The Outside Of August

Author : Joanna Hershon
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307489265

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The Outside of August by Joanna Hershon Pdf

Critics and readers alike hailed Swimming, Joanna Hershon’s fiction debut. “Compelling,” said the Washington Post, while Vanity Fair called Swimming a “page-turning premiere.” Now Hershon brings us her anticipated second novel, in which she vividly explores the secrets of an American family. The Outside of August is a mesmerizing, beautifully written story that combs the emotional landscape of its characters with power and precision. For as long as Alice Green can remember, her elusive mother, Charlotte, has moved in and out of family life—disappearing relentlessly and often without explanation. Despite the exotic clutter of souvenirs that detail Charlotte’s international travels, the Green’s home becomes progressively hollow, as nothing but Charlotte can fill the empty spaces. With their mother’s tenuous presence, and their tender but distant father working long hours, Alice and her brother, August, react in different ways. While seeking constant affection from other women, August relies on an unspoken bond with Charlotte that allows him a certain freedom. But Alice feels no such security and grows increasingly unmoored, always in search of ways to keep her mother at home. When, years later, her unfettered brother becomes strangely remote, Alice journeys to find him in an isolated beach town. It is there that a deeply buried secret will have to unravel in order for Alice to come to terms with her fractured family and her place within it—and learn to let go of a mother she perhaps never really knew. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Joanna Hershon's A Dual Inheritance.

Author : Joanna Hershon
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345441834

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The Outside of August by Joanna Hershon Pdf

On the heels of her successful debut novel, "Swimming," Hershon brings us her highly-anticipated second novel, which explores the secrets of a fractured American family. It is a mesmerizing, beautifully written story that combs the emotional landscape of its characters with power and precision.

Author : August House
Publisher : August House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1941460410

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The August House Book of Scary Stories by August House Pdf

Selected especially for appeal to upper-elementary and middle-school students, each story in this collection has been crafted through multiple performances in school and library settings. All are sure to engage the most reluctant reader.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547114574

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Light in August by William Faulkner Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Light in August" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Anna Jean Mayhew
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758267924

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The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew Pdf

In the segregated South, a young girl’s life is changed forever: “A beautifully written literary novel [and] a real page-turner.” —Lee Smith, New York Times-bestselling author of Blue Marlin On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family’s black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there—cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father’s rages and her mother’s benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally. Bright and curious, Jubie takes note of the anti-integration signs they pass, and the racial tension that builds as they journey further south. But she could never have predicted the shocking turn their trip will take. Now, in the wake of tragedy, Jubie must confront her parents’ failings and limitations, decide where her own convictions lie, and make the tumultuous leap to independence . . . Infused with the intensity of a changing time, here is a story of hope, heartbreak, and the love and courage that can transform us—from child to adult, from wounded to indomitable. “Taut, thoughtful and complex.” —Publishers Weekly “A must-read for fans of The Help.” —Woman’s World “An ending so shocking and real it had me in tears.” —Eleanor Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of The Weird Sisters

Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780446565844

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The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons Pdf

Anne Rivers Siddons's New York Times bestselling novel about four friends whose lives are forever changed by the events of one summer. For fifteen years, four "girls of August" would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until tragedy interrupts their ritual. Now they reunite for a startling week of discoveries. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women uncover secrets that will change them in ways they never expected.

Author : Buzz Bissinger
Publisher : HMH
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780547526713

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3 Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger Pdf

This inside view with the Cardinals’ Tony La Russa by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Friday Night Lights “should appeal to any baseball fan” (Publishers Weekly). A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year “Plenty of books have taken us inside baseball, but August takes us directly inside players’ heads.” —Entertainment Weekly 3 Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseball’s quintessential form: the three-game series. As the St. Louis Cardinals battle their archrival, the Chicago Cubs, we watch from the dugout through the eyes of legendary Tony La Russa, considered by many to be the greatest manager of the modern era. In his thirty-three years of managing, La Russa won three World Series titles and was named Manager of the Year a record five times. He now stands as the third-winningest manager in the history of baseball. A great leader, La Russa built his success on the conviction that ball games are won not only by the numbers but also by the hearts and minds of those who play. Drawing on unprecedented access to a major league skipper and his team, Buzz Bissinger portrays baseball with a revelatory intimacy that offers many surprisingly tactical insights—and furthers the debate on major league managerial style and strategy in his provocative afterword. “Superb . . . Will be devoured by hard-core strategists.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Katie Tallo
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062948052

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Dark August by Katie Tallo Pdf

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.” — Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The Winters An electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death—and last case—than she ever could have imagined. Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother—her last living relative—has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. But that’s not all the trunk contains. She also discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these very same documents and photographs, especially a Polaroid of a young ballerina. When Gus spots a front-page news story about the unearthing of a body linked to one of the cold case files from her childhood trunk, she can’t resist following her mother’s clues. As she digs deeper, determined to finish her mother’s investigation, her search leads her to a deserted ghost town, which was left abandoned when the residents fled after a horrific fire. As Gus’ obsession with the case grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. But Gus is undeterred and is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map. But is Gus ready to learn the truths that culminated on one terrible August night, more than a decade earlier, when lives were taken, and secrets were presumed buried forever…? Dark August introduces a bold new voice and will leave readers guessing until the final startling conclusion.

Author : Sarah Owen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291514254

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The Complete guide to renting out your property (v2 August 2013) by Sarah Owen Pdf

Author : Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771070563

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August Into Winter by Guy Vanderhaeghe Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of the 2022 Glengarry Book Award The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of The Last Crossing, August Into Winter is an epic story of crime and retribution, of war and its long shadow, and of the redemptive possibilities of love. You carried the past into the future on your back, its knees and arms hugging you tighter with every step. It is 1939, with the world on the brink of global war, when Constable Hotchkiss confronts the spoiled, narcissistic man-child Ernie Sickert about a rash of disturbing pranks in their small prairie town. Outraged and cornered, Ernie commits an act of unspeakable violence, setting in motion a course of events that will change forever the lives of all in his wake. With Loretta Pipe—the scrappy twelve-year-old he idealizes as the love of his life—in tow, Ernie flees town. In close pursuit is Corporal Cooper, who enlists the aid of two brothers, veterans of World War One: Jack, a sensitive, spiritual man with a potential for brutal violence; and angry, impetuous Dill, still recovering from the premature death of his wife who, while on her deathbed, developed an inexplicable obsession with the then-teenaged Ernie Sickert. When a powerful storm floods the prairie roads, wreaking havoc, Ernie and Loretta take shelter in a one-room schoolhouse where they are discovered by the newly arrived teacher, Vidalia Taggart. Vidalia has her own haunted past, one that has driven her to this stark and isolated place with only the journals of her lover Dov, recently killed in the Spanish Civil War, for company. Dill, arriving at the schoolhouse on Ernie's trail, falls hard and fast for Vidalia—but questions whether he can compete with the impossible ideal of a dead man. Guy Vanderhaeghe, writing at the height of his celebrated powers, has crafted a tale of unrelenting suspense against a backdrop of great moral searching and depth. His is a canvas of lavish, indelible detail: of character, of landscape, of history—in all their searing beauty but all their ugliness, too. Vanderhaeghe does not shrink from the corruption, cruelty, and treachery that pervade the world. Yet even in his clear-eyed depiction of evil—a depiction that frequently and delightfully turns darkly comic—he will not deny the possibility of love, of light. With August Into Winter, Guy Vanderhaeghe has given us a masterfully told, masterfully timed story for our own troubled hearts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : StudyMEDIC Academy
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The August 2023 edition of StudyMEDIC Magazine - Future to Medicine is out now! by Anonim Pdf

The special features of August 2023 issue include the inspiring journey of Dr. Shweta Shendey, Asst. Course Director, StudyFRCR,a prominent clinical radiologist Get your FREE Copy @- https://studymedic.com/studymedic-magazine-future-to-medicine-august-2023/ Share this enriching resource with your peers and subscribe FREE for future updates! StudyMEDIC Magazine - Future to Medicine Visit - https://studymedic.com

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Ionizing radiation
ISBN : UOM:39015095054196

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Papers Prepared for Radiation Effects Review Meeting, Congress Hotel, July 31-August 1, 1956 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laura Nowlin
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402277849

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If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin Pdf

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Author : Jennifer Doktorski
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492657163

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August and Everything After by Jennifer Doktorski Pdf

One last summer to escape, to find herself, to figure out what comes next. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han will love this contemporary, coming-of-age romance. Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is she supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four years, let alone the rest of her life? And why does no one understand that it's hard for her to think about the future—or feel as if she even deserves one—when her best friend is dead? Spending the summer with her aunt on the Jersey shore may just be the fresh start Quinn so desperately needs. And when she meets Malcolm, a musician with his own haunted past, she starts to believe in second chances. Can Quinn find love while finding herself?

Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Germans
ISBN : UIUC:30112004325020

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pt. 1 At Los Angeles, Calif., August 7, 1934. Hearings No. 73-Calif.-2. 25 p. pt. 2 At New York, N.Y., July 9 to 12, 1934. Hearings, No. 73-NY-7. 259 p. pt. 3 At New York City, N.Y., November 30, 1934, December 5, 1934. Hearings, No. 73-N.Y.-18. 43 p by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf