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The Beguiling

Zsuzsi Gartner
The Beguiling Book PDF

Author : Zsuzsi Gartner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735239371

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The Beguiling by Zsuzsi Gartner Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK The perfect next read for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and George Saunders, an electrifying debut about a woman who is transformed into a real life “flesh-and-blood Wailing Wall” as strangers unburden their sins to her at every turn. Lucy is a lapsed Catholic whose adolescent pretensions to sainthood are unexpectedly revived following the disturbing deathbed confession of her cousin Zoltán. Afterwards, Lucy becomes a magnet for the unshriven, and she’s transformed into a self-described “flesh-and-blood Wailing Wall” as strangers unburden themselves to her. Lucy finds herself addicted to these dark stories, craving hit after hit. As the confessions pile up, Lucy begins to wonder if Zoltán’s death was as random and unscripted as it appeared. She clutches at alarming synchronicities and seeks meaning from the strangers’ stories, wondering why they seem connected to each other and eerily echo elements of her own life. With ruthless wit and dizzying energy, The Beguiling explores blessings and curses, sainthood and sin, mortality and guilt in all its guises. Weaving together tales of errant mothers, vengeful plants, canine wisdom, and murder, this electrifying debut novel lays bare the sacrifices some are willing to make to get what they think they desire.

Berlin

Jason Lutes
Berlin Book PDF

Author : Jason Lutes
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770463820

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Berlin by Jason Lutes Pdf

Twenty years in the making, this sweeping masterpiece charts Berlin through the rise of Nazism. During the past two decades, Jason Lutes has quietly created one of the masterworks of the graphic novel golden age. Berlin is one of the high-water marks of the medium: rich in its well-researched historical detail, compassionate in its character studies, and as timely as ever in its depiction of a society slowly awakening to the stranglehold of fascism. Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens—Marthe Müller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters’ lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself is the central protagonist in this historical fiction. Lavish salons, crumbling sidewalks, dusty attics, and train stations: all these places come alive in Lutes’ masterful hand. Weimar Berlin was the world’s metropolis, where intellectualism, creativity, and sensuous liberal values thrived, and Lutes maps its tragic, inevitable decline. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully told, Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium.

Beguiling the Beauty

Sherry Thomas
Beguiling the Beauty Book PDF

Author : Sherry Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101585054

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When the Duke of Lexington meets the mysterious Baroness von Seidlitz-Hardenberg on a transatlantic liner, he is fascinated. She’s exactly what he’s been searching for—a beautiful woman who interests and entices him. He falls hard and fast—and soon proposes marriage. And then she disappears without a trace… For in reality, the “baroness” is Venetia Easterbrook—a proper young widow who had her own vengeful reasons for instigating an affair with the duke. But the plan has backfired. Venetia has fallen in love with the man she despised—and there’s no telling what might happen when she is finally unmasked…

Sea Monsters

Joseph Nigg
Sea Monsters Book PDF

Author : Joseph Nigg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226925189

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The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired

Shadow Life

Hiromi Goto
Shadow Life Book PDF

Author : Hiromi Goto
Publisher : First Second
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781250831347

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Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in the tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu. When Kumiko’s well-meaning adult daughters place her in an assisted living home, the seventy-six-year-old widow gives it a try, but it’s not where she wants to be. She goes on the lam and finds a cozy bachelor apartment, keeping the location secret even while communicating online with her eldest daughter. Kumiko revels in the small, daily pleasures: decorating as she pleases, eating what she wants, and swimming in the community pool. But something has followed her from her former residence—Death’s shadow. Kumiko’s sweet life is shattered when Death’s shadow swoops in to collect her. With her quick mind and sense of humor, Kumiko, with the help of friends new and old, is prepared for the fight of her life. But how long can an old woman thwart fate?

Godhead

Ho Che Anderson
Godhead Book PDF

Author : Ho Che Anderson
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683960805

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Godhead by Ho Che Anderson Pdf

A corporation invents a device that can talk to God in this graphic novel thriller. Godhead ricochets from the streets of a working-class African American community to the glimmering halls of corporate America to a mobile scientific laboratory located in the Pacific Ocean. A sprawling contemporary saga with a science-fiction edge, Godhead explores a collision course between science and religion when a corporation creates a device that can talk to God. Is this humanity’s salvation or the equivalent of a Doomsday machine? Godhead is Ho Che Anderson’s most conceptually and thematically ambitious graphic novel to date, his first in over ten years. Visually, he employs a variety of drawing techniques from tonal images to stark black-and-white to full color painting in order to convey a thriller that ranges from intimate domestic drama to globalist corporate intrigue.

Slow Professor

Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber
Slow Professor Book PDF

Author : Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442645561

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Slow Professor by Maggie Berg,Barbara Seeber Pdf

In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter the erosion of humanistic education.

Frostbike

Tom Babin
Frostbike Book PDF

Author : Tom Babin
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771600484

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Frostbike by Tom Babin Pdf

The bicycle is fast becoming a ubiquitous form of transportation in cities all over the world, making our urban spaces more efficient, more livable and healthier. But many of those bicycles disappear into basements and garages when the warm months end, parked there by owners fearful of the cold, snow and ice that winter brings. But does it have to be that way? Canadian writer and journalist Tom Babin started questioning this dogma after being stuck in winter commuter traffic one dreary and cold December morning and dreaming about the happiness that bicycle commuting had brought him all summer long. So he did something about it. He pulled on some thermal underwear, dragged his bike down from the rafters of his garage and set out on a mission to answer a simple but beguiling question: is it possible to happily ride a bike in winter? That question took him places he never expected. Over years of trial and error, research and more than his share of snow and ice, he discovered an unknown history of biking for snow and ice, and a new generation designed to make riding in winter safe and fun. He unearthed the world's most bike-friendly winter city and some new approaches to winter cycling from places all over the world. He also looked inward, to discover how the modern world shapes our attitudes toward winter. And perhaps most importantly, he discovered the unique kind of bliss that can only come by pedalling through softly falling snow on a quiet winter night.

Tim and Eric's Zone Theory

Tim Heidecker,Eric Wareheim
Tim and Eric s Zone Theory Book PDF

Author : Tim Heidecker,Eric Wareheim
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781455545445

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Tim and Eric's Zone Theory by Tim Heidecker,Eric Wareheim Pdf

From Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, two of the 21st century's most vital and creative minds, comes a brand new, inspirational, and game-changing life system that promises to instantly provide wellness, happiness, and total, absolute fulfillment.

Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?

Liz Prince
Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed Book PDF

Author : Liz Prince
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781603092326

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Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed? by Liz Prince Pdf

Winner of the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut. "Beautifully simple and sweet, Liz prince portrays couples in a delightfully self-conscious way."-- Farel Dalrymple "An adorable little collection of snippets and snapshots of moments from their relationship ... the silly, gross and snuggly moments that Liz and Kevin share. A wondrous present to someone you hold dear."-- Neil Figuracion, Broken Frontier What started out as an exercise in keeping a personal comics journal, quickly evolved into Liz Prince's first solo graphic novel. Described as a mix between Jeffrey Brown and James Kochalka, Liz's comics are comprised of short vignettes that capture all the cute, gross, and endearing aspects of relationships. It's the perfect book for all those fans of autobiographical comics who want to see a happy ending.

Fictional Father

Joe Ollmann
Fictional Father Book PDF

Author : Joe Ollmann
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770465428

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Fictional Father by Joe Ollmann Pdf

A recovering alcoholic lives in the shadow of a world famous comic strip and its tyrannical creator Caleb is a middle-aged painter with a non-starter career and a checkered past. He also happens to be the only child of one of the world’s most famous cartoonists, Jimmi Wyatt. Known for the internationally beloved father and son comic Sonny Side Up, Jimmi made millions drawing saccharine family stories while neglecting his own son. Now sober, Caleb is haunted by his wasted past and struggling to take responsibility for his present before it’s too late. His always patient boyfriend, James, is reaching the end of his rope. When Caleb gets the chance to step out from his father’s shadow and shape the most public aspect of the family business, he makes every bad decision and watches his life fall apart. Is it too late to repair the harm? Are we forever doomed to make the same mistakes our parents did?

The Beguiling of Merlin

Tiffany Reisz
The Beguiling of Merlin Book PDF

Author : Tiffany Reisz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949769178

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The Beguiling of Merlin by Tiffany Reisz Pdf

A standalone erotic short story from Tiffany Reisz that ties into the first Godwicks novel, The Red. First published in Best Bondage Erotica of the Year, Vol. 1.

The Grotlyn

Benji Davies
The Grotlyn Book PDF

Author : Benji Davies
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780008212742

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The Grotlyn by Benji Davies Pdf

A stunningly illustrated picture book full of mystery and suspense, from the bestselling author of THE STORM WHALE and GRANDAD’S ISLAND.

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means New Directions Classic Book PDF

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221047

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The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic) by Muriel Spark Pdf

"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."

Actress

Anne Enright
Actress Book PDF

Author : Anne Enright
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771005923

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Actress by Anne Enright Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest--a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine's past, or the world's damage. As Norah uncovers her mother's secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime. Actress is about a daughter's search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad. Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.