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Tales From A Broad

Fran Lebowitz
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Author : Fran Lebowitz
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9789814358453

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When a frazzled New Yorker who is mad, bad and dangerous to know lands in Asia, life is never quite the same again - for anyone ... Fran Lebowitz cheerfully admits that she is intergalactically self-absorbed, a little crazy and really, really hard to please - just ask her eternally patient and bemused husband, Frank. But when her life in the fast land falls apart - again - it's time for a miracle. Reeling from the worst week of her life, topped off by her most important client stabbing her in the back, Fran realises that she's almost forgotten what her family looks like. She wants out of the rat race and her hectic life as a literary agent - and time to be herself, a real wife and mother to her two small children. Good old Frank delivers what seems the answer to her prayers - to escape for three months to Singapore while he does some business. But what starts out as a little break and a very big culture shock for all concerned marks the hilarious beginning of the end of the old Fran - and a whole new life.

South of Broad

Pat Conroy
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Author : Pat Conroy
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385532143

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina’s dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are prepared for. Spanning two turbulent decades, South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest: a masterpiece from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds. Praise for South of Broad “Vintage Pat Conroy . . . a big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage.”—The Washington Post “Conroy remains a magician of the page.”—The New York Times Book Review “Richly imagined . . . These characters are gallant in the grand old-fashioned sense, devoted to one another and to home. That siren song of place has never sounded so sweet.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune “A lavish, no-holds-barred performance.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A lovely, often thrilling story.”—The Dallas Morning News “A pleasure to read . . . a must for Conroy’s fans.”—Associated Press

Take Us to Your Chief

Drew Hayden Taylor
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Author : Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771621328

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A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes in an Aboriginal perspective. The nine stories in this collection span all traditional topics of science fiction--from peaceful aliens to hostile invaders; from space travel to time travel; from government conspiracies to connections across generations. Yet Taylor's First Nations perspective draws fresh parallels, likening the cultural implications of alien contact to those of the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, or highlighting the impossibility of remaining a "good Native" in such an unnatural situation as a space mission. Infused with Native stories and variously mysterious, magical and humorous, Take Us to Your Chief is the perfect mesh of nostalgically 1950s-esque science fiction with modern First Nations discourse.

Tales from a Broad

Jeannine Henvey
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Author : Jeannine Henvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612359108

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If you enjoy new twists on old classics, then Tales From A Broad is a comedic adventure of one woman's quest to find herself, but the spotlight focuses on her older chaperone, instead. Forty-two and feeling not-so-fabulous, Lucy Banks allows her older sister to talk her into accompanying her twenty-four-year-old niece on a trip around Europe. In the past year she has lost her fiance, her job and her fertility. Embracing her role as spinster aunt seems to be Lucy's only option, until she embarks on a romantic adventure through London, Amsterdam, Munich, Paris and Florence. Will a room with a view and a handsome stranger be enough to open her heart and mind to new experiences? Tales From A Broad promises to draw readers into a light-hearted tale of emotional development, self-discovery and love.

The Knot Impossible

Barbara Else
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Author : Barbara Else
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9781776570034

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In the conclusion to the award-winning Tales of Fontania quartet, Rufkin meets Nissy in a murky salvage yard, and a small boy who can only say "Help!," and starts with them on a magical adventure.

American Tall Tales

Mary Pope Osborne
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Author : Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307982599

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The perfect addition to every family’s home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America’s first folk heroes in nine wildly exaggerated and downright funny stories. Here are Paul Bunyan, that king-sized lumberjack who could fell “ten white pines with a single swing”; John Henry, with his mighty hammer; Mose, old New York’s biggest, bravest fireman; Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, who could “outgrin, outsnort, outrun, outlift, outsneeze, outsleep, outlie any varmint”; and other uniquely American characters, together in one superb collection. In the tradition of the original nineteenth-century storytellers, Mary Pope Osborne compiles, edits, and adds her own two cents’ worth—and also supplies fascinating historical headnotes. Michael McCurdy’s robust colored wood engravings recall an earlier time, perfectly capturing all the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country out of the North American wilderness.

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Fran Lebowitz
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Author : Fran Lebowitz
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307744937

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In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, Fran Lebowitz is always wickedly entertaining.

Telling Tales

Elizabeth Langland
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Author : Elizabeth Langland
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 081420905X

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Publisher's description: Telling Tales offers new and original readings of novels by Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Margaret Oliphant, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It also presents new archival material on the lives and stories of working-class women in Victorian Britain. Finally, it sets forth innovative interpretations of the complex ways in which gender informs the abstract cultural narratives--like space, aesthetic value, and nationality--through which a populace comes to know and position itself. Focusing on the interrelations of form, gender, and culture in narratives of the Victorian period, Telling Tales explores the close interplay between gender as manifest in specific literary works and gender as manifest in Victorian culture. The latter does not reflect a shift away from form toward culture, but rather a steady concern of form-in-culture. Reading and analyzing Victorian novels provides an education for reading and interpreting the broader culture. The book's several chapters explore and pose answers to important questions about the impact of gender on narrative in Victorian culture: How do women writers respond to themes and narrative structures of precursor male writers? What are the very real differences that shape a newly emerging tradition of female authorship? How does gender enter into the determination of aesthetic value? How does gender enter into the national imaginary 3/4the idea of Englishness? In exploring these key concerns, Telling Tales establishes a broad terrain for future inquiries that take gender as an organizing term and principle for analysis of narratives in all periods.

The Book of Virtues

William J. Bennett
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Author : William J. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1917 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439126257

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Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.

Broad Is My Native Land

Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Leslie Page Moch
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Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Leslie Page Moch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801455131

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Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch tell the stories of Russians on the move, capturing the rich variety of their experiences by distinguishing among categories of migrants—settlers, seasonal workers, migrants to the city, career and military migrants, evacuees and refugees, deportees, and itinerants. So vast and diverse was Russian political space that in their journeys, migrants often crossed multiple cultural, linguistic, and administrative borders. By comparing the institutions and experiences of migration across the century and placing Russia in an international context, Siegelbaum and Moch have made a magisterial contribution to both the history of Russia and the study of global migration.The authors draw on three kinds of sources: letters to authorities (typically appeals for assistance); the myriad forms employed in communication about the provision of transportation, food, accommodation, and employment for migrants; and interviews with and memoirs by people who moved or were moved, often under the most harrowing of circumstances. Taken together, these sources reveal the complex relationship between the regimes of state control that sought to regulate internal movement and the tactical repertoires employed by the migrants themselves in their often successful attempts to manipulate, resist, and survive these official directives.

The Random House Book of Fairy Tales

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985-08-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780394856933

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A lush treasury of 19 fairy tales that generations of children have grown up on, lushly illustrated by Diane Goode.

A Fistful of Tales

Ayodele Arigbabu
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Author : Ayodele Arigbabu
Publisher : DADA books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Short stories, African (English)
ISBN : 9789780843748

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Short stories.

Ann Arbor Tales

Karl Edwin Harriman
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Author : Karl Edwin Harriman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752335590

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Reproduction of the original: Ann Arbor Tales by Karl Edwin Harriman

Unreliable Memoirs

Clive James
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Author : Clive James
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393336085

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Nearly 30 years ago, James wrote a refreshingly candid book that made no claims to be accurate, precise, or entirely truthful, only to entertain. Long unavailable in the U.S., "Unreliable Memoirs" is being made available to American readers.

Winter Tales

George Mackay Brown
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Author : George Mackay Brown
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848549425

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This collection celebrates winter and its festivals, light and darkness. It includes the tales of Lieutenant William Bligh at the port of Hamnavoe, an Edinburgh man rediscovering his roots in Shetland, Baltic-men shipwrecked on the Orkney coast, and Norse warriors setting out for the Holy Land. Through these stories George Mackay Brown explores the effects of new ways of thinking and working on the ancient patterns and traditions of Orkney life.