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The Big Door Prize

M. O. Walsh
The Big Door Prize Book PDF

Author : M. O. Walsh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735218499

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DON'T MISS THE SERIES STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ STARTING MARCH 29th! The New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town, asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be. What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the question facing the residents of Deerfield, Louisiana, when the DNAMIX machine appears in their local grocery store. It's nothing to look at, really—it resembles a plain photo booth. But its promise is amazing: With just a quick swab of your cheek and two dollars, the device claims to use the science of DNA to tell you your life's potential. With enough credibility to make the townspeople curious, soon the former teachers, nurses, and shopkeepers of Deerfield are abruptly changing course to pursue their destinies as magicians, cowboys, and athletes—including the novel's main characters, Douglas Hubbard and his wife, Cherilyn, who both believed they were perfectly happy until they realized they could dream for more.... Written with linguistic grace and a sense of wonder, The Big Door Prize sparkles with keen observations about what it might mean to stay true to oneself while honoring the bonds of marriage, friendship, and community, and how the glimmer of possibility can pull these bonds apart, bring them back together, and make second chances possible, even under the strangest of circumstances.

My Sunshine Away

M. O. Walsh
My Sunshine Away Book PDF

Author : M. O. Walsh
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425278109

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My Sunshine Away by M. O. Walsh Pdf

Includes "Discussion guide" and "A conversation between Matthew Thomas and M.O. Walsh" (pages 309-322).

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told You Book PDF

Author : Celeste Ng
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101634615

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The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies

Michael Ausiello
Spoiler Alert The Hero Dies Book PDF

Author : Michael Ausiello
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501134968

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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello Pdf

Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that preceded it, and describes how their undeniably powerful bond carried them through all manner of difficulties, with humor always front and center of the relationship.

Life On The Refrigerator Door

Alice Kuipers
Life On The Refrigerator Door Book PDF

Author : Alice Kuipers
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443403603

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Life On The Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers Pdf

Life on the Refrigerator Door is a poignant and deeply moving first novel about the bonds of love and frustration that tie mothers and daughters together. Told entirely in a series of notes left on the kitchen fridge—some casual, some intimate, some funny, some angry—it is the story of nine months in the life of 15-year-old Claire and her single mother. Preoccupied with their busy separate lives, rarely in the same room at the same time, they talk to each other in a series of short snippets that reflect the daily drama of school, boyfriends, work and chores that make up their days. Yet the mundane soon becomes extraordinary when a crisis overtakes their lives—a momentous change that will redefine their relationship and unfold in their exchanges on the refrigerator door. Short, powerful and unforgettable, Kuipers’ novel looks deep into the complex relationship between mothers and daughters, and the distances that can open up between people who live together but exist in their own worlds. Unfolding in a wonderfully simple and intimate narrative, Life on the Refrigerator Door will appeal to readers across the generations, delivering universal lessons about love.

Why I Write

George Orwell
Why I Write Book PDF

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Endangered

C. J. Box
Endangered Book PDF

Author : C. J. Box
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698184435

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Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ In this New York Times bestseller, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is determined to find out who put his daughter’s life in danger—even if it kills him. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, and now he has even more—Joe’s eighteen-year-old daughter, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: She has been found in a ditch along the highway—alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. Cates denies having anything to do with it, but Joe knows in his gut who’s responsible. What he doesn’t know is the kind of danger he’s about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates’s family is like none Joe has ever met.

Big Lonely Doug

Harley Rustad
Big Lonely Doug Book PDF

Author : Harley Rustad
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487003128

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Finalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist, BC Book Prize Globe and Mail best books of 2018 CBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018 In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada. On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words “Leave Tree.” The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the region’s dwindling old-growth forests. Originally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coast’s big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.

The Little Black Book of Scams

Industry Canada,Competition Bureau Canada
The Little Black Book of Scams Book PDF

Author : Industry Canada,Competition Bureau Canada
Publisher : Competition Bureau Canada
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781100232409

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The Little Black Book of Scams by Industry Canada,Competition Bureau Canada Pdf

The Canadian edition of The Little Black Book of Scams is a compact and easy to use reference guide filled with information Canadians can use to protect themselves against a variety of common scams. It debunks common myths about scams, provides contact information for reporting a scam to the correct authority, and offers a step-by-step guide for scam victims to reduce their losses and avoid becoming repeat victims. Consumers and businesses can consult The Little Black Book of Scams to avoid falling victim to social media and mobile phone scams, fake charities and lotteries, dating and romance scams, and many other schemes used to defraud Canadians of their money and personal information.

The Door

Magda Szabo
The Door Book PDF

Author : Magda Szabo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590178010

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One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda’s housekeeper and she has taken control over Magda’s household, becoming indispensable to her. And Emerence, in her way, has come to depend on Magda. They share a kind of love—at least until Magda’s long-sought success as a writer leads to a devastating revelation. Len Rix’s prizewinning translation of The Door at last makes it possible for American readers to appreciate the masterwork of a major modern European writer.

Annabel

Kathleen Winter
Annabel Book PDF

Author : Kathleen Winter
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887842764

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Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as "Annabel" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life. Haunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Annabel is a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.

The Big Box

Toni Morrison,Slade Morrison
The Big Box Book PDF

Author : Toni Morrison,Slade Morrison
Publisher : Jump At The Sun
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0786812915

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The Big Box by Toni Morrison,Slade Morrison Pdf

In her first illustrated book for children, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Toni Morrison introduces three feisty children who show grown-ups what it really means to be a kid.

Oscar Lives Next Door

Bonnie Farmer
Oscar Lives Next Door Book PDF

Author : Bonnie Farmer
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 177147596X

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Oscar Lives Next Door by Bonnie Farmer Pdf

A fictional glimpse into famous jazz musician Oscar Peterson's youth Long before Oscar Peterson became a virtuoso jazz pianist, he was a boy who loved to play the trumpet. When childhood tuberculosis weakened his lungs, Oscar could no longer play his beloved instrument. He took up piano and the rest is history: Oscar went on to become an international jazz piano sensation. Oscar Lives Next Door, now available in paperback, is a fictional story inspired by these facts. The book imagines a next-door neighbor for Oscar named Millie, who gets into mischief with him but also appreciates his talents: Oscar hears music in everything, and Millie calls him a magician for the way he can coax melodies from his trumpet. Millie writes to Oscar during his long stay in the hospital for tuberculosis, and she encourages his earliest notes on the piano. Set in Oscar's true childhood neighborhood of St-Henri--now known as Little Burgundy--the book provides a wonderful sense of this 1930s neighborhood where much of Montreal's Black working class population lived. Detailed digital illustrations make the community's culture and music almost tangible. The book concludes with a page of informational text about the author's own connection to Little Burgundy and a short biography of the jazz legend.

The Prospect of Magic

Milton O'Neal Walsh
The Prospect of Magic Book PDF

Author : Milton O'Neal Walsh
Publisher : Livingston Press (AL)
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000166988596

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The Prospect of Magic by Milton O'Neal Walsh Pdf

While making a stop in Fluker, Louisiana, the owner of The World Famous Ploofop Travelling Carnival dies, leaving his carnies stranded. Tired of years on the road, living in trailers and performing, they decide to make a home in Fluker, a friendly little place that is initially mesmerized by their bright colors, exotic animals, and surprising abnormalities. But this relationship strains. Here are the stories of Fluker: The Bearded Lady who interprets her ringmaster's death to foretell a new life awaiting her, one where she is beardless and clean. The local boy who falls in love with an acrobatic bat girl, much to the chagrin of her winged brothers. The son of a lion tamer who, years later, is still haunted by his father's inability to separate real life from life in the ring. The kid who gets a giant cat in the mail. All in all, we know one thing: love is like magic and magic like love. It's mysterious. It's powerful. It's elusive. It's a thing we only know when we see it.

Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck
Good Earth Book PDF

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 0743268725

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Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.