Author: Philip John Nicholls
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452574243
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
What lies before you on the following pages of this book, is my personal interpretation of events, that have change my life forever, and has also given my life, a new sense of true meaning in every way. On my Lifes Journey So Far, i have been shown my true purpose for being here on this planet today, and within the last few years of my own Lifes Journey, i have been shown the true wonders of how magical life can really be, here on our planet. I now feel that i have fully awakened from a long deep sleep, that Ive been fighting to awaken from, for such a long time. I also feel that i have come to a point in my own Lifes Journey, where i must begin to share these truly enlightening secrets, with everyone here on this planet today. My only hope is that the information contained within the pages of this book, will begin to give you the same inspirations, and courage that i have found on my own Lifes Journey So Far. Hoping that these inspirations, will encourage you, to embark on your own Lifes Journey of new discovery, beginning to open you up, to the true wonders that life holds for us all, here on this planet today, if we are only willing to seek them out.
The Trick
Author: Emanuel Bergmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501155822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this ... debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501155822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this ... debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together"--
Trick Mirror
Author: Jia Tolentino
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525510559
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0525510559
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
The Trick
Author: William Leith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 152664388X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
'Hugely enjoyable' - Observer 'Spectacular' - Aaron Brown, author of The Poker Face of Wall Street Some people can make money. Other people can't. It's a thought that makes William Leith wake up in a cold sweat. He doesn't know why it makes him feel anxious. After all, money isn't real. We created it. Humans did. It's our masterpiece. But the desire for it is killing us. It is this dilemma that sets William Leith off on an adventure into the bizarre, morally dubious, yet highly desirable world of the mega-rich. He spends a day with the real-life Wolf of Wall Street who, not content with his hundreds of millions, devised a fraud so he could make hundreds of millions more. He visits a Baroque mansion where a Russian half-billionaire lives alone with his butler. He tours the estate of Felix Dennis, the maverick tycoon who commissioned an avenue of statues to tell the story of his life. He flies to private islands on private jets, meets private men in private clubs, experiencing the dizzy highs of a life without limits – but all it does is give him crippling anxiety. Throughout it all he asks himself: what makes these people wealthy? And how come I'm not?
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 152664388X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
'Hugely enjoyable' - Observer 'Spectacular' - Aaron Brown, author of The Poker Face of Wall Street Some people can make money. Other people can't. It's a thought that makes William Leith wake up in a cold sweat. He doesn't know why it makes him feel anxious. After all, money isn't real. We created it. Humans did. It's our masterpiece. But the desire for it is killing us. It is this dilemma that sets William Leith off on an adventure into the bizarre, morally dubious, yet highly desirable world of the mega-rich. He spends a day with the real-life Wolf of Wall Street who, not content with his hundreds of millions, devised a fraud so he could make hundreds of millions more. He visits a Baroque mansion where a Russian half-billionaire lives alone with his butler. He tours the estate of Felix Dennis, the maverick tycoon who commissioned an avenue of statues to tell the story of his life. He flies to private islands on private jets, meets private men in private clubs, experiencing the dizzy highs of a life without limits – but all it does is give him crippling anxiety. Throughout it all he asks himself: what makes these people wealthy? And how come I'm not?
A Trick of the Light
Author: Louise Penny
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429972890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. "Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light. "Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." --Booklist (starred review)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429972890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. "Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light. "Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." --Booklist (starred review)
The Big Book of Tricks for the Best Dog Ever
Author: Larry Kay
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523501618
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A step-by-step guide to more than 100 dog tricks, specially designed for effective training, for pure fun, and even for turning your dog into a YouTube star, from the coauthor of the tremendously successful and much-praised Training the Best Dog Ever and the genius behind "The Stunt Dog Show," which performs more than 1,000 shows a year.
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523501618
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A step-by-step guide to more than 100 dog tricks, specially designed for effective training, for pure fun, and even for turning your dog into a YouTube star, from the coauthor of the tremendously successful and much-praised Training the Best Dog Ever and the genius behind "The Stunt Dog Show," which performs more than 1,000 shows a year.
A Discovery of Witches
Author: Deborah Harkness
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101475692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People). Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, book three, The Book of Life, and the fourth in the series, Time’s Convert.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101475692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People). Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, book three, The Book of Life, and the fourth in the series, Time’s Convert.
Discovering Many of Life's Mysteries, and Secret's on My Own Life's Journey so Far
Author: Philip John Nicholls
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452574243
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
What lies before you on the following pages of this book, is my personal interpretation of events, that have change my life forever, and has also given my life, a new sense of true meaning in every way. On my Lifes Journey So Far, i have been shown my true purpose for being here on this planet today, and within the last few years of my own Lifes Journey, i have been shown the true wonders of how magical life can really be, here on our planet. I now feel that i have fully awakened from a long deep sleep, that Ive been fighting to awaken from, for such a long time. I also feel that i have come to a point in my own Lifes Journey, where i must begin to share these truly enlightening secrets, with everyone here on this planet today. My only hope is that the information contained within the pages of this book, will begin to give you the same inspirations, and courage that i have found on my own Lifes Journey So Far. Hoping that these inspirations, will encourage you, to embark on your own Lifes Journey of new discovery, beginning to open you up, to the true wonders that life holds for us all, here on this planet today, if we are only willing to seek them out.
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452574243
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
What lies before you on the following pages of this book, is my personal interpretation of events, that have change my life forever, and has also given my life, a new sense of true meaning in every way. On my Lifes Journey So Far, i have been shown my true purpose for being here on this planet today, and within the last few years of my own Lifes Journey, i have been shown the true wonders of how magical life can really be, here on our planet. I now feel that i have fully awakened from a long deep sleep, that Ive been fighting to awaken from, for such a long time. I also feel that i have come to a point in my own Lifes Journey, where i must begin to share these truly enlightening secrets, with everyone here on this planet today. My only hope is that the information contained within the pages of this book, will begin to give you the same inspirations, and courage that i have found on my own Lifes Journey So Far. Hoping that these inspirations, will encourage you, to embark on your own Lifes Journey of new discovery, beginning to open you up, to the true wonders that life holds for us all, here on this planet today, if we are only willing to seek them out.
One Trick Pony
Author: Nathan Hale
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683350707
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The aliens have arrived. And they’re hungry for electricity. In the Earth of the future, humans are on the run from an alien force—giant blobs who suck up electrical devices wherever they can find them. Strata and her family are part of a caravan of digital rescuers, hoping to keep the memory of civilization alive by saving electronics wherever they can. Many humans have reverted to a pre-electrical age, and others have taken advantage of the invasion to become dangerous bandits and outlaws. When Strata and her brother are separated from the caravan, they must rely on a particularly beautiful and rare robot pony to escape the outlaws and aliens—and defeat the invaders once and for all.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683350707
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The aliens have arrived. And they’re hungry for electricity. In the Earth of the future, humans are on the run from an alien force—giant blobs who suck up electrical devices wherever they can find them. Strata and her family are part of a caravan of digital rescuers, hoping to keep the memory of civilization alive by saving electronics wherever they can. Many humans have reverted to a pre-electrical age, and others have taken advantage of the invasion to become dangerous bandits and outlaws. When Strata and her brother are separated from the caravan, they must rely on a particularly beautiful and rare robot pony to escape the outlaws and aliens—and defeat the invaders once and for all.
Trick of the Light
Author: Rob Thurman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101136227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
View our feature on Rob Thurman’s Trick of the Light.When Trixa learns of a powerful artifact known as the Light of Life, she knows she’s hit the jackpot. Both sides—angel and demon—would give anything for it. But first she has to find it. And as Heaven and Hell ready for an apocalyptic throwdown, Trixa must decide where her true loyalty lies, and what she’s ready to fight for. Because in her world, if you line up on the wrong side, you pay with more than your life…
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101136227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
View our feature on Rob Thurman’s Trick of the Light.When Trixa learns of a powerful artifact known as the Light of Life, she knows she’s hit the jackpot. Both sides—angel and demon—would give anything for it. But first she has to find it. And as Heaven and Hell ready for an apocalyptic throwdown, Trixa must decide where her true loyalty lies, and what she’s ready to fight for. Because in her world, if you line up on the wrong side, you pay with more than your life…
Discover The AiR Happpiness Secret
Author: AiR - Atman in Ravi
Publisher: AiR Institute of Realization
ISBN: 9334128666
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Do you know the spelling of Happiness? According to AiR-Atman in Ravi, Happpiness has 3 Ps — Pleasure, Peace and Purpose. As the happpiest man on earth, AiR has discovered the Happpiness Secret, a way to live in Eternal Bliss in Truth Consciousness. His HAPPPINESS SECRET is a combination of the 19 letters of the acronym, AiR HAPPPINESS SECRET. Those who adopt this in their lives can live a life of Eternal Bliss without any suffering or sorrow. Yes, it’s possible but only if we Discover the AiR Happpiness Secret that is in this book!
Publisher: AiR Institute of Realization
ISBN: 9334128666
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Do you know the spelling of Happiness? According to AiR-Atman in Ravi, Happpiness has 3 Ps — Pleasure, Peace and Purpose. As the happpiest man on earth, AiR has discovered the Happpiness Secret, a way to live in Eternal Bliss in Truth Consciousness. His HAPPPINESS SECRET is a combination of the 19 letters of the acronym, AiR HAPPPINESS SECRET. Those who adopt this in their lives can live a life of Eternal Bliss without any suffering or sorrow. Yes, it’s possible but only if we Discover the AiR Happpiness Secret that is in this book!