Trespasses

Author : Louise Kennedy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593540893

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Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion. Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family’s pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment – Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married – Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect. As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish.

Author : Louise Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781526623362

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Trespasses by Louise Kennedy Pdf

* THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER (The Times) * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023 ** WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR: DEBUT FICTION ** WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 ** AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2022 ** A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME *_______________'Like Sally Rooney mixed with a political thriller' RUSSELL KANE'Intense, unflinchingly honest, it broke my heart a million times' MARIAN KEYES'Absolutely loved it' MAX PORTER 'A beautiful, devastating novel' NICK HORNBYOne by one, she undid each event, each decision, each choice. If Davy had remembered to put on a coat.If Seamie McGeown had not found himself alone on a dark street.If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt. There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like 'petrol bomb' and 'rubber bullets'. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.Tender and shocking, Trespasses is an unforgettable debut of people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times.______________A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * GUARDIAN * TELEGRAPH * NEW STATESMAN * DAILY MAIL * IRISH TIMES * IRISH INDEPENDENT * BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Author : Masao Miyoshi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822392484

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Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link culture with politics and a remarkable critical voice within the academy. For more than four decades, Miyoshi worked outside the mainstream, trespassing into new fields, making previously unseen connections, and upending naive assumptions. With an impeccable sense of when a topic or discussion had lost its critical momentum, he moved on to the next question, and then the next after that, taking on matters of literary form, cross-cultural relations, globalization, art and architecture, the corporatization of the university, and the threat of ecological disaster. Trespasses reveals the tremendous range of Miyoshi’s thought and interests, shows how his thinking transformed over time, and highlights his recurring concerns. This volume brings together eleven selections of Miyoshi’s previously published writing, a major new essay, a critical introduction to his life and work, and an interview in which Miyoshi reflects on the trajectory of his thought and the institutional history of modern Japan studies. In the new essay, “Literary Elaborations,” he provides a masterful overview of the nature of the contemporary university, closing with a call for a global environmental protection studies that would radically reconfigure academic disciplines and merge the hard sciences with the humanities and the social sciences. In the other, chronologically arranged selections, Miyoshi addresses cross-culture relations between Japan and the United States, English literary studies in Japan, and Japan studies in the U.S., as well as the organization of urban space and the integrity of art and architecture in aggressively marketed-oriented environments. Trespasses is an invaluable introduction to the work of a fearless cultural critic.

Author : Lacy M Johnson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609380953

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Trespasses by Lacy M Johnson Pdf

A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can’t escape, Lacy Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study. As she dismantles the complex history of a forgotten place while fighting to keep its people whole, Johnson reflects on a place that outsiders can cross into or pass through, but may never fully know. From formal and informal research methods, Johnson has produced an innovative collection of prose poems and essays that together create an exciting work of contemporary nonfiction. Examining region through the lenses of memory (experience), history (memory made public), and theory (experience abstracted), Trespasses is a deeply intelligent work, at the center of which is the author, always feeling as if she doesn’t belong but not sure where she else she should be. In this profound work, Johnson drifts gracefully back and forth between timelines and voices in a way that illustrates how her present is connected to the many pasts she chronicles.

Author : Nick Hayes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 9781526604699

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The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes Pdf

The vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. The Book of Trespass takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. By trespassing the land of the media magnates, Lords, politicians and private corporations that own England, Nick Hayes argues that the root of social inequality is the uneven distribution of land. Weaving together the stories of poachers, vagabonds, gypsies, witches, hippies, ravers, ramblers, migrants and protesters, and charting acts of civil disobedience that challenge orthodox power at its heart, The Book of Trespass will transform the way you see the land.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Coal trade
ISBN : LOC:00184231451

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Mineral Trespasses on Federal Lands by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Power Pdf

Author : Rose Tremain
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409090496

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Trespass by Rose Tremain Pdf

'THRILLING...a terrific book, accomplished in its poised, imaginative storytelling and its vivid, sensual rendering of landscape and character, emotion and memory' The Times In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His sister, Audrun, alone in her bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London seeking to remake his life in France. From the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion...

Author : Michael Cordell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631611534

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Our Trespasses: A Paranormal Thriller by Michael Cordell Pdf

As a child, Matt accepted the powerful psychic connection he had with his twin brother, Jake. But as they grew up, and Jake's adult choices led him down dark paths, Matt moved across the country to escape their connection. His plan works for ten years-until Jake's violent murder. Matt quickly realizes their connection is still alive and well, even if Jake isn't, and this time, it presents a hell of a lot more challenges. Determined to sever their fraternal link forever, Matt returns to his troubled rural hometown in Nebraska to confront the damage-and enemies-his brother left behind. In order to free himself from the terror of Jake's afterlife, he needs to solve his brother's murder, heal old wounds, and avoid getting killed due to mistaken identity. But when Matt realizes that the powers of darkness are aware of the link between their world and ours, finding a way to break the connection suddenly becomes a race against time. From the author of "Contempt", an Amazon Kindle Top 10 legal thriller

Author : Thomas W. Waterman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385244139

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A Treatise on the Law of Trespass in the Twofold Aspect of the Wrong and the Remedy by Thomas W. Waterman Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Lloyd C. Douglas
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667627878

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Forgive Us Our Trespasses by Lloyd C. Douglas Pdf

Forgive Us Our Trespasses concerns a boy who makes his way in the world alone. It tells of the conversion of an embittered young cynic to a belief in the magic power of forgiveness, combined with a touch of mildly mystic communion with an undefined Deity. The narrative covers the ancestral background and the life up to the late twenties of a child born unhappily into a hostile environment and equipped with the soul of a rebel. Lloyd C. Douglas was an American minister and author born in Indiana in 1877. He was married and had two children. He did not write his first novel until the age of 50 but was considered to be one of the most popular writers of his time. His works usually had a moral and religious tone. Two of his best known works were The Robe and The Big Fisherman, which were made into major motion pictures. The Robe, written in 1942, sold over two million copies in hardcover alone. It held the number one position on the New York Times Best Seller list for over a year and remained on the list for an additional two years. The film version of The Robe hit the movie screens in 1953 and starred Richard Burton.

Author : Sue Grafton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : California
ISBN : 0739486330

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T Is for Trespass by Sue Grafton Pdf

An evil woman steals an identity and uses it to acquire caregiving positions in which she does the unthinkable. It is up to Kinsey Millhone to discover the truth.

Author : Amy Irvine
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429939451

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Trespass by Amy Irvine Pdf

Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utah's red-rock country after her father's suicide, only to find out just how much of an interloper she was among her own people. But more than simply an exploration of personal loss, Trespass is an elegy for a dying world, for the ruin of one of our most beloved and unique desert landscapes and for our vanishing connection to it. Fearing what her father's fate might somehow portend for her, Irvine retreated into the remote recesses of the Colorado Plateau—home not only to the world's most renowned national parks but also to a rugged brand of cowboy Mormonism that stands in defiant contrast to the world at large. Her story is one of ruin and restoration, of learning to live among people who fear the wilderness the way they fear the devil and how that fear fuels an antagonism toward environmental concerns that pervades the region. At the same time, Irvine mourns her own loss of wildness and disconnection from spirituality, while ultimately discovering that the provinces of nature and faith are not as distinct as she once might have believed.

Author : Christian M. Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0982767730

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Trespasses Against Us by Christian M. Frank Pdf

Celia feels conspicuous as the daughter of the principal at her small Catholic high school, and when friends start pressuring her to date and her best friend is pursued by a stalker, her stress levels rise accordingly.

Author : Charles Greenstreet Addison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Torts
ISBN : BL:A0026582228

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Wrongs and Their Remedies by Charles Greenstreet Addison Pdf

Author : Brandi Reeds
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1503950107

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Trespassing by Brandi Reeds Pdf

In a novel of mounting psychological suspense, a young mother follows a dangerous path to find her missing husband.