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Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fruits of a Gentle Madness written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lonn Taylor
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875657206
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Turning the Pages of Texas written by Lonn Taylor and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning the Pages of Texas is a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for booklovers and bookish readers. Lonn Taylor writes from the point of view of a historian who has been reading books about Texas for seventy years, since he was seven years old, and who has known many of the authors he writes about. He presents his reflections about well-known figures such as John Graves, J. Frank Dobie, and Larry McMurtry. He also introduces readers to people like folklorist C. L. Sonnichsen, who wrote about Texas feuds; Julia Lee Sinks, who interviewed early settlers of Fayette County in the 1870s; Karen Olsson, who wrote a fine novel about the mystique of Austin; and David Dorado Romo, who describes himself as the “psychogeographer of El Paso” and is the grandnephew of a saint. Some of the authors Taylor writes about are truly obscure, like Gertrude Beasley, who published her autobiography in Paris in 1924 and died in a New York insane asylum, or Tony Cano, whose self-published autobiographical novel describes what it was like to be poor and Mexican in West Texas in the 1950s. Taylor also teases out the Texas connections of writers as diverse as William Sydney Porter, Hervey Allen, and H. Allen Smith, and he writes about tracking down Texas books in London and Washington, DC, as well as at Barber’s in Fort Worth, the Brick Row Book Shop in Austin, and Rosengren’s and Brock’s in San Antonio. This is a booklover’s book.
Author : Nicholas A. Basbanes
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ISBN 13 : 9780979949159
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (491 download)
Download or read book A Gentle Madness written by Nicholas A. Basbanes and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentle Madness continues to astound and delight readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. The book captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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Total Pages : 648 pages
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Author : Guy McCrone
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845028139
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Wax Fruit Trilogy written by Guy McCrone and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wax Fruit Trilogy" brings together Guy McCrone's three classic novels, "Antimacassar City", "The Philistines", and "The Puritans", which chronicle the life and times of the Moorhouse family as they rise from the obscurity of an Ayrshire farm to the position of great prosperity in Victorian Glasgow. The first part of the trilogy introduces the Moorhouse family - Arthur, the successful business man and first of the family to move to Glasgow; David, the dashing and impulsive socialite; Bel, driven by ruthless social ambition; and, Pheobe, the half-sister from the Highlands who grows up to be a great beauty. The second and third volumes follow the changing fortunes of the family, as their lives are touched by triumph and tragedy - in Glasgow at the height of the Victorian era, and in Vienna, glittering capital of the Hapsburg Empire.
Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194753
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue). One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, rose to haunt the author later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or a life raft that supports us when we are sinking. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Author : Sterling C. Evans Library
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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Author : Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea
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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Connecting Creations written by Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Timothy Hurley
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Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Author : T. Byram Karasu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742559752
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Of God and Madness written by T. Byram Karasu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the spiritual journey of a young man, the child of the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a Jewish palace concubine, as he struggles to make sense of God through World War I in Istanbul, World War II in Paris, and the final years of British rule in Jerusalem, while maintaining his own precarious sanity.
Author : M.E. Braddon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846058181
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dead-sea Fruit written by M.E. Braddon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
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Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Total Pages : 648 pages
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Download or read book Dead-sea Fruit written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tonya Mitchell
Publisher : Cynren Press
ISBN 13 : 1947976214
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)
Download or read book A Feigned Madness written by Tonya Mitchell and published by Cynren Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Phoenix Award in Historical Fiction from the Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards Winner of the 2021 Silver Reader View Reviewer's Choice Award in Historical Fiction The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. —Nellie Bly Elizabeth Cochrane has a secret. She isn’t the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell’s Asylum think she is. In truth, she’s working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she’s a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she’ll impersonate a lunatic to expose a local asylum’s abuses. When she arrives at the asylum, Elizabeth realizes she must make a decision—is she there merely to bear witness, or to intervene on behalf of the abused inmates? Can she interfere without blowing her cover? As the superintendent of the asylum grows increasingly suspicious, Elizabeth knows her scheme—and her dream of becoming a journalist in New York—is in jeopardy. A Feigned Madness is a meticulously researched, fictionalized account of the woman who would come to be known as daredevil reporter Nellie Bly. At a time of cutthroat journalism, when newspapers battled for readers at any cost, Bly emerged as one of the first to break through the gender barrier—a woman who would, through her daring exploits, forge a trail for women fighting for their place in the world.
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Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
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Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345546105
Total Pages : 2615 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Mayfair Witches Series 3-Book Bundle written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 2615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, hypnotic trilogy of witchcraft, adventure, and romance from the beloved author of Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, The Mayfair Witches is a wondrous journey through the centuries, across the globe, and between the human and demonic worlds. Now all three novels in Anne Rice’s spellbinding series have been collected for the first time in this stunning eBook bundle: THE WITCHING HOUR LASHER TALTOS On the screened porch of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. She belongs to a legendary dynasty of witches—a family that is itself haunted over the ages by a dangerous and seductive being named Lasher. Their story begins in our time, with a rescue at sea. Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant neurosurgeon aware of her abilities but oblivious to her ancient line, finds the drowned body of Michael Curry off the coast of California and brings him to life. In his brief interval of death, he has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him. Fiercely drawn to each other, Rowan and Michael set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, and an intricate tale of evil unfolds: an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first “witch,” Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn. Praise for Anne Rice and The Mayfair Witches “Behind all the velvet drapes and the gossamer winding sheets, this is an old-fashioned family saga. . . . Rice’s descriptive writing is so opulent that it almost begs to be read [by] candlelight.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror.”—The New York Times Book Review “Lush prose, dense atmosphere, steamy sex, Gothic tension . . . Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Spellbinding . . . mythical . . . Rice is a pure storyteller.”—Cosmopolitan “Rice sees things on a grand scale. . . . There is a wide-screen historical sweep to the tale as it moves from one generation of witches to the other.”—The Boston Globe “An intricate, stunning imagination.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe’s daughter.”—The Wall Street Journal
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Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
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