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In Lucia's Eyes

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307279677
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book In Lucia's Eyes written by Arthur Japin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, here is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed from the author of The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi. • "Intelligent, poignant, and yes, sexy.... A literary page-turner for those with a brain as well as a heart." —San Francisco Chronicle Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.

In Lucia's Eyes

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 140009612X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Lucia's Eyes written by Arthur Japin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.

Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

Author : Mary M. Talbot
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1621152014
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Dotter of Her Father's Eyes written by Mary M. Talbot and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes contrasts two comingofage narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions and personal tragedy are played out against two contrasting historical backgrounds, poignantly evoked by the atmospheric visual storytelling of awardwinning graphicnovel pioneer Bryan Talbot. Produced through an intense collaboration seldom seen between writers and artists, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is smart, funny, and sadan essential addition to the evolving genre of graphic memoir. * Bryan Talbot is recognized worldwide as one of the true original voices in graphic fiction. * Bryan Talbot's Grandville Mon Amour was nominated for a 2011 Hugo Award.

Lucia, Child of Light

Author : Florence Ekstrand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Lucia, Child of Light written by Florence Ekstrand and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Saint Lucia, with tips and recipes for celebrating Lucia Day.

On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

Author : Lucia Perillo
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320266
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths written by Lucia Perillo and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."—Booklist "Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane."—Time Out New York The poetry of Lucia Perillo is fierce, tragicomic, and contrarian, with subjects ranging from coyotes and Scotch broom to local elections and family history. Formally braided, Perillo gathers strands of the mythic and mundane, of media and daily life, as she faces the treachery of illness and draws readers into poems rich in image and story. When you spend many hours alone in a room you have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself— this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal but that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us do not touch it, but who can keep from touching it, from scratching off the juicy scab? Today I bit a thick hangnail and thought of Schneebaum, who walked four days into the jungle and stayed for the kindness of the tribe— who would have thought that cannibals would be so tender? Lucia Perillo's Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Bobbitt award from the Library of Congress. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Lucia Morning in Sweden

Author : Ewa Rydåker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935666653
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Lucia Morning in Sweden written by Ewa Rydåker and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes traditional recipes, words and music to the Sancta Lucia song, patterns for a Lucia or Starboy gown, plus the legend of Santa Lucia.

The Life and Prayers of Saint Lucy of Syracuse

Author : Wyatt North
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781495251139
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Prayers of Saint Lucy of Syracuse written by Wyatt North and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a saint about whom so very little is really known, Saint Lucy has a surprisingly impressive religious pedigree. Her relics have traveled the world. Her cult extends across oceans, and every year, large numbers of Italian-Americans travel “back home” to Sicily, a land they have primarily known through an increasingly distant heritage, to participate in the great festival there in her honor. She is the bringer of light and lucidity, things which are in fact her namesakes as Lucy, or Lucia as she was known in Latin, itself means 'light'. She is also the patron of the blind, and those suffering from ailments of the eye. Ailments of the throat are also one of her specialties. It would seem like Saint Lucy governs over seemingly small and unimportant aspects of life. Those who had not previously heard of her might expect her to be a small niche-saint. Yet, there she is, the light that once spread across all of Europe, from Spain in the west to Turkey in the east, and from Sicily in the south to Sweden in the north. She was one of eleven female saints officially recognized in the Roman Catholic Mass as early as the year 600. She makes an appearance in some of the most famous written works of western civilization. She is honored not only in the Catholic Church, but in the Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church, and even the Lutheran Church, which is noteworthy on its own on account of the Lutheran denial of saints.

The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375718893
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi written by Arthur Japin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-06-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The first ten years of my life I was not black.” Thus begins this startlingly eloquent and beautiful tale based on the true story of Kwasi Boachi, a 19th- century African prince who was sent with his cousin, Kwame, to be raised in Holland as a guest of the royal family. Narrated by Kwasi himself, the story movingly portrays the perplexing dichotomy of the cousins' situation: black men of royal ancestry, they are subject to insidious bigotry even as they enjoy status among Europe’s highest echelons. As their lives wind down different paths–Kwame back to Africa where he enlists in the Dutch army, Kwasi to an Indonesian coffee plantation where success remains mysteriously elusive–they become aware of a terrible truth that lies at the heart of their experiences. Vivid, subtle, poignant and profound, The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi is an exquisite masterpiece of story and craft, a heartrending work that places Arthur Japin on a shelf that includes Joseph Conrad, J.M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro and Nadine Gordimer.

Cast a Cold Eye

Author : Alan Ryan
Publisher : Valancourt Books
ISBN 13 : 1943910413
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Cast a Cold Eye written by Alan Ryan and published by Valancourt Books. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quiet, picturesque village seems just the place to spend a few months writing, but beneath its placid exterior lurk dark secrets. Why do the locals behave so strangely? What is Father Henning, the enigmatic parish priest, hiding? And what is the meaning of the strange ritual Jack observes in the cemetery? The search for answers will lead him to the terrifying discovery that the ghosts of the past linger on in the present, and they cry out for blood ... An atmospheric, haunting ghost story, Cast a Cold Eye (1984) is a slow burn horror novel that will keep readers in suspense until its chilling conclusion.

Evening in Paradise

Author : Lucia Berlin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718318
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Evening in Paradise written by Lucia Berlin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The A.V. Club, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company and MyDomaine. A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. The book’s author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin’s remaining stories—twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential piece of Berlin’s oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans.

Director's Cut

Author : Arthur Japin
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307593118
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Director's Cut written by Arthur Japin and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, Arthur Japin’s new novel is a tale of consuming love and artistic creation that reimagines the last romance of the legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini. In Director’s Cut we enter the mind of Snaporaz, the lion of Italian cinema, as he slips into a coma in his final days. Having always drawn inspiration from the world of his dreams, he welcomes the chance to take account of his life and, in particular, his most recent love affair, with a beautiful but tempestuous young actress called Gala. Here is the story as Snaporaz tells it. Lured by the glamour of Rome, Gala and her boyfriend, Maxim, an actor as well, are hoping to be discovered when they manage the impossible: entrée to the studio of the great master. Despite an age difference of four decades, Gala soon becomes Snaporaz’s mistress, leaving Maxim, guardian of her secrets and her fragile health, to be an anxious and helpless observer of her physical and spiritual decline. As Gala becomes increasingly dependent on Snaporaz’s attentions, her desperation never to disappoint him leads her down a reckless path to anorexia and prostitution before the one true bond in her life is restored. Snaporaz’s intoxicatingly baroque—Felliniesque—account of the affair slyly challenges us again and again to ask what is dream and what is reality, and to conclude that the difference is irrelevant when such a genius immerses himself in his most natural element: the imagination. A dazzling tale from one of Europe’s most celebrated writers.

The Eye Book

Author : Ian Grierson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846313104
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book The Eye Book written by Ian Grierson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eye Book is an essential read for anyone who wears glasses, for parents of children with eye problems, for students considering training in orthoptics or optometry, and for health-care professionals looking for an overview of eye health. It is written in a lively readable style and a glossary is provided for technical and medical terms. The structure and function of the eye and the mechanisms of vision are explained in the initial chapters, with explanatory illustrations. Eye problems, eye diseases and their treatment are examined, and the function of different eye-care professionals is explained. Modern medical techniques are also described, including laser treatment, transplantation of cells, and rejuvenation therapy which may give the possibility of restoring diminished sight. The book is illustrated throughout with helpful figures and explanatory illustrations, including 17 colour plates.

Everything Here Is Beautiful

Author : Mira T. Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221979
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Everything Here Is Beautiful written by Mira T. Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‟A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters.” —Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere “There's not a false note to be found, and everywhere there are nuggets to savor. Why did it have to end?” —O Magazine “A bold debut. . . Lee sensitively relays experiences of immigration and mental illness . . . a distinct literary voice.” —Entertainment Weekly “Extraordinary . . . If you love anyone at all, this book is going to get you.” —USA Today A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak Two Chinese-American sisters—Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister’s protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. Lucia impetuously plows ahead, but the bitter constant is that she is, in fact, mentally ill. Lucia lives life on a grand scale, until, inevitably, she crashes to earth. Miranda leaves her own self-contained life in Switzerland to rescue her sister again—but only Lucia can decide whether she wants to be saved. The bonds of sisterly devotion stretch across oceans—but what does it take to break them? Everything Here Is Beautiful is, at its heart, an immigrant story, and a young woman’s quest to find fulfillment and a life unconstrained by her illness. But it’s also an unforgettable, gut-wrenching story of the sacrifices we make to truly love someone—and when loyalty to one’s self must prevail over all.

The Wills Eye Manual

Author : Kalla Gervasio
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 1975160770
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Wills Eye Manual written by Kalla Gervasio and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-selling source of compact, authoritative guidance on the treatment of ocular disorders in a variety of settings, The Wills Eye Manual, 8th Edition, is the comprehensive, high-yield reference of choice for both trainees and seasoned practitioners. It provides highly illustrated information on more than 200 ophthalmic conditions along with proven clinical recommendations from initial diagnosis through extended treatment. The consistent, bulleted outline format makes it ideal for portability and quick reference.

Lucia, Lucia

Author : Adriana Trigiani
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362876
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Lucia, Lucia written by Adriana Trigiani and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003-07-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This heartwarming tale is full of lessons about taking risks in life and love.”—Cosmopolitan “Funny, visual, and moving . . . A vibrant, loving, wistful portrait of a lost time and place.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, and Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue. Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages. Forced to choose between duty to her family and her own dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized, and the Sartoris’ honor is tested.

Through My Own Eyes

Author : Susan D. Holloway
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038746
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Through My Own Eyes written by Susan D. Holloway and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirl is a single mother who urges her son's baby-sitter to swat him when he misbehaves. Helena went back to work to get off welfare, then quit to be with her small daughter. Kathy was making good money but got into cocaine and had to give up her two-year-old son during her rehabilitation. Pundits, politicians, and social critics have plenty to say about such women and their behavior. But in this book, for the first time, we hear what these women have to say for themselves. An eye-opening--and heart-rending--account from the front lines of poverty, Through My Own Eyes offers a firsthand look at how single mothers with the slimmest of resources manage from day to day. We witness their struggles to balance work and motherhood and watch as they negotiate a bewildering maze of child-care and social agencies. For three years the authors followed the lives of fourteen women from poor Boston neighborhoods, all of whom had young children and had been receiving welfare intermittently. We learn how these women keep their families on firm footing and try--frequently in vain--to gain ground. We hear how they find child-care and what they expect from it, as well as what the childcare providers have to say about serving low-income families. Holloway and Fuller view these lives in the context of family policy issues touching on the disintegration of inner cities, welfare reform, early childhood and pro-choice poverty programs.

Stories from Piaye

Author : Students of Piaye Combined School Piaye St Lucia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978925338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Stories from Piaye written by Students of Piaye Combined School Piaye St Lucia and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories come from students in the small village of Piaye on St. Lucia, an island in the Carribean. The children, for whom poverty is a way of life, are strong and resilient. English is not their first language. Asked to write fairy tales, the children quickly left the traditional format behind to reveal how their world appears to them with all its love and violence. Their stories will touch you in new and surprising ways.