Suburban Crazy An Embellished Tale

Author : Teresa Wallace
Publisher : Vanguard Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800162227

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Suburban Crazy an Embellished Tale by Teresa Wallace Pdf

An Italian city girl living in Chicago has to adjust to life in the 'burbs when she and her husband move and leave her beloved city behind. A no-holds-barred commentary on everything that is wrong with the suburbs ensues, as tales of suburban life demonstrate exactly why this girl loves the city. From being chased by wild animals to sitting out a tornado in a big, scary, probably haunted basement, Suburban Crazy is a brutally honest, larger-than-life account of the experiences of a feisty, outspoken mother of two who is determined to share the observations she's made and valuable lessons she's learned, remaining true to her call-it-as-you-see-it ways and expressing, unfiltered, her opinions on life as she knows it in Suburbia, USA.

Author : Teresa Wallace
Publisher : Vanguard Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800162227

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Suburban Crazy an Embellished Tale by Teresa Wallace Pdf

An Italian city girl living in Chicago has to adjust to life in the 'burbs when she and her husband move and leave her beloved city behind. A no-holds-barred commentary on everything that is wrong with the suburbs ensues, as tales of suburban life demonstrate exactly why this girl loves the city. From being chased by wild animals to sitting out a tornado in a big, scary, probably haunted basement, Suburban Crazy is a brutally honest, larger-than-life account of the experiences of a feisty, outspoken mother of two who is determined to share the observations she's made and valuable lessons she's learned, remaining true to her call-it-as-you-see-it ways and expressing, unfiltered, her opinions on life as she knows it in Suburbia, USA.

Author : Denver Michaels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439677360

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Strange Tales from Virginia's Foothills to the Coast by Denver Michaels Pdf

Denver Michaels is an author with a passion for cryptozoology, the paranormal, lost civilizations, ancient history and all things unexplained. The Virginia native has written more than ten books examining unexplained phenomena, including Haunted Shenandoah Valley, Giants: Men of Renown and Strange Tales from Virginia’s Mountains. Michaels travels the country full time with his wife and dog in an RV and is an avid outdoorsman. In his spare time, he enjoys sightseeing, investigating the unexplained and working on future books.

Author : Joan Passey,Robert Lloyd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350361133

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Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales by Joan Passey,Robert Lloyd Pdf

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mother of contemporary horror, scholars from across the globe, and from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds, dig into the lasting impact of her work in light of its increasing relevance to contemporary critical preoccupations and the re-release of Jackson's work in 2016. Offering new methodologies to study her work, this volume calls upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis to examine a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, selfhood and mental illness. With consideration of her blockbuster works alongside later works that received much less critical attention, Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales promises a rich and dynamic expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, both bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in the canon of Horror fiction.

Author : Elisabeth Lohman Scharlatt,Christopher Cerf
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0671224808

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Kids, Day in and Day Out by Elisabeth Lohman Scharlatt,Christopher Cerf Pdf

Parents tell how they handle their children's education, nutrition, discipline, play activities, and problems

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Lily Zante
Publisher : Lily Zante
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Gift, Books 1-3 by Lily Zante Pdf

“Anything can be bought, Savannah, and everything has a price.” “Only in your universe, Tobias.” Tobias Stone, a troubled billionaire, lives an empty life devoid of love. Haunted by demons from his past, he uses his wealth to insulate him from the real world. Savannah Page, a divorced and debt-ridden single mom, has fled an abusive marriage and arrives in New York with her young son, eager to make a new start. He’s filthy rich, she’s dirt poor. He pays for sex, she’s a loving single mom. Savannah’s money worries are solved when she gets an office job working for Tobias. But at what price? This is an opposites attract, slow burn, steamy billionaire romance, featuring a ruthless businessman with a heart of stone and the struggling single mom who isn’t looking for love.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030600872

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Metropolitan Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carole Johnstone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668013601

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Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone Pdf

“Unnerving.” —People “Unsettling...unlocks its mysteries slowly.” —The New York Times Book Review “A dark, twisty, and richly atmospheric exploration of the power of imagination” —Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10 “Beautifully written and told with a watchmaker’s precision” (Stephen King), Mirrorland is a thrilling psychological suspense novel about twin sisters, the man they both love, the house that has always haunted them, and the childhood stories they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El, grew up. As kids, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs, full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days, Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband, Ross. But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return to 36 Westeryk Road, which hasn’t changed in twenty years. The grand old house is still full of shadowy corners, and at every turn Cat finds herself stumbling on long-held secrets and terrifying ghosts from the past. Because someone—El?—has left Cat clues: a treasure hunt that leads them back to Mirrorland, where the truth lies waiting... A brilliantly crafted story that “feels like the love child of Gillian Flynn and Stephen King” (Greer Hendricks, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Mirrorland is a propulsive, page-turning debut about love, betrayal, revenge—and the price of freedom.

Author : Jay Anson
Publisher : Gallery Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781982138264

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The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson Pdf

“A fascinating and frightening book” (Los Angeles Times)—the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits, haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property—complete with boathouse and swimming pool—and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror. This is the spellbinding, shocking true story that gripped the nation about an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining—“this book will scare the hell out of you” (Kansas City Star).

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759511569

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Oblivion by David Foster Wallace Pdf

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown (The Soul Is Not a Smithy). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity by delineating the office politics surrounding a magazine profile of an artist who produces miniature sculptures in an anatomically inconceivable way (The Suffering Channel). Or capture the ache of love's breakdown in the painfully polite apologies of a man who believes his wife is hallucinating the sound of his snoring (Oblivion). Each of these stories is a complete world, as fully imagined as most entire novels, at once preposterously surreal and painfully immediate.

Author : Augusten Burroughs
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429902526

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Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture! Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer, and Valium was eaten like Pez. And when things got dull, there was always the vintage electroshock therapy machine under the stairs.... Running with Scissors is at turns foul and harrowing, compelling and maniacally funny. But above all, it chronicles an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1837-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433069144560

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The Publishers Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1494 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1929-07
Category : Current events
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007118529

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Time by Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce Pdf

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 019974369X

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Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.