Author: Bertram Mitford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361428101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Fordham's Feud" by Bertram Mitford immerses readers into the heart of South African literature, offering a riveting adventure set amidst the colonial era. Mitford, a distinguished British author, weaves a captivating tale of historical fiction, depicting the African setting with vivid detail and authenticity. In this action-packed novel, readers are transported to the frontier life of colonial Africa, where tribal conflict simmers beneath the surface. The narrative unfolds with an exploration of the intricate cultural clashes between colonizers and indigenous peoples, painting a rich tapestry of intrigue and tension. Against the backdrop of the African wilderness, Mitford's characters navigate a landscape fraught with danger and uncertainty. The plot is driven by an intense feud that ignites passions and propels the story forward with relentless momentum. Through Mitford's exploration narrative, readers are treated to a captivating journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. The novel delves deep into the complexities of colonial dynamics, shedding light on the challenges and conflicts inherent in the colonial enterprise. With its blend of adventure, historical insight, and cultural exploration, "Fordham's Feud" stands as a testament to Mitford's skill as a storyteller and his ability to transport readers to a bygone era in South African history.
Paris in Love
Author: Eloisa James
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889223
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
After years of living vicariously through the heroines in her novels, bestselling author Eloisa James takes a leap that most of us can only daydream about. She sells her house, leaves her job as a Shakespeare professor, and packs her husband and two protesting children off to Paris. Grand plans are abandoned as she falls under the spell of daily life as a Parisienne — exquisite food, long walks by the seine, reading in bed, displays of effortless chic around every corner, and being reminded of what really matters in a place where people seem to kiss all the time. Against one of the world’s most picturesque backdrops, she copes with her Italian husband’s notions of quality time; her two hilarious children, ages eleven and fifteen, as they navigate schools — not to mention puberty — in a foreign language; and her formidable mother-in-law, marina, who believes dogs should be fed prosciutto and wives should live in the kitchen. An irresistible love letter to a city that will make you want to head there, Paris in Love is also a joyful testament to the pleasures of savouring life.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889223
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
After years of living vicariously through the heroines in her novels, bestselling author Eloisa James takes a leap that most of us can only daydream about. She sells her house, leaves her job as a Shakespeare professor, and packs her husband and two protesting children off to Paris. Grand plans are abandoned as she falls under the spell of daily life as a Parisienne — exquisite food, long walks by the seine, reading in bed, displays of effortless chic around every corner, and being reminded of what really matters in a place where people seem to kiss all the time. Against one of the world’s most picturesque backdrops, she copes with her Italian husband’s notions of quality time; her two hilarious children, ages eleven and fifteen, as they navigate schools — not to mention puberty — in a foreign language; and her formidable mother-in-law, marina, who believes dogs should be fed prosciutto and wives should live in the kitchen. An irresistible love letter to a city that will make you want to head there, Paris in Love is also a joyful testament to the pleasures of savouring life.
Remember the Hand
Author: Catherine Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823298914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Remember the Hand is available from Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780823298914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Remember the Hand is available from Knowledge Unlatched on an open-access basis.
Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Author: C.G. Jung
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317530160
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 9887
Book Description
Contains revised versions of works previously published, works not previously translated, and new translations of virtually all of Jung's writings. Prior to his death he supervised the textual revision. Several of the volumes are extensively illustrated; each contains an index and most a bibliography.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317530160
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 9887
Book Description
Contains revised versions of works previously published, works not previously translated, and new translations of virtually all of Jung's writings. Prior to his death he supervised the textual revision. Several of the volumes are extensively illustrated; each contains an index and most a bibliography.
Halsey Street
Author: Naima Coster
Publisher: Platinum Spotlight Series
ISBN: 9781683248439
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"After her mother, Mirella, abandoned her family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic, Penelope Grand moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. When she receives a postcard from Mirella seeking reconciliation, old wounds are reopened, secrets revealed, and a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins"--
Publisher: Platinum Spotlight Series
ISBN: 9781683248439
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"After her mother, Mirella, abandoned her family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic, Penelope Grand moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. When she receives a postcard from Mirella seeking reconciliation, old wounds are reopened, secrets revealed, and a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins"--
Fordham's Feud
Author: Bertram Mitford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361428101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Fordham's Feud" by Bertram Mitford immerses readers into the heart of South African literature, offering a riveting adventure set amidst the colonial era. Mitford, a distinguished British author, weaves a captivating tale of historical fiction, depicting the African setting with vivid detail and authenticity. In this action-packed novel, readers are transported to the frontier life of colonial Africa, where tribal conflict simmers beneath the surface. The narrative unfolds with an exploration of the intricate cultural clashes between colonizers and indigenous peoples, painting a rich tapestry of intrigue and tension. Against the backdrop of the African wilderness, Mitford's characters navigate a landscape fraught with danger and uncertainty. The plot is driven by an intense feud that ignites passions and propels the story forward with relentless momentum. Through Mitford's exploration narrative, readers are treated to a captivating journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. The novel delves deep into the complexities of colonial dynamics, shedding light on the challenges and conflicts inherent in the colonial enterprise. With its blend of adventure, historical insight, and cultural exploration, "Fordham's Feud" stands as a testament to Mitford's skill as a storyteller and his ability to transport readers to a bygone era in South African history.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361428101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"Fordham's Feud" by Bertram Mitford immerses readers into the heart of South African literature, offering a riveting adventure set amidst the colonial era. Mitford, a distinguished British author, weaves a captivating tale of historical fiction, depicting the African setting with vivid detail and authenticity. In this action-packed novel, readers are transported to the frontier life of colonial Africa, where tribal conflict simmers beneath the surface. The narrative unfolds with an exploration of the intricate cultural clashes between colonizers and indigenous peoples, painting a rich tapestry of intrigue and tension. Against the backdrop of the African wilderness, Mitford's characters navigate a landscape fraught with danger and uncertainty. The plot is driven by an intense feud that ignites passions and propels the story forward with relentless momentum. Through Mitford's exploration narrative, readers are treated to a captivating journey filled with unexpected twists and turns. The novel delves deep into the complexities of colonial dynamics, shedding light on the challenges and conflicts inherent in the colonial enterprise. With its blend of adventure, historical insight, and cultural exploration, "Fordham's Feud" stands as a testament to Mitford's skill as a storyteller and his ability to transport readers to a bygone era in South African history.
Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
Author: Sonia Manzano
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545621860
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545621860
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Pura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.
Fordham College Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Student publications
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Student publications
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Memory and Complicity
Author: Debarati Sanyal
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823265501
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a “memory-in-complicity” attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject positions such as victim, perpetrator, witness, and reader/spectator. Examining a range of works from Albert Camus, Primo Levi, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Paul Sartre to Jonathan Littell, Assia Djebar, Giorgio Agamben, and Boualem Sansal, Memory and Complicity develops an inquiry into the political force and ethical dangers of such implications, contrasting them with contemporary models for thinking about trauma and violence and offering an extended meditation on the role of aesthetic form, especially allegory, within acts of transhistorical remembrance. What are the political benefits and ethical risks of invoking the memory of one history in order to address another? What is the role of complicity in making these connections? How does complicity, rather than affect based discourses of trauma, shame and melancholy, open a critical engagement with the violence of history? What is it about literature and film that have made them such powerful vehicles for this kind of connective memory work? As it offers new readings of some of the most celebrated and controversial novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights from the French-speaking world, Memory and Complicity addresses these questions in order to reframe the way we think about historical memory and its political uses today.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823265501
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls a “memory-in-complicity” attuned to the gray zones that implicate different regimes of violence across history as well as those of different subject positions such as victim, perpetrator, witness, and reader/spectator. Examining a range of works from Albert Camus, Primo Levi, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Paul Sartre to Jonathan Littell, Assia Djebar, Giorgio Agamben, and Boualem Sansal, Memory and Complicity develops an inquiry into the political force and ethical dangers of such implications, contrasting them with contemporary models for thinking about trauma and violence and offering an extended meditation on the role of aesthetic form, especially allegory, within acts of transhistorical remembrance. What are the political benefits and ethical risks of invoking the memory of one history in order to address another? What is the role of complicity in making these connections? How does complicity, rather than affect based discourses of trauma, shame and melancholy, open a critical engagement with the violence of history? What is it about literature and film that have made them such powerful vehicles for this kind of connective memory work? As it offers new readings of some of the most celebrated and controversial novelists, filmmakers, and playwrights from the French-speaking world, Memory and Complicity addresses these questions in order to reframe the way we think about historical memory and its political uses today.
The Amos Walker Mysteries Volume One
Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504047427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
The first three mysteries featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker from the Shamus Award–winning “Stravinsky of hard-boiled prose” (John Lescroart). Four-time Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award finalist Loren D. Estleman launches an irresistible mystery series for “readers who can’t get enough of Elmore Leonard and Ross Thomas” (People). Motor City Blue: Vietnam vet, private investigator, and Bogart fan Amos Walker is scratching out a living looking for lost things in Detroit when he’s asked to find the adopted daughter of an ex-mobster. The only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot of the missing girl. Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder case of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution. Angel Eyes: Ann Maringer, an aging stripper still grinding in Detroit’s low-end dives, hires Amos Walker to locate a missing person: herself. She expects to disappear any day now—and wants to be found. True to her word, Ann disappears the next day, leaving behind a carton of cheap cigarettes and a dead body. Unshaken by the body or the circumstances, Walker sets out to find his client. After all, she paid in advance. The Midnight Man: An ambush on Detroit’s northwest side has left a police officer with a bullet lodged near his spine—and Amos Walker eager to bring the shooter to justice. He knows he’s treading dangerous ground, but being targeted by Detroit’s Finest is a twist he didn’t see coming. Walker soon learns that between the crippled cop’s sex-starved wife, militant rebels, the police, and a bounty hunter, trusting the wrong person could be a fatal mistake. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504047427
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
The first three mysteries featuring Detroit private investigator Amos Walker from the Shamus Award–winning “Stravinsky of hard-boiled prose” (John Lescroart). Four-time Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award finalist Loren D. Estleman launches an irresistible mystery series for “readers who can’t get enough of Elmore Leonard and Ross Thomas” (People). Motor City Blue: Vietnam vet, private investigator, and Bogart fan Amos Walker is scratching out a living looking for lost things in Detroit when he’s asked to find the adopted daughter of an ex-mobster. The only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot of the missing girl. Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder case of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution. Angel Eyes: Ann Maringer, an aging stripper still grinding in Detroit’s low-end dives, hires Amos Walker to locate a missing person: herself. She expects to disappear any day now—and wants to be found. True to her word, Ann disappears the next day, leaving behind a carton of cheap cigarettes and a dead body. Unshaken by the body or the circumstances, Walker sets out to find his client. After all, she paid in advance. The Midnight Man: An ambush on Detroit’s northwest side has left a police officer with a bullet lodged near his spine—and Amos Walker eager to bring the shooter to justice. He knows he’s treading dangerous ground, but being targeted by Detroit’s Finest is a twist he didn’t see coming. Walker soon learns that between the crippled cop’s sex-starved wife, militant rebels, the police, and a bounty hunter, trusting the wrong person could be a fatal mistake. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Motor City Blue
Author: Loren D. Estleman
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453220488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The first book in the long-running Amos Walker Mysteries introduces the hard-boiled Detroit detective as he searches for an aging mobster’s missing adopted daughter Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He’s a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things. Walker’s latest case comes by way of ex-mobster Ben Morningstar, who’s been living out his retirement in Phoenix while raising Maria, the daughter of a long-ago murdered friend. Only now, Maria is missing and the gangster needs Walker’s help. But the trail has gone cold—the only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot. Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution. Fans of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction will find Estleman’s lean prose, retro style, and tough-guy hero irresistible. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453220488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The first book in the long-running Amos Walker Mysteries introduces the hard-boiled Detroit detective as he searches for an aging mobster’s missing adopted daughter Private eye Amos Walker is a Vietnam veteran who was thrown out of the Police Academy for punching a fellow cadet. He’s a hard man in a ruined city, scratching out a living looking for lost things. Walker’s latest case comes by way of ex-mobster Ben Morningstar, who’s been living out his retirement in Phoenix while raising Maria, the daughter of a long-ago murdered friend. Only now, Maria is missing and the gangster needs Walker’s help. But the trail has gone cold—the only clue is a faded pornographic snapshot. Never one to give up, Walker witnesses the kidnapping of a former Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader while slugging his way to a solution. Fans of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction will find Estleman’s lean prose, retro style, and tough-guy hero irresistible. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.