This Tender Place

Author : William Kent Krueger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476749310

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This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come.” —Parade The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, he and his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one summer, these four orphans journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.

Author : Laurie Lawlor
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299214648

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This Tender Place by Laurie Lawlor Pdf

German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and the right, such as Jurgen Habermas and Leo Strauss, his Nazi-era past, especially his active efforts to remove Jewish influence from German law, has cast a cloud over his life and oeuvre. Still, his many supporters have generally been successful in claiming that Schmitt's was an "antisemitism of opportunity," a temporary affectation to gain favor with the Nazis. In Carl Schmitt and the Jews, available in English for the first time, historian Raphael Gross vigorously repudiates this "opportunism thesis." Through a reading of Schmitt's corpus, some of which became available only after his death, Gross highlights the importance of the "Jewish Question" on the breadth of Schmitt's work. According to Gross, Schmitt's antisemitism was at the core of his work--before, during, and after the Nazi era. His influential polarities of "friend and foe," "law and nomos," "behemoth and Leviathan," and "ketechon and Antichrist" emerge from a conceptual template in which "the Jew" is defined as adversary, undermining the Christian order with secularization. The presence of this template at the heart of Schmitt's work, Gross contends, calls for a major reassessment of Schmitt's role within contemporary cultural and legal theory.

Author : Agustina Bazterrica
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982150921

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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica Pdf

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

Author : J. R. Moehringer
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401383411

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The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer Pdf

Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club—with a new Afterword. J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the bar—including J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler—took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fathering-by-committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak—and eventually from reality. In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys. Named a best book of the year by The New York Times, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, NPR's "Fresh Air," and New York Magazine A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Booksense, and Library Journal Bestseller Booksense Pick Borders New Voices Finalist Winner of the Books for a Better Life First Book Award

Author : Ruth Reichl
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679604204

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Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An absolute delight to read . . . How lucky we are that [Ruth Reichl] had the courage to follow her appetite.”—Newsday At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that “food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were.” Her deliciously crafted memoir Tender at the Bone is the story of a life defined, determined, and enhanced in equal measure by a passion for food, by unforgettable people, and by the love of tales well told. Beginning with her mother, the notorious food-poisoner known as the Queen of Mold, Reichl introduces us to the fascinating characters who shaped her world and tastes, from the gourmand Monsieur du Croix, who served Reichl her first foie gras, to those at her politically correct table in Berkeley who championed the organic food revolution in the 1970s. Spiced with Reichl’s infectious humor and sprinkled with her favorite recipes, Tender at the Bone is a witty and compelling chronicle of a culinary sensualist’s coming-of-age. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Ruth Reichl's Delicious! Praise for Tender at the Bone “A poignant, yet hilarious, collection of stories about people [Reichl] has known and loved, and who, knowingly or unknowingly, steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world’s leading food writers.”—Chicago Sun-Times “While all good food writers are humorous . . . few are so riotously, effortlessly entertaining as Ruth Reichl.”—The New York Times Book Review “Reading Ruth Reichl on food is almost as good as eating it. . . . Reichl makes the reader feel present with her, sharing the experience.”—Washington Post Book World “[In] this lovely memoir . . . we find young Ruth desperately trying to steer her manic mother's unwary guests toward something edible. It's a job she does now . . . in her columns, and whose intimate imperatives she illuminates in this graceful book.”—The New Yorker “A savory memoir of [Reichl’s] apprentice years . . . Reichl describes [her] experiences with infectious humor. . . . The descriptions of each sublime taste are mouthwateringly precise. . . . A perfectly balanced stew of memories.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : William Kent Krueger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451645859

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Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger Pdf

Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.

Author : Fatima Farheen Mirza
Publisher : SJP for Hogarth
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524763565

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A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE • NEW YORK’S “ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK” PICK Named One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post • NPR • People • Refinery29 • Parade • BuzzFeed “Mirza writes with a mercy that encompasses all things.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post Hailed as “a book for our times” (Christiane Amanpour), A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride. What secrets and betrayals have caused this close-knit family to fracture? Can Amar find his way back to the people who know and love him best? A Place for Us takes us back to the beginning of this family’s life: from the bonds that bring them together, to the differences that pull them apart. All the joy and struggle of family life is here, from Rafiq and Layla’s own arrival in America from India, to the years in which their children—each in their own way—tread between two cultures, seeking to find their place in the world, as well as a path home. A Place for Us is a book for our times: an astonishingly tender-hearted novel of identity and belonging, and a resonant portrait of what it means to be an American family today. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.

Author : Kate Allen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735231610

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The Line Tender by Kate Allen Pdf

Funny, poignant, and deeply moving, The Line Tender is a story of nature's enduring mystery and a girl determined to find meaning and connection within it. Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart's marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have kept their heads above water--thanks in large part to a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white--and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was "meaningful" but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother's unfinished research on the Great White's return to Cape Cod. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she'll finally be able to look beyond what she's lost and toward what's left to be discovered. ★"Confidently voiced."—Kirkus Reviews, starred ★"Richly layered."—Publishers Weekly, starred ★"A hopeful path forward."—Booklist, starred ★"Life-affirming."—BCCB, starred ★"Big-hearted." —Bookpage, starred ★“Will appeal to just about everyone.” – SLC, starred ★"Exquisitely, beautifully real."—Shelf Awareness, starred

Author : Heather B. Moore
Publisher : Shadow Mountain
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162972937X

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The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore Pdf

Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is a powerful story about a largely unknown chapter in history and the women who emerged as heroes. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization-the criminal tong-buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. These "paper daughters," so called because fake documents gain them entry to America but leave them without legal identity, generally have no recourse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope and help. Told in alternating chapters, this rich narrative follows the stories of young Donaldina "Dolly" Cameron, who works in the mission home, and Mei Lien, a "paper daughter" who thinks she is coming to America for an arranged marriage but instead is sold into a life of shame and despair. Dolly, a real-life pioneering advocate for social justice, bravely fights corrupt officials and violent gangs, helping to win freedom for thousands of Chinese women. Mei Lien endures heartbreak and betrayal in her search for hope, belonging, and love. Their stories merge in this gripping account of the courage and determination that helped to shape a new course of women's history in America.

Author : John Proffatt,Abraham Clark Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112103354579

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The American Decisions by John Proffatt,Abraham Clark Freeman Pdf

Author : Illinois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2ICB

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The Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois by Illinois Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1374 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000108178256

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The Central Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 65-96 include "Central law journal's international law list."

Author : Vanessa M. Gezari
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439177402

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The Tender Soldier by Vanessa M. Gezari Pdf

Part of the Pentagon's most daring and controversial attempt since Vietnam to bring social science to the Afghanistan battlefield, three tough-minded American civilians find their humanity tested and their lives forever changed by this little-known mission.

Author : Tulsian P.C. & Tulsian Bharat
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9788121933490

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Law for CA-PCC/IPC by Tulsian P.C. & Tulsian Bharat Pdf

Introduction • Tearing And Cutting • Special Effects With Paper • Fixing Paper Down • The World Of Paper • Step By Step • Working With Colour • Exploring Tone • Marbling And Rubbing • Working With Photos • Photomontage • Drawing With Collage • Working With Fabric • Three -Dimensional Collage • A Diary In Collage • Gifts And Presentation • Practical Tips • Index

Author : Dr. S. K. Singh, Dr. Angad Tiwary, Nikhil Gupta
Publisher : RAJEEV BANSAL
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789351676874

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Business Law by Dr. S. K. Singh, Dr. Angad Tiwary, Nikhil Gupta Pdf

Unit-I Indian Contract Act, 1872 1.Business (Mercantile) Law : An Introduction, 2 .Indian Contract Act, 1872 : An Introduction , 3 Contract : Meaning, Definition and Characteristics of a Valid Contract , 4. Agreement : Meaning, Kinds and Difference, 5 .Proposal (Offer), Acceptance Communication and Revocation, 6. Capacity of Parties to Contract or Parties Competency to Contract, 7. Free Consent, 8. Lawful Consideration and Objects , 9. Agreements Expressly Declared as Void, 10. Contingent Contracts , 11. Performance of Contracts and Appropriation of Payments, 12. Discharge of Contracts, 13. Quasi or Implied Contracts of Certain Relations Resembling those Created by Contracts (Sections 68 to 72), 14. Remedies for Breach of Contract , Unit-II Special Contracts 15.Contract of Indemnity and Guarantee , 16. Contract of Bailment and Pledge, 17. Contracts of Agency , Unit-III The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 18.The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 : An Introduction , 19. Conditions and Warranties, 20. Effects of the Contract of Sale—Transfer of Ownership and Title, 21. Performance of Contract of Sale, 22. Remedial Measures and Auction Sale , Unit-IV The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 1..Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 : Introduction, 2 .Parties to a Negotiable Instruments , 3. Negotiation , 4. Presentment and Dishonour of Negotiable Instruments, 5. Discharge of Negotiable Instruments, 6. Hundis , 7. Banker and Customer, Unit-V G.S.T. G.S.T.—Format and Computing Process.