The Disappearing Act

The Disappearing Act

Author: Catherine Steadman

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0593158032

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody comes “an unputdownable mystery about the nightmares that abound in the pursuit of Hollywood dreams” (Caroline Kepnes, author of the You series). “Stylish, riveting, hugely atmospheric—I couldn’t put it down.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List A woman has gone missing. But did she ever really exist? A leading British actress hoping to make a splash in America flies to Los Angeles for the grueling gauntlet known as pilot season, a time when every network and film studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows entice a fresh batch of young hopefuls—anxious, desperate, and willing to do whatever it takes to make it. Instead, Mia Eliot, a fish out of water in the ruthlessly competitive and faceless world of back-to-back auditioning, discovers the sinister side of Hollywood when she becomes the last person to see Emily, a newfound friend. Standing out in a conveyor-belt world of fellow aspiring stars, Emily mysteriously disappears following an audition, after asking Mia to do a simple favor. But nothing is simple. Nothing is as is seems. And nothing prepares Mia for a startling truth: In a city where dreams really do come true, nightmares can follow.


Disappearing Acts

Disappearing Acts

Author: Joyce K. Fletcher

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001-06-12

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780262250221

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. Fletcher describes how organizations say they need such behavior and yet ignore it, thus undermining the possibility of radical change. She shows why the "female advantage" does not seem to be benefit women employees or organizations. She offers ways that individuals and organizations can make visible the invisible work.


Disappearing Acts

Disappearing Acts

Author: Terry McMillan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1101657723

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes an honest look at a modern romance, from love at first sight to painful reality to working toward a happy ending.... Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker and a not-quite-divorced dad of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, and songwriter. They met in a Brooklyn brownstone, and there could be no walking away.... In this funny, gritty love story, Franklin and Zora join the ranks of fiction’s most compelling couples as they move from Scrabble to sex, from layoffs to the limits of faith and trust. Disappearing Acts is about the mystery of desire and the burdens of the past. It’s about respect—what it can and can’t survive. And it’s about the safe and secret places that only love can find.


The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

Author: Florence de Changy

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0008381569

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

‘People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book – and highly recommended.’ Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory.


Disappearing Act

Disappearing Act

Author: Robert Sheehan

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2021-10-22

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0717189716

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author's peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters' streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives. Dark and provocative, the collection will stay with the reader long after the book is finished. Warning: Contains Adult Content


Disappearing Acts

Disappearing Acts

Author: Diana Taylor

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780822318682

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond.


Disappearing Acts

Disappearing Acts

Author: Isabella Bunnell

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781908714305

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A beautifully illustrated hide-and-seek book, which invites children to learn about and find the endangered species hiding in the landscapes.


Pete's Disappearing Act

Pete's Disappearing Act

Author: Jenny Tripp

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780152061777

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When Pete the performing poodle and Rita the chimp are swept away from the circus in a tornado, they encounter frightening adventures--and make new friends--as they try to return home.


Disappearing Act

Disappearing Act

Author: Sid Fleischman

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Published: 2004-07-27

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780060519643

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An unseen man they call the Toad is stalking twelve-year-old Kevin and his older sister, Holly. They flee town in Holly's beat-up old car, driving west until they reach the Pacific Ocean. They change their names and attempt to hide in plain sight as street performers in Venice, California. But have they really eluded the Toad? Here is Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman doing what he does best -- spinning a tale with style.


The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

Publisher: Tinder Press

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0755372263

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the Costa Award winning, bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?