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Author: Lisa Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0374534489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.
Author: Robin Anne Ettles
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2024-08-29
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 1038310741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second collection of short stories, Ettles offers a version of the Canadian landscape against which eccentric tales and colourful characters evoke ever-shifting perspectives on what we see and who we are. A modern working woman of 1983 looks to escape her version of nuclear family hell. A lonely vampire seeks companionship. A dysfunctional rural family harbours a white-collar criminal on the run. These and other narratives explore nuanced societal spaces of money, youth, food and fame, city and country, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression. Throughout the forging of identity, for ourselves and for those around us, is each ephemeral, sublime, surreal (so real) moment -⎯ this is all we know.
Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published: 2009-04-24
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780061345807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Maureen and Bridget, two sixteen-year-old best friends who look like sisters, are in a terrible car accident and one of them dies, they are at first incorrectly identified at the hospital, and then, as Maureen achieves a remarkable recovery, she must deal with the repercussions of the accident, the mix-up, and some choices she made while she was getting better.
Author: Nora Raleigh Baskin
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-01-22
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0763666866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA boldly original tale about a girl who journeys through love and loss to find her mother — and discovers that everyone has a story to tell, including herself. "I used to think that a person would not know who I was, not really know me, until they heard about my mother." Four years, four months, and fifteen days ago, Natalie Gordon's mother walked out mid-sentence, before she finished what she was going to say. Now Natalie is traveling twenty-four hours on a bus to Florida to find her mother, to find herself, to find out something about love. Along the way, Natalie struggles to understand her relationship with Adam, a boy she pines for with near-obsession, and to her surprise, she meets people with stories like her own, stories about giving love and getting lost in the desire to be wanted. Acclaimed middle-grade novelist Nora Raleigh Baskin makes her young adult debut with a deeply resonant novel about secrets held and secrets shared, about having the courage to uncover all we know — and don’t know — of love.
Author: Lisa Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-07-17
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0374176493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.
Author: Marcus Du Sautoy
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780007576661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? And are there more undiscovered particles out there, beyond the Higgs boson? In the modern world, science is king: weekly headlines proclaim the latest scientific breakthroughs and numerous mathematical problems, once indecipherable, have now been solved. But are there limits to what we can discover about our physical universe? In this very personal journey to the edges of knowledge, Marcus du Sautoy investigates how leading experts in fields from quantum physics and cosmology, to sensory perception and neuroscience, have articulated the current lie of the land. In doing so, he travels to the very boundaries of understanding, questioning contradictory stories and consulting cutting edge data. Is it possible that we will one day know everything? Or are there fields of research that will always lie beyond the bounds of human comprehension? And if so, how do we cope with living in a universe where there are things that will forever transcend our understanding? In What We Cannot Know, Marcus du Sautoy leads us on a thought-provoking expedition to the furthest reaches of modern science. Prepare to be taken to the edge of knowledge to find out if there's anything we truly cannot know.
Author: Rémy Rougeau
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780618219223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith "careful prose and a tone of humble striving" (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory first novel by a cloistered monk traces a young man's search for wisdom among the inhabitants of a Cistercian monastery. In 1973, Paul Seneschal, a shy nineteen-year-old from rural Manitoba, takes flight from the world behind the wrought iron gates of St. Norbert Abbey. Here forty monks grow their own food, wake at three in the morning to pray, and converse largely through a spare but expressive vocabulary of hand signals. Renamed Brother Antoine, Paul strives for wisdom and holiness, yet life within the cloister can't block out all of humanity's foibles. One monk lapses into pyromania; another, a French Canadian, attacks any English-speaker who gets too close; another resembles "a bald Martha Ray." We soon see that even in this rarefied realm, human folly nestles cheek by jowl with the divine. A wise yet refreshingly humorous account of a life of faith, ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN offers an a fascinating glimpse into a quiet world that very few people know about.
Author: Bernard Jr. Henry
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2001-01-29
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 059516711X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this stirring and captivating story of the heart, Bernard Henry, Jr. explores the nuances of how a man manages to balance the complexities of his life during a crucial and emotional episode. Awaken in the mist of a tragic scenario, a dedicated husband and family man finds himself tormented with the uncertainty of his future, and dwells on his past to guide him through the most staggering and difficult ordeal of his life. Through a man’s eyes and heart, we journey to how he overcomes this crippling emotional turmoil with the help of his family and friends, and through reflecting on his life experiences. This story demonstrates the delicate line of strength that men are programmed to display and the tender attributes that are truly the sources of a man’s courage. Robert Curtis is in a stable period of his marriage. As most young couples, he and his wife Regina have had some ups and downs as they grow individually and together. The trials of everyday life, family, and professional woes take their toil on their marriage, but they are able to pull it together. Just as life seems calm and their relationship becomes more fulfilling, Regina and their daughter is involved in a horrible car accident. This debut novel illustrates the intricate workings of every relationship and how our connections to family and friends impact our lives greatly. Filled with genuine dialogue, good times and bad, sweet moments and bitter, "For All We Know" is remedy for healing and reveals a heartwarming story told from the ardent joys of a man’s heart.
Author: Abe S. Hoppenstein
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-11-29
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1452088608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book (fiction) tells an engaging original story an epic sweeping drama with character driven pictures During the 1930s Baron Jacques Chavalmont the wealthy and respected President and Chief Executive of an infl uential private merchant bank in Paris became concerned by developments in Germany and meticulously crafted a plan for the survival of his extended family should a war ensue. The Plan required the transfer of substantial assets bullion, currencies, art and jewelry for safekeeping in the Barons Bank (The Bancario di Milano) in Buenos Aires. The Baron arranged for his ambitious son-in-law Caetano di Rosario to manage the Bancario. The book narrates how its characters a disparate group of talented men and women from Italy, Germany, Latvia, and Entre Rios (Argentina): Caetano Di Rosario, his wife Marie-Helene, their son Alain, Max Elman and his paramour Francine, Dr. Manfred Lowen, and Kathleen McCloud (from Entre Rios) converged on Buenos Aires during the 1930s. It relates their dreams, hopes, frustrations, passions, romances, adultery, greed and dishonesty. It describes how the new Buenos Aires residents successfully adapted to their new environment and how their lives interacted over time against the backdrop of events (leading to and after the Second World War) which took place in England, France, Germany, Monte Carlo, Latvia, Israel and Buenos Aires. The immigrants never saw their loved families again Most had perished in the Holocaust After the end of the Second World War a small group of European family survivors sued Caetano di Rosario and the Bancario in Buenos Aires for the recovery of their families deposited assets. The fully described litigation process culminated in a most interesting denouement that directly aff ected Caetano, Marie-Helene, Alain, Kathleen, Manfred and Sandra
Author: Katie Schneider
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2001-10-15
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0767909410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJo Shepherd grew up on a farm in the Pacific Northwest under the loving care of her grandfather, Frank. After spending months nursing him through his final painful illness, Jo receives a vision of the Virgin Mary, who sends her to Italy to live out her dream of becoming an artist. In doing so, Jo must leave behind her home and her best friend Jack, and risk losing him forever. In Florence, Jo’s intense artistic visions begin to find fruition, but her odyssey is complicated when she meets Chad and Walter, two extraordinary young men. By day, Jo paints–women in a marketplace, the view of the Arno from the Piazzale Michelangelo. At night, both Chad and Walter vie for her attention. As the lives of these three friends become more deeply entwined, the revelation of painful secrets threatens to destroy their delicate balance. It isn’t until Jo returns home that she begins to face up to the legacy of her time in Italy, her very real grief for the grandfather she lost, and the prospect of a future with or without Jack.
