Disgraced

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350146501

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Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar Pdf

“A continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse.” New York Times New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor is happy, in love, and about to land the biggest career promotion of his life. But beneath the veneer, success has come at a price. When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2013, Disgraced premiered in Chicago before transferring to New York's Lincoln Center in 2012. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by J.T. Rogers.

Author : Cara Bristol
Publisher : Cara Bristol
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947203693

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Alien Disgraced by Cara Bristol Pdf

Is her alien Prince Charming a coldhearted killer? When Kat Whalen meets Prince Lomax of Araset, a tall, handsome alien with curved horns and luxurious fur, he instantly charms her with his good humor, wit, and kindness. Although their romance is brief—duty demands he attend an important interplanetary summit—the love bond that forms is deep. Heartbroken when he leaves, Kat knows she’ll never forget the gentle alien man and hopes one day they’ll meet again. Prince Lomax remembers reluctantly bidding goodbye to the lovely human woman, Kat Whalen, before shuttling off to a League of Planets summit meeting. The next thing he knows, he’s in a detention facility, arrested on charges of conspiracy and insurrection. He has no memory of anything in between, but the theory is that he was brainwashed into joining the Galactic Justice Warriors, a group of violent anarchists plotting to overthrow the League of Planets. In disgrace and despair, he’s sent home to Araset to await deprogramming and adjudication of the charges. His only support comes from Kat, who refuses to leave his side, convinced he is still the kindhearted, gentle man who captured her heart. Although the prince seems normal, he is still under the influence of the mind control, which makes him a danger to everyone around him. It is only a matter of time before something triggers him, and he snaps. Can he be deprogrammed before he involuntarily hurts the woman he loves? Or will their bond be the one thing that saves her?

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409027270

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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times **A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK** After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Author : Justin S. Holcomb,Lindsey A. Holcomb
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433515989

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Rid of My Disgrace by Justin S. Holcomb,Lindsey A. Holcomb Pdf

Helps adult victims of sexual assault move from brokenness to healing. This book outlines a theology or redemption and includes an application of how the disgrace of the cross can lead victims toward grace.

Author : Carole Mortimer
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426846472

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The Rogue's Disgraced Lady by Carole Mortimer Pdf

Society gossip has kept Lady Juliet Boyd out of the public eye since the suspicious death of her husband. Although she's been persuaded to accept an invitation to a summer house party, all she really wants is a quiet life, free from the attentions of any man. But there she meets the scandalous Sebastian St. Claire, who makes her feel things, want things, need things she's never experienced before. Starved of affection, Juliet finds his lovemaking irresistible. But does he really want her—or just the truth behind her disgrace?

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316324502

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The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar Pdf

A chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual plan. He will earn his own ransom by helping his captors manipulate and master the world commodities and currency markets. "[A] tense, provocative thriller about the unholy nexus of international terrorism and big bucks...." (Seattle Times). "Ahktar again turns hypersensitive subjects into thought-provoking and thoughtful drama" (Newsday). "The prime theme is pulsing and alive: when human lives become just one more commodity to be traded, blood eventually flows in the streets" (Financial Times). "Whip-smart and twisty" (Time Out New York), "The Invisible Hand offers genuine insight into the future of the West" (Village Voice).

Author : Grace Campbell
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781529354010

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Amazing Disgrace by Grace Campbell Pdf

'An outpouring of truth, wit, and beautiful comedic wisdom.' Katherine Ryan 'Such a funny and interesting book.' Sara Pascoe 'Finally my vagina has a voice!' London Hughes 'Powerful, bold, vulnerable, beautiful, hilarious, universal, unique.' Scarlett Curtis ********************************************** For as long as she can remember, Grace Campbell has been told that she doesn't suit her name. But being graceful is no fun anyway. Growing up in a world of privilege and politics, she had a lot to feel confident about. But she was also a record-breaker when it came to feeling shame. Shame about sex, shame about rejection, shame about mental health. But over time, and with a 24 carat gold dose of female friendship, Grace has turned shame into a defiant sense of self. At only 27, Grace has got a lot to learn about being an adult, but she's already got a lot to share about being a disgrace, and how she came to be utterly, disgustingly, disgracefully proud of it. This is the book every young woman should read, and every young man should worry about.

Author : Helen Kate Rogers Furness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030029544345

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A concordance to Shakespeare's poems: an index to every word therin contained by Helen Kate Rogers Furness Pdf

Author : Brittainy Cherry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722429712

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Disgrace by Brittainy Cherry Pdf

Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again.After fifteen years together, he walked away from me, and into the arms of another.I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know my worth. I didn't know how to exist without him by my side.All I wanted was for him to come back to me.Then, Jackson Emery appeared.He was supposed to be a distraction for my mind. A summer fling. A confidence boost to my bruised heart.We were perfect for one another, because we both knew we wouldn't last. Jackson didn't believe in commitment, and I no longer believed in love. He was too closed-off for me, and I was too damaged for him.Everything was fine, until one night my heart skipped a beat.I didn't expect him to make me laugh. To make me think. To make my sadness somewhat disappear.When our time was up, my heart didn't know how to walk away.Each day I prayed for my husband to love me again, yet slowly my prayers began to shift toward the man who wasn't right for me. I prayed for one more smile, one more kiss, one more laugh, one more touch... I prayed for him to be mine.Even though I knew his heart wasn't destined to love.

Author : Robyn Donald
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426884664

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The Disgraced Princess by Robyn Donald Pdf

Prince Gerd Crysander-Gillan has long held a torch for beautiful Rosie Matthews. But three years ago that need turned to rage when he discovered that Rosie's affections were apparently for his brother. Now Gerd has taken the crown, and His Majesty needs a princess. The obvious candidate for marriage is Rosie—a chance to take sweet revenge for the wound that has never healed. Only, once he has his royal bride, he is astounded to find that she's still a virgin….

Author : William E. McDonald
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571134035

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Encountering Disgrace by William E. McDonald Pdf

Ever since it was first published in 1999, Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace has provoked controversy. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, it follows Prof. David Lurie as he encounters disgrace through his sexual exploitation of a student and then through the shocking gang-rape of his only daughter. The novel's uncompromising portrayal of the "new" South Africa outraged many, who found the book regressive, even racist. It also challenged readers worldwide to confront its hard questions. This first book of essays devoted to the novel ambitiously brings together criticism and pedagogy. The ten critical essays and eight essays on teaching Disgrace grapple with the ethical issues the novel so provocatively raises: rape, gender, race, animal rights. Disgrace is widely taught in colleges and universities and read in book clubs; the debates it has given rise to will take on fresh life with the release of the upcoming film starring John Malkovich. Unusually, the eighteen contributors to the collection are all faculty members or graduates of the same institution, the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, and have worked together closely in crafting their essays over the past two years. The volume will be exceptionally useful to teachers of literature, philosophy, and South African culture, to book club leaders, and to all readers of Coetzee. Contributors: Nancy Best, James Boobar, Bradley Butterfield, Jane Creighton, Matthew Gray, Pat Harrigan, Gary Hawkins, Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann, Daniel Kiefer, Bill McDonald, Michael G. McDunnah, Kim Middleton, Kevin O'Neill, Raymond Obstfeld, Kathy Ogren, Kenneth Reinhard, Sandra D. Shattuck, Patricia Casey Sutcliffe, Julie Townsend. Bill McDonald is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Redlands, Redlands, California.

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316192828

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American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar Pdf

From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316324489

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The Who & The What by Ayad Akhtar Pdf

The author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel that offends her more conservative father and sister. Zarina has a bone to pick with the place of women in her Muslim faith, and she's been writing a book about the Prophet Muhammad that aims to set the record straight. When her traditional father and sister discover the manuscript, it threatens to tear her family apart. With humor and ferocity, Akhtar's incisive new drama about love, art, and religion examines the chasm between our traditions and our contemporary lives.

Author : Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Publisher : The Battle Cry Christian Ministries
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789788424017

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Holy Madness or Horrible Disgrace by Dr. D. K. Olukoya Pdf

This is a highly prophetic book from the pen of a globally respected prophet. The book undertakes an incisive analysis of the present day dilemma as far as the thermometer of spiritual vitality is concerned. The author posits that it is either holy madness or horrible disgrace. This is a challenge to our generation. Dr. Daniel Olukoya has, in the pages of this book, spoken passionately to a generation that is fast missing out on the cutting edge of spiritual currency. The pages of Holy Madness or Horrible Disgrace sound an alarm to the careless, warn the lukewarm and awake the dying conscience of believers who have lost touch with divine reality. This book will introduce far reaching changes into your life. The content will challenge you to reject every form of disgrace.

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316496438

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Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar Pdf

A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Finalist for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Best Book of 2020 * Washington Post * O Magazine * New York Times Book Review * Publishers Weekly "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." —Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one—least of all himself—in the process.