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Bonobo Handshake

Author : Vanessa Woods
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2011-06-07
ISBN 10 : 9781101528839
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (11 users)

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Rich and Poor in Grenoble 1600 - 1814

Author : Kathryn Norberg
Publisher : University of California Press
Release Date : 2021-01-08
ISBN 10 : 9780520360426
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (52 users)

Download Rich and Poor in Grenoble 1600 - 1814 PDF Full or another Format written by Kathryn Norberg and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Where the Treetops Glisten

Author : C-Mac Dyal
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-06-09
ISBN 10 : 9781503562790
Pages : 302 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (53 users)

Download Where the Treetops Glisten PDF Full or another Format written by C-Mac Dyal and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a couple takes a snowmobile ride in the high country of Utah, they take pictures of their adventure. After enlarging and framing some of the pictures, there is a smudge on one that won’t wipe off. Upon further investigation, the smudge turns out to be human fingers sticking up out of the snow. The couple then begins another adventure, finding out there is more than meets the eye. Follow Claudine and Lexi Dakota as they slowly uncover what will turn out to be an unexpected end.

The Livres-souvenirs of Colette

Author : Anne Freadman
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
ISBN 10 : 9781351542890
Pages : 191 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (351 users)

Download The Livres-souvenirs of Colette PDF Full or another Format written by Anne Freadman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her 'livres-souvenirs', are far from being autobiographies in the customary sense. By addressing the need to reconsider the generic issues surrounding autobiographical story-telling, Anne Freadman's study brings the richness of 'the genre question' to the fore, shedding a fresh light on this much-loved body of work. From the vignettes ofLa Maison de Claudineto the note-books ofL'etoile vesper andLe Fanal bleu, from stories of losing to stories of collecting, Colette's memory books take different narrative forms and explore the passing of time in different ways. This book investigates Colette's variegated generic choices as so many ways of 'telling time'.

France, Switzerland, Geneva

Author : Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné
Publisher :
Release Date : 1880
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015049271045
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)

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The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays

Author : David Adjmi
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-05-23
ISBN 10 : 9781408157022
Pages : 528 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (48 users)

Download The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays PDF Full or another Format written by David Adjmi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.

A Start in Life

Author : Alan Sillitoe
Publisher : Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-08-09
ISBN 10 : 9781504038560
Pages : 381 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (54 users)

Download A Start in Life PDF Full or another Format written by Alan Sillitoe and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outrageously funny novel of adventure, sex, corruption, and crime from one of the greatest British authors of the twentieth century. Michael Cullen is proud to be a bastard. His first memories are of the war, when his mother welcomed every soldier in Britain into her house, and young Michael hid beneath her bed to let the rocking of the springs lull him to sleep. By the time he’s eighteen, he’s got a pregnant girlfriend, and is staring down a long life of working-class respectability that simply makes him sick. So Michael says goodbye to his girlfriend and his home in Nottingham, and hits the road for London, where he will make his fortune—or die trying. From the nightclubs of Soho to the depths of London’s underworld, Michael can’t help but get into trouble. But whether he’s chauffeuring a vicious gangster or smuggling gold bullion across the channel, he never stops having a wonderful time. Indeed, Michael is something else entirely: a happy bastard with nothing to lose. A rollicking picaresque novel by the legendary author of such classics of kitchen sink realism as The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Start in Life is one of the funniest British novels of the twentieth century. A Start in Life is the 1st book in the Michael Cullen Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. “A Start in Life is, for my money, the best novel that Sillitoe has yet written.” —New Statesman “The kind of hilarious nonsense that keeps you riveted to deck-chair or arm-chair, depending on the season.” —The Daily Telegraph Praise for Alan Sillitoe “The master of British verbal architecture.” —Rolling Stone Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright, known for his honest, humorous, and acerbic accounts of working-class life. Sillitoe served four years in the Royal Air Force and lived for six years in France and Spain, before returning to England. His first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, was published in 1958 and was followed by a collection of short stories, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, which won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. With over fifty volumes to his name, Sillitoe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.

Court of Appeals: Claudine B. Weed, vs. Van Wyck Hewlett

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1891
ISBN 10 : LLMC:NYAA3QFLJ502
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.A/5 ( users)

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Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South

Author : Tim Gautreaux
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-03-18
ISBN 10 : 9781444714593
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (444 users)

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Stepping Stone

Author : Liv Arnold
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Release Date : 2022-07-11
ISBN 10 : 9781509241378
Pages : 278 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (59 users)

Download Stepping Stone PDF Full or another Format written by Liv Arnold and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every time Jenna Kravitz sees her sex on a stick ex-husband, she still craves him like he's a hotdog with all the fillings. They were soulmates, meant to grow old together…before his freight train wreck dropped her off at despair station. As if that weren't enough, she's tasked with finding her employer's hacker, which might be the colleague whipping up her innermost fantasies. Marco Kravitz returned from Afghanistan with PTSD. In a moment of lapsed judgment, he ruins his marriage. So, when his ex-wife proposes they have kinky fun, he accepts. After all, she can't help being drawn to his gigantic...brain. How could his plan to win back the mother of his children possibly go wrong? He must rise to the occasion. She has to swallow her pride.

The Ladies' Repository

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 1866
ISBN 10 : HARVARD:32044092663830
Pages : 884 pages
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The Bizarre Biloxi Bazaar

Author : Mouise Thomas Richards
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-10-09
ISBN 10 : 9781479721818
Pages : 177 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (479 users)

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The Short Story and the First World War

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-31
ISBN 10 : 9781107038431
Pages : 219 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (17 users)

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First French Reader

Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-08-31
ISBN 10 : 9780486119496
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (486 users)

Download First French Reader PDF Full or another Format written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology introduces 50 legendary writers — Voltaire, Balzac, Baudelaire, Proust, more — through passages from The Red and the Black, Les Misérables, Madame Bovary, and other classics. Original French text plus English translation on facing pages.

Return to Paris

Author : Colette Rossant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-11
ISBN 10 : 0743442814
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (442 users)

Download Return to Paris PDF Full or another Format written by Colette Rossant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especially after her thrill-seeking mother leaves her in the care of her bitter, malaisé grandmother. Yet Paris will prove the place where Colette awakens to her senses. Taken under the wing of Mademoiselle Georgette, the family chef, she develops a taste and talent for French cooking. The streets of Paris soon become Colette's own as she navigates the outdoor markets and café menus and emerges into her new, gastronomical self. Return to Paris is an extraordinary coming-of-age story that charts the course of Colette's culinary adventures -- replete with expertly crafted recipes and family photographs. An exploration of passion in all its flavor and texture, Colette's memoir will live in the hearts and palates of readers for years to come.

The Second Sex

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2014-06-05
ISBN 10 : 9781446442715
Pages : 864 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (446 users)

Download The Second Sex PDF Full or another Format written by Simone de Beauvoir and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIER ANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID 'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence. Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology, The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.

On the Cusp

Author : Margaret Gosley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-01-03
ISBN 10 : 9781543488029
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (543 users)

Download On the Cusp PDF Full or another Format written by Margaret Gosley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is about the adventures of a perpetual outsider. She is unsure of who she should be. Through the accident of her birth, the author records the changing values of the times she lived through. There are many stories of adopted children and their struggle with identity. Uniquely, the author inherited her birth mothers notebooks and is able to include her voice along with her own. She is at times chaotic and always uncertain as to who she should be. Only late in life does she find resolution as to the meaning of identity.