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ISBN 13 : 9780812484038
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
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Author : Sue Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899193403
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Lila on the Landing written by Sue Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila, always the last to be chosen for games by the other children, earns their interest and acceptance by creating her own imaginative activities on the landing of her apartment house.
Author : Raymond Durgnat
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844575608
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (445 download)
Download or read book A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' written by Raymond Durgnat and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its release in 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho divided critical opinion, with several leading film critics condemning Hitchcock's apparent encouragement of the audience's identification with the gruesome murder that lies at the heart of the film. Such antipathy did little to harm Psycho's box-office returns, and it would go on to be acknowledged as one of the greatest film thrillers, with scenes and characters that are among the most iconic in all cinema. In his illuminating study of Psycho, Raymond Durgnat provides a minute analysis of its unfolding narrative, enabling us to consider what happens to the viewer as he or she watches the film, and to think afresh about questions of spectatorship, Hollywood narrative codes, psycho-analysis, editing and shot composition. In his introduction to the new edition, Henry K. Miller presents A Long Hard Look at 'Psycho' as the culmination of Durgnat's decades-long campaign to correct what he called film studies' 'Grand Error'. In the course of expounding Durgnat's root-and-branch challenge to our inherited shibboleths about Hollywood cinema in general and Hitchcock in particular, Miller also describes the eclectic intellectual tradition to which Durgnat claimed allegiance. This band of amis inconnus, among them William Empson, Edgar Morin and Manny Farber, had at its head Durgnat's mentor Thorold Dickinson. The book's story begins in the early 1960s, when Dickinson made the long hard look the basis of his pioneering film course at the Slade School of Fine Art, and Psycho became one of its first objects.
Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307431517
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Nancy Culpepper written by Bobbie Ann Mason and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky native Nancy Culpepper boldly left home to attend school in Massachusetts, married a Yankee, and raised her son in the Northeast. “One day I was feeding chickens and listening to Hank Williams and the next day I was expected to know what wines went with what,” she tells her husband, Jack. Yet no matter where she travels, her rural southern heritage is never far from her thoughts, her habits, and her heart. Nancy is on a lifelong quest to understand her place in the world. Returning home to the family farm, she searches for photographic evidence of an ancestor bearing her own name. Still in her jeans, she brings home strange ideas and an assertiveness she learned up north. Always adventurous, Nancy travels far and wide–searching, seeking. The narrative sweep of her life traverses the turbulent sixties, the Vietnam War, the eighties and the foreboding death of John Lennon, and finally the new millennium–when a self-assured Nancy finally emerges. These humorous and often touching stories recount her courtship and marriage to Jack, her relationship with her precocious son, and the deep, loving bond between her parents, Spence and Lila Culpepper. Eventually Nancy’s marriage is threatened by a cultural divide that plagued her and Jack from the start. But when she inherits the Culpepper family farm and discovers more pieces of her ancestral puzzle, she realizes that her life is assuming its proper shape. Later, standing on a lonely mountain in England, she sees the world from a surprising perspective. Bestselling author Bobbie Ann Mason’s prizewinning Nancy Culpepper chronicles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, The Southern Review, and other distinguished literary anthologies. She has compiled these stories into one definitive collection, which includes the novella Spence + Lila, two new, never-before-published stories, and one Pushcart Prize winner. Heartfelt and thought-provoking, Nancy Culpepper is a poignant depiction of change and growth in a modern-day heroine.
Author : Janet Lee Barton
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373829426
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Somewhere to Call Home written by Janet Lee Barton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some might call it a proposal. Violet Burton knows it's blackmail, and she refuses to give in. She won't marry the unscrupulous banker who holds the mortgage on her Virginia home. Instead, she'll find employment in New York City, earning enough to pay her debts before returning home. Virginia's where she belongs...even if reconnecting with childhood friend Michael Heaton makes her long to stay permanently at his mother's boardinghouse. The freckle-faced girl Michael knew is now a lovely woman. Helping Violet find her way is a simple act of friendship--at least at first. But soon he'll do anything to keep her safe, and hope she'll see that the home she seeks is one they can share together.
Author : Marilyn Leach
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607422212
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Advent of a Mystery written by Marilyn Leach and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For lovers of classic Agatha Christie mysteries and Jan Karon village characters, this English set mystery is sure to please. Berdie Elliott, the wife of the new parish priest, thought she left her old life as an investigative reporter behind her, but she soon discovers a village full of secrets when a man dies at a Christmas celebration. Could a clue to his demise be hidden in an advent wreath? Can Berdie curb her natural instincts to get involved in both a mystery and a romance, or will she let the local law handle things?
Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497652421
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Fortune's Daughter written by Alice Hoffman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood,” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rules of Magic (People). Rae Perry has been in love with Jessup since high school. Two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, they ran away from Boston together and have been moving ever since—five states in seven years. Now they are in Southern California in what they call “earthquake weather,” a time when anything can happen, and Jessup is restless again. This time, Rae fears, he plans to leave without her. Lila Grey is a fortune-teller. More than a quarter century ago, on a cold and icy night in New York City, she gave birth to a daughter she never saw again. Lila is determined to find her lost child, even if it means an end to her happy life with Richard, the loving husband she refuses to let into her past. It is Lila who tells Rae she is pregnant—but the other symbol she reads in Rae’s tea leaves, she refuses to reveal. From that moment forward, their fates are inextricably linked. While Rae searches for the strength to navigate an uncertain future alone, Lila sets out to resolve her history once and for all. This luminous novel, a New York Times Notable Book, is an enthralling tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth from a writer who, in the words of Amy Tan, “takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.”
Author : Colson Whitehead
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307819965
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Intuitionist written by Colson Whitehead and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the first black female elevator inspector in the history of the department, is at the center of it. There are two warring factions within the department: the Empiricists, who work by the book and dutifully check for striations on the winch cable and such; and the Intuitionists, who are simply able to enter the elevator cab in question, meditate, and intuit any defects. Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's watch, chaos ensues. It's an election year in the Elevator Guild, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to assign the blame to an Intuitionist. But Lila Mae is never wrong. The sudden appearance of excerpts from the lost notebooks of Intuitionism's founder, James Fulton, has also caused quite a stir. The notebooks describe Fulton's work on the "black box," a perfect elevator that could reinvent the city as radically as the first passenger elevator did when patented by Elisha Otis in the nineteenth century. When Lila Mae goes underground to investigate the crash, she becomes involved in the search for the portions of the notebooks that are still missing and uncovers a secret that will change her life forever. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Author : Samm-Art Williams
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573691645
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Woman from the Town written by Samm-Art Williams and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene DeSantis
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525574256
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book A Silent Wind written by Eugene DeSantis and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a work of fiction targeting those who enjoy mysteries and international themes. Reba Klein was thirteen when her father was murdered by a terrorist. Her entire life goal is to punish those who want to harm Israel. She becomes a Mossad operator and assassin. Peter Shevchenko was a young boy when his parents were killed by the Germans in 1941. After the war, he is sent to KGB school where he learns the English language and is subsequently sent to America in 1965 to pose as a war protester. Later he is promoted to Colonel and heads the security branch. Fast forward to 1978, Col. Shevchenko and his closest associates begin the search for an American traitor and serial killer, Palmer. The traitor’s sole purpose is to harm America and start a Middle Eastern War with the help of a retired Israeli General and Reba Klein. An Ex-CIA agent named Ethan Edwards, an arch enemy of Shevchenko, is brought out of retirement to work with Shevchenko to stop Palmer.
Author : Jacobo Schifter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317712188
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Lila's House written by Jacobo Schifter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America presents insight into male prostitution in a truly global array of Latin American countries. This study focuses on a very specific sexual culture within the realm of male prostitution: the young men of a lower/middle-class brothel catering to a broad range of clients. You will explore the culture of juvenile prostitution and learn from the immediate intervention program that was implemented. Twenty-five young men between the ages of 13 and 27 were interviewed for this study. They share with you their views on: sexual initiation sexual definition sexual orientation love drug use prostitution family relationships relationships with men and women The young men interviewed for this study are in serious danger of being exposed to the AIDS virus and of becoming addicted, if they are not already, to cocaine, crack, or alcohol. Those conducting the study initiated a campaign to supply condoms and raise the young men's awareness about AIDS and drugs and began an immediate support program. The project resulted in the establishment, in June 1997, of an alternative home for juvenile prostitutes, which offers various opportunities for education and work.
Author : Cathy Cole
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407143026
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Heartside Bay 1: The New Girl written by Cathy Cole and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Heartside Bay - for life, love and everything in between... Lila Murray is desperate for a fresh start after her family moved to Heartside Bay. It's the perfect chance to leave her past mistakes behind. But nothing is ever that easy. Day one at Heartside High School brings a whole new set of problems, and one very big new crush.
Author : Marilyn Leach
Publisher : Pelican Ventures Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1611162521
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Candle for a Corpse written by Marilyn Leach and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2012-12-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would guess that a simple Advent wreath would light the way to solving a Christmastide mystery in a small English village? Well, when Berdie Elliott—the local vicar's wife and former investigative reporter—gets the scent, anything can happen. Though Berdie's husband often disapproves, her divine gift of sorting truth from lies puts her in the stew. Along with her best friend, Lillie, Berdie unwraps far more than Christmas presents when an Advent gathering at the vicarage goes awry, and murder rocks the village. Lively newcomers, secret identities, a clandestine wedding, and a dissenting constable add to the adventure of unraveling the mystery that Berdie—to the delight of the entire village—finally ties up like a bright Christmas bow. Tea and biscuits anyone? Formerly released as Advent of a Mystery.
Author : Mara Buchbinder
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520960769
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book All in Your Head written by Mara Buchbinder and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although pain is a universal human experience, many view the pain of others as private, resistant to language, and, therefore, essentially unknowable. And, yet, despite the obvious limits to comprehending another’s internal state, language is all that we have to translate pain from the solitary and unknowable to a phenomenon richly described in literature, medicine, and everyday life. Without denying the private dimensions of pain, All in Your Head offers an entirely fresh perspective that considers how pain may be configured, managed, explained, and even experienced in deeply relational ways. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a pediatric pain clinic in California, Mara Buchbinder explores how clinicians, adolescent patients, and their families make sense of puzzling symptoms and work to alleviate pain. Through careful attention to the language of pain—including narratives, conversations, models, and metaphors—and detailed analysis of how young pain sufferers make meaning through interactions with others, her book reveals that however private pain may be, making sense of it is profoundly social.
Author : Alice Nicole Johansson
Publisher : Sweet Valley
ISBN 13 : 9780553484465
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Rachel's In, Lila's Out written by Alice Nicole Johansson and published by Sweet Valley. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lila Fowler's father plans to sell Fowler Mansion to Rachel Grant's family, Lila cannot believe that snobby Rachel, the nastiest girl in Sweet Valley, will be moving into her room.
Author : Stephen Clarke-Willson
Publisher : Stephen Clarke-Willson
ISBN 13 : 1434829456
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Nano-Plasm written by Stephen Clarke-Willson and published by Stephen Clarke-Willson. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future the miniaturization of electronic components will cause a tipping point where daily life as we know it will be a thing of the past. This is the story of that new technology and the promise - and danger - that it could bring to all of us.
Author : Sarah Johnston
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1646704282
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Mostly on Sunday written by Sarah Johnston and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a grade school classroom, furnished sparingly with a potbellied stove and several pull-down maps, and long before smart phones and Google, Lila and Violet discovered that they could communicate silently across the Ethernet with no notes or wires needed. Lila, bright and earnest, lived by the book and was held in place by earth's magnetic spin while Violet, with her captivating smile, soared among the stars. They completed each other and together made a whole guidance system; their relationship of the heart, mind, and spirit was a forever bond. Violet's family life was filled with many unusual events that Lila knew were extraordinary for the time. And in order to solve life's problems, the two often hiked up to Caleb's Lookout, mostly on Sunday, just like their Pennsylvania ancestors. As their lives moved on, the two ladies moved apart, but the distance did not quench the spot in their hearts where the other one nestled. Every now and then, even with busy lives of their own, they managed a reunion, and Lila especially wanted to solve some childhood events that were never clearly defined for her. And Vinnie, always on the fringe, played his part by providing a whiff of romance and lending an arm of support when needed. In their search for answers, several other valley ladies were drawn into the vortex, revealing a life rich with possibilities, waiting to be acknowledged by the community at large. Even now, with Violet's life-threatening illness, the two women hold fast to a relationship forged over forty years ago when they were barefoot and innocent.
