The Shoe On The Roof

Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501173554

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The Shoe on the Roof by Will Ferguson Pdf

Imagine...meeting someone with the same name, the same history, the same family, the same identity as you. Now, imagine meeting another person making the same exact claim. What would that do to you? From the Giller Prize–winning novelist of 419 comes the startling, funny, and heartbreaking story of a psychological experiment gone wrong. Ever since his girlfriend ended their relationship, Thomas Rosanoff’s life has been on a downward spiral. A gifted med student, he has spent his entire adulthood struggling to escape the legacy of his father, an esteemed psychiatrist who used him as a test subject when he was a boy. Thomas lived his entire young life as the “Boy in the Box,” watched by researchers behind two-way glass. But now the tables have turned. Thomas is the researcher, and his subjects are three homeless men, all of whom claim to be messiahs—but no three people can be the one and only saviour of the world. Thomas is determined to “cure” the three men of their delusions, and in so doing save his career—and maybe even his love life. But when Thomas’s father intervenes in the experiment, events spin out of control, and Thomas must confront the voices he hears in the labyrinth of his own mind. The Shoe on the Roof is an explosively imaginative tour de force, a novel that questions our definitions of sanity and madness, while exploring the magical reality that lies just beyond the world of scientific fact.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0811214354

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Stairs to the Roof by Tennessee Williams Pdf

A play produced only twice in the 1940s and now published for the first time reveals that Tennessee Williams anticipated the themes of Star Trek by decades.

Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982139704

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The Finder by Will Ferguson Pdf

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novelist of 419 comes a spellbinding literary adventure novel about precious objects lost and found. The world is filled with wonders, lost objects—all real—all still out there, waiting to be found: · the missing Fabergé eggs of the Romanov dynasty, worth millions · the last reel of Alfred Hitchcock’s first film · Buddy Holly’s iconic glasses · Muhammad Ali’s Olympic gold medal How can such cherished objects simply vanish? Where are they hiding? And who on earth might be compelled to uncover them? Will Ferguson takes readers on a heroic, imaginative journey across continents, from the seas of southern Japan, to the arid Australian Outback, to the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, after the earthquake. Prepare to meet Gaddy Rhodes, a brittle Interpol agent obsessed with tracking “The Finder”—a shadowy figure she believes is collecting lost objects; Thomas Rafferty, a burnt-out travel writer whose path crosses that of The Finder, to devastating effect; and Tamsin Greene, a swaggering war photographer who is hiding secrets of her own. The Finder is a beguiling and wildly original tale about the people, places, and things that are lost and found in our world. Both an epic literary adventure and an escape into a darkly thrilling world of deceit and its rewards, this novel asks: How far would you be willing to go to recover the things you’ve left behind?

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89052951720

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812985467

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Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels by Fannie Flagg Pdf

Fannie Flagg has enchanted readers with her warm, wonderful, and witty books for nearly forty years. Now this delightful eBook bundle showcases three of her classic novels—full of heart and smart and refreshing as sweet tea on a hot summer day. FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE “It’s very good, in fact, just wonderful.”—Los Angeles Times Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale Mrs. Threadgoode tells is also of two women—of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present—for Evelyn and for us—will never be quite the same again. . . . CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN “Funny and utterly charming.”—The Miami Herald It’s the strangest thing. One minute Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs in Elmwood, Missouri, and the next thing she knows she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back in Elmwood Springs, Elner’s high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold cloth on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch; and the entire town is thrown for a loop. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful. I STILL DREAM ABOUT YOU “Undoubtedly [Flagg’s] wisest book, comic and compassionate.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up living a life so different from the one she dreamed of as a child. But just when things seem completely hopeless, and the secrets of Maggie’s past drive her to a radical plan to solve it all, Maggie discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems, has at least one little secret. Praise for Fannie Flagg “A born storyteller.”—The New York Times Book Review “What [Flagg] writes about, time and again, are the touching, terrifying, heartbreaking, hysterical, extraordinary, everyday things that make us human.”—Southern Living “Courageous and wise.”—Houston Chronicle, on Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “A thoroughly entertaining comic novel.”—Newsday, on Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “The characters are endearing, the story is engaging. . . . A comforting and sometimes thought-provoking read.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, on Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven “A fun and rollicking Nancy Drew mystery for grown-ups.”—The Birmingham News, on I Still Dream About You

Author : Noel Streatfeild
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780679847595

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Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild Pdf

Three orphan girls. A pair of pink slippers. A lifetime in the spotlight. Read the classic that has captivated generations! Pauline, Petrova, and Posy love their quiet life together. They are orphans who have been raised as sisters, and when their new family needs money, the girls want to help. They decide to join the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training to earn their keep. Each girl works hard following her dream. Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. And Petrova? She finds she'd rather be a pilot than perform a pirouette. This beautiful children's classic is perfect for girls who love to dream about ballet, friendship, and finding their own special talents. Adult readers may remember them as the "Shoes" books from You've Got Mail!

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0878056688

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The Shoe Bird by Eudora Welty Pdf

Amusing events occur when Arturo, the parrot who works in a shoe store, fits the other birds with new shoes.

Author : Shimon Ballas
Publisher : Sabra Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015013280501

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The Shoes of Tanboury by Shimon Ballas Pdf

Tanboury finally saves enough money to buy new shoes but no matter what he does he can't get rid of his old ones.

Author : United States. Weather Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B609134

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Circular N. Aerological Division by United States. Weather Bureau Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1808 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Copyright
ISBN : WISC:89081493579

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The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Science
ISBN : OSU:32435022760375

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Scientific American by Anonim Pdf

Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822201895

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Pdf

THE STORY: In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desper

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101666593

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Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott Pdf

The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe—nothing more than a gumball trinket—left behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talisman—a chance to recognize the past for what it was, to see the future as she always hoped it could be, and to finally understand her family, herself, and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad, and sometimes surprising life.

Author : Peter M. Molloy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015003720649

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The Lower Merrimack River Valley by Peter M. Molloy Pdf

Author : Linda Richard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781411612723

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Upon Further Reflection... by Linda Richard Pdf

The 2nd in a series of books which makes the connection between daily life and Christian Faith. Short anecdotes and reflections examine the myriad events of day-to-day living through the lens of Christian Faith. Thought provoking, sometimes humorous reflections provide excellent fodder for the task of crafting sermons which proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ: the same yesterday, today, and forever!