraction to the very married Mr. Bauer. This luminous coming-of-age tale deftly exposes the intricate shadows that play across every dream worth pursuing–and the irresistible light that beckons the dreamer on.

The Tumbling Turner Sisters

Juliette Fay
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Author : Juliette Fay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781501134470

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"In 1919, the four Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping along. Their father is a low-paid boot stitcher in Johnson City, NY, and the Turners are always one paycheck away from eviction. When their father's hand is crushed and he's forced to quit, their domineering mother decides that the vaudeville stage is their best--and only--chance for salvation. With everything at stake, the Tumbling Turners take to the road and the four young women, teenagers Gert, Winnie, and Kit, and Nell, a 22-year-old new mother and recent widow of the Great War, are soon immersed in the tumultuous world of American Vaudeville on a nine-city tour that will make or break them. Swindlers and ne'er-do-wells await in abundance, but so does kindness, and just maybe a chance at love. Equal parts heartwarming, charming, and reflective, The Tumbling Turner Sisters is the story of the sacrifices we make in the name of family, and how the most unlikely choice can ultimately be the one to lead us toward our truest selves"--

The Flickering Light

Alberto Montero,Aleks Pandyra,Allan Onik
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Author : Alberto Montero,Aleks Pandyra,Allan Onik
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1073726495

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"The Flickering Light" is a 2019 poetry and prose collection book from Scars Publications (http: //scars.tv) of the January through June 2019 issues of Down in the Dirt magazine (http: //scars.tv/dirt), plus bonus chapbook releases. Writers and artists in this issue collection book include A. Elizabeth Herting, Alberto Montero, Aleks Pandyra, Alexander Wijangco, Alistair Forrester, Allan Onik, Amanda Steel, Ana M. Fores Tamayox, Andy Schenck, Anita G. Gorman, Annette Gagliardi, Annin Brothers, Armine Zohrabian, Ben Brown, Ben Rasnic, Bill Butler, Bobby Horecka, Bonnie E. Carlson, C. Angelo Caci, C. D. White, Caitlin Cherniak, Carolyn Poindexter, Charles McFadden, Charles S. Manuel, Chella Coutington, Chery Speaks, Christian Fennell, Christine Blaisdel, Christine Seery, Conjeevaram J. Nandakumar, Corrina-Corinna, Cristina Bresser, Daniel David Sapp, David Estringel, David Francis, David Rodriguez, David Russell, Denise O'Hagan, Denny E. Marshall, Dev Pati, DL Shirey, Don Stoll, Don Tassone, Doug Hawley, Doug Van Hooser, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz, Eleanor Bennet, Eleanor Bennett, Eli Tomitch, Eric Robert Nolan, Erica Marchant, Fabrice Poussin, Grant Guy, Gregg Dotoli, Griffin Silver, Harrison Jackson, Helen Bird, Ian Mullins, Iftekhar Sayeed, J. Ray Paradiso, J.B. Stone, Jake Ryvicker, Janet Kuypers, JD Langert, Joan McNerney, John (Jake) Cosmos Aller, John F. McMullen, Joseph S. Pete, Josephine Sourgnes, Judi Dettorre, Julie Henderson, K. Shawn Edgar, Kat Croswell Katrina Croswell, Keith LaFountaine, Keith Mark Gaboury, Kelleye Robinson, Kevin Richard White, Kody Ford, Kyle Hemmings, Kyle Shultz, Lanette Sweeney, Larry Lefkowitz, Linda Wolff, Lino A.K, Lisa Gray, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Lydia Flores, Marc McMahon, Marianne Brems, Mark Antony Rossi, Mark Ryan, Marlon Jackson, Mary Bargdill, Mert Feyzioglu, Michael Lee Johnson, Mike Nichols, Mike Schneider, Milenko Zupanovic, Natalie Aydin, Nick Smith SeaChompy, Norm Hudson, Oliver Fox, Olivier Schopfer, Patti Harris, Paul Burnham, RC deWinter, Rhiannon Bird, Richard Sensenbrenner, Robert E. Remillard, Sam Evans, Sam Provenzano Samuel, Sarah Conklin, Scott Thomas Outlar, Shamar English, Sharon Frame Ga, Susie Gharib, Taylor Stuckey, Thom Woodruff, Thomas Cannon, Tom Ball, Tracey Underwood, Travis Green, Valeri Paxton-Steele, Vaughan Wesley, Vern Fein, Victoria Otto Franzese, Vincent Bennett, Westley Heine, Winston Derden, and Wyeth Renwick.Writers and artists included in this book are also listed with their writing at the Scars Publications book link (search for the book title in the books section at http: //scars.tv).

A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham
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Author : Stacy Willingham
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250803832

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A New York Times Bestseller “A smart, edge-of-your-seat story with plot twists you’ll never see coming. Stacy Willingham’s debut will keep you turning pages long past your bedtime.” —Karin Slaughter When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try to move forward while dealing with the aftermath. Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. While she finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to achieve, she sometimes feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. So when a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, seeing parallels from her past that aren't actually there, or for the second time in her life, is Chloe about to unmask a killer? From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page.

Shelter Me

Juliette Fay
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Author : Juliette Fay
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061776734

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A young mother and widow learns how to deal with her husband's sudden recent death.

Sean Lester

Marit Fosse,John Fox
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Author : Marit Fosse,John Fox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761866114

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Sean Lester by Marit Fosse,John Fox Pdf

It was an incredible destiny for a man who repeatedly announced that he was “without ambition.” Although he had left school aged fourteen, had no experience of foreign affairs and spoke no languages other than English, in 1929 Sean Lester became the Irish representative to the League of Nations in Geneva. He was soon recognized by his peers as an outspoken and able politician of integrity ready to defend the rules governing civilized society. As the League’s High Commissioner in the Free City of Danzig from 1934 to 1936, he tried to resist the Nazi juggernaut. In the early part of the Second World War, Lester took over as Secretary-General of the League of Nations from his disgraced predecessor and for four years fought to keep the institution alive. In his dairies he witnessed many dark chapters of European history in the 1930s and 1940s.

The City of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau
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Author : Jeanne DuPrau
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375890802

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A modern-day classic. This highly acclaimed adventure series about two friends desperate to save their doomed city has captivated kids and teachers alike for almost fifteen years and has sold over 3.5 MILLION copies! The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city. She and her friend Doon must race to figure out the clues before the lights go out on Ember forever! Nominated to 28 State Award Lists! An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book A New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Selection A Kirkus Reviews Editors’ Choice A Child Magazine Best Children’s Book A Mark Twain Award Winner A William Allen White Children’s Book Award Winner “A realistic post-apocalyptic world. DuPrau’s book leaves Doon and Lina on the verge of undiscovered country and readers wanting more.” —USA Today “An electric debut.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred “While Ember is colorless and dark, the book itself is rich with description.” —VOYA, Starred “A harrowing journey into the unknown, and cryptic messages for readers to decipher.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred

Specimen Days

Michael Cunningham
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Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374706241

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In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth. Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place . . . I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.

The Shortest Way Home

Juliette Fay
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Author : Juliette Fay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603666

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A NOVEL FULL OF HUMOR AND HOPE FOR FINDING YOURSELF WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECTED Sean has spent twenty years in Third World war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what he’d always felt was his life’s mission. But when burnout sets in, Sean is reluctantly drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts, the setting of Fay’s much-loved Shelter Me. There, he discovers that his steely aunt, overly dramatic sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own. When he reconnects with a woman from his past, Sean has to wonder if the bonds of love and loyalty might just rewrite his destiny. Completely relatable, The Shortest Way Home is another perfect serving of a slice of life from the irresistible Fay. Winner of the Library Journal Award for Best Women's Fiction

Deep Down True

Juliette Fay
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Author : Juliette Fay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101486184

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From the author of Shelter Me--a funny and poignant novel about having your heart in the right place. Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been unfailingly nice- even to telemarketers-but now her temper is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from their dad's departure, and her Goth teenage niece has just landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of post-divorce romance and is befriended by the town queen bee, Dana finds that the tension between being true to yourself and being liked doesn't end in middle school... and that sometimes it takes a real friend to help you embrace adulthood in all its flawed complexity.

Haunted

Dorah L. Williams
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Author : Dorah L. Williams
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781459709430

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It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance. They were curious, of course, as to why the house had, in the past, had such a high vacancy rate - no one ever seemed to live in it for a long period of time. But that curiosity didn’t last long, because shortly after moving in, strange things began to happen. It became abundantly clear that the home’s past owners had all had a reason for leaving: fear. The Williams’ new home was haunted. At first, the family tried telling themselves there were logical explanations for the strange things they all were witnessing. But before long they came to accept the fact that they were sharing their home with ghosts. Haunted is the Williams family’s story from the point of view of the mother, Dorah. Through her chilling reminiscences, we witness the all-too-real goings-on in the house. And we join the family as they seek a way to bring an end to the paranormal events that were occurring with ever more frequency and intensity, and learn why the events began in the first place.

The Revisionaries

A. R. Moxon
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Author : A. R. Moxon
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612197999

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"A modern-day classic."—Ron Charles, Washington Post “A spectacular invention.”—The New York Times "Compulsively readable."—NPR Things do not bode well for Father Julius. . . A street preacher decked out in denim robes and running shoes, Julius is a source of inspiration for a community that knows nothing of his scandalous origins. But when a nearby mental hospital releases its patients to run amok in his neighborhood, his trusted if bedraggled flock turns expectantly to Julius to find out what’s going on. Amid the descending chaos, Julius encounters a hospital escapee who babbles prophecies of doom, and the growing palpable sense of impending danger intensifies . . . as does the feeling that everyone may be relying on a street preacher just a little too much. Still, Julius decides he must confront the forces that threaten his congregation—including the peculiar followers of a religious cult, the mysterious men and women dressed all in red seen fleetingly amid the bedlam, and an enigmatic smoking figure who seems to know what’s going to happen just before it does. The Revisionaries is a wildly imaginative, masterfully rendered, and suspenseful tale that conjures the bold outlandish stylishness of Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Moore—while being unlike anything that’s come before.