Perfect Reader

Author : Maggie Pouncey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307474803

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Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey Pdf

Flora Dempsey is the headstrong only child of Lewis Dempsey, a college professor and world famous critic. When Lewis passes away, Flora returns to her New England hometown to act as his literary executor. There, she finds herself responsible for a manuscript that he was secretly writing at the end of his life—love poems to a girlfriend Flora didn't know he had. As Flora is besieged by well-wishers and literary vultures alike, she tries to figure out how to navigate it all: the fate of the poems, the girlfriend who wants a place in her life, the wounds left by her parents’ divorce, and her uncertain future. Brimming with energy, humor, and the elbow-patchy wisdom of Flora’s still-vivid father, this enchanting debut is the uplifting story of a young woman striving to become the “perfect reader” of her father’s life, as well as her own.

Author : Maggie Pouncey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307379276

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Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey Pdf

In this enchanting debut novel, Maggie Pouncey brings to life the unforgettable Flora Dempsey, the headstrong and quick-witted only child of Lewis Dempsey, a beloved former college president and famous literary critic in the league of Harold Bloom. At the news of her father’s death, Flora quits her big-city magazine job and returns to Darwin, the quaint New England town where she grew up, to retreat into the house he has left her, filled as it is with reminders of him. Even weightier is her appointment as her father’s literary executor. It seems he was secretly writing poems at the end of his life—love poems to a girlfriend Flora didn’t know he had. Flora soon discovers that this woman has her own claims on Lewis’s poetry and his memory, and in the righteousness of her loss and bafflement at her father’s secrets—his life so richly separate from her own in ways she never guessed—Flora is highly suspicious of her. Meanwhile, Flora is besieged by well-wishers and literary bloggers alike as she tries to figure out how to navigate it all: the fate of the poems, the girlfriend who wants a place in her life, her memories of her parents’ divorce, and her own uncertain future. At once comic and profound, Perfect Reader is a heady, uplifting story of loneliness and of the spur to growth that grief can be. Brimming with energy and with the elbow-patchy wisdom of her still-vivid father, Flora’s story will set her free to be the “perfect reader” not just of her father’s life but of her own as well.

Author : Tim Polzer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545218566

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Perfect Passers by Tim Polzer Pdf

Profiles six NFL quarterbacks including Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Donovan McNabb, covering their start in football and the high points of their professional careers.

Author : Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky,Robert Gaizauskas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191533303

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The Language of Time: A Reader by Inderjeet Mani,James Pustejovsky,Robert Gaizauskas Pdf

This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future; whether they are real or hypothetical; when an event might have occurred, and how long it could have lasted. In focussing on the treatment and retrieval of time-based information it seeks to lay the foundation for temporally-aware natural language computer processing systems, for example those that process documents on the worldwide web to answer questions or produce summaries. The development of such systems requires the application of technical knowledge from many different disciplines. The book is the first to bring these disciplines together, by means of classic and contemporary papers in four areas: tense, aspect, and event structure; temporal reasoning; the temporal structure of natural language discourse; and temporal annotation. Clear, self-contained editorial introductions to each area provide the necessary technical background for the non-specialist, explaining the underlying connections across disciplines. A wide range of students and professionals in academia and industry will value this book as an introduction and guide to a new and vital technology. The former include researchers, students, and teachers of natural language processing, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, computer science, information retrieval (including the growing speciality of question-answering), library sciences, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. Those in industry include corporate managers and researchers, software product developers, and engineers in information-intensive companies, such as on-line database and web-service providers.

Author : Lyman Cobb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Readers
ISBN : NYPL:33433069241853

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The North American Reader by Lyman Cobb Pdf

Author : William Holmes McGuffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Elocution
ISBN : OSU:32435074469800

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McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Pdf

Author : William Holmes McGuffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Readers
ISBN : UVA:X030685641

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McGuffey's New Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Pdf

Author : David Bates Tower,Cornelius Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Readers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097071583

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North American Second Class Reader by David Bates Tower,Cornelius Walker Pdf

Author : Salem Town
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097042972

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The Fourth Reader; Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking by Salem Town Pdf

Author : James Clear
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735211308

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Atomic Habits by James Clear Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; design your environment to make success easier; get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

Author : Karma Brown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735236257

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Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICK "Recipe for a Perfect Wife is a bold, intoxicating, page-turner. Karma Brown has long been a favorite of mine and this book is proof she just keeps getting better and better. This is a thrilling, audacious story about women daring to take control."--Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six When Alice Hale reluctantly leaves a promising career in publicity, following her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. However, she is determined to become a writer--and to work hard to build the kind of life her husband dreams of, complete with children. At first, the old house seems to resent Alice as much as she resents it, but when she finds an old cookbook buried in a box in the basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook's previous owner: 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she begins to settle into her new surroundings, even as her friends and family grow concerned that she has embraced them too fully: wearing vintage dresses and pearls like a 1950s housewife, making elaborate old-fashioned dishes like Baked Alaska, and drifting steadily away from her usual pursuits. Alice justifies the changes merely as research for her novel...but when she discovers that Nellie left clues about her own life within the cookbook's pages--and in a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to Nellie's mother--she quickly realizes that the housewife's secrets may have been anything but harmless. As she uncovers a more sinister side to Nellie's marriage and with pressure mounting in her own relationship, Alice realizes that to protect herself she must harbour and hatch a few secrets of her own...

Author : Richard Briggs
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801038433

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The Virtuous Reader by Richard Briggs Pdf

An expert in biblical interpretation explores "interpretive virtue" and examines five ways the Old Testament seeks to shape its readers.

Author : J. Glentworth Butler
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9785873825240

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The Bible Reader's Commentary. The New Testament by J. Glentworth Butler Pdf

The Bible Reader's Commentary. The New Testament. In Two Volumes. Volume 1.

Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102853579

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Analytical Fourth [-sixth] Reader by Richard Edwards Pdf

Author : Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476790152

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How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren Pdf

Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.