Stuart A Life Backwards

Author : Alexander Masters
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0440336120
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuart: A Life Backwards written by Alexander Masters and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary book, Alexander Masters has created a moving portrait of a troubled man, an unlikely friendship, and a desperate world few ever see. A gripping who-done-it journey back in time, it begins with Masters meeting a drunken Stuart lying on a sidewalk in Cambridge, England, and leads through layers of hell…back through crimes and misdemeanors, prison and homelessness, suicide attempts, violence, drugs, juvenile halls and special schools–to expose the smiling, gregarious thirteen-year-old boy who was Stuart before his long, sprawling, dangerous fall. Shocking, inspiring, and hilarious by turns, Stuart: A Life Backwards is a writer’s quest to give voice to a man who, beneath his forbidding exterior, has a message for us all: that every life–even the most chaotic and disreputable–is a story worthy of being told.

Author : Alexander Masters
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374178186
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life Discarded written by Alexander Masters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An unorthodox investigative literary biography of a mysterious graphomaniac whose nearly 150 diaries are rescued from a dumpster by the author"--

Author : Alexander Masters
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 034553221X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simon written by Alexander Masters and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Masters tripped over his first book subject on a Cambridge sidewalk, and the result was the multi-award-winning bestseller Stuart: A Life Backwards. His second, he’s found under his floorboards. One of the greatest mathematical prodigies of the twentieth century, Simon Norton stomps around Alexander’s basement in semidarkness, dodging between stalagmites of bus timetables and engorged plastic bags, eating tinned kippers stirred into packets of Bombay mix. Simon is exploring a theoretical puzzle so complex and critical to our understanding of the universe that it is known as the Monster. It looks like a sudoku table—except a sudoku table has nine columns of numbers. The Monster has 808017424794512875886459904961710757005754368000000000 columns. But that’s not the whole story. What’s inside the decaying sports bag he never lets out of his clutches? Why does he hurtle out of the house in the middle of the night? And—good God!—what is that noxious smell that creeps up the stairwell? Grumpy, poignant, comical—more intimate than either the author or his quarry intended—Simon: The Genius in My Basement is the story of a friendship and a pursuit. Part biography, part memoir, and part popular science, it is a study of the frailty of brilliance, the measures of happiness, and Britain’s most uncooperative egghead eccentric.

Author : Stephen McGann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681888033
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call the Midwife: A Labour of Love written by Stephen McGann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Learn the up-close and personal story of Call the Midwife as told by the cast and crew."--

Author : Andrea Ashworth
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330450089
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once in a House on Fire written by Andrea Ashworth and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the most extraordinary stories you will ever read of the triumph of the human spirit' Daily MailSet in 1970s Manchester, Once in a House on Fire tells the true story of three sisters and their mother, a close-knit and loving family forced to battle with poverty, abuse and the effects of depression. Beautifully written and deeply inspiring, with a new afterword by Andrea Ashworth, it is a book that will stay with its readers for ever.

Author : Jay Michaelson
Publisher : Ben Yehuda Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment by Trial and Error written by Jay Michaelson and published by Ben Yehuda Press. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “spiritual but not religious” are the fastest-growing denomination on America today. Yet what are the roadmaps? What does the spiritual search look like for a seeker in 21st century America, fully plugged-in, online, cynical, and sincere? Enlightenment by Trial and Error is a unique book by bestselling author and Daily Beast columnist Jay Michaelson. Today, Michaelson is a rabbi with a PhD in Jewish Thought, a teacher on the Ten Percent Happier meditation app, and a political columnist read by a quarter million readers per month. But not long ago, Jay was a young spiritual seeker, pursuing mystical experiences (and even enlightenment) with an open heart and restless intellectual curiosity. Drawn from essays written over a ten-year period of questioning and exploration, this book is a unique record of the spiritual search, from the perspective of someone who made plenty of mistakes along the way.

Author : James Haydock
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784188395
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tom Hardy - Rise of a Legend written by James Haydock and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE IS A MAN BLAZING A TRAIL ACROSS THE SILVER SCREEN, DELIVERING PERFORMANCES OF SUCH ELECTRIC INTENSITY THAT HE HAS UNITED CRITICS AND CASUAL MOVIEGOERS ALIKE. THAT MAN IS TOM HARDY.Starring roles as Britain’s most dangerous prisoner in Bronson, both Kray twins in Legend and the villainous brute Bane in The Dark Knight Rises have showcased his raw talent, edginess and ability to utterly inhabit his characters. He has also cemented his status as that rare thing: the man that women want and men want to be. His appeal is endless.But things weren’t always so promising. Cloistered in a life of suburban predictability, a teenage Tom began getting his thrills from drugs and petty crime. He made his first mark in the award-winning series Band of Brothers but, in 2003, Tom collapsed on the streets of Soho, brought low by drug abuse. Yet, with the single-minded commitment that has come to characterise his acting performances, Tom banished his demons once and for all.Now, with the title role in the long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road under his belt, and Hollywood at his feet, there is just no stopping this magnetic figure. This affectionate and in-depth biography reveals all the faces of Tom Hardy: the wayward boy he was, the driven professional he now is and the all-time legend he is sure to become.

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062408216
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stuart Little written by E. B. White and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic story by E. B. White, author of the Newbery Honor Book Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan, about one small mouse on a very big adventure. Now available as an ebook! Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure. Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend? Stuart Little joins E. B. White favorites Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan as classic illustrated novels that continue to speak to today's readers. Whether you curl up with your young reader to share these books or hand them off for independent reading, you are helping to create what are likely to be all-time favorite reading memories.

Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101871873
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine written by Alan Lightman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams—“an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science" (The New York Times Book Review). As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger than himself—an eternal unity, something absolute and immaterial. The result is an inspired, lyrical meditation from the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams that explores these seemingly contradictory impulses. Lightman draws on sources ranging from Saint Augustine's conception of absolute truth to Einstein's theory of relativity, and gives us a profound inquiry into the human desire for truth and meaning, and a journey along the different paths of religion and science that become part of that quest. This small but provocative book explores the tension between our yearning for certainty and permanence versus the modern scientific view that all things in the physical world are uncertain and impermanent.

Author : Heather Love
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067403239X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling Backward written by Heather Love and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Feeling Backward' weighs the cost of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. It makes an effort to value aspects of historical gay experience that now threaten to disappear, branded as embarrassing evidence of the bad old days before Stonewall. Love argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward.