Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Aimee Bender
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385534884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight year-old Francie is staying with her babysitter, waiting to take the train to Los Angeles to go live with her aunt and uncle. There is a lovely lamp next to the couch on which she's sleeping, the shade adorned with butterflies. When she wakes, Francie spies a dead butterfly, exactly matching the ones on the lamp, floating in a glass of water. She drinks it before the babysitter can see. Twenty years later, Francie is compelled to make sense of that moment, and two other incidents -- her discovery of a desiccated beetle from a school paper, and a bouquet of dried roses from some curtains. Her recall is exact -- she is sure these things happened. But despite her certainty, she wrestles with the hold these memories maintain over her, and what they say about her own place in the world. As Francie conjures her past and reduces her engagement with the world to a bare minimum, she begins to question her relationship to reality. The scenes set in Francie's past glow with the intensity of childhood perception, how physical objects can take on an otherworldly power. The question for Francie is, What do these events signify? And does this power survive childhood? Told in the lush, lilting prose that led the San Francisco Chronicle to say Aimee Bender is "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language," The Butterfly Lampshade is a heartfelt and heartbreaking examination of the sometimes overwhelming power of the material world, and a broken love between mother and child.

Author: Michael Wheeler
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719037108
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650

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Author: Alice Taylor
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312105280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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If ever a voice has captured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hark back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The colorful characters and joyous moments she offers have made her stories an Irish phenomenon, and have made Alice herself the most beloved author in all of the Emerald Isle.

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Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Helen Macdonald
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802162037
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543

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NOSTALGIA HAS NEVER BEEN MORE DEADLY “Fabulous . . . Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel." —Neil Gaiman From the extraordinary minds of award-winning and New York Times–bestselling author of H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald and first time author Sin Blaché, Prophet is their electric debut, a tantalizing adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance—set in a universe just one perilous step from our own. Adam Rubenstein and Sunil Rao have been reluctant partners since their Uzbekistan days. Adam is a seemingly unflappable American Intelligence officer and Rao is an ex-MI6 agent, an addict and rudderless pleasure hound, with the uncanny ability to discern the truth of things—about everyone and everything other than Adam. When an American diner turns up in a foggy field in the UK after a mysterious death, Adam and Rao are called in to investigate, setting into motion the most dangerous and otherworldly mission of their lives. In a surreal, action-packed quest that takes Adam and Rao from secret laboratories in Colorado, to a luxury lodge in Aspen, to the remote Nevada desert, the pair begins to uncover how and why people’s fondest memories are being weaponized against them by a spooky, ever-shifting substance called Prophet. As the unlikely twosome battles this strange new reality, Prophet’s victims’ memories are materializing in increasingly bizarre forms: favorite games, beloved pets, fairground rides, each more malevolent than the next. Prophet is like no enemy Adam and Rao - or the world - have ever come up against. A tension-shot odd-couple romance, an unflinching send-up of corporate corruption, and a genre-bending tour de force, Prophet is a triumph of storytelling by a new writing duo with a thrilling future.

Author: Running Press
Publisher: RP Minis
ISBN: 9780762437696
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This miniature light-up leg lamp prop replica from A Christmas Story is the perfect "stocking stuffer"! Kit includes: 3.5" tall replica of the movie's iconic Leg Lamp prop, complete with an actual light-up feature and packaging material to protect the "fragile" ornamental piece Book of stickers

Author: Richard Henry Stoddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Judith Ann McDowell
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1955086567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Jessie Thornton, the beautiful only child of Eathen Thornton, one of the richest most powerful men in the state of Montana, has never heard the word “no” until she sets her sights on Two Spirits, a young Blackfeet Indian her father has hired onto the ranch to tame the wild mustangs brought down out of the hills. Jessie soon finds herself fighting an uphill battle against 1903 Montana morals and small-town bigotry in her struggle to be with the man she loves.