Author: Alexander Baron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780709058236
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A fictional re-creation of how it was to taste the blood, sweat and tears of France in 1944.
From the City, from the Plough
Author: Alexander Baron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780709058236
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A fictional re-creation of how it was to taste the blood, sweat and tears of France in 1944.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780709058236
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A fictional re-creation of how it was to taste the blood, sweat and tears of France in 1944.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525541357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525541357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
The Human Kind
Author: Alexander Baron
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780709063926
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Follows the lives of a group of British soldiers during the Second World War. Its scenes lay bare the natures of both men and women suffering the cruel ordeal of war. Cruelty and cynicism taint the world, hopes are betrayed and seeds of later conflicts are sown. Yet the last note sounded is one of hope for human kind.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780709063926
Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Follows the lives of a group of British soldiers during the Second World War. Its scenes lay bare the natures of both men and women suffering the cruel ordeal of war. Cruelty and cynicism taint the world, hopes are betrayed and seeds of later conflicts are sown. Yet the last note sounded is one of hope for human kind.
Speed-the-plow
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690815
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel "by some Eastern sissy writer" that he is supposed to read before saying "thanks but no thanks." She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690815
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel "by some Eastern sissy writer" that he is supposed to read before saying "thanks but no thanks." She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note.
Hands on the Freedom Plow
Author: Faith S. Holsaert
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252035577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The women in SNCC acquired new skills, experienced personal growth, sustained one another, and even had fun in the midst of serious struggle. Readers are privy to their analyses of the Movement---its tactics, strategies, and underlying philosophies. The contributors revisit central debates of the struggle including the role of nonviolence and self-defense, the role of white people in a black-led movement, and the role of women within the Movement and the society at large. --
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252035577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The women in SNCC acquired new skills, experienced personal growth, sustained one another, and even had fun in the midst of serious struggle. Readers are privy to their analyses of the Movement---its tactics, strategies, and underlying philosophies. The contributors revisit central debates of the struggle including the role of nonviolence and self-defense, the role of white people in a black-led movement, and the role of women within the Movement and the society at large. --
You Carried Me
Author: Melissa Ohden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874862980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780874862980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Melissa Ohden is fourteen when she learns she is the survivor of a botched abortion. In this intimate memoir she details for the first time her search for her biological parents, and her own journey from anger and shame to faith and empowerment"--
Katy and the Big Snow
Author: Virginia Lee Burton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395181553
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Geappolis is hidden under a blanket of snow until a red crawler tractor saves the day.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395181553
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Geappolis is hidden under a blanket of snow until a red crawler tractor saves the day.
Plough, Sword, and Book
Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226287025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226287025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Introduction to Early Medieval Western Europe, 300-900
Author: Matthew Innes
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415215077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This comprehensive survey synthesises a quarter of a century of pathbreaking research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. Matthew Innes combines an account of the historical background of the period with discussion of the social, economic, cultural and political structures within it.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415215077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This comprehensive survey synthesises a quarter of a century of pathbreaking research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. Matthew Innes combines an account of the historical background of the period with discussion of the social, economic, cultural and political structures within it.
The Transit of Venus
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143135651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143135651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.