Space Time and Nathaniel

Space Time and Nathaniel PDF Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher: House of Stratus Limited
ISBN: 9780755100552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Space Time and Nathaniel

Space Time and Nathaniel PDF Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher: House of Stratus Limited
ISBN: 9780755100552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Nathaniel's Combined Theories

Nathaniel's Combined Theories PDF Author: Nathaniel Durham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365431045
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A collection of theoretical papers, by the author, in an effort to explain the physics of this existence.

On Rereading

On Rereading PDF Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674267478
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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After retiring from a lifetime of teaching literature, Patricia Meyer Spacks embarked on a year-long project of rereading dozens of novels: childhood favorites, fiction first encountered in young adulthood and never before revisited, books frequently reread, canonical works of literature she was supposed to have liked but didn’t, guilty pleasures (books she oughtn’t to have liked but did), and stories reread for fun vs. those read for the classroom. On Rereading records the sometimes surprising, always fascinating, results of her personal experiment. Spacks addresses a number of intriguing questions raised by the purposeful act of rereading: Why do we reread novels when, in many instances, we can remember the plot? Why, for example, do some lovers of Jane Austen’s fiction reread her novels every year (or oftener)? Why do young children love to hear the same story read aloud every night at bedtime? And why, as adults, do we return to childhood favorites such as The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Harry Potter novels? What pleasures does rereading bring? What psychological needs does it answer? What guilt does it induce when life is short and there are so many other things to do (and so many other books to read)? Rereading, Spacks discovers, helps us to make sense of ourselves. It brings us sharply in contact with how we, like the books we reread, have both changed and remained the same.

Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow PDF Author: Nathaniel Rich
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374224242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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While working for a financial consulting firm that offers insurance against catastrophic events, a young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven PDF Author: Nathaniel Ian Miller
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316592560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he builds a hut and lives alone, testing himself against the elements. The teachings of a Finnish fur trapper, along with encouraging letters from his family and a Scottish geologist who befriended him in the mining camp, get him through his first winter. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, sparking a chain of surprising events that will bring Sven into a family of fellow castoffs and determine the course of the rest of his life. Written with wry humor and in prose as breathtaking as the stark landscape it evokes, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is a testament to the strength of our human bonds, reminding us that even in the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, we are not beyond the reach of love. #1 Indie Next Pick Finalist for the Vermont Book Award Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

The Hölderliniae

The Hölderliniae PDF Author: Nathaniel Tarn
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811230694
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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The great German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin’s spirit infuses this gorgeous cycle of poems that sing of the loves and devastations of our times Each hymn in Nathaniel Tarn’s new collection The Hölderliniae is a love song to the Poet of Poets, Friedrich Hölderlin?— the German Romantic poet-philosopher who spent the last thirty-six years of his life sequestered in a carpenter’s tower in the south of Germany. Tarn speaks through Hölderlin and Hölderlin speaks through Tarn in an act of spiritual and lyric possession unlike anything else in contemporary poetry. The French Revolution—which Hölderlin supported passionately until the Reign of Terror—illuminates our war-torn, ecologically precarious age, as the failures of our age recall past tragedies. Line after line carries Hölderlin’s hope in an ideal of a poetry that can englobe all the mind’s disciplines and make a universe of its own.

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch PDF Author: Jean Lee Latham
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618250745
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.

The Inexplicable Grey Space We Call Love

The Inexplicable Grey Space We Call Love PDF Author: Chuck Augello
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781943900411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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This is a collection of short stories digging in to contemporary real life scenarios, bordering on the absurd. The reader will find these pages rich in comedy and tragedy presented in the truth of cinematic clarity.

Mayflower

Mayflower PDF Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101218835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower. How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.

I Have Lost My Way

I Have Lost My Way PDF Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425290786
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The New York Times bestseller from the author of If I Stay “Heartwrenching…If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck.” – Hypable A fateful accident draws three strangers together over the course of a single day: Freya who has lost her voice while recording her debut album. Harun who is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved. Nathaniel who has just arrived in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. As the day progresses, their secrets start to unravel and they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in help­ing the others out of theirs. An emotionally cathartic story of losing love, finding love, and dis­covering the person you are meant to be, I Have Lost My Way is best­selling author Gayle Forman at her finest. “A beautifully written love song to every young person who has ever moved through fear and found themselves on the other side.” – Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming