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Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Dinner with Jackson Pollock
Author: Robyn Lea
Publisher: Editions Assouline
ISBN: 9781614284321
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Spiral bound; handwritten recipes on endpapers.
Publisher: Editions Assouline
ISBN: 9781614284321
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Spiral bound; handwritten recipes on endpapers.
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Author: Lea Ypi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Biography Award The Sunday Times Best Book of the Year in Biography and Memoir A Financial Times Best Book of 2021 (Critics' Picks) The New Yorker, Best Books We Read in 2021 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021 A Guardian Best Book of the Year A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests. Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. One’s “biography”—class status and other associations long in the past—put strict boundaries around one’s individual future. When Lea’s parents spoke of relatives going to “university” or “graduating,” they were speaking of grave secrets Lea struggled to unveil. And when the early ’90s saw Albania and other Balkan countries exuberantly begin a transition to the “free market,” Western ideals of freedom delivered chaos: a dystopia of pyramid schemes, organized crime, and sex trafficking. With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father; and her staunchly anti-socialist, Thatcherite mother to guide her through these disorienting times, Lea had a political education of the most colorful sort—here recounted with outstanding literary talent. Now one of the world’s most dynamic young political thinkers and a prominent leftist voice in the United Kingdom, Lea offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on the relation between the personal and the political, between values and identity, posing urgent questions about the cost of freedom.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867749
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Biography Award The Sunday Times Best Book of the Year in Biography and Memoir A Financial Times Best Book of 2021 (Critics' Picks) The New Yorker, Best Books We Read in 2021 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021 A Guardian Best Book of the Year A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests. Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. One’s “biography”—class status and other associations long in the past—put strict boundaries around one’s individual future. When Lea’s parents spoke of relatives going to “university” or “graduating,” they were speaking of grave secrets Lea struggled to unveil. And when the early ’90s saw Albania and other Balkan countries exuberantly begin a transition to the “free market,” Western ideals of freedom delivered chaos: a dystopia of pyramid schemes, organized crime, and sex trafficking. With her elegant, intellectual, French-speaking grandmother; her radical-chic father; and her staunchly anti-socialist, Thatcherite mother to guide her through these disorienting times, Lea had a political education of the most colorful sort—here recounted with outstanding literary talent. Now one of the world’s most dynamic young political thinkers and a prominent leftist voice in the United Kingdom, Lea offers a fresh and invigorating perspective on the relation between the personal and the political, between values and identity, posing urgent questions about the cost of freedom.
A Tale of Two Beasts
Author: Fiona Roberton
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444927361
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
There are two sides to every story. A little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who forcefed it squirrel food, scared it with a group of beasts and wrapped it in wool. Can the two beasts resolve their differences? An eye-opening story that makes you look at things from a different perspective. 'Roberton's premise is as sublime as it is simple, with a subtle message. [...] Totally delightful.' - Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1444927361
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
There are two sides to every story. A little girl finds a strange beast in the woods and takes it home as a pet. She feeds it, shows it off to her friends and gives it a hat. But that night it escapes. Then the beast tells the story of being kidnapped by the girl, who forcefed it squirrel food, scared it with a group of beasts and wrapped it in wool. Can the two beasts resolve their differences? An eye-opening story that makes you look at things from a different perspective. 'Roberton's premise is as sublime as it is simple, with a subtle message. [...] Totally delightful.' - Kirkus Reviews
The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Author:
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Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Saint Everywhere
Author: Mary Lea Carroll
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
ISBN: 1945551577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Traveling with—and learning from—the women saints While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew fascinated with the remarkable story of St. Catherine of Siena and made a resolution: Whenever she was lucky enough to travel, if a shrine dedicated to a female saint was nearby, she'd visit it and learn about her. What started as a hobby grew into a journey she never expected, one rich with challenges and cappuccinos, doubts and inspiration, glasses of wine with strangers and moments of transcendence. Over eight quests, Carroll takes readers along with her as she seeks to learn something from a few great women of history, while looking for ways to be a better citizen of the world.
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
ISBN: 1945551577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Traveling with—and learning from—the women saints While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew fascinated with the remarkable story of St. Catherine of Siena and made a resolution: Whenever she was lucky enough to travel, if a shrine dedicated to a female saint was nearby, she'd visit it and learn about her. What started as a hobby grew into a journey she never expected, one rich with challenges and cappuccinos, doubts and inspiration, glasses of wine with strangers and moments of transcendence. Over eight quests, Carroll takes readers along with her as she seeks to learn something from a few great women of history, while looking for ways to be a better citizen of the world.
The Best Short Stories of 1916
Author: Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Finest Kind
Author: Lea Wait
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416909524
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
When his father's Boston bank fails in 1838, causing his family to relocate to a small Maine town, twelve-year-old Jake Webber works to prepare the family for the harsh winter while also keeping the existence of his disabled younger brother a secret.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416909524
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
When his father's Boston bank fails in 1838, causing his family to relocate to a small Maine town, twelve-year-old Jake Webber works to prepare the family for the harsh winter while also keeping the existence of his disabled younger brother a secret.
Little House on Rocky Ridge
Author: Roger Lea MacBride
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061148091
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061148091
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 1800
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Languages : en
Pages : 1800
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The Cuckold's Tale: Creamy New Year
Author: Andrea Martin
Publisher: Andrea Martin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
There’s only one way a cuckold should start the new year... Thomas and Lea are going to their bull’s house together for the first time ever, where the ultimate NYE party is about to begin. Six guys. One wife. One devoted cuckold. Overflowing pleasure. This is a Cuckold Tale, a series following couples exploring the open, wild side of their relationships, often with a little more humiliation and submission thrown in. It features explicit sexual scenes and is intended for adults only.
Publisher: Andrea Martin
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
There’s only one way a cuckold should start the new year... Thomas and Lea are going to their bull’s house together for the first time ever, where the ultimate NYE party is about to begin. Six guys. One wife. One devoted cuckold. Overflowing pleasure. This is a Cuckold Tale, a series following couples exploring the open, wild side of their relationships, often with a little more humiliation and submission thrown in. It features explicit sexual scenes and is intended for adults only.