Wine Of The Dreamers

Author : JOHN D MACDONALD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:M5948

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WINE OF THE DREAMERS by JOHN D MACDONALD Pdf

Author : Susannah Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451095030

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Wine of the Dreamers by Susannah Leigh Pdf

Author : John Dann MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OCLC:25111774

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Wine of the Dreamers by John Dann MacDonald Pdf

Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Random House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827128

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Wine of the Dreamers by John D. MacDonald Pdf

Wine of the Dreamers, a classic science fiction novel from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. They are the Watchers: pale laboratory creatures living in a remote, sealed-off world. Their game, their religion, their release is to dream, and their dreams carry across the galaxy to lodge in the minds of the inhabitants of another world: the planet Earth. But as the human race approaches a dream of their own—traveling beyond their own planet to other worlds—the Watchers step in. For escape from Earth is an impossible dream, one that the Watchers will go to any length to destroy. Features a new Introduction by Dean Koontz Praise for John D. MacDonald “The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King “My favorite novelist of all time.”—Dean Koontz “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut “A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best.”—Mary Higgins Clark

Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0449138763

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Wine of the Dreamers by John D. MacDonald Pdf

Author : Imbolo Mbue
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525509714

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Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Pdf

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. Praise for Behold the Dreamers “A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”—The Washington Post “A capacious, big-hearted novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “Behold the Dreamers’ heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”—Entertainment Weekly “Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”—People (book of the week) “[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”—NPR “This story is one that needs to be told.”—Bust “Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”—The Boston Globe “A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Author : Karen Thompson Walker
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385692458

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The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Pdf

A strange illness induces sleep and heightens dreams in an isolated college town, transforming the lives of ordinary people, in this mesmerizing novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. A college girl tells her friends that she's feeling strangely tired. The next morning, when they find her in bed, she is still breathing--but she won't wake up. Within a few days, another student, down the hallway, won't wake up. As the sleeping sickness spreads, the town is turned upside down. We meet Ben and Annie, a young couple determined to keep their newborn baby safe; Sara and Libby, whose survivalist father has long prepared for disaster; Mei and Matthew, and other college students. A quarantine is established, the national guard is summoned. Yet, those who have fallen asleep are showing unusual patterns of brain activity. More than has ever been recorded in any brain--asleep or awake. They are dreaming--but of what? With gorgeous prose and heart-stopping emotion, The Dreamers startles and provokes about the possibilities contained within a human life, when we are awake and, perhaps even more, when we are dreaming.

Author : Alice Feiring
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612348384

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For the Love of Wine by Alice Feiring Pdf

In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she'd emerged from the magic wardrobe into a world filled with mythical characters making exotic and delicious wine with the low-tech methods of centuries past. She was smitten, and she wasn't alone. This country on the Black Sea has an unusual effect on people; the most passionate rip off their clothes and drink wines out of horns while the cold-hearted well up with tears and make emotional toasts. Visiting winemakers fall under Georgia's spell and bring home qvevris (clay fermentation vessels) while rethinking their own techniques. But, as in any good fairy tale, Feiring sensed that danger rode shotgun with the magic. With acclaim and growing international interest come threats in the guise of new wine consultants aimed at making wines more commercial. So Feiring fought back in the only way she knew how: by celebrating Georgia and the men and women who make the wines she loves most, those made naturally with organic viticulture, minimal intervention, and no additives. From Tbilisi to Batumi, Feiring meets winemakers, bishops, farmers, artists, and silk spinners. She feasts, toasts, and collects recipes. She encounters the thriving qvevri craftspeople of the countryside, wild grape hunters, and even Stalin's last winemaker while plumbing the depths of this tiny country's love for its wines. For the Love of Wine is Feiring's emotional tale of a remarkable country and people who have survived religious wars and Soviet occupation yet managed always to keep hold of their precious wine traditions. Embedded in the narrative is the hope that Georgia has the temerity to confront its latest threat--modernization.

Author : Lewis D. Moore
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879726644

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Meditations on America by Lewis D. Moore Pdf

This work explores John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series, with special emphasis on MacDonald's examination of the conflicts and joys of twentieth-century American culture and society. MacDonald describes himself as a moralist and this, combined with his narrative gifts, infuses his ever-present concerns for the quality and durability of American life. The first and last chapters, respectively, discuss MacDonald's early novels and the four he wrote concurrently with the series. The remaining chapters analyze various themes that figure prominently in the series. MacDonald's thinking reflects many of the concerns of his fellow citizens during his writing career while revealing his own personal reaction to the society around him. Noting his sense of an uncaused evil in the world and his prolific inventiveness, this work examines MacDonald's narrative exploration of America in which he reveals an unwillingness to give up either his frequently pessimistic views of society or the hope that it can somehow continue. His posthumous Reading for Survival sounds the latter note in typical MacDonald fashion: Read and learn or die. McGee, in the hard-boiled detective tradition, exemplifies MacDonald's picture of the struggling, but coping, culture with no guarantees for the future.

Author : Krzysztof Spadło
Publisher : e-bookowo
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788378590903

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The Dreamers and the Panitents by Krzysztof Spadło Pdf

Translate by Katarzyna Szuster The Dreamers and the Penitents is a collection of ten stories whose action takes place in contemporary times. However, the world presented has a duplicitous face, bleak and unknown to most. How can you know that a man you just walked past in a store or on the pedestrian crossing isn’t the one who had invented a time machine and is now planning to go back in time to change humanity’s fate? Or maybe a boy running across from you with a baseball cap rakishly askew isn’t someone completely different than he appears to be? Maybe he hides a terrible secret? The newest book by Krzysztof Spadlo is a must-read for fans of the paranormal, horror and science-fiction stories. Patronat medialny: secretum.pl efantastyka.pl horror.com.pl lokalna24.pl artysta.pl przeczytamy.pl bramygrozy.pl SilverLemon Twoja Kultura.pl Radio PARK Krzysztof Spadło Krótka notka o autorze... z takim zagadnieniem zawsze mam problem. To zdanie poniżej najbardziej mnie charakteryzuje: Krzysztof Spadło - łowca wrażeń i kolekcjoner miłych wspomnień, któremu pisanie sprawia frajdę.

Author : Susan Doyle,Jaleen Grove,Whitney Sherman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781628927542

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History of Illustration by Susan Doyle,Jaleen Grove,Whitney Sherman Pdf

Winner of the 2019 CHOICE Award "The authoritative book on the origins, history, and influence of illustration. Bravo!" David Brinley, University of Delaware, USA History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern. Hundreds of color images show illustrations within their social, cultural, and technical context, while they are ordered from the past to the present. Readers will be able to analyze images for their displayed techniques, cultural standards, and ideas to appreciate the art form. This essential guide is the first history of illustration written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators.

Author : John D. MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OCLC:495910275

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Time and Tomorrow ; Wine of the Dreamers ; The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything ; Ballroom of the Skies by John D. MacDonald Pdf

Author : R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780941028769

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature by R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess Pdf

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Author : Lilia Soto
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479838400

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Girlhood in the Borderlands by Lilia Soto Pdf

Introduction -- The why of transnational familial formations -- Growing up transnational: Mexican teenage girls and their transnational familial arrangements -- Muchachas Michoacanas: portraits of adolescent girls in a migratory town -- Migration marks: time, waiting, and desires for migration -- The telling moment: pre-crossings of Mexican teenage girls and their journeys to the border -- Imaginaries and realities: encountering the Napa Valley -- Conclusion

Author : Steven Kolpan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Wine and wine making
ISBN : 9780415920056

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A Sense of Place by Steven Kolpan Pdf

In A Sense of Place, renowned wine expert and writer Steven Kolpan tells the story of how Francis Ford Coppola brought California's most distinguished and historic vineyard back to life. Gustave Niebaum's Inglenook Estate, started in 1879, was one of the Napa Valley's first established vineyards and the birthplace of its premium wine industry. Generations after Niebaum's death, the vineyard was sold to Heublein, the wine and spirits monolith, who broke up the land and changed the Inglenook brand from a premium, connoisseur wine to a mass-market jug wine. In 1975, Francis Coppola bought the Niebaum residence and the surrounding estate. Along with the original estate's reputation, he also brought back some of its original workers, including Rafael Rodriquez, who, in h is late seventies, now serves as the vineyard manager and historian. Coppola overcame naysayers, red tape, and financial turmoil to reestablish the winery as a defender of quality, producing wine under four different labels, including the revered wine Rubicon. In 1995, Coppola purchased the Inglenook Chateau and its adjacent vineyards, fulfilling his dream of reuniting the original Napa Valley estate. Kolpan's luscious, flavorful narrative is worth enjoying now and keeping for later.