A Fine Madness

Author : Alan Judd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643139126
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fine Madness written by Alan Judd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating espionage novel that explores the life of theatrical genius—and spy—Christopher Marlowe, whose violent death remains one of the most fascinating mysteries of the Elizabethan Age. In Elizabethan England, the queen’s chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward off Catholic plots and an ever-present threat of invasion from Spain. One agent in particular—a young Cambridge undergraduate of humble origins, controversial beliefs, and literary genius who goes by the name of Kit Marlowe—is relentless in his pursuit of intelligence for the Crown. When he is killed outside an inn in Deptford, his mysterious death becomes the subject of rumor and suspicion that are never satisfactorily resolved. Years later, when Thomas Phelippes, a former colleague of Marlowe’s, finds himself imprisoned in the Tower of London, there is one thing that might give him his freedom back. He must give the king every detail he is able to recall about his murdered friend’s life—and death. But why is King James so fascinated about Kit Marlowe—and does Phelippes know enough to secure his own redemption?

Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156001458
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winterdance written by Gary Paulsen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paulsen and his team of dogs endured snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, and hallucinations in the relentless push to go on. Map and color photographs.

Author : ALAN. JUDD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471180224
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Author : Mashingaidze Gomo
Publisher : Ayebia Clarke Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780956240149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fine Madness written by Mashingaidze Gomo and published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a masterful work...I found it powerful, as powerful as the fiction of the early Dambudzo Marechera."---Simon Gikandi, Princeton University, USA. --

Author : Elliott Baker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463458487
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fine Madness written by Elliott Baker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINE MADNESS is about a creative spirit's struggle for survival in an analytical society. Samson Shillitoe, Is (according to Shelly's definition) one of "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." But poetry does not rule our world and his obsession with completing his epic poem leads to his violating most accepted standards of behavior and into conflicts, both comic and deadly, with adversaries intent on making him "normal." Since A FINE MADNESS was published in 1964 it has achieved the status of a modern comedy classic. This new edition contains a preface by the author which will add To The reader's enjoyment. "I cannot imagine anyone reading A FINE MADNESS without his vision being sharpened and dignified." – New York Times Book Review

Author : Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979949159
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gentle Madness written by Nicholas A. Basbanes and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentle Madness continues to astound and delight readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. The book captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Author : James Brown
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582438730
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Los Angeles Diaries written by James Brown and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, and heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises, and despair. In The Los Angeles Diaries, he reveals his struggle for survival, mining his past to present the inspiring story of his redemption. Beautifully written and limned with dark humor, these twelve deeply confessional, interconnected chapters address personal failure, heartbreak, the trials of writing for Hollywood, and the life–shattering events that finally convinced Brown that he must "change or die." In "Snapshot," Brown is five years old and recalls the night his mother "sets fire to an apartment building down the street." In "Daisy," Brown purchases a Vietnamese potbellied pig for his wife to atone for his sins, only to find the pig's bulk growing in direct proportion to the tensions in his marriage. Harrowing and brutally honest, The Los Angeles Diaries is the chronicle of a man on a collision course with life, who ultimately finds the strength and courage to conquer his demons and believe once more.

Author : Jacki Lyden
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547745710
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughter of the Queen of Sheba written by Jacki Lyden and published by HMH. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of growing up with a mentally ill mother “belongs on a shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars’ Club and Angela’s Ashes” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zones—but her childhood was a war zone of a different kind. Lyden’s mother suffered from what is now called bipolar disorder or manic depression. But in a small Wisconsin town in the sixties and seventies she was simply “crazy.” In her delusions, Lyden’s mother was a woman of power: Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba. But in reality, she had married the nefarious local doctor, who drugged her to keep her moods in check and terrorized the children to keep them quiet. Holding their lives together was Lyden’s hardscrabble Irish grandmother, a woman who had her first child at the age of fourteen and lost her husband in a barroom brawl. In this memoir, Lyden vividly captures the seductive energy of her mother’s delusions and the effect they had on her own life. She paints a portrait of three remarkable women—mother, daughter, and grandmother—revealing their obstinate devotion to one another against all odds, and their scrappy genius for survival. “What distinguishes Daughter of the Queen of Sheba from any other book about dysfunctional parents . . . and turns this exotic memoir into compelling literature is the dreamy poetry of Lyden’s prose. In graceful imagery as original (and occasionally as highly wrought) as her mother’s costumes, Lyden—a senior correspondent for National Public Radio—loops and loops again around the central fact of her mother’s manic depression and how that illness shaped Lyden’s life growing up with two younger sisters, a scrappy Irish grandmother (whose memory she holds like ‘a cotton rag around a cut’), a father who left, and a hated stepfather.” —Entertainment Weekly

Author : Elliott Baker
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fine Madness written by Elliott Baker and published by New American Library of Canada. This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel.

Author : Martin F. Caldwell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491737891
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PARARESCUE ITS a FINE MADNESS! written by Martin F. Caldwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest days of the earliest wars, there have been those Who would place themselves in harms way to save the lives of both comrades and total strangers. None of them, however, have been as dedicated to saving others pararescue jumpers. In the mid 1960s, airmen Joe Garvy and Lee Davis have entered training, along with many other recruits, to become pararescue jumpers. Being a PJ will mean constantly putting themselves into life-or-death situations in the jungles of Vietnam—and that’s assuming they can even make it through the training. This novel follows a group of young men as they make the journey into the career field of pararescue. During this all-consuming time, they discover how far they can push themselves as they complete eighteen months of training and become members of the pararescue brotherhood. They graduate from training dedicated to the simple creed: these things we do that others may live.