Author: English Dialect Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: Robert Jeschonek
Publisher: Robert Jeschonek
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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One twisted world after another awaits you in this collection of weird horror tales from USA Today-bestselling author Robert Jeschonek. The title story, "Dog & Pony Show," sets the tone, plunging you into a bizarre realm where "dogs" are more like giant bugs with needles in their eyes, and a brainwashed boy must choose between a warped, industrial existence and the joys of the natural world that clings to survival. Once "Dog & Pony Show" has put you through the wringer, get ready for a steady stream of horrors designed to make you doubt your own perceptions and haunt the darkest nights of your tormented soul: "Fear of Rain" "Return Your Rapture to the Upright Position" "Monsters of Ice Cream" "The Wish of a Wish" "Keep Calm and Apocalypse On" "Warning! Do Not Read This Story!" "Road Rage" "Diary of a Maggot" "The Last Night of the Last Bokey-Bokey on Earth" "A Maze That Is a Great White Bull" "Piggyback"

Author: Edward Peacock
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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A man who caused a girl to fall in love with him by playing up his deformity, then seduced and abandoned her, is haunted by her memory. A study of the workings of conscience. By a Japanese Catholic writer, author of Silence.

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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Author: Keggie Carew
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802190383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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As her father’s memory fails, a daughter explores his military past: “Part family memoir, part history book . . . Compelling and moving from start to finish” (Financial Times). One of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Ten Best Books of the Year For most of Keggie Carew’s life, she was kept at arm’s length from her father’s personal history. But when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs—an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration between the American and British Secret Services during World War II—a new door opens in their relationship. As dementia begins to stake a claim over Tom Carew’s memory, Keggie embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a Jedburgh he parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance first against the Germans in France, then against the Japanese in Southeast Asia, where he won the nickname “Lawrence of Burma.” But his wartime exploits were only the beginning. A winner of the Costa Book Award, Dadland takes us on a journey through peace and war and shady corners of twentieth-century politics; though the author’s English childhood and the breakdown of her family, and into the mysterious realm of memory. “Brings to mind Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk in the way it soars off in surprising directions, teaches you things you didn’t know, and ambushes your emotions.” ―NPR “Astonishing . . . Mixes intimate memoir, biography, history and detective story: this is a shape-shifting hybrid that meditates on the nature of time and identity . . . Tom Carew was a razzle-dazzle character, larger than life and anarchically self-invented . . . For all its vigor and comic zest, Dadland is a careful and tender discovery that patiently circles around a man who spent his life mythologizing and running away from himself.” ―The Observer

Author: Graeme Crowley
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (AU)
ISBN: 1921655615
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: John Fowles
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030742877X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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In 1963, John Fowles won international recognition with The Collector, his first published novel. In the years following—with the publication of The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Ebony Tower, and his other critically acclaimed works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—Fowles took his place among the most innovative and important English novelists of our time. Now, with this first volume of his journals, which covers the years from 1949 to 1965, we see revealed not only the creative development of a great writer but also the deep connection between Fowles’s autobiographical experience and his literary inspiration. Commencing in Fowles’s final year at Oxford, the journals in this volume chronicle the years he spent as a university lecturer in France; his experiences teaching school on the Greek island of Spetsai (which would inspire The Magus) and his love affair there with the married woman who would later become his first wife; and his return to England and his ongoing struggle to achieve literary success. It is an account of a life lived in total engagement with the world; although Fowles the novelist takes center stage, we see as well Fowles the nascent poet and critic, ornithologist and gardener, passionate naturalist and traveler, cinephile and collector of old books. Soon after he fell in love with his first wife, Elizabeth, Fowles wrote in his journal, “She has asked me not to write about her in here. But I could not not write, loving her as I do. . . . What else I betrayed, I could not betray this diary.” It is that determined, unsparing honesty and forthrightness that imbues these journals with all the emotional power and narrative complexity of his novels. They are a revelation of both the man and the artist.

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Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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