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Book Synopsis The Disappearing Act by : Catherine Steadman
Download or read book The Disappearing Act written by Catherine Steadman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody comes “an unputdownable mystery about the nightmares that abound in the pursuit of Hollywood dreams” (Caroline Kepnes, author of the You series). “Stylish, riveting, hugely atmospheric—I couldn’t put it down.”—Lucy Foley, author of The Guest List A woman has gone missing. But did she ever really exist? A leading British actress hoping to make a splash in America flies to Los Angeles for the grueling gauntlet known as pilot season, a time when every network and film studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows entice a fresh batch of young hopefuls—anxious, desperate, and willing to do whatever it takes to make it. Instead, Mia Eliot, a fish out of water in the ruthlessly competitive and faceless world of back-to-back auditioning, discovers the sinister side of Hollywood when she becomes the last person to see Emily, a newfound friend. Standing out in a conveyor-belt world of fellow aspiring stars, Emily mysteriously disappears following an audition, after asking Mia to do a simple favor. But nothing is simple. Nothing is as is seems. And nothing prepares Mia for a startling truth: In a city where dreams really do come true, nightmares can follow.
Book Synopsis Disappearing Acts by : Terry McMillan
Download or read book Disappearing Acts written by Terry McMillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes an honest look at a modern romance, from love at first sight to painful reality to working toward a happy ending.... Franklin Swift was a sometimes-employed construction worker and a not-quite-divorced dad of two. Zora Banks was a teacher, singer, and songwriter. They met in a Brooklyn brownstone, and there could be no walking away.... In this funny, gritty love story, Franklin and Zora join the ranks of fiction’s most compelling couples as they move from Scrabble to sex, from layoffs to the limits of faith and trust. Disappearing Acts is about the mystery of desire and the burdens of the past. It’s about respect—what it can and can’t survive. And it’s about the safe and secret places that only love can find.
Book Synopsis Disappearing Act by : Robert Sheehan
Download or read book Disappearing Act written by Robert Sheehan and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author's peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters' streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives. Dark and provocative, the collection will stay with the reader long after the book is finished. Warning: Contains Adult Content
Book Synopsis The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by : Florence de Changy
Download or read book The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 written by Florence de Changy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book – and highly recommended.’ Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory.
Book Synopsis Disappearing Acts by : Joyce K. Fletcher
Download or read book Disappearing Acts written by Joyce K. Fletcher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images. Fletcher describes how organizations say they need such behavior and yet ignore it, thus undermining the possibility of radical change. She shows why the "female advantage" does not seem to be benefit women employees or organizations. She offers ways that individuals and organizations can make visible the invisible work.
Download or read book Disappearing Acts written by Diana Taylor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond.
Book Synopsis Forgiveness is a Disappearing Act by : Nikolina Lazetic
Download or read book Forgiveness is a Disappearing Act written by Nikolina Lazetic and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in this searing debut collection gather the self's shards in order to forgive history, "a misnomer for canceled presents."
Book Synopsis Disappearing Acts by : Isabella Bunnell
Download or read book Disappearing Acts written by Isabella Bunnell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful search-and-find book, readers are invited to find a variety of endangered animals within their habitats. Densely detailed landscapes of a rainforest, coral reef, mountains and skies are harbouring within them numbats, and snow leopards and mountain gorillas. Isabella Bunnell's glorious watercolours makes the job of scouring the images even more fun.At the back of the book a glossary lends an additional educational element, describing each species in detail and explaining why they are endangered. In these urgent times, awareness of the rich bio-diversity of our planet has never been more vital. This is a great way of getting children as young as three engaging with environmental issues. Reviews: Vibrantly illustrated, this is an important book that all children should read...books like these raise awareness in the people we need to educate the most--the children who will inherit the perilous habitats we are leaving behind. -- Kids Book ReviewThis most stunning search-and-find book of endangered animals is a complete gem -- Picturebooks BloggerA beautiful way to introduce children to the concept of habitats as well as the importance of a balanced ecosystem. -- School Library Journal
Download or read book Disappearing Act written by Sharon Murphy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disappearing Act is a gripping story that reveals the saga of an ordinary woman's struggle against the influence of her ex-husband's powerful mother, famed author Maya Angelou. With extraordinary honesty, Murphy recounts her marriage to Angelou's charismatic son, Guy Johnson. Guy becomes violent, but not before the author gives birth to their son Colin. To protect Colin, Sharon pursues a divorce. But money, power, and influence put Colin in Guy's custody, despite his violent behavior. Realizing that neither she nor her son would ever live in peace and safety, Murphy makes the controversial decision to kidnap her own son. Disappearing Act chronicles the harrowing years Murphy and Colin spent on the run, as Guy and Angelou attempt to track them down. Eventually Sharon is caught and Colin is returned to his abusive father. Her subsequent incarceration and release are recounted in painful detail. The author has found an astonishing emotional truth about these events that both scarred and defined her family.
Book Synopsis Disappearing Act by : Jacqueline Harvey
Download or read book Disappearing Act written by Jacqueline Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensy and Max are now agents-in-training at Pharos, a covert international spy network. A school trip to Rome provides a welcome distraction from worries about their missing parents. Amid the history and culture of Italy's capital, they discover a runaway boy and whisperings of Mafia involvement. It looks as if their harmless field trip might turn into their very first mission.
Book Synopsis Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts by : Bruce Nauman
Download or read book Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts written by Bruce Nauman and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art, and the stringent questioning of values --both aesthetic and moral-- that has long sustained his project remains urgent today. For more than fifty years, Nauman has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement, and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the world. This richly illustrated catalogue, which includes rare and previously unpublished images, offers a comprehensive view of the artist's work in all media --including drawings; early fiberglass sculptures; sound environments; architecturally scaled, participatory constructions; rhythmically blinking neons; and a recent 3-D video that harks back to one of Nauman's earliest performances. A wide range of authors --artists, curators, and historians of art, architecture, and film-- focus on topics that have been largely neglected, such as the architectural structures that posit real or imaginary spaces as models for ethical inquiry and mechanisms of control. Curator Kathy Halbreich's introductory essay explores Nauman's many acts of disappearance, withdrawal, and deflection as revelatory of his central formal and intellectual concerns. Eighteen further contributions tease out the various themes that run through this protean and elusive artist's work.
Book Synopsis Teeny Houdini #1: The Disappearing Act by : Katrina Moore
Download or read book Teeny Houdini #1: The Disappearing Act written by Katrina Moore and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Bessie Lee! The Teeny Houdini chapter book series from author Katrina Moore and illustrator Zoe Si begins with a simply magical story. The adventures of Teeny Houdini come in short, easy-to-read chapters full of hilarious illustrations—a favorite series for building confident readers! Bessie Lee might be the teeniest in her first-grade class, but with the tap-tap-tap of her wand, some glitter, and a little magic . . . she’s going to dazzle the crowds to win the school talent show. But when a trick goes disastrously wrong, Rufus, the class hamster, disappears! Can Bessie find a way to bring him back in time? Or is Rufus truly gone forever? Teeny Houdini, also known as Bessie Lee, is an overly excited, mischievous first grader who bounces off the walls—and off the page—with her volume, enthusiasm, and grand ideas, which are just too big for her tiny frame. Bessie’s multigenerational Chinese American family is the warm center of the stories, from exasperated but loving big sister Bailey to the always encouraging and understanding Gramma. Kid-friendly and engaging, the Teeny Houdini series is a good fit for early chapter book readers. And as a bonus, kids learn the real and simple steps to a different magic trick in each book!
Download or read book Vanishing Act written by Thomas Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A challenging and satisfying thriller . . . [with] many surprising twists.”—The New York Times Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness—not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the tricks, ancient and modern; in fact, she has invented several of them herself. So she is only mildly surprised to find an intruder waiting for her when she returns home one day. An ex-cop suspected of embezzling, John Felker wants Jane to do for him what she did for his buddy Harry Kemple: make him vanish. But as Jane opens a door out of the world for Felker, she walks into a trap that will take all her heritage and cunning to escape. . . . Praise for Vanishing Act “Thomas Perry keeps pulling fresh ideas and original characters out of thin air. The strong-willed heroine he introduces in Vanishing Act rates as one of his most singular creations.”—The New York Times Book Review “One thriller that must be read. . . . Perry has created his most complex and compelling protagonist.”—San Francisco Examiner
Book Synopsis Disappearing ACT by : Sid Fleischman
Download or read book Disappearing ACT written by Sid Fleischman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. A brother and sister flee a stalker hiding amidst the colorful characters of Venice, California, in this comic mystery.
Book Synopsis Pete's Disappearing Act by : Jenny Tripp
Download or read book Pete's Disappearing Act written by Jenny Tripp and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pete the performing poodle and Rita the chimp are swept away from the circus in a tornado, they encounter frightening adventures--and make new friends--as they try to return home.
Book Synopsis The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by : Maggie O'Farrell
Download or read book The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox written by Maggie O'Farrell and published by Tinder Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Costa Award winning, bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?
Download or read book Mr. Nobody written by Catherine Steadman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He wants to remember. She needs to forget. . . . Memento meets Sharp Objects in a gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and The Disappearing Act. “Twisty . . . highly imaginative . . . deliciously provocative.”—The Washington Post Who is Mr. Nobody? When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Emma Lewis is asked to assess the patient in a small town deep in the English countryside. This is her field of expertise, this is the chance she’s been waiting for, and this case could make her name known across the world. But therein lies the danger. Emma left this same town fourteen years ago and has taken great pains to cover all traces of her past since then. Places aren't haunted . . . people are. But now something—or someone—is calling her back. And the more time she spends with her patient, the more alarmed she becomes that he knows the one thing about her that nobody is supposed to know.
