Author: Juan Alvarado Valdivia
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826341896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Recounts the author's experience as a cancer patient. He was diagnosed with stage 2A Hodgkin lymphoma at age 30, and was cancer free in 2010, and five years later considered in complete remission.
¡Cancerlandia!
Author: Juan Alvarado Valdivia
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826341896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Recounts the author's experience as a cancer patient. He was diagnosed with stage 2A Hodgkin lymphoma at age 30, and was cancer free in 2010, and five years later considered in complete remission.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826341896
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Recounts the author's experience as a cancer patient. He was diagnosed with stage 2A Hodgkin lymphoma at age 30, and was cancer free in 2010, and five years later considered in complete remission.
Never the Wind
Author: Francesco Dimitri
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 178909982X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspective of a blind teenager in Puglia, Southern Italy, set in the same world as The Book of Hidden Things, perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman, Donna Tartt and Haruki Murakami. Praise God, never the wind 1996 - Luca Saracino is thirteen and has been completely blind for eight months when his parents move to a Southern Italian farmhouse they dream of turning into a hotel. With his brother dropping out of university and the family reeling from Luca’s diagnosis, they are chasing dreams of rebirth and reinvention. As Luca tells his story without sight - experiencing the world solely through hearing, smell, taste and touch - he meets the dauntless Ada Guadalupi, who takes him out to explore the rocky fields and empty beaches. But Luca and Ada find they can’t escape the grudges that have lasted between their families for generations, or the gossiping of the town. And Luca is preyed upon by the feral Wanderer, who walks the vineyards of his home. As Luca's family starts to crack at the seams, Luca and Ada have to navigate new lands and old rivalries to uncover the truths spoken as whispers on the wind.
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 178909982X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspective of a blind teenager in Puglia, Southern Italy, set in the same world as The Book of Hidden Things, perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman, Donna Tartt and Haruki Murakami. Praise God, never the wind 1996 - Luca Saracino is thirteen and has been completely blind for eight months when his parents move to a Southern Italian farmhouse they dream of turning into a hotel. With his brother dropping out of university and the family reeling from Luca’s diagnosis, they are chasing dreams of rebirth and reinvention. As Luca tells his story without sight - experiencing the world solely through hearing, smell, taste and touch - he meets the dauntless Ada Guadalupi, who takes him out to explore the rocky fields and empty beaches. But Luca and Ada find they can’t escape the grudges that have lasted between their families for generations, or the gossiping of the town. And Luca is preyed upon by the feral Wanderer, who walks the vineyards of his home. As Luca's family starts to crack at the seams, Luca and Ada have to navigate new lands and old rivalries to uncover the truths spoken as whispers on the wind.
Breaking the Tongue
Author: Vyvyane Loh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
"This masterly novel is not only bold and challenging but also beautifully written. The reader will be left breathless by the ending."—Library Journal "A moving accomplishment."—Publishers Weekly, starred review "Vyvyane Loh's richly ambitious narrative weaves the personal and the political into an unforgettable novel."—Claire Messud "In the tradition of Rushdie or Ondaatje, this is one of the most accomplished first novels I've ever seen."—Andrea Barrett "A revelatory book that is both novel and history, written with splendid and intelligent humanity."—Shirley Hazzard, author of The Great Fire This brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own herita≥ his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances; and the redoubtable Grandma Siok, whose sage advice falls on deaf ears. Expatriates, spies, fifth columnists, and nationalists—including the elusive young woman Ling-Li—mingle in this exotic culture as the Japanese threat looms. Beset by the horror of war and betrayal and, finally, torture, Claude must embrace his true heritage. In the extraordinary final paragraphs of the novel, the language itself breaks into Chinese. With penetrating observation, Vyvyane Loh unfolds the coming-of-age story of a young man and a nation, a story that deals with myth, race, and class, with the ways language shapes perceptions, and with the intrigue and suffering of war. Reading group guide included.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393057928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
"This masterly novel is not only bold and challenging but also beautifully written. The reader will be left breathless by the ending."—Library Journal "A moving accomplishment."—Publishers Weekly, starred review "Vyvyane Loh's richly ambitious narrative weaves the personal and the political into an unforgettable novel."—Claire Messud "In the tradition of Rushdie or Ondaatje, this is one of the most accomplished first novels I've ever seen."—Andrea Barrett "A revelatory book that is both novel and history, written with splendid and intelligent humanity."—Shirley Hazzard, author of The Great Fire This brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own herita≥ his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances; and the redoubtable Grandma Siok, whose sage advice falls on deaf ears. Expatriates, spies, fifth columnists, and nationalists—including the elusive young woman Ling-Li—mingle in this exotic culture as the Japanese threat looms. Beset by the horror of war and betrayal and, finally, torture, Claude must embrace his true heritage. In the extraordinary final paragraphs of the novel, the language itself breaks into Chinese. With penetrating observation, Vyvyane Loh unfolds the coming-of-age story of a young man and a nation, a story that deals with myth, race, and class, with the ways language shapes perceptions, and with the intrigue and suffering of war. Reading group guide included.
Trukese-English Dictionary
Author: Ward Hunt Goodenough
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871690142
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index or finderlist for the Trukese-English of the first volume & a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that we cannot analyze into constituent elements. The Truk Dictionary Project was supported by the Nat. Science Found. (NSF), the Dept. of Ed. of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Univ. of Penna., & the Univ. of Hawaii. Illustration.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871690142
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index or finderlist for the Trukese-English of the first volume & a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that we cannot analyze into constituent elements. The Truk Dictionary Project was supported by the Nat. Science Found. (NSF), the Dept. of Ed. of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Univ. of Penna., & the Univ. of Hawaii. Illustration.
Affective Images
Author: Marietta Kesting
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467869
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of photographs, films, and other visual documents, Kesting then situates them in broader historical contexts, such as cultural history and the history of black subjectivity and revolves the images around the intersection of race and gender. In its interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the recurrence of affective images of the past in a different way, including flashbacks, trauma, "white noise," and the return of the repressed. It draws its materials from photographers, filmmakers, and artists such as Ernest Cole, Simphiwe Nkwali, Terry Kurgan, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Adze Ugah, and the Center for Historical Reenactments. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7134 .
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438467869
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of photographs, films, and other visual documents, Kesting then situates them in broader historical contexts, such as cultural history and the history of black subjectivity and revolves the images around the intersection of race and gender. In its interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the recurrence of affective images of the past in a different way, including flashbacks, trauma, "white noise," and the return of the repressed. It draws its materials from photographers, filmmakers, and artists such as Ernest Cole, Simphiwe Nkwali, Terry Kurgan, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Adze Ugah, and the Center for Historical Reenactments. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7134 .
Horror Dogs
Author: Brian Patrick Duggan
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476685878
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates? For the first time, here is the fascinating history of canines in horror movies and why our best friends were (and are still) painted as malevolent. Stretching back into Classical mythology, treacherous hounds are found only sporadically in art and literature until the appearance of cinema's first horror dog, Sherlock Holmes' Hound of the Baskervilles. The story intensifies through World War II's K-9 Corps to the 1970s animal horror films, which broke social taboos about the "good dog" on screen and deliberately vilified certain breeds--sometimes even fluffy lapdogs. With behind-the-scenes insights from writers, directors, actors, and dog trainers, here are the flickering hounds of silent films through talkies and Technicolor, to the latest computer-generated brutes--the supernatural, rabid, laboratory-made, alien, feral, and trained killers. "Cave Canem (Beware the Dog)"--or as one seminal film warned, "They're not pets anymore."
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476685878
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
How did beloved movie dogs become man-killers like Cujo and his cinematic pack-mates? For the first time, here is the fascinating history of canines in horror movies and why our best friends were (and are still) painted as malevolent. Stretching back into Classical mythology, treacherous hounds are found only sporadically in art and literature until the appearance of cinema's first horror dog, Sherlock Holmes' Hound of the Baskervilles. The story intensifies through World War II's K-9 Corps to the 1970s animal horror films, which broke social taboos about the "good dog" on screen and deliberately vilified certain breeds--sometimes even fluffy lapdogs. With behind-the-scenes insights from writers, directors, actors, and dog trainers, here are the flickering hounds of silent films through talkies and Technicolor, to the latest computer-generated brutes--the supernatural, rabid, laboratory-made, alien, feral, and trained killers. "Cave Canem (Beware the Dog)"--or as one seminal film warned, "They're not pets anymore."
Hearts of Metal Boxset: Vol 4-7
Author: Brooklyn Ann
Publisher: Brooklyn Smith
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Four heavy metal romances with rocking heroes and badass heroines. A holiday redemption with two metal musicians just out of rehab. They find a new addiction in each other. A Ph.D. student convinces a notorious bad boy to let her accompany their band on tour. He later finds out she's a rival band frontman's off-limits little sister. A nurse falls for the sexy drummer next door. She thinks it can't work out with a younger man. He's determined to prove her wrong. A grumpy bass player is furious when a stubborn, gorgeous filmmaker does a documentary on their band. Until she thaws his heart. Books included are Metal and Mistletoe, Forbidden Song, Tempting Beat, and Heart Throb Subgenres: rockstar romance, workplace romance, contemporary romance, new adult romance Tropes: damaged hero, grumpy hero, damaged heroine, grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity, enemies to lovers, secret affair, good grovel, angsty, older woman younger man, forbidden romance, workplace romance, friends to lovers
Publisher: Brooklyn Smith
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Four heavy metal romances with rocking heroes and badass heroines. A holiday redemption with two metal musicians just out of rehab. They find a new addiction in each other. A Ph.D. student convinces a notorious bad boy to let her accompany their band on tour. He later finds out she's a rival band frontman's off-limits little sister. A nurse falls for the sexy drummer next door. She thinks it can't work out with a younger man. He's determined to prove her wrong. A grumpy bass player is furious when a stubborn, gorgeous filmmaker does a documentary on their band. Until she thaws his heart. Books included are Metal and Mistletoe, Forbidden Song, Tempting Beat, and Heart Throb Subgenres: rockstar romance, workplace romance, contemporary romance, new adult romance Tropes: damaged hero, grumpy hero, damaged heroine, grumpy-sunshine, forced proximity, enemies to lovers, secret affair, good grovel, angsty, older woman younger man, forbidden romance, workplace romance, friends to lovers
Heart Throb
Author: Brooklyn Ann
Publisher: Brooklyn Ann
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Bassist Brand and filmmaker Lexi have both suffered traumatic pasts, but together, they can heal and have a happy future. THE GRUMPY BASSIST Brand Kife, bassist for heavy metal band, Viciöus, is known in the metal world as “the man who never smiles.” He has even less reason to smile when he learns that his band’s tour is going to be disrupted by beautiful filmmaker, Lexi Adams, who’s making a documentary about Viciöus. Brand has secrets that Lexi can’t learn. AND THE BEAUTY QUEEN Former child beauty pageant winner, Lexi Adams resists her mother’s pressuring her to become a model and is instead determined to be a successful filmmaker. She’s thrilled to film a documentary on one of her favorite metal bands, but Brand Kife is making her work difficult. First by being uncooperative in interviews, then by distracting her with his sinful good looks and aura of mystery. When they give into temptation, Lexi wants to learn about Brand’s traumatic past, but first, she will have to trust him with her own.
Publisher: Brooklyn Ann
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Bassist Brand and filmmaker Lexi have both suffered traumatic pasts, but together, they can heal and have a happy future. THE GRUMPY BASSIST Brand Kife, bassist for heavy metal band, Viciöus, is known in the metal world as “the man who never smiles.” He has even less reason to smile when he learns that his band’s tour is going to be disrupted by beautiful filmmaker, Lexi Adams, who’s making a documentary about Viciöus. Brand has secrets that Lexi can’t learn. AND THE BEAUTY QUEEN Former child beauty pageant winner, Lexi Adams resists her mother’s pressuring her to become a model and is instead determined to be a successful filmmaker. She’s thrilled to film a documentary on one of her favorite metal bands, but Brand Kife is making her work difficult. First by being uncooperative in interviews, then by distracting her with his sinful good looks and aura of mystery. When they give into temptation, Lexi wants to learn about Brand’s traumatic past, but first, she will have to trust him with her own.
J.D. Robb The IN DEATH COLLECTION Books 16-20
Author: J. D. Robb
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101539097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2014
Book Description
Take a trip to futuristic New York City and experience the thrill of the chase as Lieutenant Eve Dallas captures the worst kinds of criminals in this collection that includes books 16-20 in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series from J. D. Robb... PORTRAIT IN DEATH IMITATION IN DEATH DIVIDED IN DEATH VISIONS IN DEATH SURVIVOR IN DEATH
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101539097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2014
Book Description
Take a trip to futuristic New York City and experience the thrill of the chase as Lieutenant Eve Dallas captures the worst kinds of criminals in this collection that includes books 16-20 in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series from J. D. Robb... PORTRAIT IN DEATH IMITATION IN DEATH DIVIDED IN DEATH VISIONS IN DEATH SURVIVOR IN DEATH
Popular Mechanics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.