Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 059331638X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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"A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and freedom.” —The New York Times Book Review “Lyrical and timely…Smith’s novel will push readers to consider what it means to let people into your life, even when you don’t want to.” —TIME A story is never an answer. A story is always a question. A day spent locked in a room by border officials without any explanation as to why. A riddle that seemingly has no answer: curlew or curfew, you choose. A phone call from a college friend who hasn't been in touch in years. And all of it is somehow inextricably linked to the life of a young blacksmith hounded from her trade and branded a vagrant nearly 500 years ago. Award-winning author Ali Smith shines a guiding light through the nightmarish now with a provocative novel that intertwines our atomized present and the uncannily parallel era of the Black Plague. In the hope that our medieval past may unlock the answers we seek to understand our hazy future, Companion Piece is a kaleidoscope of human history and experience, and a stunning addition to Smith's gorgeous canon.
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593315154
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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"A woman receives an unexpected call from a former classmate asking for help deciphering a puzzling interaction, and from there, Smith spins out a broader story about loneliness, refuge and freedom.” —The New York Times Book Review “Lyrical and timely…Smith’s novel will push readers to consider what it means to let people into your life, even when you don’t want to.” —TIME A story is never an answer. A story is always a question. A day spent locked in a room by border officials without any explanation as to why. A riddle that seemingly has no answer: curlew or curfew, you choose. A phone call from a college friend who hasn't been in touch in years. And all of it is somehow inextricably linked to the life of a young blacksmith hounded from her trade and branded a vagrant nearly 500 years ago. Award-winning author Ali Smith shines a guiding light through the nightmarish now with a provocative novel that intertwines our atomized present and the uncannily parallel era of the Black Plague. In the hope that our medieval past may unlock the answers we seek to understand our hazy future, Companion Piece is a kaleidoscope of human history and experience, and a stunning addition to Smith's gorgeous canon.
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452162484
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Pixar Animation Studios presents The Art of Cars 3, a behind-the-scenes look at the concept art from the latest film in the popular Cars series. Fascinating storyboards, full-color pastels, digital paintings, and more offer a unique perspective into the beloved world of Lightning McQueen and his friends, new and old. With a preface by John Lasseter, foreword by director Brian Fee, and an introduction by production designers Bill Cone and Jay Shuster, The Art of Cars 3 is a scenic road trip through a masterfully animated film. Copyright ©2017 Disney Enterprises, Inc. and Pixar. All rights reserved.
Author: Dave Elliott
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781796517668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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This Workbook Is To Be Used as a Companion Piece with the Book, Same Sh*t. Different Date. Use this book and the exercises in it to get clarity, journal and discover some life-changing distinctions. This book is for you if you want to learn how to finally heal what's holding you back & get the love you so richly deserve.If you're going to keep getting the same old lessons, you may as well learn from them. You may have heard the old saying, "same sh*t, different day." It's kind of a darkly comic suggestion that the more things change, the more they stay the same as old, monotonous patterns repeat themselves again and again.In this book by a similar title, relationship coach and expert, Dave Elliott, makes it clear that the exact same process is also happening and creating difficulties in your dating and love life. The result is "Same Shit. Different Date." As he points out, it's not a coincidence when the same old buttons keep getting pushed by all new people. It's not "luck of the draw" when lovers turn to critics. It is not happenstance when you keep attracting the same old issues like partners who are unavailable or who cheat. While it may be cruel, it's no twist of fate either when totally different people - who seemed nice in the beginning - turn into harsh critics who shame, abuse and belittle.Even if you're married or in an exclusive relationship, this book will show you how all those random arguments that seemingly have nothing in common aren't so random after all. In fact, they're directly related and 100% predictable. Not to mention, 100% healable.Once you make this connection and recognize how it's affected you in the past, you can begin to change your future. In fact, with your new awareness - and the tools shared within - those hidden saboteurs that continue to trip you up time after time will soon come into view.The good news for you is that once you discover the invisible ties that bind your past and present upsets and heartbreaks, new possibilities are created in a moment. That's because once your secret saboteurs have been revealed, they can begin to be healed.
Author: Lauren Mackay
Publisher: Batsford Books
ISBN: 184994685X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, The Mirror and the Light. Wolf Hall Companion gives an historian's view of what we know about Thomas Cromwell, one of the most powerful men of the Tudor age and the central character in Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. Covering the key court and political characters from the books, this companion guide also works as a concise Tudor history primer. Alongside Thomas Cromwell, the author explores characters including Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cranmer, Jane Seymour, Henry VIII, Thomas Howard, Cardinal Wolsey and Richard Fox. The important places in the court of Henry VIII are introduced and put into context, including Hampton Court, the Tower of London, Cromwell's home Austin Friars, and of course Wolf Hall. The author explores not only the real history of these people and places, but also Hilary Mantel's interpretation of them.
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 3985943680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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From the astonishingly talented writer of The Accidental and Hotel World comes Ali Smiths brilliant retelling of Ovids gender-bending myth of Iphis and Ianthe, as seen through the eyes of two Scottish sisters. Girl Meets Boy is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love and transformation, and the absurdity of consumerism, as well as a story of reversals and revelations that is as sharply witty as it is lyrical. Funny, fresh, poetic, and political, Girl Meets Boy is a myth of metamorphosis for a world made in Madison Avenues image, and the funniest addition to the Myths series from Canongate since Margaret Atwoods The Penelopiad.
Author: Marta Acosta
Publisher: Tor Teen
ISBN: 1429988290
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Jane Eyre meets Twilight in Dark Companion, a lush and romantic YA gothic tale about an orphaned girl who attends an exclusive private school and finds herself torn between the headmistress's two sons. Orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams has grown up in a series of foster homes, learning to survive in the shadows of life. Through hard work and determination, she manages to win a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy. There, for the first time, Jane finds herself accepted by a group of friends. She even starts tutoring the headmistress's gorgeous son, Lucien. Things seem too good to be true. They are. The more she learns about Birch Grove's recent past, the more Jane comes to suspect that there is something sinister going on. Why did the wife of a popular teacher kill herself? What happened to the former scholarship student, whose place Jane took? Why does Lucien's brother, Jack, seem to dislike her so much? As Jane begins to piece together the answers to the puzzle, she must find out why she was brought to Birch Grove—and what she would risk to stay there.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Kelly Joyce Neff
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1612832547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Martha (Patty) Jefferson is often seen as little more than a background figure overshadowed by her husband's political, literary, and scientific achievements. Dear Companion, by contrast, vividly depicts a wife, mother, and busy mistress of a plantation. We come to know the Jeffersons as a young couple very much in love and share in all the joys and sorrows of their ten-year marriage. Although presented as historical fiction, this biography is actually reconstructed from the author's past-life recall. Ms. Neff's intense familiarity with the period enables her to bring wonderfully to life a time and family that will be forever of interest to all Americans.
Author: Ali Smith
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0593315588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 905
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From the Man Booker Prize finalist: Seasonal Quartet is a series of four stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories, which, when taken together, give us something more—all four united by the passing of time, the timing of narrative, and the endless familiarity yet renewal that the cycle of the seasons is. Grounded in current politics, in the work of artists Pauline Boty, Barbara Hepworth, Katherine Mansfield, and Loretta Mazzetti, and in Shakespeare's four final romances The Tempest, Cymbeline, Pericles, and A Winter's Tale, the Seasonal Quartet is "one of modern fiction's most elusive and most important undertakings" (Charles Finch, The Boston Globe).
Author: Mike Tucker
Publisher: TELOS
ISBN: 9781903889275
Category : Doctor Who (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Escaping from one battle and straight into another, the Doctor and his companion. Catherine, find themselves on a far flung world where time travellers are persecuted as witches and warlocks by the Papal Inquisition. The Doctor is arrested, his only hope of escape being Cat, but she has demons of her own to face, and as the Doctor starts to realise exactly what is happening, so time rapidly starts to slip away for both him and Cat.
