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Author : Edward Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030755872X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Observatory Mansions written by Edward Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form." -- John Fowles, author of The Magus Observatory Mansions, once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral home set on beautiful grounds, is now a crumbling apartment block stranded on a traffic island, peopled with eccentrics. Thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions with his peculiar parents and a collection of misfits. By day he is a street performer, earning money as "a statue of whiteness" in the park, wearing white gloves to ensure that his skin never touches anything. He steals items for his museum of significant objects (996 in all), not for their monetary value but because they have been loved, often bringing grief to their erstwhile owners. His bedridden mother, Alice, who has created for herself an alternative time frame called "fiction," and his father, Francis, are among the occupants set apart from the rest of the busy city by their histories, their memories, and their relationships with the other seven inhabitants of the flats. Each of the house dwellers has his or her own story, as seen through Francis's eyes, and the careful routine and harmony of the house are shaken when along comes a new resident, the half-blind, vulnerable Anna Tap. She is sympathetic and resourceful, and slowly the desperately lonely residents begin to open up their long-closed hearts. As the delicate balance of Observatory Mansions begins to shift, Francis finds himself having to protect the secrets of his past and the sanctity of his collection, while growing emotionally closer to Anna. Hailed as no less than a tour de force, Observatory Mansions is a debut novel of immense originality--a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.

Author : Marsha Burris
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0991444329
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miracles All Around Me written by Marsha Burris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Miracles All Around Me ? The Unexpected Gifts of My Mother's Alzheimer's, the author choronicles her role as primary caregiver to her mother who struggled with early onset Alzheimer's the final decade of her life while also confronting the challenges of her father's stroke and her brother's suicide. Help and guidance appeared along the way and surprisingly revealed silver linings to the dark clouds of emotional pain that is involved in end-of-life issues. This is a candid, gritty, and often witty account of negotiating nursing homes, hospice, funeral homes, doctors, lawyers, the Veterans Administration and Social Security. Marsha Burris? array of experiences prompted an interest in Reiki and other alternative medicine approaches and produced a growth in the maturity of her spirituality.

Author : Editors of Canterbury Classics
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1667202928
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disney: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas written by Editors of Canterbury Classics and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The screenplay and lyrics from Disney: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas—along with hundreds of behind-the-scenes facts, illustrations, and historical details from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library—are all collected in these pages. Experience your favorite stop-motion animated film in a new way with this special edition of Disney: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. This handsome hardcover book includes both the full film script and the complete song lyrics, along with hundreds of behind-the-scenes facts about the production and development of the film, including details about how the puppets were constructed and animated. All this is brought to life with photographs, original sketches, final frames, and historical images from the Walt Disney Animation Research Library. Readers will enjoy an in-depth experience of this beloved classic and gain a deeper appreciation for the animators, musicians, and voice actors who brought the story of Halloween Town to the screen.

Author : Al Lacy
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307780457
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn of Glory written by Al Lacy and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Battle of Chancellorsville, four soldiers risk their lives to come to the aid of their friend Rance Dayton while he is under fire. An official commendation from General Stonewall Jackson follows, and the four are proclaimed heroes. But in a matter of days, their lives change drastically when the four mistake General Jackson and other approaching riders for Union soldiers and open fire. Jackson is killed and the four former heroes, now hounded and shamed, head west and turn to lives of crime. And it is Rance Dayton, now a U.S. marshal, who must bring the outlaws to justice.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : NorthWord Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781559718417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna's Table written by Eve Bunting and published by NorthWord Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna describes the collection of natural things she keeps on the table in her bedroom.

Author : Jason Reid
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640921X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Get Out of My Room! written by Jason Reid and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody has a teen bedroom story. The teen bedroom has universally been regarded as a safe haven for adolescents from all classes and backgrounds, and a near-sacred space that s basically off-limits to everyone but its teenage occupants (and their invited guests). But it s a relatively recent Western phenomenon that assumed a prominent role in socializing teens and shaping their identities during the years following World War II. As part of the identity-shaping process, the teen bedroom became a safe space for teens to express their growing consumer power, parallel to the emergence of youth subcultures after the War. Reid tracks the history of bedrooms for children back to the Civil War period, though the bulk of his research stretches from the late 1950s through the beginning of the 21st century. The rock posters, stuffed animals, and record players that found their way into teen bedroom during this period represent ways in which tends became major contributors to the postwar consumer economy. Reid by no means neglects popular culture, in the meantime, detailing the ways in which the teen bedroom appeared in song, film, television, and literature. It was often portrayed as a space of personal development and self-expression, but also as a site profound loneliness and romantic longing. To quote the Beach Boys 1963 hit song In My Room, the postwar teen bedroom featured just as much sighing and crying as it did scheming and dreaming. "

Author : Tricia McCary Rhodes
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418514799
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemplating the Cross written by Tricia McCary Rhodes and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-01-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few times of year lend themselves to pilgrimage and contemplation like Easter. For forty days, Christians have before them the opportunity to examine their own path and compare it with the incredible journey undertaken by Christ, from the agony of the garden to the glory of the resurrection. By sharing her journey, Tricia Rhodes provides the tools to cultivate the cross within and the inspiration to accept the Father's summons to kneel in its shadow. Scripture and daily exercises gently nourish the spiritual traveler, while journal pages wait to hold the story of personal reflection. More encompassing than a devotional, more intimate than a mere yardstick of faith, Contemplating the Cross will become a treasured keepsake. "May God touch your deepest soul and brand you with the fire of His devotion as you contemplate the cross of Christ." Tricia Rhodes

Author : Joe Orlando
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683960319
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thing from the Grave written by Joe Orlando and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special collection features more than 30 EC classics from the pages of Tales From the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Shock SuspenStories, Impact, and Crime SuspenStories. Of special note is Orlando’s “The Monkey,” the classic realistic EC story about drug addiction, considered to be one of the most cautionary of “the preachies,” and Orlando’s adaptation of Bradbury’s eerily haunting “The Lake,” about a childhood tragedy. This volume also includes the title story “The Thing From the Grave,” a special Orlando frightfest originally printed in 3-D that hasn’t been seen since its original publication more than 60 years ago (and is presented here for the first time in easy-on-the-eyes 2-D). Plus all of Orlando’s Panic stories, including parodies of Mother Goose, TV commercials, and soap operas. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library, The Thing From the Grave And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic American comics.

Author : Владимир Павлоцкий
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041295298
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Проверь свой английский / Test your english written by Владимир Павлоцкий and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-04-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Пособие предназначено для тренировки контроля качества знаний по современному английскому языку. Методика и уровень контроля соответствуют современным требованиям, предъявляемым к изучающим язык на уровнях Intermediate и Upper-Intermediate. Включает в себя тесты по грамматике, на использование фразовых глаголов, комплексные тесты на использование языка, тесты на знание тематического словаря и задания по чтению. Все задания снабжены ключами.Предназначено для выпускников гимназий и школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, а также студентов вузов.

Author : C. A. Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malabar and Anjengo written by C. A. Innes and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: