Twenty Days

Author : Giorgio De Maria
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631492303

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The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel by Giorgio De Maria Pdf

Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017 Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. An allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. Now, in a fretful new age of "lone-wolf" terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. With its stunning anticipation of the Internet—and the apocalyptic repercussions of oversharing—this bleak, prescient story is more disturbingly pertinent than ever. Brilliantly translated into English for the first time by Ramon Glazov, The Twenty Days of Turin establishes De Maria’s place among the literary ranks of Italo Calvino and beside classic horror masters such as Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. Hauntingly imaginative, with visceral prose that chills to the marrow, the novel is an eerily clairvoyant magnum opus, long overdue but ever timely.

Author : Philip B. Kunhardt,Peter W. Kunhardt
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 051720715X

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Lincoln by Philip B. Kunhardt,Peter W. Kunhardt Pdf

This illustrated biography of the 16th president of the United States was originally a companion volume to a historic television documentary. It includes recreated images of Lincoln and his contemporaries from photographs, daguerreotypes, prints and cartoons of the day.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : NYRB Classics
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106017446748

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Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

""At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anne Perry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399179891

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Twenty-one Days by Anne Perry Pdf

In the first book of an all-new series, a young lawyer races to save his client from execution, putting him at odds with his own father: Thomas Pitt, head of London’s Special Police Branch. “[Anne] Perry’s excellent new series launch expertly takes the Pitts into a new century.”—Library Journal (starred review) 1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned parents’ influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman’s noose—in only twenty-one days. Could Mrs. Graves’s violent death have anything to do with her husband’s profession? Someone in power may be framing the biographer to keep damaging secrets from coming to light. It is a theory that leads Daniel’s investigation unexpectedly to London’s Special Branch—and, disturbingly, to one of his father’s closest colleagues. Caught between duty to the law and a fierce desire to protect his family, Daniel must call on his keen intellect—and trust his natural instincts—to find the truth in a tangle of dark deception, lest an innocent man hang for another’s heinous crime. Praise for Twenty-One Days “Readers will quickly fall in love with [Daniel] Pitt, following along as he investigates a gruesome murder and chuckling as he throws those involved off kilter. Perry is a master at bringing setting to life, and readers will be taken in by the time and place as they get to know Daniel Pitt and those close to him in this engaging novel.”—RT Book Reviews “The maven of well-crafted Victorian mysteries and author of both the William Monk series and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mysteries introduces the Pitts’ son, Daniel, junior barrister, in this first of what proves to be an intriguing, entertaining, and character-centric new series. . . . Perry introduces Daniel and his cohort, the brilliant Miriam Fforde Croft, and raises the knotty question of whether some clients are truly undefendable.”—Booklist “[Anne Perry] seems just as comfortable in 1910 as she ever did back in Victoria’s day.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Michèle Audin
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781941920336

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One Hundred Twenty-One Days by Michèle Audin Pdf

"Audin plays with codes, numbers and dates to create a fascinating and unsettling story."—Le Temps This debut novel by mathematician and Oulipo member Michèle Audin retraces the lives of French mathematicians over several generations through World Wars I and II. The narrative oscillates stylistically from chapter to chapter—at times a novel, fable, historical research, or a diary—locking and unlocking codes, culminating in a captivating, original reading experience. Michèle Audin is the author of several works of mathematical theory and history and also published a work on her anticolonialist father's torture, disappearance, and execution by the French during the Battle of Algiers.

Author : Holly Richard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1944662715

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One Hundred and Twenty-Six Days by Holly Richard Pdf

One Hundred and Twenty-Six Days throws you onto the path of one family's unthinkable journey as their 27-year-old is violently hurled onto the cancer battlefield. What is to come was nothing anyone could ever imagine.

Author : Trevor Richens
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504317788

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Twenty One Days by Trevor Richens Pdf

The story is set in Byron Bay, an iconic tourist township in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales, the author’s home district, and drawing on the cultural experience of working and living in that area and the Gold Coast, Queensland, the story evolved. All the characters and shops are fictional, although similarities exist throughout the Gold Coast and Tweed/Byron districts. Likewise, the story reflects the similarities in people, anyone working closely with people, as a counsellor, would find. The need for friendship and a sense of well-being are universal desires, and just as common are the many fears and anxieties that restrict these desires. This story aims at facing these fears and finding strength and growth as an individual to reach a greater degree of fulfilment in oneself and in any relationship.

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429945646

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The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

Vicky Austin's family does one special thing each day of December to prepare for Christmas. This year, they're also preparing for the birth of a new brother or sister, due after the New Year. Vicky is worried that the baby will come early—what kind of Christmas Eve would it be without Mother to help them hang up stockings and sing everyone to sleep with carols? This classic story of an old-fashioned Christmas is accompanied by merry illustrations by Jill Weber. This special eBook edition includes bonus content not available in the print edition: · Christmas in New York essay by Madeleine L'Engle · Reproductions of 7 unique L'Engle family Christmas cards created and illustrated by Madeleine L'Engle· First chapter of the Newbery Award–winning A Wrinkle in Time

Author : Brian Sullivan
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402231032

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20 Days to the Top by Brian Sullivan Pdf

"I've been selling the same basic product to the same customers for over 10 years. I watched your video and it turned my thinking upside down!...And guess what?? I WAS my company's Top Sales Performer!" --Linda Jamison, National Account Manager, Time Warner Book Group Brian Sullivan is an award-winning salesperson and one of the most prominent and sought-after sales and leadership trainers. His high-energy, no-nonsense, interactive seminars on the PRECISE Selling Formula have become one of the hottest training courses in sales. Based around the notion that you should "Say less...while selling more," Sullivan teaches salespeople how to execute the PRECISE Selling Formula in just 20 days. They'll also learn how to: --Lead their company in sales --Be stupid to make stupid big money --Create a posture that attracts customers --Evaluate sales performance after every call

Author : Tony Baccarini
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477227466

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Twenty One Days Later by Tony Baccarini Pdf

Whats this book about, and why did you put pen to paper? Simple. After being in a state of mind that threatened my existence, which would have had repercussions for others, if my issues were not dealt with. In order to try and get the answers, I needed to have the questions to ask myself. It was a big deal to up and leave everything and everyone at a minutes notice and fly to a place where I had never been toa place I have never seen. I would have no choice but to jump in with both feet and sink or swim. Being honest with myself was most important to my process. If I did not, it would be for nothing. I could not risk it, and the frame of mind I was in would have been disastrous as everything I worked for would have come crashing down around me. When I got there, my journey really began. I found out that once you go back to basics and dump the materialistic baggage behind, you become humble and a pleasant human being again. You slow right down, accepting everything that is given out, and along this path, I found out what was really important and who that somebody was, and after all the pain and soul-searching, I found that person as it was there all along. I was me. I had to then come to terms with being diagnosed an illness on how to deal with a failing marriage and coming to terms with the tragic loss of my son all in three weeks, and then the words and where they came frommaybe a gift from aboveto help me find true inner peace and drop all negativity that had built up over the years to an awakening of normality, that if someone with a problem of mind received an emotional connection with the poems or their content, and it helped them in some small way, then I know it would be a great thing as I witnessed this effect while in the clinic, which urged me to write this book as a positive gesture to what I went through in twenty-one days.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627721745

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Twenty Days in May, Vietnam 1968 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Messenger
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798200724499

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The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger Pdf

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive. This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border. The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.

Author : Janet Albert
Publisher : Yellow Rose by Rce
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935053167

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Twenty-Four Days by Janet Albert Pdf

Circumstances force Dr. Miranda Ross to seek employment on a cruise line specializing in all-lesbian cruises. Miranda fights valiantly to avoid Jamie, the head fitness trainer, but the unwanted attraction seems to have a will of its own.

Author : Richard BURN (LL.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026576678

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The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer ... The Twenty-second Edition: with Many Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, by John King, Etc by Richard BURN (LL.D.) Pdf

Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780063092808

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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.