The New Life

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466805040

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A New Life by Bernard Malamud Pdf

"An overlooked masterpiece. It may still be undervalued as Malamud's funniest and most embracing novel." --Jonathan Lethem In A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention. When Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves the city for the Pacific Northwest to start over, it's no surprise that he conjures a vision of the extraordinary new life awaiting him there: "He imagined the pioneers in covered wagons entering this valley for the first time. Although he had lived little in nature Levin had always loved it, and the sense of having done the right thing in leaving New York was renewed in him." Soon after his arrival at Cascadia College, however, Levin realizes he has been taken in by a mirage. The failures pile up anew, and Levin, fired from his post, finds himself back where he started and little the wiser for it. A New Life--as Jonathan Lethem's introduction makes clear--is Malamud at his best: with his belief in luck and new beginnings Sy Levin embodies the thwarted yearning for transcendence that is at the heart of all Malamud's work.

Author : Anna Goldsworthy
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781922231468

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Welcome to Your New Life by Anna Goldsworthy Pdf

When classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy falls pregnant with her first child, she is both excited and anxious about what lies ahead. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years without meat? Will her birth plan involve Enya or hypnosis, or neither? And just how worried should she be about her baby falling into a composting toilet? This delightful memoir reveals the love that binds families together. Welcome to Your New Life captures the shock of leaving behind the life that you know and the thrill of starting the great adventure that is parenthood. ‘This book does what great literature should: it tries to get a grip on life – the making of it, the living-and-loving it, the leaving it. Goldsworthy’s writing is so beautiful, so laser- acute and funny and moving that you feel you are living more vividly. Welcome to Your New Life seems essential to me now. I laughed and I cried and I absolutely loved it.’ —Anna Funder ‘Warm, funny and candid.’ —Books+Publishing ‘A keen-eyed, funny, tender, wonderful book.’ —Chloe Hooper ‘ ... there are few books that have made me howl with laughter as this one has ... she has an exquisite ability to recast the banal into another sphere ... a deliciously subversive read.’ —Melbourne Review

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Devotional literature, Italian
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010454353

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The New Life by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Billy Joe Daugherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1577947711

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This New Life by Billy Joe Daugherty Pdf

How does someone enter the kingdom of God? What does it mean to be "saved.? How can you receive a new heart and a new life? In This New Life, one of the most successful pastors and Bible teachers in America, Billy Joe Daugherty, will help you discover the simple steps to salvation in Jesus Christ and how to begin to live in victory, including?How you can be born of the Spirit; Develop faith that makes you whole and complete; How you can be free from guilt and shame; Receive the promises of healing for your body and soul; Receive the power of the Holy Spirit to help you grow spiritually; and more. Daugherty closes this foundational book with the simple challenge for new believers to pray and read their Bible every day; attend Church regularly; fellowship with other Christians; and share their faith with others.

Author : Rukhsana Khan
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780888999306

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A New Life by Rukhsana Khan Pdf

Eight-year-old Khadija, her older brother, Hamza, and their parents have just arrived in Canada from Pakistan. In their classrooms on the first day of school Khadija and Hamza are confronted by a sea of unfamiliar faces. Everyone looks so different from the way they did back home.At first Khadija and Hamza feel left out at recess, and they both become the targets of school bullies. It's really hard to have to speak English all day long. And Khadija just can't figure out how to get enough water out of the drinking fountain. Hamza, in particular, misses everything about Pakistan — his friends, his school and his grandmother. But gradually, Khadija and Hamza find new friends and begin to feel more at home.

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172707

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192640932

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Dante's New Life of the Book by Martin Eisner Pdf

Dante's Vita nuova has taken on a wide variety of different forms since its first publication in 1294. How could one work have generated such different physical forms? Through examining the work's transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations, Eisner reconceives of the relationship between the work and its reception. Dante's New Life of the Book investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements. Dante framed his book as an attempt to understand his own experiences through the experimental form of the book, and later scribes, editors, and translators use different material forms to embody their interpretations of Dante's collection of thirty-one poems surrounded by prose narrative and commentary. Traveling from Boccaccio's Florence to contemporary Hollywood with stops in Emerson's Cambridge, Rossetti's London, Nerval's Paris, Mandelstam's Russia, De Campos's Brazil, and Pamuk's Istanbul, this study builds on extensive archival research to show how Dante's strange poetic forms, including incomplete canzoni and sonnets with two beginnings, continue to challenge readers. Each chapter focuses on how one of these distinctive features has been treated over time, offering new perspectives on topics such as Dante's love of Beatrice, his relationship with Guido Cavalcanti, and his attraction to another woman. Numerous illustrations show the entanglement of the work's poetic form and its material survival. Eisner provides a fresh reading of Dante's innovations, demonstrating the value of this philological analysis of the work's survival in the world.

Author : David J Antocci
Publisher : David J Antocci
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ESCAPE, A New Life by David J Antocci Pdf

To save herself, she had to lose everything. Trapped in a tropical paradise with no memory of how she got there, Abby is thrust into a fight for her life. Hunted by a madman, and chased by unsettling dreams of her past, she meets up with Eric. Together they set out to escape. Yet, they discover this deceptive paradise is harder to leave than they ever imagined. Can they escape their hunter, or are they only pawns in his game of life or death? One mystery leads to another until their escape throws them into even greater danger as Abby’s frightening past finally catches up with her. Her escape is only the beginning. If you like an edge of your seat thriller with twists and turns you’ll never see coming, you’ll love David Antocci’s ESCAPE trilogy. Grab the series starter today! What Reviewers are saying: ★★★★★ ‘The ending left me with my eyes and mouth wide open.’ ★★★★★ ‘The only problem with Antocci's books is that you can't put them down!’ ★★★★★ ‘Seldom has a storyline been so intriguing it leaves one speechless.’ ★★★★★ ‘This was one of the best reads of the summer. The author was exceptional in bringing his characters to life.’ ★★★★★ ‘David Antocci is a masterful storyteller!’ ★★★★★ ‘Can't wait to tell my friends about this book. It is a must read. Great Author.’ ★★★★★ ‘This is a fast and furious tale that immerses the reader immediately into the story and doesn't let go even after the final page!’ ★★★★★ ‘From cover to cover it is full of action, mystery, and intrigue while including some romance.’ ★★★★★ ‘Here is a book by an author who has the remarkable ability to set a pace and to maintain it. This was a very engaging read.’

Author : Louis Begley
Publisher : Nan A. Talese
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385545679

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The New Life of Hugo Gardner by Louis Begley Pdf

Beloved author Louis Begley returns to the monied halls of the Upper East Side with a sharp new comedy of manners. Divorced after decades of comfortable marriage, retired journalist Hugo Gardner sets out to explore paths not travelled. After four decades of what he believes to be a happy, healthy partnership, Hugo Gardner's world is overturned when he learns that his wife, Valerie, is not only requesting a divorce but has left him for a younger, more vital man. Hugo, an octogenarian political writer and retired journalist for Time, must rethink the way he's lived, and reassess how he'd like to spend his remaining years. Reconsidering past relationships in his mind, with years of distance, Hugo begins to see things in a new light: Valerie, whose youth and ambition eventually came between them; his children, whose support might be more financially than emotionally motivated; and his friends, who, like him are rapidly aging before his very eyes. With an ominous oncologist's report hanging over his head, Hugo decides to get away for a bit, to a conference in Paris. There, a new romance blooms and Hugo finds himself wondering if growing old in Paris might be the perfect antidote to the drama he left behind in New York. Unflinching, witty, and urbane as ever, Louis Begley delivers a spot-on satire of the world of New York's aging elite, and uncovers the unexpected delights a late-in-life change can offer.

Author : Sonja Cherry-Paul,Dana Johansen
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 0325076855

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Breathing New Life Into Book Clubs by Sonja Cherry-Paul,Dana Johansen Pdf

Foreword / Cornelius Minor Gratitude -- Creating a culture of reading through book clubs -- Organizing and setting up book clubs -- Launching and managing book clubs -- Lighting the fire of discussion -- Resources at a glance -- Living with books all year long.

Author : Oliver Burkeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780735232471

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Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is the most important book ever written about time management.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts? Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Author : Reynolds Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780684872551

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A Whole New Life by Reynolds Price Pdf

Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In "A Whole New Life," however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us with a more personal story, a narrative as intimate and compelling as any work of the imagination. In 1984, a large cancer was discovered in his spinal cord ("The tumor was pencil-thick and gray-colored, ten inches long from my neck-hair downward"). Here, for the first time, Price recounts without self-pity what became a long struggle to withstand and recover from this appalling, if all too common, affliction (one American in three will experience some from of cancer). He charts the first puzzling symptoms; the urgent surgery that fails to remove the growth and the radiation that temporarily arrests it (but hurries his loss of control of his lower body); the occasionally comic trials of rehab; the steady rise of severe pain and reliance on drugs; two further radical surgeries; the sustaining force of a certain religious vision; an eventual discovery of help from biofeedback and hypnosis; and the miraculous return of his powers as a writer in a new, active life. Beyond the particulars of pain and mortal illness, larger concerns surface here -- a determination to get on with the human interaction that is so much a part of this writer's much-loved work, the gratitude he feels toward kin and friends and some (though by no means "all)" doctors, the return to his prolific work, and the "now appalling, now astonishing grace of God." "A Whole New Life" offers more than the portrait of one brave person in tribulation; it offers honestinsight, realistic encouragement and inspiration to others who suffer the bafflement of catastrophic illness or who know someone who does or will.

Author : Dave Williams
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629989396

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Hope in the Last Days by Dave Williams Pdf

Understand how ancient biblical prophecies are coming to pass in our day, how coming prophetic events will impact you, and how there is hope for all followers of Christ. Today there is a tremendous interest in Bible prophecy, particularly because end-time events prophesied long ago are coming to pass in an extraordinary manner. Hope in the Last Days reveals, based on prophecy fulfilled and yet to be fulfilled, that very shortly the world will reel into its deepest hour of torment and agony. Dave Williams encourages you with the truth of how coming events will affect you and your loved ones and what God has planned as a way of escape for followers of Jesus Christ.

Author : Lisa Occhipinti
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781683355991

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The Repurposed Library by Lisa Occhipinti Pdf

“How-to instructions on crafting with books . . . will inspire you to think about creative ways to make new treasures out of old things” (The Virginian-Pilot). We all love to read and learn from books, but The Repurposed Library takes our passion even further, presenting us with thirty-three projects to make—quite literally—out of books. For these projects, Lisa Occhipinti rescues and repurposes orphaned and outdated books from flea markets and library sales and turns them into new art objects and practical items for the home. Her creations range from artfully constructed mobiles, wreaths, and vases, to functional items like shelves, storage boxes, and even a Kindle “keeper” for those who want to replicate the sensation of holding a “real” book while reading from an e-reader. Projects utilize every imaginable part of a book—from hardback cover to individual pages—and are a DIY celebration of a new way to view a book’s potential. “Occhipinti’s ‘repurposed’ books are truly beautiful art objects, and whether or not you’re crafty enough to give them a try yourself, her book is thoroughly enjoyable.” —Fine Books and Collections “She shows readers how to transform books into mobiles, lamp shades, even clocks.” —National Post

Author : Orhan Pamuk
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571268375

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The New Life by Orhan Pamuk Pdf

'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. On his remarkable journey, he falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless bus trips through the provinces, in pursuit of an elusive vision. This is a wondrous odyssey, laying bare the rage of an arid heartland, from the bestselling author of My Name is Red and Snow. In coffee houses with black-and-white TV sets, on buses where passengers ride watching B-movies on flickering screens, in wrecks along the highway, in paranoid fictions with spies as punctual as watches, the magic of Pamuk's creation comes alive. From a writer compared to Kafka, Nabakov, Calvino and García Márquez, The New Life documents the spiritual journey of a young student, who leaves his family behind in the name of love, life and literature.