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Author: Michaela MacColl
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2013-04-30
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1452108609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 15-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a charming, enigmatic young man who playfully refuses to tell her his name, she is intriguedNso when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.
Author: Marlee Matlin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1481456393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMegan has spent forever planning her positively purple birthday sleepover. She's even made glittery purple invitations for every girl in her class. Then a new girl, Alexis Powell, joins their class. Alexis seems perfect: She's smart, pretty, and rules the soccer games on the playground. But no matter how hard Megan tries to be a friend to Alexis, the new girl is aloof or rude. At first Megan thinks Alexis is shy. Then Megan starts to fear that Alexis is treating her differently because she's deaf. When the girls are forced to collaborate on a science fair project, Megan learns the truth -- and realizes that nobody's perfect. Once again Marlee Matlin draws on experiences from her own childhood to tell Megan's story. In this funny, poignant book, readers will root for Megan, a spirited young girl who doesn't let anything stand in her way.
Author: Arnold Weinstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993-03-11
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0195344820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNobody's Home is a bold view of the American novel from its beginnings to the contemporary scene. Focusing on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture--individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life--Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career of the American self in some of the major works of the past one hundred fifty years. Weinstein contends that American writers are haunted by the twin specters of the self as a mirage, as Nobody, and by the brutal forces of culture and ideology that deny selfhood to people on the basis of money, sex, and color of skin. His central thesis is that language makes possible freedoms and accomplishments that are achievable in no other realm, and that American fiction is a fascinating record of the human fight against coercion, of the kinds of maneuvering room that we may find in life and in art. This study is unique in several respects: it offers some of the keenest readings of major American texts that have ever been written, including some of the most significant works of the past decades, and it fashions a rich and supple view of the American novel as a writerly form of freedom, in sharp contrast to today's critical emphasis on blindness and co-option.
Author: Simon Williams
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780573633218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Love Is All Round' is a feminist publishing house where Harriet Copeland is running a competition to find new romantic fiction; their motto is 'For Women By Women'. To avoid this gender bias, Leonard Loftus is forced to submit his novel under a female pseudonym. So when Lulabelle Latiffa wins the first prize, Leonard begins to have a major problem. He is a bashful statistician lumbered with a spectacular alter ago. With domestic complications from his wayward daughter Dee Dee and Gus, his rascally old father, Leonard tries frantically to keep up the charade of Lulabelle. His problems are made worse when he falls hopelessly in love with Harriet. He is a worried man in the guise of a carefree woman. The happy ending is not going to be easy. In high heels and lipstick our hero is caught in a hilarious dilemma of cross-dressing and cross-purposes. Oh what a tangled web we weave, across The UK, Australia and all over Europe, Nobody's Perfect has been acclaimed as a classic feel good romantic comedy. Now adapted for the US audience it has the fertile tradition of Some Like It Hot, Tootsie, and Mrs. Doubtfire. This is a play that offers belly laughs galore - four irresistibly loveable characters locked into a hilarious plot. The final scene has been described as a comic masterpiece.
Author: Ingrid Tomey
Publisher:
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780756901967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifteen-year-old Webber was driving a car that hit a little girl who now may never walk again, and Webber's grandfather wants to claim that he was driving, not Webber.
Author: Brian B. Rogers
Publisher: Booktango
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1468911783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal memories of a life time. When you're grey, and sometime's forget the odd birthday, the grandkids, some now with kids of their own, appear to think you are past your sell by date. To prove them wrong and the sell by date had been extended, The Secret Life was born. Despite growing up during WW11 with bombs dropping around you in those early days, some of us did survive. We had our fun and dramas, our young loves, we weren't bored as they sometimes are. This book is a record of love, drama, and sometimes misfortunes, a legacy to pass on and untill the sell by date finaly catches up, and I meet my old pals in the great school in the sky, I'll carry on to prove them wrong.
Author: Ronald Spark
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1678138215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Nobody's Life covers the first 20 years of a boys life as he wanders through the darkness of childhood and emerges a man on the other side. From his fathers abuse to encounters with other predators A Nobody's Life discusses the coping strategies he developed and employed to aid in his survival. Child abuse is a subject most people don't like to think or talk about but for anyone who has to or is suffering the torment in silence because they think they feel alone this book may help them start down the road to their own recovery.
Author: Mary Jane Clark
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1429902930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington D.C., a skyrocketing career, and a talent that everyone acknowledges. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles, her credibility is questioned, and her teenaged daughter makes her realize just how much time she hasn't spent with her. The repercussions of ambitious reporting have now derailed the career of KEY News justice correspondent Cassie Sheridan. Cassie is transferred to Miami, to wait out the end of her contract-separated from her family, her friends, and the familiarity of Washington. But in an unsuspecting south Florida town, a killer is watching...and waiting. While covering a hurricane that's moving up Florida's west coast, Cassie meets 11-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's newfound "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota-a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe, will win back her reputation. But nobody knows how fierce the coming storm will be. Nobody knows how far a psychopath will go in pursuit of twisted pleasure. Nobody knows if a young woman's murderer will stop at nothing to keep the crimes a secret. And nobody knows if Cassie will get out alive. . . .
Author: Jules Romains
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe subject of this modern classic is not a man. "It is an event," says Jules Romains, who is considered "the French Dos Passos." The event starts with the death of Jacques Godard, a man of no importance. It unfolds through his brief survival in the minds of others - the porter of his tenement in Paris, his fellow lodgers, a few acquaintances, his old father, who comes up from the country for the funeral, a young stranger who feels that the dead pass into "a great soul that cannot die." The event expresses Romains's belief in "collective beings," the famous theory of "Unanimism." In dramatizing his theory, Romains developed an advanced motion-picture technique when films were in their infancy, a technique of group portraits and sudden shifts from scene to scene that keeps this work far ahead of conventional novels. Here, Romains explores the ideas and the devices used in his twenty-seven-volume masterpiece, Men of Good Will, which André Maurois calls "the boldest attempt to describe completely his own time that any French novelist has made since Balzac."
