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Book Synopsis The Imitator Comes Home by : Mary Anne Ackatz
Download or read book The Imitator Comes Home written by Mary Anne Ackatz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of Gabriel Russell continues in this sequel to "To The Ends Of The Earth." Gabriel and Amanda are just beginning their married life together, and trying to keep Amanda's family's corporation, Axis, in the black. A man from their past orders their son, Jeremiah, be kidnapped and held in an attempt to force Gabriel to use his Imitator Intelligence for their own evil plans. Gabriel and his family and friends are in a desperate race to find Jeremiah before harm can befall him. Gabriel is abducted from a friend's house just after he rescues his son. He is injured and loses his memory and eyesight. Now the Russell family begins its search for Gabriel. Along the way, Amanda and the children learn much about the man they love, and what he has done for others in his years away from Axis. Will they locate Gabriel and save him from further harm at the hands of his captors? Will Amanda and the children be safe? Will Gabriel finally find a place to call home?
Download or read book The Imitator written by Rebecca Starford and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning World War Two spy thriller, based on true events. 'The Imitator gripped me to the end: I devoured it ... What a rare treat to find a novel that offers both white-knuckled suspense and evocative, beautiful prose. I loved it.' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People 'We trade in secrets here, Evelyn. There's no shame in having a few of your own. Our only concern is for who might discover them.' Out of place at boarding school, scholarship girl Evelyn Varley realises that the only way for her to fit in is to be like everyone else. She hides her true self and what she really thinks behind the manners and attitudes of those around her. By the time she graduates from Oxford University in 1939, ambitious and brilliant Evelyn has perfected her performance. War is looming. Evelyn soon finds herself recruited to MI5, and the elite counterintelligence department of Bennett White, the enigmatic spy-runner. Recognising Evelyn's mercurial potential, White schools her in observation and subterfuge and assigns her the dangerous task of infiltrating an underground group of Nazi sympathisers working to form an alliance with Germany. But befriending people to betray them isn't easy, no matter how dark their intent. Evelyn is drawn deeper into a duplicity of her own making, where truth and lies intertwine, and her increasing distrust of everyone, including herself, begins to test her better judgement. When a close friend becomes dangerously ensnared in her mission, Evelyn's loyalty is pushed to breaking point, forcing her to make an impossible decision. A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name.
Download or read book Imitation of Life written by Fannie Hurst and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation of Life has played a vital role in ongoing conversations about race, femininity, and the American Dream. Bea Pullman, a white single mother, and her African American maid, Delilah Johnston, also a single mother, rear their daughters together and become business partners. Combining Bea’s business savvy with Delilah’s irresistible southern recipes, they build an Aunt Jemima-like waffle business and an international restaurant empire. Yet their public success brings them little happiness. Bea is torn between her responsibilities as a businesswoman and those of a mother; Delilah is devastated when her light-skinned daughter, Peola, moves away to pass as white. Imitation of Life struck a chord in the 1930s, and it continues to resonate powerfully today. The author of numerous bestselling novels, a masterful short story writer, and an outspoken social activist, Fannie Hurst was a major celebrity in the first half of the twentieth century. Daniel Itzkovitz’s introduction situates Imitation of Life in its literary, biographical, and cultural contexts, addressing such topics as the debates over the novel and films, the role of Hurst’s one-time secretary and great friend Zora Neale Hurston in the novel’s development, and the response to the novel by Hurst’s friend Langston Hughes, whose one-act satire, “Limitations of Life” (which reverses the races of Bea and Delilah), played to a raucous Harlem crowd in the late 1930s. This edition brings a classic of popular American literature back into print.
Book Synopsis Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation by : Dennis R. MacDonald
Download or read book Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation written by Dennis R. MacDonald and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke–Acts composed not a history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil’s Aeneid by adopting and ethically emulating the cultural capital of classical Greek poetry, especially Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Euripides's Bacchae. For example, Vergil and, more than a century later, Luke both imitated Homer’s account of Zeus’s lying dream to Agamemnon, Priam’s escape from Achilles, and Odysseus’s shipwreck and visit to the netherworld. Both Vergil and Luke, as well as many other intellectuals in the Roman Empire, engaged the great poetry of the Greeks to root new social or political realities in the soil of ancient Hellas, but they also rivaled Homer’s gods and heroes to create new ones that were more moral, powerful, or compassionate. One might say that the genre of Luke–Acts is an oxymoron: a prose epic. If this assessment is correct, it holds enormous importance for understanding Christian origins, in part because one may no longer appeal to the Acts of the Apostles for reliable historical information. Luke was not a historian any more than Vergil was, and, as the Latin bard had done for the Augustine age, he wrote a fictional portrayal of the kingdom of God and its heroes, especially Jesus and Paul, who were more powerful, more ethical, and more compassionate than the gods and heroes of Homer and Euripides or those of Vergil’s Aeneid.
Download or read book Imitation of Wife written by La Jill Hunt and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the drama-filled imagination of La Jill Hunt comes Imitation of Wife, the continuing tale of two sisters navigating their complicated lives and tumultuous relationships while trying to maintain their bond with one another. Dealing with the aftermath of her husband’s affair has not been easy for Sylvia Blackwell. When she vowed to stay by his side for better or for worse, she never imagined that would mean becoming a parent to Jordan, his troubled teenaged love child. Now Sylvia is facing a new dilemma that could not only be the final straw that breaks her fragile marriage but could also shatter her already strained relationship with her sister, Janelle. Tricia King never suspected there was trouble in her marriage. After all, she couldn’t have asked for a better husband than Titus. He’s everything she expected in a mate: a good provider, a great father, responsible, and supportive. She has no idea something is missing from their relationship until she finds out what he was giving someone else. Hurt and confused, she finds herself being counselled by a most unlikely ally. Janelle was warned by her sister about the sting of karma and the futility of dating a married man, and she has come face to face with the reality of her actions. Her secret relationship with Titus is now open for everyone to see, including the new man in her life, Sherrod. Janelle is now at the center of a battle between the man she loves and the family she’s trying to hold on to.
Book Synopsis The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance by : Salvatore Di Maria
Download or read book The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theatre of the Renaissance written by Salvatore Di Maria and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theatre of the Italian Renaissance was directly inspired by the classical stage of Greece and Rome, and many have argued that the former imitated the latter without developing a new theatre tradition. In this book, Salvatore DiMaria investigates aspects of innovation that made Italian Renaissance stage a modern, original theatre in its own right. He provides important evidence for creative imitation at work by comparing sources and imitations incuding Machiavelli's Mandragola and Clizia, Cecchi's Assiuolo, Groto's Emilia, and Dolce's Marianna and highlighting source elements that these playwrights chose to adopt, modify, or omit entirely. DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works. By proposing the theatre of the Italian Renaissance as a poetic window into the living realities of sixteenth-century Italy, he provides a fresh approach to reading the works of this period.
Book Synopsis Imitation of Life: Gay Romance by : Felice Stevens
Download or read book Imitation of Life: Gay Romance written by Felice Stevens and published by Felice Stevens. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Friends to Lovers Gay Romance Benny DeMarco is the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. He works hard, takes care of his little sister, and pays the bills. Childhood bullies and an abusive stepfather invade his dreams, and at times he wishes life would grant him a do-over. Would he like a boyfriend? You bet. But Benny knows love isn’t for him. He’s been looked over, looked through, and looked past all his life. Even worse, the one guy he’s been in love with for almost two years is the biggest flirt who will sleep with anyone. Anyone except Benny. Gino Acosta smiles to keep from crying. Everyone he meets tells him he’s beautiful and sexy, but Gino knows the truth. His outside may be perfect, but inside he feels dirty and unworthy. Bounced around as a child, he yearns for someone to love and a family to call his own. He hops from man to man, desperate to belong, believing the lies he’s told, but all he finds is a body for an hour or two. Things would be so different if only he knew—the man he’s searching for is waiting for him, right under his nose. Benny starts dating the “perfect guy”and it’s okay if there’s no spark—that’ll happen eventually. Won’t it? Gino’s fast-paced modeling career has taken off, but once again, he’s trading his body for a dream. When Gino’s world explodes, Benny must fight for what and who he really wants. Gino must learn to trust what people tell him—that he’s got so much more to offer than a pretty face and a moment of pleasure. If all your life you believe you’re nothing, how do you move past heartbreak and hardship to reach for everything?
Download or read book Imitation of Life written by Douglas Sirk and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, The Tarnished Angels, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life (made in 1958, released in 1959). This volume includes the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director, and a filmography and bibliography. It also includes an excellent introduction by Lucy Fischer.
Book Synopsis KJV, Deluxe Gift Bible, Imitation Leather, Black, Red Letter Edition by : Thomas Nelson
Download or read book KJV, Deluxe Gift Bible, Imitation Leather, Black, Red Letter Edition written by Thomas Nelson and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The KJV Deluxe Gift Bible is perfect for personal use or to give as a gift to celebrate special occasions like graduations, baptisms, birthdays, or achievements. This beautifully crafted Bible features Leathersoft covers, gilded edges, ribbon markers, and the new Thomas Nelson KJV Font. Additional features include a special presentation page, the words of Christ in red, full-color maps, charts, and an easy-to-use dictionary-concordance. Invite your eyes to linger and engage God's Word with new, easy-to-read Comfort Print(R) KJV Bibles from Thomas Nelson. Blending modern technology with old-world craftsmanship, Comfort Print(R) KJV Bibles are designed with exclusive fonts, reflecting the beautiful and timeless character of the King James translation, to enhance your scripture reading experience. Features Include: Exclusive KJV Comfort Print(R) Beautiful new Thomas Nelson KJV font Words of Christ in red Easy-to-use Dictionary-Concordance Miracles and Parables of Jesus Ribbon marker Gilded page edges Presentation page Full-color maps Easy-to-read 8-point print size
Book Synopsis KJV, Gift and Award Bible, Imitation Leather, Black, Red Letter Edition by : Thomas Nelson
Download or read book KJV, Gift and Award Bible, Imitation Leather, Black, Red Letter Edition written by Thomas Nelson and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the beautiful and trustworthy KJV translation, the KJV Gift and Award Bible is a special-occasion Bible that is given to recognized individuals or groups. The affordable price of this Bible makes it convenient to buy in bulk and is ideal for celebrating graduations, baptisms, birthdays, new church attendees, and personal or group achievements. This Bible includes a special presentation page, the Words of Christ in red, an easy-to-use dictionary-concordance, charts, maps, and comes in the beautiful new Thomas Nelson KJV font. Invite your eyes to linger and engage God's Word with new, easy-to-read Comfort Print(R) KJV Bibles from Thomas Nelson. Blending modern technology with old-world craftsmanship, Comfort Print(R) KJV Bibles are designed with exclusive fonts, reflecting the beautiful and timeless character of the King James translation, to enhance your scripture reading experience. Features Include: Exclusive KJV Comfort Print(R) Words of Christ in red Easy-to-use Dictionary-Concordance Miracles and Parables of Jesus Presentation page Easy-to-read 8-point type Full-color maps
Book Synopsis KJV, Deluxe Reference Bible, Super Giant Print, Imitation Leather, Black, Indexed, Red Letter Edition by : Thomas Nelson
Download or read book KJV, Deluxe Reference Bible, Super Giant Print, Imitation Leather, Black, Indexed, Red Letter Edition written by Thomas Nelson and published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 1961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the richness of God’s Word with the KJV Super Giant Print Reference Bible. Your eyes will thank you.
Book Synopsis IMITATION BRIDE by : Christine Scott
Download or read book IMITATION BRIDE written by Christine Scott and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hired Bride… Single mom Lacey Keegan had received some odd assignments through her personal errand service, but Michael Damian's request was downright outrageous. The man actually expected her to pose as his bride-to-be! Still, he was her best client—and it wouldn't take much acting to pretend the sexy bachelor was the prince of her dreams! Pretend Groom… How had Michael's scheme backfired? He hadn't intended to actually marry Lacey! Now their "engagement" was the talk of the town, and wedding plans were snowballing. If he wasn't careful, he would end up with a wife—and child! But somehow, the alternative—life without Lacey—was losing its appeal…. True Love?
Book Synopsis Kjv Personal Size Giant Print Reference Bible Chocolate on Blue Imitation Leather by : Hendrickson
Download or read book Kjv Personal Size Giant Print Reference Bible Chocolate on Blue Imitation Leather written by Hendrickson and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 400 years, the Authorized Version of the Bible--popularly known as the King James Version--has been beloved for its majestic phrasing and stately cadences. No other book has so profoundly influenced our language and our theology. Large print resources will become increasingly important as baby boomers reach their mid-fifties and excessive computer use results in eye fatigue. This KJV Bible offers giant print for readability, is enhanced by useful study helps and references, and features a convenient trim size for easy portability. Its easy-to-read type, affordability, size, and reference features combine to make it the ideal Bible for both devotional and study purposes. FEATURES OF THE KJV PERSONAL SIZE GIANT PRINT REFERENCE BIBLE - End of verse cross-reference system unlocks the riches of the Bible - Concordance for locating key passages - Full-color maps - Words of Christ in red - Personal presentation page - Gilded page edges - Ribbon marker - 11.25 point type - Convenient trim size for easy portability
Download or read book A Fine Imitation written by Amber Brock and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of ruin. Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus--the most coveted address on Park Avenue. But behind the sparkling social whirl, Vera is living a life of quiet desperation. Her days are an unbroken loop of empty, champagne-soaked socializing, while her nights are silent and cold, spent waiting alone in her cavernous apartment for a husband who seldom comes home. Then Emil Hallan arrives at The Angelus to paint a mural above its glittering subterranean pool. The handsome French artist moves into the building, shrouds his work in secrecy, and piques Vera's curiosity, especially when the painter keeps dodging questions about his past. Is he the man he claims to be? Even as she finds herself increasingly drawn to Hallan's warmth and passion, Vera can't suppress her suspicions. After all, she has plenty of secrets, too--and some of them involve art forgers like her bold, artistically talented former friend, Bea, who years ago, at Vassar, brought Vera to the brink of catastrophe and social exile. When the dangerous mysteries of Emil's past are revealed, Vera faces an impossible choice--whether to cling to her familiar world of privilege and propriety or to risk her future with the enigmatic man who has taken her heart. A Fine Imitation explores what happens when we realize that the life we've always led is not the life we want to have.
Book Synopsis Managing Imitation Strategies by : Steven P. Schnaars
Download or read book Managing Imitation Strategies written by Steven P. Schnaars and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneers -- those innovative "first movers" who enter markets before competitors - are often deified as engines of economic growth while imitators are generally scorned as copycats and shameful followers. But who most often wins? Drawing on seven years of research, Steven Schnaars documents that, in sharp contrast to conventional beliefs, imitators commonly surpass pioneers as market leaders and attain the greatest financial rewards. How do they do it? In this ground-breaking book -- the first to formulate imitation strategies for managers -- Schnaars systematically examines 28 detailed case histories, from light beer to commercial jet liners, in which imitators such as Anheuser-Busch and Boeing prevailed over pioneers. He describes the marketing wars, court battles, and even personal vendettas that often resulted, and shows that imitators have several clear advantages. Pioneers are forced to spend heavily on both product and market development. They also risk making costly mistakes. Pioneers often aid in their own destruction, thrown into confusion by rapid growth, internal bickering, and the neverending search for expansion capital. Moreover, imitators do not have to risk expensive start-up costs or pursuing a market that does not exist, enabling them to quickly outmaneuver pioneers once the market is finally shaped. By patiently waiting on the sidelines while the innovator makes the mistakes, imitatorscan also usurp benefits from the test of time -- major defects in the product having been removed by the pioneer at an earlier stage in the game. Schnaars discusses the three basic strategies that successful imitators such as Microsoft, American Express, and Pepsi have used to dominate markets pioneered by others. First, some imitators sell lower-priced, generic versions of the pioneer's product once it becomes popular, as Bic did with ballpoint pens. Second, some firms imitate and improve upon the pioneer's product; for example, WordPerfect in the case of word processing software. Third, building on their capital, distribution, and marketing advantages that smaller pioneers cannot hope to match, imitators use the most prevalent strategy of all -- bullying their way into a pioneer's market on sheer power. In several cases a one-two-punch, or combination of strategies, is often utilized by the imitator to remove any doubt regarding their dominance in the market and in the eyes of the public. Schnaars concludes that the benefits of pioneering have been oversold, and that imitation compels recognition as a legitimate marketing strategy. It should be as much a part of a company's strategic arsenal as strategies for innovation.
Book Synopsis Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere by : Katalin G. Kállay
Download or read book Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere written by Katalin G. Kállay and published by Akademiai Kiado. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of those rare combinations of intellectual brilliance, stylistic clarity, and sheer verve. The book contains a series of major works of American short fiction by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James as occasions for a mode of reading in which the readers aim is to establish an intimate relationship with the special arrangement of words in a text, governed by a trust in a happy coincidence of moments in which one might recognize the words relevance to ones life. Dr. Kllay calls this a good encounter, a term she adopts from the writings of philosopher Stanley Cavell. In her detailed, theoretical introduction, Dr. Kllay lays bare her scholarly debt, primarily to the writings of Cavell himself and to the work of literary critic Wolfgang Iser, as she further develops and clarifies the idea of the good encounter. Here she identifies the good encounter with a particular trope, which appears within the tales themselves, and which also
Book Synopsis Testimony ... in Regard to the Manufacture and Sale of Imitation Dairy Products by : United States. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Download or read book Testimony ... in Regard to the Manufacture and Sale of Imitation Dairy Products written by United States. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
