The Summer Nights Never End Until They Do

Author : Robert James Waller
Publisher : Traders Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781934354254

Get Book

The Summer Nights Never End... Until They Do by Robert James Waller Pdf

You may know Robert James Waller as the man who brought the world to Iowa's storied covered bridges. What you may not realize is that before and since becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist, Waller has grappled with a very real puzzle: How can an individual, a group, and/or a society cut through the confusion of everyday life to successfully navigate its pitfalls and traps? Through intense reflection, shrewd reasoning, and not a little trial and error, the reclusive author has developed a unique and inventive paradigm for thinking clearly and logically. In The Summer Nights Never End Until they Do, Waller shares a methodology can be applied to everything from governmental gaffs and immigration reform to losing weight and financial freedom. Like so many things that make sense, Waller's words are complex in their simplicity, turn from the madness of short-term, quick fixes and toward time-tested, reasonable goals. The devil is in the details. So, too, are the answers.

Author : Laura Nowlin
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402277849

Get Book

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 : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063092808

Get Book

These Precious Days by Ann Patchett Pdf

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays. "The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and inviting: with Patchett as a guide, readers will really get to grips with the power of struggles, failures, and triumphs alike." —Publisher's Weekly “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores “what it means to be seen, to find someone with whom you can be your best and most complete self.” When Patchett chose an early galley of actor and producer Tom Hanks’ short story collection to read one night before bed, she had no idea that this single choice would be life changing. It would introduce her to a remarkable woman—Tom’s brilliant assistant Sooki—with whom she would form a profound bond that held monumental consequences for them both. A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer’s eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be. From the enchantments of Kate DiCamillo’s children’s books (author of The Beatryce Prophecy) to youthful memories of Paris; the cherished life gifts given by her three fathers to the unexpected influence of Charles Schultz’s Snoopy; the expansive vision of Eudora Welty to the importance of knitting, Patchett connects life and art as she illuminates what matters most. Infused with the author’s grace, wit, and warmth, the pieces in These Precious Days resonate deep in the soul, leaving an indelible mark—and demonstrate why Ann Patchett is one of the most celebrated writers of our time.

Author : Carley Fortune
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735243767

Get Book

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Pdf

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until Percy receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers during their youth, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm nights working in his family’s restaurant, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. And when Percy returns to the lake, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until she can confront the decisions she made, they’ll never know whether their love is bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years in the past and one weekend in the present, Every Summer After is a gorgeously romantic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Author : Robert James Waller
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759521728

Get Book

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller Pdf

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781480451766

Get Book

Summer Nights by Caroline B. Cooney Pdf

DIVDIVIs this really goodbye for the recent graduates of Westerly High as they get ready to start their new lives?/divDIV High school is over, graduation already fading into memory. Kip, Anne, Beth Rose, Emily, and Molly are getting ready for one last party before they head off in different directions./divDIV Anne has a great new job that will take her all over the world. But it means leaving Con, the boy she loves, behind./divDIV Kip is going off to college, a thrilling—and terrifying—prospect./divDIV Emily’s engaged, but now Matt is making her think twice about marrying him./divDIV Beth will be the only one staying in Westerly . . . with Molly, who never belonged to the in-crowd in the first place, and now there’s no in-crowd left./divDIV For these girls of summer, their last night together has to be perfect. It will be a time of goodbyes and new romance as they all wonder: Will they ever belong to any place or person again? Ever have friends like these again? Ever see one other again? /div/div

Author : Celeste Ng
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101634615

Get Book

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Pdf

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.

Author : Laura Silverman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534488410

Get Book

Those Summer Nights by Laura Silverman Pdf

After recovering from a life-changing injury, a teen girl must navigate a new job, an ex-best friend, and two surprisingly attractive coworkers in this “sweet, romantic summer tale” (Kirkus Reviews) for fans of Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian. Hannah used to be all about focus, back before she shattered her ankle and her Olympic dreams in one bad soccer play. These days, she’s all about distraction—anything to keep the painful memories of her recent past at bay, including the string of bad decisions that landed her at boarding school for a year. Enter Bonanza, the local entertainment multiplex and site of Hanna’s summer employment. With its mini golf course, bowling alley, and arcade—not to mention her hot, flirty coworker Patrick—Bonanza seems like the perfect way to stay distracted. Until her boss announces the annual Bonanza tournament, a staff competition that brings her past Olympic nightmares crashing back into her present. On top of that, the Bonanza staff includes Brie, the ex-best friend she cut off last year, and Ethan, her brother’s best friend who became unreasonably attractive in her year away and who accepts her, even knowing her worst secrets. Under the neon lights of Bonanza, Hannah must decide whether she can find a way to discover a new self in the midst of her old life.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

Get Book

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Victoria
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131984156

Get Book

The Victorian Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rachel Van Dyken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1087397103

Get Book

Summer Nights by Rachel Van Dyken Pdf

The final installment in Marlo and Ray's story of revenge, love, and the thin line between hate and passion.They'll fight until the bitter end.After all what is love without a whole lotta hate? Life has a way of altering a person when you're forced to face the end of it, and now Marlo and Ray refuse to let the hate win especially since everyone is counting on them. They're ready for the final curtain call.And this one, may be the most important one of their lives as tragedies turn into happily ever afters, and dark secrets are revealed.Break a leg... right?

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250144836

Get Book

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney Pdf

My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Water Dragons
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465863492

Get Book

The Water Dragons by Anonim Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781773561950

Get Book

The Diamond Fairy Book by Various Pdf

Author : Ken Widergren
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595141869

Get Book

Still Water Fifties by Ken Widergren Pdf

Still Water Fifties is a romantic noel set in the late 1950’s in Central Nebraska. Kevin Douglas, the main character, is an All-State high school football player. Kevin is going through some restless times as he seeks his way in the world. Fortunately for Kevin, he finds a “guru” in his par of the world by the name of Jimmy Jurgenau. Jimmy , who formerly was a practicing physician in Kevin’s hometown, comes to his rescue over and over with bits of philosophical insights and acts of kindness.