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Forty Years Later

Author : Steven Jay Griffel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781089522843
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Forty Years Later written by Steven Jay Griffel and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stay Thirsty Publishing Proudly Presents Forty Years Later - 10th Anniversary Edition (Newly Revised). An Amazon #1 Bestseller with over 55,000 eBooks downloaded from veteran author Steven Jay Griffel. A compelling story of second chances in life and love. Successful middle-aged publishing executive David Grossman risks everything to fulfill a promise to a woman he has not seen in forty years. When former teen sweethearts David and Jill reunite after four decades, sparks fly, despite his long marriage to Allison and Jill's LGBT reputation. Jill Black, a "one-hit wonder" Hollywood screenwriter, is consumed by her last chance to write and direct her own film. Success will reinvigorate her career. Failure will end it. When a pompous studio "suit" begins to undermine her authority and threatens to kill her project, the pressure forces her to spin from rage to murderous madness and she ensnares David in her dark plot. Love and betrayal. Revenge and redemption. For some it ends happily. For others it all comes undone in this fast-paced drama of Baby Boomers trying to hang on to their lives, their families, and their dreams. A riveting novel of suspense and humor, masterfully told by Steven Jay Griffel. "Griffel's narrative is a rush - sharp, spot on, and funny as hell." - Laurie Rozakis, Author, Editor & Public Speaker. "Forty Years Later is a great read. It's fast, edgy, but poignant. Steven Jay Griffel really captures the emotions of the Woodstock generation forty years later." - Les Kaye, Musician and Emmy Award winner. From the 120 Amazon customer reviews: "Lost Dreams Redeemed ... Everyone Wants A Do-Over ... Excellent depiction of individual personalities ... I reminisced in a dream like sort of way of my Woodstock experience ... Well written and easy reading ... I chose this book because at the center is the Catskills - a bungalow colony - which is where I met my future husband at the age of 13 ... If you've ever cared for someone and years later wondered, "What if ...", Forty Years Later is great fun, with a dash of poignancy." About the Author Steven Jay Griffel is a novelist, editor and publisher. He is the author of five novels and his book, Forty Years Later, became a #1 Best Seller on Amazon in two categories. He lives in Queens, New York, with his wife Barbara.

The World According to Garp

Author : John Irving
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0345418018
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The World According to Garp written by John Irving and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.S. Garp, a man with high ambitions for an artistic career and with obsessive devotion to his wife and children, and Jenny Fields, his famous feminist mother, find their lives surrounded by an assortment of people including teachers, whores, and radicals

Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles

Author : Olivier Julien
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056736
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles written by Olivier Julien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No. 1': Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave rise to 'hopes of progress in pop music' (The Times, 29 May 1967). Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles commemorates the fortieth anniversary of this masterpiece of British psychedelia by addressing issues that will help put the record in perspective. These issues include: reception by rock critics and musicians, the cover, lyrics, songwriting, formal unity, the influence of non-European music and art music, connections with psychedelia and, more generally, the sociocultural context of the 1960s, production, sound engineering and musicological significance. The contributors are world renowned for their work on the Beatles: they examine Sgt. Pepper from the angle of disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, literature, social psychology and cultural theory.

Forty Years in the Wildnerness

Author : Dolly Faulkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615701530
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Forty Years in the Wildnerness written by Dolly Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolly Faulkner came to Alaska as a young woman with a dream of living in the wilderness. Along with her husband, she carved out a homestead in the Kilbuck Mountains with many moments of terror and anxiety but also touched by the beauty of Alaska.

Forty Autumns

Author : Nina Willner
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062410334
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Forty Autumns written by Nina Willner and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. But the price of freedom—leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home—was heartbreaking. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own. Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna’s daughter, Nina Willner became the first female Army Intelligence Officer to lead sensitive intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives—grandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team—a bitter political war kept them apart. In Forty Autumns, Nina recounts her family’s story—five ordinary lives buffeted by circumstances beyond their control. She takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer, running secret operations behind the Berlin Wall that put her life at risk. A personal look at a tenuous era that divided a city and a nation, and continues to haunt us, Forty Autumns is an intimate and beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and love—of five women whose spirits could not be broken, and who fought to preserve what matters most: family. Forty Autumns is illustrated with dozens of black-and-white and color photographs.

Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi

Author : George H. Devol
Publisher : Johnson Reprint Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi written by George H. Devol and published by Johnson Reprint Corporation. This book was released on 1892 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cabin boy in 1839 could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven stock a deck at fourteen bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters and thieves fought more rough and tum

Forty Years of Murder

Author : Keith Simpson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007291272
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Forty Years of Murder written by Keith Simpson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christie, Hanratty, The Krays ... murderers haunt the mind. We read about them in the press with horrified curiosity and, if we're lucky, this is as close as we get. But Home Office Pathologise Keith Simpson spent forty years in the very midst of murder. This is his autobiography.

The Year We Turned Forty

Author : Liz Fenton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476763453
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Year We Turned Forty written by Liz Fenton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could repeat one year of your life, what would you do differently? This heartwarming and hilarious novel from the authors of The Status of All Things and Your Perfect Life features three best friends who get the chance to return to the year they turned forty—the year that altered all of their lives, in ways big and small—and also get the opportunity to change their future. Jessie loves her son Lucas more than anything, but it tears her up inside that he was conceived in an affair that ended her marriage to a man she still loves, a man who just told her he's getting remarried. This time around, she’s determined to bury the secret of Lucas’ paternity, and to repair the fissures that sent her wandering the first time. Gabriela regrets that she wasted her most fertile years in hot pursuit of a publishing career. Yes, she’s one of the biggest authors in the world, but maybe what she really wanted to create was a family. With a chance to do it again, she’s focused on convincing her husband, Colin, to give her the baby she desires. Claire is the only one who has made peace with her past: her twenty-two year old daughter, Emily, is finally on track after the turmoil of adolescence, and she's recently gotten engaged, with the two carat diamond on her finger to prove it. But if she’s being honest, Claire still fantasizes about her own missed opportunities: a chance to bond with her mother before it was too late, and the possibility of preventing her daughter from years of anguish. Plus, there’s the man who got away—the man who may have been her one true love. But it doesn’t take long for all three women to learn that re-living a life and making different decisions only leads to new problems and consequences—and that the mistakes they made may, in fact, have been the best choices of all…

Forty Years in a Day

Author : Mona Rodriguez
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1621471381
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Forty Years in a Day written by Mona Rodriguez and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the connection between an infamous Irish mob boss and an Italian immigrant family? The story begins in Italy, 1900. After years of torment and neglect, Victoria and her four small children immigrate to Hell's Kitchen, New York, to escape her alcoholic, abusive husband. On the day they leave, he tragically dies, but she does not learn of his death for several years-a secret that puts many lives on hold. Quickly, they realize America's streets are not paved with gold, and the limits of human faith and stamina are tested time and time again. Poverty, illness, death, kidnapping, and the reign of organized crime are just some of the crosses they bear. Victoria's eldest son, Vincenzo, is the sole surviving member of the family and shares a gut-wrenching account of their lives with his daughter during a visit to Ellis Island on his ninetieth birthday. Forty Years in a Day is layered with the struggles and successes of each family member and defines the character of an era. Follow the Montanaro family through several decades, and stand in the shoes of a past generation. Learn more at: http: //www.fortyyearsinaday.com/

Believer

Author : David Axelrod
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143128353
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Believer written by David Axelrod and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary strategist, the mastermind behind Barack Obama's historic election campaigns, shares a wealth of stories from his forty-year journey through the inner workings of American democracy.

Fresh Complaint

Author : Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 030740191X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Fresh Complaint written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proudly presenting the widely anticipated new work of fiction from the multi-award winning bestselling author of Middlesex--a #1 major bestseller in Canada--and The Marriage Plot--also an acclaimed national bestseller--and the beloved The Virgin Suicides. Featuring unseen stories from one of the most eclectic, dynamic fiction writers working today, Fresh Complaint brings together works both new and previously published--including the crème de la crème of Eugenides's beloved New Yorker stories, never before collected between two covers. Jeffrey Eugenides's bestselling novels have shown that he is an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, sexual identity, self-discovery, family love and what it means to be an American in our times. The stories in Fresh Complaint continue that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of "Baster" to the wry, moving account of a young traveller's search for enlightenment in "Air Mail" (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling, beautifully written and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long. Showcasing stories from as far back as the 1980s and as recently as 2017, Fresh Complaint is the career-spanning collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

By the Rivers of Babylon

Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759528322
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book By the Rivers of Babylon written by Nelson DeMille and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East. Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries -- and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind. Suddenly they're forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site. Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos -- while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission. In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.

Lamborghini

Author : David Jolliffe
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 9780760319451
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Lamborghini written by David Jolliffe and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 40 years, Lamborghini has been one of the world's most flamboyant and exotic car marques. Written by a long-term Lamborghini insider, the book tells, for the first time, the real story of the men who kept the Italian company alive, making cars bought by wealthy business executives, show business celebrities, and sports stars. Custodians of Lamborghini have included Chrysler and businessmen in Switzerland and Asia. Now Lamborghini sits alongside Bugatti at Audi, part of the Volkswagen Group. Previous Lamborghini books have been little more than collections of pictures of the cars and technical descriptions, but this one describes the character of the men whose passion for Lamborghini kept the company alive. The book is published in 2004 as the all-new Lamborghini Gallardo goes on sale, 41 years after the original 350GTV burst onto the scene at the Turin auto show.

Du Pont; One Hundred and Forty Years

Author : William Sherman Dutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Du Pont; One Hundred and Forty Years written by William Sherman Dutton and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of Samuel du Pont. He was born in Paris in 1739, to Samuel Dupont and Anne de Montchanin Dupont. He married Nicole Charlotte Marie Louise le Dée. They were the parents of two children.

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin

Author : Calvin Trillin
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982215
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin written by Calvin Trillin and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant . . . The dean of American comic writers showcases his varied talents mocking the public and private lives of politicians, average citizens and himself.”—The Star-Ledger Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place—in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his “deadline poetry” for The Nation, in comic novels, and in what USA Today called “simply the funniest regular column in journalism.” Now Trillin selects the best of his funny stuff and organizes it into topics like high finance (“My long-term investment strategy has been criticized as being entirely too dependent on Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes”) and the literary life (“The average shelf life of a book is somewhere between milk and yogurt”). He addresses the horrors of witnessing a voodoo economics ceremony and the mystery of how his mother managed for thirty years to feed her family nothing but leftovers (“We have a team of anthropologists in there now looking for the original meal”). He even skewers deserving political figures in poetry. In this, the definitive collection of his humor, Calvin Trillin is prescient, insightful, and invariably hilarious. “A literary treasure . . . There is only one Calvin Trillin, and if he didn’t exist we would have to invent him.”—The Washington Times “Funny is to Trillin what drinking is to Uncle Jed in Annie Get Your Gun—it’s what he does ‘natur’lly.’ He’s also a lot more than funny. Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin is the twenty-eighth book he’s published over not far short of a half-century, and their range of subjects is remarkable.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post “Trillin made his reputation over four decades as the author of ‘U.S. Journal’ in the New Yorker [but he] is incapable of resisting the temptation of comedy. The jokes kept on welling up and Mr. Trillin made a parallel reputation as a writer of funny stuff.”—The Economist “Wry, whip-smart, understated, and entertaining.”—The Miami Herald

Not Since Carrie

Author : Ken Mandelbaum
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466843276
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Not Since Carrie written by Ken Mandelbaum and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1992-08-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not Since Carrie is Ken Mandelbaum's brilliant survey of Broadway's biggest flops. This highly readable and entertaining book highlights almost 200 musicals created between 1950 and 1990, framed around the notorious musical adaptation of Carrie, and examines the reasons for their failure. "Essential and hilarious," raves The New Yorker, and The New York Times calls the book "A must-read."

The Keillor Reader

Author : Garrison Keillor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101517778
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Keillor Reader written by Garrison Keillor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.” Keillor is the founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the Good Poems collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.