In The Lobby Of The Dream Hotel

Author : Genevieve Plunkett
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646220489

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In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel by Genevieve Plunkett Pdf

A young mother finds herself caught between a love affair and the wrath of her husband, who will do anything to put an end to it—even use his wife's bipolar diagnosis against her When faced with newfound feelings for Theo, the drummer of her band, married young mother Portia must decide whether to follow her heart or question her sanity. Going off her medication feels like waking up for the first time. But could this clarity be harmless daydreaming, or a symptom of something more serious? Portia’s husband, a well-respected prosecutor in their small Vermont town, is convinced of the latter. He retaliates, initiating an intervention, claiming that Portia’s behavior is proof of her bipolar disorder. With lawyer-like cunning, he uses elements from her past to break her resolve until she agrees to being committed to a psychiatric hospital. In the hospital, Portia’s sense of reality is tested, and hard truths about her marriage, her love for Theo, and her most vulnerable hopes and desires are revealed. In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is a potent and at times devastating story of stark tenderness. Written like a dream, this novel brings us toward new understandings of the flawed, yearning, multifaceted self.

Author : Genevieve Plunkett
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646220496

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In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel by Genevieve Plunkett Pdf

Finalist for the Vermont Book Awards A young mother finds herself caught between a love affair and the wrath of her husband, who will do anything to put an end to it—even use his wife's bipolar diagnosis against her When faced with newfound feelings for Theo, the drummer of her band, married young mother Portia must decide whether to follow her heart or question her sanity. Going off her medication feels like waking up for the first time. But could this clarity be harmless daydreaming, or a symptom of something more serious? Portia’s husband, a well-respected prosecutor in their small Vermont town, is convinced of the latter. He retaliates, initiating an intervention, claiming that Portia’s behavior is proof of her bipolar disorder. With lawyer-like cunning, he uses elements from her past to break her resolve until she agrees to being committed to a psychiatric hospital. In the hospital, Portia’s sense of reality is tested, and hard truths about her marriage, her love for Theo, and her most vulnerable hopes and desires are revealed. In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is a potent and at times devastating story of stark tenderness. Written like a dream, this novel brings us toward new understandings of the flawed, yearning, multifaceted self.

Author : Pawan Dhingra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804782029

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Life Behind the Lobby by Pawan Dhingra Pdf

Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United States with few resources and, broadly speaking, they are self-employed, self-sufficient immigrants who have become successful—they live the American dream. However, framing this group as embodying the American dream has profound implications. It perpetuates the idea of American exceptionalism—that this nation creates opportunities for newcomers unattainable elsewhere—and also downplays the inequalities of race, gender, culture, and globalization immigrants continue to face. Despite their dominance in the motel industry, Indian American moteliers are concentrated in lower- and mid-budget markets. Life Behind the Lobby explains Indian Americans' simultaneous accomplishments and marginalization and takes a close look at their own role in sustaining that duality.

Author : Sherill Tippins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471135286

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Inside the Dream Palace by Sherill Tippins Pdf

The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House,delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Sam Shepard, Sid Vicious, and Dee Dee Ramone. Now as legendary as the artists it has housed and the countless creative collaborations it has sparked, the Chelsea has always stood as a mystery as well: why and how did this hotel become the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the known world? Inside the Dream Palaceis the intimate and definitive story.

Author : Anita Gates
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781440653360

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to New York City by Anita Gates Pdf

Plan a visit to the city that never sleeps… without losing any sleep! New York continues to be one of the top tourist destinations in the world—with more than 43 million visitors in 2006 alone. This book dispels the anxiety of planning a trip to such an enormously busy and exciting destination. Readers are given practical advice based on the kind of trip they are looking for, the length of their stay, and what they want to see. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to New York City provides: • A reader-friendly list of visual icons and symbols that make navigating the book a breeze • Fifty pages of itineraries based on days in town, areas of the city, and Special interests like romantic, family fun, single in the city, and taking it easy • An eight-page color insert that captures the magic of the Big Apple

Author : Amanda Quick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593337813

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When She Dreams by Amanda Quick Pdf

Return to 1930s Burning Cove, California, the glamorous seaside playground for Hollywood stars, mobsters, spies, and a host of others who find more than they bargain for in this mysterious town. Maggie Lodge, assistant to the reclusive advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires down-but-not-quite-out private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. Maggie and Sam are a mismatched pair. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. She is not what he had in mind for a client, but he can’t afford to be choosy. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that Sam is badly in need of guidance and good advice. She does not hesitate to give him both. In spite of the verbal fireworks between them, they are fiercely attracted to each other, but each is convinced it would be a mistake to let passion take over. They are, after all, keeping secrets from each other. Sam is haunted by his past, which includes a marriage shattered by betrayal and violence. Maggie is troubled by intense and vivid dreams—dreams that she can sometimes control. There are those who want to run experiments on her and use her for their own purposes, while others think she should be committed to an asylum. When the pair discovers someone is impersonating Aunt Cornelia at a conference on psychic dreaming and a woman dies at the conference, the door is opened to a dangerous web of blackmail and murder. Secrets from the past are revealed, leaving Maggie and Sam in the path of a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to exact vengeance.

Author : Anna Lardinois
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665282

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Milwaukee Ghosts and Legends by Anna Lardinois Pdf

A tour guide and founder of Gothic Milwaukee shares the spine-tingling tales of the Beer City's famous, and not so famous, specters and legends. Beneath Milwaukee's calm façade, its ghastly past awaits. The overbearing spirit of Frederick Pabst keeps persistent watch over the mansion that shares his name. The remains of the Newhall House Fire, the city's deadliest disaster, may lie beneath a new building, but those who lost their lives that night refuse to rest in peace. Even the suburbs hold their share of ghoulish secrets, including the furtive dwarves of Haunchyville, the fabled Bray Road Beast and the stubborn spirits lurking in Deacon West's house. “A breeze—a spine-tingling breeze—to read. It's extremely well crafted, organized into deliciously digestible segments and laden with descriptive yet straight-forward language. Lardinois stocks the stories with so many peculiar historical tidbits that the text is simultaneously scary, fascinating and educational. (Did you know the ashes of the founder of The Skylight Theater are still beneath the stage?)” —OnMilwaukee.com

Author : Rick Moody
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782832201

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Hotels of North America by Rick Moody Pdf

Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet. And he finds it in a very twenty-first century place: the internet. Specifically, RateYourLodging.com, where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels, motels and, horrors, bed and breakfasts. But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they offer, but the people who offer it. Reginald Edward Morse is one of those people. At first Morse seems exactly what you'd suspect a reviewer to be, though under the authoritative, even puffed-up tone, there lurks self-awareness, wit and a flair for anecdote. His reviews scatter clues to his identity, and the fragments explain the mystery of Reginald Edward Morse, his career as a motivational speaker, his lover 'K' and his estrangement from his daughter. Always funny, unexpectedly tragic, this is a book of lonely rooms, long lists, of strong opinion and quiet confession, by one of America's greatest novelists.

Author : Edwin N. Torres,Tingting Zhang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429558993

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Customer Service Marketing by Edwin N. Torres,Tingting Zhang Pdf

This timely book is a comprehensive overview of customer service principles, theories, and practices. It looks at the best practices of service enterprises and the delivery of superior customer service. It also includes classic and contemporary theories relating to the consumers, managers, and their behaviors in organizational setting. The book uses real-life applications through examples from business enterprises in various service sectors, including hotels, restaurants, theme parks, event management, airlines, cruises, (e-)retailers, and finance. This book covers important concepts in service design and delivery including customer experiences, peer-to-peer services, the organization’s servicescape, quality measurement tools, and use of technologies. The book also gives insights into consumers including their expectations, attitudes, emotions, word-of-mouth behaviors, and strategies to ensure their loyalty. It also looks at developments in service theory and practice which remain relatively unexplored by existing textbooks. Filled with real-world case studies in various service sectors, this textbook will be particularly useful for students in hospitality guest services and services marketing.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262582201

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The Dream Drugstore by J. Allan Hobson Pdf

An investigation into the brain's chemistry and the mechanisms of chemically altered states of consciousness. In this book, J. Allan Hobson offers a new understanding of altered states of consciousness based on knowledge of how our brain chemistry is balanced when we are awake and how that balance shifts when we fall asleep and dream. He draws on recent research that enables us to explain how psychedelic drugs work to disturb that balance and how similar imbalances may cause depression and schizophrenia. He also draws on work that expands our understanding of how certain drugs can correct imbalances and restore the brain's natural equilibrium. Hobson explains the chemical balance concept in terms of what we know about the regulation of normal states of consciousness over the course of the day by brain chemicals called neuromodulators. He presents striking confirmation of the principle that every drug that has transformative effects on consciousness interacts with the brain's own consciousness-altering chemicals. In the section called "The Medical Drugstore," Hobson describes drugs used to counteract anxiety and insomnia, to raise and lower mood, and to eliminate or diminish the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia. He discusses the risks involved in their administration, including the possibility of new disorders caused by indiscriminate long-term use. In "The Recreational Drugstore," Hobson discusses psychedelic drugs, narcotic analgesia, and natural drugs. He also considers the distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate drug use. In the concluding "Psychological Drugstore," he discusses the mind as an agent, not just the mediator, of change, and corrects many erroneous assumptions and practices that hinder the progress of psychoanalysis.

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781400008377

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Fodor's New York City 2010 by Fodor's Pdf

Describes points of interest in New York City, including museums, gardens, zoos, historic sites, and seasonal events, and recommends hotels, restaurants, and nightspots

Author : Brian Niemitz
Publisher : ASDavis Media Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Hotels
ISBN : 9780976601319

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Night+Day New York by Brian Niemitz Pdf

This sleek guide emphasizes the details that busy and discerning travelers need to know: the very best venues and activities, the prime time to be in every spot, and packed with insider tips. Structured around styles (such as hot & cool, hip, classic) that make up New York's unique character, the guide's easy to use format gives travelers a selection based on the city's array of personalities, not geography or price.

Author : Ken Hudnall,Connie Wang
Publisher : Omega Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0962608785

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Spirits of the Border by Ken Hudnall,Connie Wang Pdf

Author : Cynthia Richmond
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0743200772

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Dream Power by Cynthia Richmond Pdf

Analyzes hundreds of dreams, including those of celebrities, describes common themes and symbols, and shows how to use these insights to improve our lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Three Sixty Biz Co., Ltd.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Residence Magazine Issue 12 by Anonim Pdf

Winners of The 2014 Thailand Property Awards.