No Place for an Angel: A Novel

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1631490648
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place for an Angel: A Novel by : Elizabeth Spencer

Download or read book No Place for an Angel: A Novel written by Elizabeth Spencer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer's best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of midcentury America traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption in Kennedy-era America. Winner of five O. Henry Awards and the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, Elizabeth Spencer has long been considered a master of the short story, yet her novels are no less a showcase for her uncanny ability to depict how "twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting" (Alice Munro) the ties that bind families and marriages are. Nowhere are these skills more evident than in her fourth novel, No Place for an Angel, a Jamesian portrait of Cold War America that follows two fracturing marriages—Catherine and Jerry Sasser, a Texas heiress and a ruthless political fixer, and Irene and Charles Waddell, a worldly pair involved with American policymaking in Italy—as they cross paths from the oil fields of Texas to Rome and New York. Witty, mordant, but above all deeply perceptive of the secret emotional worlds of her characters, Spencer portrays the limitless ambition of the postwar world, the soaring rise of her characters, and, finally, their diminishing fortunes, which lead to smaller but firmer destinies.

Book of Life: No Place for Angels

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Publisher : Club Lighthouse Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1897532237
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Book of Life: No Place for Angels written by and published by Club Lighthouse Publishing. This book was released on with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Place to Call Home

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628728884
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place to Call Home by : JJ Bola

Download or read book No Place to Call Home written by JJ Bola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of love, loss, identity, and belonging, No Place to Call Home tells the story of a family who fled to the United Kingdom from their native Congo to escape the political violence under the dictator, Le Maréchal. The young son Jean starts at a new school and struggles to fit in. An unlikely friendship gets him into a string of sticky situations, eventually leading to a suspension. At home, his parents pressure him to focus on school and get his act together, to behave more like his star-student little sister. As the family tries to integrate in and navigate modern British society while holding on to their roots and culture, they meet Tonton, a womanizer who loves alcohol and parties. Much to Jean's father's dismay, after losing his job, Tonton moves in with them. He introduces the family—via his church where colorful characters congregate—to a familiar community of fellow country-people, making them feel slightly less alone. The family begins to settle, but their current situation unravels and a threat to their future appears, while the fear of uncertainty remains.

Angel of Greenwood

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Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250768489
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Angel of Greenwood by : Randi Pink

Download or read book Angel of Greenwood written by Randi Pink and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family’s financial situation is in turmoil. Though they’ve attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can’t turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon. But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are.

No Place for a Woman

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Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161663779X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place for a Woman by : Shirley Hall-Williams

Download or read book No Place for a Woman written by Shirley Hall-Williams and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of women have held positions in church pulpits throughout America and around the world. Are they out of place? Have they been called by God, or have they climbed the mountain of selfish pride and rebellion against God's will? What will ultimately be the result of their decision to stand in the pulpit? In her eye-opening book No Place for a Woman, Shirley Williams answers these questions, examines the consequences, establishes solutions, and offers Christian women a more biblical way to serve God. Aggressively responding to modern beliefs, Williams defines what Christian leadership should look like and what place women have in Christianity. No Place for a Woman shows biblically based principles and how these were given for the good of men and women. Achieve a better understanding of God's call for women and where there is No Place for a Woman.

No Angel

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0755351525
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

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Book Synopsis No Angel by : Penny Vincenzi

Download or read book No Angel written by Penny Vincenzi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sunday Times bestselling author Penny Vincenzi, NO ANGEL is the first novel in the acclaimed Spoils of Time trilogy. 'Penny Vincenzi dazzlingly combines the old-fashioned virtues of gripping storytelling with the up-to-the-minute contemporary feel for emotional depth and insight into the lives of the characters. She is a supreme stylist and clever writer. Reading her is an addictive experience'-Elizabeth Buchan. In pre-war London, Lady Celia Lytton is the perfect host. Beautiful, intelligent and determined, she throws glittering parties, publishes bestselling books, and enjoys her young family and loving husband. But there are tragedies her family will not escape: the Titanic, the First World War, the flu epidemic. And beneath their perfect image, the Lyttons cannot ignore the changing world around them. In the shattering aftermath of the War, Celia is beginning to understand that there will be a price to pay for the life she has chosen, that is greater than she could ever have imagined...

The Meaning of the Library

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691175748
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis The Meaning of the Library by : Alice Crawford

Download or read book The Meaning of the Library written by Alice Crawford and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap.

Nobody's Angel

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030782201X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Nobody's Angel by : Thomas McGuane

Download or read book Nobody's Angel written by Thomas McGuane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a former soldier in Big Sky Country whose life is spiraling out of control, from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts, who is "among the most arresting and fascinating [writers] of his generation" (San Francisco Chronicle). In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana. Nowhere has McGuane mapped that territory more precisely—or with such tenderhearted lunacy—than in Nobody's Angel, a novel that places him in a genre of his own.

No Place for Home

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135513368
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place for Home by : Jay Ellis

Download or read book No Place for Home written by Jay Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of his landscapes as unrelated to the violent arcs of often orphaned and always emotionally isolated and socially detached characters. As McCarthy usually eschews direct indications of psychology, his landscapes allow us to infer much about their motivations. The relationship of ambivalent nostalgia for domesticity to McCarthy's descriptions of space remains relatively unexamined at book length, and through less theoretical application than close reading. By including McCarthy's latest book, this study offer the only complete study of all nine novels. Within McCarthy studies, this book extends and complicates a growing interest in space and domesticity in his work. The author combines a high regard for McCarthy's stylistic prowess with a provocative reading of how his own psychological habits around gender issues and family relations power books that only appear to be stories of masculine heroics, expressions of misogynistic fear, or antinomian rejections of civilized life.

No Angel

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062082280
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis No Angel by : Helen Keeble

Download or read book No Angel written by Helen Keeble and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mix the wry humor of Vladimir Tod, the relatability and fun of Ally Carter, and a sinfully hilarious setup, and you have No Angel—an unforgettable spin on angels and demons from the author of Fang Girl. Rafael Angelos just got handed the greatest gift any teenage boy could ever dream of. Upon arriving at his new boarding school for his senior year, he discovered that he is the only male student there. But Raffi's about to learn that St. Mary's is actually a hub for demons—and that he was summoned to the school by someone expecting him to save the day. Raffi knows he's no angel—but it's pretty hard to deny that there's some higher plan at work when he wakes up one morning to discover he's sprouted wings and a glowing circle around his head. . . .

Owls Do Cry

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619028697
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Owls Do Cry by : Janet Frame

Download or read book Owls Do Cry written by Janet Frame and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in New Zealand in 1957, Owls Do Cry, was Janet Frame's second book and the first of her thirteen novels. Now approaching its 60th anniversary, it is securely a landmark in Frame's catalog and indeed a landmark of modernist literature. The novel spans twenty years in the Withers family, tracing Daphne's coming of age into a post–war New Zealand too narrow to know what to make of her. She is deemed mad, institutionalized, and made to undergo a risky lobotomy. Margaret Drabble calls Owls Do Cry "a song of survival"—it is Daphne's song of survival but also the author's: Frame was herself misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and scheduled for brain surgery. She was famously saved only when she won New Zealand's premier fiction prize. Frame was among the first major writers of the twentieth century to confront life in mental institutions and Owls Do Cry is important for this perspective. But it is equally valuable for its poetry, its incisive satire, and its acute social observations. A sensitively rendered portrait of childhood and adolescence and a testament to the power of imagination, this early novel is a first–rate example of Frame's powerful, lyric, and original prose.

No Place

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ISBN 13 : 9781571316165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place by : Kay Haugaard

Download or read book No Place written by Kay Haugaard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having no place to play in their run-down inner city Los Angeles neighborhood, twelve-year-old Arturo and the other students in his sixth-grade class raise money and build a park, in the process learning about hard work, creativity, and teamwork.

No Place for an Angel

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460333470
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place for an Angel by : Gail Whitiker

Download or read book No Place for an Angel written by Gail Whitiker and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a darling of the London stage seeks to reclaim her son, a dashing lord with a rakish reputation seeks custody of her heart in this historical romance. London, 1828. In the eyes of society, famous actress Catherine Jones is the virginal Angel of London. Her spotless reputation is essential if she’s ever to get her son back from his overbearing grandparents. But her secret desire for the dashing Lord Valbourg could threaten to destroy everything she’s worked so hard for. . . . The moment he hears Catherine sing, Valbourg is intoxicated. As guardian for his newly orphaned nephew, a dalliance with an actress is out of the question. With so much at risk, can these two burdened hearts find happiness in each other’s arms?

No Place Safe

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Publisher : Dafina Books
ISBN 13 : 9780758220523
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place Safe by : Kim Reid

Download or read book No Place Safe written by Kim Reid and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful and compelling memoir, Kim Reid shares the extraordinary story of growing up in the shadow of a serial killer who terrorised Atlanta, murdering 29 black children from 1979-81. Kim's mother was the first female African-American detective assigned to the investigation, and as she became more preoccupied with finding the killer, a 13-year-old Kim felt her life unravelling around her. An unforgettable story of innocence lost, and of a heartbreaking and controversial case that captivated the world.

There was No Room in the Inn

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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis There was No Room in the Inn by : Sister Clementia

Download or read book There was No Room in the Inn written by Sister Clementia and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Angel (The Puppy Place #46)

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338069209
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Angel (The Puppy Place #46) by : Ellen Miles

Download or read book Angel (The Puppy Place #46) written by Ellen Miles and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Puppy Place--where every puppy finds a home! Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. Their family fosters these young dogs, giving them love and proper care, until they can find the perfect forever home. While hiking with her new environmental club, Lizzie sees a dog stranded in the woods. After a dramatic rescue, the Petersons decide that they have to foster Angel, an adorable Havanese. With everything this playful pup has been through, will she find the right new owner?

No Place for Saints

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421441772
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis No Place for Saints by : Adam Jortner

Download or read book No Place for Saints written by Adam Jortner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of the Mormon church is arguably the most radical event in American religious history. How and why did so many Americans flock to this new religion, and why did so many other Americans seek to silence or even destroy that movement? Winner of the MHA Best Book Award by the Mormon History Association Mormonism exploded across America in 1830, and America exploded right back. By 1834, the new religion had been mocked, harassed, and finally expelled from its new settlements in Missouri. Why did this religion generate such anger? And what do these early conflicts say about our struggles with religious liberty today? In No Place for Saints, the first stand-alone history of the Mormon expulsion from Jackson County and the genesis of Mormonism, Adam Jortner chronicles how Latter-day Saints emerged and spread their faith—and how anti-Mormons tried to stop them. Early on, Jortner explains, anti-Mormonism thrived on gossip, conspiracies, and outright fables about what Mormons were up to. Anti-Mormons came to believe Mormons were a threat to democracy, and anyone who claimed revelation from God was an enemy of the people with no rights to citizenship. By 1833, Jackson County's anti-Mormons demanded all Saints leave the county. When Mormons refused—citing the First Amendment—the anti-Mormons attacked their homes, held their leaders at gunpoint, and performed one of America's most egregious acts of religious cleansing. From the beginnings of Mormonism in the 1820s to their expansion and expulsion in 1834, Jortner discusses many of the most prominent issues and events in Mormon history. He touches on the process of revelation, the relationship between magic and LDS practice, the rise of the priesthood, the questions surrounding Mormonism and African Americans, the internal struggles for leadership of the young church, and how American law shaped this American religion. Throughout, No Place for Saints shows how Mormonism—and the violent backlash against it—fundamentally reshaped the American religious and legal landscape. Ultimately, the book is a story of Jacksonian America, of how democracy can fail religious freedom, and a case study in popular politics as America entered a great age of religion and violence.