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Happenstance

Author : Robert Root
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381912
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Robert Root and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and history (the Erie Canal). He wondered how happenstance had influenced the course of his parents’ lives, in particular their marriages (they married and divorced each other twice), and consequently the shaping of his identity. Happenstance investigates the effects of that phenomenon and choice on one man’s life. Root explores this theme in interwoven strands of narrative, interpretation, and reflection. One strand, “The Hundred Days,” follows his attempt to write one hundred journal entries, each about a different day in his life, to recover memories of specific moments or collections of moments. In the strand headed “Album,” he examines and interprets old family photographs in light of the way he reads them in the present, as someone now privy to a family secret that directed his and his siblings’ lives without their knowledge. Interspersed among these brief interpretations and narratives are reflections on happenstance and choice, a sequence contemplating their effect on his life and perhaps on all our lives. Through juxtaposition and accumulation, the book’s incremental unraveling of meaning imitates the process of unexpected epiphanies and gradual self-discovery in anyone’s life. By revisiting individual days, giving voice to photographs that mutely preserve family moments, and reflecting on the way happenstance and choice determine the directions lives take, Robert Root generates a meditation on identity anchored in an album in words and images of a mid-twentieth-century life.

Happenstance

Author : Carol Shields
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1841154687
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Carol Shields and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A week spent apart for a long-time married couple brings new and frightening experiences for each. Bewildered in a new city, Brenda struggles to cope. Meanwhile, at home, Jack's world falls apart; but while dealing with the crises around him, he learns something about himself.

Happenstance

Author : Robert Root
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 160938220X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Robert Root and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and history (the Erie Canal). He wondered how happenstance had influenced the course of his parents’ lives, in particular their marriages (they married and divorced each other twice), and consequently the shaping of his identity. Happenstance investigates the effects of that phenomenon and choice on one man’s life. Root explores this theme in interwoven strands of narrative, interpretation, and reflection. One strand, “The Hundred Days,” follows his attempt to write one hundred journal entries, each about a different day in his life, to recover memories of specific moments or collections of moments. In the strand headed “Album,” he examines and interprets old family photographs in light of the way he reads them in the present, as someone now privy to a family secret that directed his and his siblings’ lives without their knowledge. Interspersed among these brief interpretations and narratives are reflections on happenstance and choice, a sequence contemplating their effect on his life and perhaps on all our lives. Through juxtaposition and accumulation, the book’s incremental unraveling of meaning imitates the process of unexpected epiphanies and gradual self-discovery in anyone’s life. By revisiting individual days, giving voice to photographs that mutely preserve family moments, and reflecting on the way happenstance and choice determine the directions lives take, Robert Root generates a meditation on identity anchored in an album in words and images of a mid-twentieth-century life.

Happenstance Found

Author : P. W. Catanese
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143915337X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance Found written by P. W. Catanese and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller P.W. Catanese begins the Books of Umber trilogy with Happenstance Found—now available in paperback—when twelve-yearold Happenstance awakens in a cave with no memory of who he is or how he came to be there. Lord Umber and his companions rescue Hap, and the group sets out on dangerous and unusual missions that continue in Dragon Games. Hap’s and Umber’s journeys take them to the corrupt kingdom of Sarnica, where Umber’s nemesis has acquired some dragon eggs. Umber wants to study a new magical species, but what starts as a quest for knowledge turns into a dangerous rescue operation. The deft plotting of these actionpacked, heart-stopping adventures will pique the imagination and leave readers anxious for the final installment.

Happenstance

Author : Carol Shields
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 1039004199
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Carol Shields and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two unique novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea of an affair. Intimate and insightful yet never sentimental, Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage and the differences between the sexes that bring life — and a sense of isolation — into even the most loving of relationships.

Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part One)

Author : Jamie McGuire
Publisher : Jamie McGuire
ISBN 13 : 1311903011
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part One) written by Jamie McGuire and published by Jamie McGuire. This book was released on 2014 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller Jamie McGuire returns to self-publishing with this page-turning YA account of Erin Easter, one of three Erins in the small senior class of rural Blackwell High School who not only share a first name, but also their birthday. Easter, raised by a neglectful single mom, keeps to herself and admires Weston Gates from afar. The other Erins, Erin "Alder" Alderman and Erin "Sonny" Masterson are the darlings of the community: daughters of the two wealthiest families in town, best friends, cheerleaders, and everything Easter isn't--and they never let her forget it. Alder has even claimed Weston since the 8th grade. Weston is a well-liked star athlete, and the son of two prominent attorneys. He struggles daily with the pressures of living up to his family name and secretly empathizes with Easter's feeling that she belongs somewhere else; in a different life. Not until he begins sneaking nights out with Easter does he gain the courage to buck expectations and acknowledge his feelings ... both for his future, and for her. A shocking tragedy rocks the tiny town, and Easter's life is turned upside down in the best way possible. But when the truth is revealed and everything she thinks she wanted falls into her lap, life only becomes more complicated. Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part One) is an USA TODAY best seller!

Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part Three)

Author : Jamie McGuire
Publisher : Jamie McGuire
ISBN 13 : 1311063935
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance: A Novella Series (Part Three) written by Jamie McGuire and published by Jamie McGuire. This book was released on 2015 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it all. Now that Erin has learned the truth about the girls who tortured her, and about the boy she loves, she finds her time before graduation dwindling at an alarming and exciting pace. What used to be summer break was now a countdown to her final days in Blackwell. Her parents, Sam and Julianne struggle with the fear that just when they’ve found Erin, they must let her go, and the tension is higher than it’s been since Erin discovered who she really was. Finally with the girl he’s loved since childhood, Weston grows more desperate as the summer days pass. He and Erin will go to separate colleges. His biggest fear is that this means they’ll go their separate ways. Plagued with making the best of the time he has left with Erin, and finding a way to make it last, Weston finds himself in a different state of mind hourly. He is just beginning to realize that hope is like quicksand. The harder Weston struggles, the faster Erin sinks.

Happenstance

Author : Lester Fisher
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665535989
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Lester Fisher and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bastard boomer negotiates the maze of postwar America. Wrenched from his working single mother, and brought to Camp Pondosa by his grandfather who was Woods Manager for McCloud Rv. Lumber Co. After his WAC mother became X-ray tech at the McCloud hospital, and acquired a husband, the new family moved to R. A. Long’s “planned city” of Longview, Washington. A shocking change for a country-bumpkin kid. He attended Catholic School in this pretentious mill town with its socially stratified culture of mill workers, overlords and timber barons. Catholic indoctrination led to the Franciscan Seminary. He survived into his 6th year at the college of San Luis Rey, CA, when love won out. This young man left the pursuit of the priestly vocation to pursue the woman he had dated since his fifteenth year. First collegiate in his family, he and his girl entered the daunting halls of ivy at University of Washington. Engaged to his high school sweetheart, graduation approached in the turbulent years of 1969. A youth’s options were few during the Vietnam War. Having taken his Naval Officer Candidate School exam, he also applied for Peace Corps. The NOCS did not reply, but the Peace Corps invited him to Kenya. Parting with his xenophobic fiancé, he served in the idyllic Hills of Taita where began a romantic involvement with a Taita woman ... and her 3 children. Their happy two years together ended when he was exiled from Taita by his military induction notice. By happenstance, Richard Nixon had changed the course of his life. One young man’s account chronicles the most turbulent growth in United States history. These were expansions in technology, global influence, wealth, power, popular unrest, and human rights. These changed America from a isolationist, racist enclave, to the present confusing, liberating, imperialistic and ideologically-divided envy of the world.

Invoking Happenstance

Author : MyraLee Nowell
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1770970002
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Invoking Happenstance written by MyraLee Nowell and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With firm plans to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Dimetre and Myla embark on a trip to Alaska. Their destination was nestled deep in the Tongass National Forest. The secluded lodge emanated dark secrets of yesteryear and beckoned those of tomorrow. A provocative stranger crossed their path, setting off a sequence of profound mystical events that would feather sadistic altercations. Was it the cosmic laws of nature, prophesy or invoking happenstance that rocked Myla's world and altered her life forever? With perseverance, I put pen to paper. Having faith, God in His infinite mercy, would bring me a publisher that would put my words in a book to remind us how precious the life we're given truly is.

Happenstance

Author : Carol Shields
Publisher : London : Flamingo
ISBN 13 : 9780586092248
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Carol Shields and published by London : Flamingo. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a marriage from the viewpoints of both the husband and the wife at a time when they are both undergoing changes.

Happenstance

Author : Joel Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Joel Austin and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addictive new thriller series introduces Captain Frank Sherman. When Frank Sherman was one month into college the Twin Towers fell. He joined the Army the next day. That was fifteen years ago. He never left the war. After a brutal and bloody mess in Eastern Europe he is given leave to visit his only true friend in Northern California. Sherman arrives in the small backwater town to find an empty house and a sinking sense of despair. What began as an escape from the violence and blood quickly spirals back to the war. As each new link in the mystery is uncovered, Sherman takes another step back towards the cold-blooded killer he has become.For a generation left with no choice but the War on Terror, Sherman knows only one truth. It was not his war to start, but it is his to fight.Fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, and Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne will enjoy this Frank Sherman thriller.

The Junta of Happenstance

Author : Tolu Oloruntoba
Publisher : Anstruther Books
ISBN 13 : 9781989287729
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book The Junta of Happenstance written by Tolu Oloruntoba and published by Anstruther Books. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba's poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet's time as a physician, and dis-ease as a primer for family dysfunction, the (im)migrant experience, and urban / corporate anxiety. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with empathy and intelligence, finding beauty in chaos, and strength in suffering. The Junta of Happenstance is an important and assured debut.

A Matter of Happenstance

Author : Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935514626
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Happenstance written by Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Fitzpatrick has used her keen reporter's eyes for detail and fashioned a sweeping saga of the wealthy Reinhardt family, St. Louis merchants who built a local retail empire over the course of a century... The characters vividly jump off the pages and pull you into their lives. Carol S. Cole, Former Features Editor, St. Louis Globe-Democrat An epic ... Writing it meant knowing vast amounts of information ... Many, many passages are strikingly beautiful, some scenes are memorable - so real they're painful to remember. Rose Marie Kinder, Editor Emerita, Pleiades, Winner, 1991 Willa Cather Award Author of An Absolute Gentleman I fell in love with several characters. A.Y. Stratton, Author of Buried Heart With intelligent research and a fine feel for place, this book builds around its characters the kind of historical context that helps to explain how and why people see the world as they do. Eric Sandweiss, Carmony Chair, Department of History, Indiana University, Author of St. Louis: The Evolution of an Urban American Landscape A rare and nearly perfect glimpse into a world long past. It's a well-researched first novel that will entertain, inform, and touch emotions for everyone. Kris Radish, Best Selling Bantam Dell Author, www.krisradish.com

Incidental Happenstance

Author : Kim DeSalvo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781478234531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Incidental Happenstance written by Kim DeSalvo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incidental: Occurring or likely to occur as an unpredictable or minor accompaniment* Happenstance: A chance circumstance * Neither was looking for it. Neither was expecting it. But sometimes, life has other plans... One year after the loss of her fiancé, Tia Hastings needed to find a way to start over. She had to figure out how to be single again, but she had no idea how to do it. Last Stop was a tiny pub with no significance-she chose it to be anonymous, to watch the interactions between the sexes so she could figure out how to start her life over... Dylan Miller was a megastar. It was impossible for him to move amongst the general population without being recognized, but he longed to simply blend into a crowd. He donned a disguise and wandered into Last Stop, a dark little hole-in-the-wall where he was sure he wouldn't be recognized... When their worlds collide, Tia and Dylan discover something neither of them thought possible-love. But when a fallen star sees Dylan as her ticket back to the top and will stop at nothing to make him hers, Tia wonders if she's out of her league; and out of time to rescue the love she thought she'd never find again... Is it fate? Coincidence? Or both? *freedictionary.com

Happenstance

Author : Stephen Saperstein Frug
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578542539
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Happenstance written by Stephen Saperstein Frug and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic novel, with photograph-based art, set in Ithaca, New York, dealing with the lives of two couples (one straight, one lesbian), and the faith-journeys of two of them, and how the changes in their religious beliefs affect their relationships. "Among the best graphic novels around" - Samuel R. Delany

The Happenstance Packs the Wolf, a Butcher, His Demon, and Their Master

Author : Christopher White
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727533392
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book The Happenstance Packs the Wolf, a Butcher, His Demon, and Their Master written by Christopher White and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dense woodland and harsh humidity of the Georgia/Florida border, a ruthless, and idyllic, Captain attempts to right his old wrongs and heal festering wounds to sustain his own lawfully rigid empire in this coastal wasteland. Helping him enforce his power are his two protégés, Cliff Ramos and Cooper Cornelius Happenstance, known better as Coop. Ramos is a young and brilliant detective, orphaned at an early age, and has always felt apart from the norm of humanity. He is being mentored by the older, and very animalistic Coop whose instincts are never in question. Both men have a unique ability to find, and create trouble, and are in a constant battle with themselves to either accept the demonic urges inside them or to rise up against that part of themselves and embrace their humanity....or is there a way to do both? This tale unfolds to hilarious, dark, and violent chapters of human greed, animal desires, and other worldly phenomenon, as Ramos, Cooper, and the Captain work to maintain power over their sanity and reality. When Coop's daughter, Sam, begins to have people die around her, both men are directed to investigate. Ramos and the girl are fallen lovers from high school, and he is vying to get her back. Coop cares for nothing since his wife died, except to protect Sam from any harm. Who is committing these random acts of murder? Is it Boogy, Sam's estranged eco-terrorist husband and father to her child? Is it the crime syndicate of The Viking, striking back at Coop for destroying their local operations years ago after they had brutally murdered his wife? Or does the trail lead closer to home, possibly implicating Sam, or even Ramos and Coop?

Home Making

Author : Lee Matalone
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062953672
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Home Making written by Lee Matalone and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An intricate exploration of family and home, of mother and child, of friends, of women and written with both precision and style."—Weike Wang, author of Chemistry From a talented, powerful new voice in fiction comes a stunning novel about the intersection of three lives coming to grips with identity, family legacy, and what it means to make a house a true home. Cybil is a war child—the result of a brief affair between a young Japanese woman and a French soldier—who at a young age is transplanted to Tucson, Arizona, and raised by an American officer and his rigid wife. After a rebellious adolescence, she grows up to become a successful ob-gyn. Chloe, Cybil’s daughter, is adrift in an empty house in the hills of Virginia. Her marriage has fallen apart, and her estranged husband is dying of cancer. Room by room, Chloe makes her new house into a home, grappling always with the real and imagined boundaries that limit her as a single, childless woman in contemporary America. Beau, Chloe’s closest friend, is in love with a man he’s only met on the internet, who lives across the country. Shepherding Chloe through her grief, he is often called back to his loud, humid, chaotic childhood in Southwest Louisiana, where he first reckoned with the intricate ties between queerness, loneliness, and place. Through each of these characters Matalone weaves a moving, beautiful narrative of home, identity, and belonging. Home Making is a somber, yet hopeful, ode to the stories we tell ourselves in order to make a family.