The Stories of the Olympia Building. Life is a Story - story.one

The Stories of the Olympia Building. Life is a Story - story.one

Author: Teodora Tudorescu

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 3710846781

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In the vibrant heart of Echelon City, stands a building unlike any other. Twelve enigmatic souls call it home. Yet, they are blissfully unaware of its secrets and, most importantly, their own past. As reality blurs and time threatens to slip away, will they be able to piece together the hidden truths before they're forever out of reach? And will you?


Station to Station. Life is a Story - story.one

Station to Station. Life is a Story - story.one

Author: I. Burkhardt

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-04-04

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 3711515592

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Berlin. From a once divided city now a multicultural bustling place, Berlin's underground has seen it all. Six women (FLINTA) from different countries who now call Berlin home, reflect on their chaotic and sometimes other worldly experiences on Berlin's U-Bahn. From U1 to U9. How does one find solace or adventure in the U-Bahn? Perhaps the love of your life or a grieving friend awaits there. Together, through a mix of fiction and non-fiction, the essence and uniqueness of each of the nine U-bahn lines that sprawl under Berlin are captured in this book.


Waiting for High Tide

Waiting for High Tide

Author: Nikki McClure

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1613129289

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For one young boy, it’s a perfect summer day to spend at the beach with his family. He scours the high tide line for treasures, listens to the swizzling sound of barnacles, and practices walking the plank. But mostly he waits for high tide. Then he’ll be able to swim and dive off the log raft his family is building. While he waits, sea birds and other creatures mirror the family’s behaviors: building and hunting, wading and eating. At long last the tide arrives, and human and animal alike savor the water. Another beautiful ode to life lived in harmony with nature, and by the labor of one’s own hands, from an artist of great warmth and clarity.


The Advocate

The Advocate

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2004-09-14

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.


Going Home Again

Going Home Again

Author: Dennis Bock

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1443420476

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When Charlie Bellerose reunites with his flamboyant brother Nate, after two decades apart, their youthful rivalry seems forgotten. Drawn together again by their failed marriages, trying to survive in a world of long-distance parenting and hopeful reunions, they begin to imagine that they can be a new family of sorts. But Charlie’s chance encounter with his first love, Holly, now happily married, unravels his past and complicates his present, plunging him back to his bittersweet college days in Montreal and the fate of his best friend Miles, and forward into Nate’s dangerous attraction to Holly’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Riley. Yet even Charlie, with all he now knows about his brother, cannot foresee the violence to come. A novel about the mysteries of the human heart, Going Home Again is rich with the exquisite tensions between men and women as they fall in and out of love.


The Ash Garden

The Ash Garden

Author: Dennis Bock

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2002-01-08

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0375414274

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Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian wife Sophie, a Jewish refugee, it marks the start of an irreparable fissure in their new marriage. Fifty years later, seemingly far removed from the day that defined their lives, Emiko visits Anton and Sophie, and in Dennis Bock’s powerfully imagined narrative, their histories converge.


Geek Love

Geek Love

Author: Katherine Dunn

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-05-25

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0307794482

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National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.


The Communist's Daughter

The Communist's Daughter

Author: Dennis Bock

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-02-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0307267385

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The Communist's Daughter is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched millions. Rebelling in childhood against his father's religion, he finds a calling himself, saving lives on the battlefield. In Republican Spain he fulfills his idealism, yet before long politics destroy his romance and drive him to seek refuge in China. Here, in service to a man eventually known as Mao Zedong, Bethune begins this account of his life and his cherished beliefs for the only person who still makes a future seem possible: the daughter he has never seen.