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Download or read book The Dusty Bookcase written by Brian Busby and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely drawn from his columns for Canadian Notes & Queries and entries in his popular blog by the same name, Brian Busby's The Dusty Bookcase explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary efforts: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of Canadiana, collected over the last three decades, form a travel diary of sorts—yet one without maps. Covering more than 250 books, peppered with observations on the writing and publishing scenes, Busby's work explores our cultural past, questioning why certain works are celebrated and others ignored. Brilliantly illustrated with covers and ephemera related to the titles discussed, The Dusty Bookcase draws much needed attention to unknown writing worthy of our attention, and some of our acclaim.
Download or read book The Dusty Bookcase written by Brian Busby and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely drawn from his columns for Canadian Notes & Queries and entries in his popular blog by the same name, Brian Busby's The Dusty Bookcase explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary efforts: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of Canadiana, collected over the last three decades, form a travel diary of sorts--yet one without maps. Covering more than 250 books, peppered with observations on the writing and publishing scenes, Busby's work explores our cultural past, questioning why certain works are celebrated and others ignored. Brilliantly illustrated with covers and ephemera related to the titles discussed, The Dusty Bookcase draws much needed attention to unknown writing worthy of our attention, and some of our acclaim.
Book Synopsis An Author Bites the Dust by : Arthur W. Upfield
Download or read book An Author Bites the Dust written by Arthur W. Upfield and published by ETT Imprint. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room. But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used to kill Blake. One of the few Bonaparte mysteries not set in the outback, reveals Upfield at his best and most ingenious. Napoleon Bonaparte - my best detective. - Daily Express
Book Synopsis At Home with the Angels by : Kay Nelsen
Download or read book At Home with the Angels written by Kay Nelsen and published by Multi-Media Publications Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At Home with the Angels" is an elaborate and moving story about Megan Ross, a recently widowed woman, who receives a telephone call from her dead husband. As news of this event spreads, more people want to reach out and speak with loved ones who have died. People take strong sides in the growing conflict; many believing the occurrence is blasphemous with others insisting that speaking with the dead be accepted as part of an ordinary everyday existence. Numerous preconceived attitudes about the afterlife hinder acceptance of the miracle in this small town in Colorado. Did the event really happen? A work of fiction that contains some truth, "At Home with the Angels" is a thought-provoking and unforgettable novel.
Download or read book The American Printer written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dusty Brown Book by : Carl Abrahams
Download or read book A Dusty Brown Book written by Carl Abrahams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadow Voices written by John Connolly and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All hardbacks in the first print run will be signed by the author. The story of genre fiction - horror, romantic fiction, science fiction, crime writing, and more - is also the story of Irish fiction. Irish writers have given the world Lemuel Gulliver, Dracula, and the world of Narnia. They have produced pioneering tales of detection, terrifying ghost stories and ground-breaking women's popular fiction. Now, for the first time, John Connolly's one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself. Deeply researched, and passionately argued, SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers - by turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary - and sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literature, both Irish and beyond. Here are vampires and monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds and dogged detectives, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses. Here are the SHADOW VOICES.
Book Synopsis Tales from the Carnival by : Christopher Allan Death
Download or read book Tales from the Carnival written by Christopher Allan Death and published by Christopher Allan Death. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the twisted imagination of author Christopher Allan Death comes the new standard of dark fiction. His first collection of short stories, aptly titled "Tales from the Carnival", is sure to both terrify and amaze. Open if you dare ...
Book Synopsis The Crossroads by : Chris Grabenstein
Download or read book The Crossroads written by Chris Grabenstein and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of I Funny and Treasure Hunters, comes a series of spine-tingling mysteries to keep you up long after the lights go out. ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father’s hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in a fiery crash, and his malevolent spirit has inhabited the tree ever since. During a huge storm, lightning hits the tree, releasing the spirit, who decides his evil spree isn’t over . . . and Zack is directly in his sights. Award-winning thriller author Chris Grabenstein fills his first book for younger readers with the same humorous and spine-tingling storytelling that has made him a fast favorite with adults.
Book Synopsis The Book on the Bookshelf by : Henry Petroski
Download or read book The Book on the Bookshelf written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed, The Book on the Bookshelf is indispensable for anyone who loves books.
Book Synopsis Reading and the Victorians by : Matthew Bradley
Download or read book Reading and the Victorians written by Matthew Bradley and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. With book production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.
Book Synopsis For the Love of Spirit by : Liz Winter
Download or read book For the Love of Spirit written by Liz Winter and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Love of Spirit was created to inspire, uplift, and entertain. This is a true story of an average girl, Liz, who became a psychic medium and went on to inspire many. Based in Australia, the story tells of synchronistic events from the 1960s to the present time, from the author’s first psychic experience at the age of four to learning and later teaching psychic development, giving private readings and public demonstrations. For the Love of Spirit includes not only memoir but offers insights and wisdom to further one’s knowledge about spirit communication, spiritual protection, angels, and spirit guides. Liz struggles with love, with parenting and basic survival, and yet all along has the support of Spirit and her personal spirit guide, White Owl. An enchanting memoir, creatively woven with insight and wisdom.
Book Synopsis Looking and Playing in Space by : Saint-Denys Garneau
Download or read book Looking and Playing in Space written by Saint-Denys Garneau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life Writing and Celebrity by : Sandra Mayer
Download or read book Life Writing and Celebrity written by Sandra Mayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary and cultural contexts, focusing on historical as well as contemporary auto/biographical subjects. With contributions on the 18th-century actress Peg Woffington, Charles Dickens, Mary Pickford, Sergei Eisenstein, W.H. Auden, Marilyn Monroe, and Michael Jackson, amongst others, the book encompasses a wide range of disciplines and approaches. It explores the representation of famous lives in genres as varied as TV documentary, biopic, biofiction, journalism, (authorized) biography, and painting. The contributors address broad themes including authenticity, self-fashioning, identity politics, and ethics; and reflect on the ways in which these affect the reading and writing of celebrity lives. This volume is the first to bring together life writing and celebrity studies—two vibrant and innovative areas of research which are closely connected through their shared concerns with authenticity and intimacy, public and private selves, myth-making and revelation. As such it will be of interest to a wide range of scholars from across the humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
Book Synopsis Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy by : Martin L. Friedland
Download or read book Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy written by Martin L. Friedland and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the twentieth century. Despite his trailblazing career and intriguing personal life, Kennedy's story is largely a mystery. Weaving together a number of key events, Martin L. Friedland's lively biography discusses Kennedy's contributions as a legal and interdisciplinary scholar, his work at the University of Toronto where he founded the Faculty of Law, as well as his personal life, detailing stories about his family and important friends, such as Prime Minister Mackenzie King. Kennedy earned a reputation in some circles for being something of a scoundrel, and Friedland does not shy away from addressing Kennedy's exaggerated involvement in drafting the Irish constitution, his relationships with female students, and his quest for recognition. Throughout the biography, Friedland interjects with his own personal narratives surrounding his interactions with the Kennedy family, and how he came to acquire the private letters noted in the book. The result is a readable, accessible biography of an important figure in the history of Canadian intellectual life.
Book Synopsis Escape to Perdition by : James Silvester
Download or read book Escape to Perdition written by James Silvester and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret agent in Prague faces love, death, and a crisis of conscience in this gripping international thriller. Herbert Biely, aged hero of the Prague Spring, stands poised to reunite the Czech and Slovak Republics years after the Velvet Revolution. But other parties have their own agendas and plans for the fate of the region. A shadowy collective exists that will do anything to preserve the status quo. Peter Lowe’s mission is to prevent reunification by any means possible. But Peter is not all that he seems. A troubled man desperate to escape the past, he’s beginning to question the cause, his assignment, his superiors, and himself. And when he falls in love with his intended target, the danger escalates. As alliances shift and the body count rises, Prague becomes the focal point for intrigue on an international scale.
Download or read book Attic Nights written by Charles Mills and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
