Vintage Talk
Author: Dennis Schaefer
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780884963608
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2009-08-11
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0307373088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.
The Vintage
Author: Edward Frederic Benson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNauplia, huddled together on the edge of its glittering bay, and grilled beneath the hot stress of the midsummer noon, stood silent as a city of the dead. Down the middle of the main street, leading up from the quay to the square, lay a scorching ribbon of sunshine, and the narrow strips of shadow, sharp cut and blue, spoke of the South. Along one side of the square ran the barracks of the Turkish garrison of occupation, two-storied buildings of brown stone, solid but airless, and faced with a line of arcade. These contained the three companies of men who were stationed in the town itself, less fortunate in this oven of heat than the main part of the garrison who held the airier fortress of Palamede behind, overlooking the plain from a height of five hundred feet.
Vintage Murakami
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0307430014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. “Murakami’s bold willingness to go straight over the top is a signal indication of his genius. . . . A world-class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks.” —The Washington Post Book World Not since Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata has a Japanese writer won the international acclaim enjoyed by Haruki Murakami. His genre-busting novels, short stories and reportage, which have been translated into 35 languages, meld the surreal and the hard-boiled, deadpan comedy and delicate introspection. Vintage Murakami includes the opening chapter of the international bestseller Norwegian Wood; “Lieutenant Mamiya’s Long Story: Parts I and II” from his monumental novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; “Shizuko Akashi” from Underground, his non-fiction book on the Toyko subway attack of 1995; and the short stories “Barn Burning,” “Honeypie.” Also included, for the first time in book form, the short story, “Ice Man.”
If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0525566120
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review). "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.
Vintage Guns
Author: Diggory Hadoke
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2008-03-17
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781602391987
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Miss Robinson
Author: Elizabeth Baker
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorgie B. Goode Vintage Trailer Mysteries Books 6-10
Author: Marg McAlister
Publisher: Blue Gem Publishing
Published: 2016-10-24
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL READS!” Take one eighth-generation gypsy who is unwilling to admit that she has a gift for foretelling the future. Add a likable and slightly eccentric group of friends who love the retro lifestyle and follow Georgie into one madcap adventure after another… … and you have a foolproof recipe for a unique mystery series! Forget the body count - you won’t find dead bodies piling up here: just intriguing puzzles that need a gypsy fortune-teller (and her friends) to unravel the clues! ENJOY BOOKS 6-10 of the GEORGIE B. GOODE MYSTERY SERIES Book 6 - TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE: Twelve-year-old Charlotte Draper begs Georgie for help to clear her older brother, Ricky, of the crime of which he's been accused so he can be welcomed back into the family. After enlisting Tammy's help to infiltrate the Draper household, Georgie soon has a list of suspects. The question is, why would anyone want to frame Ricky, the eldest son and heir to the Draper fortune? What possible motive could they have? It's a challenge for Georgie and her Crystal Ball Investigation Team to find the answer, but they get there in the end with help from unexpected sources! Book 7 - AS GOOD AS IT GETS Behind the cheerful music, the clever stunts and the flamboyant costumes at Callaway’s Circus, there lurks a traitor: a heartless saboteur who wants to put the family out of business – at any cost. Weaving through enthusiastic crowds lining up at sideshows and watching performances in the Big Top, Georgie and her little band of amateur sleuths need to watch their backs while they walk a tightrope between feuding family members and employees. Book 8 - GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY Miss Molly, a lively septuagenarian beloved of everyone in the vintage trailer community, is in trouble. Her finances have taken a disastrous turn, and she is now facing the prospect of losing the home she has lived in for fifty years. Someone close to Molly is to blame for this situation - but who? Is it the thief one of the waifs and strays that she welcomes into her home, or is it someone professing to be a good friend? Book 9 - GOOD VIBRATIONS Georgie is really looking forward to a week’s relaxation by the sea with no work and no worries — just sun, sea and sky at a 60s-style beach party with her friends. It sounds too good to be true! And unfortunately… it is. She agrees to help locate a missing child, but then her nemesis,TV presenter Jaxx Saxby, turns up to complicate her life. Georgie has never had so much on her plate! Book 10 - A ROCKING GOOD CHRISTMAS Georgie doesn't usually stop for hitchhikers, but she is sure that Santa Claus is a pretty safe bet! Unfortunately, she's wrong - but by the time she realizes she's in big trouble, it's all too late. Nobody knows where she is… and she has no way of contacting them. This is absolutely the worst mess she's ever been in. Nothing in her life has prepared her for this!
White Flights
Author: Jess Row
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1555978819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties “white flight”—the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns—to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. White Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean, he asks, if writers used fiction “to approach each other again”? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin, Dorothy Allison, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music, film, and literature in its arguments, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.
