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Author : Leye Adenle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911115069
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Easy Motion Tourist written by Leye Adenle and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling crime novel set in Lagos, featuring a feisty female protagonist willing to take on the Nigerian criminal underworld.
Author : Leye Adenle
Publisher : An Amaka Thriller
ISBN 13 : 9781911115632
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (156 download)
Download or read book When Trouble Sleeps written by Leye Adenle and published by An Amaka Thriller. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amaka returns in this gripping sequel to Easy Motion Tourist, and finds herself caught in a seedy web of politics, violence and sex. Having caught the attention of Chief Ojo and his hired thugs, Amaka must outwit them all to survive.
Author : Enid Shomer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307492060
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Tourist Season written by Enid Shomer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tourist Season, award-winning author Enid Shomer offers ten brilliant, richly detailed unforgettable stories of resilient women, aged seventeen to seventy, each at a pivotal point in her life. Their journeys cross distances of place and mind: A middle-aged Floridian who learns that she is the reincarnation of a Buddhist saint takes daring steps on her path to enlightenment; a long-buried secret forces one woman to leave the daughter she deeply loves; a Radcliffe student faces shocking family truths and taboos during the summer of 1966; an unexpected kinship forms between two women who land in a county jail after an excursion to Las Vegas. These travelers wander through shifting emotional landscapes of love, sex, and relationships, and often miss the destinations they’d wished to reach–of insight, connection, and understanding. Whether journeying to new geographical locales or exploring uncharted personal terrain, Tourist Season offers a provocative, engaging, and often humorous road map of the heart and soul. “[When reading Enid Shomer’s stories,] the thing one quickly senses is the will and the voice, someone saying, in effect, ‘Relax, be comfortable, I’m going to take good care of you.’ These are very fine stories.” –James Salter, in Imaginary Men “Beautifully made, surprising and inevitable, wonderfully inventive and deeply true, these stories are full of small, irreverent, straight-faced miracles. They will lead women of all ages to suspect that the best may be yet to come.” ––Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and Sight Hound
Author : Anne Tyler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143196332
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Accidental Tourist written by Anne Tyler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this irresistible #1 New York Times best-selling novel, Anne Tyler explores the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedy. Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macon’s best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler’s talents for making characters—and their relationships—feel both real and magical. “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post Look for Clock Dance, the charming new novel from Anne Tyler, available now.
Author : Eleanor Wilner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226900339
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Tourist in Hell written by Eleanor Wilner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Wilner’s poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and praise for the plenitude of nature and the gifts of human artistry. As with her six earlier collections, these poems are drawn from the transpersonal realm of history and cultural memory, but they display an increasing horror at the bloody repetitions of history, its service of death, and the destructive savagery of power separated from intelligence and restraint. The poems describe “a sordid drama” in which the players wear “eyeless masks,” and the only thing time changes is the name of the enemy. Underneath it all, driving “the art that” in both senses “keeps nothing at bay,” swim the enormous formal energies of life, the transitive figure that moves on in the depths, something glimpsed in the first light, something stronger than hope. “It is a relief to come across work in which a moral intelligence is matched by aesthetic refinement, in which the craft of the poems is equal to their concerns.”--Christian Wiman, Poetry
Author : Femi Kayode
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316536601
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Lightseekers written by Femi Kayode and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students in this "original and fast-paced thriller" (Lauren Wilkinson, author of American Spy). When Dr. Philip Taiwo is called on by a powerful Nigerian politician to investigate the public torture and murder of three university students in remote Port Harcourt, he has no idea that he’s about to be enveloped by a perilous case that is far from cold. Philip is not a detective. He’s an investigative psychologist, an academic more interested in figuring out the why of a crime than actually solving it. But when he steps off the plane and into the dizzying frenzy of the provincial airport, he soon realizes that the murder of the Okriki Three isn’t as straightforward as he thought. With the help of his loyal and streetwise personal driver, Chika, Philip must work against those actively conspiring against him to parse together the truth of what happened to these students. A thrilling and atmospheric mystery, and an unforgettable portrait of the contemporary Nigerian sociopolitical landscape, Lightseekers is a wrenching novel tackling the porousness between the first and third worlds, the enduring strength of tribalism and homeland identity, and the human need for connection in the face of isolation.
Author : Eric Anderson
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 9781594740664
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Space Tourist's Handbook written by Eric Anderson and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides practical information for would-be space tourists, describing different types of flights and covering flight training, the launch, emergencies, and such aspects as sleeping in weightless environments and using the vacuum toilet --
Author : Chris Abani
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070200
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Becoming Abigail written by Chris Abani and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand. —A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Moody, lyrical prose reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s Beloved . . . Though the fictional Abigail exists only on the pages of Abani’s novella, her character will seize the imagination of everyone who reads her story.” —Essence Magazine “Becoming Abigail, a spare yet voluptuous tale about a young Nigerian girl’s escape from prostitution is so hypnotic that it begs to be read in one sitting . . . Abigail is sensitive, courageous, and teetering on the brink of madness. Effortlessly gliding between past and present, Chris Abani spins a timeless story of misfortune and triumph.” —Entertainment Weekly Tough, spirited, and fiercely independent Abigail is brought as a teenager to London from Nigeria by relatives who attempt to force her into prostitution. She flees, struggling to find herself in the shadow of a strong but dead mother. In spare yet haunting and lyrical prose reminiscent of Marguerite Duras, Abani brings to life a young woman who lives with a strength and inner light that will enlighten and uplift the reader.
Author : Longrin Wetten
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481707558
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Lie to Me, Dan written by Longrin Wetten and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At seventeen, college student Marylyn Zhasa has it all planned out. She excels in her academics, and she is an honored member of The Flyers Cluba group devoted to grooming hard-driving students for the choicest careers, in her country of Nigeria and beyond. Shes ambitious and unafraid, and no worthless boy is going to get in her way. When she meets Dan, she immediately brushes him off. Yes, hes handsome; he looks more like a celebrity on vacation than a student going to class. He has earned himself the nickname D-Man, a play on demon, due to his ladies man reputation. However, something about Marylyn catches his eye, and hell do anything to make her his girl. No stranger to mens attentions, Marylyn puts up her well-practiced defenses against Dans unusual advances. Despite her fight, she ends up sucked into a fast-paced world of danger and uncertainty. All her careful plans seem spun to the wind as her unexpected romantic passion leadvs her down a path that could end in destruction and death.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The World Book Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385534787
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Quality of Mercy written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. But as the novel opens, a blithe Sullivan has escaped and is making his way on foot to the north of England, stealing as he goes and sleeping where he can. His destination is Thorpe in the East Durham coalfields, where his dead shipmate, Billy Blair, lived: he has pledged to tell the family how Billy met his end. In this village, Billy's sister, Nan, and her miner husband, James Bordon, live with their three sons, all destined to follow their father down the pit. The youngest, only seven, is enjoying his last summer aboveground. Meanwhile, in London, a passionate anti-slavery campaigner, Frederick Ashton, gets involved in a second case relating to the lost ship. Erasmus Kemp wants compensation for the cargo of sick slaves who were thrown overboard to drown, and Ashton is representing the insurers who dispute his claim. Despite their polarized views on slavery, Ashton's beautiful sister, Jane, encounters Erasmus Kemp and finds herself powerfully attracted to him. Lord Spenton, who owns coal mines in East-Durham, has extravagant habits and is pressed for money. When he applies to the Kemp merchant bank for a loan, Erasmus sees a business opportunity of the kind he has long been hoping for, a way of gaining entry into Britain's rapidly developing and highly profitable coal and steel industries. Thus he too makes his way north, to the very same village that Sullivan is heading for . . . With historical sweep and deep pathos, Unsworth explores the struggles of the powerless and the captive against the rich and the powerful, and what weight mercy may throw on the scales of justice.
Author : Ivy Pochoda
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062249916
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Visitation Street written by Ivy Pochoda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Denis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda’s Visitation Street is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook. It’s summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see. And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds. This shocking event will echo through the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop will be the place to share neighborhood news and troll for information about June’s disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father’s murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe. Val contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Julliard School dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.
Author : TJ Benson
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1485904692
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Madhouse written by TJ Benson and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dazzling story of a Nigerian family. The house at the end of Freetown Street in Nigeria’s Sabon Gari was once a sanatorium for colonists deranged from the heat and insanity of the place. Now it is home to a family whose unorthodox lives unfold into legend: Sweet Mother, an artist, her husband Shariff, a writer and soldier, and their children André and Max. From the moment his baby brother André is born, Max attaches himself to him, even dreaming the boy’s homicidal dreams. When the wayward André later pulls free from the family to join a death cult, Max must decide how far he will be drawn into his brother’s web. Serene and beautiful, Ladidi joins the family as a foster child, promising to marry the boy at school who can bring her a strawberry, a fruit she has never tasted. Sensuality blooms, along with loss of innocence amid the death of music legend Fela Kuti, massacres, disappearances, abductions and broken promises. While Sweet Mother and Shariff battle their personal demons, Max realises you cannot save your family. But can you ever escape them? In his exhilarating debut, TJ Benson conjures up a kaleidoscope of Nigeria. This is the extraordinary tale of five people bound by blood, each searching for a way through.
Author : Gudrun Held
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004359575
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Strategies of Adaptation in Tourist Communication written by Gudrun Held and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume study how all language levels are constantly involved in promoting insignificant places as desirable tourist destinations. Drawing on different communicative practices from various cultures, the case studies show that language use and the concept of the ‘tourist gaze’ are in a permanent strategic interplay.
Author : Janice VanCleave
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471146872
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Janice VanCleave's Plants written by Janice VanCleave and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-12-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are plants green? * How does water move through a leaf? * What are the parts of a flower? Janice VanCleave's Plants includes 20 fun and simple experiments that allow you to discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions about plants, plus dozens of additional suggestions for developing your own science fair projects. Use a cooking pot and plot of grass to discover why green grass turns yellow. Make a model of a plant cell from peanuts, gelatin, and a plastic bag. Grow pinto beans in a plastic cup to learn how seedlings develop. All experiments use inexpensive household materials and involve a minimum of preparation and cleanup. Children ages 8-12 Also available in the Spectacular Science Projects series: Janice VanCleave's Animals * Janice VanCleave's Earthquakes * Janice VanCleave's Electricity * Janice VanCleave's Gravity * Janice VanCleave's Machines * Janice VanCleave's Magnets * Janice VanCleave's Microscopes and Magnifying Lenses * Janice VanCleave's Molecules * Janice VanCleave's Rocks and Minerals * Janice VanCleave's Volcanoes * Janice VanCleave's Weather
Author : Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062448986
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Sarong Party Girls written by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and utterly engaging novel—Emma set in modern Asia—about a young woman’s rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh—Western expat—husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose. As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold-digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore’s glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. Desperate to move up in Asia’s financial and international capital, will Jazzy and her friends succeed? Vividly told in Singlish—colorful Singaporean English with its distinctive cadence and slang—Sarong Party Girls brilliantly captures the unique voice of this young, striving woman caught between worlds. With remarkable vibrancy and empathy, Cheryl Tan brings not only Jazzy, but her city of Singapore, to dazzling, dizzying life.
Author : A. Igoni Barrett
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0701187395
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Love is Power, Or Something Like that written by A. Igoni Barrett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where sex is a currency, or a weapon. Where power ends in corruption, or violence. Where the worst thing to happen is for the best, sometimes. This title includes nine stories of cavort jealous.
