Author: John J. Asher
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544214290
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Parker Rydell's art has turned as dark as his constant black eyes. The wife he loved left him because she mistakenly thought he cheated with her best friend. Parker's systematic form of self-punishment, usually a brawl in a bar's gravel parking lot with his face on the losing end of a cue stick, is only slightly softened by the myriad of one-night stands he brings back to his two-story Federal in East Haddam, Connecticut. Complicating matters, his downstairs tenant, Camille, a single mom with a ten-month-old baby, is broke and six months behind on her rent. Things go from bad to worse when Parker takes in Ira, an old musician friend whose wife leaves him when he develops a severe case of agoraphobia-an unnatural fear of people and open spaces-the opposite of Parker's self-destructive lifestyle. Enter Rio Santiago, an S and M-oriented rich girl who drives a hearse with a big happy face on the door, and a casket in back for her la petite mort. Parker rejects her, and she sics her sociopath boyfriend, Sully, on him. When Sully comes after Parker, Ira, Camille, and her baby are endangered, igniting in Parker a desire to protect them with a purpose and passion his life has been lacking.
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ISBN: 9781942185772
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Rebecca Norris Webb's meditation on fathers and daughters, one's first landscape, caretaking of the land and its inhabitants, and on history that divides us as much as heals us Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) first came across W. Eugene Smith's "Country Doctor," his famous Life magazine photo essay, while studying at the International Center of Photography in New York. She was immediately drawn to the subject of Smith's essay, Dr Ernest Ceriani, a Colorado country doctor who was just a few years older than her father. She wondered: How would a woman tell this story, especially if she happened to be the doctor's daughter? In light of this, for the past six years Norris Webb has retraced the route of her 99-year-old father's house calls through Rush County, Indiana, the rural county where they both were born. Following his work rhythms, she photographed often at night and in the early morning, when many people arrive into the world--her father delivered some one thousand babies--and when many people leave it. Accompanying the photographs, lyrical text pieces addressed to her father create a series of handwritten letters told at a slant.
Author: Lucy Barnard
Publisher: QEB Publishing
ISBN: 0711251150
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Oh no, no one has remembered Harriet's birthday! On a trip to town, Harriet gets upset when no one wishes her a happy birthday. She hurries home to celebrate by herself, bumping into friends all too busy to talk to her. When she gets home, she is shocked to see all of her friends there in a surprise birthday party! A touching story about friendship and kindness that would make a lovely birthday gift. Beautifully illustrated, QEB’s Storytime series introduces young children to the pleasures of reading and sharing stories. Featuring charming animal and human characters, the books explore important social and emotional themes like friendship, gratitude, perseverance, and overcoming fears. A Next Steps page at the back provides guidance for parents and teachers.
Author: Paul Morand
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782271317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Pierre ruins everything-friendships, love, fatherhood-in his headlong race against time. As he rushes through life, he fails to appreciate those things that are of true value-the tendernesses shown to him by his wife, Hedwige, the poetry of the world. He burns himself up, and burns up those around him, in a constant striving for goals that change as soon as he reaches them. Too late, he will realize that in his haste, he has been hurrying only to arrive more quickly at a meeting with death. Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville, litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The Man in a Hurry is the first hardcover release in the Pushkin Collection line.
Author: N. M. Bodecker
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ISBN: 9780689861222
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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At the direction of her lazy husband, elderly Mary must make preparations for the winter months in a frenzied crescendo of activity - bottling fruit, oiling snowshoes, pickling vegetables, chopping firewood and salting hams. Erik Blevgad's glorious watercolours perfectly capture Bodecker's unique wordplay. We see Mary becoming redder faced and more dishevelled with every task completed, until her exasperation at her husband's orders spill over into delightful revenge at the end of the story.
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Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Publisher: New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
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Author: Joseph Charles Mardrus
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415045398
Category : Arabian nights
Languages : en
Pages : 657
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First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: Mrs. Henry Dudeney
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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