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Iris Has Free Time

Author : Iris Smyles
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593765584
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Iris Has Free Time written by Iris Smyles and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeled on Dante's Divine Comedy and riffing on Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Iris Has Free Time is a subtle, complicated, funny, bold, lyrical and literary, sad and wise book about youth, time, and what it means to grow up. An instant classic and essential reading for anyone who has ever been young. “There, I came across a cluster of NYU graduates standing in cap and gown. They were laughing and posing for photos. Was it June again already? Their voices echoed through the subway tunnel. ‘Congratulations!’ ‘Congratulations!’ their parents said. And I wanted to yell, ‘Don’t do it! Go back! You don’t know what it’s like!’” Whether passed out drunk at The New Yorker where she’s interning; assigning Cliffs Notes when hired to teach humanities at a local college; getting banned from a fleet of Greek Island ferries while on vacation, or trying to piece together the events of yet another puzzling blackout—“I prefer to call them pink-outs, because I’m a girl”—Iris is never short on misadventures. From quarter-life crisis to the shock of turning thirty, Iris Has Free Time charts a madcap, melancholic course through that curious age—one’s twenties—when childhood is over, supposedly.

(Not That You Asked)

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812977599
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book (Not That You Asked) written by Steve Almond and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In (Not that You Asked), Steve Almond documents a life spent brawling with the idiot kings of modern culture. He squares off against Sean Hannity on national TV, takes on Oprah Winfrey, nearly gets kidnapped by a reality TV crew, and winds up in Boston, where he quickly enrages the entire population of Red Sox Nation. Amid the carnage, he finds time to celebrate his literary hero, the late Kurt Vonnegut. These are essays the Los Angeles Times has called “rich, fearless [and] cutting.” Praise for (Not that You Asked) “Refreshingly irreverent . . . absurdly funny.” –The Boston Globe “[Almond] scores big in every chapter of this must-have collection. Biting humor, honesty, smarts and heart: Vonnegut himself would have been proud.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Taunting, revealing, irreverent, and earnest.” –The New York Times “Steve Almond has created a distinctive voice and literary persona. Pleasure-obsessed, self-deprecating, horny, hilarious and always dedicated to parsing the messy terrain of the human heart.” –Forward.com

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743246896
Total Pages : 983 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961 written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Ernest Hemingway in 1961 ended one of the most original and influential careers in American literature. His works have been translated into every major language, and the Nobel Prize awarded to him in 1954 recognized his impact on contemporary writing. While many people are familiar with the public image of Hemingway and the legendary accounts of his life, few knew him as an intimate. With this collection of letters, presented for the first time as a Scribner Classic, a new Hemingway emerges. Ranging from 1917 to 1961, this generous selection of nearly six hundred letters is, in effect, both a self-portrait and an autobiography. In his own words, Hemingway candidly reveals himself to a wide variety of people: family, friends, enemies, editors, translators, and almost all the prominent writers of his day. In so doing he proves to be one of the most entertaining letter writers of all time. Carlos Baker has chosen letters that not only represent major turning points in Hemingway's career but also exhibit character, wit, and the writer's typical enthusiasm for hunting, fishing, drinking, and eating. A few are ingratiating, some downright truculent. Others present his views on writing and reading, criticize books by friend or foe, and discuss women, soldiers, politicians, and prizefighters. Perhaps more than anything, these letters show Hemingway's irrepressible humor, given far freer rein in his correspondence than in his books. An informal biography in letters, the product of forty-five years' living and writing, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters leaves an indelible impression of an extraordinary man. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. At seventeen he left home to join the Kansas City Star as a reporter, then volunteered to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. He was severely wounded at the Italian front and was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he devoted himself to writing fiction, and where he fell in with the expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.

A Guide to Collecting Librariana

Author : Norman D. Stevens
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810818743
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Collecting Librariana written by Norman D. Stevens and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

A Marine's Letters

Author : Gloria Mallamas
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466903864
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Marine's Letters written by Gloria Mallamas and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My memories of The Battle of Bloody Ridge."--Pages 423-426.

Buster’S Book

Author : Donald Junkins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475944440
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Buster’S Book written by Donald Junkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-17 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing insight in a familys history against the backdrop of major world wars, Busters Book offers a collection of more than a thousand letters exchanged during the twentieth century as young men provided service to their country. In this memoir, author Donald Junkins has compiled letters, diaries, interviews, recollections, and photographs of the familys participants in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars. This fascinating historical record includes the stories of a variety of escapades: from single-handedly opening an eight-year-old Nazi prison camp; to B-24 air forays from New Guinea in which an aerial gunner shot down two Japanese Zero planes; and to the rescue in Korea of wounded men stalled in a jeep in the middle of a freezing river that culminated in the awarding of the Silver Star. Busters Book reflects both the lives of a middle-class American family during these years and the daily activities of two generations of young American men at war.

The Life and Riotous Times of H.L. Mencken

Author : William Manchester
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795335644
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Riotous Times of H.L. Mencken written by William Manchester and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Written with verve, intellectual sophistication, and a prickly wit worthy of its eminent subject. . . . A first-class piece of literate entertainment” (The New Yorker). Before he went on to become a celebrated biographer and historian, renowned for such works as A World Lit Only by Fire, American Caesar, and The Last Lion, William Manchester worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun in the 1940s—and it was there that he met fellow journalist H. L. Mencken. This book tells the story of conservative, anarchist H. L. Mencken’s life in compelling, intimate detail—and offers a uniquely personal look at the influential cultural critic and satirist who cofounded the magazines the American Mercury and the Smart Set and became a legend for his sharp and highly quotable wit.

My Life- My War- World War 2

Author : Stanley B. Loomis Sr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452074046
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book My Life- My War- World War 2 written by Stanley B. Loomis Sr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars are started by a person or persons and are usually a quest for power for a person or a group of people and they dont really care how many people are killed nor how many families are losing a father, mother or brothers or whole families and their relatives. Sometimes, it is necessary to start a war by a peaceful nation against countries tat are harming and have the publically displayed their intentions to extend their borders by taking land from established countrys land and people. This I would consider declaring a war to be the only necessary solution to the problem----but still a war with people getting maimed and killed. In World War One---Germany was the problem----once again lust for power. I wasnt even thought of at that period of time----in fact, I hadnt even arrived on the scene at that point of time. But, think about it for a moment-----theres not one inch of land that has increased in size in those thousands of years of civilization and wars. I was a training in Camp Blanding in Florida---we could look in any direction and there was a sign posted in large letters------Kill or Be Killed----Kill or Be Killed. We were just 18 or 19 year old kids--------think about it--------Kill or Be Killedwhat an educationbut necessary to imprint it inside our young brains. It gave us young kids a reason to become killers-----hesitate for a second and youre dead. Back then in training, we used to repeat over and over was that wars were necessary to Decrease The Surplus Population--------It is most certainly a true statement.

Young Lonigan

Author : James T. Farrell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101661550
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Young Lonigan written by James T. Farrell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of James T. Farrell's remarkable Studs Lonigan trilogy An American classic in the vein of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the first book of James T. Farrell's powerful Studs Lonigan trilogy covers five months of the young hero's life in 1916, when he is sixteen years old. In this relentlessly naturalistic yet richly complex portrait, Studs is carried along by his swaggering and shortsighted companions, his narrow family, and his educational and religious background toward a fate that he resists yet cannot escape. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The 'G' Factor

Author : George Grubisha
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595173756
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The 'G' Factor written by George Grubisha and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-04-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "G" Factor was never spelled out in so many words. This was a code name, whose significance was known only to my employer and me, for the expected reward discreetly given to a "facilitator" who brokered the sale of aircraft for their respective governments, agencies, companies or clients. I never showed in the bills of sale and was, therefore, untraceable to the recipients, and it was buried in the legalese of our contracts to balance our own books. In other words, the "G" Factor was more often than not the critical success factor of any major negotiation, but it depended on instinct to know when, how, how much and to whom it should or should not be offered. A wrong guess could blow a major deal. Like another George of historical renown who said "I cannot tell a lie!", neither can I, so the tales I am about to tell about the world of intrigue I have experienced and how the mighty rise and fall are absolutely true. They are my moments in time based on a lifetime of memories.

Got to Go Now

Author : Edsel Colvin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 0759693544
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Got to Go Now written by Edsel Colvin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a father-son project. Actually its more of a father-son/son-father project. The letters are from Edsel Colvin to his dad, Frank Colvin from the time Edsel graduated from high school in 1941 until he got out of the Army in 1945. Most of the comments, introductions to chapters, and sidebars are also from Edsel to his son, Paul Colvin, most of them in response to questions about the original letters. These comments and other items are in italics throughout the book. Edsels letters follow a small-town Oregon boy from his idyllic summer job as a fire lookout overlooking the Pacific in the Coast Range in 1941, where he was alone for weeks at a time, to the bitter French winter of 1944-45 when he saw his first combat and a fortuitous, but painful, hospital stay. They continue after the end of the war in Europe in May through the summer of 1945, when he was sweating out whether he was going to be sent to fight the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. They end in the fall of 1945 with his long-awaited discharge from the Army in Texas and his return to civilian life in Gold Beach.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Friend of the Sun

Author : Kevin Abulu
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434932591
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Friend of the Sun written by Kevin Abulu and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Five Came Back

Author : Mark Harris
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126830
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Five Came Back written by Mark Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time “One of the great works of film history of the decade.” —Slate Now a Netflix original documentary series, also written by Mark Harris: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywood's most important directors, all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever Here is the remarkable, untold story of how five major Hollywood directors—John Ford, George Stevens, John Huston, William Wyler, and Frank Capra—changed World War II, and how, in turn, the war changed them. In a move unheard of at the time, the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood, allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of America’s war, shaping the public’s collective consciousness of what we’ve now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research, Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywood’s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go, and who came back.

Your Lovin' Private, Sterl

Author : Dale Conover Semak
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453551417
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Your Lovin' Private, Sterl written by Dale Conover Semak and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Lovin' Private, Sterl is the story of a young man from Delaware who enlisted in the U.S. Marines during the worst of World War II. Illustrated with some of his love letters to Betty, find out about the greater war and Sterling's place in it. Why did he enlist, what did he eat, and what was his ordinary day like? While Sterling was in the Pacific, he also had friends dying in Europe. Follow Sterling from Boot Camp, to war, and back again as the Cold War took shape and the Allies divided

Include Me Out

Author : Farley Granger
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312357740
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Include Me Out written by Farley Granger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synonymous with the golden age of Broadway, the dazzling lights of Hollywood, and the rise of television arts, Farley Granger's charm and talent captivated the acting community and audiences alike. Working with creative visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, and Nick Ray, Granger was a celebrated figure in films like Strangers on a Train, Rope, Senso, and They Live by Night, bringing to the big screen a stunningly memorable presence. But behind his characters, he was an intensely complex man. In his richly told memoir, Granger details his life with disarming candor. Rich in personal insight, he describes his relationships with both men and women and reminisces about screen legends he knew with private familiarity—from Shelley Winters to Joan Crawford to Leonard Bernstein. Recreating not only his personal struggles but his legendary struggle to free himself of his contract with Sam Goldwyn, Granger reveals none so elegantly as he does himself. Include Me Out is as much a story of classic Hollywood glamour as it is a collection of iconic theatrical portraits, all from the man who knew them all.

JellyBean

Author : Eva Patton
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1098021630
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book JellyBean written by Eva Patton and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, Dogmama told me and my littermates there comes a time when every puppy must have his very own family. Dogs are loved by people for many reasons, and it is one of the most wonderful things in the entire world when a human pack or family comes to our kennel to find some of its happiness. A puppy is very lucky to be matched with his own person or family who will love him forever. With these thoughts, I prayed to Saint Bernard for my very own family. Eventually, they came, and in the fourteen-plus years I shared with them, my life had both wonderful and miserable times. The hardest thing was learning right and wrong. Fortunately, Angelo Wingsandhalo, a tiny Wire Fox Terrier with wings and a halo, came to me when I needed the most help. What he said made sense. However, his archrival, Lucifer Hornsandtail, said things that got me into mischief but were far too good to ignore. If I could remember, did I always do what was good as Angelo taught me, or did I usually prefer to have a mischievous time as Lucifer encouraged me to do? I am JellyBean. This is my story. Not a word of it is untrue.