Perfect Days

Author : Raphael Montes
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143129996
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect Days written by Raphael Montes and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver—that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk her, first following her to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, he kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay. Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But as the journey progresses, he digs himself deeper and deeper into a pit that he can't get out of, stopping at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together. Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley—a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a psychopath, and the English language debut of one of Brazil's most deliciously dark young writers.

Author : Ira Levin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605989363
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Perfect Day written by Ira Levin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Rosemary‘s Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine. Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World—Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication. The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will—men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night. With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin's most haunting novels.

Author : Lane Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1626725365
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Day written by Lane Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect day means different things to different animals in Bert's backyard in this droll tale from bestselling, Caldecott Honor-winner Lane Smith.

Author : Rebecca Mead
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143113843
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Perfect Day written by Rebecca Mead and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry-an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding becomes ever more lavish and complex. Taking us inside the workings of the wedding industry-including the swelling ranks of professional event planners, department stores with their online registries, the retailers and manufacturers of bridal gowns, and the Walt Disney Company and its Fairy Tale Weddings program-New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead skillfully holds the mirror up to the bride's deepest hopes and fears about her wedding day, revealing that for better or worse, the way we marry is who we are.

Author : Stephen Manes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780899190648
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! written by Stephen Manes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1982 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of perfection, Milo Crinkley earnestly tries to follow the loony instructions he finds in a library books--and learns that there are more important things in life than being perfect. "Manes' style (is) reminiscent of Daniel Pinkwater's topped with a dash of Kurt Vonnegut . . . awfully funny".--Booklist.

Author : Lauraine Snelling
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 0446544582
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Perfect Day written by Lauraine Snelling and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two mothers, strangers to one another. The first has two children -- twins, a boy and girl, who are seniors in high school. She wants their last Christmas as a family living in the same home to be perfect, but her husband is delayed returning from a business trip abroad. And then there's an accident -- a fatal one involving a drunk driver. Meanwhile, the other mother has a daughter who needs a new heart, and so the loss of one woman becomes the miracle the other has desperately prayed for. While one mother grieves, and pulls away from her family, the other finds that even miracles aren't always easy to receive.

Author : Charles Rawlings-Way
Publisher : Urbane Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781911331414
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing Ever Happens written by Charles Rawlings-Way and published by Urbane Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow band Del Amitri have sold more than six million albums. Their 1995 single Roll To Me cracked the Top 10 in the US, and five of their albums went Top 10 in the UK. But as yet there hasn t been anything substantial written about the band...until now! From ambition to success, this is the complete story of Del Amitri's rise from initial formation through six albums that took them to global recognition. From early Peel sessions, to touring with Morrissey; to appearing on Letterman and cracking the US, the book follows every up and down of the band s incredible career, as well as providing unique and original insights into their personalities and music.

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395664162
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Father's Day written by Eve Bunting and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When four year old Susie treats her father to a series of special activities on Father's Day, they just happen to be all of her own favorite things.

Author : Tori Finch
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN 13 : 9781788790802
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Day for a Picnic written by Tori Finch and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 80 delicious recipes presented in creative themed menus for portable feasts to share outdoors with family and friends. Tori Finch understands the joys of a carefree picnic. There’s nothing quite like eating outdoors to capture a sense of adventure and add a little excitement to the feast. Whether you are entertaining a relaxed crowd or preparing a surprise romantic feast for two, hopping on your bike to work up an appetite, hitting the beach for a cook-out, or walking on a frosty day with a flask of hot soup; these all appear in themed menus, each featuring recipes for delicious, portable food as well as drinks to serve alongside. Wherever you are, whatever the occasion, armed with this book you will always pack the perfect picnic!

Author : Janet Elizabeth Rickert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russ and the Almost Perfect Day written by Janet Elizabeth Rickert and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russ, a student with Down syndrome, is having a perfect day until he realizes that the five-dollar bill he has found probably belongs to a classmate.