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Reprieve

Author : James Han Mattson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063079933
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Reprieve written by James Han Mattson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book clubs across the land." –LOS ANGELES TIMES “An eventual American classic that is unrelenting in its beauty and incisive cultural critique.” – KIESE LAYMON Recommended by New York Times • Los Angeles Times • NPR • Today • Esquire • O Quarterly • Boston Globe • Chicago Tribune • Harper’s Bazaar • Shondaland • Thrillist • The Millions • Crimereads • XTRA • Tor • Literary Hub • and more! A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room—a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment. On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, “reprieve,” they’ll win a substantial cash prize—a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house’s long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants. Those who were present on that fateful night lend their points of view: Kendra Brown, a teenager who’s been uprooted from her childhood home after the sudden loss of her father; Leonard Grandton, a desperate and impressionable hotel manager caught in a series of toxic entanglements; and Jaidee Charoensuk, a gay international student who came to the United States in a besotted search for his former English teacher. As each character’s journey unfurls and overlaps, deceit and misunderstandings fueled by obsession and prejudice are revealed, forcing all to reckon with the ways in which their beliefs and actions contributed to a horrifying catastrophe. An astonishingly soulful exploration of complicity and masquerade, Reprieve combines the psychological tension of classic horror with searing social criticism to present an unsettling portrait of this tangled American life.

Moments of Reprieve

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501167650
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Moments of Reprieve written by Primo Levi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays based on his time as a Jewish prisoner in the Nazi camps, Primo Levi creates a series of sketches of the people he met who retained their humanity even in the most inhumane circumstances. Having already written two memoirs of his survival at Auschwitz, Levi knew there was still more left untold. Collected in this book are stray vignettes of fifteen individuals Levi met during his imprisonment. Whether it was the young Romani man who smuggled a creased photo of his bride past the camp guards or the starving prisoner who still insisted on fasting on Yom Kippur, the memory of these individuals stayed with Levi for long after. They represent for him “bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve.” Neither simple heroes nor victims, but people who never lost sight of their humanity in the face of unimaginable suffering. Written with the author’s signature humility and intelligence, Moments of Reprieve shines with lyricism and insight. Nearly forty years after their publication, Levi’s words remain as beautiful as they are necessary. Along with Elie Wiesel and Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. This is an essential book both for students and literary readers. Reading Primo Levi is a lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit.

Reprieve From Hell

Author : Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786257025
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Reprieve From Hell written by Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book “Reprieve from Hell,” former M/Sgt. Sam Moody has recorded in faithful detail the harrowing account of his experiences as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese Government from the surrender of Bataan until the Japanese surrender in 1945. We can only marvel at the ability of our men to adjust to the desperate, deplorable, and inhuman treatment and conditions inflicted on them by an unreasoning, vicious enemy. An enemy that scorned and refused to accept the Geneva Conventions for treatment of POWs. It brings tears to realize the dreadful personal human price so many of our men paid as Prisoners of War of the Imperial Japanese Government.—William G. Hipps, Brigadier General USAF (Ret.)

Disease Reprieve

Author : T. C. McDaniel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0738805734
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Disease Reprieve written by T. C. McDaniel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Years Society Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of Disease Reprieve by Dr. T. C. McDaniel. Dr. McDaniel is a sole practitioner in Cincinnati, specializing in Cardiovascular-Renal disease. He writes in detail about his 35 years of research in an effort to cure his personal health problems, and outlines in detail how he applied those scientific principles to the care and treatment of more than 10,000 patients. For the first time, both Physicians and patients will learn the components of The Wheel of MisFortune. This teaching device has been used successfully in Seminars for Physicians in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Now you can learn how to apply these scientific principles to your own health care. A Physician enjoys no greater advantage than his or her patient, succumbing to the ravages of disease at an average age of 57. Cardiovascular-Renal Disease takes more than a million lives each year, the majority long before retirement age. As the Medical Director of The Golden Years Society, Dr. McDaniel shares the story of his family - six senior citizens from ages 70 - 93. These siblings enjoy the cumulative advantages of Disease Reprieve regimen, without assisted living, wheel chairs or canes. They have a cumulative 126 years of Social Security benefits, a result of living longer than the Actuaries predicted. Dr. McDaniel is 85, conducts a full medical practice, has published two books, and frequently lectures to civic organizations and medical groups. The Government estimates the cost of Cardiovascular Disease in 1999 to be in excess of 260 billion dollars. The Golden Years Society watched with interest a press conference in early 1997, announcing FDA approval of a drug they called 'the first new approach to the treatment of heart failure approved by the FDA in 14 years'! One Physician attending this press conference stated with great sincerity that heart failure is a life threatening condition whose incidence in the U. S. has been rising. What an understatement. Every 33 seconds an American dies of Cardiovascular Disease, more than 950,000 deaths last year. In contrast, cancer deaths totaled approximately 537,000 and AIDS about 42,000. These rather dry statistics are translated into death and disability for us and/or our loved ones. No family is immune from the risk of Cardiovascular-Renal Disease. The Golden Years Society has been successfully treating patients during the time the pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA were studying 'potential therapies'. Why are our patients able to resume active lifestyles free of many or most of their initial complaints? Because the Disease Reprieve regimen teaches patients the CAUSE of Cardiovascular Disease. Our patients understand the importance of food and drink in PREVENTING and reversing Cardiovascular Disease. You will learn that the single greatest medical device of the 20th Century is the Reverse Osmosis water unit. No more Arrhythmia, generally excused away by such wandering generalities as 'we see these PVC's in people your age'. No competent Engineer would characterize a fuel pump malfunction so nonchalantly. Physicians attending our Disease Reprieve seminars inevitably confide that their practice is suffering due to the onslaught of Managed Care rules and regulations, the endless stream of paperwork from Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance companies, and the high cost of staffing requirements to complete all that paperwork. We have Golden Years franchises in several locations throughout the country. As the prototype for these franchises, our office is equipped with digital cameras, computers with graphics programs, and scanners, all designed to take advantage of new technology. Please recognize that technology will not r

The Reprieve

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reprieve written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Caregiver's Reprieve

Author : Avrene L. Brandt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caregiver's Reprieve written by Avrene L. Brandt and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical discussion of the emotional challenges of caring for an aged or chronically ill loved one. Combines expert narrative with personal vignettes of four caregivers. Helps readers deal with the reality of tragedy, understand the dramatic changes in life expectations, and accept the validity of their emotional responses. Chapters cover what it means to be a caregiver, physical and cognitive changes in the patient, the impact on one's beliefs and life expectations, developing healthy coping strategies. Appendices offer detailed descriptions of stroke, head injury, tumors, Parkinson's and more.

River of No Reprieve

Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618919840
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book River of No Reprieve written by Jeffrey Tayler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler traveled some 2,400 miles down the Lena River, from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, re-creating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He was searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges that typify modern Russian culture. His only companion on this hellish journey detests all humanity, including Tayler. Vadim, Tayler's guide, is a burly Soviet army veteran whose superb skills Tayler needs to survive. As the two navigate roiling white water in howling storms, they eschew lifejackets because the frigid water would kill them before they could swim to shore. Though Tayler has trekked by camel through the Sahara and canoed down the Congo during the revolt against Mobutu, he has never felt as threatened as he does on this trip.

The Reprieve

Author : Jean-Pierre Gibrat
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1684051916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Reprieve written by Jean-Pierre Gibrat and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Cécile as she tries to help escaped prisoner-of-war Julien Sarlat avoid capture during the Occupation of France in 1943 in this prequel to the award-winning graphic novel Flight of the Raven. Julien has escaped from a prisoner-of-war train headed for Germany, but fate intervenes when the train is bombed and among the victims a body is identified as his. Dead to the world, he takes advantage of the situation and hides in the small village of Cambeyrac, using his secret observation post overlooking the village square to watch the permanent theater that people offer in the course of the day. Loves, hatreds, jealousies, cowardice, acts of heroism... nothing escapes the observer's eye, especially not the beautiful waitress Cécile. Until the moment comes when, spectator no more, he must become an actor himself and meet his destiny. This hidden life he had hoped to live was just a reprieve. The book also includes a portfolio of pin-ups and sketches featuring its heroine.

No Reprieve

Author : Gail Z. Martin
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316393037
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book No Reprieve written by Gail Z. Martin and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the origin of Blaine McFadden and his allies in this short story prequel to the epic Ascendant Kingdoms Saga from Gail Z. Martin. Condemned to exile in an arctic prison colony for murdering his sister's attacker, Blaine McFadden has lost everything -- his title, his family and his fiancéé. Velant Prison holds the worst of the kingdom's convicts, overseen by brutal guards who are exiles themselves. When a sadistic guard takes things too far, Blaine's insubordination makes him a target of the prison's notorious commander. To survive, Blaine needs to rely on his wits and his fists -- and a few good friends to watch his back.

The Dream of Reason

Author : Jenny George
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 161932184X
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Dream of Reason written by Jenny George and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny George’s debut showcases an astonishing poetic talent, a new voice that is intensely focused, patient, and empathic. The Dream of Reason explores the paradoxical relationships between humans and the animals we imagine, keep, fear, and consume. Titled after Goya’s grotesque bestiary, George’s own dreamscape is populated by purring moths, bats that crawl like goblins, and livestock—especially pigs, whose spirit and slaughter inform a central series of portraits. The poems invite moments of stark realism into a spacious, lucid realm just outside of time—finding revelation in stillness, intimacy in violence, and vision in language that lifts from the dark. From “Threshold Gods”: I saw a bat in a dream and then later that week I saw a real bat, crawling on its elbows across the porch like a goblin. It was early evening. I want to ask about death. But first I want to ask about flying. Jenny George lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she runs a foundation for Buddhist-based social justice. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Reprieve

Author : John Resko
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Reprieve written by John Resko and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1975-10-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Reprieve

Author : Inge-Lise Goss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733585040
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book No Reprieve written by Inge-Lise Goss and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the rebels stop the androids' reign of terror?After escaping the grip of Pellegrin, a powerful android, and joining the rebels, Paislee Hobson is far from safe. Disguised as a recently-recruited employee of the courthouse, she goes undercover at Portland's courthouse to dig up vital information.But she soon discovers things aren't that simple. With Pellegrin promoted to overseeing the entire west coast Institutes, Paislee must use all of her wits to avoid detection-only to find the android is one step ahead of her.Back in L.A., Paislee is faced with her toughest challenge yet-to gain Pellegrin's trust in order to infiltrate his high-security office and complete her mission. As more humans fall victim to the androids and her cover begins to slip, Paislee knows that her time is running out?

The Great Reprieve ...

Author : Todd Coconato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book The Great Reprieve ... written by Todd Coconato and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is at a pivital crossroads. There are some many things going on from the president contracting COVID-19, to him healing from it very swiftly, to the Supreme Court having an open seat...and so much more! The two party platforms couldn't offer a more drastic difference as to the course this country will take over the next few years and beyond. Everything is at stake. In this election, it is up to America's Christians on whether or not they will vote for the values and principles of God's Word, or they will ignore them and capitulate to the agenda and cancel-culture narrative of the modern Left. With China closing in on 72 countries with its "One Belt One Road" economic dominance strategy, will the United States continue to hold the global reserve currency and global military doninance? Will the globaist agenda be picked up where former Presidnt Obama left off? What does a Biden/Harris administration mean for religious liberties and freedoms? How far are the socialists willing to go to take away our first and second amendment rights? In this book, Pastor Todd Coconato explores all of these questions in depth, as well as many more. It is critical that Christians understand all that is at stake. This book is what you will need to make an informed decision as you head to the polls this Novemeber and beyond. Now is the time to stand! Will we see revival, or revolution? Pastor Todd explains this and much more in this riviting book "The Great Reprieve: Will America Choose Light or Darkness?"

Reprieve

Author : Agnes De Mille
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reprieve written by Agnes De Mille and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a lifetime of prodigious creative achievement, Agnes de Mille has always taken us places we have never been before. Her choreography for Oklahoma! helped change forever the American musical theater; her ballets Rodeo and Fall River Legend were instantly acclaimed as American classics. Her volumes of memoirs--Dance to the Piper; And Promenade Home; Speak to Me, Dance With Me; and Where the Wings Grow--have given wonderful perspectives on the life of an artist; The Book of the Dance and To a Young Dancer have brilliantly illuminated the art of the dance. Now in REPRIEVE Agnes de Mille shares with us the story of a great personal tragedy and moving triumph. On May 15, 1975, one hour before the curtain was to rise on a historic performance of her cherished Heritage Dance Theater, Agnes de Mille suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Her case offered curious and usually fatal aspects; for weeks doctors did not expect her to live. But gradually, with the help of doctors, her family, the power of love and determination, Agnes de Mille began to recover. Gradually her sight returned. Slowly the gibberish she had uttered became articulate speech. The right side of her body had been partially paralyzed; feeling never returned, but slowly she learned to walk again, to gesture, eventually even to perform. Overcoming a crippling illness taught Agnes de Mille many things, and she shares them in REPRIEVE. She learned new ways to cope with anger and fear, weakness and fatigue. She learned about patience and trust, discipline and compromise. The crisis touched those around her, bringing about the reconciliation of the two people closest to her. It led to discovery: 'I had the blessed experience of rediscovering that the man I had lived with thirty-two years ago was in love with me.' And it led to redefining essences, to revelations: 'I went into states of being I had never dreamt of before, states of perceiving and feeling that had nothing to do with achievement or business or duty or morals. I was alive.' Agnes de Mille is emphatically alive in this vital memoir. Refusing to be defeated by fate, she has brilliantly chronicled what is perhaps the greatest of her many triumphs."--Dust jacket.

Keenie Meenie

Author : Phil Miller
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745340784
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Keenie Meenie written by Phil Miller and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.

Goodness and the Literary Imagination

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813943639
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Goodness and the Literary Imagination written by Toni Morrison and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book form. Perhaps because it is overshadowed by the more easily defined evil, goodness often escapes our attention. Recalling many literary examples, from Ahab to Coetzee’s Michael K, Morrison seeks the essence of goodness and ponders its significant place in her writing. She considers the concept in relation to unforgettable characters from her own works of fiction and arrives at conclusions that are both eloquent and edifying. In a lively interview conducted for this book, Morrison further elaborates on her lecture’s ideas, discussing goodness not only in literature but in society and history—particularly black history, which has responded to centuries of brutality with profound creativity. Morrison’s essay is followed by a series of responses by scholars in the fields of religion, ethics, history, and literature to her thoughts on goodness and evil, mercy and love, racism and self-destruction, language and liberation, together with close examination of literary and theoretical expressions from her works. Each of these contributions, written by a scholar of religion, considers the legacy of slavery and how it continues to shape our memories, our complicities, our outcries, our lives, our communities, our literature, and our faith. In addition, the contributors engage the religious orientation in Morrison’s novels so that readers who encounter her many memorable characters such as Sula, Beloved, or Frank Money will learn and appreciate how Morrison’s notions of goodness and mercy also reflect her understanding of the sacred and the human spirit.

The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves

Author : James Han Mattson
Publisher : Little A
ISBN 13 : 9781503942479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves written by James Han Mattson and published by Little A. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In raw, poignant alternating first-person narratives, interspersed with e-mails, gay chat-room exchanges, and other fragments of a youth laid bare in the age of social media, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves unravels the mystery of a life in all its glory: despair and regret, humor and wonder, courage and connection. A heartbroken and humiliated Ricky Graves took the life of a classmate and himself. Five months later, the sleepy community is still in shock and mourning. Ricky's sister, Alyssa, returns to confront her shattered, withdrawn mother and her guilt over the brother she left adrift. Mark McVitry, the lone survivor of the deadly outburst sparked by his own cruelty, is tormented by visions of Ricky's vengeful spirit. Ricky's surrogate older brother, Corky Meeks, grapples with doubts about the fragile boy he tried to protect but may have doomed instead. And Jeremy Little, who inadvertently became Ricky's long-distance Internet crush despite never having met, seeks to atone for failing to hear his friend's cries for help. For those closest to the tormented killer, shock and grief have given way to soul searching, as they're forced to confront their broken dreams, buried desires, and missed opportunities. And in their shared search for meaning and redemption, Ricky's loved ones find a common purpose: learning to trust their feelings, fighting for real intimacy in a world grown selfish and insincere, and fearlessly embracing all that matters most...before it's gone from their lives.