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Download or read book Four Screenplays written by R. A. Sully and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written over four years in four parts of the world, these four screenplays are my explorations into four genres: “Sleeping Giant” is a political thriller in the tradition of “The Hunt for Red October.” “One Man’s Heaven” is a romantic comedy in the tradition of “Deconstructing Harry.” “Dream into Action” is a magical realist drama in the tradition of “Sliding Doors.” “Suspicion of Disbelief” is a farce in the tradition of “Pierrot le fou.”
Download or read book Something Wild written by Hanna Halperin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Propulsive . . . . Good books sometimes cut to the bone, and this one feels like a scythe." —The New York Times Book Review "This wise, brilliant novel is so special, so overflowing with honesty and love—about motherhood, sisterhood, what it’s like to be a woman—that every paragraph feels like an epiphany. Hanna Halperin knows the fierce love that can exist especially among broken things. Something Wild moved me deeply." —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed A searing novel about the love and contradictions of sisterhood, the intoxicating desires of adolescence, and the traumas that trap mothers and daughters in cycles of violence One weekend, sisters Tanya and Nessa Bloom pause their respective adult lives and travel to the Boston suburbs to help their mother pack up and move out of their childhood home. For the first time since they were teenagers sharing a bunk bed over a decade ago, they find themselves in the place where long-kept secrets were born, where jealousy, comfort, anger, forgiveness, and repulsion coexist with the fiercest love and loyalty. What they don't expect is for their visit to expose a new, horrifying truth: their mother, Lorraine, is in a violent relationship. As Tanya urges Lorraine to get a restraining order, Nessa struggles to reconcile her fondness for their stepfather with his capacity for brutality. Their differing responses to the abuse bring up the sisters' shared secret—a traumatic, unspoken experience from their adolescence has shaped their lives, their sense of selves, and their relationship with each other and the men in their life. In the midst of this family crisis, they have no choice but to reckon with the past and face each other in the present, in the hope that there's a way out of the violence so deeply ingrained in the Bloom family. Told in alternating perspectives that deftly interweave past and present, Something Wild is a magnetic, unflinching portrait of the bond between sisters, as well as a psychologically acute exploration of the legacy of divorce, the ways trauma reverberates over generations, and how it might be possible to overcome the past.
Book Synopsis Jean-Claude Grumberg by : Jean-Claude Grumberg
Download or read book Jean-Claude Grumberg written by Jean-Claude Grumberg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of France’s leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of modern European Jewry after the Shoah. His success in portraying contemporary Parisian Jews on the stage represents a new development in European theater and a new aesthetic expression of European Jewish experience and sensibility of the Holocaust and its aftermath, a perspective quite different from either the American or the Israeli one. Grumberg’s Jews are French to their fingertips, yet they have been made more consciously Jewish by the war and the difficulties of reintegrating into a society in which too many neighbors denounced them or ignored their pleas to save their children. Affirming the new status of Jewish culture, Grumberg’s plays insist on the recognition of Jewish identity and uniqueness within the majority societies of Europe. This volume offers the first English translation of three of Grumberg’s prize-winning plays: The Workplace (L’Atelier, 1979), On the Way to the Promised Land (Vers toi Terre promise, 2006) and Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan (Maman revient, pauvre orphelin, 1994). Presented in the order of the history they record and steeped in Grumberg’s personal experience and insights into contemporary Parisian life, these plays serve as documentary witnesses that begin with the immediate postwar reality and continue up to the end of the twentieth century. Seth Wolitz provides notes on the plays’ themes, structures, characters, and settings, along with an introduction that discusses Grumberg’s place within the emergence of French-Jewish drama and a translation of an interview with the playwright himself.
Book Synopsis Shadowrun: Sprawl Stories by : John Helfers, Ed.
Download or read book Shadowrun: Sprawl Stories written by John Helfers, Ed. and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEAN STREETS? YOU HAVE NO IDEA… The Sixth World is a dangerous place, and nowhere is that more obvious than in Seattle, the so-called Emerald City. Surrounding its neon-drenched heart is kilometer after kilometer of Sprawl, where millions of people scratch out a living among hazardous, slowly decaying neighborhoods and even more dangerous neighbors. Sprawl Stories contains four Shadowrun novellas that explore Seattle through the eyes of the people who live there every day. A burned-out mage detective tackles a missing person case that threatens to spiral beyond his control. A reporter goes on the ride-along of her life with a high-octane DocWagon team, and uncovers a conspiracy on live trideo. A young ex-wageslave is caught between powerful forces while investigating his uncle’s death. And a shaman must deal with a serious injury that threatens his very way of life—but not before taking vengeance on those who double-crossed him. So take a walk on the true wild side of the Seattle Sprawl. If you’re good—and lucky—you might even come back out in one piece… Sprawl Stories contains the following novellas: "Neat" by Russell Zimmerman "DocWagon 19" by Jennifer Brozek "Big Dreams" by R. L. King "Blind Magic" by Dylan Birtolo
Download or read book The God Gene written by James Barney and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you completed your DNA heritage test? Yes-Bad idea? No-Good decision? In The God Gene, writer Stuart Thomas has been asked by his editor to write a story about DNA testing. Stuart starts by submitting his DNA to the 6Steps labs in order to discover his ancestry. He discovers much more. 6Steps CEO, Dr. Anthony Shields, has discovered the formula to cause your genes to attack your own body. After identifying your heritage, he studies your genetic haplogroup to see what disease(s) your heritage is most susceptible to. Could you be under attack? Dr. Shields is moving the operation to Hamarsen, a small ghost town in South Dakota. Stuart's friend, Joyce Jantzen, is working at a national park a short distance from Hamarsen and has alerted Stuart that the good doctor has purchased the ghost town. A secret organization, JASS (the Jewish American Security Service), is trying to prevent 6Steps from carrying on an attack on the Jewish people. JASS has encouraged a reluctant Stuart to help them prevent this attack. Can Stuart save the day? Will Yahweh, the Jewish God, work his miracle magic to once again save his people? The God Gene will answer all your questions.
Book Synopsis Shadowrun: DocWagon 19 by : Jennifer Brozek
Download or read book Shadowrun: DocWagon 19 written by Jennifer Brozek and published by Catalyst Game Labs. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LIFE OF A LIFESAVER... DocWagon—saviors of the needy, rescuers of the desperate. Willing to go anywhere, rescue anyone, as long as that “anyone” has forked out enough cash to justify the effort. Reporter Amelia Hart has embedded herself with a DocWagon team to see what their life is really like, and she’s in for a wild ride. From an OD’ing celebrity to an aggressive team of hackers, from pesky gangs to an extremely rich and powerful client teetering at death’s door, this night will give the team all they can handle. But will they survive long enough to remember that in the Sixth World, nothing is truly random? Full of memorable characters and rich Sixth World flavor, DocWagon 19 is a thrilling ride with the people struggling to save lives in a sprawl with a million ways to make people dead. Strap in, hold on, crank up the siren, and get ready for a crazy ride-along through the full chaos of the Shadowrun setting.
Download or read book The Gatekeepers written by Jen Lancaster and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How could we know that forever could end at seventeen?” Anyone passing through North Shore, Illinois, would think it was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates. No one talks about the fact that the brilliant, talented kids in town have a terrible history of throwing themselves in front of commuter trains. Meet Simone, the bohemian transfer student from London, who is thrust into the strange new reality of an American high school; Mallory, the hypercompetitive queen bee; and Stephen, the first-generation genius who struggles with crippling self-doubt. Each one is shocked when a popular classmate takes his own life…except not too shocked. It’s happened before. With so many students facing their own demons, can they find a way to save each other—as well as themselves?
Book Synopsis A Thousand and One Nights of Opera by : Frederick Herman Martens
Download or read book A Thousand and One Nights of Opera written by Frederick Herman Martens and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Irish Blood written by Mary Pat Kelly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing a crushing affair, Nora Kelly enters the Left Bank society of early twentieth-century Paris, where she joins the struggle to free Ireland.
Download or read book Living Room written by Rachel Sherman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] riveting debut novel . . . Unsentimental yet deeply felt, this tale examines what bubbles under the surface of a supposedly happy Long Island family” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The follow-up to her highly praised debut story collection, The First Hurt, Rachel Sherman’s Living Room is a beautiful and disarmingly direct portrait of a family in trouble. With the tone of a modern-day Jewish The Ice Storm set in Long Island, imbued with Alice Munro’s fascination with personal history, Living Room is a deep exploration of the ripple effects of mental illness on a family, as well as a look at generational differences in mating and marriage, and a wry, wise look at suburban angst. “The fractured lives of three generations of women told with zero sentimentality and a huge amount of heart. Living Room is edgy, moving, smart, funny and altogether human. Rachel Sherman is the real deal.” —Dani Shapiro, New York Times–bestselling author of Inheritance “Sherman turns her unflinching, unsentimental eye once again on deepest suburbia, where personal history festers rather than heals. [Living Room] hums along, its heavier moments tempered with plenty of dark humor and incisive language; but it’s the intimate character sketches that truly resonate.” —Time Out (New York) “Often praised for her lack of sentimentality, Sherman doesn’t hesitate to capture her characters’ weird, unbecoming thoughts . . . Her writing lends itself to the form: her story structures tight as fists, her prose terse and unadorned.” —The Rumpus
Book Synopsis The Epic Story of Every Living Thing by : Deb Caletti
Download or read book The Epic Story of Every Living Thing written by Deb Caletti and published by Ember. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of A Heart in a Body in The World comes a gorgeous and fiercely feminist young adult novel. When a teen travels to Hawaii to track down her sperm donor father, she discovers the truth about him, about the sunken shipwreck that’s become his obsession, and most of all about herself. Harper Proulx has lived her whole life with unanswered questions about her anonymous sperm donor father. She's convinced that without knowing him, she can't know herself. When a chance Instagram post connects Harper to a half sibling, that connection yields many more and ultimately leads Harper to uncover her father's identity. So, fresh from a painful breakup and still reeling with anxiety that reached a lifetime high during the pandemic, Harper joins her newfound half siblings on a voyage to Hawaii to face their father. The events of that summer, and the man they discover—a charismatic deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a fragile sunken shipwreck—will force Harper to face some even bigger questions: Who is she? Is she her DNA, her experiences, her successes, her failures? Is she the things she loves—or the things she hates? Who she is in dark times? Who she might become after them?
Book Synopsis Katharina - Between a rock and a big waist by : Ina Tamago
Download or read book Katharina - Between a rock and a big waist written by Ina Tamago and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katharina feels uncomfortable in her body and receives unexpected help to lose weight after a family argument escalates. She faces old and new challenges. Her sense of humor is almost always there. Unfortunately, not everyone in her close circle supports her decision to turn over a new leaf. But with the active support of her uncle and her friends, she is able to pick herself up again and again and begins to develop more self-confidence. Suddenly it's not just easy to climb the dreaded steps at work. No, Katharina no longer lets anyone tell her what to do and learns that she is also loved when she is herself.
Book Synopsis The Man I Think I Know by : Mike Gayle
Download or read book The Man I Think I Know written by Mike Gayle and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking and completely charming.' Ruth Hogan 'Mike Gayle is the king of touching, human stories, and this big-hearted book is his best yet' Heat, 5* This is the stunning new novel from bestselling author Mike Gayle, for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. A powerful and bittersweet story of an unexpected male friendship and an unlikely love story, a thought provoking storyline told with Mike's distinctive wit and insight, touching on issues which affect us all. This uplifting tale reminds us of the simple courage at the heart of every human being. Ever since The Incident, James DeWitt has stayed on the safe side. He likes to know what happens next. Danny Allen is not on the safe side. He is more past the point of no return. The past is about to catch up with both of them in a way that which will change their lives forever, unexpectedly. But redemption can come in the most unlikely ways. Look out for Mike's new novel, Half a World Away, available to pre-order now! ******************* Praise for The Man I Think I Know 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking and completely charming . . . reminds us that the everyday things we take for granted without realising how precious they are, can be snatched away in an instant with catastrophic consequences' Ruth Hogan 'That rarest of things; a moving, beautifully written novel about male friendship . . . I absolutely loved it' Lisa Jewell 'Mike is always wise and wonderful, but this is a whole new departure for him - read it!' Jenny Colgan You'll be both laughing and on the edge of tears with this brilliant read' Fabulous magazine ******************* Readers are raving about this book! 'This is one of those books that is tugging on your heartstrings one moment and has you laughing out loud the next - another stunning plot line and narrative from Mike Gayle.' 'I loved the narrative and I left this novel feeling totally uplifted . . . I now feel like there is some hope in the world!' 'This book is sad, funny, quirky, touching, heartbreaking but - and this is going to sound totally cliched and corny - life affirming.'
Book Synopsis Pray for Daylight/the Blood Feud by : M. Anthony Phillips
Download or read book Pray for Daylight/the Blood Feud written by M. Anthony Phillips and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half-vampire hybrid warrior named Simone is humanity’s last chance against vampires and demons from the underworld who is led by their leader, the vampire Kristain, her father. Fought over at her birth by angels and demons of the Underworld, Simone Akonjo, a half vampire-human was rescued at birth by a rogue Shaolin Monk who killed his own master to protect the infant from being destroyed in a vampire raid. Set in 1850’s Paris, France, and present-day Seattle, Simone is raised by her adopted father Arkamun, a former Monk preparing her to battle ancient vampires he fought for years, including her father, Kristian. Kristian, a painter in the impressionist style like Monet, when on the evening of showcasing his life’s work is laughed at by aristocrats he invited including his beloved fiance’s father. He walks the streets of Paris and is bitten by the original vampire Andras and seeks to get revenge on those who wronged him. While killing his fiance’s father, he then turns on her who is pregnant with his child. After killing the Shaolin Monk Arkamun raises the baby as his own with the help of others in a warrior society until he starts to realize that Simone is different than other girls. Secluded from Parisian society for fear of the unknown, Arkamun keeps Simone’s heritage a secret from her until Kristian shows up to take his daughter. As Arkamun ages Simone ages very slowly and Arkamun knows that Simone must choose the path that was foretold for her. Simone is given the biblical “Spear of Michael” weapon by Arc Angels and is chosen to lead an apocalyptic war against Kristian and his clan and demons for the sake of humanity along with the charismatic anti-hero Malic Turner, whose on a killing spree against vampires for killing his whole family, rogue Shaolin Monks and a courageous priest in this dark and exotic tale.
Book Synopsis Two Nuts in Italy by : Sue Ellen Haning
Download or read book Two Nuts in Italy written by Sue Ellen Haning and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traipsing through a foreign country with nothing but faith, a backpack, and an overly confident twenty-one-year-old daughter had never been a dream of fifty-six-year-old Sue Ellen Haning. But when her daughter, Jenny, proposed the trip, Haning, with reservation, finally agreed. A veteran teacher, she was excited to lose herself across the ocean, learn things by accident, and have adventure find her. Haning's friends thought she was nuts. In this travel memoir, Haning recounts the adventures she and her daughter experienced during a three-month summer backpacking trip in Italy. Their plan was to take a backpack, a little cash, no credit cards, stay in homes of Italians they did not know (or sleep on park benches, if necessary), have no itinerary, and stay in small towns for the full cultural experience. "Two Nuts in Italy" recounts an array of adventures-finding herself in bed with a strange Italian, surviving a five-hour car ride with a psychic who claimed she was the devil, and looking out the window of a moving train to see her daughter clinging to the side. It narrates a no-holds-barred travel experience that transformed Haning into a different person.
Download or read book Simone Smiles written by Joanne Hunt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to help parents of children who use a wheel chair answer the difficult question, "why?" On a trip to the zoo with her mommy, Simone discovers what makes every living thing so unique and special... most of all, her. Written in simple language that young children can easily understand, the book sets children in a playful mood, happy and calm, and prepares them to ask the question, "why can't I walk?" This book also helps parents answer in a way that tenderly celebrates everything that children who use a wheel chair CAN do, while helping the child to respond in a positive way.
Book Synopsis Clarity of Absence by : Rajah E. Smart
Download or read book Clarity of Absence written by Rajah E. Smart and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Clarity of Absence, Rajah E. Smart uses his unique, conversational approach with his characters to address the purpose of life. Jon and Simone have a seemingly perfect life: Jon is a successful school administrator, and Simone, is employed as a human resources director within the same district. Jon, a purist at heart, and Simone, a woman with her own mind, see the world differently, but love one another deeply regardless of their differences. Their love is challenged when Simone discovers her inability to have children. The trauma forces her into a state of depression where she shuts Jon out completely. Their relationship becomes distant. Months later, and at his end, Jon has finally reached a crossroad. On his way to the career he thought he wanted, Jon disappears and begins a new life without Simone. The fundamental question he kept asking himself before leaving is: Do I have everything I need or everything I want? Simone is left alone to ponder his reasons for leaving. Set in Flint, Michigan, Clarity of Absence takes on the foundations of a relationship: communication, trust, unselfishness, and friendship. The story shows the struggle of two characters that aren't sure whether the life chosen was appropriate.
