Not Long For This World

Author : Gar Anthony Haywood
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049984786

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Not Long for This World by Gar Anthony Haywood Pdf

A lawyer hires Gunner to help her prove that her gangland client is not a killer Darrel Lovejoy doesn’t owe South Central anything. By all accounts, he is lucky to escape this desperate corner of Los Angeles, to go to college and graduate into a well-paid advertising job. But something compels him to return. He dives into social work, attempting to mediate between the gangs which have brought hell to the streets he grew up on, and he makes slow but steady progress up until the day a shotgun blast cuts him down. After an unusually forthcoming witness swears she saw a car of Imperial Blues kill Lovejoy, the police arrest Blue soldier Toby Mills. Suspecting a frame-up, Toby’s lawyer hires private detective Aaron Gunner to vet the woman’s story. To find out why South Central’s favorite son had to die, Gunner will turn gangland upside down.

Author : Sonya Chung
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439101711

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Long for This World by Sonya Chung Pdf

Pushcart Prize nominee Sonya Chung has displayed her stunning talent in her award-winning short fiction and essays. Now, she renders the compelling story of a troubled family straddling cultures, fleeing and searching, in her piercing and profoundly humane first novel. In 1953, on a small island in Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and his wife to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on a plane flying back to Korea, leaving behind his own wife in America. It is his daughter, Jane a war photographer recently injured in a bombing in Baghdad and forced to return to New York who journeys to find him in the small town in South Korea where his brothers have settled. Here, father and daughter take refuge from their demons, flirt with passion, and, in the wake of tragedy, discover something deeper and more enduring than they could have imagined. Just as Monica Ali's Brick Lane introduced readers to a world that is both exotic and immediate, Long for This World illuminates the complexities and the richness of family bonds and establishes Chung as an exciting new voice in fiction.

Author : Michael Byers
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618446486

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Long for This World by Michael Byers Pdf

This wise and richly symphonic first novel by the award-winning author of "The Coast of Good Intentions" is a thoroughly contemporary family drama that hinges on a riveting medical dilemma.

Author : Claire-Louise Bennett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593420515

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Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ" NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE “Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel.” –Karl Ove Knausgaard From the author of the “dazzling. . . . and daring” Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets–and dreams up–along the way. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination. As she grows, everything and everyone she encounters become fuel for a burning talent. The large Russian man in the ancient maroon car who careens around the grocery store where she works as a checkout clerk, and slips her a copy of Beyond Good and Evil. The growing heaps of other books in which she loses–and finds–herself. Even the derailing of a friendship, in a devastating violation. The thrill of learning to conjure characters and scenarios in her head is matched by the exhilaration of forging her own way in the world, the two kinds of ingenuity kindling to a brilliant conflagration. Exceeding the extraordinary promise of Bennett’s mold-shattering debut, Checkout 19 is a radical affirmation of the power of the imagination and the magic escape those who master it open to us all.

Author : Michael DiGiacomo
Publisher : Happy English
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780991507962

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109 Phrasal Verbs Second Edition by Michael DiGiacomo Pdf

INCLUDING… Now 120 PHRASAL VERBS!The DEFINITION of each phrasal verb.How to USE the phrasal verb.The STRUCTURE showing the grammar pattern of the phrasal verb.720 EXAMPLE sentences to see how the phrasal verb is used in context.12 QUIZZES to test your learning.12 PRACTICE exercise questions to give you the chance to use the phrasal verb.10 Bonus Confusing Vocabulary Lessons5 Survival English lessonsWHY BUY THIS BOOK?It’s designed for self-study.This book was written by an English teacher with over 20 years experience.It’s an eBook, so you just need to download it and keep a copy on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.It’s got a paperback version.It can help you prepare for TOEIC, TOEFL, and IELTS exams.WHAT IS A PHRASAL VERB? A phrasal verb is a verb + preposition that we use as an idiom. Some examples are: call off, calm down, drag on, drop off, figure out, fill out, give in, hang out, kick off, look into, make up, pick up, put off, run into, show up, take off, think up, try on, turn on, work out, etc… ut, etc… WHY LEARN PHRASAL VERBS?Phrasal verbs are commonly used in everyday, conversational English. It is more natural to say, “Please put out your cigarette,” than “Please extinguish your cigarette.” I encourage you to study the lessons in this book, and begin using these phrasal verbs in your conversations. You will sound more natural when you do so.

Author : Michael DiGiacomo
Publisher : Happy English
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780991507993

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365 More American English Idioms by Michael DiGiacomo Pdf

Including… The DEFINITION of each idiom.The USAGE NOTES showing the history and/or usage of each idiom.The STRUCTURE showing HOW TO USE the idiom.EXAMPLE sentences to see how the idiom is used in context.Why buy this book?It’s designed for self-study.This book was written by an English teacher with over 20 years experience.It’s an eBook, so you just need to download it and keep a copy on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.It’s got a paperback version.It can help you prepare for TOEIC, TOEFL, and IELTS exams.What is an idiom? An idiom is a word or set of words that have a different meaning than the usual & literal meaning of those words. For example, let’s look at the idiom, “get the ball rolling.” To start a game like bowling or billiards, you roll the ball. So this idiom gives us the idea we are starting something. When we say, “Let’s get the ball rolling,” we mean, let’s begin. You can use this idiom to begin a meeting, a class, or even a road trip. Why learn idioms? Idioms are commonly used in everyday, conversational English. You could being your meeting with “Let’s begin the meeting,” but starting the meeting with “Let’s get the ball rolling” will make you sound more like a native speaker, and more natural. I encourage you to study the lessons in this book, and begin using these idioms in your conversations. You will sound more natural when you do so!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015067523723

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Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles H. Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020871936

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Harry Mowbray by Charles H. Knox Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Christianity
ISBN : CHI:26387055

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The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Jane Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:56981683

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Rose Mather by Mary Jane Holmes Pdf

Author : R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780941028769

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature by R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess Pdf

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Author : Jonathan Weiner
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780062000217

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Long for This World by Jonathan Weiner Pdf

“[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.” —Timothy Ferris Jonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished popular science writers in America—examines “the strange science of immortality” in Long for This World. A fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure from “one of our finest science journalists” (Jonah Lehrer), Weiner’s Long for This World addresses the ageless question, “Is there a secret to eternal youth?” And has it, at long last, been found?

Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754062903319

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The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope Pdf

Author : A. Larsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11642919

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Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog ved A. Larsen by A. Larsen Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357581

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)