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The Last Days of California: A Novel

Author : Mary Miller
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871407795
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of California: A Novel written by Mary Miller and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] terrific first novel. . . . Why worry about labeling a book this good? Just read it.”—Laurie Muchnick, New York Times Book Review Jess is fifteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family to drive west to California, hoping to save as many souls as possible before the Second Coming. With her long-suffering mother and rebellious (and secretly pregnant) sister, Jess hands out tracts to nonbelievers at every rest stop, Waffle House, and gas station along the way. As Jess’s belief frays, her teenage myopia evolves into awareness about her fracturing family. Selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and an Indie Next pick, Mary Miller’s radiant debut novel reinvigorates the literary road-trip story with wry vulnerability and savage charm.

The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California

Author : Curt Gentry
Publisher : Comstock Editions Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California written by Curt Gentry and published by Comstock Editions Incorporated. This book was released on 1977-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Days of Café Leila

Author : Donia Bijan
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616208031
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Café Leila written by Donia Bijan and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan.” —Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran’s rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming. When we first meet Noor, she is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Café Leila, the restaurant her family has been running for three generations. Iran may have changed, but Café Leila, still run by Zod, has stayed blessedly the same—it is a refuge of laughter and solace for its makeshift family of staff and regulars. As Noor revisits her Persian childhood, she must rethink who she is—a mother, a daughter, a woman estranged from her marriage and from her life in California. And together, she and Lily get swept up in the beauty and brutality of Tehran. Bijan’s vivid, layered story, at once tender and elegant, funny and sad, weaves together the complexities of history, domesticity, and loyalty and, best of all, transports readers to another culture, another time, and another emotional landscape.

Golden Days

Author : Carolyn See
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918304
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Golden Days written by Carolyn See and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work offers fresh insights into the way we were, the way we are, and the way we could end up.

Last Days

Author : Adam Nevill
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 125001817X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Last Days written by Adam Nevill and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult—with creepy consequences When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult known as the Temple of the Last Days, it appears his prayers have been answered. The cult became a worldwide phenomenon in 1975 when there was a massacre including the death of its infamous leader, Sister Katherine. Kyle's brief is to explore the paranormal myths surrounding an organization that became a testament to paranoia, murderous rage, and occult rituals. The shoot's locations take him to the cult's first temple in London, an abandoned farm in France, and a derelict copper mine in the Arizonan desert where The Temple of the Last Days met its bloody end. But when he interviews those involved in the case, those who haven't broken silence in decades, a series of uncanny events plague the shoots. Troubling out-of-body experiences, nocturnal visitations, the sudden demise of their interviewees and the discovery of ghastly artifacts in their room make Kyle question what exactly it is the cult managed to awaken – and what is its interest in him?

Unlocking the Last Days

Author : Jeff Lasseigne
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 9781441214058
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Unlocking the Last Days written by Jeff Lasseigne and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very title of the last book of the Bible means "unveiling." Yet this mysterious and confusing book seems to do anything but unveil, especially when we read it on our own. Unlocking the Last Days takes readers through key parts of this misunderstood book, using a verse-by-verse approach that clearly communicates God's truth, warnings, and promises. Both Bible teachers and students will find this book a welcome aid to understanding an intriguing piece of the Scriptures.

The Last Days of Louisiana Red

Author : Ishmael Reed
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564787400
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Louisiana Red written by Ishmael Reed and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers. A HooDoo detective story and a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the '60s, The Last Days of Louisiana Red exposes the hypocrisy of contemporary American culture and race politics.

The Twelve Days of Christmas in California

Author :
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402762475
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Days of Christmas in California written by and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This holiday book series takes kids on a unique cross-country journey. Through lively, chatty letters home, each of these six books follows a child on a fun visit with a friend or relative over winter vacation. Along the way, the young narrators convey a host of fascinating and kid-friendly facts about what they do and where they go. Full color.

Last Days of the Condor

Author : James Grady
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466861258
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Last Days of the Condor written by James Grady and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now on television: Condor, an AT&T Audience Network original series inspired by James Grady's first Condor novel. Look in the mirror: You're nobody anybody knows. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse to just fade away. So you're designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. Good guys or bad guys, it doesn't matter: All assassins' guns are aimed at you. And you run for your life branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor. Everyone you care about is pulled into the gunsights. The CIA star young enough to be your daughter-she might shoot you or save you. The savvy political aide who lets love trump the law. The lonely woman your romantic dreams make a fugitive. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy. Last Days of the Condor is the bullet-paced, ticking clock saga of America on the edge of our most startling spy world revolution since 9/11. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington, DC, shot through with sex and suspense, with secret agent tradecraft and full-speed action, with hunters and the hunted, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets from muckraking investigative reporter and author James Grady. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Last Days of Night

Author : Graham Moore
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812988922
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Night written by Graham Moore and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson “A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society—the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal—private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it? In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER “A satisfying romp . . . Takes place against a backdrop rich with period detail . . . Works wonderfully as an entertainment . . . As it charges forward, the novel leaves no dot unconnected.”—Noah Hawley, The New York Times Book Review

Last Days of Summer Updated Ed

Author : Steve Kluger
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006204267X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Last Days of Summer Updated Ed written by Steve Kluger and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary American classic—a poignant and hilarious tale of baseball, hero worship, eccentric behavior, and unlikely friendship Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third basemen for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an overactive imagination. Then again, this strange, needy kid might be exactly what Banks needs.

Omega

Author : Camille Flammarion
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727350340
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Omega written by Camille Flammarion and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astronomer and author Camille Flammarion's classic work of trailblazing early science fiction. A cataclysmic comet strike has plunged the Earth into ruins. Humanity must struggle to survive. Originally published in French under the title "La Fin du monde," the story explores society's structure and ills, including humanity's preoccupation with war and the wastefulness of destructive conflicts. Set principally in the 25th Century, Flammarion's description of a news media that is ruled by commercial interests, pursuing sensationalism over truth, is all too prescient of the modern world. With a narrative that spans millions of years from prehistory into the far future, Omega: The Last Days of the World is sure to thrill readers.

The Last Days Unsealed

Author : Robert Smith
Publisher : Praeger/Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9781888106817
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days Unsealed written by Robert Smith and published by Praeger/Greenwood. This book was released on 1999 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Provocative Examination of Imminent Last Days Events. The many Mormon latter-day myths about the last days have lulled people into a false security. They think that because the LDS Church has a living prophet, they will be warned when the tribulation is about to come. But the Lord has already told us all he intends-and this is made clear in Isaiah. People are waiting for certain preliminary signs to occur before they really start to prepare for the coming destruction, but by then it will be too late. What this book explains, with supporting scriptures, will be new to most of you. Prophesied last days events are reported that you may have never heard before-and they are presented in chronological order with a supporting chart. By knowing these things and making the necessary changes and preparations, we can survive the coming judgments. Robert Smith completed his Ph.D. in Historical Linguistics at the University of Utah, following studies at the University of Texas. He has done post-doctoral studies in Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew at the University of Utah and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has taught at colleges in Utah and California. He is revising his first book, currently out-of-print, Scriptures of the Last Days, and expects to publish an enlarged edition in late 1999. For the past several years, he has been involved in research in Central and South American native languages--Quechua, Aymara, Proto Cholan and Nauatl. This research is to identify the language families from which they came and to confirm their relation to Asian Semitic languages. The author is also doing new translations and commentaries on the Old Testament prophetic books. Volume I of a three-volumetranslation and commentary of the twelve prophets is nearing completion.

Big World

Author : Mary Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974954189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Big World written by Mary Miller and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Mary Miller's BIG WORLD is the second book and first work of fiction to come out of Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a publishing arm of the independent literary journal Hobart. The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection BIG WORLD are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they're holed up in a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air gun shooting boyfriend as in "Fast Trains" or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their mother's death as in "Leak." Mary Miller's writing is unapologetically honest and efficient and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the south and reeked of spilt beer and cigarette smoke.

The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Garden of Last Days

Author : Andre Dubus
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0434019208
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Garden of Last Days written by Andre Dubus and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.

California

Author : Edan Lepucki
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316250821
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book California written by Edan Lepucki and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the unknown and unsure of their ability to raise a child alone, Cal and Frida set out for the nearest settlement, a guarded and paranoid community with dark secrets. These people can offer them security, but Cal and Frida soon realize this community poses dangers of its own. In this unfamiliar world, where everything and everyone can be perceived as a threat, the couple must quickly decide whom to trust. A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love. "In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities."-Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad